{"id":590,"date":"2002-08-19T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-19T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/08\/19\/different-weekend\/"},"modified":"2002-08-19T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-19T09:48:00","slug":"different-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/08\/19\/different-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Different weekend."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend turned out almost totally unlike it was planned.<\/p>\n<p>I<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t get to go out on the pub tour with John, Katie &amp; Sam (due to organisational<br \/>\nproblems) but I did get to go and see the performance of Lords &amp; Ladies<br \/>\n(Terry Pratchett Discworld story) at the Rollright Stones.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Anyway,<br \/>\nSaturday did start out as planned as I took a trip into Witney and bought<br \/>\nthe adaptor ring, telephoto lens and power supply for my camera. Now I can<br \/>\nfit a filter to the camera lens to keep it from harm and I also can not worry<br \/>\nabout the batteries running out when transferring images from the camera<br \/>\nto the PC.<\/p>\n<p>Things started going differently after I got home. I&#8217;d<br \/>\nhad lunch and was dozing on my bed upstairs as it was very hot when my mobile<br \/>\nphone gets a message from Alec asking what my plans to see the play of Lords<br \/>\nand Ladies was. I replied I had none.. anyway, to cut a long story short,<br \/>\nI agreed to pop down there for the 4pm showing as I wanted to get back and<br \/>\nhave an early night.<\/p>\n<p>The play itself was well done, if a little too<br \/>\ncondensed. That&#8217;s the problem with trying to convert a book to a play which<br \/>\nis only 2 hours long. The characterisations were done ok, though the person<br \/>\nplaying Nanny Ogg just wasn&#8217;t &#8220;right.&#8221; She was far too slim and not at all<br \/>\na homely nanny sort. Take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earth.ox.ac.uk\/%7Esteve\/pictures\/rollrights\/\">pictures<\/a> I took and make up your own mind.<\/p>\n<p>It was good to see Alec directing the traffic and to meet Jane again, even if she was a bit overwhelmed by the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday<br \/>\nstarted as planned.. I phoned Katie to ask what was happening that afternoon<br \/>\nabout pub thingies. It was a good thing I hadn&#8217;t tried her mobile first as<br \/>\nthat had drowned the day before in a lavatory accident. Anyway.. there was<br \/>\nnothing really organised, Sam wasn&#8217;t there and she had no clue about anything..<br \/>\nbut we did sort of organise a trip out to see Men in Black II tomorrow (Tuesday)<br \/>\nnight, provisionally.<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon involved more dozing whilst listening<br \/>\nto the Grand Prix and cutting back the bramble. It was too warm to do anything<br \/>\nmore and I was too tired from the lack of sleep induced by hot nights.<\/p>\n<p>The evening went pretty well to plan, visiting Paul and Jenn.<\/p>\n<p>So, now it&#8217;s Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend turned out almost totally unlike it was planned. 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