The Life and Times of Lady Warrington: August 2010

MOTOR BIKES

The latest fad among the boys of unit 24 seems to be motor bikes. Yes! Angus & Oli have decided that they want to buy a motor bike each. This means they are constantly on e-bay looking at bikes, looking in bike mags and checking out which accessories look the coolest. Oli has even taken his theory test and brought a helmet, which he seems to like wearing at all times, even when reading. I'm not complaining though. I love motor bikes. I travelled the whole of Vietnam on the back of one. Its just that Motor bikes don't like me, as I have crashed two (Well mopeds, same thing!) So I do believe it is safer if some one else does the driving for me. It seems like this is going to be a big on going thing in the house so I will keep you posted. The future is bright. the future is motor bikes!

A SLIGHT RETURN

It seemed that everything was kicking off on the Glyndebourne day. Not only did the bloody cat go missing, and all the texts about that, I was getting loads of texts asking me what time I would be home, to which I was like; I'll be home, when I'm home! I just presumed that everyone was stressing about Moomin Troll, but really there was another reason, because when I opened the door to the flat, I could see all the house sat round the TV watching a film like always in the dark. "Hiya" they all shouted, as I walked towards them. It took me a while to realise there was an extra person among the crew, even though I was looking straight at them. Sat there like she had never left was Ssam (Radio!!!). It was a complete shock. So for those of you who don't know who Ssam is, here is a quick recap. Ssam is my old housemate from South Korea, who is a fashion photographer. Unfortunately last year the shitty British government would not renew her visa and she was given 10 days to leave the country after living here for 6 years. Luckily Ssam has now got herself a job in New York, and decided to come on a little holiday to London before she starts her new life. She has been staying with us some of the time and it feels like she never left; her watching crap TV, sitting in her bedroom for hours and her cooking lots of processed noodles. Like old times. For her last day here we let her do BBQ on the roof terrace, to which she invited her friends, which included her long suffering assistant Rainer, who it was good to see. After lots of food and drink we ended the night like total geeks with all us getting out our cameras and seeing who could get the best close up photo of our insect infested plant, because that's what everyone does? Isn't it? Good bye again, radio. Maybe you have given me a good reason to go to New York soon?

Rainer

Me & Ssam

Oli

Triley & Cassius

Cass

Alex & Oli bite the Cob

Nick gives Cass some puss love

Hank

Father & son

Studies in plant life

Geeks!

LOST & FOUND

When I was at Glyndebourne I was sent a barrage of texts from Alex in sheer panic, to say that Moomin Troll had gone missing. No one had seen her all day. Angus had checked everywhere including the roof! Where was the Moomin troll? Being at the opera I couldn't really do anything, and felt quite helpless, but in the back of my mind I knew she would be OK. When I got home I found the building plastered with posters, of Moomin asking if anyone had seen her. In fact Alex had put them on every neighbours door, just incase they hadn't seen the other 100 that she had put around the walls! She had also used the most awful photo of Moomin as she looked like the devil in it. To be fair if I saw a cat that looked that evil I would most likely shoot it, than rescue it. As I opened the door to the flat I saw the little face of Moomin like always. I knew there was no need to panic. She had just gone on a little adventure.

GLYNDEBOURNE

When I was up filming in Bristol, I popped over to Bath on my whole one day off, to see Hannah who was staying with her parents, the amazing Jeff and Ali. While there I spotted on the coffee table a book on Glyndebourne, which I had to look through as I have always wanted to go to see the opera there. Well they do say if you ask and you shall receive, because it just so happened that Hannah's uncle was the head of production at Glyndebourne, and Hannah and her parents were going the next week to watch the Rake's Progress, and did I want to go with them? You bet I do! So off to Glynebourne we went. There is something so English about the place: Picnics on the lawn, glasses of Pimps, strawberries and toffs; lots of toffs. In fact its dripping in toffs. Very old ones at that. Some were so old I thought they might die during the performance, due to the fact that the average age seemed to 100! It was good though, as me and Hannah never thought we would be the youngest people at an event by a mile, ever again. The opera itself was beautiful. Designed by David Hockney, it was very clever. Only one problem though! Bloody depressing story. Ever opera I go and see is all doom and gloom, that I feel like slitting my wrists by the end of it. I need to go and see a fun one. I wonder if they do comedy operas?

MURDER ON THE STANDON EXPRESS

Yes I know! I have been a very, very, very bad blogger in deed, recently. I haven't had a moment to myself at the moment. I was stuck up in Bristol for over 2 weeks, on a job from hell, but don't worry I won't bore you with it as its not worth the effort! The good thing about that job finishing though, was I went straight to Standon calling festival from it, which was a much needed treat and a chance to catch up with friends. I didn't think last years event could be topped, but this year was so amazing, I can't even tell you. The theme this time was murder on the Standon Express. Me and Hannah decided to go as murdered brides, as we thought it probably the only time we would get to wear a wedding dress in our lives, due to our disater record with relationships. Cat was meant to be a murdered bride too, but she forgot her dress, which she was very upset about, so we invented a story that Yestyn are evil groom, murdered us on our wedding night because we had found out about each other and he ran off with his mistress Malibu Dubai Barbie, played by Cat in her tropical dress. Good hey! We actually really got into our roles, especially the more wasted we got as the night wore on. In fact I seemed to morph into Bjorn Borg with my headband by the end of the night. Deb, Sophie, Duncan and James went at "Some like it Hot", with the boy's really liking a bit to much their roles as women. Very messy, very funny and very, very, very good. Word of warning: Don't use red food colouring as blood, as it looks Dayglo pink, is very sticky and stains your skin ( It took bloody ages to scrub off!)