Random , maybe even fringe, thoughts..
Aug. 15th, 2006 09:41 pmI love the informal freecycle that operates round these parts. People leave things out for bin men or council collection, but frequently they're nabbed before they get there. This is what happened to the catpissy double mattress I left out a few days ago: also in the past sundry plants, tables and dud CD players. Tonight I saw a TV and video left out of uncertain efficiency; I bet they're gone before morn.
Went to see my first am-dram Shakespeare in some years - The Tempest with a friend of Andy's in it. The actors gave it lally, and Ariel was really very good, but I'm left overwhelmed with the remembrance that The Tempest is really a very bad play. Ferdinand and Miranda fall in love and look! they get married. Ariel wants to be free! and look ! now she is. There's no dramatic conflict, no plot really, just a crotchety old man getting everything he ever wanted and therefore becoming slightly less crotchety. Or at least that's how it came over in this abridged production. Looks like old Will needed to be sent on refreshed three-act drama scriptwriting courses by this stage of his life..
Two people in the not very large audience were somebody's mother. I think it's acceptable to bring your mum if you're actually in the cast (bien sur) but absolutely not otherwise. Mums are for Xmas, not for socialising with. I've been rather amazed already recently, at people bringing their mums to things like pub quizzes, or cinema trips. Is this a class thing or an age thing, do you think? It seems to me the more upper-middle-class you are, the less likely you are to contemplate socialising with your friends AND your mum - perhaps because families get more nuclear , and less clan like, as they get more middle class. Or is it age? When you're in your teens/20s you're still effectively part of your mum's household, perhaps. So maybe it's less weird to bring her along. But does that make you more or less willing to expose them to the true you, having fun with your mates? All I know is that there was no stage of my life (especially when living at home) when I would ever, ever, have contemplated taking my mum down the pub with my friends... Reactions anybody?
After visit to ERI, toe is apparently doomed to be droopy forever, unless I have proper op under general anaesthetic, and am then immobilised in cast for 6 weeks. Even then they may not find cut/atrophied tendon, which having been severed, like broken elastic band has retracted and apparently could be anywhere between ankle and outskirts of Brighton. No, I didn't know that either. 6 weeks in cast not really plausible when moving in 3 weeks so farewell, oh bottom joint of big right toe, at least pro tem :(
Tomorrow Boothby Graffoe with Best Pal and![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
thishardenedarm. That should cheer me up.
Went to see my first am-dram Shakespeare in some years - The Tempest with a friend of Andy's in it. The actors gave it lally, and Ariel was really very good, but I'm left overwhelmed with the remembrance that The Tempest is really a very bad play. Ferdinand and Miranda fall in love and look! they get married. Ariel wants to be free! and look ! now she is. There's no dramatic conflict, no plot really, just a crotchety old man getting everything he ever wanted and therefore becoming slightly less crotchety. Or at least that's how it came over in this abridged production. Looks like old Will needed to be sent on refreshed three-act drama scriptwriting courses by this stage of his life..
Two people in the not very large audience were somebody's mother. I think it's acceptable to bring your mum if you're actually in the cast (bien sur) but absolutely not otherwise. Mums are for Xmas, not for socialising with. I've been rather amazed already recently, at people bringing their mums to things like pub quizzes, or cinema trips. Is this a class thing or an age thing, do you think? It seems to me the more upper-middle-class you are, the less likely you are to contemplate socialising with your friends AND your mum - perhaps because families get more nuclear , and less clan like, as they get more middle class. Or is it age? When you're in your teens/20s you're still effectively part of your mum's household, perhaps. So maybe it's less weird to bring her along. But does that make you more or less willing to expose them to the true you, having fun with your mates? All I know is that there was no stage of my life (especially when living at home) when I would ever, ever, have contemplated taking my mum down the pub with my friends... Reactions anybody?
After visit to ERI, toe is apparently doomed to be droopy forever, unless I have proper op under general anaesthetic, and am then immobilised in cast for 6 weeks. Even then they may not find cut/atrophied tendon, which having been severed, like broken elastic band has retracted and apparently could be anywhere between ankle and outskirts of Brighton. No, I didn't know that either. 6 weeks in cast not really plausible when moving in 3 weeks so farewell, oh bottom joint of big right toe, at least pro tem :(
Tomorrow Boothby Graffoe with Best Pal and
thishardenedarm. That should cheer me up.
