I’m sure you’ve all been waiting for an update on this weekend’s charity concert. No? Well, you’re getting one anyway. When I last blogged about our gigs, I told you that our esteemed musical...
Sweden’s Stonehenge – Ales Stenar
If you’ve been watching ‘Vikings’ on BBC Two, you will have seen the presenter, Neil Oliver: a modern day Braveheart, all Scottish brogue and wild, flowing locks. Did you hear him mention the stone ships...
Oh Happy Day….not!
The last time I wrote about our concerts, we had done one gig at a local Women’s Institute which had gone down very well and we were about to sing at a local church, together with...
Mum’s gone to The MADS
Clockwise from top left: 1. The room in the Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel, Bloomsbury Street, with much tweeting going on. 2. My buddies on Table 12: Leanna (Diary of a Premmy Mum) and Lucy (Lulastic and...
The Hills are Alive…
As regulars here will know, my am dram performances often pepper this blog. It’s a while since I’ve been in an actual show, my last being The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in 2010 which...
When Rory met Ronnie
“Is that Quincy Jones on the next table?” “No, looks nothing like him.” “Hang on, I’ll google him…..no, doesn’t look anything like him, but it must be him.” “It isn’t!” “It must be!” This...
Mum’s gone to Sweden: Living the life of luxury
We had planned to do lots of sightseeing from our final stop, Ystad. I had booked four nights in my splurge hotel of the fortnight, the Ystad Saltsjöbad, and it was so fabulous,...
Mum’s gone to Sweden: Where’s Wallander?
“Look! You can see our hotel at the end of the beach!” I piped up, simultaneously pausing the action as I pointed at the TV, “It’s just in the distance, a hundred yards from...