Private Resistance: Bryan And Badgers

Walsham Le Willows... A day to remember..

Arriving in Walsham Le Willows yesterday was like stepping into a fairytale...Tudor house after tudor house rolling by, green fields, a glorious church at the end of what seemed to be a portal into a perfect dimension...We arrived at the village hall basking in the sunshine of a wonderous spring afternoon...Birds chirping, trees dancing, and despite drought warnings a tyre stuck in 6 inches of mud...it wasn't going anywhere after backing the EA Megabus up to the village hall door there seemed no way out... Phil even hesistantly exclaimed - ‘I think it needs a tow' ‘No! NEVVVEERRR!' we all enthusiastically screamed... Fred running around trying to find something for leverage - luckily for us the village hall had been refurbed recently and there were random pieces of wood and table tops laying around the side - so we did the get in and after all was in the theatre and the bus of joy was significantly lighter we all got to the back - Penny put pedal to the metal and we pushed with all our might - you'll be pleased to know we are all substantially stronger with all the lifting and could easily lift a truck...haha There is a video of the whole ordeal on facebook and few pictures of the mud - Drought my foot!! Go to Australia then you'll know what a drought is haha

In other news PENNY WON THE RAFFLE LAST NIGHT!! Sadly the Primroses she had so wanted had already been taken but she managed to get a toy cow...Lucky thing! Clemmies, Cheeses, Olives and Tortilla chips filled our bellies on the eerily foggy way home...

04/03/2012

I'm blogging on my day off...Thats how exciting a rainy Ipswich is on a Sunday...haha... My incredible partner Giles was with us yesterday for the Get-In and Get-Out...What a blessing at the end of the week...We were in Orford. An interesting place if I do say so myself...so incredibly beautiful, best bakery yet, sea, AND a castle to boot. Not to mention a silent audience - until the curtain when there were ‘WOOPS!' I mean considering most of the audience from what I could tell were over the age of 60 the wooping was certainly not expected...AMAZING! Fred spotted a man in the third row asleep as the rest of them cheered...A Nazi invasion clearly wouldn't have bothered him!  During the get out - GUESS WHO ARRIVED TO HELP? Bryan!! Legendary Bryan - the B Man - Amazing B - Who upon meeting Giles (my partner) prompted the question ‘Does she have an off switch?' to which he replied ‘I just let her go until she wears herself out..' what am I, the energizer bunny...? I suppose I'm the perfect person for blog writing - Makes for an entertaining read - (Thanks to Fred's mum, Kim, for reading and commenting...wonderful stuff... I hope it's satisfying your literary tastes and entertaining all down in Brighton to no end, I could go into Journalism one day - Once I read the English dictionary and memorize A-Z so I can use big words...Anyway more to the point you've made a good egg in Fred, he's actually mentioned how maternal I've become so have no fear he's well fed and watered! *I can feel his brow raising as I type*)

The amount of blood covering Phil's leg in the operation scene is getting beyond the point of no return...It's like Carrie in East Anglia... Actors are coming off stage drenched in the stuff and walking on in the other scenes with stained hands and faces.

I think this blog is becoming a bit of a farce...Phil and I have begun talking to each other in actions this week...He prefers to speak this way...It's easier for him to communicate...especially when he's supervising the van loading and unloading *teases* haha

Penny is enjoying cheesy oatcakes and clemmies during the journeys - she is possibly the most excitable wonderful ball of delight I have ever met...So brilliant and all of about 5 foot - She does about 6 jobs in one...She should get a medal... *note to self - make medal for Penny*

Fran and Matt have become wine and cheese buffs - Though I'm not sure they weren't already they have just found each other and have been slowly collecting new pieces of kit for their back seat fiascos...Cheese knife, chesse board with built in knee cushion, they even have a little hatch built into the van which holds these instruments along with wet wipes for easy post-getout hand sanitizing...Im tempted to say its going a bit far but the fascination continues to baffle me...Fred has been partaking in the joy and leaving me lonely in the front - Although my maternal instinct then follows on to Penny - Constantly feeding her oatcakes, bananas, Clementines, and whatever else travels up from the back seat... Have I become a feeder?...haha

Matt's gadgetry is something to be commended on this here blog. He has so many cool things for every occasion - as he has to shave every night (cos he's such a man) so he bought himself a waterproof toolbox (aptly named ‘Fat Max') which he intended on turning into a shaving basin by putting a mirror in the lid of...As we are in village halls that sometimes don't have the facilities for such purposes the more we have of our own the better...but ‘Fat Max' is as Matt so wonderfully put it - the size of a small car...haha Brilliant! The other cool thing is his light - He turns his Iphone into a light in the backseat - Now I hear all of you say ‘yeh yeh all iphones have torches' but this I know...He has a silly little dongle stand it sits in an has wirey legs so it can attach itself to anything - a carseat or seatbelt for example to create the opportunity for ample cheese and wine consumption! Amazing! (we should count how many times I use the word ‘amazing' throughout my blogging - I think it will be substantial...)

OH oh lastnight we saw a doe, AND A BADGER on the road whilst passing through Rendlesham Forest...A-MAZING!! I got so excited I think I may have gone onto a frequency where only dogs could hear me...I mean a real badger - like with a waddle and a black and white stripped face! I mean we had only just been talking about Badgers the night before saying we had never seen one in real life...Bloody brilliant!!

Where else were we this week...Ah yes...Hartest..Probably the most beautiful village hall yet...So pretty and little and the village was so sweet - the ladies there were also so friendly and helpful...Our smallest venue yet but we still managed the big stage and 60 odd people in...our dressing room was a little boiler room but lovely and warm which made me happy as larry! AND the lovely village hall ladies gave us daffodils as gifts when we left...Lucky ducks! They are sitting on my dressing table with their sunshiney yellow faces smiling at me...

What else to report...Nothing...The wind is blowing a gale tonight...I should think Im lucky to be in a warm room here in Ipswich...Now Im actually babbling rubbish...Until next time...

Your ever entertaining dame of delight,

Bishanyia x