Modified Rapture

[nineveh_uk]

Last Thursday I went to the university G&S Society’s production of The Mikado. It was a little frightening to realise that 10 years after I was a not wholly note-perfect second clarinet for the York uni. society’s production I still know almost the entire thing, but gratifying that although this lots acting and production was better, our Little List lyrics were superior. I think that Gilbert and Sullivan may be best performed by students rather than professionals who want to take it seriously, but I should like to see a professional production once just to hear the violins in tune for “Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted.”

Also, one of the male flunkies was dream casting for Ivan Vorpatril.

About to have a nervous breakdown, as leaving work in a week, and had virtually no time to do any preparation for same. Arrgh! I had intended to go into the office at the weekend, but was just too tired. Instead after many weeks of labout I finished making this dress (black with the satin inset, but the shorter version) , and it fits like a glove and is absolutely sensational. Pity I'm leaving Cambridge before I'll have a chance to wear it!

ETA: Have decided to buy a lap-top computer. Tell me, F'list, your thoughts on PC or AppleMac? Bearing in mind that I basically want it for word-processing and the internet.

Comments

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Everyone has a laptop! Which is partly why I want one - I mean, I'm on my second free computer, the first from my sister, this my old office when work upgraded; it's time I had a computer with a manual. And that doesn't weigh as much as a baby elephant.

Vogue do a whole range of vintage dresses - all the style, without the smell and not-actually-fitting of 'real' vintage. I want to make this (http://www.decadesofstyle.com/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=26) for the summer.

[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

Ooh that's lovely. On further perusal, I'm intrigued by the 1930s one-piece kitchenette pyjamas and how you get out of them if you need to go to the loo in the middle of the night, or how anyone else gets you out of them for far more exciting reasons, come to that.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I suppose that’s why they’re kitchenette pyjamas and the woman is shown with a tea-towel rather than a hairbrush. Firmly designed for women living in bed-sits whose gentleman callers leave by half-past ten.

[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

All becomes clear. I think I was envisaging kitchenette as being some kind of fabric, along the lines of stockinette but different.

[aervir.livejournal.com]

I can understand your desire for a laptop very well. Recently, when my former one collapsed, I really spent some money that I should rather have saved on my shiny new one so that I wouldn't have to take my father's old "baby elephant" for free... The disavantage of them being, apart from the price, the fact that they are so much more easy to break and less easy to repair than normal PCs.

I love the 1925 dress, too -- God, I wish I'd learnt to sew!