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This month has involved a week away in Scotland, spent around Loch Ness and up in Dufftown, including 5 distillery visits (Glen Grant, Glenfiddich, Glen Ord, Dalwhinnie & Cragganmore), 1 brewery (Black Isle), 1 chocolate factory (The Olive Tree), 10 bottles of beer, 3 bottles of whisky and a chocolate bar of my own design, mwahaha.
Was a good week, though driving ~1,000 miles in a week isn't much fun, especially when some of those are along the joyous A82 that follows the banks of Loch Lomond VERY closely, and where at points if you come across a bus/HGV coming the other way, you pull over and stop until it's passed - and this is a main route?!
Rehearsals for the panto are coming along OK, we're running the show every rehearsal at the moment which is quite hard work but considering we have all of 10 rehearsals left before tech/dress I think it's about right. Just need to get the damn words sorted. Bloody words, can I not just make up my own?
My baby, my HP DV7-2110SA has now gone away again to "The Tech Guys" for a problemmatic battery. It went away while we were in Scotland, and came back with exactly the same fault. Unimpressed was I. So now it's gone away again and hopefully will come back with a new battery, and no need to reinstall everything - again.
And yesterday, me and several other people from Oswestry Musical Theatre Company eventually got round to tackling the hell that is St David's. St David's is our storage, we didn't pay anything to the Diocese for a number of years because we didn't have a lease. We do now, but in the last few years they've got planning permission for the site which means we could be turfed out with little notice if they decide to sell up.
This place has essentially been a dumping ground for scenery, props, costumes, stuff. It was a state. I didn't manage to get a decent "before" shot because I couldn't actually see enough to get the impression I wanted! After 6hrs or so of shifting, breaking, sawing and destroying, almost all the old flats had been taken to the dump, leaving only things that are hard to remake, easy to re-use or being used in the current show.
It's now largely empty. We had 4 pick up truck loads, and several more car loads of mainly wood. Then there's the scripts - I didn't pay too much attention to them but we've what feels like hundreds of old scores and scripts, mainly Gilbert & Sullivan stuff that you could probably buy new for not much money.
I also obtained an iPhone 4. I felt dirty for a while, but then I used it for a while and got to like the way that things just worked (mostly). There's still plenty of minor annoyances but overall, I quite like the fact that I haven't had to reset it, put new software on, experiment with this that or the other (yet). I have also realised that I have gotten a very good deal. The phone was free, I pay £30/mo! You just don't get an iPhone 4 for that price.
Was a good week, though driving ~1,000 miles in a week isn't much fun, especially when some of those are along the joyous A82 that follows the banks of Loch Lomond VERY closely, and where at points if you come across a bus/HGV coming the other way, you pull over and stop until it's passed - and this is a main route?!
Rehearsals for the panto are coming along OK, we're running the show every rehearsal at the moment which is quite hard work but considering we have all of 10 rehearsals left before tech/dress I think it's about right. Just need to get the damn words sorted. Bloody words, can I not just make up my own?
My baby, my HP DV7-2110SA has now gone away again to "The Tech Guys" for a problemmatic battery. It went away while we were in Scotland, and came back with exactly the same fault. Unimpressed was I. So now it's gone away again and hopefully will come back with a new battery, and no need to reinstall everything - again.
And yesterday, me and several other people from Oswestry Musical Theatre Company eventually got round to tackling the hell that is St David's. St David's is our storage, we didn't pay anything to the Diocese for a number of years because we didn't have a lease. We do now, but in the last few years they've got planning permission for the site which means we could be turfed out with little notice if they decide to sell up.
This place has essentially been a dumping ground for scenery, props, costumes, stuff. It was a state. I didn't manage to get a decent "before" shot because I couldn't actually see enough to get the impression I wanted! After 6hrs or so of shifting, breaking, sawing and destroying, almost all the old flats had been taken to the dump, leaving only things that are hard to remake, easy to re-use or being used in the current show.
It's now largely empty. We had 4 pick up truck loads, and several more car loads of mainly wood. Then there's the scripts - I didn't pay too much attention to them but we've what feels like hundreds of old scores and scripts, mainly Gilbert & Sullivan stuff that you could probably buy new for not much money.
I also obtained an iPhone 4. I felt dirty for a while, but then I used it for a while and got to like the way that things just worked (mostly). There's still plenty of minor annoyances but overall, I quite like the fact that I haven't had to reset it, put new software on, experiment with this that or the other (yet). I have also realised that I have gotten a very good deal. The phone was free, I pay £30/mo! You just don't get an iPhone 4 for that price.
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