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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 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
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
Entry for 4th May, 2008
2008-05-16 00:26:00 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 Leigh O mentioned the other day that he was a big fan of Robert Mugabe. My significant other (who did not major in political science at Oxford) has just asked me who Robert Mugabe is. Except she pronounced it as if Robert was committing a petty assault on an unfortunate insect (Mug a bee). She then asked why anyone would want to mug a bee, since it would sting you and then die. Bees are not known for having a great deal of money, and are thus a rather pointless thing to mug (except ones that are wearing new Air Nikes since you get three pairs per mugging, although there is a limited market for Size 0.0008 trainers, unless you are Willie Wonka, or a high ranking member of the Church of Scientology). Having said ... More About: 2008 , Entry
Entry for 3rd May, 2008
2008-05-15 01:33:00 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: 15 Elderly barrow boy Sir Alan Sugar has failed to notice my talents again this year on The Apprentice. Just because I am not actually on the programme does not mean that I should have been overlooked. Having said that, I am not sure that I would have accepted his SIX FIGURE SALARY since I am already receiving a salary of that nature (OK OK - in my case two of the figures come just after the decimal point). I do love The Apprentice. It gives the lie to New Labour. Maybe on the surface we are smiling social democrats, but scratch us and our blood is blue. As the credits of The Apprentice roll across the shining aluminium and glass of the City of London, you cannot help but feel a strange Thatcherite stirring; a ce... More About: 2008 , Entry
Entry for May 13, 2008
2008-05-13 21:01:00 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 Another QCT (Qualifying Cup of Tea). This one is a co-op red label brew which I am enjoying with my Significant Other (we are nothing if not thrifty). She is camera shy, and believes that if her picture is posted on the net, it is likely to be stolen by a Nigerian Syndicate who print her image on fraudulent bank notes, which will be used to purchase enriched uranium from shady men with Russian accents. She then believes that she will be hunted down like a dog by the CIA, and incarcerated in Guantanemo Bay. You will note that these are risks that I eschew. Pirates of the Internet, the Good Ship Alan B refuses to bow down to your threats. I choose to sail fearlessly across the waves of the web, armed with nothing... More About: 2008 , Entry
Entry for 1st May, 2008
2008-05-13 20:50:00 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: 14 I got eight hours glorious, undisturbed and blissful sleep last night, for what must be the first time in a year! I feel full of the joys of spring as a result. Much as I love the Small Round Faced people, there are times when I would happily leave them in the care of a passing rag and bone man for a few hours if it meant I could have a bit of a kip and then read the Sunday papers. However, thanks to the good auspices of my Significant Other, who crept from the bedroom at 6am with the Round Faced Boy to let me have a couple of extra hours, I feel like a Tour de France cyclist does after a transfusion of blood from a Himalayan Mountain Yak. I am ready for anything! I must go now. I am off to run up and down the ... More About: 2008 , Entry
Entry for 30th April, 2008
2008-05-12 22:56:00 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: 14 Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!!!!!!! Fish Face has just pointed out that my QCT (Qualifying Cups of Tea) Quest is now so far behind schedule that I need to notch up a cup of tea just about every other day if I am to make my target. This is very concerning. I have just looked through my Rolodex and it only contains four more names, and two of them are Eastern European plumbers. The chances of rattling up enough QCTs to avoid abject failure and the derision of all and sundry is looking fairly remote. I am feeling depressed; friendless; unfulfilled, I am an empty teapot - a flask without a refreshing brew to keep piping hot. Put me back in the cupboard of failure along with the unwanted breadmaker and the u... More About: April , 2008 , Entry
Entry for 29th April, 2008
2008-05-12 22:48:00 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: 14 My legs are aching from yesterday's run/hobble. However, the very fact that I have been for a run has allowed me to complain loudly to family members and colleagues about "how sore my legs are BECAUSE OF MY RUN." Thus, I have been able to extract sympathy whilst making them all feel inferior. I am truly a superman of the first order. Self-righteousness thy name is Alan B. I have also tidied my home office and can thus crow self-righteously about this too. I am sitting typing this from a pristine desk which boasts an empty in-tray. I hope you are now glancing guiltily around your own room and thinking: "I wish I was a paragon of organisation, like Alan B. He is amazing. He goes running too. How inferior I feel.... More About: April , 2008 , Entry
Entry for 28th April, 2008
2008-05-11 22:06:00 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: 14 I am just back from a run. Well, to be more accurate, I am back from a light jog interspersed with quite a lot of long pauses where I stood gasping at the side of the road, hands on my knees wheezing the words "Sweet Jesus, make the pain go away." Some children stopped and pointed at me and said "Look at the big fat man. Is he dying?" I used to be fit. I used to go to the gym regularly. I played sport. I ran. I even successfully competed a half marathon. However, those days have gone, and I am now in the athletic condition of a bedridden octogenarian recovering from open heart surgery. In fact, in a race I suspect that the octogenarian would stand a fighting chance of beating me. I appreciate that I will never ... More About: April , 2008 , Entry
Entry for 27th April, 2008
2008-05-11 21:58:00 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: 14 I still have a bit of a headache following last night's read through of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". I have become sadly lightweight in my alcohol tolerance since the onset of fatherhood. Once six cans of lager would have been a light aperetif in preparation for some proper drinking later on. However, nowadays it leaves me sleeping in the corner of parties by midnight, and the following day it feels as if my brain is being wrung out by an elderly washerwoman with very strong hands. All that aside, it was a very good night. None of the cast came to blows, which I feel is a solid enough start. Having said that I did notice at one point Lanarkshire's Leading Actress talking to The Big Indian. She was show... More About: April , 2008 , Entry
Entry for 26th April, 2008
2008-05-10 17:37:00 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: 14 The arrival of the Small Round Faced People has brought many wonders into my life. The sight of them arriving all new and blinking in the world. The utter joy and surprise of their first giggle. The little look of terror then delight upon their first mouthful of ice cream. But there is one wonder above all others that you learn about when you have children. It is a marvel. One of mankinds crowning achievements. An invention that makes the wheel, the telephone and penicillin pale into insignificance. I speak of the baby wipe. Yes - the baby wipe. A little rectangle of strange contradictions. Ii seems to be fashioned from some strange substance that is neither fabric nor paper. It is deliciously moist, yet endles... More About: April , 2008 , Entry
Entry for 25th April, 2008
More articles from this author:2008-05-10 13:58:00 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: 14 It's the first meet up of the cast for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" tonight. Not everyone can make it, but I still expect to have twelve actors in the one room at the same time. I expect that they will all start to elbow one another out of the way in an effort to secure the best position under the kitchen lamps. My job will be to ensure that I move enough furniture out of the way to allow them to stride heroically around my house. Also, I find that both the number and the improbability of theatrical anecdotes increases exponentially with the number of actors in any given space. I expect to be regaled this evening with tales of trousers falling down at inopportune moments; ill timed flatulence during Shak... More About: April , 2008 , Entry 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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