I’m combining my Siblings and Me and Mine posts this month as February has been quite a hectic month. We’ve had a week of dance festival for Sophie during half-term followed by show week for The Drowsy Chaperone for me and I feel like I’ve hardly had a moment to stop and focus on anything.… Read More
We’re in the theatre this week for show week and the first two performances of The Drowsy Chaperone are done and dusted with three more to go. It’s been so good to be back on a big stage again doing a musical and I’ve really enjoyed this week so far. So far it’s going well… Read More
We’ve had our last rehearsals in the studio this week for ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ – doing run-throughs with costumes and polishing things ready for opening night next Wednesday. I’ve got one quick change in this show but having now practised it a couple of times, I’m reassured that it should be manageable. My character is… Read More
This week has been book-ended by gatherings – an upbeat (albeit bittersweet) one last weekend for the Land’s End – John O’Groats Association annual awards and a sadder one yesterday being with my extended family for my Auntie Peggy’s funeral. It’s been an emotional week, reliving quite a lot of memories: our two end-to-end journeys,… Read More
Show rehearsals are ramping up for me now that we’re less than three weeks away from the opening night of The Drowsy Chaperone. We’re at the point now where I’m starting to come home from rehearsal with costume items and the excitement (and nerves!) is building up as show week gets closer. I’m really looking… Read More
Last January, we started making time in the mornings for ‘snuggle time’ – a few minutes of cuddling up together on the sofa before the start of the rush to get ready for the day ahead. We’d read the poem for the day from ‘I Am The Seed That Grew The Tree’ and just enjoy… Read More
I’ve had quite a productive week this week, catching up on various jobs on the to-do list. Some of them were things that I’ve been putting off for a while. It’s been good to finally get those particular jobs done! It’s also helped having a little more headspace this week than I had last week.… Read More