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time in my month in numbers history 68 monthly installments and counting i m not only going to document my month in numbers as the name would suggest i m also going to add in appropriately themed hamlet quotations why because hamlet because since seeing it live on stage 12 days ago i haven t stopped thinking about it because ever since i got back home my old much scribbled on copy of the original text has never been out of reach and because you can bet that whatever it is you ve experienced mr shakespeare s written about it already so i m going to let him pull some of the weight this month now when i said it s been quite the month here here isn t quite accurate of the 744 hours in august the most memorable noteworthy stuff took place not here but there the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns hamlet in act 3 1 ok i did return but only just you ll find out more later in the post 71 5 hours the time spent in london outside the national theatre and of those 71 5 hours spent in london it was the 2 hours 40 minutes spent watching benedict cumberbatch as hamlet at the barbican theatre that were the most memorable if you ve read or heard anything of the hoo hah around the taking of photos recording during the performance you ll understand why i have no photos of the occasion they even sent me emails beforehand to remind me of the complete embargo not that i would ever take photos mid performance and i was already anxious enough about getting there on time we walked across london one of us wearing wedges guess which of seeing both cumberbatch and hamlet in the flesh and of being thrown out or having to put a large bag in their cloakroom as made clear in those emails that i didn t even take my camera with me to photograph the theatre outside of the performance so the only photos i have of the entire evening are these taken by james but hey at least my body language didn t give my anxieties away my fears forgetting manners hamlet in act 5 2 and as if all the emails news reports and signs the ushers were holding above their heads didn t impress upon me the fact that photos weren t allowed 12 inches away the distance for the play s entirety between me and a barbican employee whose job it was to sit and monitor the audience i thought i d done well selecting our seats i d sit at the front no heads to block my view and i d be able to lean right up to the railings for a better look and no one would see me crying because let s face it i was always going to be overwhelmed hamlet means such a lot to me but i d been eyeing up the stool from the minute we arrived i even said to james someone s not going to sit there are they and then around 3 minutes before curtain up i got my answer the usher approached me to say i just thought i d better explain i m going to be sitting there they give me a wooden stool so comfy and i spent the next 2 hrs 40 watching the stage while being well aware that the watchers were also being watched for some must watch while some must sleep hamlet in act 3 2 from act 3 to the very 1st line then to act 2 where the infamous to be or not to be soliloquy was moved and moved again while i d tried to avoid any reviews about the production beforehand i did hear the furore about how in the first previews the most famous lines had been shifted from their original place in act 3 right up to the very first words out of the gate and so as i sat there in anticipation as the curtain rose as i saw the top of hamlet s head as he sat on the floor directly beneath me i was fully expecting him to bust forth with one of the most iconic lines in dramatic history but he didn t instead those lines didn t appear until later on although still not exactly where you d expect to find them and while i hate to agree with the critics i disagree with them about several other aspects of the production i m really glad it was moved from the opening scene to a point in the play where you d had time to really care about whether hamlet wanted to be or not and i did care i always do now here s where if you re playing a drinking game where you down a shot every time i mention crying then you get a step nearer inebriation because it was during that speech that i had my 1st sneaky weep followed swiftly by my first attempt to surreptitiously wipe tears away with a complete stranger almost sitting in my lap what would he do had he the motive and cue for passion that i have he would drown the stage with tears hamlet in act 2 scene 2 level 9 the hotel floor we stayed on and this is the globe sculpture we passed every time we went to and from the lift on our floor the earth seems to me a sterile promontory this most excellent canopy the air look you this brave o erhanging firmament this majestical roof fretted with golden fire hamlet in act 2 2 and yes it did spin like a real globe thinking about it we really ought to have got on and off at every other floor to check out the other sculptures maybe next time the morning after the hamlet before my friend and erstwhile blogging collaborator kirsty neale travelled into the city to meet me beneath one of the legs of the london eye like spies or people on a blind date but in the beaten way of friendship what make you to elsinore to visit you my lord no other occasion hamlet horatio in act 2 2 and from there we packed james off to the imperial war museum then made our way to the royal academy to indulge our mutual love of joseph cornell s work 80 the number of joseph cornell works featured in the wanderlust exhibition it was well worth the trip as it was a beautiful exhibition filled with collage collections of things in boxes and amazing uses for ephemera if you think mixed media loveliness and assemblage art is a recent artistic development then a trip around cornell s works will relieve you of that he was born in 1903 and worked throughout the 20th century if you re going to be anywhere near london before it ends on september 27th i can t recommend a visit highly enough and if you can t make it there google him instead and be inspired but if you do manage to get to the ra then after all that looking and absorbing you might want to boost your blood sugar levels by hopping across the road to the parlour a truly decadent ice cream experience inside fortnum mason established in 1707 2 scoops each the ice cream treats kirsty and i indulged in kirsty had 1 coffee and 1 salted caramel scoop while i had 1 honey comb and 1 rose violet oh my goodness the rose violet was delicious jean you know where you need to go and helen will ice cream do instead of cake this month and if 2 simple scoops may seem a little conservative to you then you probably haven t seen the price lists while i was there i also bought 25 fortnum mason queen anne tea bags to take back for james as a paltry sorry i saw joseph cornell and ate expensive ice cream without you gift after the art and the ice cream kirsty and i went on 2 boat trips one to and one from greenwich and you can catch up on my river thames photos in this post from last week here s an appropriately watery themed hamlet quote to bear in mind while you do but if the water come to him and drown him he drowns not himself first clown act 5 scene 1 and on the evening james and i ate in the pop up restaurant i talked about here in a different post then after all of that it was time to go home my necessaries are embarked farewell laertes act1 3 3 days earlier the train from darlington to london took just 2 5 hours yet our return trip was quite a different story 12 30pm the time our train was due to depart so fare you well upon the platform twixt eleven and twelve i ll visit you hamlet act 1 2 to be fair hamlet isn t talking about a train platform here trains weren t invented until 200 years after the play was written but hey i m doing my best here 12 15pm the time our train was cancelled due to overhead line failures we had been anticipating problems as we d heard about earlier trains being affected but right up until cancelled appeared on our section of the board we thought we were going to be ok so we sat there with no idea what to do next although kirsty almost had two house guests for the weekend not that she was aware of that fact virgin didn t announce anything other than an apology and our only consolation was watching writer and national treasure alan bennett take a seat 2 rows ahead of us then at 12 45pm i heard them announce the train on platform 1 is the 13 00 virgin east coast to edinburgh passengers please note that there are no longer any seat reservations on this train and i realised that while this wasn t our train it was going in the right direction and if there were no seat reservations that meant they were expecting lots of people to get on board and boy did they ever 3 times the regular number how many additional otherwise stranded passengers boarded the train by the time we reached the train all the seats were already taken not that that stopped us or dozens more from boarding it turns out that that one train ended up with 3 trains worth of passengers its own load plus that of the 2 cancelled earlier 4 the number of bottles of water james and i had accepted from the virgin east coast staff who were handing them out in the station we ended up travelling alongside a thankfully well behaved middle class stag party and i heard one of them say you know something s wrong when they start handing water out we ll teach you to drink deep ere you depart hamlet act1 sc2 175 and that something wrong looked like this 10 the number of us who spent the journey standing in the wobbly section between carriages c d which meant that i spent 3 5 hours on a train standing here in front of the toilet fortunately the train was so completely jam packed it made it near impossible for anyone to move up or down the aisles to reach the loo anyway meaning only 3 people paid a visit all the time i was there how s that for a silver lining and in that small space there stood james and i the aforementioned stag party drinking beer red wine and pimms while talking about volunteering for water aid and the best dim sum restaurants in paris see i told you they were middle class a nice lone stranger plus all our respective luggage halfway through the trip the nice stranger gallantly offered me his makeshift seat his large solid suitcase i declined but it was a very nice gesture the kindness of strangers eh and no it didn t make me cry 7 hours plus one night s sleep how long it took for my head to finally stop feeling like it was in constant locomotion all evening while sitting then laying the back of my head continued to feel like i was moving from side to side but yes eventually we made it home safely only to discover that 4 screws had been removed from a door lock and our garage had been burgled while we were away but it wasn t as bad as it sounds fortunately we keep nothing of any worth in there and only 1 item was stolen plus my dad had secured the doors in our absence and had decided not to tell us about it earlier so as not to spoil our stay we ve since upgraded our locks and kept my dad who builds stronger than a mason a shipwright or a carpenter a grave maker the houses that he makes last till doomsday first clown act 5 1 and finally so as not to end on a tragic note although hello i am under the influence of hamlet let s finish my august round up with a bit of fun we had the day after our train trials after 3 days in the big smoke i needed some of this so we took a trip to the coast where on a whim although we ve been walking past it our entire lives and to our knowledge have never been in we decided that this was the day we visited the zetland lifeboat museum and the moment we stepped inside one of the volunteers set us a challenge how can you balance 6 flat headed nails on top of 1 flat headed nail we didn t know but we could have as many attempts as we liked and if we wanted to know the answer all we had to do was donate 1 00 to the rnli the lifeboat charity so with nothing to lose and only charity to gain james gave it a go and failed lots of times in the end he gave in although goodness knows men don t like to be beaten do they i thought we were going to have to move in so he could keep trying until he worked it out we paid our 1 00 and the volunteer took him through it step by step and here s how it s done apparently there s lots of tricks like that on youtube and apparently the museum have landed on a great way to raise funds i shall the effect of this good lesson keep ophelia act 1 2 and on that positive note i m bowing out of this post and of august this month has taken me almost as long to write about as it did for me to live you re welcome to join me with your own numbers or to read this post and and smile or to read this post and question just how much free time i must have or to read this post today and then join in with a comment and a quote of your own quotes are optional so that was my august 2015 in numbers the rest is silence hamlet act 5 2 unless of course you do leave a comment julie posted by julie kirk at 07 00 15 comments labels my month in numbers blogging meme statistics lists numbers memory keeping by numbers hamlet barbican email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 29 august 2015 portable magic the a z of you and me by james hannah hi you now here s a thing to admit in a book review i don t want to tell you about this book not because it s isn t worth talking about far from it and not because i m being precious and i want to keep it all to myself it s just i want you to come to it as i did oblivious oblivious to its depth to its craft to it s well tuned tone but most importantly oblivious to its plot especially to the predicament of the narrator who we gradually get to know inside and out gradually and that s the point i don t want to tell you the plot of this book right here right now before you ve even had a chance to crack its spine for yourself i don t want to tell you about what is happening to the narrator throughout the novel i don t want to tell you because trust me it s quite the experience when it just unfolds before you line by line page by page in an organic unfurling of detail of location of situation because if you don t know any solid plot facts from the start if you don t know any better you can sustain yourself by speculating on what s happening or what might happen and even on what part of you knows probably can t happen but you still hope that it can so how did i come to be so in the dark about it how did i come to it blind why i didn t intuit the true nature of the a z of you and me at the start well it all started in the library i picked it up from the shelf not knowing anything about it turned it over in my hands and read this blurb and what did i pick out wonderfully quirky contemporary love story funny and sweet couple that with the pretty swirly blackboard chic cover design 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