Lat night Kris and I went to the Prince of Wales Theatre to see Mamma Mia! It was a fun evening. The music, of course, was great. The clever thing is how they wove all the Abba songs into a fairly strong plot. It worked well and was very entertaining.
Emily, I think you would enjoy it very much if you have time and money when you get here.
Other than that, things are calm. Jeff and I spent the day yesterday cleaning the office and throwing away tons of stuff that had built up over the years. Each new director brings in some thing that they think is so fantastic and no one else uses it. So we chucked it all. There were 10 year old books of train schedules and gobs of floppy discs, which are all useless. It always feels good to purge.
Tomorrow we are off to Blenheim Palace and then to the Cotswolds. We'll let you know how it goes.
OXO
D.
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Is it just me, or is Abba rather melancholy for all of its fun danceability? For some reason, I always hear a slightly wistful sound as if they were pining for some lost and irretrievable past.
I don't hear it in all 70s music. I am actually being serious here (out of form, I know), and do wonder if any of you hear a slightly melancholy undertone in Abba.
Beyond that, isn't Blenheim Palace the place where Kenneth Brannagh was accosted by the ghost with insanely blue eyes (reminiscent of that one actress with the freaky eyes who played Hester Prynne in what must have been a PBS version)?
I see what you mean about the meloncholy Will.
How lovely to purge. I am in serious need of that right now myself!
Have fun at Blenheim. They have such lovely gardens and the Cotswolds are charming!
Blenheim is where Brideshead Revisited with Jeremy Irons was filmed, but almost no one has seen that.
fapfk to you Dad
I believe the Kenneth Brannagh Hamlet was filmed at Blenheim.
Brideshead was filmed at Castle Howard in Yorkshire. The architect for both places is Van Brugh
Parts of the Scarlet Pimpernel (sp?) are filmed at Blenheim.
really???? I always thought it was blenheim. have we been to castle howard?
Yes. We went in 1978 when Ray Hillam was director. You would have been quite small but would have seen some slides a few times as you were growing up.
(am I the only one concerned that anna used some sort of f-word to her father?)
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