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Category: Theatre

  • Banking on it

    Nothing new has happened.  This is a Good Thing, there was far too much new stuff earlier on this year.  Although we have been away, to glorious Perthshire (Blair Atholl with the Mincers and Dunkeld by ourselves) and to London.  I think we maybe pushed the envelope until it burst when we went to the…

  • Rabbitrabbitrabbit….

    Jings.  For someone who finds it difficult to shut up, on a record number of occasions this year so far I have been lost for words, bereft of speech, stunned into silence, gobsmacked, and summarily disenfranchised vocally.  This and the manic vortex that has passed for a life recently has resulted in fewer than usual…

  • Out, out, damned Spotty Dog

    Sometimes, and I know you will find this hard to believe, I can’t think of anything to say. No flurry of verbiage rushes unbidden to the tongue.  No tales, badly told, of chums’ misdeeds or misfortunes are haphazardly heaped on the hapless listener (ok, enough of that).  In truth and in short, I have had…

  • Alhambra Nights

    Went to see the Bootleg Beatles last night, in the Dunfy Alhambra, spotted more than one chum in the audience, plus Geoff on duty. Band were just superb, I would definitely go to see them again, brilliant fun. Following on from Poulet au Disastre we had rather more success with the Haddock of Spinachly Joy,…

  • Losing it

    It’s been a while.  Feels as if the world, or at least my version of it, has tilted on its axis somewhat, I’m finding areas of it to be, well, interesting, shall we say.  Less anon. But I have failed to comment on so much, especially the Christening and family party for young Callum Cook. …

  • and so it goes*

    02.05.11 My blog is not a place for political comment, chiefly because I’m painfully aware of my lack of knowledge on the subject.   I will only say therefore that for the first time in yonks I did not switch on the news, tv or radio, first thing this morning, therefore it was perhaps ironic that…

  • Do be do be do..

    be do be doobie..               * I have ranted before about the exploitation of collectors, be it of stamps, coins, used tea bags, whatever.  The issuing bodies are milking it dry these days.  I was about to launch into this one again tonight, when I came home to another advice note for new stamps here in…

  • Kulchur

    Yesterday we saw A View From The Bridge at the Lyceum theatre in Edinburgh which was a very well produced and directed show.   I do like a play with unsympathetic characters.   We also finally watched Moon which was directed by Duncan Jones, which was excellent, sci fi as opposed to space opera, according to…

  • Animal Farm

    It chuffing well is in here, the house could simply not cope with the addition of one more stuffed toy or ornithological ornament  So welcome then to Orwell*, the latest badger in the sett, and just as a test I am going to upload a video of him and me**, with guest cameo appearance by…

  • On edge

    Went across the bridge yesterday to share in the cultural behemoth that is Edinburgh just now, as we attended the play Beautiful Burnout which was put on by the National Theatre of Scotland. It’s about boxing and I won’t say much more in case you are going to see it, but it was very well…