There's something about cold & grey weather that just makes me want to stay at home and drink tea and eat cake and it's clearly not just me- I check our work twitter account at about 11am today and a good half of the last 20 or so tweets were about cake or tea or some other kind of food ( Read more... )

Hello internet OH I have missed you ( Read more... )

Oh LJ, I really need to write a review of my first piece of theatre in 2012 which means I really REALLY need to post about 2011 and ALL THE PLAYS *g* Which is hard because it really kind of was a ridiculous amount of theatre ( Read more... )

SO LJ is working again briefly (hilariously DW and AO3 are both timing out for me atm and even Google+ is lagging... possibly it's the end of the world as we know it :-P ( Read more... )

How is it already a week since my holiday? :-/ Oh well. Today did, at least, finish on time which was looking perilously unlikely at about 3pm so small mercies?

Anyway.

Last night I went to see The Mikado with my parents. It was Jonathan Miller's production at the ENO which is now 25 years old but you wouldn't know it. It seems slightly strange ( Read more... )

Just back from seeing the Messiah at the ENO. It was really fantastic. It's semi-staged and the reviews have been distinctly mixed but I thought it was really clever and a lot of the bits of staging were either beautiful or thoughtprovoking or both and the dancers were ven better. Plus of course being the ENO the singing was incredible. Top marks ( Read more... )

Now that's what I call dedication!

(the show, it seems, must indeed go on even without any electricity and outside the auditorium)

And now for something completely different:

Poll Lots of planets have a north...

(I am deliberately not specifying country here or region or definition of either of those things I'm just intrigued and kind of bored and antsy :P)

I've had such a lovely day (so far I suppose I should say) despite of the rather wintery weather ( Read more... )

How did it get to be Holy Week already? I mean I know Easter is early and all but I am so not ready it's unbelievable ( Read more... )

You know fandom has ruined me.

I'm sitting in Sadler's Wells watching the Glydebourne Opera Company doing L'Elisir d'Amore, and more specfically listening to the incredible Peter Auty singing the unforgettable aria Una furtiva lagrima with a heartbreaking tone and simplicity (and oh I don't know about opera but sometimes it's just that good that ( Read more... )