Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 30.9.2014 - Where I'm from.
Monday, September 29, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 29.9.2014 - I wish.
I don't wish for anything, I have everything I could ever want... health, family, love and peace!
I was stuck for today's post, so then I did what I usually do when stuck, I Googled :-) and I found this, I can hardly understand it, I've never heard of this young girl, I don't know anyone in the video but I watched it all the way through... I wonder if you can! Good Luck.
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Sunday, September 28, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 28.9.2014 - Game.
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 27.9.2014 - Celebration.
Friday, September 26, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 26.9.2014 - Best.
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 25.9.2014 - Angle.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 24.9.2014 - Loud.
Dame
Edna Everage.
“Look at me when I’m talking to you!” 2nd December 1993
So
here I am again at another show with David and friends Kay and John Speed. Our seats are in the fourth row and
pretty close to the wall aisle. We
arrive early and watch the audience slowly seat themselves wondering who Edna
will pick on tonight.... a bag lady makes a lot of noise getting to her
seat, she has a bit of a barny
with the Usher over something and seats herself right behind us... she rummages
in her many bags and a strong smell of metho drifts our way... we daren’t look
around in case we get a lashing from her tongue as the Usher did.
Eventually the show begins and first on
the stage is Sir Les Patterson,
the bag lady roars with uncontrollable laughter every time he adjusts
his over long penis... or makes the smallest sexual innuendo, most of the time
she is the only one laughing. All
through the first half I have an uncomfortable feeling that Barry Humphries has
his eye on me, but I dismiss this
as silly... I suspect every one in the first few rows feels this.
Interval
comes and after stretching our legs we change seats with Kay and John. Curtain goes up and there she is in all
her glory... Dame Edna has been asked by the Queen to be Australian’s first
Republican Leader... she is decked out in an extravagant outfit of Australiana
and receives much applause... almost immediately she comes to our side of the
theatre and looking at Kay says...
‘Now
where’s that nicely rounded lady who was sitting in that seat?’ Kay and I both shudder!!! and it doesn’t take too long for her to
find me!!
‘Hello
Possum!’ she says... I can only nod!!
‘Now
what’s your name??’
‘Pennie’
I squeak almost inaudibly
‘Pennie!!......
now where do you live Pennie??’ my
mind is racing... should I say a different suburb?? Should I pretend I don’t even live in Sydney?? Eventually I decide to tell the truth
because I know she can be merciless...
‘Turramurra!’
‘Mmmmmm
North Shore?’
“Yes!’
‘What
sort of house do you live in Pennie?’
‘A
nice one!!’
‘Aaaaahhhh
she lives in a NICE house Possums’
laughter erupts in the theatre, ‘Is it a brick house Pennie?’
‘Yes!’
‘All
Brick Pennie??’
‘Yes!’
‘What
no doors or windows???’ Loud
laughter breaks out again... she moves onto to some other poor person and I
start to look for an escape route...
between me and the aisle is David and about three other people... I
think I can get down on my hands and knees and crawl out... keeping close to
the seats I could crawl all the way out... then I realise how stupid that would
look and what’s the guarantee that someone won’t dob me in!! So I sit there hoping she’s finished
with me... no such luck!!!
Now
Dame Edna is calling me up on stage... I am terrified!!! Absolutely terrified, I ‘m too shy and cannot get up in front
of friends, how can I do this???
There is a boy in front of me who is a bit simple and he’s twisting
around in his seat leering at me and saying..... ‘Come on Pennie....... you can
do it....... Come on.... up you go Pennie.’ Dame Edna had given a lady in the front row absolute
hell because she wouldn’t participate so I eventually decide that it would be
easier to go up to Edna than not to.
Somehow I climb the stairs and she is saying to me... ‘So you didn’t
bother to change before you came to my Show Pennie??’ Laughter rocks the whole theatre.... while everyone is laughing she is holding my hands and encouraging me in a very gentle
whisper, she is reassuring me that everything will be O.K.!! I’m not exactly relaxed but I’m amazed
at the real person behind those eyes, makeup and clothes... I am gently pushed
out to the wings where all is dark but a voice is saying... ‘Just come here
Pennie... and put your arms out... I’m going to put some clothes on you and a
wig...’ I never saw this person it
was too dark but before I knew it I was back on stage with the Audience
erupting with laughter.... I had no idea what I was wearing I never saw it but
I could see David in the Audience laughing with the rest of them... he looked
so proud of his wife and I wished it was him up here and not me... Dame Edna was Australia’s Republican Queen... I was Fergie... there was also
Prince Charles and a couple of others...
I was in shock... I couldn’t speak I just moved robot like, being pushed
from here to there... Edna held my hand and we sang and danced... I don’t know
what ... all I can remember is that I had this fixed grin on my face.... I
think it stopped me from bursting into tears. Then before I knew it I was backstage again
being shed of my finery then back for a final farewell... Edna gave me a bunch of Gladdies, a bottle
of wine and some hand cream... I’ve never worked out the significance of the
hand cream... I was back in my seat with David, Kay and John all grinning from
ear to ear. The boy sitting in
front was cheering me back and telling me how terrific I was. My legs were shaking and I collapsed
back into my seat... Phew!!!
The
Show finished not long after and we were able to go home... and on the way out
I heard several people saying to their friends... ‘Look there goes
Pennie!!!’ ‘There she is... there’s
Pennie.’
David
tells me I was dressed in a long green velvet dress with a big red wig and hat
on my head... after Sir Les we
never heard a word or a rustle from the Bag Lady... we thought she may have
left but no she was there at the end.
Edna
gave me this signed poem as a thank you.
Lucky
Possum that you are,
You
are now a Mini-star,
Despite
your looks, despite your age,
I
asked you up upon my stage.
You
came, you shared, you played the game,
And
now you’ll never be the same!
And
evermore, where e’er you be,
This
gift will make you think of me.
A
joyous heart always, your friend,
Love Edna X
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 23.9.2014 - Triangle.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 22.9.2014 - Crisp.
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 21.9.2014 - Fav Word.
We will never know who Shirley was but we think this woman might have escaped her care.....
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Saturday, September 20, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 20.9.2014 - Beginning.
Friday, September 19, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 19.9.2014 - Even.
I had to remind her about where I was... and who I was with.... 'Oh yes of course... Briony is your Favourite!'
This conversation pops up every now and then but they do all know that I love them evenly... they are all my Favourites :-)
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Thursday, September 18, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 18.9.2014 - Person.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 17.9.2014 - Key.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 16.9.2014 - I don't like.
Monday, September 15, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 15.9.2014 - Remember.
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 14.9.2014 - Healthy.
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Photo A Day Challenge - 13.9.2014 - Out of Place.
Friday, September 12, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 12.9.2014 - Spring.
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Photo a Day Challenge - 11.9.2014 - How I feel today.
