this last week has seen us taken in quite a range of gigs!
last Tuesday we headed to a quaint little venue in Frome called the cheese and grain, to see New Model Army, 25yrs since they were last in Frome gigging, and they sounded just as good as when they started! For once I didn't feel like I was the oldest person in the audience! Not only was their music great but their politic message as ever outstanding!
Saturday took us to Portland Sq - not a place I would normally suggest spending a Saturday night, but we went to see Circomedia's contribution to Bristol Old Vic's Mayfest programme. The artists spuspended themselves over the audience in the refurbished church. One company was a single artist working on the ropes, the other company was 2-4 artists working on a bar and ropes. AMAZING is the only way to describe what they do! It was like watching ballet in the air. Their sense of balance and lack of fear of dropping to the floor had the audience gasping. If you get a chance to visit this venue to see circus skills in action I would highly recommend it!
Bank Holiday Monday then took us to St George's Hall to see Martha Wainwright, singer song writer, daughter of Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III, and sister to Rufus Wainwright. Having only recently been introduced to her music by Gayle I was not sure what to expect, but we had a very entertaining night, with beautiful music including guest star Kate McGarrigle! and highly entertaining and witty chatter from Martha. She is extremely talented but is not at all pretentious and came across as extremely normal, she laughed her way through her guitar going hideously out of tune mid-song and the string then breaking and then having to ask an audience member to fix it for her as she continued the show. If you get a chance to see her - do! She is brilliant (next local gig is next weekend at the Wychwood Festival in Cheltenham! Unfortunately we can not go)
A weeks feast of the arts!
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Playing
On Monday we had planned to go out to the countryside for a walk but as the weather was so awful we decided to go to @Bristol and went to Explore and the IMAX. Having never been before I hadn't really appreciated how much fun you can have at a science museum!
We spent a very happy day playing on all the experiments, testing and comparing our sense of smell, speed of reactions, word recognition and playing virtual volleyball! We also saw the 3D film 'Sharks', which was an excellent nature film, though the glasses you had to wear were rather silly! Despite the cost (it is not cheap) I would highly recommend it as a day out (not in the school holidays) for adults who want to play again!
We spent a very happy day playing on all the experiments, testing and comparing our sense of smell, speed of reactions, word recognition and playing virtual volleyball! We also saw the 3D film 'Sharks', which was an excellent nature film, though the glasses you had to wear were rather silly! Despite the cost (it is not cheap) I would highly recommend it as a day out (not in the school holidays) for adults who want to play again!
Being frank about Frank
About 3 weeks ago I let our dog (Frank) out into the garden, when I returned to let him in, he and the garden (and very quickly me) were covered in blood. Not really knowing what was wrong with him - I charged up to the vets where he was put under anesthetic and they found he had torn his ear in several places. It transpired that our neighbours had attached a piece of sheet metal to the top of a post on our adjoining fence and it had acted like barbed wire on Frank's ear.
There then followed 3 weeks of vet visits and a very very sad dog! Unfortunately for Frank his ear would not heal and everytime they looked under the bandage it would start bleeding again.
After 3 anesthetics in a week , about 8 vet trips and a huge vet bill, he finally was allowed to have the bandage removed on Saturday but still has to have his collar/cone on to prevent scratching out the stitches. Instantly he was transformed from a very sad dog that seemed to have lost the will to live, eat or drink to the naughty, hyper-active dog we have all grown to love!!
Think the moral of the story for me is GET DOG INSURANCE - having grown up on farm we took care of a lot of the ailments animals would have, ourselves, only getting a vet in, when absolutely necessary, I guess I had not really appreciated the need to insure my pet nowadays! Gayle thinks her biggest lesson is: do not pander to the animal during illness, as you pay the price afterwards with a distinct lack of discipline and obedience!
There then followed 3 weeks of vet visits and a very very sad dog! Unfortunately for Frank his ear would not heal and everytime they looked under the bandage it would start bleeding again. After 3 anesthetics in a week , about 8 vet trips and a huge vet bill, he finally was allowed to have the bandage removed on Saturday but still has to have his collar/cone on to prevent scratching out the stitches. Instantly he was transformed from a very sad dog that seemed to have lost the will to live, eat or drink to the naughty, hyper-active dog we have all grown to love!!
Think the moral of the story for me is GET DOG INSURANCE - having grown up on farm we took care of a lot of the ailments animals would have, ourselves, only getting a vet in, when absolutely necessary, I guess I had not really appreciated the need to insure my pet nowadays! Gayle thinks her biggest lesson is: do not pander to the animal during illness, as you pay the price afterwards with a distinct lack of discipline and obedience!
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