The Ball was awesome the other night... it was in a really posh venue and we all sat with our casts from the plays and cheered and clapped for the award nominations.

And you know what I've got sitting on my mantlepiece right now? AN OSCAR!

By some weird cosmic disturbance in the Newcastle area, Daisy Pulls it Off was voted Best Play of the NUTS 08- ( Read more... )

There was some fairly major snowfall today, and it was beautiful. It did mean, however, that I had to tramp to university in totally inappropriate jeans (my legs are shaped so that I always have to buy them too long or they don't fit. bleh) and so ended up soaked to well above the knee by the time the snow was turning to sludge and then to just ( Read more... )

I got myself to a doctor the day before yesterday, turns out I have a chest infection, w00! Of course, things being how they are, I can't do what I really want to do, which is curl up in bed with a mug of tea and enough Jeeves and Wooster to see me through till spring. Instead we're still running round like headless chickens getting the last bits ( Read more... )

So these have been a stressful few days - sorry I haven't been around so much, my life is no longer my own. In two weeks, I'll be back to complaining about how boring my life is, but until then my activities can be summed up thusly:

Make porridge, go to lectures, answer text messages/return calls, go to meeting with producer/stage manager/president ( Read more... )

I want Christmas. I want an advent calendar, I want carols and baking and possibly also glitter, cotton wool and some brightly coloured card. I would also quite like to be five again.

Probably this is all a reaction against my current and enduring state of vague misery and distress. Five was a really good age. School was still awesome, with stories ( Read more... )

Happiness is a champagne truffle and series two of Robin Hood. I may never move from this spot again ( Read more... )