Mean Streets
Friday night I had a little dinner with Alistair and Brona (sorry, don't know how to spell that), then headed off to see Mean Streets, another film at the NFT. Stumbled home, to be up at 7 so I can catch a bus to Birmingham.
Managed to get to Grandma's on the dot of 12, as I intended. That's the first time I've managed to get there when I intended though... Anyhoo Janice arrived and went through some financial stuff with Grandma; Grandma has now decided that she will go into a home so all that had to be organised. Finally we got some lunch - at 2:30! Both G and I were very hungry!
Grandma had a funny night on Thursday, an 8 year old version of Janice came to play on the front lawn with some scarves of Grandma's, but Grandma knew that it couldn't be Janice because she's not 8 anymore... This frightened her a bit and was, largely, the last straw that has made her decide to at least try the home and see what it is like. Most worrying for us is we did find some of her scarves on the lawn; I wonder what the neighbours saw my gran doing!
Saturday night I rushed into town to see if I could catch a performance that Adam (my cousin) was in. This show involved an audience of 14 sat around a table, interspersed with actors. The actors then largely improvised around a few set pieces to entertain (and confront a little) the crowd. This sort of thing is really up my alley, and I was very dissapointed to miss it.
Missing out did give me an opportunity to catch up with Janice and Khaled though, especially to ask Khaled if I could visit him in Cairo at Easter. He said that was alright, as long as I don't mind all his sisters falling in love with me! Originally I was going to spend a few days there and then go up to Croatia, but I think I'll do Croatia another time, or extend my holiday, because I really want to spend a good 9 days in Egypt (actually longer, but you know how it is.)
Then we went back to the El Hagars and I watched a 30 minut film of some German/Spanish contemporary dance. This is the first dance I've seen in a long time that I've actually enjoyed; I could make some inferences about what they were trying to do/say, it wasn't all just 'pretty movement'. After that I went and played a little guitar with Adam, and was happy to help decipher a little of 'Californication' by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers for him - made me feel a little less of a lame guitarist :)
Got home to gmas at 1:30, happy to find she had gone to bed and not stayed up for me in the cold house, as I had instructed.
Next day I got up late, and sat with Gma for a while talking about things, doing crosswords, reading the paper and playing dominoes. At 11:30 made bacon and eggs before rushing off to catch my 1:30 Bus back to London.
For some reason I had an aweful bus ride back; very hot, dehydrated, uncomfortable etc. Once I got home it was all OK though, and I rushed off to get to Jo's so we could eat before going to the comedy benefit that I had booked us tickets for. We had a great time there, got home at 11:45 and crashed, ready for another working week
(reviews of Mean Streets and the Comedy Benefit on my other blog.
Managed to get to Grandma's on the dot of 12, as I intended. That's the first time I've managed to get there when I intended though... Anyhoo Janice arrived and went through some financial stuff with Grandma; Grandma has now decided that she will go into a home so all that had to be organised. Finally we got some lunch - at 2:30! Both G and I were very hungry!
Grandma had a funny night on Thursday, an 8 year old version of Janice came to play on the front lawn with some scarves of Grandma's, but Grandma knew that it couldn't be Janice because she's not 8 anymore... This frightened her a bit and was, largely, the last straw that has made her decide to at least try the home and see what it is like. Most worrying for us is we did find some of her scarves on the lawn; I wonder what the neighbours saw my gran doing!
Saturday night I rushed into town to see if I could catch a performance that Adam (my cousin) was in. This show involved an audience of 14 sat around a table, interspersed with actors. The actors then largely improvised around a few set pieces to entertain (and confront a little) the crowd. This sort of thing is really up my alley, and I was very dissapointed to miss it.
Missing out did give me an opportunity to catch up with Janice and Khaled though, especially to ask Khaled if I could visit him in Cairo at Easter. He said that was alright, as long as I don't mind all his sisters falling in love with me! Originally I was going to spend a few days there and then go up to Croatia, but I think I'll do Croatia another time, or extend my holiday, because I really want to spend a good 9 days in Egypt (actually longer, but you know how it is.)
Then we went back to the El Hagars and I watched a 30 minut film of some German/Spanish contemporary dance. This is the first dance I've seen in a long time that I've actually enjoyed; I could make some inferences about what they were trying to do/say, it wasn't all just 'pretty movement'. After that I went and played a little guitar with Adam, and was happy to help decipher a little of 'Californication' by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers for him - made me feel a little less of a lame guitarist :)
Got home to gmas at 1:30, happy to find she had gone to bed and not stayed up for me in the cold house, as I had instructed.
Next day I got up late, and sat with Gma for a while talking about things, doing crosswords, reading the paper and playing dominoes. At 11:30 made bacon and eggs before rushing off to catch my 1:30 Bus back to London.
For some reason I had an aweful bus ride back; very hot, dehydrated, uncomfortable etc. Once I got home it was all OK though, and I rushed off to get to Jo's so we could eat before going to the comedy benefit that I had booked us tickets for. We had a great time there, got home at 11:45 and crashed, ready for another working week
(reviews of Mean Streets and the Comedy Benefit on my other blog.
1 Comments:
Cairo, wow!
You'll have to post some photos on the blog after that trip.
btw, did you *really* instruct your grandma to stay up late in a cold house? :-)
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