Weekend Wrap Up!

It was a Bank Holiday weekend here in Ireland and as weekends go it was a pretty good one ending with some great new about Pigsy.

On Saturday morning, our plumber came and finished off the installation of a new heat regulating system for our underfloor heating. We now have the Heatmiser system and can control our heating on an app on our phones which is pretty nifty.

In the afternoon, I cycled in to the city to meet my mother and sister at the Bewleys Cafe Theatre. Amy was treating us to a show. We saw the play "Wringer" which was very enjoyable - well acted and a gripping story.

Sunday morning brought us to the Pot Bellied Pig in Rathmine for brunch. I had a delicious shakshuka and a glass of prosecco (noice!) and Ciaran had a full irish breakfast which he said was really good.

After brunch it was off to the Omniplex to see the new Freddie Mercury movie "Bohemian Rhapsody". Wow what a film. So sad to see that he was so young when he died. What a loss of talent.

Speaking of talent, I should mention that we went to see David Byrne in the the 3 Arena (will always be The Point to me) on Wednesday night. This was quite possibly the best gig I have ever been to in my whole life. It was eye opening as to what can be done live on stage with a 12 piece band. I've been singing his songs since then along with thinking about the performance. It was a terrifically choreographed performance with a powerful ending of "Hell you Talmabout". Just phenomenal in all senses.

And so to the great news that ended our weekend:

The Pigsy documentary will next be shown in London!

Come see it at the Irish Film Festival London which runs from the 21st to 25th of November with Pigsy being part of the Irish Film Shorts being shown on Thursday 23rd of Nov at 5.30pm. 

Just brilliant - I've already booked our flights!

Rock of Ages - Bord Gais Theatre, Dublin

Rock of Ages came to Dublin and we got to see it!!

It's my favourite musical and I've seen it in London, Dublin (a few years ago) and also Athlone (my sister was starring!)

It was showing in the Bord Gais Grand Canal Theatre and I was lucky to have snagged seats in the third row which gave us a close up view of all of the action.

It was a great night out for Amy, Katie and myself.  I cycled to meet the girls (it was a very mild Oct night) who went for wings in Wishbone beforehand. 

Someday I hope to see Rock of Ages in the USA as an American production as I imagine that could be even better than an English production.

A Star is Born - 3rd times a charm!

Ooops, I did it again.  And again!

Within the space of 3 weekends I saw Lady Gaga's new movie "A Star is Born" three times. I loved it when I saw it first and I can honestly say I love it even more after seeing it for the third time.

Lady Gaga is electric when she makes her appearance on Jackson Maine's stage and Bradley Cooper is brilliantly believable as hard drinking Jack Maine in the twilight of his career.

The story is is a beautiful love story (this is the 4th retelling with Kris Kristofferson and Barbara Streisand in the 1970's version) - but bring tissues!

The main thing about this film that I loved was the music. Most of it was written for the movie and if it doesn't win an Oscar for best music I will be even more annoyed than when La La Land didn't win best picture.....but best not mention this as I still feel for the La La Land crew on this one.

So obviously I highly recommend this film but I say don't go once, plan to go 2 or 3 times to really enjoy the experience!

Cruising prep!

We met up with our Sailing Crew yesterday evening to go over the plans for our big trip to the Caribbean.

It's all terribly exciting with not long to go now. Look at the concentration on all of our faces.....except for me - I was having selfie time!

Today I bought some gloves for the crew. It will be way windier than past trips to Europe so the Captain reckons gloves will be necessary. I bought a pair during the Summer and I find them to be brilliant - an essential piece of kit.