Facebook and Symi Dream
I’m not sure if it’s the same today (I will check in a moment) but yesterday we had a slight glitch with a widget. I think something had updated within the workings of the site but something else wasn’t able to keep up. If you see a link on Facebook and it doesn’t link back to the site, bear with me while we sort the new upgrade out.
Technical news out of the way, what else is there to tell you? Well, Thursday started grey and very overcast with heavy clouds keeping back the sun. The sea as all shades of gunmetal and grey with darker parts where the wind was blowing, but no white caps, and lighter parts where the clouds above were not quite as dark. Later, all view was extinguished by heavy rain and a thunderstorm. Still a pretty amazing site from the office window though, and one which an old school mate was jealous of when he rang me…
This Facebook thing has certainly brought me up to date with some old school friends and others from way back when, but this was the first time I’d actually spoken to someone from all that time ago, 34 years to be exact. But it was great and we fell into a conversation really easily. We had been in school shows together, though we weren’t in the same year, so we had things to talk about. Mainly some school revues, ‘Cox and Box’, ‘Trial by Jury’ and ‘the Sound of Music’ which we were both in. Pete is now living in New Zealand after doing a similar thing to me (leaving the UK when in our thirties), where he has a wife and a son. It seems like only yesterday we were duetting on ‘The Buttercup’ with all that Fiddle diddle dum. Great to catch up with my Mr Box, Pete.
Okay then, a little background for those who are interested. My old comprehensive school was very good at theatre and music and all of the old school friends I remember or am still in touch with were friends made during shows and concerts, of which there were many. In my time as a teenage thespian I played: The art teacher in ‘Unman, Wittering and Zigo’, Lord Paul Posthumous in ‘Free As Air’, Bolligrew in ‘The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew’, ‘Max in ‘The Sound of Music’, something in ‘The Mikado’, Cox in ‘Cox and Box’ and the Judge in ‘Trial by Jury.’ I was, outside of school, also in several other shows including playing Charles in ‘Blythe Spirit’ and Ali Hakim in ‘Oklahoma’ the finale of which always foxed me as I could never get the spelling right. There should be an ‘a’ in Oklahoma. (Oaklahoma. Yes, I know, but that’s how my mind works.)
