In a nutshell: work, school production, kids, cleaning, gardening, washing the car, rugby, eating chocolate, theatre, musical, cinema.... all the usual stuff.
Theatre
After our first visit to Hampstead Theatre and being so impressed with the size, value of tickets, time to get there from Stortford, etc. we went back with Steve and Pam in tow to see the RSC's production of Dunsinane.
http://www.rsc.org.uk/content/8770.aspx
We were worried it would be a bit highbrow, but there was comedy, death (lots), good battle scenes and even snow. Some of the story was told from a young soldiers viewpoint which really brought across the fact that some of these soldiers would have only been in their early teens. This only had a short run, but hopefully it will be performed again before too long. Steve and Pam were so impressed they were back four nights later to see it again.
The bit where the English Army disguise themselves as a forest.
Musical
Staff outing to see Sister Act. Enough said.
Actually it was a good night out.
Cinema
As my two blog followers will already know - we now have a 3D screen in The Empire. So over Easter I have experienced How To Train Your Dragon, and The Clash of The Titans, whilst wearing two pairs of glasses at once!
Ongoing Battle with Sky
Not long ago (about a year) we changed from Virgin TV to Sky, the idea was to have the whole package, TV, phone and broadband. So far we have the TV, and very nice it is too. There was only one instance with it didn't work, but the technical fault was a minor snowdrift on the dish - fixed by the use of a broom.
However, we are obviously difficult customers as we wanted to keep our phone number. This is the phone number that moved with us from our previous house, and from BT to Virgin so we couldn't see a problem with moving it again from Virgin to Sky. Problem is Virgin didn't want to let Sky use the number. But this is our number, we've had it for over 19 years. Stamps foot. Mr Imo has had to cope with all the phone calls over the past year trying to get this sorted out and finally we had a break through over Easter. Sky had had words with Virgin about giving them the number and were sending out a BT man (they use BT apparently) to reconnect us to the BT line which was now Skyline. The BT man came, he unscrewed some wires, said they were all too old, and he would have to put a new line in, meaning having to dig up the drive. Our drive is only 18 months old, no way are they digging it up! and we are already using one BT line for Mr Imo's work and a second line can't be stuck onto it due to the old wires!!!!!!! Once the BT Man had gone we remembered that we had had two lines through BT before going onto Virgin. Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Finally...........
Am at Pinkle's on Thursday and am going to recruit new blog followers, even if it kills me.
