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Hello to all you lovely ladies,
I maybe should have posted this in the music section, but there again maybe not ...
There's a grateful dead song with the lyrics
"Sometimes the lights all shining me,
other times I can barely see ..."
Well yesterday was a 'shining on me' day. So many things came all at once
- I found myself being useful - however silly that sounds.
- I reached out and made a few friends requests which I should have done ages ago.
- I connected with a make up artist who is reasonably close to me, and signed up for some lessons.
- some super, super kind people from here have offered me some wigs to try out.
- a friend came up with a snail mail address of other good friends that I'd drifted away from and haven't seen for well over 20 years.
And to top it all, after a very bleary and late night, I had barely surfaced at midday when there was a knock on the door and my best gg friend was there asking "I was worried. Are you alright? You've not been answering your phone .. "
Cue Ray Davies of the Kinks, but I'll take the Kirsty McCall version of his song Days
"Thank you for the days ..."
Thank you CDH and love to you all.
Emma xxx
(I might not be around to answer tonight - I'm taking a car load into the big city aka Cardiff, where my gg's son is having a try at stand up comedy - brave soul!)
Not unusual for me. I got the wrong end of the stick. He's far too shy. Instead he wrote all 10 - 12 comedy skits, an hour's worth in total, acted out by a local amateur Dramatis group. Move over, Monty python ! Would he take a bow at the end as the cast and director did ? Nooo ...
@emmat Well, he’s obviously got some skill. Hopefully (if he wants to that is) he will have the confidence to have his skill acknowledged one day. But, for the meantime, more important he just keeps on writing.
@emmat This all sounds fantastic, especially finding an MUA to work with.
Have fun, Anna xx
My fingers will be crossed for a week while I'm waiting to go ! Thanks Anna x
Maybe this is the first rays of sunshine after a winter of dourness.
' All I hear is music,guaranteed to please' (Genesis) and hope there are plenty of good vibes coming to you.
Days is a great song. The Kinks obviously do it better, but I quite like Kirsty's version. I'm a huge Kinks fan. I was lucky enough to see them play live back in the 90s.
I live near the centre of Cardiff. where was the gig? Cardiff the Big city.... You'd like to think, but it's tiny. I lived in Birmingham for 10 years... Now that's a city!!!! I love the place. I've been back home in Cardiff for 25 years, but I'll always be part Brummie. My son lived in London. A huge city, but bloody awful... Other than when watching the Waterloo Sunset... Something I did whenever I visited London 🙂 I'd hate to live in London!
Cerys
It was held in St Andrews church hall, in Roath. Does that ring a bell? No , I don't mind cities too much if I'm just visiting. Just one of the bats loose in my belfry..
@emmat Ah, I was hoping to go along to that. How did he get on? I'm assuming that he was perfectly adequate 🙂 🙂 My wife is working away in Sweden at the mo, and I'm not one for going to events on my own. There would have probably be people there I knew, but it's not the same.
St Andrews is where Dragged to Church takes place. You should come down for it in December. The two guys that run the theatre cafe are amazing. The venue is an amazing community space. Nathan and Wayne do so much for the community. They really are amazing people!
Cerys
@dazzler If you check out the thread again, I've explained in a later post , it turns out, he didn't appear, but wrote everything. I'm sure I'm biased but it was really good, really funny, the audience lapped it up. They're talking of putting on a second show, so if you keep your eye out ...
It turned out to be a sell out - wouldn't that have been crazy if we'd been in the same audience without being aware 😉
I agree, it's a lovely space, but it's a while since I was in a a church hall. 3 degrees centigrade outside, and didn't seem much warmer inside . Brrrrr ! I'll know to wrap up better next time. And in the 'God wants a beard' sketch one poor actor spent 5 minutes dressed in a simple toga. Nothing else on. More brrr ...!
eM x
@dazzler I worked in London for 20 years. By the time I finished there I hated it.
The lights are really shining on you Emma! Thanks for filling us in.
Emma, thank you for you sharing your story. It is wonderful to be able to connect, and reconnect, with old friends and acquaintances. It is especially nice that you have a friend close enough to you to take the time to come check on you. It sounds like it was a false alarm but having someone that has legitimate concern for you is nice to see.
Please let us know how the make up artist visit goes. I have considered working with a local artist as well for some lessons and I would be interested in your experience as to whether you feel it is useful or how the "vibe" goes.
I do want to comment on your first point about being useful. I don't think it is silly at all. I think everyone wants to feel useful or feel like they are doing something so it is something that makes sense to want to call out. I imagine you are proud of yourself for it and I think you should be 🙂
Thanks for adding to the thread, Natalie. Don't worry about the 'useful' comment, sometimes my posts don't make total sense, if you don't live in my head 😉
I will certainly get back to you on the MUA lessons visit
Emma x
