Come & join me in general chat all you patents of performers - be it dancers, actors, singers or musicians

It breaks your heart doesn't it?

Hopefully, if you can get to the bottom of these meassges, and who they are from, you can deal with it. Kids can be really cruel.

DD had her first night away last night. She IS allowed to keep her phone and was texting me at 10.45 last night saying she couldn't sleep. I can only reassure her and hope she settles down soon but I found it very hard.

How horrible, but it does sound like jealousy. I guess no response, or a response form a parent will lead to them drying up. Or maybe a quick chat to the old school once you know who it is?

Oh dear. Has your DD not mentioned it to you? It will be jealousy and a bit of "she thinks she's special/different/better than us".

Will she show you the texts do you think? You can judge what you feel is appropriate action from them.

If you know these children could you speak to their parents? Your DD may not want you to do that though.

Can you swap phones for a few days and answer/ reply to all the numbers that this is now your phone and say you will report any further messages?

Or look at a new number or new sim for your DD and make sure she only gives this number to her new schoolmates?

We found out, very quickly, who were real friends and who weren't when DD left her old school. This may knock her confidence at a time when she is finding her feet. I can promise that by Christmas she will have a whole new circle of friends and probably the bullies will have moved on too. It's hard though when she's away from the local school because there are still holidays and weekends when you want her to have local friends.

:)

She was in Beauty and the Beast there a couple of years ago. She was chip.

I have seen a lot of musicals at the NT over the years :) Loved it when I was a kid!

Saintly The panto is at the corn exchange. The musical she is in at half term is at the NT though.

Oh I think I'm in the other big city, which is more chav than posh (but I love it ). But went to school many years ago in your city. Is the panto in the NT? (Do they do panto there?)

I think he does pictures because savings etc are taxed at source, whereas this isn't. I know when I was earning the amount he is self employed I filled in a self assessment and they just confirmed each year I owed nothing. Aaagh I'm confused. I don't even know whether he was self employed or employed for the tour dates (it wasn't much so I didn't bother finding out). This latest job is more and I think self-employed. But he doesn't have a NI number so it's all very confusing!

Saintly I live in a city. With its own council. But it's not a unitary authority thanks to Eric Pickles. So the county council controls a lot of stuff. And runs it all for the posh folk in the villages. :( I did kind of think we were in the same geographical county.....

Ah they are being helpful. I do like the people who work in our licencing department, they always seem to go out of their way to be helpful.

Unlike HMRC!!!!

Oh russians are we near each other? I think we might be. I live in a city though with its own council. :)

No it's for studio work russians. But the production company want to start really soon so I am hoping the council will be helpful.

Quick question about earnings. I have just phoned the tax office to find out about declaring ds2's earnings. They will be below the tax threshold this year, but still a decent amount and if it was me earning it I would be declaring it to avoid any trouble. They told me they didn't know what I had to do so I had to write in. Does anyone know?

saintly I've got to sort the info for DD2's licence (for the panto) today too. DCC?

Good luck Downton :) she will love it!

I'm spending a portion of today trying to sort ds2's licence & hoping the council will be really nice & turn it around quickly for us.

Well we are all packed up and ready for the train to London.

Don't know whether I'm more nervous or DD. I can't believe I will be leaving my little girl there and coming home without her.

DD has, just for a change (I suppose as good as a rest) spent the morning with a few other girls from the dance school acting as artist's models for a series of paintings of fairies...

The artist is doing a blog as the paintings develop, which is quite interesting, really.

Rehearsals today should have been from 10-12:30.....we were still helping at 5

The teacher is snowed under with work & I couldn't leave

We are currently watching the clock before setting out to pick up DD2 from Panto rehearsal - she sang the psalm at mass (and played in the music group with the rest of us), then had to shoot out straight after communion to leg it round the corner to the panto rehearsal (DH took her, she's too little to walk there by herself even though it's only about 1/4 of a mile). That finishes at 12, then she's back at the same venue for rehearsals for the musical she is in at half term (at our professional theatre, although it's her theatre group putting it on) at 1-2:30, then DD1 who is also in the musical but playing an adult part (actually it's v small, not like DD2 who has one of the featured child roles) is rehearsing from 2:30-4:30. And they both have to fit in practice. Sigh. I meanwhile have shitloads of work to do but am finding it difficult to summon the arse, since I will have to leave to be taxi service of mum and dad in 10 mins.

DH keeps referring to our weekend being 'completely fucked up' a viewpoint I am valiantly challenging since from the POV of the girls, this is what they want to be doing and a sunday doing what he wanted to do would be their idea of 'fucked up'. But secretly I'm with him since it would be an ideal day to go walk on the beach and laugh at the elements going 'HA! I have a jumper!'. Oh well. At least he hasn't quite clocked that the overriding reason we aren't doing that is I have shitloads of writing to do and nothing to do with the girls. He will probably realise at about 5 when he notices I haven't been for a run. But till then I am safe from blame!

Cory IME :( a weak singing voice is less of a drawback than weak dancing.

She's fine, thanks, just a little bruised and swollen.

I did let her stay off school on Friday so she could get it seen by a doctor, but he reckoned with a supporting bandage and painkillers she couldn't come to much harm. She is all eager and raring to start college on Monday.

Enquiries among the audience revealed that they hadn't noticed anything untoward. I'd have thought the sight of the choreographer sprinting up the aisle while the director shot out of his chair and shouted "fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck" might have given it away, but I suppose everybody's attention was focused on the stage.

Auditions for the college musical on Wednesday, but I'm not holding out very much hope there: dd, sadly, has rather a weak singing voice.

Katymac, you have my sympathy. I was so grateful when dd gave up ballet: I couldn't cope with all that bloody sewing!

Oh dear - I hope she is OK

I am 5.5 dresses in (@250ish crystals a dress) & only 18.5 dresses to go

I HATE ballet shows

& DH has been sewing dots on Dalmations - I don't think he is very keen either