Pointless Stories!

Ok, so I am known for my pointless stories but this one beats all of mine.  It comes from our local newspaper. Oh Harrogate, I do love you!

Enjoy the pointlessness...

August already?!

Hello August! How quickly the months seem to go now I'm getting older. It’s been a busy few days up in the land of Yorkshire.  At the end of last week I got to see my beautiful friend Tanya for the first time since she got back from Japan.  It was so lovely to talk to her, I think we both were in need of a big catch up and cup of tea - it definitely did me a lot of good!

 

Yesterday I went to work at Alnwick Castle with the BBC to film some episodes of ‘Flog it’. It wasn’t something I was really planning on doing (I kind of just fell into it) and so I wasn’t sure what to expect. Never the less I ended up having a great day I got to work with some lovely crew.  I was up at 6am and didn’t finish until 6:30 that evening so it was a long, tiring day with just one 15 minute break for lunch. In the morning we were briefed and told in what area we would be working for the day. Throughout the day we were moved around so I was constantly doing something different from controlling members of the public to sitting with the producers of the show and watching as different bits were being filmed (that was interesting.) It was also such a great location, Alnwick Castle is where bits of Harry Potter were filmed and it is so worth a visit…it was beautiful. Doing this (even though the job wasn’t acting) made me realise - once again - that I have to keep going with my acting career.  I really can’t stay in the job I am in now for the rest of my life. I did worry that when I came home I would fall into a trap of settling down, staying here because it’s easier.  However I think at the moment it is having the opposite effect. For a few reasons I just want to get out of here.  (Which seems to be the story of my life at the moment…wanting to get away) I don’t know what I’m going to do when my sister goes back to Uni in September as she is the only one keeping me sane.  Actually no…that’s a lie! I do know what I’ll do - I’ll go and practically live at my local theatre for the Christmas period (like I do every year!) 

Today I had a much needed duvet day and a chance to chill out after a few crazy weeks. I also baked a chocolate chip cake for the girls at work, yum yum!

Wreck this Journal

“The world is but a canvas to the imagination.” 

~ Henry David Thoreau

 I love this book at the moment...

Summer

We are currently in my favourite time of the year – the summer.  I love the sunshine and especially the long days.  I am such a summer kid; Christmas and Panto are the only two things that make the rain and dark bearable in winter.  I had a moment today when I truly appreciated how lovely it is to walk in the evening.  The sunshine was just at that height where it shines through the trees, I was listening to some happy songs on my ipod and I just felt really peaceful and relaxed. Some people don’t like walking alone, but I could quite happily wander around the beautiful North Yorkshire countryside for hours on end. I like fields. In fact I might start taking lots of pictures of fields – because I’m a geek like that.  

It’s the little things in life isn’t it…

:)

"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
~ Stella Adler

Also...

I have officially graduated :)

Exhausted ramblings that don't make much sense

How do I even begin to describe my week?  I can’t. I can’t put this feeling into words. I feel like I’ve run a marathon but instead of coming to the finish line I’m right back at the start again. 

Today I went to see the one other person who (for want of a better word) ‘gets it’. Who understands me, sometimes I think better than I know myself. And for half an hour I felt genuinely okay. Like it all didn’t matter. 

So I’m now sat in my room with (let me count)…10 letters for potential trips to the theatre I am being persuaded to go and see.  How can I possibly say no? Slava’s Snowshow is one of them (which has to be one of my all-time favourite shows) Our Country’s Good is another. I love that play so much. This is what sparked my love of the theatre, it might be nice to go back and find it again. I kind of feel like Acting is now the only thing keeping me going, the one thing I can hang on to.

I don’t really think this entry is making much sense but after 3 sleepless nights I can’t really help it.

I think I’m going to do some drawing. For some reason it always helps.