All our hard (but enjoyable) work paid off and we had a fantastic Saturday afternoon.
An exhausting afternoon with setting up, then the dress rehearsal, followed by the performance and tidying up.

We had about 120 people in the church hall and they all seemed to enjoy themselves. There was a lovely buzz and all the actors (and ourselves) got a ( Read more... )

In 48 hours from now, it'll all be over!

I'm talking of the Residents' Association Murder Mystery that kept me and Adrian busy for weeks, with the writing, making the video recap, painting the portraits (me) and rehearsal, props, organisation (Adrian).


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Yesterday it was the day of the Murder Mystery that we organised as a Residents Association social event.

Adrian, who was the organiser, was a bit stressed until the moment when we were allowed in the church hall to set up at 2:30 pm.
I was slightly worried that people wouldn't have enjoyed "Lady Bountiful's Drawing Room Drama" as I wrote it ( ( Read more... )

This week-end we held two readings of " Lady Bountiful's Drawing Room Mystery": now we have found neighbours to play all the 10 characters (and our dearest friend David will be the inspector - we thought it would be good to bring somebody in from the 'outside world' to play the sleuth ( Read more... )

I've been very busy at work in the last couple of days, and busy at home too.

I've been writing the Murder Mystery for our Residents' Association's next social event and it's almost done.
I think it's amusing (but not funny - after all someone gets murdered! LOL!) and I hope that the puzzle at the end (all suspects give 3 statements of which 2 are ( Read more... )

We just got back from the Murder Mystery. It was a fun evening!!!


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I've neglected LJ this week: I've been busy both at home and in the evenings.

On Wed evening, I went to the residents' association committee meeting; this was my 4th meeting as representative of our Neighbourhood Watch local scheme. 
The gatherings are always long (over 2 hours) because often people go off on a tangent. And they can be funny too; for ( Read more... )