Rocking the chocolate mousse!

The name Rigo Jancsi may not readily spring to mind, but for us it is in daily use! Not the Hungarian chocolate mousse of that name but my youngest son's rock band name! Formed in Norwich and playing in pubs and clubs around the city, Rigo Jancsi are starting to build a local reputation and fan base, so rock your chocolate and have a look at their website. Oh! Don't forget to look out for the handsome bass player :-) (Proud Mum!!)

http://www.rigojancsi.com/welcome.cfm

Hats off to the Am Dramers!

Just a weekend ago our village hall was taken over by our local amateur dramatic group, and over three nights almost three hundred people had a great night out watching a comedy by Rick Abbott called Play On! This is the story of a local am.dram group presenting a murder mystery called Murder Most Foul.

I had spent hours reading the lines for my other half, but of course I had only read the bits that involved him, so on seeing the play suddenly there was a lot more than I had known. So for me the performances were not only the culmination of all the practice, but also an entertaining and very amusing occasion.

We all love our professional 'luvvies' but our village 'luvvies' really do commit themselves as they clean the hall, build the set, sell the tickets, learn the lines, make us laugh, give us a great night out, and on Sunday morning dismantle the set in time for Mack and Mabel's Olde Tyme Dancing Class.

So.....hats off to these enthusiasts all over the country giving people a good time !

Police scoop up Trevi 'coin gang'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4437360.stm

Nuns in floral frocks!

Last week saw fourteen of us celebrating the 'special' birthday' of one of our company in Rome. We had a superb time, and there are loads of things I could write about, with many highlights, from tossing our coins in the Trevi fountain, and visiting the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel to sipping cappuccino's in the sunshine at the Pantheon, but it is the little restaurant off one of the streets near the Pantheon that I want to tell you about! It was the birthday girls special dinner, and we all crowded into L'Eau Vive restaurant where the table was already laid and ready for us! There was an atmosphere of calm, warmth and friendliness, as we were greeted by nuns who seemed predominantly to come from the Far East and Africa, the language of the restaurant seeming to be mainly French. But these were nuns with no dreary habits! Instead the bright coloured floral dresses of their native homelands contrasting with the almost life-size simple white statue of Mary, which stood in the corner surrounded by flowers. Between the main course and the sweet, at about 9.00 p.m. we were each given a song sheet and invited to sing an Ave Maria to the accompaniment of a nun duo of guitar and bongos! There was also a verse of Happy Birthday and a garland of shells for the birthday girl. We have Ruth Gledhill to thank for this experience, one of our party having read about the restaurant in her weekend column.

This is new to me!

Hi!
So this is what it's like to have a blog! Took me ages to choose a name! But here I am in a 'Haze of Pink' trying to get 'Blood out of a stone'!! Still getting blood out of a stone is a rare occurence and must be worth looking at. So what I post here will hopefully be worth the reading! Watch this space!!! :-)