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Less Than Kind

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Less than Kind at Colchester’s Mercury Theatre on Friday night – James Wilby and Sara Crowe took the leads in the Terence Rattigan play. Full of period detail, a lively comedy that had quite a lot to say in an understated and typically British way. Well worth a trip if the production comes anywhere near you (unless you’ve an aversion to some of the slightly …

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Noises Off at the Old Vic

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Noise Off at the Old Vic yesterday. Can’t recommend the production highly enough; great cast, belly laughs galore – I could usually watch farce all day long and hardly raise a smile but Frayn’s 1982 “farce about a farce” is still achingly funny.  As an aside, the cast busts a gut for 2 hours every night plus matinees twice a week but footballers “get tired” …

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Theatre Binge….

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Just totted up that we have booked around ten visits to the theatre over the next three months or so. After due consideration, that’s quite a lot of theatre. Mainly at Colchester’s Mercury with an occasional foray into London. Looking forward them all……..

Galapagos Islands

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Amazing wildlife, beautiful scenery, interesting natural/geologic history, unique. That’s what we were promised…and we weren’t disappointed.  You read up about a trip like this (it was a long time in the planning) and you hope at least 50% of what you learn proves to be true.

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Air Travel

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I must endeavour to find out more about the psychology of travel, particularly flying. I genuinely want to understand this almost pathological desire to be up out of the seats as soon as we’ve touched down, crowding the gangways so no-one else can move unless you’re one of the ‘early adopters’.

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Rhythm Festival 2011

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First time at this event, drawn by the eclectic line up and mixture of the new and some stalwarts from the 60s and 70s. Held near Biggleswade (well, other side of the A1 at the Mansion House, Old Warden). Held over three days of the Bank Holiday weekend, how did it fare….

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Always Fancied A Trip Round Britain…

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So we did one! Odd to be going round our own island instead of unknown foreign shores but it made for an interesting and different perspective. And we got a pleasant detour to Norway as we visited Edinburgh, Invergordon, Lerwick, Alesund, Geiranger, Belfast, Anglessey (Beaumaris), Dublin, Isle of Man, Cobh and, finally, our old favourite Fowey, Cornwall.

Ely Folk Festival

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Enjoyed our first visit to the above. Couldn’t get full weekend tickets so went on the Friday night and the Sunday. Particularly looking forward to The Men They Couldn’t Hang who, sadly, proved to be the only real disappointment of the event.

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