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Hi, Rusty!
Our local theatre gets the actual West End productions either before or after the play /concert is seen up in London, so the quality of the performance is excellent.
We are talking of next January onwards now...but yes, I think I shall make some bookings!
I like rock concerts - but there aren't any listed in this brochure.
"Gives me a chance to dress up" indeed....I'll have you know that I scrub up very nicely...........! ( but I do like my "old jeans"!)
Do you have a local theatre that you support?
Re the 15 x 15, we've discussed this before......remember I told you that my friend says he doesn't get that in his "package"...?
I cannot quibble, as he does vey kindly send me the other Xwords and saves me the price of a daily paper!
So are you having haggis for your dinner?

Helli, Elle!
Haggis for tea!
Up here the evening meal is called "tea".
Dinner is around noon.
That is odd about him not getting crossword?
My local theatre is the Rep. May be one or two smaller ones that I have not been to.
Last thing I saw was "Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme" a few years ago.
A play by Frank McGuinness. Was good.
Had some more snow earlier, but it has stopped now.
Just a nuisance!

Hi, Rusty!
How was your haggis? We had shepherd's pie, mushy peas and red cabbage !
We have lunch between midday and 2pm and dinner in the evening! Different local customs!
Tea is 'Afternoon' tea at 4pm
When my husband retired from the NHS, because of the number of years' service he had put in , he and other similar members of staff were invited to a special presentation, followed by 'Afternoon Tea' at the Savoy Hotel on The Strand as a part of the retirement ceremony!
A very impressive occasion!
I know the name Frank MacGuiness? What else did he write that I might have heard of?

Hello, Elle,
I have friends who have "dinner" in the evening.
But they grew up with me, calling it "tea"!
I think television may have something to do with it.
My haggis was bang on, and your "meal" sounds great too!
McGuinness wrote the screenplay for Dancing at Lughnasa.
I did not see it but was Meryl Streep in it?
He is a Donegal man.
Not warm at all here.
We have a yellow alert for more snow!

Hi guys
Can I make a very polite and respectful suggestion? How about, for a day or two at least, trying to ration yourselves to one exclamation mark per post? See how it goes! (that's mine!) (oh no!!!) :)

Good suggestion, Chris!
Thanks!

:)

But I like exclamation marks, Chris!!!!!!
I cannot fathom how to use italics or bold or underline anything, on this site, so exclamation marks are my only source of 'stress'.
(You will now have made me very self- conscious!)

Actually it's very easy, though idiosyncratic. You use the standard HTML tags, but inside square brackets instead of < >, as would be normal. I can't give an exampke as it will work, but I put "b" inside two square brackets, then turn it off by putting "/b" inside square brackets to give this effetc. See? (The tags are listed on the RHS of the "Your message" box.)

You might as well be speaking a foreign language , Chris - and the trouble is I can't experiment without its coming up on the screen.
But thank you, anyway, for trying to explain.