Well hello there. I'm so bad at this! I've done so much this summer and just can't keep up blogging!

I'm currently in Shropshire with my parents. It's my 19th birthday on Sunday and about 40 guests arrive in the village on Monday of which we are hosting one! We're so unprepared, we've done nothing! We've hosted a couple of times though and it's normally a doddle. Luckily this time my best friend Soph can drive and has offered to help me keep her entertained for a couple of days!

The Sunday the French guests leaves, I will jetting (actually getting a train) off to Aberystwyth to stay with the afore mentioned Sophie's Nan (and Sophie too of course). It'll be my first little taste of the seaside this holiday! I can't wait! I absolutely love Wales. I grew up just over the English border so have always visited quite frequently! I love staying with Soph's Nan too as I haven't had a grandparent since I was 4 and only ever knew one, so it's really nice to have a taste of it. Soph's Nan is great and will probably be reading this....we call her Nana Facebook due to her facebooking and computer skills!

I've been to Hair a couple more times since I last posted I think. I love it too much. I have an addiction. It closes on the 4th of September though so I shall have to cope without it all too soon enough. It's just such a spirit lift everytime you see it. The highly attractive and awesome cast don't hurt either! How about some pictures?

Soph and I on our way to dinner with Caroline and Stace the other Hair attendees! That reminds me, we met so many lovely people in the queue that day! The girl next to me actually turned out to be one of my friend's sisters! There were 2 hilarious American guys who had flown from NYC to see this cast because they missed them at home & a crazy OAP from South Africa who was brilliant! I dropped my bacon sarnie on the floor and caused the intial ice breaking hilarity and it stemmed from there! The hours of queuing flew by and we were all chatting and laughing and planning to sit together by the time it came to booking our tickets! Which made the whole show that much more hilarious! We took up basically the front two rows and probably bemused the cast slightly by all being completely hysterical by the time it came to the show! It was so great! You meet the greatest people queuing for theatre tickets and Hair is probably the best for it, during the show too and dancing on stage too you get a really great community feeling that can be quite rare for some people in London!

Anyway, more photos, less philosophising.

Soph, Stace, Caro & Me outside at the interval, taken by one of the hilariously lovely gay american guys! (Yes, I make silly faces in photos, I don't even realise I'm doing it!)

Some on stage captures:

Caro's caption: "That's her normal face"

Frankly, I think I look like i'm going into battle!

No idea that photo was being taken. Caro's caption: "Concentration". IT'S HARD CLAPPING IN TIME OK.

STAGE DOOR

With the lovely Steel Burkhardt who plays Berger. I'm looking a bit crazed due to the police van that just whizzed past and unfortunately caused all four of us to squeal in Steel's face. Embarrassing. Oh well, he was lovely and not bad looking. *ahem*

With the irrepressibly lovely Andrew Kober!

and last but not least, with the brilliant Gavin Creel. Such an inspiration! Check out the charity he works with: http://www.broadwayimpact.com/

(PS check out my tan!)

There are also some very funny pictures of us outside the theatre, but no one needs to see them? What? Just one? Oh, alright then.

Hmmm, I need to upload all the Spain photos etc as well don't I? I think that needs a blog post to itself really!

I've also got loads of other random things to post about!