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Entry for 3rd November, 2007
2008-12-31 13:12:00 I cannot leave the subject of the re-union without mentioning the highlight of the evening which was The Couch Potato's festive haircut. He is a financial adviser by trade, so throughout the year he sports a rather traditional neat and tidy crop, but at Christmas his urge to rebel is let loose, and he does something radical with his hair. For the past few years he has been sporting a mohican style dies in various colours. However, the Potato has been succumbing to male pattern baldness in recent years, and it appears that there is no longer enough hair along the central plateau of his head to allow the traditional punk hairdo. So, instead this year he has allowed his locks to grow. The natural curl in his har is such that he now looks like a cross between a traditional Scouse scally and Barbara Dickson. It is not a look that is likely to shift many pensions when he returns to work. More About: November , November 2007 , Entry
Entry for 2nd November, 2007
2008-12-31 11:58:00 A little more about the re-union. I found myself feeling very parochial after the party. Several of the gang have undertaken foreign adventures. One of the group has emigrated to The United Arab Emirates, another was on tour with the Scottish rock group Nazareth and another has trotted around the globe with the oil industry. For my part, I once had to take the car to Cambusnethan to have a Will signed. I have never particularly felt the desire to travel great distances with my work, but on the other hand, I do wonder if working for your whole life in the town you grew up in doesn't tend to narrow your horizons a little bit. I am now going to lobby the others in my office to open branch offices in Patagonia, Switzerland and Marrakesh. I am sure there will be great demand for Scottish lawyers n these territories. The world is there for the taking. More About: November , November 2007 , Entry
Entry for 1st November, 2007
2008-12-31 11:13:00 My hangover has mostly disappeared, so I feel able to say a little about the re-union now. Like most people I suppose, I used to hang about with a gang of friends at school. As best I can tell, my own particular group gravitated towards one another because of a mutual love for hard rock music and Dungeons and Dragons, and a complete lack of ability to attract girlfriends. In retrospect I recognise that some of the fairer sex may have been put off by our conversation, centering as it did around topics like "What is the best drum solo you have ever heard?" and "Does a Cloak of Invisibilty work inside K'krull's Thamuturgical Field". The gang were re-united on Saturday night, and special thanks are due to The Couch Potato for hosting the event. I think it was a great success. I cannot be sure, because a lot of the evening is now quite fuzzy because I lost a lot of important brain cells as a consequence of drinking something with Tabasco Sauce in it - my New Year's Resolution is not ... More About: November , November 2007 , Entry
Entry for 25th June, 2008
2008-09-07 22:53:00 I have completed the third of my 100 Small But Tangeible Improvements, by getting the indicator cover on my car replaced. It's been missing for ages, and it bugs me every time I look at the car. It's such a ridiculously small job that it never seems worthwhile to do it. I was also going to get my fuel guage repaired, but the smiling lady at the Mercedes garage told me that it would cost £625. No wonder she was smiling. If I was quoting those sorts of prices I think I'd be hard pushed not to have a multiple orgasm every time somebody asked for an estimate. I decided that it was not worth proceeding with the job (although the thought of the Mercedes lady screaming in extasy nearly swung it). I told them I would think about it, and thought that I was having the last laugh. I didn't though. They charged me £150 for diagnosing the problem. My old boy has prostate cancer and the doctor never charged him anything like that. I'd say that's much more improtant than a dodgy fuel guage. ... More About: June , June 2008 , 2008 , Entry
Entry for 24th June, 2008
2008-09-07 22:08:00 I have lost a bloody car key. For those of you that know me in real life, this is not likely to come as a great surprise. Oddly, if you add up all the time that I have spent looking for keys during my lifetime, the total is actually marginally longer than I have actually lived. Ususally, a good 20 minutes is all it takes to turn up the key. It is usually in some painfully obvious place, and generally is discovered by my Significant Other, who will produce it with some innocuous remark like: "Is this what you're looking for." That is what she says out loud, but eh subtext is more like: "You excuse for a man. Why did I choose you, when there are men better equiped to defend me against the neighbouring tribe." Oddly, when she finds the keys, I do not fill with gratitude, but rather with raging resentment. Anyway, even she hasn't been able to find them today, which gives me a rather twisted sense of triumph. More About: June , June 2008 , 2008 , Entry
Entry for 23rd June, 2008
2008-09-05 14:26:00 I have been very concerned by my own mortality since I turned 40. If the evidence of 3 out of 4 grandparents and 1 out of 2 parents is to be believed, I have almost certainly passed the halfway point. I can't help feeling that I wasted a bit too much of my time playing fantasy football and watching re-runs of "Star Trek: The Next Generation". I feel that I should be more ambitious in my latter years. the problem is that I basically like the things that I do - my job is absorbing; I really enjoy the theatre; and I like to go out with my mates for a bit of a laugh. However, if you write down your list of Things to Do Befor You Die on a big sheet of paper, I somehow feel that the only entry should not read - Do a bit more of the stuff I do just now. I imagine that Marie Curie, Genghis Khan and even Sid Little all had more ambitious targets than that. I am off now to dream up some important targets for the limited time that I have left on the planet. More About: June , June 2008 , 2008 , Entry
Entry for 22nd June, 2008
2008-08-24 22:48:00 I have completed the second of my 100 Small But Tangeible Improvements to my life. I gutted the garage at the weekend. This was becoming pressing because next week most of the old-fashioned furniture that I will be using for my theatre company's next production will be arriving, and I need somewhere to store it. My garage has not historically been used for anything so mundane as a car. One might loosely say that it is used for storeage. But the word "storeage" implies some sort of order. So, it would be more accurate to say that "historically my garage has been used to pile a huge assortment of boxes containing God knows what". It took me about three hours to sort things into some sort of order tonight. I have, in the process, filled my spare room with various items that need to be sorted out. i say "spare room". Of course I actually mean "room in which I store a huge assortment of boxes containing God knows what". the next part of this process will be to move the boxes into the lo... More About: June , June 2008 , 2008 , Entry
Entry for 21st June, 2008
2008-08-24 13:24:00 Oddly, I am feeling a little blue after this year's Fringe has ended. I used to get quite depressed at the end of shows, but I haven't really had that experience for quite a number of years. I think that I recognise now that the end of a show isn't really like the end of a book - it's more like the end of a chapter, and there's a fair old chance that I'll encounter most of the characters again somewhere further down the story. However, this year I do have a little cloud hanging over me. I think that it's because it was a particularly nice bunch of people that I was working with. I think I've made a lot of new friendships this time around, and have rekindled some old ones. It's sad that we won't be working together as a complete unit again. However, that is the nature of shows - if I don't like it then I can always take up making airfix models of the Graf Spee as my new hobby. More About: June , June 2008 , 2008 , Entry
Entry for 20th June 2008, 2008
2008-08-23 00:41:00 The first of my 100 Small But Tangeible Improvements has not proved to be a spectacular success. I hung a clock in the kitchen. Now. There. See what you've alo been missing during my blogging sabbatical? You have missed tales about clock-hanging haven't you? You have been hankering after my exciting stories, and I can sense how glad you are that I am back. But there's more. I know. I know. You are already breathless from the opening few paragraphs, but brace yourself, for this is a story with a twist. Read on if you dare. Are you ready? The clock is not working. Worth the wait huh? I suspect that Warner Brothers are already sharpening their pencils with a view to buying the film rights. I imagine that Tom Hanks will play me, and Uma Thurman will play the capricious timepiece. Anyway, I am undeterred. Only 99 of the 100STis to go. More About: June , June 2008 , 2008 , Entry
Entry for 19th June 2008, 2008
2008-08-21 20:53:00 So, I said that I would tell you a few stories about my experiences at the Edinburgh Fringe. I realised that I was in Edinburgh on my second day at the Festival. I'd taken my kids along to see "Sketchy!" which is one of the two shows that we were producing this year. It was penned by The Flame Haired Writing Genius, and is a snappy little sketch show for young kids. I was sitting towards the back of the theatre behind a family of typical Fringe goers - Upper Middle Class parents dragging their slightly precocious children along to the theatre because it an improving experience. Even though I love the theatre, I do realise that any right-thinking child would much prefer to be chasing a sibling with a jobby on a stick. At any event, there's one point in the show when one of the characters throws a bundle of tea bags into the audience (yes - you are right - there IS a certain magic in the theatre). One of the teabags landed in the lap of the precocious eight year old girl in front of... More About: June , June 2008 , 2008 , Entry
Entry for 18th June, 2008
2008-08-21 20:44:00 As I alluded to in the last entry, my life is on the verge of collapse on many fronts following the Fringe. Having a hobby is a good thing, but a hobby that borders on the obsessional has its downside. If you spend eight hours a day thinking about lighting plots and ticket sales and the correct way to say the word "Delusional" in a Pacific North West accent, it does not leave much room for DIY projects. My house appears to be on the verge of total collapse. In fact, I'm not even sure about that, because most of my house now resembles the ward of a mental institution near Seattle, festooned as it is by gurney beds, faux ECT machines and nurses uniforms. However, regular readers will not be surprised to learn that I HAVE A CUNNING PLAN!!! And here it is. Henceforth, until the end of the project, this will be The Blog of 100 Small But Tangeible Imptovements (B100STI). Check in regularly to see how by tiny increments I improve my life from the sad and dishevelled existence that I lead... More About: June , June 2008 , 2008 , Entry
Entry for 17th June, 2008
2008-08-20 22:05:00 I have missed you little blog, but I have been busy directing my little show. Fear not though, for now my venture to the Fringe is over, and I have returned an older man if not any wiser. So, now I shall catch up - and not only with you little blog, but also with all of the little things that I have been neglecting. You know - like DIY projects, paying bills and the children. Doing shows is a rather peculiar hobby when it comes right down to it. It involves about 8 weeks of intensive effort, where you can't really think much about anything else. So you run up overdrafts, neglect creditors and allow dust to settle an inch deep on the carpet. And at the end of the 8 weeks you spend a week putting a little show on in a sweaty hall in Edinburgh. By that time all of the team - actors and crew - are either best friends with one another, or hate the sight of each other. But it's worth it. It really is. Just to feel the life in your veins for a week, and to enter that little universe wher... More About: June , June 2008 , 2008 , Entry
Entry for 16th June, 2008
2008-07-14 20:03:00 I have spent a couple of days in bed with a tummy bug which I suspect that my first born has passed on to me. It is pretty rare for me to be off my work, so it has been an odd experience to be on the sick. It was differesnt when I was a kid. I was off school a lot as a result of having a pair of tonsils that expanded to the size of a modestly proportioned semi-detached house whenever I engaged in any physical exercise. As a result I suspect that most of my teachers thought I was the child of some travelling folk, as I generally only came to school for a couple of days during Lamaas Fair. Incidentally, my tonsils are partially responsible for my brief conversion to Born Again Christianity, which is a story I will share with you shortly. (That was a teaser folks - designed to keep you coming back for more. I bet you can hardly wait). Anyway, being laid up in bed over the past couple of days is oddly comforting and rather nostalgic. The feeling of periodically shivering and overheating... More About: June , June 2008 , 2008 , Entry
Entry for 20th May, 2008
2008-06-02 00:54:00 I have had a pretty much full day today. I went into the office early though it is a Sunday, and caught up with a big pile of paperwork that was beginning to take on a life of its own; the type of files that you are fairly sure prowl around the office late at night of their own volition. Some of them roam in packs and are wont to try to devour young solicitors who stray too far from the herd. After that I played with the Small Round Faced People while my Significant Other abandoned us to go and watch the Sex and the City movie. I do not really follow the Sex and the City phenomenon. It appears to me to centre on four rather vacuous thin women who are perennially unable to retain a boyfriend. Plainly, for some reason that I can't fathom, the men of New York are put off by gaunt, materialistic harpies who do nothing but drink Manhattans and whine about the inadequacies of their men-folk. I had to cope with four dirty nappies, a nasty incident with a bogie and a minor tantrum when I f... More About: 2008 , Entry
Entry for 19th May, 2008
2008-06-01 01:55:00 The show is fully cast! I finished my whirlwind tour of Scotland today, by auditioning a guy who lives not in Edinburgh, not in Helensburgh, not in Fife. In fact, he comes from just up the road from me. So things have come nicely full circle. Sixteen actors in place. Rehearsals starting on Wednesday. It is all very exciting. Ok. It is not like being Ryan Giggs and jogging out onto the pitch to play for the European Cup, but it is at least a bit like being the captain of a non-league club, stepping out for a pre-season friendly against the local costermongers' eleven. We can't all be Ryan Giggs. But sometimes we get to pretend we are; as our studs crunch on the gravel at the local council pitches, and the ref looks at his watch, pauses for just an instant... Then blows his whistle. More About: 2008 , Entry
Entry for 18th May, 2008
2008-05-29 23:35:00 Welcome to the Blog of the Kindly Cuppa 40 Cups of Tea With 40 Friends is my goal in life. And it must be done before 10th July. Click here to find out why. If you would like to be my friend and earn a QCT (Qualifying Cup of Tea) then let me know. No. of QCTs to date: 18 Here is the type of pish I need to put up with in my job. Dramatis Personae HYL (Handsome Young Lawyer) OBE (Officious Banking Employee) The scene - A Handsome Young Lawyer (actually around forty but looks much younger, and has matured like a fine cheese) is on the phone. HYL - Oh. Hello. Can you give me a figure to redeem my client's loan today? OBE - I can do that. Yes. HYL - Excellent.... OBE - ...but it'll take five working days. HYL - Oh. I really need it today. My client's moving house you see. OBE - It takes five working days. HYL - Yes. But I called you yesterday and you were able to give me a figure over the phone. OBE - Yes. We were doing you a favour then. HYL - Can you do me a favout now then? O... More About: 2008 , Entry
Entry for 17th May, 2008
2008-05-29 23:22:00 Welcome to the Blog of the Kindly Cuppa 40 Cups of Tea With 40 Friends is my goal in life. And it must be done before 10th July. Click here to find out why. If you would like to be my friend and earn a QCT (Qualifying Cup of Tea) then let me know. No. of QCTs to date: 18 I have been off on a training course tonight. I have discovered that, now that I am a fully-fledged and qualified Family Law Mediator, I need to do about ten hours training per year. This is very expensive. Also, as far as I can tell, in the whole of Scotland, there only appear to be a total of about three mediations in any year (and two of them usually end in a fist fight). I am beginning to suspect that Mediation is actually a clever ruse for fleecing well-meaning solicitors who are prepared to fork out good money for training courses. Actually the course was very good, and rather interesting. I am faxcinated by the mechanics of negotiations. Does it pay to be aggressive? Is there such a thing as win/win? How... More About: 2008 , Entry
Entry for 16th May, 2008
2008-05-29 23:15:00 Welcome to the Blog of the Kindly Cuppa 40 Cups of Tea With 40 Friends is my goal in life. And it must be done before 10th July. Click here to find out why. If you would like to be my friend and earn a QCT (Qualifying Cup of Tea) then let me know. No. of QCTs to date: 18 I only need one more cast member for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Today's audition took place in my office. It is not often that I have people in my provincial lawyer's office pretending to be psychopaths. Of course a lot of provincial solicitors are psychopaths, but not in my office. We are all well-balanced, composed and efficient. So - we are nearly there. Only five days until the first rehearsal, but I am holding my nerve. I WILL be fully cast. I WILL get people who are right for the show. I WILL have a significant stomach ulcer by the end of July. I have reached that point in the Summer where the amount of time I spend on Fringe stuff just about matches the day job. Today I have been organising audi... More About: 2008 , Entry
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Rehearsal Schedule
2008-05-28 19:53:00 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO's NEST REHEARSAL SCHEDULE This is the rehearsal schedule. Note - I am not perfect at this! You may find that you are in some sections that I have not called you for. Look over your script and come to all rehearsals for the pages that you are in. I wlll e-mail you with the venues in the next couple of days. Mark up your diaries. Try to come to everything you are called for. This is a bg play and we will have limited chances to catch up later. Note that in the first 4 Saturday rehearsals Adam will be running accent workshops for a half hour or so. I think these'll be very valuable, so everyone should try to make it along to these. I'll aim to run these at around 11am. Everyone please e-mail me with notes of rehearsals they cannot attend and I'll mark this up. Note that there is one Monday night rehearsal. Wed 4th June - 7.30pm to 9.30pm Pages 53 - 58 Called - All patients, Flinn, Ratched, (Warren - no dialogue), Willams Sat 7th June - 10am - 1pm ... More About: Schedule , Nest , Cuckoo
Entry for 15th May, 2008
2008-05-28 00:33:00 Welcome to the Blog of the Kindly Cuppa 40 Cups of Tea With 40 Friends is my goal in life. And it must be done before 10th July. Click here to find out why. If you would like to be my friend and earn a QCT (Qualifying Cup of Tea) then let me know. No. of QCTs to date: 18 Yesterday was a really successful day in terms of casting One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. We managed to get two really good actors for relatively minor roles. One of the problems with casting a really big ensemble piece is trying to get depth of quality in the cast. I'm a great believer in trying to get actors who look "right" for the parts. I think that you are fighting a losing battle with the audience if you start casting against type (even if the actors are really good). This theory is pretty easy to put into practice for small shows where you only have to cast about half a dozen actors, but when you're casting a big show (16 actors in the casr of Cuckoo's Nest) it's quite tough - many people don't w... More About: 2008 , Entry
Entry for 14th May, 2008
2008-05-27 20:12:00 Welcome to the Blog of the Kindly Cuppa 40 Cups of Tea With 40 Friends is my goal in life. And it must be done before 10th July. Click here to find out why. If you would like to be my friend and earn a QCT (Qualifying Cup of Tea) then let me know. No. of QCTs to date: 18 Me, my Significant Other and the Round Faced People took a trip through to Edinburgh today. I was travelling through to audition an actor for One Flew Over the Cuckoo?s Nest and we thought we?d tie it in with a family day out to the zoo, However, our plans were dashed because we were held up for over two hours on the M8 because of a major accident. As usual with these things, I felt frustrated as we crept along the road at a snail?s pace, and yet I felt guilty at my frustration. In fact, we?d left half an hour late today ? we were cleaning up the kitchen following our Eurovision party last night. And for a few minutes I wondered if we?d have been caught up in the accident if we?d left on time. It was a hor... More About: 2008 , Entry
Entry for 13th May, 2008
2008-05-23 00:07:00 Welcome to the Blog of the Kindly Cuppa 40 Cups of Tea With 40 Friends is my goal in life. And it must be done before 10th July. Click here to find out why. If you would like to be my friend and earn a QCT (Qualifying Cup of Tea) then let me know. No. of QCTs to date: 18 I am nearly halfway to my target of 20 QCTs. Here are me and Gordy enjoying a post-badminton brew up at his posh sports club this evening. Fortunately the anti-oxidants in the tea are just managing to keep the blood flowing round through our furred forty-year-old arteries. We are too old and fat for physical exertion. We should be sooking Werthers Originals and playing bowls, not leaping around a badminton court. Gordy treated me to a luxurious night at his private gym. Personally, I have always been a man who trains in local authority facilities. I believe that it does one's soul good to spend some time sweating amongst the entire spectrum of humanity. In the council gym, we are all united in our hatred of t... More About: 2008 , Entry
Entry for 12th May, 2008
2008-05-22 23:51:00 Welcome to the Blog of the Kindly Cuppa 40 Cups of Tea With 40 Friends is my goal in life. And it must be done before 10th July. Click here to find out why. If you would like to be my friend and earn a QCT (Qualifying Cup of Tea) then let me know. No. of QCTs to date: 17 I have invested in a TomTom SatNav. There seems to me to be something inherently improbable about this device. It's the size of a fag packet, and it contains every road in the UK? Pull the other one. Oh? It's connected to a network of satellites orbiting us in outer space is it? Yes, yes, of course it is. My rusting Mercedes Benz is the obvious triangulation point for multi-million dollar military hardware. It all sounds very fishy to me. Personally, I choose to believe the more obvious explanation, which is that the Tom Tom is actually the work of the devil. It has not been created by bespectacled boffins in a lab, but has actually been forged by Satan and his army of the damned. It is not connected to sat... More About: 2008 , Entry
Entry for May 20, 2008
2008-05-20 21:56:00 Welcome to the Blog of the Kindly Cuppa 40 Cups of Tea With 40 Friends is my goal in life. And it must be done before 10th July. Click here to find out why. If you would like to be my friend and earn a QCT (Qualifying Cup of Tea) then let me know. No. of QCTs to date: 17 Here is me and the Piano Man enjoying QCT no.17. If I look a bit pissed off, it is because I am. This was by far the least gracious and most grudging cuppa thus far. The Piano Man and his Mrs did not seem to understand that I had only come to Strathaven to bag a qualifying cuppa, not to make small talk, or to let my daughter colour in their walls with a crayon. I am short of time. I need a cuppa every other day if I am not to be stamped indelibly with the inky mark of failure. This is no longer funny. Imagine my horror when, after making the trip of SEVEN WHOLE MILES, the Piano Man emmerged from the kitchen with a coffee! Has he not read the rules? "Tea man!" I yelled at him. "It has to be tea!" He looked a bi... More About: 2008 , Entry
Entry for 10th May, 2008
2008-05-20 21:47:00 Welcome to the Blog of the Kindly Cuppa 40 Cups of Tea With 40 Friends is my goal in life. And it must be done before 10th July. Click here to find out why. If you would like to be my friend and earn a QCT (Qualifying Cup of Tea) then let me know. No. of QCTs to date: 16 Me and my mates continued the great Dungeons & Dragons revival last night. I fear that we are all enjoying it a little bit too much for a group of forty year old men. I have now reached a point where I think that I know the combat rules just about as well as I know the Family Law (Scotland) Act. This suggests that far too much of my limited neurological capacity is devoted to storing information about the Armour Class penaly a character should take whilst fighting an animated corpse in torchlight. I do not really have the brain cells to waste any more. I imagine my brain as a big room full of filing cabinets. Most of them are already full. Look - over there - there's a stuffed cabinet overflowing with info... More About: 2008 , Entry
Entry for 9th May, 2008
2008-05-18 22:33:00 Welcome to the Blog of the Kindly Cuppa 40 Cups of Tea With 40 Friends is my goal in life. And it must be done before 10th July. Click here to find out why. If you would like to be my friend and earn a QCT (Qualifying Cup of Tea) then let me know. No. of QCTs to date: 16 I visited the North Lanarkshire Flower Festival today. It is a bit like the Chelsea Flower show except with a lot of neds in Shell Suits. I felt a bit sorry for the red-haired man who was singing in the entertainment area when we arrived. He was clearly prone to sunburn, but had been booked to do a one hour set in the blazing sun. By the end of his fourth number, he looked as if he had been subjected to a chemical peel and then buffed off with a coarse sand paper. He was giving off roughly the same heat as the number 2 blast furnace in Ravenscraig. His songs sounded a bit angry. i have a feeling that they may have started out as gentle ballads, but as the afternoon wore on rather more angst was injected into th... More About: 2008 , Entry
Entry for 8th May, 2008
2008-05-18 22:25:00 Welcome to the Blog of the Kindly Cuppa 40 Cups of Tea With 40 Friends is my goal in life. And it must be done before 10th July. Click here to find out why. If you would like to be my friend and earn a QCT (Qualifying Cup of Tea) then let me know. No. of QCTs to date: 16 I popped down to the Couch Potato's for a cup of tea and a chinwag for an hour last night. I discovered him in his natural Saturday evening habitat - reclined on the sofa surrounded by empty beer cans and the remnants of a spicy Indian carry out. he looked very happy indeed. I have, for some time believed that the Couch Potato is solely responsible for skewing Scotland's medical statistics. We have the reputation for being the sick man of Europe - smoking; poor diet; high saturated fats; enormous alcohol intake. However, I suspect that if the Couch Potato were removed from the National Data base maintained by Alec Salmond and his demonic slaves, then actually Scotland would be one of the healthiest nations in... More About: 2008 , Entry
Entry for 7th May, 2008
2008-05-17 21:45:00 Welcome to the Blog of the Kindly Cuppa 40 Cups of Tea With 40 Friends is my goal in life. And it must be done before 10th July. Click here to find out why. If you would like to be my friend and earn a QCT (Qualifying Cup of Tea) then let me know. No. of QCTs to date: 16 Almost half-way on my quest for 40 QCTs (Qualifying Cups of Tea). This is me and my chum Aileen A at Baxters tea room in Strathaven enjoying a particularly fine cuppa. You will note that we are partaking of that pinnacle of refinement - the pot of tea for two. If there is a more civilised beverage that the pot of tea for two, then I am yet to discover it. The moment that the waitress brings over the two shiny pots, an air of gentile relaxation decends over the proceedings. One settles into one's wicker chair. An afternoon of scones, pleasant company and juicy gossip stretches out in front of you. Who needs OK magazine when you have a confidante and a pot of tea for two? The very fact that there are two pots s... More About: 2008 , Entry
Entry for 6th May, 2008
2008-05-17 21:32:00 Welcome to the Blog of the Kindly Cuppa 40 Cups of Tea With 40 Friends is my goal in life. And it must be done before 10th July. Click here to find out why. If you would like to be my friend and earn a QCT (Qualifying Cup of Tea) then let me know. No. of QCTs to date: 15 More auditioning for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest today. A really nice chap travelled all the way from Ayrshire for a shot at being in the show. I felt rather humbled that he had come so far. I appreciate that I am the co-proprietor of the fourth best theatre company in South Lanarkshire, and that the thought of being in one of my shows is enough to make many an HNC acting student go weak at the knees, but nevertheless it was a long journey for a short reading. So - not wanting to spoil the young chap's day - I felt that the least that I could do was dress up like amphibion-featured mult-millionnaire Sir Andrew Llod Webber for the audition. I stuck some apricot jelly cubes to my face and fashined some big ... More About: 2008 , Entry
Entry for 5th May, 2008
More articles from this author:2008-05-17 10:55:00 Welcome to the Blog of the Kindly Cuppa 40 Cups of Tea With 40 Friends is my goal in life. And it must be done before 10th July. Click here to find out why. If you would like to be my friend and earn a QCT (Qualifying Cup of Tea) then let me know. No. of QCTs to date: 15 Couch Potato has been rambling on in his usual entertaining manner about the UEFA cup final. Couch lives in Larkhall which is a bastion of protestantism and is probably the biggest stronghold of Rangers fans anywhere in the world. I understand that the town was practically deserted on Wednesday as its denizens decamped to Manchester for the big game. If you were Sherlock Holmes could have tracked them all the way down the M74 by following the knuckle marks I know someone who teaches in the Secondary School in Larkhall. The Standard Grade Exam for Craft and Design clashed with the UEFA Cup final. Of 27 candidates who were entered for the exam, only 3 actually turned up. The others had been spirited away in the ... More About: 2008 , Entry 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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