Nearing the end

Hey. So, panto is only days away from finishing and my 2 months away with it. Its Thursday now and we close on Sunday so any minute now my life will come rushing back and I'll have to forget all about Birmingham, my little flat and the most lovely people I have met (some for the 2nd time) since I have been here. It will be sad but all acting jobs come to an end (unless you're one of those people who has been doing Buddy or Joseph since the day it opened as it's all you do...) and obviously this one is no different. Someone very wonderful once said to me "If you ever feel like you're in a depressive trough, just remember it's only because you know what the mountain top at either side feels like, and there are those who are never lucky enough to experience mountain tops. Would you sacrifice that beauty for the relative safety of not being in a trough temporarily?" The answer of course is no, because I suppose the simpler version is "Tis better to have loved and lost..." although the meaning is slightly different...

I shall miss the people more than anything. Barrowman's lovely rude sense of humour that keeps us all chuckling, Zerdin's dry, ascerbic wit that keeps us all wondering, the ensemble of lovely boys and girls who didn't have a bad egg among them for a change and my beautiful friends front of house who, this year, have looked after me and insisted, for the good of my health, that I go clubbing with them on an almost nightly basis. I told them I'm 18 and I think they may have taken me at my word. One or two of them have made my time here very special indeed - I won't name anyone for fear of offening others but I'm sure you know who you are. XX that's for you.

I'm also excited that when I get back I can ask my two lovely website friends Noriko and Mamiko to link this blog to the partially built website so that I can at least stay in touch with people without any hassle. So many people ask me on a day to day basis what I'm doing next, what I've got in the pipeline etc. and I'm hoping this might be the answer. So talk to me, answer, ask, comment, laugh and generally make the most of this technology as I feel almost certain it will make me chuckle lot.

Speak soon, when I have closed in pantoland. Oooooh no I wont, Oooooo yes I will. Boo! Px