Tag: pantomime
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Happy birthday to Elizabeth and happy hogmanay 2025
We followed our tradition on New Year’s Eve yesterday which also happens to be Elizabeth’s birthday to go to the pantomime at His Majesty’s Theatre. It was excellent. We had particularly good seats this year in the 5th row from the front but this meant we got wet as in typical pantomime style one of…
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Happy 14th birthday, Elizabeth
Today is New Year’s Eve for everyone else but for us it’s Elizabeth’s birthday. She was born on this day 14 years ago. We took her to her favourite restaurant for dinner with her oldest friend Dione who she’s known since her first year of school. We don’t eat out much these days and it…
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Pantomime and Union Terrace Gardens
It has been three years since we last went to the pantomime thanks to covid. Although it did run last year they had to cancel after Christmas and our tickets were for New Year’s Eve so we missed it. This year everything is back to normal and indeed covid seems like a thing in the…
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Goodbye tens, hello twenties
It’s the end of a decade today, depending on how you count. Ben tells me the twenties don’t officially begin until 2021 but he’s a mathematician and mathematicians start counting from one. Whereas my background is computer science and in computer science, we begin counting from zero, so I’m going with the twenties beginning tomorrow.…
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Happy Hogmanay!
Hogmanay is the Scottish word for the last day of the year which is today and it also happens to be Elizabeth’s birthday. This year we went to the Pantomime. I’ve never been before but I’d heard good things about it. It was superb and exceeded all my expectations. We saw Dick McWhittington, the Scottish…
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