Actors are arriving & preparing for this evening's performance of Midsummer Night's Dream. The weather is holding, dry & very hot.
In Stafford today the judges of Britain In Bloom were due in town, to pass a verdict on the town's floral presentation. While Toyah spent her morning on telephone interviews, I went exploring in search of bibliophilacal tumescence & acquired some genuine bargains in a clothes shop - 4 good cotton shirts for £20 - before giving my custom to a cafÈ opposite the church: capuccini with the FT. Interviews over, we drove towards Cannock Chase and found a canal-side country pub for lunch with Tim, Oberon to Toyah's Titania. Then back to Stafford and a gentle wilt in the Mediterranean heat. The younger actors, after a late night at the Castle bar, set off for a day at Alton Towers.
Forwarded announcement:
<<<The NJ Guitar Circle will host two courses in September 2001:
1. NST Week Retreat, September 8-14: this course will be conducted by Curt Golden, Tony Geballe and Frank Sheldon.
This course is open to guitarists at any experience level, including none at all. All work will be done on steel string acoustic guitars and will focus on the fundamentals of pick-style technique using the Guitar Craft Standard Tuning for the guitar. The cost of this course, which includes instruction, all meals and lodging, is $1050.
2. Performance Project, September 14-23: this course will be conducted by Curt Golden, Tony Geballe and Frank Sheldon.
Participants in this course will gain experience in the rigors and joys of preparing a group for performance. Guitarists who have already attended a Level One Guitar Craft course are invited to apply to this course. The cost of this course, which includes instruction, all meals and lodging, is $1050.
Performance Project participants who wish may attend both courses for $1250.
These courses will be held in Lebanon, N.J. which is located about 45 minutes west of Newark Airport. The facilities we will use are spare but fine. The minimum age for participation in these courses is 18.
In order to make an application to any of these courses, it is necessary that you submit an application, via email, stating:
1. To which course are you applying
2. Why do you wish to attend?
3. A brief description of your experience level as a guitarist.
4. A description of your experience with Guitar Craft.
Email your application to the NJ Guitar Circle Registrar at registrar@njcircle.com>>>
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Here against a portacabin, computing away, the smokers in the cast (a majority) are sitting at the table next to me, blowing smoke over me. They appear to be unaware, or uncaring, of this. I have no objection to smoking. I object to being involved in the habit of another through suffering passive smoke ingestion.
"Perfection is impossible.
But I may choose to serve perfection."
