Another Time, Another Place

Another Place
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Moving on each week can be, to say the least, discombobulating. Week five was Plymouth - great big, lively audiences and a bit of sunshine despite the cold. Then it was Liverpool...which I was very excited about as it's a city that's new to me and there is so much to see, including Antony Gormley's Another Place: the 100 self-study cast-iron sculptures, all looking out to sea, set along 3 kilometres of the foreshore and almost 1 km into the sea, which just happened to be directly in front of the house I was staying in that week, hence my pic. The Gormley figures just seemed very appropriate somehow - looking out and away to some other destination, as we constantly do on this tour.
When the curtain comes down on a Saturday night it's all about packing up and working out where you're going next, and when and how. Many of the cast will drive off home (to arrive at 2, 3 in the morning?) directly after we finish. The rest of us get up early on the Sunday and complete the next stage by car, by train, plane or whatever. If you're lucky you get to spend the night in your own bed before landing in another unfamiliar one, somewhere far away.

We don't get out much!

Jodie Jacobs
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The night out bowling was a huge success: our Company Manager had organised us into six teams of six, together with an appointed Captain for each team and it was great to let off some steam (this week's pic shows Jodie in celebratory mood after achieving her first strike) and to observe the differing styles of said Captains: to the left of my team, Mike P was showing model Captain-like behaviour - ever encouraging and applauding his people, commiserating when appropriate (another 'gutter ball' and zero score) and spurring the team on to greatness, partly through his own example of getting numerous strikes and high scores of his own. To our right, Simon H's approach was somewhat different: at each less-than-perfect performance by his team (and particularly as the evening wore on and concentration was patchier) he remonstrated with: "focus! bloody focus!" and proceeded to show everyone how it should be done with focus and skill, going on to win the coveted 'highest scoring individual' award by repeatedly clearing all the pins - stylish geezer...
Our own Captain, Lindsey, had a style all of her own, standing at the back of the action, pint in hand, calmly observing and nonchalantly walking forward to take her turn when necessary. Only on the bus going home, when it was announced that our team had been the highest scoring one, did she let her true excitement show, leaping up to perform a victory dance, while I seem to remember yours truly swinging up on to the bus bars and executing some extraordinary moves, so overwhelmed were we both at our unexpected success.
When our rowdy bunch eventually filed off the (school) bus, I thanked the bus driver and apologised for the noise, explaining: "We don't get out much!"