Look Behind You

Being the end of the year I had a look back over some of the Music Man blog posts and other things I have done this year. Strangely, the most popular photograph on my Flickr account is one I used in a post about the Railway Cafe in Wilmington. It was a photograph of the menu boards! . Perhaps people in the area are using it as an ‘online takeaway menu’. A depressing statistic is that the less I write the more readers turn up (November one post in the month but more readers than October). By writing nothing at all I could have a popular blog.

Like Puss, I have filled my Boots in the last few weeks with a number of pantos and Christmas plays. One of these was ‘Blue Cross Xmas’ at the Hull Truck Theatre. During the performance I was at there was a female member of the audience on the front row who got up part way through and walked unsteadily round the front to the exit. She caused a distraction but the actors carried on. A short while later, still during the performance, she returned but this time from the top of the stairs at the back. Sitting on the front row meant she had to come down the steps back to her seat. It was pretty obvious from her unsteady exit that she was well oiled, and this was confirmed when she fell down the steps. I never know whether to be impressed that during both of these interruptions the actors carried on, or if I want them to stop and tell her she’s a pain in the backside so we can all agree with them.

Happy New Year.