Its behind me!
Panto... Its bizarre traditions, the elements that are the same year in year out, and the characters you work with that make it different. I love the magic, and the predictable chaos that reigns in theatres up and down the country, the rushed Christmas shopping between the shows, the 'red team' and the 'blue team' winging about the state the other dancers have left the dressing rooms in, the challenge of making a beanstalk grow, or making a pumpkin turn into a coach, not to mention inclusion of the livestock, be it Shetland Ponies, or an acrobatic cat!
For people that haven't grown up with this insane Christmas culture the spectacle is bemusing to say the least. My beautiful mermaid has never seen a panto before, and the fact that the leading boy was a girl, and the Mother was a man in a frock, not to mention the Audience participation, the songs and the fact that everything was behind them is of course needing an explanation... I stuck with the tried and tested 'BUT ITS A PANTO' response, however, there are still questions, and I can't wait until next year, all the same jokes, and traits in a different fairy tale!
Getting hitched...
Civil Partnerships... We are meant to be over the moon about them aren't we. I'm still not sure quite how I feel about them. Gay marriage... Do those two words jar for everyone or is it just me...
For some reason I don't like the notion, weddings/marriage for me are for a boy and a girl and a church. From the state/legal point of view, paperwork is easier, as well as the whole inheritance tax thing, which is great, but does signing the register make invalid any personal commitment that has previously taken place, as in going for the whole ceremony?
Personally I love with my heart and my soul and all of the world and universe, does this change when I sign a bit of paper, no. Its just doing something that should be in place already. However, if we are seeing it as a marriage its making more of a commitment that as far as we are concerned I have already made, so have I not been as committed or not as loving as I'm going to be in the future? Surely that is more discrimatory than was intended. Or are we just being ungrateful, equality has been granted, but what kind of a state is that in the first place...
I could rant and rant and still not be sure what I feel. All I know is that I love more and more every hour of every day, and a bit of paper won't reinforce that or disband that, however the added security if anything happened to me is worth the peace of mind, after all, I love her.
Green shield stamps...
So my latest run has come to an end, the team was lovely and the green shield stamps were plentiful, with apologies and respect to my brothers printer who unfortunately met its maker printing the stamps.
So what next I hear you cry...
Panto!
Jack
& the
Beanstalk!
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