My enjoyment of musicals is well documented
(don’t call it a guilty pleasure – I don’t feel in the slightest bit guilty
about it), so the thought of settling down to watch a newly acquired DVD of
Phantom of the Opera was most welcome. I had never seen this particular show
before so was keen to tick it off the list, we settled down with snacks and
wine and almost immediately Mandi was hooked as she loves the story. It soon
became clear that this was not going to be on my list of best musicals or even
best films as it didn’t grip me one bit. Maybe I should have read the book or
watched it on stage first because this film version had rather a lot going on
and to borrow a phrase from Peter Griffin – it insisted on itself. Before the
film ended, in fact it was probably less than halfway through, I noticed that
it was midnight and my eyes were heavy. Almost as if by magic the clock on the mantelpiece
spun forward to four o’clock this morning and Mandi had finished the film
before leaving me to it and going to bed. Jack was cuddled up next to me so we
both made our way upstairs where I slept further until midday giving me roughly
twelve hours of much needed beauty sleep. As I usually manage on four hours or
less this was one of my semi-regular occasions when my batteries needed
charging.
For some reason I didn’t have time during the
week to record the podcast for today and certainly couldn’t be bothered when I woke
up so I knew that I would have to do something I am not a fan of, recording it
in the evening and releasing it as soon as possible. This puts me under unnecessary
pressure and leaves room for more things to go wrong. My curse guardian was
making up for letting me off the hook yesterday and was working especially hard
today; she was obviously on double time as its Sunday. This wasn’t going to be
an immediate problem though as I was going to record it when I returned home
from my dad’s house, and we had a lovely roast pork dinner to fill up with
first.
Although the laptop survived the virus of last
week it very nearly didn’t survive the recording session this evening because I
came dangerously close to throwing it out of my office window. Everything seems
to be working much slower now, (it always takes me a while to get back to full
speed when I’ve been ill so I understand) with the recording programme freezing
periodically or just deciding it didn’t want to work. A simple half hour
podcast took two hours to record due to a lot of coughing and spluttering from
the equipment. The finished product was a tad crackly in places and there are a
few gaps where a song didn’t start when it should have done, but I felt that at
least I had put a podcast out which is better than not doing so.
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Bonus Podcast here.
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