katielou

September 2005



national trees

Friday, 30 September 2005 9:41 A GMT+01
On my way to work this morning (in my super little car that just passed it's MOT straight away) I was pondering trees. There's a bit of the drive to work where I can imagine I'm in the middle of Sweden (the geographical, I mean, somewhere between Upp
Category: general

florence foster jenkins

Sunday, 25 September 2005 5:26 P GMT+01
From the sublime (Michael Owen's first home goal in a toon shirt) to the ridiculous. Yesterday I went to the Theatre Royal in Newcastle to see Maureen Lipman in 'Glorious', a play about Florence Foster Jenkins, a 1940's soprano who managed to sell o
Category: culture

the verb "to cuent"

Friday, 23 September 2005 8:50 A GMT+01
... has a new object. Two in fact. For those of you who this means anything to. No, no photographic evidence, sorry!

new baby 2

Saturday, 17 September 2005 12:50 P GMT+01
Hurray. By now Sally is a mum again. She collected Lian at 13.30 local time in Nanchang. Apparently they had trouble getting out of Gardamoen as their return tickets included a baby! Can't wait to see them all. Sal gets loads more adoption leave from

"priorities"

Saturday, 17 September 2005 12:35 P GMT+01
from Fröken J Nu kommer han om någon timme...Sängen behöver nya lakan...Golvet ska dammsugas....Disk ska .. diskas....Tvätt ska in i skåp...En Fröken J ska duschas, rakas, plockas, insmörjas, kammas, parfyrmeras.. mm.Och vad gör jag?Jo, jag
Category: play

beautiful skies

Friday, 16 September 2005 9:05 A GMT+01
I like skies. I just I'd tell you this. I've been thinking about it for a while. The one thing I really love about the commute to my new job is I see lots of skies. Well, lots of sky, to be precise, as I suppose it's the same one. I also see a lot of
Category: general

new home

Sunday, 11 September 2005 10:50 P GMT+01
Hmmm. Rach, we need to start doing the lottery more seriously.... I want this one or this one. Ah well, dream on! Looks like there's opportunities down our usual road for a shared jackpot though :-)
Category: play

missionary anna!

Sunday, 11 September 2005 9:57 P GMT+01
One of my oldest friends (as in longest-serving, not oldest oldest ) is about to pack up and head back down under  to New Zealand for 2 (+) years. She's going on a missionary visa (hee hee hee), but we all know deep down she's not coming back agai
Category: play

last night of the proms

Sunday, 11 September 2005 9:20 P GMT+01
Well, the Proms is over for another season. I started off listening to quite a few of them. but ended up actually catching less of them than I meant to. But the last night was pretty good. I made the effort since it included Constant Lambert's Rio Gr
Category: culture

Belshazzar's Fiasco

Wednesday, 7 September 2005 10:51 P GMT+01
Ho hum. Back to choir tonight. Which would be great, cos I miss singing in the summer, but you know what, I already dislike the Walton. I know I shouldn't be prejudiced before I get to know it, but the fact that in three little bits tonight there wer
Category: culture

company for the last night

Sunday, 4 September 2005 10:23 P GMT+01
nice chap. needed telling he didn't keep it up long enough, it was all over way too quickly, but it was great anyway. Rach thought it useful to give him some tips on his technique, such as introducing himself and then remembering your name (he was ca