Drawing a line under the debt. Take two.

savingholmes

Horrible when you lose it with people. Hope it is all patched up now. £17 for a prom dress sounds fab. 
I will look into the HP tickets again...

bd80s

Hope you enjoyed the show, I'm not a huge potter fan but I suspect that the work they've put into the show is amazing 

doingitanyway

Your daughter sounds lovely. I really like Converse with posh frocks. I hope she enjoys her prom

Drawingaline

Thanks all for the comments. Trying my best to get used to the new layout. It's made me grumpy. I have no dates on anything. I only ever access it on my phone, and no dates on any posts, even in landscape mode.

So went to try on prom dresses last Friday. She looked stunning in all of them, but they really weren't her. But she now has an idea of styles that suit if she ever needs a proper posh frock in the future. So looks like the £17 outfit is a winner. Just need to get shoes for her and chat to the hairdresser about styles.

Last sat we saw Harry Potter. It was amazing, but omg my legs were killing me by the end. The effects were stunning, by the end you were just accepting that it is normal for flames to be shooting all over the stage and for actors to change appearance right in front of your eyes! Would love to see it again from the stalls, but can't justify the costs. But anyone looking at the £20 seats on the balcony, apart from being ridiculously high, the view was fine.

This week I worked from home both Monday and Tuesday, got lots done and feel that I will be OK going forward. 

Am exhausted tonight, going to be a quietish weekend, local theatre tomorrow with the guides for our local 'gang show' and that's it.

Need to ring the roofer re our porch roof. It's leaking with every rain shower now. It's not urgent as it is just the porch, but still frustrating. Not sure how that will be paid for though. 

savingholmes

HP sounds amazing. I need to investigate going. Hope you enjoy the local theatre. Hope you get a roofer - it may take you a few weeks if he/she is busy with the impact of storms...

bd80s

Hey 
Glad you enjoyed the show, having done some stage mamangement in the past that sounds like it would have been a super busy production backstage  
Hope the porch hasn't got any worse over the weekend

Robin09

Have just read through all of your diary . We love the theatre too, DS in particular is a huge fan of musicals. You are so lucky to get such amazing deals to so many shows! We saw SIX last month, amazing and looking into booking tickets to the sing a long show 😄. We are off to see Book of Mormon this Friday. 

DS is also sitting his GCSE's this year too and is not coping well with it at all 😖. Hope your DD did well in her mocks. 

I only have my phone and find it annoying not being able to see the dates too. Will subscribe to your diary, I am usually a lurker though 🙃. 

Drawingaline

Welcome Robin, nice to see another six fan! Although the idea of a sing along is my idea of hell lol!

This week has been half term. Tok the big two to London to see Dear Evan Hansen, a musical about teen suicide and  lie. Tbh I wasn't sold on the idea, but the teens wanted to see it so cheap £15 slips booked as a xmas present.

Well it was..... Different. But good. The boy announced it to be OK (high praise from him) and the girl, well, she cried for three hours straight 😱 the whole way through it and almost all of the journey home. It really affected her. Not in a bad way, but much like come from away did with me, it really resonated with her. She said it was amazing but sje has no wish to see it again. It was such an important story, especially with teen mental health being such a hot topic atm. It isn't a suitable price of theatre for anyone younger than 13 I felt, but feel the book should be studied for gcse's. Would certainly be more relavant than what my two are doing in English.

I worked all week, two days from home and the boy came out with me on my cleaning jobs so finished early on Friday. Went out for a meal in town and then to a trampoline park, which was not in budget, but much needed by the younger two. 

Also went to a charity ball last night with my boss and my sister. Was fun, and not too expensive, £10 on raffle tickets (won nothing as usual) £10 on drinks, £10 on taxi. Spent more on a new dress and shoes. Was a good night, not too much of a sore head today, and me and my sister never go out together so that was good too. 

Drawingaline

Robin, if you are on fbook I can pm you the name of the group I am on where we all share tips and hints on seats and prices. We also get discount with a specific booking website. Let me know 

Robin09

We had tickets to see Dear Evan Hansen last November, but unfortunately we couldn't go, so managed to post the tickets to an old friend in London just in time so they didn't go to waste. Yes please to the fb page thank you.