just another day

(tt)   this is the view out of my room. I thought the tiny red flower very pretty til I realise it was a reflection of the switch light on the radiator.  It is still very chilly in Mellers.

 A really sweet old shop opposite the tram stop

 Up on our feet at rehearsals and Simon keeps a very relaxed and often hilarious room alive.  Jane Menelaus is dottily hysterical as Prism and  Emily Barclay so sharp and cool and modern. Hornery is already trying out a variety of gags and twitches as Merriman.  Toby Schmitz is elegantly and zanily fabulous! A great playyground to happily run about in.   Oh  and  I got my wig!!!  Having a fitting on Friday.

Here is Rush and Shmitz. I dragged then away from a gabfest.

I don't drive anymore. I had a few cars in my vehicular life. My favourite was a green four door Morris minor. I also had a VB bug which I could cause to back fire at will and frighten old ladies and dogs on the pavement. I was quite the rebel back then. My last car was a Datsun 180B which was painted a horrible shade of bad bruise. In its purchase I was fleeced out of a lot of money  by a Kiwi actress, Dame Pat Eveson. The licence plate began with LHV. So the car came to be called Large Heavy Vessel. That is how I remember Miss Eveson. It blew up on the drive into Mebourne as Sheldon and I were coming to do the disastrous season of "Candide"  We limped into this very garage on Sturt Street. Maybe a trace of her sump oil still stains the concrete. Not Dame Eveson's... the car's.

Hamer Hall is having a facelift

The proposed finished product

The Yarra again. And there's a  nappy stain yellow clock which is part of Flinders St station.

 Here I am on  the bridge.

The picture was taken by one of two very friendly police women who chatted away as brightly as the intermittent sun.

This is the front of my new home. The house is the only remaining original residence in the street.

 In the evening my dear friends took me out to a cheapo but very good pizzeria on Nicholson St which is apparently in the middle of an Italian gang battle zone. Two of the party were witness to a bit of standovering involving a chair leg and a head.  How thrilliing. Poor Graham missed his footing on leaving the place and crashed to the pavement but a full moon beamed and only his pride was hurt.
Here we are at evening's end. On the left is Nadine Budge,  Bree Hartley, G and M

Nadine is lead vocalist of The Stetson Family  and this is the new album (with backing vocals by Bree) to be launched this month. We heard the first track,"Fool's Gold" and it is f'ing superb