Well, the Sunday part of that quote isn’t quite true; it is my one day off
from work and the tour so I actually live for each Sunday and the promise of
seeing loved ones but rainy days do get me down. At the risk of being quintessentially English
and at a loss for things to say (a great trait in a writer I hear you scoff!) I
am mentioning the weather. Everybody
else is; droughts, hose pipe bans, torrential rain for weeks and a tornado
north of Oxford! I saw that one on the
news on Monday, there must be a very confused girl in gingham with pigtails
having landed in Sunderland lamenting “Toto, I don’t think we’re in Banbury
anymore!”
We all thought Spring had sprung but it has sprung a leak
and I have to admit it has made me lose my touring mojo. A fellow cast member and I reflected on this
as we went for a run yesterday (in the rain) realising we hadn’t been
sightseeing in the last few weeks or made the most of the cities we’ve
visited. I dripped my way through Oxford
quite glad at the respite of spending nearly every day rehearsing inside work
and Leicester went past in a grey haze.
Instead of exploring the Oxford Spires or the potentially pretty
Victoria Park surrounding DeMontfort Hall I have rediscovered my love for DVD boxsets
and crawling back into bed as the clouds continue to batter Britain. This is not normal me behaviour since I past 25 years old and is quite frankly concerning me.
I don’t think I suffer from that SAD syndrome where people
suffer depression during the winter months but I certainly feel brighter and
have a zest for life when the sun is out.
Don’t we all? I tried to fake it
with a visit to a sunbed centre which only resulted in a sweatier show than
normal and a seriously bad burnt bum-cheeks situation.
Maybe I am just hibernating and conserving energy for work or
maybe I need to google anti-rain dance rituals.
If you see a girl banging sticks and wailing at the sky outside The
Salford Lowry Theatre you may want to stay away as I will have finally lost the plot
or join in, you never know we could coax out the sun with a group
onslaught! We’re heading to Glasgow next
week so we need all the help we can get!
Your rain dances may have payed of in Glasgow. The short dry spell - well, dry for Glasgow- will again be replaced with the torrential rain that is so common In these parts. Aside from the weather I do hope you have enjoyed your short stay in Glasgow and tried the local "delicacies" or maybe if you would prefer to avoid high blood pressure and a poosible heart attack you could stick to normal food.
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