I'm writing this listening to Metallica: The Videos soundtrack......
Friday proved to be another busy old day. Mike dropped Jamie off at school, came home, we had a coffee, then we headed out again to school for Jamie's class assembly.
Jamie's class, 4GR, did a presentation all about Kenya, which they had written themselves and jolly good it was too. Georgia (Jamie's sometimes on/off 'girlfriend') and his friend since nursery school played the teacher who took the class away on a trip to Kenya. We then had fascinating explanations about the weather and geography of Kenya, it's food, animals, music and culture.
It was a lovely assembly and the children were clearly having a lot of fun telling us all about it. Jamie' starring moment came when he told us about Kenyan food and then took over the rains on the powerpoint presentation. The whole class did brilliantly, a very big well done to them all and they got masses of well deserved applause. Also a big thank you to his class teacher, Miss Robertson who must have had a very busy week as she was busy at the languages evening too!
Once we got home, Mike went to bed, having just finished his fourth night shift and I pottered on with all of the usual bits and pieces.
Later on after having KFC with Jamie and Hannah, Mike and I headed off to Northampton to see Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies at the Derngate. I have loved the TV show of Dinnerladies for years and years, and can often be heard throwing out a line or two from the show, "What's that your cooking, food?", "It seems to be want people want to eat these days" one of my favourites. If I have had a bad day or two, I will often head for the boxed set and sit through a couple of episodes, a guaranteed way to make me smile, especially the 'Christine' episode, "what will it do when it gets down there and finds it's got nothing to pump up". Without doubt, for me, the series was a highlight in Victoria Wood's career, so I was really pleased to see it coming so close to home.
A quick glance at the programme or poster and you could have been thinking you were getting a full cast reunion, but the two stars were Andrew Dunn playing Tony, the canteen manager and Shobna Gulati (who got the biggest round of applause, probably due to her time spent in Coronation Street) playing the nice but very dim Anita. The play could have been subtitled Dinnerladies - the greatest hits, as it featured some of the more memorable moments from the TV series. Basically it took us through the burgeoning relationship of Tony and Bren up to Christmas Eve 1999. It was a nice tribute to the show and the lines, and one-liners were of course brilliant, written by Victoria Wood, what else could they be. The performances were all good and the actors got the characters extremely well, but something didn't quite make it, it was almost like watching a tribute band. The songs were there, the sound was good, they looked like the band, but they just weren't the band. But it was an enjoyable evening, so no complaints.
Ciao
Sue
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Sue
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