1st Show done and dusted…. good night!

It’s 12:30am Eastern US time and we have just got home from a lovely supper with the friends who arranged the show as a fundraiser for Atlantic Christian School. They took us to Applebees after the show and we lingered, chatted and giggled over our meal. This roadie grandma is v. tired and about to fall asleep.

Highlights of the day?

1. Roadie points for me for recharging the batteries for the mikes.
2. More Roadie points for finding 2 umbrellas when Hurricane Earl started to make us wet. It was not much of anything by the time it reached here although someone said at the school tonight the waves were 10ft high off shore.
3. Iced raspberry tea at Applebees. Ahh I have missed that.
4. Discovering I am NOT going blind. I had trouble reading the menu tonight. Thought it was the dim light and tiredness. I was adjusting my bifocals to check that I was looking through the right bit of the lens only to discover one lens had fallen out!  Joy O joy what a relief! Thankfully my new found friend Carol across the table lent me hers and my sight was restored.
5. A “chance’” meeting with Barbara the lady in the room next door in the car park. She is a fellow believer in The Lord Jesus and was off to see a very sick brother. I told her what we were doing and we prayed for each other right there by her Cadillac!
6. The skateboard bible verse moment.  Sounds weird I know – tell you about it later. I will try and take a picture too when I get a decent camera.

Night night. Thanks for your comments and prayers. Keep both coming please. It is very comforting.

Next stop tomorrow – Ocean City, only a few miles away. I think they have put us in a hotel near the beach.

The Talent has finished his midnight feast and wants be to “blogg off”. O dear that sounds impolite. Must find the correct term for this.

Up up and away to the great USA

1st September on Continental airlines flight CO77 from Bristol U.K. to Newark N.J. Somewhere over Canada.
I’m new to this blogging malarky but my family have persuaded me to give it a go. So here is a little about me and my man, aka “the talent”. I got my dream job at 63 and am now trying to win The Guinness World Records for the oldest Roadie.
My lovely jubbly husband, David and I, are in the great USA for 6 months. We lived in Nashville Tennessee for 18 years and moved to Wells Somerset U.K. in April this year. David is an actor, hense “The Talent” and is touring with 2 shows in the USA : “An evening with C.S. Lewis” and,“Prisoner of Passion”, a play about a day in the life of Paul the Apostle when he was under house arrest in Rome just before his death.

I help with front, back and in between of houses.

My responsibilities include:

• Giving encouragement from the passenger seat of our touring vehicle, Big Blue
• Answering phone calls
• GPS monitoring
• Handing  my darling,  who does the driving, food on demand etc etc.
• Most important of all, I must always be repaired to make my hubby a nice cup of tea at any time of the day or night.

We have one suitcase nearly filled with Yorkshire Tea bags bought at Tescos in Wells.I hope they don’t smell like drugs and give us trouble at the border. The Talent refuses to drink any tea that is not bought in a UK or Eire grocery store. Even if it comes with the words, “Finest English Breakfast” on the label.

We were able to do a U.K. warm up show for the tour last Thursday in Wells, at The Little Theatre . It  went swimmingly with an almost full house and a wonderful responsive audience. It was put on by The Connect Centre a prelude to their Alpha Course. So lovely to do this in our new home town which in just a short time we have come to love.

Next stop- New Jersey: Egg Harbour (Eng/Eng) or Harbor (Am/Eng) then Ocean City by the sea. Great place. I have packed two swimming cossies for water activities!
You can follow our trail on Facebook (davidpaynedrama) and this is a link to the schedule on our David Payne Drama website
If you click on the venue and map, it will give you more info, should you be interested.

Ooooh  it’s suddenly got very bumpy up here above Canada. Could it be hurricane Earl that has made my coffee spill all over the place? Will have to stop writing and mop up. I can’t stand an untidy messy tray table. Now where are the handy wipes when you need them? Ahh jolly good! A nice flight attendant has just handed me a bunch of napkins!
Cherrio for now.
Psalm 121 – The travelers Psalm.