I went away on holiday, then stuff happened and in the process of that I lost my blog-voice. Sorry I’ve been silent.
This is exactly what happens with my diary writing, with going to the gym, regular exercising, diets. There’s something about regularity that my personality jibs at. I think it makes me feel nailed down or trapped.

I have, however, got a backlog of things to blog about, so I’m starting again now.

On yesterdays’ Today programme, there was a discussion about the Proms and the audience clapping too soon after a performance, to be precise. Whoever it was said that often, audience members ‘count down to the end’ of a piece so that they can be the first to clap to show that they know when it has ended.

Good to hear someone saying this as it’s one among many of the things I find difficult about theatre, particularly Shakespeare.

Example: to my mind, Shakespeare’s jokes are ghastly and not a bit funny. All that horsing about and clunking (or ancient and obscure) innuendo about pizzles etc. I can can well do without.
Not so the knowing audience who insist on chuckling or laughing theatrically to show that they’ve got it.

Can’t they just sit quietly, let everyone be amused and leave the showing off to actors on the stage?

Grrrr

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