I’m just nipping off to bed but I’m having one of those moments. Today I was performing for a Wedding Annivsary pary and now I’m back home at my desk I’m faced with a bit of a dilemma. I would really love to visit Hammersmith’s Vintage fashion fair tomorrow at the town hall but I feel I really ought to stay at home and get on with paper work and learn lines. It’s not as if I need anything but it is one of my favourite places to visit as I just love looking at vintage clothes and being around like minded people. They hold the fair every month and the last time I was there was back in October. Looking at my diary I have nearly every weekend booked and I wont get another chance until next October. Oh gosh do I stay or do I go?
What a pitty I can’t get in this lovely plane and fly down to Hammersmith!
To be continued what will I decide!

I’m just nipping off to bed but I’m having one of those moments. Today I was performing for a Wedding Annivsary pary and now I’m back home at my desk I’m faced with a bit of a dilemma. I would really love to visit Hammersmith’s Vintage fashion fair tomorrow at the town hall but I feel I really ought to stay at home and get on with paper work and learn lines. It’s not as if I need anything but it is one of my favourite places to visit as I just love looking at vintage clothes and being around like minded people. They hold the fair every month and the last time I was there was back in October. Looking at my diary I have nearly every weekend booked and I wont get another chance until next October. Oh gosh do I stay or do I go?
What a pitty I can’t get in this lovely plane and fly down to Hammersmith!
To be continued what will I decide!

I just wanted to thank Dave and Bee Jackson for sending me the disk of  last Saturday’s photo shoot at Swyell Aerodrome and here are two of the pictures as promised, one of me as a bright young thing of the 1920s and the other as an Edwardian lady.
Do Keep Watching!

I just wanted to thank Dave and Bee Jackson for sending me the disk of  last Saturday’s photo shoot at Swyell Aerodrome and here are two of the pictures as promised, one of me as a bright young thing of the 1920s and the other as an Edwardian lady.
Do Keep Watching!

Today I have been rehursing all day and I met up with my new sound engineer Chris which was great. I so need a new power amp – my current one is rubish so I must go shopping for one very soon! It was grate to dust off my big sound system and get it all set up in the spare sitting room. Poor Chris was set up in the dinning room with the double doors open with me singing away in the sitting room, with my mother entertaining her ladies in the small sitting room. It’s just as well my mother has a large house perhaps we had better not go into the three bedrooms set aside for my costumes and wardrobe, yes better not!
Well I surpose I had better get back and carry on with my rehursal for Evette. The show is really starting to come together and I’ve been having alot of fun with the songs add libbing in places. I’ve also been working on my script today singing and working on charactisation in front of a mirror – it’s just like old times being back in drama class!
It may be me but I think the 1940s sceen has been some what lacking in creativaty of late – too much of the same old thing. I know many of you reading my blogs are re-anacters and you must get so board seeing the same old acts doing the same old shows year in and year out. This is why I thought it was time for something new. While I’ve been out and about it’s been intresting chatting to you all and hearing your veiws on events. Curtainly there are quite a few events which have lost there direction where a few years ago were at the top of their game. It can be very frustrating when you aprouch some of these places because often the people in charge run events as a hobby and not from the veiw of the paying public. This year is going to be very intresting as quite a few events have folded but there are others springing up and the future seems to be in the smaller ones not the larger. Do keep watching and lets see how the year pans out I’m back to my rehursal!

Today I have been rehursing all day and I met up with my new sound engineer Chris which was great. I so need a new power amp – my current one is rubish so I must go shopping for one very soon! It was grate to dust off my big sound system and get it all set up in the spare sitting room. Poor Chris was set up in the dinning room with the double doors open with me singing away in the sitting room, with my mother entertaining her ladies in the small sitting room. It’s just as well my mother has a large house perhaps we had better not go into the three bedrooms set aside for my costumes and wardrobe, yes better not!
Well I surpose I had better get back and carry on with my rehursal for Evette. The show is really starting to come together and I’ve been having alot of fun with the songs add libbing in places. I’ve also been working on my script today singing and working on charactisation in front of a mirror – it’s just like old times being back in drama class!
It may be me but I think the 1940s sceen has been some what lacking in creativaty of late – too much of the same old thing. I know many of you reading my blogs are re-anacters and you must get so board seeing the same old acts doing the same old shows year in and year out. This is why I thought it was time for something new. While I’ve been out and about it’s been intresting chatting to you all and hearing your veiws on events. Curtainly there are quite a few events which have lost there direction where a few years ago were at the top of their game. It can be very frustrating when you aprouch some of these places because often the people in charge run events as a hobby and not from the veiw of the paying public. This year is going to be very intresting as quite a few events have folded but there are others springing up and the future seems to be in the smaller ones not the larger. Do keep watching and lets see how the year pans out I’m back to my rehursal!

Many of you have been asking me where I will be playing this year and for those of you who have been following my blogs you know my public season really kicks off this May at The Tower Museum Bassingbourn the 12th and 13th May. This week I have been tring to grab as much rehursal time as I can between shows with the launch of Evette the Spivette and I hope you the public warm to her when she appears on the 19th and 20th May at Kent and East Sussex Railway’s 1940s event. Then it really goes mad with the Jubilee Celebrations which start for me on the 29th May at Carlton Towers in Yorkshire. Carlton Towers was one of the houses in contention for “Downton Abbey” but as you all know Highclere Castle got the job and I think quite a few of you saw me singing there last October. I shall also be at Mapledurham House another stately home in Reading on the 2nd June, Staplehurst, Kent on the 3rd, Aston Abbots Buckinghamshire the 4th and then over to France for D-Day on the 5th with 2 high profile shows booked in Aromanches for the 6th June. I shall publish more details about the events a little closer to so if you wish to come along it will be lovely to see you. However out of the 200 + shows I do a year not all of them are public. Many of the events I do are private functions from wedding anniversaries, birthdays, corprate events, golf clubs to schools. This weekend I have a Ruby Wedding to do in Milton Keynes and then a run of St Georges Pearly Queen shows. So do keep dropping in and I will keep you posted! The beginning of May I shall be performing for The Air Sea Rescue in Stratford Upon Avon and then over to Newark Show Ground for The Auto Sleepers Owners Club – so as you can see I’m a bit of a busy bee!
Thank-you to every-one who liked my Best of British 1940s fashion artical. I know many WH Smith have sold out of the magazine this month but for those of you who follow the 40s circuit you know it’s the one to buy as it lists all the 1940s events for the year. If you would like a copy but couldn’t get hold of April’s isue here is The Best of British’s phone number Tel 020 8752 8181
Keep Watching and Bye for Now!

Many of you have been asking me where I will be playing this year and for those of you who have been following my blogs you know my public season really kicks off this May at The Tower Museum Bassingbourn the 12th and 13th May. This week I have been tring to grab as much rehursal time as I can between shows with the launch of Evette the Spivette and I hope you the public warm to her when she appears on the 19th and 20th May at Kent and East Sussex Railway’s 1940s event. Then it really goes mad with the Jubilee Celebrations which start for me on the 29th May at Carlton Towers in Yorkshire. Carlton Towers was one of the houses in contention for “Downton Abbey” but as you all know Highclere Castle got the job and I think quite a few of you saw me singing there last October. I shall also be at Mapledurham House another stately home in Reading on the 2nd June, Staplehurst, Kent on the 3rd, Aston Abbots Buckinghamshire the 4th and then over to France for D-Day on the 5th with 2 high profile shows booked in Aromanches for the 6th June. I shall publish more details about the events a little closer to so if you wish to come along it will be lovely to see you. However out of the 200 + shows I do a year not all of them are public. Many of the events I do are private functions from wedding anniversaries, birthdays, corprate events, golf clubs to schools. This weekend I have a Ruby Wedding to do in Milton Keynes and then a run of St Georges Pearly Queen shows. So do keep dropping in and I will keep you posted! The beginning of May I shall be performing for The Air Sea Rescue in Stratford Upon Avon and then over to Newark Show Ground for The Auto Sleepers Owners Club – so as you can see I’m a bit of a busy bee!
Thank-you to every-one who liked my Best of British 1940s fashion artical. I know many WH Smith have sold out of the magazine this month but for those of you who follow the 40s circuit you know it’s the one to buy as it lists all the 1940s events for the year. If you would like a copy but couldn’t get hold of April’s isue here is The Best of British’s phone number Tel 020 8752 8181
Keep Watching and Bye for Now!