It's My Life

12 in 12 Challenge – May

Yes, I am aware that I’ve missed April. The weather was so wet and cold that we actually couldn’t really be bothered with much and there didn’t seem much point in spending money just for the sake of saying we’d been somewhere! We enjoyed a cosy month at home, I did a bit of sewing so all was well with our world. So we’re down to 11 in 12 but it doesn’t have the same …

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Newsies in London

The trailers for this show kept popping up on my social media accounts and it grabbed my attention from the start. The high intensity dancing and acrobatics on show are just my kind of theatre entertainment! I suggested a trip down to see it and Patrick along with our friends Pete and Donna were all up for a London trip. The day we left Hull was horrible weather, sleet and snow and freezing cold but …

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January Culture

After our lovely evening at Swan Lake, our next theatre visit was to see Beautiful, the Carole King story. Patrick and I saw this last time it was at HNT and it was so good that when I saw it was back, I knew I wanted to see it again. Debbie and I booked it on a Black Friday deal, two for the price of one along my sister-in-law Janette and her friend. In the …

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Swan Lake

I’ve always wanted to see a live ballet, and a couple of years ago I got to go to see Cinderella with my beautiful sister-in-law Coral. I have to admit to being a bit disappointed, it wasn’t what I expected. The humour in it didn’t work for me but I’m sure that’s just me. Since then, I’ve been hankering after seeing another ballet to restore my faith so when I saw that the Russian State …

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2019 – A Review.

Well as I haven’t been great at keeping this blog up to date (as usual), I’ve got a whistle-stop review of the year all in one post. Where I have blogged previously about events, I’ve linked to the post. As I’ve always said, this is for me, to remind me of what I’ve done and where I’ve been.  If you are interested enough to ready it then that’s great, I’m sorry it’s so long!  Firstly, …

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