Well it’s been quite a busy couple of weeks as well as getting the site ready I turned 33 which was fantastic! My Grandmother turned 100 which I’m sure you’ll agree is infinitely more fantastic and to be honest her birthday completely upstaged mine!!! But I’m sure I can forgive her that, she really is an incredible lady.
After Grans Birthday party I took a trip to Cornwall in the south of England to do some surfing and to meet up with a friend, Dave Williams, who worked on Lord of the Rings and who also taught myself and a few others how to surf. After a day in Cornwall we were joined by Dom Monaghan ( Merry in Lord of the rings) this was great as we thought he was going to be to busy to make it but as luck would have it his schedule changed at the last minute and he was able to join us for what turned out to be some incredible waves and just an all round great week. For anyone who has never made it to Cornwall I couldn’t recommend it too highly, it is incredibly beautiful and full of history and character. It was so good to see Dave and Dom again, one of the many great things I took away from my year and a half in New Zealand was the amazing friends that I made, another is surfing!
Just before I started writing this note I was doing some pre-rehearsal work on a script for a play I am about to start rehearsing this week at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. It’s called “The Ballad of Crazy Paula” by the Belgian writer Arne Sierens and we will be working from the new translation by Stephen Greenhorn. It’s a really great script and I am looking forward to rehearsals immensely and also to working with the director Philip Howard again, we have worked on a couple of plays together and we always seem to have a good time. There are two characters in the play Raymond, played by myself and Paula who will be played by Kath Howden, who I think is an incredible actress and whom I have not as yet had the pleasure to work with, so that’s another plus. Hopefully I will write soon to let you know how rehearsals are going.
Well I’ll stop rambling for now. I hope you enjoy the site, please drop by again sometime, until then, take care, lots of love, Billy.
AXN
