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November. So what’s happening in November?

Iolanthe’s on this week – shows are from Wednesday to Saturday – and I’m so excited. It’s my first proper show in the Assembly Rooms this year and it’s going to be so much fun.  I’ve been in rehearsals all this week and it’s been the most fun I’ve had since, well, the last DULOG (Durham University Light Opera Group – they do all the musicals) show that I called.  Hard work, certainly, but the cast is fantastic, ditto the production team, and I’m back in my theatre with my friends working on my shows to the exclusion of all else.  This time last year I was WAY out of my depth.  But now, it’s where I’m comfortable.  I’m doing what I do again.  Plus it’s Gilbert and Sullivan – and who doesn’t love a bit of the old G&S?  I’m sure I’ll be talking about it a lot.

And then the week after that, off I trot to Castle for a rather exciting production of Murder in the Cathedral.  In Castle Great Hall.   We’re putting up truss in a Grade I listed building again.  Who in their right mind turns down a chance to work with stage lighting and a chamber choir in the great hall of a medieval castle?  I worked there on Carmen last year and it just blows you away, the surroundings, and also what you’re doing in there.

So that’s what I’m crowing about at the moment.

It’s November, so what does that mean craft-wise?  A new month’s yarn budget for me, hurrah hurrah, a new Mystery sock (I don’t know what it’ll look like yet but the moment I do there shall be overexcited snap-happiness with the camera – hoping to cast on in the next week somewhen) and – joy of joys – my first cardigan.  It was going to be one of these but after swatching I discovered it looked all wrong – the yarn I’d set aside wasn’t nearly thick enough.  So with the help of Ravelry and a bit of sodding about on the internet… I’ve found a cardigan, and I cast on this morning.  It doesn’t really look like anything at the moment.  But it will do.  Let’s just say that it’s an old favourite designer of mine, and that it’s exciting.  It had to be, really.  There will be owl jumper at another point, I hope, but for the time being, I’m just soakin’ up the i-cord.

Yeeeeah.