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Well, I didn't get the role I was after, but I do have a small role one step up from chorus. Ironically, when I joined the company for their first rehearsal, I joked to my pal, "I'll be happy if I get Nun #11!" - guess what my small role is!!! ROFLMAO!!! My friend got the role I was after - if I wasn't getting it, I'm glad she got it instead, because she's going to be brilliant. She's about 15 years older than me, so she looked a better fit for the part - I guess I look too youthful to be a Mother Superior!

Had a fabulous afternoon singing at Blyth Battery as part of their 100-year celebrations. Felt like a million bucks in the dress I borrowed from a good friend, and was pleased to see in photos that I look half the size I did last May, or even last September, when I sang there last year!

I just did my first audition in 15 years tonight! Went for a part in a production of Sister Act. Hoping to hear some time tonight, but I don't for one second think I've got it. It went well, and I enjoyed it, but I think that on this occasion, looking younger than my age is going to count against me - LOL!

Prince Edward Island? (Anne of Green Gables)

Stuart MacBride - great Scottish crime fiction, most of them set in Aberdeen. Absolutely brilliant! Start with Cold Granite and go on from there. Christopher Brookmyre - a hint of crime, a dash of satire, and a massive dollop of pitch black humour. Mostly set in Edinburgh and Glasgow, but some set in other places (one set in LA), all with Scottish protagonists.

Except me - LOL! I still do a little colouring every few days.

I couldn't finish The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I worked it out ludicrously early, and eventually checked I was right. I was - spot on. I Enjoyed the film a bit more than the book, and bizarrely, preferred the US remake to the original film. The book I found plodding, dull, and very predictable.

Stuart MacBride is one of my favourite authors! If you like his dark sense of humour, you'll probably also enjoy Christopher Brookmyre - not crime per se, although crimes are committed. Most set in Scotland too. Well worth a look.

Triffids is one of my favourite sci-fi novels. <3

If it's books for my permanent collection, I do tend to prefer new books - I tend to get them not long after they're published anyway. I do have some older, second hand books in my permanent collection, though. I love trawling second hand shops for interesting books and authors to try. However, this year I have pledged not to spend a a single penny on books for myself. I can buy books for other people as gifts, but I cannot pay for a book for myself. All books I read this year must either be ones I already have, or are given to me as gifts/swaps/passed along from someone else, or borrowed from the library/another person, or gained for free (review copies/free downloads). It's tough, but so far I've managed to stick to it. I did it a few years ago too, and managed to get through the whole year without buying a single book for myself!

Well, my ankle is definitely getting better, although we had a slight setback last night when I went over on my ankle a little again and it felt like it went "crunch" - ick! So I still have the crutches, although I can actually hobble around without them, it makes my ankle ache to do that too much. Bizarrely it's now my toe that aches the most in the general run of things - when I' just sitting, it's the toe that throbs the most. I was lucky it happened at the beginning of the half term holiday, so I didn't have to think about running to and from school in the mornings. My Mam has declared she's taking Xan to school tomorrow morning for his first day back, so I won't have to worry about it tomorrow morning. I was told I might need the crutches for 7-10 days, and it's been 5 days, so really things are going quite well. I've also been told it could be a good 6 months to heal completely, so I need to not push things too much or I'll risk a set-back I can do without! Still, lie goes on and there is still a lot to do day to day, even with my dodgy ankle, so I just do what I can do when I can do it. It means the house hasn't had such a thorough cleaning these last five days as it usually does, but that can't be helped!

I have certainly never reached a limit for editing any pots and my film and book posts get edited pretty much every time I visit, as I add to them every time I watch a movie or finish a book.

I fell down the stairs yesterday morning and hurt my ankle and big toe so much I couldn't put any weight on my left foot. So I hopped arund all morning and then fell on it again at lunchtime. Then I spent most of the afternoon waiting around at A&E to find out if I had broken anything. Fortunately nothing's broken, but I have badly sprained both the ankle and the tow, and I have crutches to hobble round on for the next few days. I feel like a right clumsy clot - LOL! Sore today, but managing to get around fine, even if I still can't put weight on it yet. Still, at least I didn't break anything - I'd hate to be in plaster!

I re-signed up and got the same result as I originally did - Ravenclaw! No surprise - I always felt I would be most comfortable with the Ravenclaws.

On Sunday afternoon I donated blood for the first time ever! It was kind of a big deal for me, because I'm terrified of needles, but I did it and I'm so proud of myself! Tonight I went ahead and booked an appointment for my next donation when they return in June.

My Mam had loads of her nicest ones framed - it was a MASSIVE frame and it was on display in our hallway for years. She had that many of them she couldn't possibly use them all - LOL!

I'm doing a Carole Matthews challenge this year, reading all her books. If anyone fancied joining me in that, I'd be happy to chat.

We seem to be losing a lot of very talented people to the Big C all at once, and all around the same kind of age. I feel like getting everyone together and forming a big protective circle around all or national treasures right now.

Nollaig - for some reason I totally pictured you loving Labyrinth too - isn't that weird?!

I can't believe anyone with common sense would agree to go into the BB House (I can't stand that show - filled with z-listers, no-hopers, has-beens, never-weres and wannabes), so I can't blame Craig for having a go at one of the dancers going in there (although I've not read what he said, so I hope he wasn't too nasty!).

Just days after his 69th birthday and the release of his latest album, the world is a little less shiny and melodic today. Xander is as big a fan of Bowie as I am, and I knew he would be as saddened by the news as I am. I told him shortly after he got up this morning, and this was our conversation: Me: Darling, I’ve heard some sad news this morning. David Bowie has died. Xander: Oh no! That’s so sad! Was it cancer? Me: Yes, sweetie. He’d been ill for quite a while. Xander: It’s always cancer. I hate it! I just wish cancer wasn’t real! Me: Yes, so do I, darling. Xander: We’re running out of singers. There’ll be no good music left at this rate! Bearing in mind that Xander is only seven years old, I thought he showed a startling grasp of the tragedy of Bowie’s death, his illness, and also his loss to the music world, all in one fell swoop. Farewell, Major Tom, Ziggy Star Dust, and my favourite, The Goblin King. You will be sorely missed, but your legacy will continue to delight generations of music lovers forever.

Sounds a bit like the Divergent trilogy by Veronica Roth, but the first book (Divergent) was published in 2011, so that's too late.

In cases where people know what the answers of other people were before making their answer, then it becomes much more likely that each subsequent person will make the same selection, e.g. There is a line-up and criminal #4 is the actual perpetrator of a crime witnessed by several people. The first person selects criminal #3 in a line-up and remarks to the next person before they go in, "#3 is definitely the guy!" then the next person is much more likely to look harder at #3 in the line-up and superimpose features onto that person that more clearly match what they saw themselves, making themselves believe they are in fact choosing the person they saw. In cases where no mention or comparison is made with other people, it is less likely that will happen.

You were right - I shouldn't have gone looking. Now I can't NOT see the safety pins, and I never even noticed them before now!

It started off so well - there was a great deal of knowing humour in the first half hour or so, but then it fell off rather sharply for me. I'm still smarting from the disappointment this morning! Dale was actually so bored with it that he actually fell asleep during part of it.