Location check in — At the RSC Swan Theatre to see Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, starring Adrian Lester 🎭
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Complimentary Shakespeare Distillery Stratford Dry gin in our hotel room 😀
Tudor Garden inspired British Gin
Location check in — White Swan Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon
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Follow the Storm 🍺
Watched: Now You See Me 2, 2016 - ★★★ 🎥
Tree cutting
Had to have some emergency tree surgery this week!
There was an tall conifer growing on our property boundary, about 20 feet from our house.
This tree had always grown leaning towards the house, but over the past few weeks there was evidence of the roots starting to move in the soil. It had to go before any windy winter storms!
It took four men a day and a half to deal with it - nearly 3 hours anchoring it, then stripping off all the branches and next cutting it in guided falls from the top downwards in roughly 8 foot trunk sections. These came down with a crash, shaking crockery and glasses in our kitchen (the nearest room to the base of the tree). I couldn’t guess what each section weighed.
Plus all the clear-up work, chipping the smaller branches and loading the logs in batches onto a trailer.
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Watched: Now You See Me, 2013 - ★★★½ 🎥
Watched: The Running Man, 1987 - ★★★ 🎥
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Baxter Dury (25 plays), The Doors (19), Florence + the Machine (16), Bob Dylan (14), Kate Bush (13)
Watched: The Test S2E1, Own Your Own Space 📺
I watched the documentary series The Test when it was released in 2020. I didn’t realise until today that there have been two subsequent series made, which were released in 2023 and 2024 (although each has fewer episodes than the first). Started watching Series 2 this afternoon. A good warm-up for the upcoming 2025/26 Ashes matches 🙂🏏
