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Post by Playbill99 on Feb 15, 2019 15:23:19 GMT
My first post on here, hello! I used to post on the old Dress Circle board, if we knew each other there, please say hi! My day was a bit strange, my partners' car would not start this morning, so the AA were called, but his boss agreed to let him have the day off, which put my Monday routine out. I usually catch up on chores on Monday, but we spent part of the day sitting round reading after the car repair was done. I then "motivated" (ok nagged!) him to do some jobs around the house whilst I cleaned! Currently, I am watching The Halcyon on TV. How have I missed this so far? Part Downton, part Mr Selfridge and it has Kara Tointon in it!I need to catch up!! My first post too! I've been looking at joining a theatre based blog for ages and I've just stumbled across here. No time like the present! A bit of info about me - I work in West End and Touring theatre for a well known marketing agency and have ben a theatre fan for around 15 years. Also I've only VERY recently moved to London so looking forward to getting to know the city better! |
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Post by peggs on Feb 15, 2019 15:50:55 GMT
Welcome! This is the place to be, somebody will know all you need to know about theatre and London.
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Post by Playbill99 on Feb 15, 2019 15:57:17 GMT
Welcome! This is the place to be, somebody will know all you need to know about theatre and London. Thank you! Looking forward to seeing practically everything now it's so easy for me to get to and from the West End - I've seen 3 shows this week already. Okay okay perhaps I need to slow down! |
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Post by peggs on Feb 15, 2019 16:57:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 22:38:51 GMT
Such a glorious day (what I could see of it from my office window anyway...), it should have made me feel cheery, but instead I feel lower and more alone than I have in a long time, and not sure what to do about it.
Sorry for the rant!
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Post by peggs on Feb 15, 2019 23:00:08 GMT
Hardly a rant @poster J but do carry on if it helps at all, sometimes beautiful days, happy people seem to make things harder to deal with that crappy days.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 16:10:07 GMT
Hardly a rant @poster J but do carry on if it helps at all, sometimes beautiful days, happy people seem to make things harder to deal with that crappy days. Thank you. Sorry, I was at a very low point yesterday as I'm basically being ghosted by someone I thought I could rely on (and more to the point someone who knows and understands my mental health struggles, or at least I thought they did). Trying to see some positives today, I dragged myself out to the gym this morning at least! |
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Post by peggs on Feb 16, 2019 17:36:27 GMT
I dragged myself out to the gym this morning at least! [/quote]
Good show
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Post by 49thand8th on Feb 17, 2019 7:39:52 GMT
I went out to run some errands and came home with two dresses, two pairs of shoes, and a pair of pants. I'm going to a wedding next month in Hawaii and making a short vacation out of it, so I guess I'm actually prepared now!
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Post by NeilVHughes on Feb 17, 2019 12:54:29 GMT
That little experienced and totally Invigorating early Spring day in Winter.
Early morning bike ride in the company of a glorious sunrise, a morning chilling reading and listening to music, all the windows open letting the freshness and the energy of the reawakening earth envelop the flat.
Looking forward to my walk to and from work over the next few days as mother nature awakens from her slumber in a cascade of early spring flora.
Too early to say goodbye to Winter but welcome all the same.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2019 13:00:10 GMT
A mild internet troll got under my skin, and I'm angry at myself.
(have a sneaking suspicion it's someone on here too which is you know a delight. Cockwomble)
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 18, 2019 9:33:28 GMT
Just let the (very gorgeous looking) gas man in to fit a new smart meter. After watching the first part of Baptiste last night....😱 if you don't hear from me in about 2 hours could you come looking?
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 18, 2019 13:16:02 GMT
Just let the (very gorgeous looking) gas man in to fit a new smart meter. After watching the first part of Baptiste last night....😱 if you don't hear from me in about 2 hours could you come looking? It's been three hours, so I'm setting off now. 🚔 As a northerner, you can rely on me! All I have to do is work out which direction the south is. |
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 18, 2019 14:13:27 GMT
Just let the (very gorgeous looking) gas man in to fit a new smart meter. After watching the first part of Baptiste last night....😱 if you don't hear from me in about 2 hours could you come looking? It's been three hours, so I'm setting off now. 🚔 As a northerner, you can rely on me! All I have to do is work out which direction the south is. That's very kind of you TallPaul. But if you get lost on the magic sodding roundabout at Hemel (where I don't live btw) do not expect me to come and extricate you. (Though I expect you're somewhere around Hadrian's Wall having turned left instead of right.) Well, I'd hidden all my plastic bags as a precaution, though it turned out not to be necessary. He even had the decency not to mention last night's episode of Baptiste. Years ago I used to show houses at weekends for an estate agent. You really wouldn't believe the number of men who thought it hilarious to mention Mr Kipper whilst shut in a room with me. Twonks. |
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 18, 2019 15:26:06 GMT
I was sure I was heading in the right direction, Tibidabo, but I'm currently somewhere called Leicester Forest East. I'm trying to go south, not east! And I can't ask anyone, cos they're all talking a strange language I dont understand. There aren't any trees either, just hundreds and hundreds of cars. |
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 18, 2019 16:39:37 GMT
Nearly as appositely named as Watford Gap! |
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Post by tmesis on Feb 18, 2019 22:21:18 GMT
Nearly as appositely named as Watford Gap! In more innocent times (1967) I remember going out for the afternoon with my parents to the newly opened Trowell Services, some ten miles down the M1 from where we lived. Yes we actually went to the motorway services just for the fun of it (and a cup of tea.) I remember it was themed like a village in Robin Hood/Sherwood Forest style with a Sheriff's restaurant and Maid Marion's Pantry. It now sounds toe-curlingly awful but I remember being very impressed as a young lad. |
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Post by showgirl on Feb 19, 2019 5:14:41 GMT
Slightly different but this sounds like how I and my teenage friends felt about the opening of Brent Cross shopping centre: to us it represented the bright lights and we wanted to go simply to feel that real life was creeping a little nearer to our dull suburbia. It was quite an expedition, involving several buses each way, but oh, the (illusion of) glamour!
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Post by TallPaul on Feb 19, 2019 10:02:35 GMT
I'm not normally one to ask for help, especially from a teacher, but I really need you to come and rescue me, Tibidabo. Goodness knows I've been to enough raves in my time, but I had no idea the M25 is an orbital motorway. I've spent all night going around in circles, and it's made me dizzy. If only I'd visited Maid Marion's Pantry instead. 😉 |
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 19, 2019 10:23:22 GMT
I've spent all night going around in circles Hey! Don't knock it! You should be aware that you are only the second person in history to actually achieve this, the other one being Her Majesty, The Queen! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 17:06:19 GMT
In more innocent times (1967) I remember going out for the afternoon with my parents to the newly opened Trowell Services, some ten miles down the M1 from where we lived. Yes we actually went to the motorway services just for the fun of it (and a cup of tea.) I remember it was themed like a village in Robin Hood/Sherwood Forest style with a Sheriff's restaurant and Maid Marion's Pantry. It now sounds toe-curlingly awful but I remember being very impressed as a young lad. I can remember reading somewhere about how early motorway services were built so people could sit and watch the traffic speeding past underneath, and it was all exciting and futuristic. There was a policy to make services accessible from the motorways only so they wouldn't become destinations in their own right.
I don't remember any services but I do recall finding the M1 and M6 very exciting as a child when we went on holiday up to the Lake District. Now I'd rather avoid motorways because they're boring. (Apart from the M45, which is awesome.) |
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 19, 2019 17:12:00 GMT
Apart from the M45, which is awesome. I had to look it up! It's a mere, piffling driveway! Has no right to be classed as a motorway. |
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Post by NeilVHughes on Feb 19, 2019 17:21:09 GMT
Always associate Little Chef with visiting relatives and holidays as a kid, always a sort of treat.
Once I started driving myself the Oswestry Little Chef was a regular stop as I visited my Father in Ludlow, drawn by the Olympic Breakfast, why does nobody else include sauté potatoes with their breakfasts.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2019 17:59:02 GMT
Apart from the M45, which is awesome. I had to look it up! It's a mere, piffling driveway! Has no right to be classed as a motorway. The M45 is wonderful. It goes absolutely nowhere so it's almost always completely empty and it has hardly changed since it was built so it's like driving in the very early days of the motorways, except these days your car isn't likely to explode from the strain. Of course the down side is that it goes absolutely nowhere, so there aren't many opportunities to use it.
I forget when I last used it, but I think I saw only one other car on my side of the road. I remember being disappointed at almost reaching the end without seeing any other cars, and then someone ruined it.
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 19, 2019 18:55:39 GMT
I've just looked up the M45. A motorway that is less than 8 miles long sounds a bit pointless, frankly!
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