Alba album

I was in Ed for 31 days. The fringe didn't start for 3 days. I then saw 28 shows, so averaged 1.079 shows a day, as well as participating in 7 others and having 2 days off. There was literally nothing I saw that was a waste of time or terrible, but then I am not a critic (PTL) and camaraderie means you see good in other people's shows. Also I didn't see any student shows and a limited amount of plays, (just 2 in fact), so that cuts down on the potential under-rehearsed and/or boring nonsense.

Top 3 (of which there are 5) in no particular order:

• Alex Horne's Wordwatching - 3 years of prep for an utterly delightful show. Would pay my own hard earned honk to see this again.
• John Hegley - the man is deadpan genius.
• "Nick Mohammed is a character comedian" - and a blumin good one he is too.
• Ben Moore's Not Everything is Significant - bare footed charm.
• Josie Long - enthusiasm and joy on the very last night, when weariness had overcome us.

Honourable mentions:

• The Wisecrackin,.....Behemoth
• Pegabovine Polite Club
• The Penny Dreadful's Aeneas Faversham Forever
• The Bird and the Bee: The Bee by Al Smith
• Mark Watson
• The Cheese and Pineapple club - these girls are a delight.
• Joanna Neary's Magic Hole
• Terry Saunders - Figure 8 - saw it twice, due to circumstances of blag and friend wanting to see
• Simply Fancy by Pig Island - australian Boosh-alikes
• Freeze! - Tim Key and Tom Basden tomfoolery
• Mould and Arrowsmith's a Sketch Show in Powerpoint
• The Boom Jennies - continue to be jealous of their french penpal sketch.
• Idiots of Ants
• Ginger and Black
• Tommy and the Weeks
• 2 rounds of We need Answers - Josie Long vs Paul Sinha; Kristen Schall vs. Alun Cochrune.
• The Search for Sunshine - devised play about death with delightful shuffling God obsessed with Bond.
• How to play the Ukelele in under an hour - useful for chord learnage.
• Wil Hodgson - had forgotten how delightful his storytelling is.
• La Clique - man climbing through tennis racket, striptease magic, homo-erotic chinese pole, you know, the usual.
• Barbershopera
• Tom Wrigglesworth
• Elizabeth and Raleigh
  
• Kristen Schaal and Kurt Wotsit.

It doesn't take much

You can buy these one at a time here.
It's the same but less teeth rotting a thrill as buying penny sweets.

(See, pencils. That's a topic worth blogging about on the secret blog after months wasn't it....)

Other news:
Knitting - only really have this silk left from last year (unravelled props) to do something with. Am thinking about this - (it's the middle picture of the bottom line). Gorgeous.

Back - hurts to point of distraction and making me walk a bit funny and hip hurt. Going to doctors next week. Blame crappy desk.

Ukulele - not exactly practiced...I keep thinking about it though...(although thinking about practice is not the same as actually doing it - as I discovered when I failed my guitar grade 7.)

Not-so-high heel wearing - is too tricky for me. I need to practice this too. (Although my back might not agree with this idea.)

Then one day I will be a red high heels wearing, ukulele playing, femme fatale in a ruffly silk shrug, with a stubby pencil behind her ear for colouring emergencies....Sigh...

Ouch, ouch, ouch

My life is very different in 2008.

My back is killing me from huddling over my laptop.

My eyes hurt from squinting over my complicated knitting.

I still haven't managed to tune the ukulele successfully

2008 - the year I became a blind, hunch-backed, atonal ukulele virtuoso.

New, new, new

I have a new laptop.

I have a new ukulele.

I am doing the most complex knitting of my life.

Crumbs! My life is going to be very different in 2008.

In anticipation x