I was in the vicinity of Slough twice this weekend, but on Monday it was to see Lis Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith) in panto along with a group of people from sarahjane_fic. She was only in a scene at the start and the end as Mrs Darling and one in the middle as a mermaid. The panto being Peter Pan.

Now, I don't know if I ever knew the story of Peter Pan because I feel like I knew bits and not other bits. But now I understand why people say Wendy had a crap deal - who in their right mind would want to be mother to a load of Lost Boys when still a child herself? That's the sort of thing children don't really notice, but given they can get the credit crunch into the panto you'd think they'd update that bit too.

There were some other famous people in it, but I'd never heard of them.

In general, it wasn't a great panto. I think the local amateur one is better. Peter Pan was played by a man, not a girl, which I'm sure isn't right. There was a scene with Ice the Dog and some girl doing tricks, although I don't think anyone had told the dog that. Lis's mermaid scene mostly involved her waving her arms around and looking like a bit of a prat, frankly. Her last scene as Mrs Darling mostly seemed to involve making sure the kids were in the right place. But she was great, obviously.

But the highlight of the whole thing was the pantomime Dame and the comedy bloke and two pirates doing an alternative 12 days of Christmas, which mostly involved them throwing each other's props around. They had to hold their props up when they sang the words, for every fourth present for each of them. Buy the end they were scrambling round the stage and having to get the audience to throw them back to them!

The second funniest bit was when they had some kids on stage and the comedy bloke couldn't understand that one of the girls was called Ferrari!

But it didn't really matter what the panto was like because I still had fun with ladyvivien, cosmic_llin, Sasha, revolutionaren, carawj, sarah_janesmith, thesjaadventures, sneakyangel and her friend.