A pocket of my life

It BEAN a while since I've visited the White rock but what a Giant show it was! My last show of 2025 and this one did not dissapoint! The panto trip is now an annual event and one that I truely look forward to with the family. This years panto is Jack and the Beanstalk, a classic one that always brings joy with with the panto cow normally being cheeky, the dame showing off their outfits and the hero of the hour saving the village and winning over the princess. This years cast consisted of two soap starts, Clair Norris (Fairy Sunshine), who played Bernadette in Eastenders and Richard Blackwood (Jack) who played Vincent in Eastenders and Felix in Hollyoaks. We have the two show regulars who always managed to put a smile on our faces, Ben Watson aka Silly Simon, his comedy timing is brilliant and he always seems to be enjoying the show himself with giggles and audience participation.  Then theres Tim McArthur who was this years villian, Fleshcreep, making the audience boo ...

I think December 2024 has been the busiest month of my life, along with moving, working and Christmas all taking up time, I am glad for the little best of quiet before going back to work next week. December started off with us moving house , this has been the craziest thing ever and it still doesn't feel real that we have moved and won't be going back to the flat ever again. Don't get me wrong, I couldn't wait to move but I will miss the view from the flat and it makes me emotional thinking about all the memories we have made together there. I have also been trying to keep it as normal as possible for the kids so we took a trip to a festive day at our local shopping centre, they had a merry-go-round, hook a duck, candy floss and Sanea reading stories. We also managed to visit Santa properly the week after which Olivia loved.  In the middle of the month we took a trip to Sheffield park for The Snowman event that they had running, this was a chance to catch up with my Da...

Another show ticked off for 2024, this time one of my favourite and one we can all enjoy, a Panto. This year local pantomime was Peter Pan at the White rock theatre. This years celebs are Emily steel, AKA Dynamite from Gladiators plays Wendy and our Tinkerbell was portrayed by Alexandra Mardell who plays Emma in Corination Street. Both ladies were brilliant and both had great singing voices too. We also had to familiar faces in the Hastings Panto of Ben Watson and Tim Mcarthur who return every and have amazing repore between each other and the audience. The show had all the classic panto moments with lots of audience participation such as 'oh yes it is, oh no it's not' and 'it's behind you' along with the pie in the face a d tongue twisters.  The songs were all on trend and worked well with the story and were all sung with passion, the dancers were brilliant too and filled the stage with colour and fun. The story was a little different this time as i...