LIONBOY
A major production for Complicite
Assistant producer Poppy Keeling
Showing in London at the Unicorn Theatre from July Tuesday 9 -Sunday 21
Also at
Bristol Old Vic May 29 - Jun 1
Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Jun 4 - 8
Oxford Playhouse Jun 11 - 15
Warwick Arts Centre Jun 18 - 20
West Yorkshire Playhouse June 25 - 29
Wales Millenium Centre July 2 - 6
Charlie Ashanti is eleven years old. He’s a perfectly normal boy, except for one thing: he can speak to cats. When Charlie’s parents are kidnapped, he sets off on a rescue mission – with a little help from a floating circus and its pride of performing lions.
‘Complicite produces the most imaginative theatre to be found anywhere.’ Independent
‘Since 1983…Complicite has been helping us make sense of the world, making us laugh and weep and making us see things we would otherwise have missed...It is the reason I go to the theatre’ Telegraph
From the novels by Zizou Corder
Directed by Annabel Arden
Assistant Producer Poppy Keeling (shamefully not on the main flyers, but it's true)
Adapted by Marcelo dos Santos
With Annabel Arden, Louisa Young, Mike Kenny and the Company
Award-winning theatre company Complicite presents its first show for families and young people, inspired by Zizou Corder’s best-selling Lionboy trilogy and with a cast including Adetomiwa Edun from BBC’s Merlin.
An adventure that will inspire and entertain, don’t miss this new play at the Unicorn on its only London tour dates.
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Or see it at the Oxford Playhouse first. I will.
Posted by: Carrie | March 05, 2013 at 01:32 PM
Assistant producer Poppy Keeling
Showing in London at the Unicorn Theatre from July Tuesday 9 -Sunday 21
Also at
Bristol Old Vic May 29 - Jun 1
Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Jun 4 - 8
Oxford Playhouse Jun 11 - 15
Warwick Arts Centre Jun 18 - 20
West Yorkshire Playhouse June 25 - 29
Wales Millenium Centre July 2 - 6
Charlie Ashanti is eleven years old. He’s a perfectly normal boy, except for one thing: he can speak to cats. When Charlie’s parents are kidnapped, he sets off on a rescue mission – with a little help from a floating circus and its pride of performing lions.
‘Complicite produces the most imaginative theatre to be found anywhere.’ Independent
‘Since 1983…Complicite has been helping us make sense of the world, making us laugh and weep and making us see things we would otherwise have missed...It is the reason I go to the theatre’ Telegraph
From the novels by Zizou Corder
Directed by Annabel Arden
Assistant Producer Poppy Keeling (shamefully not on the main flyers, but it's true)
Adapted by Marcelo dos Santos
With Annabel Arden, Louisa Young, Mike Kenny and the Company
Award-winning theatre company Complicite presents its first show for families and young people, inspired by Zizou Corder’s best-selling Lionboy trilogy and with a cast including Adetomiwa Edun from BBC’s Merlin.
An adventure that will inspire and entertain, don’t miss this new play at the Unicorn on its only London tour dates.
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Or see it at the Oxford Playhouse first. I will.
Posted by: Carrie | March 05, 2013 at 01:32 PM
Chief reporter on Radio 4
You can listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qkmp4
The interview with Ruth starts at 22:40
The recording says it is available for seven days - to 21/2/2013. But the archives say they go back to 1970.
Posted by a proud Dad
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The next Pulitzer prize winner! - never doubted it for a second
Posted by: Paul & Van | February 15, 2013 at 09:40 AM
Win Gibbs, 1898-1988
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| Win Gibbs |
Win's parents lived in Bramley Surrey, Win lived there too. Earliest known fact: She quarrelled with her father and left home 'penniless' to work and live in a cake shop in Rye or possibly a tea shop in Windsor, where she discovered the warmth that newspapers could provide. Apparently her father fell out with quite a lot of people. Win was also no easy companion. Sue Goodsir (who started this enquiry) tells us that Win founded the ladies section at Bramley golf club, presumably before the falling out with her father.
She had learnt golf in Scotland in very windy conditions and usually went there when young for the shooting. She was always travelling for that, so never had proper birthday parties.
She moved to a Brit colony in South Africa. Possibly SA itself, maybe Rhodesia or another colony. There in the 20s or 30s she became ladies golf champion. She got to the finals and was matched against a well known and very good player who was the hot favourite. On the day of the competition it was very windy. The Scottish practice told in her favour and much to the surprise of all she took the cup.
She married Arthur French from Johannesburg on 25th June 1927. We do not know if that was the reason for migration. He was 28 years older than her, born in 1870, and he died aged 65 on 24th September 1935. She then married Robert Stewart Munn on 4th December 1940 in Johannesburg. She later changed her name back to French. Her only child came from the first union. He was Phillip Arthur French, who became a doctor and died of suicide age 35. There is a Capt. P. A. FRENCH, M.B. (478966) recorded in the London Gazette. We do not believe this is him. Win outlived her second husband as well and returned to UK in the 1960s.
Win died on 10th November 1988 in the Clarence Nursing Home in Tunbridge Wells. Mum (Jenifer Keeling, Win's niece) tells us that Win met her brother Arthur's great grand daughter Ruth Keeling in 1983. Mum often visited Win in the nursing home.
Win's full first name was Winifred, nickname Winsome. Mum said she was 'very good looking' - a common failing in the Gibbs family.
Jenifer Keeling (niece), Howard Palmer (son of other niece) told all this to George.
Click for more very old Gibbs photos and comments
More shows from Van - and this time it's family, so you have to come!!
Your cousin Tom Palmer will be working with Van. DO NOT miss it!!
JV Productions present TOTALLY TOM - at the St James' Studio Theatre on Thursday February 7th - ticket price £12.50 - £15.00 - to book contact www.stjamestheatre.co.uk or telephone 0844 264 2140
or, if you can't wait that long to get your comedy fix, how about 24th January?
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Do you think I will get Cherry to join me there? !!! I'm afraid not, but we will certainly have some fun talking about it!!! Lol Jenny
Posted by: jenifer Keeling | January 11, 2013 at 10:36 AM
The Scottish Play at the Camden People's Theatre
Well who would have thought it was by Will Shakespeare himself? But most importantly my lovely girlfriend, Louise, will be playing the part of Lady Macbeth. Yes, that's right Lady M. The theatre is just by Warren St./ Euston Station so you don't even have to travel to Camden proper.
Anyway, if you fancy a night out in February please come along. I work just around the corner, so it will be very easy for me to drop by for pre/post performance drinks, so what more are you waiting for, well we could try and get Poppy roped in (and don't forget Ruth is now floating in the vicinity).
All the best
Trevor (the younger)
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ooh definitely
Posted by: Carrie | January 04, 2013 at 12:53 PM
Who knows? Feb 24 being my 84th birthday we might turn up! All the best to Lady Macbeth.
Lol Granny and Grandpa
Posted by: jenifer Keeling | January 04, 2013 at 12:21 PM
Than sounds great. Congrats to Louise, break a leg etc. Would love to come along. Count me in. Jo
Posted by: Jo Keeling | January 04, 2013 at 11:45 AM
How exciting. Definitely ... C on hol first two weeks of Feb, so last week for us. Well done Louise!
Posted by: David | January 04, 2013 at 10:44 AM
Ahoy there!
As my previous post said, I have moved onto a canal boat. I have been on board a week so far and it has been very different, a lot of fun and - at times - extremely vexing.
Moving house is always a royal pain and the unpacking just as much - you can't find anything and you come home each evenig from work to a whole evening's work of wandering around finding that the place where the thing from box A needs to go is cluttered with boxes B and C and things in box B and C need to go where boxes E and F are stacked up, so on and so forth. Imagine that in a space 58x7ft. Chaos.
The boat was also really cold the first week. It had been empty a month, so the cold & damp had claimed squatters rights. Plus the wood/coal burner was missing a pane of glass and I couldn't get the new one in place due to a bolt which had become fused to the bolt I needed to take off first. And the timer on the electric heater failed the first two mornings (human error).
The whole idea of renting this boat was to test a long-held romantic notion of life on the water and see if I might buy my own one day, but by Friday night I hated it and thought I had made a massive mistake (as predicted by many friends and acquaintances in recent months).
But, Dad's lovely friends Alex & Gavin visited on Saturday and fixed the burner (Alex) and taught me to make a good fire (Gavin). I have spent the rest of the weekend as snug as a bug in a...boat - and unpacking. There will be more challenges - today I clambered down the side of the boat to fill up the water tank and tomorrow the fuel boat arrives so I need to make sure I don't miss the ;ast delivery of gas & coal until after Christmas - but right now I am back in romantic boat loving mode.
I'm moored just behind Kings Cross, so pop in if you're in the area xxx
For these two photos I am standing in the middle of the boat where the bathroom is. Above is the front of the boat, where my bed is. There is a window/door above the bed to get out to the very front of the boat.
Below is looking over the back of the sofa into the kitchen and the 'front' door where I come in and out. Behind the front door is the engine room and steps out to the wharf. You can see my cat Sasha on the kitchen floor.
This last picture was taken by Mr Alex 'Hero' Galli just after he fixed the burner. You can see how happy I was.
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Apologies, 07939 then the rest. Fooled by my own anti phone bot cleverness
Posted by: Ruth | December 10, 2012 at 11:37 PM
They should! It's the only thing that's going to sort out my housing crisis, and demand already outstrips supply on moorings in the same way it does on houses in London. I'm zero seven one three nine 522355 xxx
Posted by: Ruth | December 10, 2012 at 11:36 PM
FANTASTIC!!! Maybe they'll start building new canals to sort out the housing crisis. Next time I'm up in London I'll phone to see if I'm invited. What's your phone number? xx David
Posted by: David | December 10, 2012 at 04:57 PM
It turns out I do have a postal address! I'll email it to you xxx
Posted by: Ruth | December 10, 2012 at 02:01 PM
I had no idea that you were moving into a canal boat! You are adventurous ! No wonder you didn't want the wing armchair !Hooray for Gavin and Alex fixing the heating! I daresay that you haven't a POSTAL address..... Lol Granny and Grandpa.
Posted by: Jenifer Keeling | December 10, 2012 at 01:00 PM
Wow! It looks very cosy and I hope it proves a great success and everything you hope for. I've arranged to collec the armchair and little table from Carolyn, so that is in hand. Tom
Posted by: Tom the older | December 10, 2012 at 10:24 AM
German Scrabble
We always knew that they have long words in German and I suffered from it yesterday when I played German Scrabble (which Mum gave me) with my Gerald.
I started the game with RING which soon got extended to RINGEN (to ring), Then Gerald came in with the killer and stuck VERB on the front and got the triple word. It was worth 60. It wasn't over. Then he added the D at the other end, then and E and I got in an N giving VERBRINGENDEN by the end of the game. It was a gold mine.
And here's Gerald in his moment of triumph.
If you want to know, VERBRINGEN means to spend (time), so VERBRINGENDEN is the plural of the present participle. It could possibly be used like this:
Meine langen verbringenden Gäste waren charmanten.
My long staying guests were charming.
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It sounds as though you walked into a trap, even if the longstandingguestswerelovely% Tom
Posted by: Tom the older | December 07, 2012 at 12:56 PM
I am most impressed by your command of German ! Completely self taught lol Mum
Posted by: Jenifer Keeling | December 01, 2012 at 11:42 AM
I started the game with RING which soon got extended to RINGEN (to ring), Then Gerald came in with the killer and stuck VERB on the front and got the triple word. It was worth 60. It wasn't over. Then he added the D at the other end, then and E and I got in an N giving VERBRINGENDEN by the end of the game. It was a gold mine.
And here's Gerald in his moment of triumph.
If you want to know, VERBRINGEN means to spend (time), so VERBRINGENDEN is the plural of the present participle. It could possibly be used like this:
Meine langen verbringenden Gäste waren charmanten.
My long staying guests were charming.
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It sounds as though you walked into a trap, even if the longstandingguestswerelovely% Tom
Posted by: Tom the older | December 07, 2012 at 12:56 PM
I am most impressed by your command of German ! Completely self taught lol Mum
Posted by: Jenifer Keeling | December 01, 2012 at 11:42 AM
Grandpa's armchair from Buckingham Street
I'm moving out of my flat and have to get rid of a lot of belongings to be able to fit into the new place, including Grandpa's chair from the Buckingham Street flat.
Before I give it away to a stranger, I wondered if any Keelings were interested in it. It needs recovering (I always meant to). There is also a table that goes quite well with the chair. Pictures below.
Also wardrobe, chest of drawers, double bed, bedside tables and shelves. If anyone needs such things xxx Ruth
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Hi Granny/Kate/All
Sorry for not letting you know sooner, but Uncle Tom was quick off the mark with a text about the chair, so it will soon be in Somerset I think.
Bedside tables have gone I'm afraid Kate xx
R
Posted by: Ruth | December 03, 2012 at 07:42 PM
Hi Granny/Kate/All
Sorry for not letting you know sooner, but Uncle Tom was quick off the mark with a text about the chair, so it will soon be in Somerset I think.
Bedside tables have gone I'm afraid Kate xx
R
Posted by: Ruth | December 03, 2012 at 07:40 PM
Oo what's the bedside table like? Also if you ever want to pass on a chair like this again I would happily give it a willing home!
Hope you're well otherwise and good luck with the move! xx
Posted by: Kate | December 02, 2012 at 12:33 AM
Grandpa and I would like the armchair if no one else wants it. We would send it straight to the uphosterer in St. Leonard's. Who made you the pretty little stool wfich is beneath the chair? Lol Granny
Posted by: Jenifer Keeling | November 25, 2012 at 02:49 PM
Before I give it away to a stranger, I wondered if any Keelings were interested in it. It needs recovering (I always meant to). There is also a table that goes quite well with the chair. Pictures below.
Also wardrobe, chest of drawers, double bed, bedside tables and shelves. If anyone needs such things xxx Ruth
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Hi Granny/Kate/All
Sorry for not letting you know sooner, but Uncle Tom was quick off the mark with a text about the chair, so it will soon be in Somerset I think.
Bedside tables have gone I'm afraid Kate xx
R
Posted by: Ruth | December 03, 2012 at 07:42 PM
Hi Granny/Kate/All
Sorry for not letting you know sooner, but Uncle Tom was quick off the mark with a text about the chair, so it will soon be in Somerset I think.
Bedside tables have gone I'm afraid Kate xx
R
Posted by: Ruth | December 03, 2012 at 07:40 PM
Oo what's the bedside table like? Also if you ever want to pass on a chair like this again I would happily give it a willing home!
Hope you're well otherwise and good luck with the move! xx
Posted by: Kate | December 02, 2012 at 12:33 AM
Grandpa and I would like the armchair if no one else wants it. We would send it straight to the uphosterer in St. Leonard's. Who made you the pretty little stool wfich is beneath the chair? Lol Granny
Posted by: Jenifer Keeling | November 25, 2012 at 02:49 PM
Christmas Cards & German Bureaucracy
Christmas cards
Send a different kind of Christmas card this year and impress the people you forgot to talk to in 2012. I found a great website for it and the quality of the prints is second to none. CLICK HERE.German Bureaucracy
Germans have the reputation for being efficient. Don't you believe it. Here are three examples.1) When you live somewhere you have to register with the local authority. It's a law. I had to queue for two hours in the Rathaus to sign a form which took two minutes.
2) I have still not regularised my National Insurance benefits. I have been trying for three years. The responsible office in Bonn takes four months to answer a letter. HMRC are a model of efficiency by comparison.
3) When I moved into my flat I had major renovations and spent thousands of Euros repairing rotten beams between my flat and my neighbours below. The block management saw the work at the time and agreed to pay the money back to me. That was two years ago. I got the money yesterday.
!!!!!!!! HAPPY CHRISTMAS !!!!!!!!
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Lovely photos Alexander xxx
Posted by: David | November 25, 2012 at 07:13 PM
Letters Home on Europeana 1914-1918
I found a website that is collecting pictures, letters, postcards, souvenirs and other items from 1914-1918 relating to World War One. It's at www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en. I have put Captain Arthur Gibbs' letters home. (He was Granny's Dad.) It's in a pdf file, which is also here, in case you want it. If you search europeana for 'Gibbs' you can also find it.
Van gets involved with the first theatre to open in central London in 30 years
Van is supplying comedy acts for the newly opened St James' Theatre.
To buy tickets go to: http://www.stjamestheatre.co.uk/events/frisky-mannish-marcel-lucont/
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Great news! I was afraid that you were following the Keeling trend of being ill, and that is why we hadn't heard from you.
Love from and admiring Jenny.
Posted by: Jenifer Keeling | September 10, 2012 at 11:53 AM
Congrats
Posted by: George | September 10, 2012 at 10:38 AM
Rabbits?
1957 Hurst
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| Uncles Brian, Johnny, Herbert. Dad Aunts Biddy, Robby (Johnny's 1st wife), Cally. Mum Cousins Patrick, Sarah. Trevor, Granny, Robert, Grandpa, George and various dogs. |
1969 Hurst
2011 Hurlingham
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| Standing: Emma, Tom, Nico & Christa Seitz, Ursula, Siobhan, Edward, Isssie, Ruth, Arthur, Carolyn, Polly, Zac, Paul, Jasper, Van, Alice, Jacquie, Jo, David, Camilla, Poppy, Kate, Tom, Harry, Archie, Trevor, Lizzie, Ted Chairs: Simon, Trevor, Granny, Grandpa, Rob, George, Jim Bums on Grass: Jakob & Emma Seitz, Imogen, Eila, Flora, Jude |
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Great pictures George, or should I say maaaarrvellous for the first two with Grandpa? We have just got back from Madrid where we were staying in a friend's house for a fortnight. All of us had a great time. Temperatures in the high thirties everyday. Tom
Posted by: Tom the older | August 30, 2012 at 12:06 PM
Calling all boy & girl racers
Hello Dear Cousins Aged 11 to 16
Do any of you want to have a race around Silverstone race track?
I have a voucher, which has to be used by September 19. Let me know and I'll send it your way.
Here are the details of what you get http://www.silverstone.co.uk/experiences/driving-days/First-Drive-Super-Choice-Voucher1/
Let me know asap. If no one is interested I'll put it on facebook xxx Ruth
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I think Jude would be too young, as you have to be 11+. No Keelings could take up the offer, but I think a friend's son is going to take advantage.
Posted by: ruth | August 15, 2012 at 02:33 PM
Did anyone take up your offer? Was Jude told about it? Granny.
Posted by: Jenifer Keeling | August 10, 2012 at 11:10 AM
You don't HAVE to be over 16, but they said I'd be pretty bored by it (it was erroneously bought for my birthday). I suppose you could be over 16 & not know how to drive & still enjoy it x
Posted by: Ruth | August 04, 2012 at 01:01 PM
Now that's a good reason to be young again!
Posted by: David | August 04, 2012 at 10:42 AM
Grandpa and I think that Uncle Johnny used to race at Goodwood and maybe at Silverstone. Granny
Posted by: Jenifer Keeling | August 04, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Does it have to be under 16? Seems a bit ageist...
H
Posted by: Harry | August 04, 2012 at 03:37 AM
In need of a car
Hi everyone - I'm just writing on the off chance that someone has a car to spare between (roughly) August 12 and August 20. I'm hoping to go on holiday around the UK and am slightly stumbling at the cost of hiring a car...
If anyone is interested in lending me a car, I can assure them that I am an extremely competent driver - I've been driving for 7 years and have never had to make an insurance claim nor had any points on my licence.
I'm planning to drive to the Isle of Wight, Bristol, the Lake District and Sheffield and would return the car professionally cleaned and with a full tank of petrol.
Lemme know - and love to you all
xxxx
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Poppy, we might be able to help, subject to working out a few details.....Tom & Siobhan
Posted by: Tom the older | August 01, 2012 at 11:29 AM
If anyone is interested in lending me a car, I can assure them that I am an extremely competent driver - I've been driving for 7 years and have never had to make an insurance claim nor had any points on my licence.
I'm planning to drive to the Isle of Wight, Bristol, the Lake District and Sheffield and would return the car professionally cleaned and with a full tank of petrol.
Lemme know - and love to you all
xxxx
Poppy, we might be able to help, subject to working out a few details.....Tom & Siobhan
Posted by: Tom the older | August 01, 2012 at 11:29 AM
Van conquers the Solent
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FANTASTIC
Posted by: David | July 30, 2012 at 11:48 AM
Is this really Van in the water? Or a spoof like the opening of the Olympics? Whatever, she is MARVELLOUS. Mum/Jen
Posted by: Jenifer Keeling | July 30, 2012 at 10:41 AM
It's not cricket
Sunday the 22nd was a beautiful sunny day for the cricket match which never was. The pitch is still water sodden. As Captain Paul said, "This means the Keelings retain the title for another year." So we had a lovely lunch courtesy of Grandpa and Granny at the Brick Wall hotel followed by swimming sports.
Quote of the lunch came from Harry, "It's rather nice not playing cricket. It means I can drink as much as I want at lunchtime." Present at lunch: Granny and Grandpa, George, Carrie, Ruth, Simon, Harry, girlfriend Harriet, Archie, Eila, Tom the older, Edward, Imo, Paul, Van, Jasper, cousin John and his sons Jack, Felix, Luke and a distant cousin James Petri.
And photos from Tom
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Thanks for catching the red arrows! I would have forgotten allmabout them. Mum
Posted by: Jenifer Keeling | July 26, 2012 at 08:27 AM
Does Granny mean Dad waffles about nothing a lot? ; )
And it is definitely Uncle Tom in the picture, in the middle of one of many perfectly executed hoop dives. Champ
Posted by: Ruth | July 26, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Brilliant ! George does it again with a good commentary on a non event Mum
Posted by: Jenifer Keeling | July 24, 2012 at 01:20 PM
Quote of the lunch came from Harry, "It's rather nice not playing cricket. It means I can drink as much as I want at lunchtime." Present at lunch: Granny and Grandpa, George, Carrie, Ruth, Simon, Harry, girlfriend Harriet, Archie, Eila, Tom the older, Edward, Imo, Paul, Van, Jasper, cousin John and his sons Jack, Felix, Luke and a distant cousin James Petri.
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| Van, Jasper, Paul, Luke, Jack, Felix, Edward |
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| Granny, Ruth, Grandpa, Harry, Harriet, Archie, James, Tom, John, Carrie's legs |
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| That's probably Tom going through the ring. |
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Thanks for catching the red arrows! I would have forgotten allmabout them. Mum
Posted by: Jenifer Keeling | July 26, 2012 at 08:27 AM
Does Granny mean Dad waffles about nothing a lot? ; )
And it is definitely Uncle Tom in the picture, in the middle of one of many perfectly executed hoop dives. Champ
Posted by: Ruth | July 26, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Brilliant ! George does it again with a good commentary on a non event Mum
Posted by: Jenifer Keeling | July 24, 2012 at 01:20 PM
This Sunday's Match
Today I met with the opposition's High Command; we discussed the options, examined feasibility studies, read through detailed reports commissioned by C.O.B.R.A., but could not come to a consensus of opinion. Then someone looked out the window and announced that it was still raining. It is clear that, unless a sirocco blows from midnight tonight right through to 2.30 on Sunday, our best hope would be to hold a re-enactment of the Somme. So, our decision made, it is now my sad duty to relay to you all that there will be no match this Sunday. In fact there will be no match this year and the earliest we will get the chance to retain the cup will be 2013.
Mum & Dad are keen that the lunch should still go on. Tom K has offered to shoulder the responsibility of coordinating the numbers. Can everyone let him know, either way, if you are planning to come. You can email him on tomkeeling1@aol.com or he will be at Jacobs from Thursday 19th at lunch time.
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Trust the Village to brush up on their Jet stream manipulation tech just to prevent another smashing. Shame shame!!!
Posted by: Harry | July 20, 2012 at 12:43 AM
Mum & Dad are keen that the lunch should still go on. Tom K has offered to shoulder the responsibility of coordinating the numbers. Can everyone let him know, either way, if you are planning to come. You can email him on tomkeeling1@aol.com or he will be at Jacobs from Thursday 19th at lunch time.
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Trust the Village to brush up on their Jet stream manipulation tech just to prevent another smashing. Shame shame!!!
Posted by: Harry | July 20, 2012 at 12:43 AM
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