the longawaited journey...
okay, firstly hello.
yesterday was awesome.
just have to bore you all and go through it... ;-)
so i woke up at 8am when my alarm went off and then went back to sleep, getting up again at 8.40 to hear jack about to make tea, so went and scared him with a stealth hug and requested that he make me a cup of tea, and then even managed to pursuade him to put milk on my weetabix (yup i had breakfast for once) in 5 mins as id be in the shower for approximately that length of time,
now my showering time has dramatically reduced since the eye incident, so a v. quick shower was had and then wandered downstairs to find a cup of tea and breakfast ready and waiting, which to be fair was an excellent start to the day.
i then scared the decorator, as i'd told him the day before that id be in london all day wednesday when trying to establish whether or not id need to move stuff tuesday night... (then answer was not) and i was still here, so i explained i was being collected so that was okay too. at 9.15 i made another cup of tea as i had forgotten to take my blue pill with the first... :S and i needed the caffiene too... anyhow, drank the scalding tea with the pill (ouch) and we set off.... i did fairly well- the pill kicked in around an hour into the journey and i only fell asleep for 10-15 minutes (stupid side effects) although in that 10 minutes or so we seemed to have killed several bugs on the windscreen....
We arrived in High Wycombe and parked at around 12.30ish and arrived at the station and bought the tickets with 4 minutes till the next train and arrived at the platform with 30s to go- which is what you get when 2 people with great timing skills are travelling ;-).
Anyhoo arrived into Marylebone station, which to be honest i wasnt impressed with and dont see why it made the Monopoly board game at all.... but hey, and headed for picadilly circus on a not very packed tube which was good, as i have severe issues with those things (well more the number of people on those things). Found our bearings and headed for Queen's theatre to get tickets for the first show of the day- Les Miserables. then it was to mc Deathtrap for lunch, which i have to say the salad isnt too terrible.... and on to the show.
Having seen Les Mis when it came to Sheffield a few years ago, it was both better and worse than that. i really enjoyed seeing it in its 'home' and overall the standard of the company was good. There were one or two characters i was less than impressed with, although to balance that there were also a couple i was blown away with... I love the story and do intend to read the book at some point.... but it was great to see again....
then we had an hour to spare so went to soundcontrol in the basement of Virgin Megastore to look at guitar kit and stuff...and then had a drinks stop and headed to the dominion Theatre for the second show...
Since this had been a possibility i had successfully managed to completely disassociate myself from anything that might have let me in on the plot, so i had no idea what to expect with 'We Will Rock You'. I had heard a couple of reviews which were mixed so no giveaways there, but i have to say i was very impressed.... the plot could have been slightly less predictable, but in its defence i work out plot too easily sometimes... i was very impressed with the standard of the show. Its definately a next generation musical, with the inclusions of videoscreens and high-tech effects, which was a completely welcome contrast to the period style of Les Mis, but overall the standard of the people were awesome. i couldnt really find any fault with the band at all, the only complaint i could have possibly made was that i found the vocals unbalanced with the music, but thats entirely because we were sat on the front row so no possible right to. As for the main characters, they really put everything into it, and for that i salute them!
At the end we began our journey home, jumpin on a train back to High Wycombe and then driving back, i am sorry to report that i was a bit of a wuss and did fall asleep with the best of intentions to have not done, but never mind. We arrived back to mine at 2.15ish and i handed Jelalucia over to her new owner, and i climbed into bed a very happy bunny, if a little sad that such a good day had to end.
yesterday was awesome.
just have to bore you all and go through it... ;-)
so i woke up at 8am when my alarm went off and then went back to sleep, getting up again at 8.40 to hear jack about to make tea, so went and scared him with a stealth hug and requested that he make me a cup of tea, and then even managed to pursuade him to put milk on my weetabix (yup i had breakfast for once) in 5 mins as id be in the shower for approximately that length of time,
now my showering time has dramatically reduced since the eye incident, so a v. quick shower was had and then wandered downstairs to find a cup of tea and breakfast ready and waiting, which to be fair was an excellent start to the day.
i then scared the decorator, as i'd told him the day before that id be in london all day wednesday when trying to establish whether or not id need to move stuff tuesday night... (then answer was not) and i was still here, so i explained i was being collected so that was okay too. at 9.15 i made another cup of tea as i had forgotten to take my blue pill with the first... :S and i needed the caffiene too... anyhow, drank the scalding tea with the pill (ouch) and we set off.... i did fairly well- the pill kicked in around an hour into the journey and i only fell asleep for 10-15 minutes (stupid side effects) although in that 10 minutes or so we seemed to have killed several bugs on the windscreen....
We arrived in High Wycombe and parked at around 12.30ish and arrived at the station and bought the tickets with 4 minutes till the next train and arrived at the platform with 30s to go- which is what you get when 2 people with great timing skills are travelling ;-).
Anyhoo arrived into Marylebone station, which to be honest i wasnt impressed with and dont see why it made the Monopoly board game at all.... but hey, and headed for picadilly circus on a not very packed tube which was good, as i have severe issues with those things (well more the number of people on those things). Found our bearings and headed for Queen's theatre to get tickets for the first show of the day- Les Miserables. then it was to mc Deathtrap for lunch, which i have to say the salad isnt too terrible.... and on to the show.
Having seen Les Mis when it came to Sheffield a few years ago, it was both better and worse than that. i really enjoyed seeing it in its 'home' and overall the standard of the company was good. There were one or two characters i was less than impressed with, although to balance that there were also a couple i was blown away with... I love the story and do intend to read the book at some point.... but it was great to see again....
then we had an hour to spare so went to soundcontrol in the basement of Virgin Megastore to look at guitar kit and stuff...and then had a drinks stop and headed to the dominion Theatre for the second show...
Since this had been a possibility i had successfully managed to completely disassociate myself from anything that might have let me in on the plot, so i had no idea what to expect with 'We Will Rock You'. I had heard a couple of reviews which were mixed so no giveaways there, but i have to say i was very impressed.... the plot could have been slightly less predictable, but in its defence i work out plot too easily sometimes... i was very impressed with the standard of the show. Its definately a next generation musical, with the inclusions of videoscreens and high-tech effects, which was a completely welcome contrast to the period style of Les Mis, but overall the standard of the people were awesome. i couldnt really find any fault with the band at all, the only complaint i could have possibly made was that i found the vocals unbalanced with the music, but thats entirely because we were sat on the front row so no possible right to. As for the main characters, they really put everything into it, and for that i salute them!
At the end we began our journey home, jumpin on a train back to High Wycombe and then driving back, i am sorry to report that i was a bit of a wuss and did fall asleep with the best of intentions to have not done, but never mind. We arrived back to mine at 2.15ish and i handed Jelalucia over to her new owner, and i climbed into bed a very happy bunny, if a little sad that such a good day had to end.
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