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So much for staying more up to date with LiveJournal & reviews this year!
Everything seems to have his busy/manic at the same time in my life right now- at work we have a member of staff leaving at the same time we're trying to sort out everything ready to renew our accreditation (which is a HUGE job because the last time we had it renewed was in the middle of an HLF project so everything is different now). Then I'm also in the middle of proofreading & finding photographs for Link (magazine) although for the first time ever the accounts that need to go out with it are actually ready in time. Then Rainbows was manic because we had a Thinking Day craft plus three girls making their Promise plus starting to prepare the girls for the next Church Parade when we're doing the prayers & readings (better than the Beavers managed this month I hope :-P)
And of course there's choir and serving and theatre as usual *g* and apparently Lent starts next week which I am not at ALL ready for. Oh well.
I guess keeping busy in February isn't a bad idea, at least it stops me dwelling on the cold & grey! Not that it's been all cold & grey, it was gloriously sunny on Monday which was lucky because it was the day I'd booked of to take Mum out for her Christmas present- Royal Opera House backstage tour. It was absolutely brilliant too- we went into the auditorium whilst they were switching between Swan Lake & the Flying Dutchman so saw them take the ballet floor up and then stack all the Swan Lake props & set ready for the whole floor of the stage to move back!
Then we saw the royal box & the royal retiring room (and the royal smoking room complete with a false wall that used to go to the ladies' dressing rooms *coughs*)
Then they take you into some of the departments in the new building and I knew it was big but there's just So much going on and we kept rushing past dancers & other staff members as we were whisked along corridors. We got to go into the Props department and see some of the things they were working on making and/or repairing (it's an absolute treasure trove).
Then they took us up to the Ballet School! Right next to where the "Bridge of Aspiration" comes in from the building across the alley with the lower school and we stood by one of the rehersal rooms as some dancers were warming up and Steven McRae was in there (I don't recognise a lot of ballet dancers but I did recognise him!)
It was well worth £12 which was all it cost and I'm very tempted to try and find out the details of going on a tour of their set building workshop in Thurrock!
Then we had afternoon tea at the Charing Cross Hotel and wandered back to Blacfriars along the Southbank <333 I wish I'd realised the National Theatre's Sherling High-Level Walkway opened this week, we'd have gone and had a look at that too if we'd known!
Before I finish I'm going to sneak a (VERY) short review in here or I'll never get caught up. This one is from the 16th of January (so less than a month ago still /o\)
Full Frontal Nerdity: Festival of the Spoken Nerd @ Bloomsbury Theatre
I saw this with Mum & Dad, we'd actually all seen the show before but it was one of the evenings they were filming their DVD and Dad wanted to go again and I never turn FOSN tickets down so *shrugs*
Obviously a lot of it was familiar from last time so I won't repeat my gushing joy :-P
It was lovely to get some updates though, particularly from Steve & his beaker full of beads because there are now scientific papers talking about "the Mould Effect" and he was very excited (understandably)
All their animations etc. were much slicker and rather less bashed around looking props though sadly this time Helen couldn't break the glass with her voice (I mean she did eventually but it took her 4 goes, she reckoned someone had tightened/moved the clamp holding it which changed the note she had to sing)
Anyway it was lots of fun and I'm hugely looking forward to the DVD if only for the extras and the binary/klingon/idk what else subtitles!
And now it's time to go and eat something before I go back to trying to sort out the tangle that is our long term loans (because things that came in on loan before 1950 probably should have been returned or turned into actual donations before now...)
Everything seems to have his busy/manic at the same time in my life right now- at work we have a member of staff leaving at the same time we're trying to sort out everything ready to renew our accreditation (which is a HUGE job because the last time we had it renewed was in the middle of an HLF project so everything is different now). Then I'm also in the middle of proofreading & finding photographs for Link (magazine) although for the first time ever the accounts that need to go out with it are actually ready in time. Then Rainbows was manic because we had a Thinking Day craft plus three girls making their Promise plus starting to prepare the girls for the next Church Parade when we're doing the prayers & readings (better than the Beavers managed this month I hope :-P)
And of course there's choir and serving and theatre as usual *g* and apparently Lent starts next week which I am not at ALL ready for. Oh well.
I guess keeping busy in February isn't a bad idea, at least it stops me dwelling on the cold & grey! Not that it's been all cold & grey, it was gloriously sunny on Monday which was lucky because it was the day I'd booked of to take Mum out for her Christmas present- Royal Opera House backstage tour. It was absolutely brilliant too- we went into the auditorium whilst they were switching between Swan Lake & the Flying Dutchman so saw them take the ballet floor up and then stack all the Swan Lake props & set ready for the whole floor of the stage to move back!
Then we saw the royal box & the royal retiring room (and the royal smoking room complete with a false wall that used to go to the ladies' dressing rooms *coughs*)
Then they take you into some of the departments in the new building and I knew it was big but there's just So much going on and we kept rushing past dancers & other staff members as we were whisked along corridors. We got to go into the Props department and see some of the things they were working on making and/or repairing (it's an absolute treasure trove).
Then they took us up to the Ballet School! Right next to where the "Bridge of Aspiration" comes in from the building across the alley with the lower school and we stood by one of the rehersal rooms as some dancers were warming up and Steven McRae was in there (I don't recognise a lot of ballet dancers but I did recognise him!)
It was well worth £12 which was all it cost and I'm very tempted to try and find out the details of going on a tour of their set building workshop in Thurrock!
Then we had afternoon tea at the Charing Cross Hotel and wandered back to Blacfriars along the Southbank <333 I wish I'd realised the National Theatre's Sherling High-Level Walkway opened this week, we'd have gone and had a look at that too if we'd known!
Before I finish I'm going to sneak a (VERY) short review in here or I'll never get caught up. This one is from the 16th of January (so less than a month ago still /o\)
Full Frontal Nerdity: Festival of the Spoken Nerd @ Bloomsbury Theatre
I saw this with Mum & Dad, we'd actually all seen the show before but it was one of the evenings they were filming their DVD and Dad wanted to go again and I never turn FOSN tickets down so *shrugs*
Obviously a lot of it was familiar from last time so I won't repeat my gushing joy :-P
It was lovely to get some updates though, particularly from Steve & his beaker full of beads because there are now scientific papers talking about "the Mould Effect" and he was very excited (understandably)
All their animations etc. were much slicker and rather less bashed around looking props though sadly this time Helen couldn't break the glass with her voice (I mean she did eventually but it took her 4 goes, she reckoned someone had tightened/moved the clamp holding it which changed the note she had to sing)
Anyway it was lots of fun and I'm hugely looking forward to the DVD if only for the extras and the binary/klingon/idk what else subtitles!
And now it's time to go and eat something before I go back to trying to sort out the tangle that is our long term loans (because things that came in on loan before 1950 probably should have been returned or turned into actual donations before now...)