Wicked

Went to London village for the birthday weekend to see Wicked the musical. Anyone who even vaguely knows me knows that my hero's are always the villains. So seeing something where the villain truely is the hero was fabulous. One line review is "Excellent! Go see it immediately if not sooner." Slightly longer review is Kelly Ellis as Elphaba has an excellent voice and belts out the tunes with gusto. The sets were gorgeous without being over the top and the story is a clever retelling of the "little known" tale of the Wizard of Oz. The show was rather stolen by Diane Pilkington as Glinda the good witch. Played in a blonde valley girl 'no brain' stylee she was suitably over the top and very very funny. Line of the night goes to Glinda:"Elphaba, you have to stop this.. Its just shoes!"

It only took us an hour to find the theatre which is pretty good for us country gals in the big city. The theater was 2 streets away from the coach station *blush*. By which time the choice of bad shoes had aged me to a hobbling 70 year old. Still, it didnt matter as I had much fun and may well find a suitable victim to take as an excuse to go again :)

RL Meet

Bit late this but I am going to pretend I was busy.

Picture it... Bristol 28th July. Me an 'er arrive at a small hotel in the middle of nowhere for a planned meetup with a couple of bods from our World of Warcraft days. JD we have known for a while, but we were also meeting Xenovieva for the first time.

Little did we know until JD insisted on sojorning to his room that Obatala would be hiding in the closet all the way from Dubai Cheer!

Cue much chatting, drinkage and general wittering for the rest of the day. Next day was Bristol Zoo. I would bore you with endless photo's but my camera decided it would 'system error' and format my SD card. Still, with the magic of the internet I bring you this fella...


So heres the funny story. We were stood by the Prarie dog enclosure and a chap not dissimilar to above was sat in the sunshine. I made a comment along the lines of "Look at that fat bastard!" to which he almost immediately jumped down from his perch, ran over to the side of the enclosure, under a metal fence and into a secret hole they had dug. Seconds later - he's out and coming round to stop not to far from me. Much hilarity ensued as we figured he was the 'donn' and calling him fat was going to get my leg chewed off. Oba duely nipped off to let the staff know the exhibits had escaped while a few more decided to come out for a look and a wander. Cue staff arriving shortly after to fill the hole with... Soil.

That'll be effective.

I now own a cuddly 'Fat Bastard' which has pride of place by the PC and will travel with me everywhere. Xeno picked up a few more cuddlies to go with her small country of squishies.

I Had a great time and hoping we can do it again soon!