Cowardy cowardy custard!

Hi there readers, sorry it's been so long - did you miss me?

The challenge laid down in my last blog was, unfortunately not taken up by any of the people I mentioned so either;
a) they are cowardy, cowardy custards
b) no-one actually reads this blog except Director Guillotine and Miss Pross and maybe she doesn't even read it, just logs in to make sure I've written one.

Let me bring you up to speed with the world according to Producer Guillotine...

At the weekend Director Guillotine and myself stayed at a fabulous hotel in London, meaning two things;
1. No flags were going to be finished
2. We could visit the Dickens Museum in Bloomsbury

We first went to Soho, Dr Manette's house actually is (not Dr Manette as in the person in our show, I mean Dr Manette in the book by Charlie boy himself, whilst wandering around we found this little side road off Greek Street called... wait for it... MANETTE STREET!!! Am I too excited? I thought it was very cool but maybe I need to get out more... Anyway, with a little bit of ingenuity, a text service that answers any questions and a belly full of lovely pizza we wandered down to the Dickens House museum. It's basically his house that he lived in for a couple of years, but there was lots of interesting stuff there, including a flatulent old lady. We also pushed our luck a bit and asked them if we could send some flyers for the play to display on their counter in the little shop area - and they said YES!!! Woo Hoo! Director Guillotine will liberate an A5 envelope and we get get these on their way to them, how cool, it's almost like Charlie himself is giving us his approval...

So, onwards to Monday night, slightly later start on Monday due to Sound man's kids but it gave me a chance to do a little more flag sewing - nearly there on the Union Flag now...

Director Guillotine wanted to do a complete run through of the first act tonight and suggested we might get two run throughs in (in 2 hours?!?). We did have some challenges however; newbie victim girl can't do Mondays at the moment so she wasn't there, Darnay's Father was also absent along with other newbie peasant and Defarge had been very careless and "misplaced" his voice. Evremonde was a little too excited at having to run a small child over in his carriage, I missed, Dr Manette stood in for the Attorney General and became Churchill again and everyone wanted to see Miss Pross' custard...

On the very positive side, Barsad's new voice was a winner (well done), Lucie is putting everyone to shame with line learning (teachers pet), we have ANOTHER two newbies (welcome, welcome) and Evremonde showed me his pencil case, after a conversation about some correspondence from Boulogne...