Sweaty palms in the auction room, Sarah bites the dust and Theatre Clwyd

I didn't get any sleep after a particularly busy shift, (one death, an admission of a very sick toddler and a multi trauma RTA victim) but was boosted up sufficiency to attend Roger's Jones antique auction with Ann. Surrounded by rather dubious looking "dealers", we were very much first time virgins and sat there trying to look like we attend these auctions every week of our lives ! instead of two shy looking first timers! Mrs Roberts' clock was number lot 88 and soon enough I was was waving my registration number with the best of them. Seconds later (It felt like hours) the clock was ours and all the effort and stress was worth it! In fact I almost could have stayed on for the rest of the 900 lots but was well behaved!

Got home and sadly found that Sarah (one of the chickens) looked rather under the weather and halfway through the afternoon she was dead and stiff as a board! which is sad as poor Robina looks rather lost in the huge "chicken run" compound. Hopefully the rest of the new "girls" will be coming very soon to keep her company as chicken house number two is delivered tomorrow!

Requiem (2006) at Theatre Clwyd, Is a German feature filmed in an almost documentary style and is apparently based on the true story of Anneliese Michel, a 23-year-old student, who died of starvation after an exorcism in Miltenberg, Germany in 1976. The film is a subtle and a cleaver portrayal of a girl that could have suffered from psychosis,epilepsy or indeed demonic possession and who gets caught between her own wishes to be saved and to develop into an individual as well as being buffeted by friends, family and the clergy who all have their own agendas. I thought it was an excellent and moving film, Hazel was less impressed, though we both agreed that Sandra Hüller as the doomed Michaela Klingler was stunning.