As You Like It and a 30th Birthday
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lathanyYesterday morning I crawled out of bed and stumbled into the car waving goodbye to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bateleur and the twins. The plan was to pick up Frances from Little Shop of Horrors and head off to Shakespeare land.
When I turned up in Oxford, Frances provided me with great quantities of (what I think was called) Paprika Eggs. This was hardboiled eggs on top of a tomato mix (including wine), resting on a bed of rice. This is extremely nice, despite Frances claiming it was missing a key ingredient (tomato butter).
We took the scenic route to Stratford - going through Banbury. It was a beautiful day and we drove through little villages with strange names, past inappropriate road signs (eg. "Ice") and arrived in Stratford itself in plenty of time to wander through the parks and buy over-priced beer.
As You Like It was one of the comedies which I studied as part of my Open University degree. It was showing at the Swan theatre, which I hadn't been in before (and really liked). The play includes many often-quoted sayings such as "All the world's a stage" and the seven ages of man. Plus a few additional ones I really liked; for example (Touchstone to the Duke about his betrothed) : "an ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own".
My favourite part had to be when the cast pretended to be sheep (they were also trees and goats in other scenes) and Touchstone mimed wiping his foot on one of them. There was also the almost-obligatory girl-pretends-to-be-a-boy-pretending-to-be-a-girl bit. Needless to say, As You Like It ended in true comedy style with the appearance of a god and four marriages. I really enjoyed it and now want to go back and see Measure for Measure (a tragi-comedy) at some point later in the year.
I returned Frances to Little Shop of Horrors and then headed totriskellian and smiorgan's house. bateleur had arrived ahead of me, after assigning our off-spring to a twin-loving granny. We were fed a delicious bacon and potato soup (which, in no sense, was clam chowder) and red wine (I got bateleur to memorise the label for future purchases) and headed off to Templars.
zandev had, as promised, an impressive collection of alcohol. There was the champagne, which he offered around at regular intervals. Then there was the wine collection. The whiskey collection. The liqueur collection. There was also Monkey Ball which I watched (I saw lanfykins finish the level 2 bowling with three strikes, much to the annoyance of the other three).
I talked totelpher (welcome to LJ !) about bridge and Swordsmaster. He's going to come over, play Settlers (Stone Age) and see twins sometime soon. I discussed Yu-Gi-Oh! with two_nukes - I need to buy some Pharoh's Servant boosters soon. And I chatted to ealuscerwen, chrestomancy, ao_lai, verlaine and many others. I looked around for chrisvenus - until it was pointed out that he had gone home to (belatedly) celebrate Mother's Day (his sister's fault).
quisalan introduced me to onyxtears who then had the dubious honour of listening to zandev and I enthuse about the Final Fantasy series and speculate on when Final Fantasy 10 : Part 2 (Yuna & Rikku's hunt for Tidas) would be released in the UK.
Needless to say, the evening passed with food, drink, conversation and Monkey Ball. It was about 1am whenbateleur and I (being light-weight parent types) pleaded tiredness and departed with triskellian and smiorgan back to their house where they provided sleeping stuff.
The post-party morning arrived too early (although, thankfully, hangoverless), but included toast with ginger preserves. Our trip home (to relieve the saintly granny) was via Tesco, and I persuadedbateleur to buy some for me. We also picked up eggs for Easter (mine was a Caramel Egg) and supplies for tea. The granny departed and chrestomancy arrived (on his motorised banana) to be lent a copy of Mourn's Gift and fed tortillas and tiramisu. Ryan spent the afternoon in the dog house, having broken the mouse for Mostly Harmless forcing bateleur out to Staines during the afternoon to buy a replacement. This had an up-side, though, I got a present - Broken Sword II.
Now the house is quiet, the babies are in bed, and I am listening to the Final Fantasy VII soundtrack again. I have finished listening to the Final Fantasy VIII one (kindly lent bychrisvenus), having recognised most of the tracks (favourites include the dance music, the Griever fight and Laguna's fight music). I enjoyed VIII, but not as much as VII. VIII is good, possibly better than VII (although it doesn't have the VII theme - which is my favourite or the Temple of the Ancients track). However, VII was the game that I was completely surprised, impressed and obsessed with (originally lent by zandev who has a good understanding of my tastes) and consequently the soundtrack is also a nostalgia thing for me - and VIII will never compare (I may still buy my own copy though).
Well, my Mostly Twinless weekend is over. However, less than six weeks left to BadgerCon !
bateleur and the twins. The plan was to pick up Frances from Little Shop of Horrors and head off to Shakespeare land.When I turned up in Oxford, Frances provided me with great quantities of (what I think was called) Paprika Eggs. This was hardboiled eggs on top of a tomato mix (including wine), resting on a bed of rice. This is extremely nice, despite Frances claiming it was missing a key ingredient (tomato butter).
We took the scenic route to Stratford - going through Banbury. It was a beautiful day and we drove through little villages with strange names, past inappropriate road signs (eg. "Ice") and arrived in Stratford itself in plenty of time to wander through the parks and buy over-priced beer.
As You Like It was one of the comedies which I studied as part of my Open University degree. It was showing at the Swan theatre, which I hadn't been in before (and really liked). The play includes many often-quoted sayings such as "All the world's a stage" and the seven ages of man. Plus a few additional ones I really liked; for example (Touchstone to the Duke about his betrothed) : "an ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own".
My favourite part had to be when the cast pretended to be sheep (they were also trees and goats in other scenes) and Touchstone mimed wiping his foot on one of them. There was also the almost-obligatory girl-pretends-to-be-a-boy-pretending-to-be-a-girl bit. Needless to say, As You Like It ended in true comedy style with the appearance of a god and four marriages. I really enjoyed it and now want to go back and see Measure for Measure (a tragi-comedy) at some point later in the year.
I returned Frances to Little Shop of Horrors and then headed to
triskellian and smiorgan's house. bateleur had arrived ahead of me, after assigning our off-spring to a twin-loving granny. We were fed a delicious bacon and potato soup (which, in no sense, was clam chowder) and red wine (I got bateleur to memorise the label for future purchases) and headed off to Templars.zandev had, as promised, an impressive collection of alcohol. There was the champagne, which he offered around at regular intervals. Then there was the wine collection. The whiskey collection. The liqueur collection. There was also Monkey Ball which I watched (I saw lanfykins finish the level 2 bowling with three strikes, much to the annoyance of the other three).I talked to
telpher (welcome to LJ !) about bridge and Swordsmaster. He's going to come over, play Settlers (Stone Age) and see twins sometime soon. I discussed Yu-Gi-Oh! with two_nukes - I need to buy some Pharoh's Servant boosters soon. And I chatted to ealuscerwen, chrestomancy, ao_lai, verlaine and many others. I looked around for chrisvenus - until it was pointed out that he had gone home to (belatedly) celebrate Mother's Day (his sister's fault).quisalan introduced me to onyxtears who then had the dubious honour of listening to zandev and I enthuse about the Final Fantasy series and speculate on when Final Fantasy 10 : Part 2 (Yuna & Rikku's hunt for Tidas) would be released in the UK.Needless to say, the evening passed with food, drink, conversation and Monkey Ball. It was about 1am when
bateleur and I (being light-weight parent types) pleaded tiredness and departed with triskellian and smiorgan back to their house where they provided sleeping stuff. The post-party morning arrived too early (although, thankfully, hangoverless), but included toast with ginger preserves. Our trip home (to relieve the saintly granny) was via Tesco, and I persuaded
bateleur to buy some for me. We also picked up eggs for Easter (mine was a Caramel Egg) and supplies for tea. The granny departed and chrestomancy arrived (on his motorised banana) to be lent a copy of Mourn's Gift and fed tortillas and tiramisu. Ryan spent the afternoon in the dog house, having broken the mouse for Mostly Harmless forcing bateleur out to Staines during the afternoon to buy a replacement. This had an up-side, though, I got a present - Broken Sword II.Now the house is quiet, the babies are in bed, and I am listening to the Final Fantasy VII soundtrack again. I have finished listening to the Final Fantasy VIII one (kindly lent by
chrisvenus), having recognised most of the tracks (favourites include the dance music, the Griever fight and Laguna's fight music). I enjoyed VIII, but not as much as VII. VIII is good, possibly better than VII (although it doesn't have the VII theme - which is my favourite or the Temple of the Ancients track). However, VII was the game that I was completely surprised, impressed and obsessed with (originally lent by zandev who has a good understanding of my tastes) and consequently the soundtrack is also a nostalgia thing for me - and VIII will never compare (I may still buy my own copy though).Well, my Mostly Twinless weekend is over. However, less than six weeks left to BadgerCon !
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I give in.
Date: 2003-04-06 01:15 pm (UTC)Re: I give in.
Date: 2003-04-06 01:16 pm (UTC)Although surely the number of people not on LJ is pretty small these days ?!
Re: I give in.
Date: 2003-04-06 01:19 pm (UTC)I shall go off and be all offended now.
and how like you this shepherd's life, Master Touchstone?
Date: 2003-04-06 01:26 pm (UTC)that's my fave bit of As You Like It. when I was temping (and feeling particularly low-status in the business world) I had that quote taped inside my desk drawer to remind me not to be a ninny about doing what I needed to do to pay the bills. because, in respect of itself, the admin assistant's life was a good life, but in respect that it was an admin assistant's life it was naught.
Re: I give in.
Date: 2003-04-06 01:27 pm (UTC)The Wisdom of Darwi Odrade
Date: 2003-04-06 01:42 pm (UTC)"Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock."
no subject
Date: 2003-04-06 01:56 pm (UTC)Re: The Wisdom of Darwi Odrade
Date: 2003-04-06 04:50 pm (UTC)Measure for Measure
Date: 2003-04-07 12:55 am (UTC)Re: The Wisdom of Darwi Odrade
Date: 2003-04-07 03:07 am (UTC)Evil spirits will be towed at owner's expenseRe: The Wisdom of Darwi Odrade
Date: 2003-04-07 03:11 am (UTC)