Busy weekend!

Friday night - Casino Royale

Great movie! I'm not the biggest James Bond fan, nor do I like action movies particularly. I went to this movie because I got free tickets. And I thoroughly enjoyed it! It was action, all right, but intelligent action scenes that never got boring. Lots to think about, lots of interesting characters. Not as many gimmicks, both technical and verbal, and just an all around great movie. I would definitely go see it again! And actually pay for it this time! lol

Saturday - Concert

Saturday morning I got up to do my regular (when I'm here!) Saturday shopping. We had rehearsal at 2:00, so I wanted to get it all done by noon so I could have a relaxed lunch and a rest before I went. I had to find a "bit of red" to wear to the concert. David asked us to wear all black with "a bit of red", which meant a scarf or pin or necklace or something. The men wore black suits with white shirts, black ties and a red pocket thingy. So, I needed to find the something red, since the only scarf I have with red on it is covered in red lips! I found a really lovely largish red sequined pointsetta, which was perfect and exactly the price I was prepared to pay (Thank you God!). Did the rest of my shopping and headed home. Smallish, relaxed lunch and off to rehearsal. Three hours later, my voice was hoarse! I went back home, had a nice relaxing bath and a light supper, and tried to rest up before the performance at 7:30. It all went off quite well. We did the best we could, and although it was far from perfect, the audience members I talked to said it was quite lovely and they couldn't tell our mistakes! Good thing! Afterwards, myself and a friend that came to watch, Carole, went over to Jane's place for a soiree with food and wine. Very nice! Jane is an amazing cook, so the food was wonderful, and she has such interesting friends that we had a lovely time. Home late, though!

Sunday - Church and Sunday Lunch

Almost missed church - I slept in until 10:30 (it starts at 11:00). So I was a couple minutes late, but not too bad! Great sermon. Went for lunch afterwards to a lady's named Wendy. There was another girl, Nicola, who lives right across the road from me. We want to start doing things together. A couple also came, long-time church members. They were great fun - very funny and quite intelligent. We had great conversation - digging into bible passages, discussing politics, etc. This was Nicola's first time at Gunnersbury, and in fact the first time she had really attended any church service, so she had lots of questions, which we answered. It was a great day, and lunch went quite late! Met a friend after that for supper and a chat.

So, that's my weekend. More choir practice tonight because in a month we are doing a Christmas Carol concert with a local primary school. As my Grandma Brown always said, "No rest for the wicked, and the righteous don't need any!"

Tomorrow night, the twins (Paul's girls) are singing with a bunch of other primary school choirs from their country, Surrey, at the Royal Albert Hall, so I'm going to watch them. Their mom can't come because she has to work, and Paul is in Iraq of course, so they are excited that I'm going to be there. Not sure if I'll get to talk to them, but I'll try. Haven't been to the Royal Albert Hall yet, so I'm looking forward to it!! It's beautiful from the outside!

Gotta run - lunch hour is over!!