Midge bytes

Does that make me stealthy?  That was from an online dictionary.

I’ve booked my plane ticket, I’m leaving on Feb 3rd, flying from Heathrow to Singapore, then on to Brisbane.  I’ll stay with Lou and Mike, who will hopefully have a house by then, until Feb 18th, when I fly to Christchurch.  That’s exciting!

The past few weeks have been fun, I finally seem to have settled down at home again and started to enjoy my time here, just in time to move away again, faintly ironically.  The Crediton operatic and dramatic society (CODS) concert went well.  The theme was ‘ABC’: Songs / shows / composers / composers aunts beginning with A, B or C.  We sang, we jumped off stage to serve dinner (roast Beef, followed by Apple and Blackcurrant Crumble) we took our pinnies off exposing evening dress and sang again, all good fun!  The music was an eclectic mix ranging from ‘Castle on a cloud’ (4 part harmony, very weird!), to ‘catch a falling star’, ‘Blue Moon’, stuff from Cabaret and Carousel, ‘And the Glory’ from The Messiah…lots more, all a little odd but I think we did them well, it was all much better than I anticipated, I did worry it was going to be one of the things you wish you hadn’t done, but it wasn’t. The ‘third half’ (Devon logic) was cabaret acts and a dance floor, I didn’t sing but did dance a bit.

Last week I went up to manchester for Leila and Wills’ birthdays, found out when I got there that Wills was fancy dress so cobbled togethera costume, the theme was Gods and Goddesses, I went as ‘Annoia’ (from the latest P’terry offerings) Goddess of things which get stuck in drawers.  I wore a spatula in my belt and a whisk as a pendant.  It was lots of fun, very relaxing spending time with everyone.

Excuse me, this account may continue later, I have just been offered fresh coffee, a chocolate swizzle stick and dessert wine (Hanepoot Jeripigo from South Africa).  This requires my full attention .