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I Guess This Is Goodbye Old Pal...

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(Just for clarity before we begin as some people got really the wrong end of the stick - no one has died!! X) I knew I was going to write about this.  I've known I was going to write something like this for over ten years.  I didn't know how hard is was going to be.  On the 25th December 1998, my brother was born, and I was suitably pissed off.  We were just sitting down to Christmas lunch and my mum realised she was going into labour - four year old me was fucking FUMING that I wasn't going to get a Christmas lunch (it's ok they dropped me at my nans on the way to the hospital and I had lunch there - crisis averted). So then he arrived and life was obviously very different.  We largely didn't get on throughout our childhood for the sole reason of we are chalk and cheese - you've never met two more different human beings in your life as kids (and probably to a lesser extent as adults). He just irritated me beyond belief, and this only amplified when ...
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Which Is Lovely, I Hear...

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Sometimes I stand in the middle of the floor. Not going left. Not going right... This was me on Thursday. I mean if I'm being fair this is actually me a lot of the time in my life, but something happened on Thursday that made me look at myself and go...what the actual hell are you doing? And when I ask myself a question like that, there's only one place I go: here, to write, and put something out into the ether that somebody or nobody may read (honestly not a clue if anyone will read this because it isn't a review of a woman tap dancing or yelling about the ineptitude of our government - but I'm writing it anyway!) On Thursday, I was at a meet-up for other people in the industry for the day. Theatre makers were pitching new shows, ideas that they had, and giving a general overview of where their company was going in the coming months and years: in theory, this was one of the fun bits of my jobs back again after not being around for a while.  I've been to...
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