Time Flies

Time flies when you get older. It seems to speed up and, there you are, you're in September. It's the same with Flat Four it was only five minutes ago when we all first met and decided to put on plays together -and now it's twenty odd years later. So there we are having an August weekend in Selsey. The weekend was typical 'Gillian' . Ever the excellent hostess she laid on sunshine, shopping, dancing in the street (see below) and a visit to Patrick Moore's garden party.
Swimming in the sea and croquet (we let her win).




There was much silliness and a cat







Perhaps we should have been reading plays











Early morning Selsey












Robert is never far from a cat (hmmm)or a cat is never far from Robert









Selsey Street Fair







Caught in an untypical pose (drinking)!!













Caught in a typical pose (shopping)








Aaaaah!












Thats better. Kitchen bitches!







Dancing in the streets!








Early morning Sunday in Selsey





Oh, by the way the weight is now 15 st 3 lbs ( I thought if I put it in here then no one would notice)

Music that cheers me up

Pleasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
The title music to the series 'Firefly'
The Castleford Ladies Magical Circle
The Lark Ascending
Variations on a theme of Thomas Tallis
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Jerusalem
I'm a believer - The Monkees
Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones
Penny Lane - Beatles
Duelling Banjos
Faure's Requiem - Libera Me (funnily enough)
The music from the film 'Badlands' - Musica Poetica (a haunting theme to one of the most brilliant films ever made)
Little Green Bag
'I wish' and 'Tragedy'- from Into the Woods (in fact most of the songs from that show)
Days - Kirstie
Eleanor Rigby
Angie - Bert Jansch
Tam Linn - Maddie ( oh Maddie xx)
Paris in the Rain and Play the Song again - Maria Friedman
Take 5 - Dave Brubeck
He is an Englishman -reminds me of 'An Englishman Abroad'
Red River Rock - Johnny and The Hurricanes

and a song that can make me cry

In the Sky - sung by Maria Friedman. Please go and get a copy and listen very carefully. It was written by a 12 year old boy in 1940. He was one of the Jewish Community in the Vilna Ghetto.
It is the voice of an individual soul crying out against the horror and ravages of war. I first heard her sing it live at the National Theatre as part of the play 'Ghetto'. Perhaps the only play I ever attended when the 'curtain' was met by profound stunned silence. Listen to the music and try to get a copy of the play. The messages of both song and play, resonate still. The song is a track on 'Maria Friedman' 1995. Carlton Home Entertainment Ltd.

another play that had a similar effect on the audience was 'Oleana' by David Mamet. The only two hander I have encountered in which, no matter who you side with, you're wrong!