As usual, in December I was going out of my way to try new things. It’s a habit I strongly recommend and I always enjoy looking back at the end of the month to see what I’ve been able to try. Also as usual, December was a busy month. I don’t know about you, but… Continue reading New things I tried in December 2017
Let’s continue with the year in review posts, shall we? We’ve already had favourite beauty products, favourite books (both fiction and nonfiction), favourite movies and TV shows, and places visted and instagram posts and I’ve nearly (but not quite) run out. Now it’s time for favourite events. This year was particularly wonderful for the events… Continue reading Favourite events of 2017
Back in November I became aware that Scottish Ballet were doing The Nutcracker at the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh. Now, The Nutcracker is one of my all time favourite ballets and I knew that P would rather eat his own eyeballs than go see it with me. I also knew that my colleagues were well… Continue reading The Nutcracker
I’ve been using these short to-read lists lately, where I pick around 10 books I’d like to read next, and I’ve been finding them really helpful because my long to-read list is… unwieldy and when I have ~100 books to choose from I find it much harder to make a decision than when I only… Continue reading New to the queue (end of 2017)
Last Tuesday I went along to the King’s Theatre in Glasgow with Raj and co to go and see The Addams Family. When Raj had suggested the trip I knew nothing about the production but I knew I’d liked The Addams Family movies and the cartoon series as a kid, and that something like this… Continue reading The Addams Family
For the second time in as many years, I have attended a Bard in the Botanics performance of a Shakespear play that I had previously never seen or read, and for the second time, I have been absolutely blown away by that performance. Last year it was Coriolanus. This year, again in Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens,… Continue reading Bard in the Botanics: Timon of Athens
I’ve been doing so well with theatre this year! Last week we went to see the opening night of The Red Shoes at The King’s Theatre in Glasgow. This is a Matthew Bourne production, which presumably nods to the 1948 movie (I have to confess having never seen it) which itself is based on the… Continue reading Ballet: The Red Shoes
I was back at the Citizen’s Theatre this week to see Travels with my Aunt, an adaptation of a Graham Greene novel that I knew nothing about. It turns out the story follows Henry on an adventure with his Aunt Augusta. Henry is a retired bank manager and allows himself to be dragged across Europe… Continue reading Theatre: Travels with my Aunt
Last week I visited the Citizen’s Theatre for the opening night of Noël Coward’s, Hay Fever. Until last year I’d never seen a Noel Coward play, but I put that right by going to see Private Lives at the Theatre Royal. Having really enjoyed it, I was quite looking forward to this show. Hay Fever… Continue reading Theatre: Hay Fever at the Citizen’s Theatre, Glasgow
It’s rare that I’m organised enough to remember to book tickets for events at the Glasgow Comedy Festival and that’s a shame. Every year I hear about acts I would have loved to see, long after the event has actually happened. So I was lucky this year that Raj invited me along to a few… Continue reading Sue Perkins at the Glasgow Comedy Festival
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