Puppy Love

Ally is breeding Labradoodle puppies.  They're gorgeous.  Even I want one and I'm not a dog lover.  But they are so small and cuddly that it is hard to resist.

I've particularly taken a liking to the chocolate brown one.  There's something quite endearing about how sleepy he is after his dinner.

I'm here with my God Kids and I'm amazed that Princess hasn't asked to keep one.  I'm really having to bite my tongue and not ask her if she wants one.

Somehow I don't think her parents would be impressed if I seed that idea in her mind.  But I think she has associated the puppies with Aunty Ally's house and not thought of taking one home.  So I think they are safe this time.

P.S. aren't these kids as cute as a button?

Wireless Festival

The sun was shining, there were only a few clouds in the sky and there was music in the air.  Wireless Festival was in town.

The day started off with a bit of 'Salt & Pepper'.  Old Skool.  And yet I still knew all the words to some of their key tunes.  It's amazing how it stays with you and brings back memories.

There were lots of great acts.  Robin Thick, Sean Paul, Clean Bandit.  They were all awesome.

And last but not least, the headlining act, little Bruno Mars was amazing.  Just the way he is.

Escaping to Alton Towers

As a child I went to Alton Towers every year.  It was a summer tradition, organised by school before we broke up for the summer holiday.

As an adult, I try to keep the tradition, although it is not always possible.  This year it was a last minute outing and we lucked out with the weather for the majority of the day...

It only started to hail towards the end.  Hail and the loops of the Nemesis make an extremely painful ride.

Punch Drunk: The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable

I'm in a rickety old lift.  Crammed in with 30 others.  Plus a lady dressed in 60's glamour, giving us the down-low on who's who.

The lift doors open up to a pitch black room.  I slowly make my way down a corridor and before you know it, I'm transported to LA in the 1960's...

Actually it is the set of the theatre production; The Drowned Man, at Temple Studios.  4 floors of sets with different actors and actresses wandering around in character.

And 'we' as the audience were immersed into the thick of it.  Our faces covered by white masks, making it easy to identify who were the audience and who were the cast.

It was a little bit eerie to begin with.  The sets were quiet if none of the cast were around and you had to go in search of the action.  It took a few minutes to get into the rhythm of it and figure out who was best to follow.

Due to the individual journeys the 4 of us in our group took throughout the 3 hour theatre production, we each got a different angle on the fatal love triangle and story that we saw.

Between us, we managed to piece the story together and get an understanding of what it was all about.  Although I'm sure there were many scenes and parts of the story that we all had missed.

But overall it was a great theatre experience.  Something you were a part of, rather than just a spectator.

Hitched

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

 

 

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.

Love ’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle’s compass come;

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error, and upon me prov’d,

I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.

Sonnett 116, William Shakespeare

Didn't You Read the PDF?

It feels like we have been planning this weekend forever.  But it is finally here and the summer has begun.  This weekend is Ramps' Hen Do.

Now with Ramps there are a few musts; big tunes, plenty of alcohol, big laughs and your dancing shoes.  There is no sitting on the side lines if you're out with Ramps.

The Chief Bridesmaid did a fantastic job.  And pulled out a few surprises and not only for the Bride-to-be.

There was a few of us that hadn't read the PDF.

It was all in there... the Butler, the alcohol, dancing like Beyonce in 'All the Single Ladies' and the spa.

A fun weekend ladies.

xx