WINE!
Love the stuff. Particularly good, quite full bodied Italian wines, like the Puglian Primitivo grape. Not too sophisticated, but delicious, and varied from valley to valley. Obviously Sassacia is the best in the world, to my palette, but today I saw this in the Guardian.
So, Hats Off to the Aussies! I hope I am not saying that too often, with the Ashes series coming up, but I am ready if need be.
I hope you are all well and happy.
N x
Well, that was a messy few days in Puglia. Weather-wise. Rain, wind and really quite cold. Now back in Londinium all is sunny and warm and the roses are out, in force. Gotta love spring. Of course there were moments of breathtaking beauty down in the heal of Italy. The swaying windflower meadows with poppies and dandelions. Pink dandelions! Never seen them before.
So the week ahead has the Oscar Ball on Friday. The marvellous Hal Cazlet, who is a composer and performer extraordinaire, and I will be MC-ing the evening. Singing, dancing and MONEY raising. The people behind it, led by Lucinda Sowerbutts, who runs the charity with Ashok, have done the most wonderful job pulling things together. I'll let you know what we raise. I have often thought in the past, why hold these kind of functions? Why don't people just give the money, and we don't have to go thru' all the palaver of organising SO much stuff. But a lot of people want to share the experience and it does reach some very wealthy and influential people this way, and it just encourages even more people to share their wealth. And I am looking forward to it. With all the formality that goes with it, I am looking forward to being quite silly. Yippee.
Hi there both of you. I wonder who I am referring to? Could it be ME, with my trigger finger operation, and hopefully my knee too, so I can on with my acting life? Or is it our erstwhile Prince of Wales, now KING of ENGLAND...... Congrats Mr Charles Windsor, you drew the shortest of straws. It may be that this is one of the most wealthy and privileged people in the world, but don't forget he didn't CHOOSE this job.
NO
The answer in across the pond....That Chump of an Ex-President has been found Guilty. Cows are mooing, Cats are mewing (neither of those is a metaphor, but bad florid writing), birds are singing, women will, on the whole, be safer, altho.... Will they? This ghastly human being has glorified sexual abuse but his "pussy grabbing" and his self promotion to Hero status that will mean some bloody idiots will look up to him.
I had a very interesting Monday and Tuesday this week. With the joy of having to concentrate on an art form I haven't really looked at for some years. The Short Story. I used to read them a lot because, well, they are shorter than novels! But it has been a while and rather joyously I have now returned because of a young man named Wilfred Laurence. This is a man I have known for all of his life. His u is a very good friend of hers.
She brought Wilfy up on her own when he was about 5 years old. And he is between my two girls' age, so, yes I changed his nappies. The thing about Wilfy is he has surprised me totally with his short stories. As soon as I read one I wanted to record them. I thought probably record him and doing a little interview on the back of each one, and he can have something to show around. I could even do it as a podcast.
SO this is an issue that has been happening with ridiculous frequency in the last couple of weeks. Very sweetly I have been alerted to this by Debbie Phielix, but if anyone else spots a new one, please report it asap. Thanks guys.
That was quite the fan letter to happy Valley wasn't it? My daughter has been watching the whole lot from Series 1 Ep1 onwards, and I became enthralled all over again.
Other news around. I did a wee cameo on The Doll Factory last week. Tiny, don't blink. But I did it and had a lot of fun meeting the peeps on board. I have a feeling it'll be a huge hit of a series. Looking forward to what happens next. I hope the new year is full of joy for everyone.