Job hunting. Looking for a slower paced Roadie position

Thought I would try this:-

"Please let me come and work with you". TT is working me too hard.

Pretty tired after busy 5 days of work. Unfortunately I didn’t get the job with the covered wagon outfit. They said I didn’t have the right experience.

TT as "Jack" C.S. Lewis has to console tired Roadie Gran in the Cry Room

Shut myself in the “Cry Room” aka “Green Room” where TT found me weeping and chewing the carpet. He said we now have two days without “gigs” and is taking me to Niagara Falls tomorrow! So I’ve decided to stay put.

Lovely day. A bit tiring. I forgot TT’s white shirt for his C.S. Lewis costume tonight. Nice new Ethiopian friend rushed me from the church to hotel and back in double-quick time before the curtain went up. Phew.  Roadie Tip Check the check list.

2 people today said they heard me on the radio!!!!

Night all.

Photos of new chums made this week.

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I am trying my hand at putting photos in my blogs. After about an hour I have managed these two of Patrick, radio producer man and his family. Have loads more to put on and there must be an easier way. I am a v. frustrated Roadie Gran.

Actually we have had a brill day.

Nice lazy start to the day and we Skyped our son Jonathan and wife Nicola. Lovely to see them and Mr Dog asleep under the desk at the Monkey house in THe Old Mill back home in deepest Somerset.

I had a nice work out on the treadmill watching the TV. Very happy to see live coverage from Westminster Hall London while the Parliamentarians  awaited the Pope’s arrival.

So nice to see the current Prime Minister and Deputy and all the ex Prime Ministers happily chatting with their wives to each other. There was Mrs Thatcher, well poor Dennis wasn’t their of course, but she was sat next to Mr John and Mrs Major. Dear Gordon Brown seemed so much more relaxed now he is not in power and was having a very happy chat with Mr Tony Blair. I think they are very good chums in spite of all the press did to persuade us otherwise.

TT did an excellent “Prisoner of Passion” at Webster Calvary Chapel again tonight. We have grown to love the folks here that have made us feel so at home and are so helpful.They have a wonderful cafe too and brilliant hot chocolate and coffee.

Yummy hot chocolate and lovely new friends

Lovely jubbly new Radio thespian friends and super supper

Yummy supper of Cornish hens, bread pudding, PG tips Tea bags and digestive biccies.

Lovely jubbly new friends.

Police escort Big Blue into Ellsworth Maine USA……..

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After 7.5hrs driving from New York state to Maine, we arrived at the coastal town of Ellsworth after dark just now.  TT saw a flashing blue light in his rear view mirror. What was he doing wrong?  Not speeding or drinking. Maybe they were sent to welcome visiting actors into town. This proved NOT to be the case. We turned into a car park/parking lot and were immediately surrounded by 2 police cars and a state trouper car complete with barking dog! All armed these fierce looking cops and a sheriff shone their torches into our windows. O no were they going to confiscate the tea bags to pay us Brits back for the Boston Harbour Tea party debarckle? No. The problem proved to be that someone had reported my dear hubby swerving a bit on the Interstate.  There was hardly any other traffic on the road and he had sometimes asked our  SatNav/GPS “George” about an alternate route by tapping his chest repeatly that might have caused the odd wobble of BB. The officers of the law,  obviously thought TT might be drunk and disorderly, hense the whole of Ellsworth law enforcement seemed surrounding us. They seemed a bit disapointed when all our documents were in order and they had nothing to charge us with. Actually I do them a dis-service, because they cheered up considerably when I got out of the car and explained that I was TT’s roadie, offered them a cough drop and asked to take their picture. I also asked for permission to go to the grocery store  and get some honey and lemons for my bad cough. I had to wait until they had completed running  a check on our vehicle via computer or something. THey asked TT why we were in their town and when he said he was doing a play in the Grand Theatre tomorrow, the big sheriff with THE  HAT said, “is that the one they have been advertising on the radio”. We assured him it was. They declined to have their picture taken but smiled nicely and promised to come and see TT in action.  Even the fierce looking canine had stopped barking and looked quite friendly as they drove off wagging his tail at us.

A few minutes later we were in our lovely comfy hotel room at The Ramada Ellsworth. The welcome here was grand. Troy cheerfully carried our stuff up the stairs to our room. We are on the 1st floor sans elevator/lift. There to greet us on the desk was a lovely bag with “MAINE” written on the front. Inside was fruit drink and other edibles, a welcome gift from the church here.

I HAVE A NEW CAMERA AND AM VERY EXCITED. SOON SOON I WILL POST PICS.

Night night from the Ramada Inn and not the jail house Ellsworth Maine USA.

blesssings. xx

Brill day in The Adirondacks!

At 8:00am this morning I was sat ON the lake on Larry and Lois’s boat dock, enjoying the peace and quiet and amazing view.  Had a lovely time of morning devotions with my bible, note book and a cup of coffee. The only other human I saw for a long time was a lone skuller?oarsman if that’s the right word. Just as I was about to climb back up to the house for more coffee and some brekkie I saw a canoe for two in the distance. I thought I would be nosey and watch it go by and as it got closer I realized it was our fellow house guests,  fearless Diana and Adrian.  After going for a cycle ride yesterday they had got up early to have a canoe on the lake before heading back to Canada.  We walked up to the house together and had breakfast.  Adrian returned to the boat dock to collect his keys and wallet from the boat house then appeared shouting excitedly, “loons, loons. Tell Lois the loons are back”. I thought he said “balloons” and asked, “what type? Hot air ones?” He laughed and graciously explained that he had said “loons, as in water bird, not BALloons!” Lois had wanted to see them so she appeared with camera at the ready. By the time we had all scrambled back down to the dock they had gone past so we high tailed it up to the neighbours where Lois captured a display of loonism by the little family who had lingered near her.

So as you see a good start to the day. Busy morning sorting out tour things. Had 3 more request for bookings today. I think we fitted in 2 out of 3 but diary is filling up nicely. Larry and David had radio interviews again.  Larry gave us a copy of his new book that is about to come out and about which he is being interviewed on the Radio.   “The Story of The Bible”. It is a gorgeous hard backed coffee table type book with of gorgeous illustrations. He spent some time in the British Library doing research there.

This afternoon we did the Lake George steam boat trip. WONDERFUL! It was cloudy and not too warm by NY standards and TT and I were the only ones on the open deck for a lot of the time. You could tell we were hardy British seafarers and are used to less than 70F temps on the Gosport and Isle of Wight ferries.  IT WAS GREAT. We took some video and lots of pics. unfortunately I have left my cable for loading pictures from my camera to computer on Ocean Beach I think so can’t post any from that camera yet. TT took a lot with his upmarket camera so I will post these soon.

Went out to Lake George village tonight for supper at the Alibaba Restaurant. Gorgeous. Middle Eastern Mediterranean Turkish type food. Lovley.

There was also a classic car rally on in St George and hundreds of old US cars around. Finished off with an ice cream from Ben and Jerrys.

Home to bed now. Feel much better cough wise today. Have now got the prescribed narcotic cough mixture from the pharmacy just in case, but haven’t taken it yet.

Tomorrow we leave for Ellsworth Maine. Adrian and Dianna should be back in Windsor Canada. Larry flies back to Nashville to get the mail and Lois is going to Portland Oregon for a nurses reunion of her Phillidelphia Hospital nursing school class.

Thank you God for this wonderful 2 days of R and R. What a joy to renew old aquantances and make new ones. Larry and Lois were saying that they first remember meeting TT when he picked them up from London airport in the 1980s and drove them around.

Cast your bread upon the waters and it will take you back to the south west shore of Lake George and Katskill Bay!

Night night all. Just opened the shutters to hear the crickets and be ready for the chattering chipmunks in the morning.

The Big Blue Sort Out. Bikes and Soup kitchen day.

TT and I, aided by Adrian, our fellow house guest at the Stone’s Lake home took everything out of the van and sorted it.  Mrs Stone gave me free reign in her laundry room so Big Blue 2, a.k.a. Ikea dirty laundry  bag is empty and we have clean clothes. The weather was sunny and breezy and we even had to put on our long trousers after lunch as a storm blew up over the lake. There were a few boats going by and even a two man canoe, who seemed to be fighting hard against the wind and white capped waves.

The day started out with Diana, Adrian’s wife and I sitting on the boat dock, drinking coffee, admiring the scenery and having a nourishing conversation. How wonderful to meet new people and because of all of us being in God’s family immediately feeling like brothers and sisters. We had a lovely chat about our children, God’s goodness and our not so goodness, but how great is His grace and how as we get older our faith and trust in Him grows as He proves Himself faithful. Then organic muffins with butter and marmite on toast for me. The other 5 folks in the house turned up their noses to marmite.

Larry, owner of the lovely lake home and Rutledge Hill Press, spent the day doing radio interviews about a new book he is working on. One of the interviewers spent a lot of time asking his opinion of the crazy Pastor guy in Florida who is threatening to burn a copy of the Koran at the weekend. At supper Larry sugested that a much better idea  would be better for Christians to find a Moslem buddy. The Christian read the Koran and the Moslem The bible and then have a chat about it. Larry then went  for a run while I tried to stop coughing and rested on the bed reading, listening to the lake sounds, and then my Ipod. TT worked on bookings and “Tour Stuff” .  We are having requests for bookings that we are having to turn down as we are schedule is full. Nice problem.

Our Canadian friends went for a bike ride and then they and Lois served lunch at a soup kitchen with the church here.

I’m on day 2 of some strong antibiotics to clear up my cough. TT kindly drove into town to try and get the cough mixture that the doc had prescribed. I had been drinking gallons of honey and lemon but that didn’t seem to help so we decided to go the narcotic $22:00 a bottle route. I miss my British, National Health free prescription service!

Unfortunately the pharmacy had to order the cough stuff… So I will get it tomorrow. However at 6:00pm when I got up to start cooking the corn that Louis had shucked earlier, I felt much better.

Lovely supper again. Inside tonight as it was breezy and chilly outside. Freshly picked sweet corn, salad, stir fry, good conversation, grand children photo sharing and much laughter.

Off to bed now. SO thankful for this lovely restful interlude to re charge our batteries before out next show on Saturday.

Plans for tomorrow? Adrian and Diana are heading back over the border to Canada, but are going to come to Chicago to see TT in action.  David and Larry both have radio interviews!! We hope to do a trip around Lake George on an old steam boat. The Mohican. One of the captains of this boat visited here today his name. Bill Gates. He was the captain today but not tomorrow unfortunately.

Diana was saying that this morning she was thinking about hob knobbing with an actor and a book publisher who are being interviewed by the media everyday and then is told that another guest is coming, Bill Gates…. Not the master of the internet but ships captain. Hey ho me hearties. Shiver me timber and hoist the main’sle!

I’m getting silly which is a sing of excessive tiredness so “Good night all and felicitations from from upstate New York. USA.

TT sends his love and reports that his knees are improving.  Thanks for your prayers.