Mon
27 Apr
2009

Is technology taking over???

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Is technology taking over everything we do and can we really run our lives from the hair dressers? A couple of weeks ago I had my regular appointment at my hair dressers in Cheltenham for ‘colour, cut and finish’. I must explain, a visit to my hair dressers is an experience in itself, when you arrive you are immediately asked would you like a drink and the drinks card is offered to you, with an array of drinks many restaurants would be jealous of. They don’t have a drinks licence so the pink champagne I was sipping on minutes later...

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Thu
9 Apr
2009

“Waiting for Godot” at The Malvern Theatres

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“What do we do, now that we are happy?”“Wait for Godot. Things have changed here since yesterday.”“And if he doesn’t come?”“We’ll see when the time comes. I was saying that things have changed here since yesterday.”“Everything oozes.”“Look at the tree.”“It’s never the same pus from one moment to the next.”Waiting for Godot, Act II Last month, The Abbey had the pleasure to welcome the protagonists of Beckett’s iconic play “Waiting for Godot” which showed at Malvern Theatres, Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart. Since Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot played for the first time some 50 years ago, it has...

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Wed
25 Feb
2009

The Elgar Route

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I often wonder do we live our lives to the full and how much of our lives do we live through the movies, the stars, and the celebrities? I was watching the Devil Wears Prada the other day. When I realised how all of a sudden I was sucked into the fashion in the movie and how I also wanted the main character, a dowdy girl, to be a diva. Her intelligence and ability as a journalist were no longer enough it was only a matter of time before she had to wear the classic Chanel boots up to the...

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Fri
12 Dec
2008

Value for money…

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In this age of the credit crunch and recession value for money will become the new buzz word but do we know what value for money really is? Do memories last longer than material goods? I had a friend at college who loved the sales; she would dress for the occasion having done the shoe equation she would sprint out the door in her Reeboks with purse in hand. When she returned the scars of the day were visible, her neatly coiffure hair now resembled Bridget Jones’ hair; you remember the scene, when she steps out of Daniel Cleaver’s classic...

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