As Jamie drove off to spend the weekend in Anglesey with her mates leaving me working until 5, Billy got a walk before I cooked tea. Eating the tea I cooked was rushed because I had to take Lincoln and 3 of his mates skating but that was it once I got home.
As I lay in the bath I thought oh how Friday nights have changed…
What an emotional evening it was for the cast and crew as they travelled to Oz for the final time.
It was our second time watching Lincoln, but this time we were joined by Auntie Helen, Patty and Ian, who were just as blown away as we were on Tuesday night. The performance felt slightly different tonight, perhaps not quite as polished as the first time we saw it, almost as though everyone had relaxed a little. Some of the dialogue wasn’t quite as crisp, and Lincoln himself wasn’t quite as booming, but in my opinion he still, stole the show.
It was still amazing from start to finish. The cast were probably exhausted by this point and, although they would never want it to end, it felt like the perfect moment to bring down the curtain on something they will remember for the rest of their lives.
When the lights came back on, the cast and crew were invited back onto the stage to receive a final round of applause. The cast then presented the teachers, who had been the driving force behind the production for the past few months, with flowers as a thank you.
An emotional speech from one of the cast, who struggled to hold it together, had the whole room sobbing and cheering in equal measure. It also seemed to be the moment that gave everyone else permission to finally let their emotions show and truly take in what they had achieved together.
For the Year 11s there was the realisation that this had been their final performance before leaving school in the summer. For others, there was the quiet understanding that the friendships formed during those long hours of rehearsals would never quite be the same again once everyone returned to their classrooms and became regular pupils again.
For Lincoln, the moment carried even more emotion. He knows that his friends Ethan, CJ, Duncan and Ollie all Year 11 pupils are about to leave. They’ve shared a much bigger drama journey together outside of school as well as through this production, so the end of this show meant much more than just the final curtain.
Watching him afterwards, hugging cast members and letting the tears come, you could see just how much it all meant to him. Some people may only have seen the end of a school play, but for him it was the end of a chapter.
The other night he said something that really stayed with me:
“Ethan is the reason I love drama, and he’s leaving.”
I told him that yes, that may be true, but now it’s your turn, it’s your turn to inspire the next group to love drama. One day, one of them might say, “Lincoln is the reason I love drama.”
I know he heard the words. I just hope he really heard the message.
Watching him tonight, allowing himself to feel and show all of those emotions in front of everyone, made me burst with pride.
Well done Son!
I love going out to play pool on a Wednesdays but fackin ‘ell I sometimes think ‘why do I bother?’ That moment tonight should have been the moment I called a foul as referee and had to take the hatred of the opposition team for the rest of the evening….whatevs!
The straw was the club that’s on its arse called last orders at 1030 because the paid staff doesn’t want to be kept serving ale after 11 ? ffs I’m not making this shit up!
Wow just Wow
He has talked about The Wizard of Oz since getting the part of the Lion back in September and has committed a lot of extra caricular time to it and tonight we finally got to see if the hype was justified.
Oh my goodness the whole production was amazing with something to look at and marvel at from start to finish with performances from title roles and minor ensemble roles that were brilliant.
With all that said we were there to see Lincoln’s Lion and he played his part from the moment we walked in to take our seats. Very professional but most importantly a boy who looked like he was living his best life! His solo song was on point after roller skating into the spotlight.
If a father could be more proud of his son please tell me how, because he said he was going to do it, he absolutely loved doing it and to watch him play the lion made me cry he was so good.
Wow just Wow!
Lincoln left for school this morning loving life and keen to get this week started because it is Wizard of Oz performance week something he has been working towards since September.
We have tickets for tomorrow night which is his opening night as the Lion but tonight in the ensemble he got his first taste of performing the play and how it feels.
When he got home there were tales of how grand it was with Sir John Deans technical department supplying lighting and sound he told us about first night nerves hitches and hiccups but all in all how brilliant it all was
It just made mom and I so much more excited to finally see him performing and hopefully steeling the show which he will in our eyes no matter what!
Having purchased an SDS drill from ScrewFix late yesterday my intentions today was to remove both gateposts that me dad built for me when I knew Jamie was coming over to live and our intention to start a family would mean making the whole boundary secure for little humans to run free but safely too! The fact that was 19 years ago and those little humans are 14 and 15 the former is as tall as me and the latter is about to leave school means the gates are no longer required. Add to that the fact that I have reversed into one of them and Jamie has driven into the other trying to get in and out of our gateway with the street full of parked cars it just makes sense to get rid sooner rather than later.
I did not know what an SDS drill was until a week ago and having read up on them it sounded like the ideal tool to make demolishing two brick pillars easier than a hammer, a chisel, brute force and ignorance. Oh my goodness what a piece of kit, it made the job so bloody easy the one I bought was cheap £80 and heavy 7Kg but it glided through the job and I was done with one post in around an hour and didn’t break sweat.
The other post can wait till next week not because it was too much work but I didn’t want rubble hanging around and one post was two trips to Crewe tip one today and because there wasn’t a second slot I will have to go first thing in the morning before work.
Seventeen years ago we got married because I knew she was who I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, what I didn’t know was how easy it was going to be, we are so well matched and make a great team in everything we do.
I love the bones of this woman and hope for a million more moments with her and that still wouldn’t be enough
Heard a story this evening about Lincoln getting picked on walking home from school by 3 boys one of which was giving it the big I am while pushing Lincoln.
Out of nowhere a voice shouts “WHAT THE HELL ARE 3 DOING, GET IN THE CAR ALL OF YOU!” the boy giving it large went white as snow and immediately got in the car along with his 2 mates. I am his mum and he was not brought up like this I am so sorry, and drove off.
I have a lot of respect for that lady who I have no doubt will sort her son out and let the parents of the other 2 know what happened so they will be spoken to also!
What I can not condone or tolerate is Lincoln disrespecting adults which happened tonight when he was shouted at by his friends mum after giving him a lift home from skating when he opened the thinking she had stopped to let him out. An honest mistake and no probably no reason to raise her voice but definitely no reason to answer back disrespectfully because that’s not how he was brought up either!
Having felt proud that he did not rise to the earlier incident I have to say I was disappointed that he talked back to his mates mum even if, behind closed doors we think she a bit of know that is not a reason to disrespect her.
So we ended up giving him a talking before he went to about biting your lip and being the better person!
We want the best for our children all parents do because we want them to have a better life than we had, we want it to be easier and without stress, but we should always keep in mind that we can only build the best foundations for them to thrive.
It is so difficult to hear that Reagan, in spite of all her hard work has not quite achieved the expected grades she’d hoped for in her mock exams and not be able to make it right.
I can only hope that she does not have the crushing frustration I possess when in my mind its perfection but in reality I can not achieve it. I find it very difficult to push through that even though I know my best is and will be good enough!
Reagans best will always be good enough and she needs to know that no matter what! If exams are the problem and not knowledge then she needs to learn how to pass an exam and practice that in the coming weeks. The way we can help is to find out what the issue is with adding any unnecessary pressure.
My friend John’s story about trying to become a paramedic very nearly didn’t happen because he kept failing to pass the driving test. He drove a taxi for a living so he knew how to drive, he had the knowledge but he couldn’t pass the test?
He had to take driving lessons to learn how to drive the way you need to to pass a driving test. He only took a couple of lessons and that was enough to pass the paramedic driving exam, and the rest all fell into place after that.
I’ll speak to her tomorrow and see if the exams are the issue and if they are then see if exam practice is what’s needed or something else.
Played pool tonight at Arena, Crewe and was brought to book about not timing a game, which is a rule! Their captain came over to me and said “Just pointing out that ‘if’ you want to time then you time but no-one was timing the last game”
He was correct no-one timed the first part of the frame but I reminded my players that someone needs to time because I was playing so obviously can’t do it, and one of the lads started timing.
I wish I could have told their captain exactly what I thought about him being so pedantic about a rule I proposed to get rid of at last AGM and you all voted it in so its your fault we are supposed to time yet Steventons are the only team that insist on timing any frame in the whole league so if we forget for half of a frame so fucking what you cunt, fuck off!
If it is against the rules then every match so far this season that has not involved Steventons should probably be voided.
We did the best thing we could have done in such a circumstance we fucking beat them shook their hands and left the building smiling and gloating a tiny bit!