and breath....
Finally a moment to sit and write, as some of you who still read this site may have noticed there has been little or no activity for a few weeks, Well im back.

The last few weeks have been a little busy as it has been the fit up of our christmas show "Aladdin" which was a total balls up from the start, basicly the designer tried to pack too much stuff into our theatre and the set fit up wich normaly takes 2 days ended up taking 4, The Lighting focus had to be done in overnighter number 2 and this...

Had to be wired up in overnighter number 3 the other problem with it was that the Wiring diagram that accompanied the 15 peices (thats how it arrived from the company that built it and had to be bolted together) made no sense. The palace also did not come with any bulbs (for 15K you think they would have supplied bulbs), so after frantic calls to suppliers we managed to source the 1600* bulbs need ed to make it pretty.

It was also discoverd that due to "A design error" the perminent house stood directly below the palace and therefore it would not be able to fly in, The house had to be moved 1ft up stage.
It was however ready for press night and looked wonderful until one of the actors swung the copper water filled pipe to hard and it smashed into the palace taking out a couple of bulbs and the dimmer, not before sending a lovley blue spark up the pipe.

*Tech bit, Total pull of the palace alone is 33000 watts .

The second issue was the tree, this tree to be exact.

Which needed to be wired up with our pre-made wiring loom (which would have made the wiring in a sherman take look easy) and all 82 bulbs added.

Thankfully it all worked.

The list went on. But i wont bore you with the details, needless to say it has been a long couple of weeks and i have not had a lot of time. This has also ment that poor vic has been almost a single mum for the best part of two weeks and been doing everything at home which has, on top of here usual stuff of generaly making sure that poppy and i have food, clothes etc. ment that she has had to sort christmas, which this year involves my mother. Persionaly i dont quite know how she is still standing.

In other news
1. Our dinning table has arrived.
2. My large JR style computer table has been dismantled (Does anyone want to buy a desk by the way) and been replaced with this.
3. Poppys room has gone from strength to this strength with thanks to vic organising someone to come do it.
4. Poppy has got a raft of new words including Good girl, Mummy (this one has been perfected) and thank you.
5. All our christmas present shopping has been done.
6. Our christmas cards are almost done.
7. We now have a bigger Tv thanks to some friends.
8. Our open fire now has a fire basket and is being used.
9. It was my birthday on sunday and i got a great gift from vic, a 2000AD for my collection that was printed the day before i was born (They were printed weekly) Im well chuffed.

I also have 2 big appologies to make.

The first Is to Vic (cause i know she will read this) Sorry iv'e been a shit boyfriend the last couple of weeks.

The second is to Rob, Im sorry that i havn't got round to calling you iv'e been crap mate.

Phew! well i think thats about it if i think of any more i shall post again.
- posted by J @ 22:47