{"id":595,"date":"2014-07-18T19:16:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T18:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/?p=595"},"modified":"2014-07-18T19:16:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T18:16:41","slug":"slaving-over-a-hot-panto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2014\/07\/slaving-over-a-hot-panto\/","title":{"rendered":"Slaving Over a Hot Panto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cor-Phew! \u00a0Hotter than Majorca! \u00a0So the tabloids would have us believe. \u00a0Well, at 33C today in God&#8217;s Own County, it probably was. \u00a0I had my weekly Skype convo with BP who&#8217;s in Antigua and who confirmed that it wasn&#8217;t that hot in the Caribbean and fortunately, Antigua usually has a pleasant breeze blowing off the Atlantic and you&#8217;re never far from a beach. \u00a0So I&#8217;ve been Ms Grumpy today; on the phone all morning to utility companies and slaving over a hot panto all afternoon. \u00a0Nearly finished! \u00a0And I giggle as I&#8217;m writing it. \u00a0I&#8217;m writing with my own music playing in the background, not my usual Radio Two (sorry, Ken!). \u00a0I just can&#8217;t bear listening to the news of children being shot dead while kicking a ball on a beach, or of planes full of passengers being blown out of the sky. \u00a0Sometimes I just despair of the Human Race. \u00a0And I choose not to let such negativity into my life at the monent. \u00a0That&#8217;s not to deny they&#8217;re happening or to cushion myself from reality. \u00a0It&#8217;s just because we now hear and see so many atrocities that we become desensitised. \u00a0Nothing shocks any more. \u00a0And I&#8217;m trying to stay positive on every level of my life.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I had the great pleasure of finally meeting up with Sara Gibbs of\u00a0<em>darlinglovelylife.\u00a0<\/em>Sara was, as you&#8217;ll remember, my guest on Hot Holidays! a few weeks ago. \u00a0And she&#8217;s now the on-line editor of Vintage Life Magazine. \u00a0She&#8217;s dynamic, as intelligent as you would imagine, and great fun and meeting her was great.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also had a production meeting for Singles&#8217; Holiday this week. \u00a0That&#8217;s all getting very exciting now! \u00a0Tickets go on sale NEXT WEEK &#8211; 01277 200305 or www.brentwood-theatre.co.uk. And the show&#8217;s on 13-17 October. \u00a0And I&#8217;ve been to Central London and Needham Market in search of costumes for Cinderella principals for our publicity shoot next week. \u00a0 Added to that, we had a four-hour casting session for dancers on Sunday and I did my radio slot n Yvonne William&#8217;s show on Gateway 97.8 last Monday, after a lovely lunch with the Daughter. \u00a0So, unsurprisingly, I&#8217;m spending this evening prostrate on the sofa watching TV with the fan going like the clappers.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Weekend!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cor-Phew! \u00a0Hotter than Majorca! \u00a0So the tabloids would have us believe. \u00a0Well, at 33C today in God&#8217;s Own County, it probably was. \u00a0I had my weekly Skype convo with BP who&#8217;s in Antigua and who confirmed that it wasn&#8217;t that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2014\/07\/slaving-over-a-hot-panto\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[352,306,391,8,390,392],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brentwood-theatre","tag-gateway97-8","tag-sara-gibbs","tag-singles-holiday","tag-vintage-life","tag-yvonne-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}