I’ve been in a very strange parallel world over recent weeks. Rehearsing and performing has taken priority over blogging. I haven’t written very much and have been a haphazard reader of blogs too. Half-term...
Ooh I am pleased…

Our week’s run of Acorn Antiques, The Musical, came to an end on Saturday night, to huge cheers, plenty of applause and a great many aching jaws from excessive laughing. The South Holland Centre...
Who is this woman imitating Julie Walters?

Our local paper, the Spalding Guardian, ran a competition last week to win tickets to see our show, Acorn Antiques – The Musical. To accompany the piece was this delightful photograph of me, Miss Berta, Miss...
Art comes to Holbeach with Transported

Miracoco Luminarium In a weekend which saw the demise of the Spalding Flower Parade, at least in its current form, it was somewhat bittersweet to be present at the launch of a new...
The Gallery – The Weekend – Spalding Flower Parade

Float for the Flower Queen and her attendants It was the end of an era for Spalding this weekend. The 55th and final Flower Parade was cheered through the town centre: more than 30,000...
Travel round-up for BritMums – Easter Bumper Edition

For this month’s travel round-up on BritMums there are plenty of ideas for holidays and day trips. It’s a bumper edition with blog posts featuring theme parks in the UK and the USA, canal...
The Angel of the North

20m high (65ft) with a wing span of 54m (175ft), the Angel of the North stands on a hill looking out over the A1 south of Newcastle and Gateshead: an arresting sight for the...
Our date on the North Norfolk coast

Burnham Overy Staithe, Norfolk How is it that the places closest to home are often the places we forget to visit? We only live about 45 minutes from the North Norfolk coast and yet...