October 30, 2008

• It's OK.

   I turned my heating on the day after the Yarn Harlot turned her furnace on.  In fact, I turned it on late last night.  I still haven't managed to get as far as shutting the bedroom window in my room, but, essentially, I feel that I rock.  It is OK to have the heating on.  It should not matter, but it does.

  Besides, on Tuesday morning the park looked like this:

  

  Bit of frost, but lots of grass.

  On Wednesday, it was like this:

  

  More snow, more blue sky.

  It had been snowy:

  

  When I'd gone into the theatre, a mere three and a half hours earlier, there was sleet but nothing had settled properly.  Yes, that is Dolores.  She was trying to get the Islington Cultural Vote.

  There was ice:

  

  And, naturally, London ground to a bit of a halt on Tuesday night, in panic.  The buses were confused and misty-windowed.  I was at the Almeida for much of the evening, watching 'Waste', and having a lovely time.  It was a beautiful, thought-provoking, production.  I did like the costumes, and, one of these days, I must ask the Director, once again, how he chooses the music to go between scenes.  He does have rather a penchant for 20th Century Piano Music.

  Last night wasn't quite so full of precipitation, but it was an awful lot colder, and I could have done with an extra blanket, bringing the grand total to 5.  The hot water bottle gave out at about 5 am, you see.

  Am having dreadful difficulties getting up.  The Stock Market is lurching upwards, but, this week I've been greeted with the news that Rupert Penry-Jones has left Spooks, and David Tennant is doing four special episodes and then bowing out as The Doctor.  Both pieces of news are vaguely upsetting, in a sort of 'I am faintly traumatised but I have not had my coffee yet and, heck, I keep missing episodes anyhow' but there is the hope that at some point, I'll be able to see both on stage.  Seriously.  Rupert Penry-Jones is about the only cast member of Cambridge Spies that I have not seen on stage....

  xxx

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  The Essex Boy: "I have my own bathroom, which means I don't have to wait around for any woman, and I can twirl around it, singing 'I'm so pretty!'".

  It is a shame he is not wearing his pretty pink salmon shirt today.  There would be so much more mileage in teasing him.  As it is, he claims he's not thinking of West Side Story when he sporadically breaks into song, but that film with Jack Nicholson.  His other favourite songs are the theme to the Antiques Road Show, and the theme to Zefirelli's Romeo & Juliet.  He sings or whistles as the mood takes him....

  xxx

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