Pakefield is beautiful. Memories of my childhood came flooding back - staying with my aunt and playing with my cousins on the beach, swimming between the groynes and later, drinking at the Trowel and Hammer. After rigging the set on friday we had some time to find a chippie and eat our fish and chips on the beach with seagulls swooping down trying to get a look in...

Doing the show for the first time was amazing. A few line drops and a little bit of prop juggling and we did it. Our nergy and enthusiasm wasn't lost on the Seagull audience. We had some lovely feedback after the show and Jon provided us with some well deserved vino.
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Apologies blog addicts. You have been missing your fix I am sure, but better late than never...

The last 2 weeks have been pretty full on. Week 3 was when it all came together, we began running full halves of the play and it really started to take shape. Each time we went through it we discovered more and more detail. To reward ourselves we went back to St. Judes Pub on the Friday.

The night started off fairly low key, but as soon the Westons 8% and potent beer had kick d in, we were in a musical mood. A lovely Glaswegian chap was playing "his own material" and "wouldn't take requests" but with some gentle encouragement from Lisa-Marie he came to our table and we developed our very own brand of folk/rock/Suffolk-woodland/garage/pop - a cacophony of table drumming and foot stamping; confused Glaswegian warbling; bluesy guitar and harmonica; accompanied by freestyle singing in a Suffolk stlyee. Our songs included the infamous "How many toimes you bin' to Thorpeness?", and the UK Garage favourite "Who got tha weasel?". Apparently we went dancing at the Swan afterwards but my memory is hazy to say the least... I have to say this was the highlight of the week. The full run of the play the next morning was decidedly difficult for a few of us, but Alka-Seltzer, OJ, bacon and Ribena helped a lot. It was quite an encouraging run-through though...
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