I was going to drop this blog, until several people moaned at me that they missed it and could I please up-date it, so after TWO years I am back. Older, greyer - but no wiser!
What has been happening in the Dizzy World? You may well ask. The house is STILL being worked on - yes - honestly. Well we now have an extension that is part dump part my workroom, and the DH walks through all the time going 'are you still on that computer' which puts you off a bit, however he is out this morning. I have decided I really don't like having a a husband at home, retiring? Forget it! The joins between the old house (circa 1550) and the new bit are still leaking everytime it rains. You learn not to leave anything precious in the drop zone and always know where to grab a bucket from.
This January we had our village panto again. And this time as well as doing the costumes I played a part. The Wicked Queen in Snow White, well actually I played the Old Corne part of the Queen. We had a fabulous transformation trick where the queen was wrapped in a huge cloak type screen and I stepped out the other side as the crone (typecasting according to the DH). Worked like a dream - only one night I got a lungful of the smoke gun we were using to mask the works and couldn't speak for choking! The only other thing I didn't like about it was when a little girl burst into tears when I pronounce Snow White to be dead. I fellt like a real heel! Fantastic though to do reall over-the-top drama. I am so used to TV acting which is understated, small gestures etc. To be able to do the huge dramatic sweeps of the arm was bliss but took some getting into, and oh my goodness - learning lines after all these years was a nightmare!!
Had a girlie week with my mate Norma in France last summer, drinking lots of wine and ostensibly sewing clothes. I made several shirts and a skirt in between long lunches and shopping. I really can recommend Biscarosse Plage for mussels, chips and wine. Fab beach, goes on for miles of clean white sand and hardly anyone about.
Our garden was open to the public on village open garden day and I had all my dolls houses out on display along with samplers and assorted needlework in the extension, we had the samplers and quilts because they covered the un-finished walls. People were very complimentary about the crafts and the garden which the DH had worked like a beaver on for weeks. He is back at it again right now, though Open Gardens is a two year event so we don't have to do quite so much. But we were self sufficient in veggies and fruit for a good six months and I still have jams, jellies and chutneys in the store cupboard.
I have joined a postcard swap group now which is great fun and I have a huge board of cards from all over the world in my office (corner) and I joined the WI in the village which is a hoot! I am also on the Herts Federation Home-craft committee which looks after all craft matters for Hertfordshire WI.
And of course I am still writing and going to the RNA meeting for the Cambridge section
Socially, I went to the RNA (romantic novelist association) 50th anniversary lunch at the Royal Garden Hotel recently and caught up with lots of old mates over a very boozy lunch. Barry Norman was our MC/Speaker and did a fabulous job, un-like some of the others who have done it in the past - no names no pack-drill! But speaking of the same person, I went to a fund-raiser for the prospective Conservative candidate who is fighting that lady for the seat of Luton South.
Picture is of Norma and her husband and the DH on Biscarrosse beach
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