We managed to find the theatre fairly easily, despite it being in Shaftesbury Avenue, which is impossible to navigate. And our conversation on the train going like this:

Me: Where are we going?
My sister: Hammersmith Apollo
Me: So why does it say the nearest tube is Picadilly Circus?

The stairs up to the balcony had walls and a floor that looked like you'd get in a toilet. Then the balcony itself was dark and had uneven stairs. Either of those is quite bad for me never mind both... Fortunately there were lots of handrails. When we sat down the top of the seats of the people in front of us were around our feet and there was a rail in our eyeline to the stage. And when you sat on the seats they didn't go down all the way.

Despite all that it was good and funny. It was a lot like an episode, only longer, with different actors (all of whom had either been in The Bill, Doctor Who or Midsomer Murders). It was updated, though. There was a woman in it! And Blackberries and a flatscreen TV.

Some of the jokes were a lot like in the series - Hacker asks Humphrey to give him a straight answer of yes or no, for example. Humphrey had a couple of very long sentences, which he got a round of applause for.

I don't think it really got going until the second scene, but it was funny and definitely worth seeing.

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Life
When I say I've been busy, I was out two nights last week at Rotaract things (pancakes and bowling), but Wednesday and Friday I had so many things to do I don't feel like I've been in. Next week the only night I'm in is Thursday, and then I'll have Ashes to Ashes and two episodes of Torchwood to watch. Although in all fairness, the only place I'm going Monday night is Tescos, which is ten minutes away, but I go with someone else who lives ten minute in the opposite direction. It makes sense, really it does.

I have actually been putting stuff in my Google Calendar although I have some things in there that I know are going on, but I'm not yet definitely going to, and some things not in there that I know are going on and I will be going, it's just not yet organised yet. It makes sense if you're me. March is looking a bit busy...

Writing
Quite a bit of my time has been taken up with writing my TARDIS Big Bang fic, but I do now have the first draft done! With a month and a bit to spare as well. I only have 18,600 words, which includes the plot notes, but all I've really written so far is the plot, and a lot of conversations in there have nothing else but conversation and the odd she said and he said, so I think it's safe to say it'll be over 20,000 when it's done. I just have to get it done (and betaed) by the end of May now.

I did have a plan to go back to writing LOTR for Back to Middle-earth Month in March, but the Big Bang thing is going to take quite a long time, I think and I just signed up for the Ian/Barbara ficathon, so I have an alternative plan for B2MEM.

Roleplaying
RPing goes on as normal because that never takes up that much time (well, except for Harry and Sarah's RP which also involves rather a lot of mostly-accidental plot). As of a few weeks ago, I play Jo at the_blank_slate which I'm quite enjoying so far. I am just excited about some of the characters in there. I keep thinking of other characters I want to play there, which is a bad thing, but I need to work out what I'm doing with this one first.

Other life-related stuff That for some reason I felt didn't come under the other heading...
Ages ago (well three months ago) I signed up with Sofa Cinema. Handily, as I've moved and changed my credit card number, I can now work through all the DVD rental free trials again. The reason for using Sofa Cinema is they promised a few portable DVD player, which I now have. So now I have five DVDs players in the house. It'll go up to six when I buy a new computer. I can't quite cancel them yet, though, because they've just sent me The Bill series 1, which Amazon claimed I couldn't have.

Doctor Who-related stuff
I went to see Spamalot yesterday. With Peter Davison as King Arthur and the same actress played the Lady of the Lake as played her when I saw it on Broadway! Having seen quite a bit of early All Creatures Great and Small recently, it's amazing how much Peter Davison's voice hasn't changed. We were lucky to see him too, as he's only on till 2nd March - when I booked I hadn't expected him to still be doing it at all.

Friday I'm going to see John Barrowman in Borders, which could be interesting. If by interesting you mean involve long queues. But I'm going with a friend, so hopefully it shouldn't be too bad. And we certainly won't be short of things to read.

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It turned out to be really good - and everyone was saying so afterwards. It was funny, of course, and it was sort of about the (possibly apocryphal) lives of the great composers. There were six actors who variously played the composers and people related to them - or screaming fangirls in a couple of cases. They also played a lot of their music, which was really impressive. One girl, at one point, was playing Brahms on the electric piano while holding a conversation with Schumann. They all walked around playing as well, which was really impressive for the one who was a cellist!

Sylvester McCoy was dressed up almost clown-like. He basically narrated it, occasionally played a composer and occasionally played an instrument (well, the cymbals very enthusiastically, and the spoons, mostly on the audience). And he heckled people.

I was sat at the front - and there wasn't a stage just an area where they performed, so I definitely had a good view, and a fair bit of attention from Sylvester McCoy, probably because I was also on my own and look younger than I am.

During the interval one of the kids there wanted to have a go on the keyboard, so the main actor helped it, and revealed the secret of the beginning of the Eastenders theme tune they were using.

It was funny, insane and brilliant. I'm just not quite sure what to believe now! It's on until 20th May, and when I went it was only half full, so if you get the chance, definitely go.

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