Hedda had to have this trip, Auntie! She really had to. Nothing else would have done.

These days, when I sit down at the computer to type, it is incredibly likely that I am writing a story; LJ is taking a back seat. My preferred writing position is not at the desk/table where the computer resides. Instead, I turn the screen around to face the sofa, grab the keyboard and lounge in a relaxed position on said sofa while typing, and that's good for first drafts.

I'm still (and more and more) into this "fandom thing" (I can see your eyes roll from here but I don't care because I like this fandom and being in it). This weekend was once again spent in London. A meet-up was organised for Saturday, and instead of the handful of people I had thought might be there, we were about, oh, 40 all told, some of whom had made rather long trips to be there. I was surprised and delighted to meet German Sherlock fans, an unexpected pleasure. We all hung out at the National Theatre for a few hours... not that I was able to talk to everyone, I'm not a social butterfly and not good in large crowd situations anyway, but I got to meet a few people. And no, they weren't all teenagers or early twens, but also in my age group. I'd like to meet a few of them again some time.

Today, I went to the V&A. They are doing a series of screenings of the National Video Archive Performance which has started in January and is going on until June. Screenings are free, entry is on a first come first served basis, and today they were showing Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler", recorded in 2005, with Eve Best as an absolutely amazing Hedda, and (yeeeees here we go) Benedict Cumberbatch as Jørgen Tesman, her husband. Yes, I went there because of that actor (and so did quite a few people in the auditorium), but what I had hoped for happened - the performances and the play drew me in, and for a moment, I even forgot that it was a recording. Damn, but British actors are good, and this was high class.
Next week Sunday, the V&A is showing "Waiting for Godot", the Patrick Stewart/Ian McKellen version that I saw live in 2009, and I am very tempted indeed to go see the recording too. Very tempted.
Of course, there is also the NVAP itself, which is an amazing collection of recordings of theatre performances that are available to view by booked appointment; together with the National Theatre archive of recordings, which are also available to view, I am looking forward to putting together my very own list of past productions to see live-once-removed.

Combine my re-awakened love for theatre with the huge and varied amount of reading I do, and it's hardly a wonder that I am pretty much constantly coming up with story ideas. All I need to do now is write...

Oh, I should probably mention (to my new friends)

Hello, new friends. :) This is my blog where I keep my real life, as real as it gets at any given point in time. If you're looking for my fic, of which there shall be more soon, that's over at a_bit_not_good.