Scarlett woke much brighter yesterday morning and had pancakes for breakfast which was promising as she’d only eaten a carrot on Saturday and then coughed until she vomited that back up anyway 🙁
I had a bit of a tantrum about the house being a tip – this week coming we *really* need to get the house on the rental market one way or another and it just feels like the walls are closing in in every room with clutter reappearing on every surface that’s been cleared. I think Christmas decorations make rooms seems smaller anyway and despite having gone for a very minimalist look this year of just the tree and some lights around the house advent calendars and general ‘stuff’ was really pissing me off. So having been ranted at about it the other three scattered into different corners and did some getting rid of stuff and putting it in proper places, the cheapo advent calendars we bought the kids at camp got opened and chucked out, the bookcase shelves got cleared and it all feels more like people live here rather than just come in to strew stuff about the place.
Ady cooked a small roast lunch which we all ate at about 2pm, meals seem to have been all over the place last week with lots of late nights, illness and birthdays so it was nice to be sitting down together chatting and eating, even if most people were coughing and sniffling 😉
Ady and Davies played a game of chess, I spent some time working on Zone 3 hosts ready to send a speculative email to them after Christmas. We all got sucked into watching some Kirstie’s Home Made Christmas – I love shows like that, makes me feel all inspired to make stuff although it usually ends in just buying stuff and then putting it on a shelf 😆
My parents were having Davies and Scarlett at their house for the evening. Ady does this thing with them where he always suggests they go there rather than them coming here when they (rarely) babysit and my Mum always looks horrified as though this might be the chance we’ve been waiting for ten years for to ring from an airport and say ‘we’re off to Rio, back in 2 weeks or so!’. This time she called his bluff, although she had an ulterior motive of wanting us to come and see their new wood burner which doesn’t seem to be working properly.
So we headed over there, kids with a huge bag of stuff each to keep them busy and admired the wood burner while agreeing that no, it doesn’t seem to be working. Dad has an air rifle they are loaning us for next year so Ady looked at that and the kids were all in awe of it. We’d gone over early and decided to leave early so we stood a better chance of finding a parking space or giving ourselves time to park in a slightly further away carpark that is hugely cheaper.
We arrived in Brighton a full hour before the show started and after one drive around the block found a parking space a couple of roads away from the theatre with just 90 minutes before you didn’t have to pay anymore it was just £3.00 for a ticket til Monday morning. A result 🙂 the NCP 24 hour carpark directly opposite cost £20 for over 4 hours! 😯
We had a cup of tea and coffee in the theatre bar – that was fairly priced although actually the alcohol wasn’t too pricey but I’d got a water bottle filled with wine from home, I get really arsey about paying more for a glass than I do for a bottle! We took our seats and amused ourselves by choosing random people far enough away to not see clearly and waving madly at them to see if they would wave back. No one did but several people looked really uncomfortable about not doing so just in case they were the person we were waving at and hadn’t recognised us 😆 We don’t get out much 😉
The show was really good. Robin Ince was excellent, Richard Herring was slightly disappointing as the first act – I normally love him and have seen him live twice before and found him excellent but he did a bit of a routine I have heard before and then finished with ‘now I have to rush off to London’. He’s done so much TV work this year I fear he is heading more in that direction and his live act suffered as a result (get me with the comic crit ;)). Simon Singh was very good although I was laughing at bits no one else seemed to be. He finished by cutting off his own powerpoint slightly early – Ady and I were entertained by both turning to each other and whispering ‘God did that’ at the same time 😆
There were several singer songwriters which is a type of comedy I really enjoy if done well – think Victoria Wood 😉 including Gavin Osborne, Frisky & Mannish (really liked them, would love to see their whole show), various stand ups and several science-types who did their educatin’ in an entertaining manner. Particularly loved the rapper – Baba Brinkman, could actually feel a crush developing on him as he did his act, particularly when he started talking with a very sexy accent 😳
The show closed with Dara O’Briain who is excellent, would love to see him do a whole live show too and over-ran hugely, from ten minutes behind at the interval to over half an hour behind by the end. Really enjoyed it though, loved the ecclectic mix of acts.
We drove back to my parents marvelling at the moon which was hanging very low and orange in the sky, Scarlett had fallen asleep on their sofa and took a bit of rousing but we were back home again with them in bed just after 11pm. They said this morning they had had a good evening there.
Ady and I had cheese toasties and then I stayed up far too late catching up online and skim-watching X Factor on itvplayer.
We lurve Gavin Osborne – he wasn’t at the 9 Lessons we were at last year and I don’t think he’s at ours this year either. But we did see him in May. And yes, was rather taken by Baba Brinkman too, lol! Last year Richard Herring came out after Brinkman and looked comedically-exaggeratedly short and fat 🙂 Good to hear you liked F&M – don’t know anything about them apart from that we will see them next week!
So glad you had a good time – would have felt terribly guilty if you’d hated it 🙂
Comment by Alison — 13 December 2010 @ 9:50 pm
gavin did this fab poem about Brian Cox in high definition – LOVED it 🙂 Thought RH was looking short and fat without being after BB (who I might love actually). F&M very good, suspect you will love them.
Thought of you and C and wished we were at the same show as you xxx
Comment by Nic — 13 December 2010 @ 10:03 pm
Lol, he did that poem in May and claimed it didn’t have music because he’d only just written it! Now I think he is just lazy 🙂
Comment by Alison — 13 December 2010 @ 11:00 pm
shame on him – 7 months later and still the same excuse. Doens’t he realise people talk?!
Comment by Nic — 13 December 2010 @ 11:02 pm