Finally, after only around 30 years, I got to see Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat today.

Let’s start by saying that the Derngate Theatre in Northampton has no air conditioning, that or they are saving quids by not turning it on and today has been the hottest day of the year. At 22:00 it was 26°C so that gives some idea of just how hot.

There was actually a heat haze in the theatre.

We did have really good seats though. Not the expensive good seats but seats way back but with an excellent over all view of the performance.

My memory of ‘Joseph’ was from studying it at school when I was around 12 I guess, I may have been younger. My music teach, Mrs Gibbons, was fascinated with the show, enthralled to the point of obsession. It was good though the way she relayed it else I’d not have wanted to see this show quite so much, thank you Mrs Gibbons.

The show was amazing. It is so fast paced it was difficult to find time to breath. One great number led into another flowing wonderfully. The first half was over quicker than I could have imagined, indeed, the whole show ended too quickly. So incredible was this show that it received a standing ovation and audience members were dancing to the rhythms. The acting was superb as was the choreography. There was a slight failing on one track from the ‘Pharaoh’ but it was a particularly difficult song to sing so, considering the heat and the complexity, he did remarkably well. If I’d change anything (ALW take note) it would be the narrator. I feel a better placed person would be much older. Sadly, the girl playing it seemed to be fresh from Kids TV presenting on something such as ‘Play School’ and it was a little off putting, all the more so that she seemed like a blast from the 70’s when the rest of the show has clearly seen some updates over the years.

These are minor complaints though in an otherwise excellent performance.

Finally, after only around 30 years, I got to see Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat today.

Let’s start by saying that the Derngate Theatre in Northampton has no air conditioning, that or they are saving quids by not turning it on and today has been the hottest day of the year. At 22:00 it was 26°C so that gives some idea of just how hot.

There was actually a heat haze in the theatre.

We did have really good seats though. Not the expensive good seats but seats way back but with an excellent over all view of the performance.

My memory of ‘Joseph’ was from studying it at school when I was around 12 I guess, I may have been younger. My music teach, Mrs Gibbons, was fascinated with the show, enthralled to the point of obsession. It was good though the way she relayed it else I’d not have wanted to see this show quite so much, thank you Mrs Gibbons.

The show was amazing. It is so fast paced it was difficult to find time to breath. One great number led into another flowing wonderfully. The first half was over quicker than I could have imagined, indeed, the whole show ended too quickly. So incredible was this show that it received a standing ovation and audience members were dancing to the rhythms. The acting was superb as was the choreography. There was a slight failing on one track from the ‘Pharaoh’ but it was a particularly difficult song to sing so, considering the heat and the complexity, he did remarkably well. If I’d change anything (ALW take note) it would be the narrator. I feel a better placed person would be much older. Sadly, the girl playing it seemed to be fresh from Kids TV presenting on something such as ‘Play School’ and it was a little off putting, all the more so that she seemed like a blast from the 70’s when the rest of the show has clearly seen some updates over the years.

These are minor complaints though in an otherwise excellent performance.

Well, not exactly but there was something I found out earlier which pissed me off a little … Costa Coffee have bought the café at Tesco Mereway. This is the end of the sub £1 tea and coffee for sure.

Further to that and arguing a green agenda, Tesco are stopping the provision of carrier bags as of September though they will still have some available for a fee … once again, the poor pay to be green whilst the rich don’t notice. We have tons of bags here but they may well start to fall apart quite soon.

Deej has been on a Babylon 5 watching drive today … he has watched loads of episodes and slept threw a whole lot more! Strangely, I am quite enjoying the series except not quite enough to watch it one episode after another all day long.

The girls got the house looking amazing earlier and well deserved the treats we bought back from Tesco.

Spoke to Renault UK again, a guy called ‘Wesley’. Whilst I was not able to get them to pay anything I did at least get the guy to open up and be honest with me. Up until I spoke to him they were all for me spending another £88 for a diagnosis and then seeing what good will gesture they were going to come up with. Eventually I put it to Wesley that if they discovered it was a manufacturing fault, would they do the job without it costing me more than £100, he said ‘not a chance’. I may not have liked that answer but it was obvious he was going out on a limb to say it and was polite all the way through, well done him.

The site I used to use regular, Kagoul, is awful now. They are so fixated on their witch hunt that just about everyone is suspected of being a ‘troll’. They are all at each others throats, claims of supporting their mates, doing the right thing and various other comments. I doubt there is any chance they will ever give it a rest and forget previous grievances with other members and move on. They’ve not yet named me as a troll, but they will. Soon after that the webmaster will also be called a troll and all out war will be declared! I check it now out of cusiosty and just in case a sensible thread is started.

MySpace is still cool, nice to log on and see friends there. Outeverywhere is OK too. They are my net haunts these days when I am not out enjoying the weather, visiting friends, playing on the Wii, watching TV, cooking, cleaning and so on…

On Sunday 3rd August it is Deej’s birthday … I am trying to get as many people here as possible from 5pm onwards … it’s proving to be a little tricky but shall see what happens.

Weather permitting I think we may go to Brighton Pride next Saturday. It’s totally mad to do the 260 miles in one day but not to means making some lame excuses and I can’t be doing with that. Turns out that loads of people I know are gonna be there as well so will be interesting to see if we collide with anyone. Of course, if there is rain forecast then shall have to give it a miss..

Got the end of August sewn up at long last … yay! Friends and family in one weekend.

Sunday we find out when the outlaws can have the girls … please don’t be clashing with what I have already arranged!

Feeling great right now … no reason.

Well, not exactly but there was something I found out earlier which pissed me off a little … Costa Coffee have bought the café at Tesco Mereway. This is the end of the sub £1 tea and coffee for sure.

Further to that and arguing a green agenda, Tesco are stopping the provision of carrier bags as of September though they will still have some available for a fee … once again, the poor pay to be green whilst the rich don’t notice. We have tons of bags here but they may well start to fall apart quite soon.

Deej has been on a Babylon 5 watching drive today … he has watched loads of episodes and slept threw a whole lot more! Strangely, I am quite enjoying the series except not quite enough to watch it one episode after another all day long.

The girls got the house looking amazing earlier and well deserved the treats we bought back from Tesco.

Spoke to Renault UK again, a guy called ‘Wesley’. Whilst I was not able to get them to pay anything I did at least get the guy to open up and be honest with me. Up until I spoke to him they were all for me spending another £88 for a diagnosis and then seeing what good will gesture they were going to come up with. Eventually I put it to Wesley that if they discovered it was a manufacturing fault, would they do the job without it costing me more than £100, he said ‘not a chance’. I may not have liked that answer but it was obvious he was going out on a limb to say it and was polite all the way through, well done him.

The site I used to use regular, Kagoul, is awful now. They are so fixated on their witch hunt that just about everyone is suspected of being a ‘troll’. They are all at each others throats, claims of supporting their mates, doing the right thing and various other comments. I doubt there is any chance they will ever give it a rest and forget previous grievances with other members and move on. They’ve not yet named me as a troll, but they will. Soon after that the webmaster will also be called a troll and all out war will be declared! I check it now out of cusiosty and just in case a sensible thread is started.

MySpace is still cool, nice to log on and see friends there. Outeverywhere is OK too. They are my net haunts these days when I am not out enjoying the weather, visiting friends, playing on the Wii, watching TV, cooking, cleaning and so on…

On Sunday 3rd August it is Deej’s birthday … I am trying to get as many people here as possible from 5pm onwards … it’s proving to be a little tricky but shall see what happens.

Weather permitting I think we may go to Brighton Pride next Saturday. It’s totally mad to do the 260 miles in one day but not to means making some lame excuses and I can’t be doing with that. Turns out that loads of people I know are gonna be there as well so will be interesting to see if we collide with anyone. Of course, if there is rain forecast then shall have to give it a miss..

Got the end of August sewn up at long last … yay! Friends and family in one weekend.

Sunday we find out when the outlaws can have the girls … please don’t be clashing with what I have already arranged!

Feeling great right now … no reason.