PHOTOS 2013
счастливого Нового Года!
Lunch at the Autograph Cafe, Empire Theatre, Liverpool ahead of "9 to 5" the musical 16.01.2013. Our first official outing of 2013. Sue, Helen and Pat are doing their best to keep Sylvia upright and awake!
Some of the Liver Birds and friends went to Ormskirk Market on Thursday 22nd August to meet up with an American Red Hatter from California. She is originally from Liverpool (Bootle) but went to America to work as a secretary when they were crying out for them about 50 years ago! Maureen, the tall lady in the centre wearing the red top, is staying with her 88 year old aunt in Wigan before taking off for Ireland.
As Queen Opal gets her senior travel pass for the Merseyside area in October there will be more expeditionary forces launched on unsuspecting markets in the near future.
As Queen Opal gets her senior travel pass for the Merseyside area in October there will be more expeditionary forces launched on unsuspecting markets in the near future.
It's been a bit of a quiet summer on the Liver Bird front with all the Liver Birds busy with "family stuff". However, the autumn is here now and the season for gallivanting has started.
WARNING - When I am an old woman, i am going to have travel card.
You wait 60 years and then three come at once!
city of london lord mayor's show
Snagged from Lady Jingles Bells of the Daft Old Bats, Bedford:
"I had a wonderful time in London at the Lord Mayor's Show!
It poured with rain, in true British tradition, but our Red Hat party (led by the London Red Hatters) made a point of cheering and waving at every item in the procession, heckling (nicely), singing along with the bands and so on, and got lots of response back. We sang a chorus of 'All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor' for every naval contingent that passed by and they variously blushed, grinned or, where allowable, waved or called back.
The City dignitaries in their coaches waved at us specially (ignoring the people on the other side of the road!) and the Lord Mayor herself waved so enthusiastically she might almost have been a member.
We had a light lunch at a very reasonably priced Italian restaurant nearby, with very attentive waiters, where we were joined by the Fen Fatales, who had been watching from a stand; and afterwards I went for a mooch round Covent Garden and a cup of tea with the Liver Birds contingent."
Well, that's saved me a job. Thank you Jenny.
The aforementioned Liver Bird contingent consisted of Queen Opal and Lady Susan. We stayed three nights at the Travelodge Central Bank (along with a load of people from the BBC we found out too late!). On Friday night we went to see "War Horse" at the New London Theatre, Drury Lane, and on Saturday night "Les Mis" at the Queens Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue. In addition to the rain, it was a very damp (tearful!) weekend. On Sunday morning we dutifully watched the Remembrance Ceremony at the Cenotaph on television, before coming out of our hotel just in time to see our old friend from yesterday, the new Lord Mayor of London, leave the Mansion House to lay her wreath at the WWI memorial outside the Royal Exchange. We spent the rest of the day at Camden Market with a non-Hatter friend eating street food from all over the world.
"I had a wonderful time in London at the Lord Mayor's Show!
It poured with rain, in true British tradition, but our Red Hat party (led by the London Red Hatters) made a point of cheering and waving at every item in the procession, heckling (nicely), singing along with the bands and so on, and got lots of response back. We sang a chorus of 'All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor' for every naval contingent that passed by and they variously blushed, grinned or, where allowable, waved or called back.
The City dignitaries in their coaches waved at us specially (ignoring the people on the other side of the road!) and the Lord Mayor herself waved so enthusiastically she might almost have been a member.
We had a light lunch at a very reasonably priced Italian restaurant nearby, with very attentive waiters, where we were joined by the Fen Fatales, who had been watching from a stand; and afterwards I went for a mooch round Covent Garden and a cup of tea with the Liver Birds contingent."
Well, that's saved me a job. Thank you Jenny.
The aforementioned Liver Bird contingent consisted of Queen Opal and Lady Susan. We stayed three nights at the Travelodge Central Bank (along with a load of people from the BBC we found out too late!). On Friday night we went to see "War Horse" at the New London Theatre, Drury Lane, and on Saturday night "Les Mis" at the Queens Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue. In addition to the rain, it was a very damp (tearful!) weekend. On Sunday morning we dutifully watched the Remembrance Ceremony at the Cenotaph on television, before coming out of our hotel just in time to see our old friend from yesterday, the new Lord Mayor of London, leave the Mansion House to lay her wreath at the WWI memorial outside the Royal Exchange. We spent the rest of the day at Camden Market with a non-Hatter friend eating street food from all over the world.
An evening with Miss Marple - Murder is Announced
The warm welcome we got from the cast and crew at the Little Theatre, Birkenhead reminded us it's been a whole year since we were there last. Seems we were missed! Even despite the episode with the glow-in-the dark vampire teeth!
The next production is Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers". Or should that be Red HAT Lovers?
Here we are in our customary after-show photo in the bar with the cast - "Letitia Blacklock" with the white hair and striped top, and "Mrs Swettenham" in the red jacket. Miss Marple had obviously retired to bed early with her cocoa.
The next production is Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers". Or should that be Red HAT Lovers?
Here we are in our customary after-show photo in the bar with the cast - "Letitia Blacklock" with the white hair and striped top, and "Mrs Swettenham" in the red jacket. Miss Marple had obviously retired to bed early with her cocoa.
The photographer told us to say "Murder!" but clearly forgot to shout "Ready!"