The Big One's Belfast Bound!

I am so so sooooo excited! The Big One is currently finishing up his packing to head over here for a long weekend, see me, see the show, celebrate my birthday with me....WHOOP WHOOP!

How on earth will I sleep? It feels like Christmas!!!

“Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.”

- Carl Sandburg 

Cards and Flowers Galore!

We are open! 

The Belfast and Scotland leg of the run is officially open. It was opening night last night (Wednesday) and the audience seemed very responsive. The bar was rammed afterwards and as the playwright said, 'it's always a good sign after a play that people don't want to leave'. The tables of the bar area were filled with people discussing and debating the themes of the show which in my eyes, is a result!

I had the lovely HawkandFallow in to cheer me on and I was inundated with lovely cards and unexpected bouquets from supporting friends and family to boost me on to that stage to do my thang.

Hugely appreciative thanks to Mama Mooskin and Ee (new blog name entries), Patch & Tache, HawkandFallow, The Big One, Spaghetti Arms, Arfur, and My Lovely Dad for all your kind messages, cards and flowers. I felt loved.

From Mama Mooskin & Ee

From Hawk&Fallow

So now we can just get on with doing and enjoying the show. We're here for another 10 days then off to Scotland then...the big London run!

"We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it."   

~Charles Lamb

The Obsession is [Baby} Growing

The other night I was at the playwright's house to join his family for a BBQ. It was there that my distant comfy-fantasy of hanging out in an adult sized onesie began to take a realistic shape. His grandchild has a fleece one piece that she goes to bed in (she's 4) but then his 14 year old son appeared to model his adult sized (he's 6'2") onesie and they both looked so smugly comfy.

I had been watching Dirty Sexy Things and admiring the Fair Isle style one pieces each of the models seemed to have and today,  I found them.

I want one.

 

They come in all different colours and cost £130 - eek! But don't they look sooo cosy!

As a cheaper alternative there's always the American Apparel romper £35 but they're just not the same...

"If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child."

- Frederick Buechner 

Birthday List

It's my birthday on Saturday, it's funny cos I didn't feel particularly bothered about it even a week ago but now I am officially EXCITED! I get all bubbly and full of jumping beans when I think about it. I don't think it's any coincidence that my excitement coincides with The Big One, who I haven't seen for weeks, is coming over to celebrate it with me.

He arrives on Friday, we are out for dinner with HawkandFallow and Spaghetti Arms after the show on my birthday - what a treat to have 3 of my favourite people in the world to mark this new number with me!

Then on Sunday he has booked us into a lovely hotel, we have a table booked for dinner at Made in Belfast and then on Monday, he tells me we are going on a shopping trip!

What a very lucky and very spoilt gal I am!

So now I am embracing my impending birthday my thoughts have wandered to my ultimate birthday list, thought it'd be fun to make a visual list...who knows maybe I'll strike gold!

Knitter's Necklace - All the Fun of the Fair 

Lambswool Tweed Jacket - Vivienne Westwood

Winter Tartan - Vivienne Westwood

Coloured Skinnies - Kooples

Poem cushion - mybeardedpigeon (Etsy)

Alice in Wonderland Teapot - zinniapea (Etsy)

Feather Print Notebook - Liberty, London

Sterling Silver Anchor Necklace - Love Your Silver

Detachable Peter Pan Collar - luminia (Etsy)

Podengo Pequeno...well you never know!

Lola's cupcakes 

In all honesty though I will have all I could want by being on stage in a play I love and then getting to share my birthday with some very special people.

"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more."

- Tony Robbins 

Song of The Week

It's opening week, with opening night just around the corner. One more preview tomorrow evening then Press Night. Even more exciting, The Big One arrives on Friday for a long weekend, whoop de whoop!!!

And it's my BIRTHDAY on Saturday!!!

SO - The song this week had to be fun, lively and because we're opening the show, involve clapping....hopefully!!

Enjoy The Clapping Song by Shirley Ellis!

Hope you all have good week's planned!

"3, 6, 9
The goose drank wine
The monkey chew tobacco on the streetcar line
The line broke, the monkey got choked
And they all went to heaven in a little rowboat"

- The Clapping Song

Cos He Loves Me

It was the first preview last night and it seemed to go well, we had an almost full house (390) which was huge for a preview and they were a great audience. Very responsive and engaged. There were a few drinks afterwards to celebrate but the big night is yet to come. Wednesday evening is press night and the big opening night so keep those fingers crossed for us til then!

I got into my dressing room yesterday afternoon to find a HUGE and BeAuTiFuL bouquet of flowers waiting for me, sent by The Big One. It made me beam inside all day, filled me with happiness and that lovely feeling of knowing you are loved.

"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love."

- Max Muller