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Swagger Inn 158 - Weather Turning Chilly - It’s Important To Layer Up - HBFs To The Rescue

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LetUsPrey · 04/10/2018 20:47

Layering up is indeed the best way to stay warm as the weather turns chilly. Fortunately HBFs also come with cloaks and coats which makes them doubly effective Grin

Swagger Inn 158 - Weather Turning Chilly - It’s Important To Layer Up - HBFs To The Rescue
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LetUsPrey · 16/10/2018 21:48

Let me know if that works with MiniHelen I’m still waiting with him.

Actually, thinking about it, I did get my legs over my head and my feet against the wall at yoga a few weeks ago, sooooo HBFs where are yooooouuuuu? Grin

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LetUsPrey · 16/10/2018 23:01

We’ve watched Informer - new series that started on BBC1 tonight. Excellent. Looking forward to next week’s.

Hope you’re feeling less jumpy now Apricot after watching Killing Eve.

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SisterHelenoftheEternalCatchUp · 17/10/2018 07:44

Morning. Nope LetUs doesn't work. Right now he's far to obsessed with Fortnite to do anything but winge when I tell him to do something other than Fortnite. (Like, you know. Get dressed. Have breakfast. etc. ) He's also just got some sort of upgrade so there's a novelty factor going on.

Hurrah for getting your legs above your head - won't the HBFs be surprised and delighted Grin

Also, Killing Eve. Oh lord, we haven't got past the first one yet. Confused I'm waaaaaaaay behind you and apricot

Oh well. work calls Sad

SisterHelenoftheEternalCatchUp · 17/10/2018 07:48

Oh well, that little chat clearly worked well. DS hates me because I told him to turn off.

I shall retreat into my head which is full of HBFs and not stroppy small children.

LetUsPrey · 17/10/2018 08:11

Morning wenches.

Sounds all too familiar Helen. Ended up having to hide DS2’s handheld game thing each night so he couldn’t play it in the mornings. Doesn’t work though when it’s a fixed console IYSWIM though does it? Back in the days of non-moulded plugs, my sister - after warnings to them - cut the plug off my nephews’ console Grin

The HBF route is clearly the way to go

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LetUsPrey · 17/10/2018 18:26

Evening wenches.

Is it bedtime yet? Tireder than a tired thing that’s really tired. Dishwasher needs emptying and refilling, dishes need doing, homework needs assisting, and I’ve brought work home.

Homework begins when DS2 has finished his dinner. He’s a really slow eater

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ApricotCrush · 17/10/2018 18:26

Evening. Nice day here, good for the washing and gardening (bin day).

I've seen one or two snippets of reviews of Don Carlos, and it's been described as daring, bold, gutsy, dark, brave. Confused The Tom fans who've been to see it say it's wonderful, but they would, wouldn't they? Anyway, DH says he'll keep an open mind and we might be surprised. Hmm And as Helen said, we'll be in good company.

SisterHelenoftheEternalCatchUp · 17/10/2018 19:53

Evening.
Sod the homework and doestic duties. Put DH to work and get thee to a nunnery the hayloft. (Or a nunnery, if it's S1Ep9 and Aramis is there too.)

As long as we can hear what's going on, it will be fine Apricot. Otherwise we'll just have to gaze blankly at the FAF Grin Actually, I'm quite looking forward to it, as long as I'm not tired before it starts - in which case it might be a struggle (just nudge me if I snore).

WickedWenchOfTheNorth · 17/10/2018 21:09

Funny you should mention Fortnite. Adam Driver was in a sketch on SNL where he played a divorced dad that wanted to learn how to play so he could play with his son. This has lead to a number of naughty fanfics about Rey teaching hot Mr McTavish how to play Fortnite Grin

www.facebook.com/AdamDriverIAmKyloRen/videos/549861125466073/

FancyFancy · 17/10/2018 21:29

Evening.

The trouble about taking a few days off work is that you always end up running around like a blue-arsed fly in the run up to try & get everything done. Not helped by me going straight out to the theatre after work last night.

Anyhoo, today has been lovely & relaxed - out to a local site of historic interest to be all cultural with big sis & BIL, was really nice Am still pooped - any hbfs around to carry me up to bed?

SisterHelenoftheEternalCatchUp · 17/10/2018 21:59

Link doesn't work Wicked - I suspect you need to be in the relevant group to see that post.

Get you being all cultural Fancy I don't know about HBFs carrying you to bed, but some of them are already waiting there for you.

In other news, you can get a gin advent calendar though there are only 12 bottles, so it's not really an advent calendar.

LetUsPrey · 17/10/2018 22:28

So Apricot is going to see TB and MrApricot is going to keep an open mind Grin Good man

DH was out but is now back and watching tv with DS1. I’m in bed. Chores done, homework partially —and painfully— done. Work stuff half done but have given up for tonight.

I’ve seen that sketch Wicked. Was very very funny Grin

Sounds a fun evening out Fancy.

I should get some sleep so ni.... gosh for some reason I’m suddenly feeling a lot perkier. Still horizontal mind, but not at all sleepy!

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SisterHelenoftheEternalCatchUp · 17/10/2018 22:40

at the AdamDrier video - found it at www.cinemablend.com/games/2458583/watch-snl-make-fun-of-a-clueless-parent-trying-to-play-fortnite That would be me if I ever tried to play with DS Grin

night all

FancyFancy · 17/10/2018 23:13
LetUsPrey · 17/10/2018 23:37

Night wenches

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LetUsPrey · 18/10/2018 07:56

Morning wenches.

I’m just going to stay in all these beds.

Probably for the best as I’ve just knocked over a cup of milk. Sigh.

And it’s foggy and chilly outside.

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SisterHelenoftheEternalCatchUp · 18/10/2018 08:37

Oh - [sa]d re. weather LetUs - sounds like what we had yesterday. today is love and sunny and juce really nice after yesterday's dreariness. (I also had a bit of a lie-in which might account for me feeling somewhat cheerier than usual!).

FancyFancy · 18/10/2018 09:49

Morning, looks like it may be about the brighten up a bit here - I am still snuggled up in bed with ScaredyCat Smile

LetUsPrey · 18/10/2018 19:19

Evening wenches. Weather perked up considerably.

That work I brought home last night, and which had been driving me demented for over a week, finally got finished today. The completed report is a work of fucking art and I deserve more than the “thanks” I got.

Currently helping DS2 with his technology homework. I’m learning lots about plastics.

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ApricotCrush · 18/10/2018 19:55

Evening wenches.

They don't deserve you LetUs. Angry

Review of Don Carlos from The Guardian

Even worse from The Times, copying and pasting because you need to suscribe to read it:

"★☆☆☆☆
Tom Burke is best known for his TV appearances in The Musketeers, War & Peace and Strike, among others. This, though, is the inaugural outing of his new theatre project, a company called Ara, founded with the Israeli director Gadi Roll, aiming to bring an innovative approach to classic drama.

I have no desire to strangle Roll and Burke’s baby at birth, but this staging of Schiller’s hefty 1787 work is not an auspicious start. At once bombastic and punishingly dull, Roll’s production, using Robert David Macdonald’s 1995 translation, is weirdly mechanical and the tone rarely deviates from an onslaught of spittle-flecked shouting. The characters and events of the tragic plot are rendered opaque and monotonous, and if the cast aren’t marching around berating one another like irascible androids, they are flinging themselves melodramatically to their knees. On opening night some punters tittered. Others simply left. It’s numbing, artificial and, worse, futile; when everything is delivered in a yell, nothing means anything.

Schiller’s play, with its echoes of Shakespeare and Hamlet in particular, concerns a love triangle, the power politics of church and state, and a decidedly dysfunctional royal family. Roll and the designer Rosanna Vize set it on a stripped-back stage with abrupt bursts of portentous Muzak and a thicket of bare lights hemming in the black-clad performers.
The Spanish crown prince, Don Carlos (a bratty Samuel Valentine, bawling himself hoarse from the get-go), is in love with his stepmother, Elizabeth of Valois (snarling Kelly Gough). His relationship with his father, King Philip II (Darrell D’Silva), is naturally strained, and while Spain exerts tyranny in its territory in the Netherlands and the Inquisition lurks in the shadows of courtly intrigues, Philip finds in Carlos’s childhood friend, the Marquis of Posa (Burke), the idealism and integrity he believes his son lacks. Posa, meanwhile, is a passionate advocate of free thinking whose loyalties are torn.

The piece could be mined for all manner of 21st-century pertinence to do with corruption, authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism. Instead it drags. D’Silva and Burke, both good actors, flounder, D’Silva’s Philip lumpen and bellowing like a bull, Burke repeatedly twitching his head as if bothered by a wasp. It’s all thoroughly inert and faintly pretentious. However pleasing it might be to see Burke reaffirming his commitment to regional theatre, if Ara is to have a future, it must do better than this."

It's not going down well in some quarters. Hmm I shall reserve judgement.

LetUsPrey · 18/10/2018 20:07

You’re very right Apricot, they don’t.

Ouch at that Times review! Bit sneery. The Guardian reviewer sounds frustrated that it could or should have been better? When are you seeing it?

This plastics homework is very much the blind leading the blind. History next. I can do that.

Other things I can do

Swagger Inn 158 - Weather Turning Chilly - It’s Important To Layer Up - HBFs To The Rescue
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ApricotCrush · 18/10/2018 20:39

We're going on 17th November, the last night. It might be better in a different theatre.

SisterHelenoftheEternalCatchUp · 18/10/2018 21:23

I think you could do the HBFs brilliantly LetUs - and they agree.

Oh dear, and ouch re. the reviews. The comments I've seen posted on Twitter are mostly positive, though they're being retweeted by TBO so I'm not sure that anything negative would be retweeted. (Even the negative one was along the lines of 'Someone said they couldn't hear the dialogue but I really enjoyed it.' So...)
I've just had a nosy on Twitter - still mostly positive, though definitely complaints about the acoustics:
interesting, but not amazing. Stripping back all the staging is a cool look, but ruins the acoustics. I barely caught a word of the very first bit of speech.
And a coy tweet about whether reviews will be different to the reaction on the night - but no indication as to whether the reaction was good or bad!
(also LOL at the tweets that refer to TBO as if the twitter account is his personal/offical one)
Apparently he appeared in the interval a couple of nights ago "addressing the audience, graciously explaining the experimental nature of the production."
Also #DonCarlos @ExeterNorthcott is an exisite piece of theatre. Love the stripped back set design & as #TomBurke said, the experimental nature of the production. It might not be to everyone's taste, but go with an open mind & prepare to be enthralled.

It all sounds rather Marmite iyswim, but MrApricot will be fine, because he's keeping an open mind Grin We'll take jelly babies and popcorn to sustain us in case it's as tedious as the reviews make out Wink Hopefully by the time we get round to seeing it will will be a well oiled HBF machine of enthralling theatreyness.

LetUsPrey · 18/10/2018 22:57

I think you’re both right. Hopefully you’ll watch it and think “WTAF were those reviews?”

Mmm at jelly babies

Double mmmm at well-oiled HBFs

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FancyFancy · 19/10/2018 00:08
Grin

Am off on holiday for a few days tomorrow with DD so won't be around - have fab weekends everyone & don't behave Wink

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