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Don't you love it when they carry on regardless - went to an open air performance of Carmina Burana a few years ago (I'm an opera fan), half way through it started to hiss down, the singers carried on regardless, despite the fact that there was no canopy over the stage.
They announced that as long as the the audience were willing to get soaking wet, so were they and by the end we were all, both singers and audience, like drowned rats!

psml Julia ~ the show MUST go on as they say

As in a theatre the eyes of men,
After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,
Are idly bent on him that enters next




Richard II, act 5

Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee;
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.

--Macbeth, Act II, scene I

It was agreat night despite the soaking and the fact that I'd driven hell for leather back from England to get to Berlin in time for the opera, I arrived 3/4 of an hour before and had no time time to change, just as well, hair and make up would have been ruined!

sounds fab Julia

But soft, methinks I scent the morning air

Hamlet, act 1

Don't know about soft, but it's certainly wet here!

Happy Hallowe'en

"Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,--
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."


Macbeth IV, i, 14-15

Thanx Julia very apt !!!

Just making some pumpkin soup and the Macbeth witches came to mind!

Ooooooooh I had the most gorgeous Pumpkin soup with fresh bread yesterday

Never made it before.
Hope it turns out OK!

It's ready now and tastes wonderful, thank goodness I won't have to resort to the Macbeth witches recipe!

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!

William Shakespeare, Othello

Sums up the Halloween party!

sounds like a night on gr ~ pmsl

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

Shakespeare

Those rules would keep things pleasant.

now what an interesting thread this is

I really like

"And thus I clothe my naked villany
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."


King Richard III (I, iii, 336-338)

brings back such happy memories :-D

choked with emotion Hayley :-D ( well actually it was on a pom-bear )

Rose PMSL :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D