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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 9:56:06 GMT
I'm probably being a bit thick but...what? Sorry I meant be careful with the online dating ( the e was my shortening emicardiff, that'll teach me to try and be clever ! ) oh haha I thought I'd made some kind of weird spelling error!
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Post by Kim_Bahorel on Mar 23, 2017 12:51:59 GMT
Aside everything that happened in central London which I didn't even know about until the interval. Aside all that which was terrible and shocking.
This is long...
Yesterday I started my morning with worry that the company I work for has the area manager come around to do a store assessment. He is there all the time but it's an official thing with the company. Usually when he turns up it's meeting with the manager then starts quizzing us about targets & products. The problem is we have just come out of 4 month retail stressful period everyone is over the place. I came back off my holiday Monday to find he was going his visit on Wednesday morning. It was like - Oh God!!
I wasn't entirely with it yesterday as well because (I go to Les Mis a lot) I like to see certain cast who are mostly swings play all the characters they cover. Well if you go Les Mis probably know Adam Bayjou is the first cover Jean Valjean. I absolutley love him in the role but I am also a fan of Oliver Brenin who this cast year became the second cover. Now I'm not sure what the rules actually are now about them saying about covering & holidays. But I think its got muddled now. Well I was waiting for Adam to be on holiday again and if I didn't have a ticket, take a risk and buy Weds matinee (his contracted cover show). It would be very short notice. On Sunday he posted on his Instagram about arriving in New York. So I got a ticket for yesterday on my lunch break at work Monday.
Then I thought Oli might not actually get to be Valjean if Adam could be back before the end of the week and just arrange with Simon Gleeson to do his show on Friday or Saturday. Only think that because something akin to that happened back in January but with Simon. So that whole morning I spend not trying to be excited about Oli being on just in case he wasn't actually going to be on.
Well the area manager didn't turn up while I was working. It got later and later then found out 30mins before I was leaving he only just turned up in one of your shops near by.
Then I left work got to about 200 metres of the box office and was told Oli was going to be going the show as Valjean. I just got really happy & excited I couldn't even eat anything before seeing the show. I have now seen both his Jean Valjean shows. I really hope he is staying for another year.
That was my day yesterday.
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Post by kathryn on Mar 23, 2017 14:57:07 GMT
I finally got my flights sorted for next year!!
Whoop whoop!
Flying out to Hong Kong on 6th Feb, from Hong Kong to Auckland on 7th Feb, then back from Sydney on 8th March - all in business class. Probably going to do the Bay of Islands trip before my main tour from Auckland to Christchurch, then hop over and have 4 nights in Sydney before flying home. Still need to book a Christchurch to Sydney flight. So far it's cost me about £760 plus 194k avios.
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 23, 2017 14:58:41 GMT
^That's what happens when you get trained monkeys to do stuff......oh....hang on..
(Obvs referring to @theatremonkey's post - cannot work out how to edit in a quote!)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 15:15:29 GMT
dipping my toe back in the online dating I tried that computer dating, total disaster. Dumped by a Dell, stood up by a Hewlett-Packard on a second date. Frankly I'll never understand how a Pentium 4's mind works anyway. Worst, though, was the one that used an Ipad in the profile picture, and a ZX Spectrum turned up. Never again. She was disappointed you only had a dial up connection as well...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 15:59:45 GMT
Yeah, come to think of it, me not having a broadband was mentioned. *cough cough* filth!
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Post by kathryn on Mar 23, 2017 16:46:57 GMT
Just managed to book tickets to see Oscar Isaac in Hamlet in New York, so I'm having a good but expensive day! Here's hoping my friend can get a visa ok (she visited Syria back in 2011, so can't ESTA).
I'm mourning the lack of a theatremonkey equivalent for NYC to reassure me that I haven't booked the two worst seats in the house! It's on at the Anspacher - anyone been there? It looks Donmar-sized so I went for central section, thought I think one of us will be sitting next to a pillar.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 16:53:00 GMT
Just managed to book tickets to see Oscar Isaac in Hamlet in New York, so I'm having a good but expensive day! Here's hoping my friend can get a visa ok (she visited Syria back in 2011, so can't ESTA). I'm mourning the lack of a theatremonkey equivalent for NYC to reassure me that I haven't booked the two worst seats in the house! It's on at the Anspacher - anyone been there? It looks Donmar-sized so I went for central section, thought I think one of us will be sitting next to a pillar. www.entertainment-link.com/broadway-theaters.asp might be useful for others...
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Post by poster J on Mar 23, 2017 17:01:17 GMT
I finally got my flights sorted for next year!! Whoop whoop! Flying out to Hong Kong on 6th Feb, from Hong Kong to Auckland on 7th Feb, then back from Sydney on 8th March - all in business class. Probably going to do the Bay of Islands trip before my main tour from Auckland to Christchurch, then hop over and have 4 nights in Sydney before flying home. Still need to book a Christchurch to Sydney flight. So far it's cost me about £760 plus 194k avios. I did an excellent overnight houseboat trip in the Bay of Islands last year - would highly recommend it. PM me if you'd like the details
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Post by hulmeman on Mar 23, 2017 17:26:39 GMT
I collected my lottery winnings today. My partner said what about the begging letters, I said keep sending them.
I'll get me coat!
Any way £25 isn't going to change my life.
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Post by lou on Mar 23, 2017 17:56:02 GMT
My car broke down on the way to work this morning and I had to be rescued. Ended up 2 hours late and will have a £350 bill tomorrow!!
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 23, 2017 19:49:52 GMT
Wikipediaing all the real life characters from Nell Gwynn & discovering Jessica Swale took a LOT of liberties with the facts!
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Post by showgirl on Mar 23, 2017 20:09:46 GMT
Relaxing trip to a matinee at one of my favourite theatres, with bonus of getting an upgrade to a top-price aisle seat.
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Post by The Matthew on Mar 24, 2017 9:14:35 GMT
Pour out bowl of muesli. Pick up milk. Move milk over bowl. Notice spider on side of milk carton. Move carton away from bowl. Notice absence of spider. Frantic search for spider. Curse muesli for seeming custom made for hiding spiders.
Notice spider hanging on thread below milk carton. Deposit spider in safe place. Pour milk. Relief.
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 24, 2017 9:23:29 GMT
^But everyone KNOWS that muesli is made of eye of newt, toe of frog, leg of spider, b*llock of dog............
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Post by alece10 on Mar 24, 2017 10:42:02 GMT
Bad so far. Tried for rush tkts for AAIP and didnt get them
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Post by infofreako on Mar 24, 2017 12:15:37 GMT
Yesterday was a good day though my partner is suffering today and won't be doing a two show day again anytime soon. But having mention one good experience in the 42nd Street thread I wanted to highlight another. We changed our chosen matinee show to Wild Party quite late on so having checked availability online headed straight to the Other Palace to buy our tickets. All the staff there were immensely helpful and as we sat with a drink in the bar we were approached by someone very pleased to see us as he was due to audio describe the matinee and had thought nobody would be there to listen to him. He promptly arranged a touch tour so we could go down on to the stage and she could get a feel for how the stage was set up. We were then seated as doors opened so she would be able to listen to the pre show audio description build up. We were at the back so I missed some of the action on the stairs but it wasn't a day for me so that didn't matter. At the interval the theatre manager came to our seats to check everything was OK and talk about how they could help us with attending in future and again he checked with us after the show how we'd found it.
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 24, 2017 12:22:50 GMT
My heart swells when I read things like this infofreako . Thank you so much for writing about it (and about your other good experience the other day at 42nd Street.) People often forget to tell everyone when things are good but are quick to lament. It's fantastic to hear that there are so many good people out there, willing to go that extra mile.
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Post by glossie on Mar 24, 2017 17:51:28 GMT
Been a beautiful day here, marred only by me damaging my index finger by getting it in the way of a pair of long-nosed pliers that slipped when hubby was using them to try and loosen a nut on the lawn mower I couldn't shift. It hurt. A lot. Still hurts. A lot. In other news, the sheep in the field across the valley have had lambs.
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Post by Dawnstar on Mar 24, 2017 18:22:25 GMT
Just had an expensive opticians' appointment: £345 for new glasses. The last ones have done 10 years so here's hoping the next ones do too.
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Post by infofreako on Mar 26, 2017 0:01:08 GMT
A great theatreboard meet up and 2 show day and back in Brighton by midnight. All the more remarkable having to deal with rail replacement buses
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Post by The Matthew on Mar 26, 2017 6:01:37 GMT
Spring forward, Fall back.
23 clocks or things with clocks in them. 7 of them auto-adjust. Many of the remaining 16 are mechanical or have no concept of date and so can't be expected to know about DST, but why can't the modern devices that know the date and which timezone I'm in handle this automatically?
At least everything I have at the moment that has a clock also has a proper purpose for a clock. My old landline phone had a call-time display and when it wasn't being used as a phone it would double as a clock, because who doesn't walk across the room and pick up the phone to see what time it is? The clock wasn't used for anything useful like a call log: it existed purely to give the display something to do when the phone wasn't in use. It was the worst digital clock I've ever seen: it would drift by several minutes a week, and after a few months it wasn't even correct to the nearest hour. The battered old pendulum clock I bought at auction for £2 keeps better time.
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Post by showgirl on Mar 26, 2017 6:17:10 GMT
A great theatreboard meet up and 2 show day and back in Brighton by midnight. All the more remarkable having to deal with rail replacement buses Great outcome in the circs, infofreako. I should have fared better with trains as officially there wasn't a bus replacement on my part of that rail route AND our normal services should've been supplemented by those diverted from another route. In the event my supposedly "fast" train ran 50% late to London and returning that evening they were all cancelled or delayed due to a power failure and bus replacements were mentioned but may not have materialised. What I good thing I always allow so much extra time in case, as I still arrived early for my scan appointment, but nothing I could do about it on the way back; in fact, that was the longest spell of "free" (albeit obviously captive at stations) time I had all day, but had I tried belatedly to attend the meet-up, everyone else would long have left.
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 26, 2017 7:29:31 GMT
Spring forward, Fall back. 23 clocks or things with clocks in them. 7 of them auto-adjust. Many of the remaining 16 are mechanical or have no concept of date and so can't be expected to know about DST, but why can't the modern devices that know the date and which timezone I'm in handle this automatically? At least everything I have at the moment that has a clock also has a proper purpose for a clock. My old landline phone had a call-time display and when it wasn't being used as a phone it would double as a clock, because who doesn't walk across the room and pick up the phone to see what time it is? The clock wasn't used for anything useful like a call log: it existed purely to give the display something to do when the phone wasn't in use. It was the worst digital clock I've ever seen: it would drift by several minutes a week, and after a few months it wasn't even correct to the nearest hour. The battered old pendulum clock I bought at auction for £2 keeps better time. I actually hate the devices that change automatically because I keep all my clocks 2-3 minutes fast, much to the annoyance of everyone else at Tibidabo Towers, so I struggle to change them when they do it by themselves. However, I love it when the clocks go forward and I wish parliament would hurry up and vote to keep it that way forever more - especially now that the Scots seem to be b*ggering off on their own!
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Post by The Matthew on Mar 26, 2017 8:48:04 GMT
However, I love it when the clocks go forward and I wish parliament would hurry up and vote to keep it that way forever more I think the opposite. Your timezone is determined by your position on the planet. If people want to get up earlier then they should get up earlier. Changing the timezone so they can get up earlier but pretend they're not seems crazy.
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 26, 2017 8:59:35 GMT
However, I love it when the clocks go forward and I wish parliament would hurry up and vote to keep it that way forever more I think the opposite. Your timezone is determined by your position on the planet. If people want to get up earlier then they should get up earlier. Changing the timezone so they can get up earlier but pretend they're not seems crazy. Oh no, it's not that! I absolutely hate driving around in the dark from 4.30 onwards for several months. So many kids and teenagers do stuff after school and it's dangerous for them to walk home alone, apart from those who live within the bright lights of a city. Out here they have dimmed the street lamps more and more every year until now they are nothing but a faint sulphuric glow, useless for anything whatsoever.
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Post by Michael on Mar 26, 2017 9:03:22 GMT
I, too, prefer summer time and wish we had it all year round. During the winter months, it's dark when I leave my apartment in the morning and it's dark when I return home in the late afternoon.
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Post by The Matthew on Mar 26, 2017 11:20:52 GMT
I can't remember when I first realised how thoroughly screwed up the idea of summer time was, but the whole concept just grates on me.
When you think about it, our regular pattern of life is ridiculous. The average person's day consists of a block of work, a block of leisure and a block of sleep, and the physical day consists of a period of light and a period of dark. Now the sensible thing to do is obviously to have the block of sleep coincide as much as possible with the period of dark and the waking activity coincide with the period of light. But most people work roughly 9-5 or 10-6, so their block of work is already mostly in the second half of the day. If they go out for a break half way though their work the sun is already past its peak and sinking. By the time they leave work three quarters of the physical day has already gone.
That's stupid. It's incredibly stupid. It's numbingly stupid. It's "When you named yourselves Homo sapiens you meant it ironically, right?" stupid.
That we have daylight saving time at all recognises that there's a problem but it's a preposterous way of dealing with it. Instead of addressing the fact that our activity day is many hours out of step with the real day it says "Hey, let's pretend the physical day is different! Let's pretend the middle of the night isn't actually the middle of the night and the middle of the day isn't actually the middle of the day!"
Why not deal with it properly? Why not start earlier? That's what DST is doing anyway, but why do we have to lie to ourselves about it?
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 26, 2017 11:53:48 GMT
Why not deal with it properly? Why not start earlier? That's what DST is doing anyway, but why do we have to lie to ourselves about it? So are you saying that you agree with me in that we shouldn't be going about our business in the dark at 4.30 but that we shouldn't call it 4.30 but 2.30......or something? In principle I agree that it's annoying changing the clocks - there's always the one you don't use for a couple of weeks that makes you an hour late/early the next time you see it! But all I care about really is not doing so much in the dark - it bothers me nothing what actual time the government want to call it. And I think I'm correct in saying that David Cameron was keen to put us onto European time and it was due to come up for debate in parliament, just after a Scottish MP was giving a speech.......which over-ran, (hmmm) putting the subject of BST back at the bottom of the list and making parliament wait at least 3 years for it to come round again. Edit. It's fun this Mother's Day malarky, isn't it? One is volunteering at a university open day and the other is still asleep! And I want lunch! But then we have 'lost' an hour's sleep, haven't we? (Which brings us full circle back to clocks! Keboom!)
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Post by dippy on Mar 26, 2017 12:53:09 GMT
Having a lovely day, the thought of the early start this morning wasn't nice, but I've finished work after having had a very rare short day, which was even nicer once the sun came up since we were outside.
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