Ending The Day

 I talked in my previous post about my morning routine
Tonight I realised that I have an equally important yet brief evening routine.
After nine pm, the cottage looks warm and cosy, what with the wood burner alight and us and the animals heaped all over the two sofas , yet with a click of my finger within seconds the dogs are all lined up by the back door waiting for their walk.
As we leave the cottage there is ALWAYS a faint THUD, THUD to be heard from the roof of the shed as Albert climbs out of the study window to join us, and every night he waits on the cottage wall for me to rub faces with him as I pass. It is a ritual that both he and I seem to enjoy immensely and has become such a habit now I think that both he and I would miss it greatly if it was to stop

There was no let up in the muggy rain this morning and into the afternoon, so I did go to Theatre Clwyd for a mooch around. I saw a film The Killer Inside Me which has had some brilliant reviews, but turned out for me to be an overblown ultra violent film noir thriller that has nothing new to say about sexual sadist serial killers but did feature a good central performance by the slight Casey Affleck

I did enjoy an exhibition by  Caroline Rudge much more that the movie! Her portrait , paintings  in the Theatre's Oriel Gallery are quite striking and well worth a viewing and has been the best exhibition at the theatre for quite some time.

This afternoon, my head full of women beating serial killers and paintings...I took advantage of a break in the weather to pick my surplus sweetcorn cobs......it's been a mixed bag of a day

To Kill A Mockingbird

Off to see the Theatre Clwyd Production of To Kill A Mockingbird this evening...review later!

Mary Stuart

Chris loves English history whereas , I, on the other hand can take or leave it. The stories of what Queen got her head cut off defending this faith or other ,leaves me a little cold, but I knew he would enjoy the Theatre Clwyd production of MARY STUART which is produced by Terry Hands.
I realise that the story of the last days of the Scottish Queen Mary and her jousting with The Virgin Queen Elizabeth has little basis in actual reality, but I very much enjoyed this "historical" look at court manipulation and skulduggery!
The reason for this were two detailed and very accomplished performances from the two "queens"......Mary Stuart was played by the beautiful French actress Marina Hands, here pictured with the Welsh actor Owen Teale. She captured beautifully the regal strength and slight religious madness of the doomed heroine whereas Claire Price’s Elizabeth almost lapsed into Miranda Richardson's Queenie from Blackadder, but reined in her performance to just the right side of "shrillness" and power. The final meeting between the two, which is essentially a duel of temperaments, was quite electrifying to watch.
It was a lovely change to see good quality live theatre