Em

I am risking my blog turning into something deep and meaning-full but i think em would be pleased that ive just updated so regular.

It has been a few days now since em was taken away from us and it is only now the impact of this has hit me. I have worked with em so closely for over a year now on different projects. It was only the other day we all talked about how insular we had become. Many in-jokes, so many stories that only we would understand...the small things became the funniest. my best mate became my partner on stage. performing everynight with em for a month was going to be awesome. Tash, em and I were saying on friday how June would be the most intense, and enjoyable month. All our work paying off.

Em, i am just so sad, and i am so unsure how to deal with this, and what to do without you! I am coming to canada this week for your funeral and i am looking forward to seeing your home town, family and friends. Why are you no longer here.

Richard.

EMMA

Words carnt describe the sadness i am feeling on loosing one of the greatest friends i have. EMMA had the ability to not only make anyone who came incontact with her feel at ease and comfortable but she made everyone laugh.

Em, i am so sad you are no longer with me, to share the amazing journey we had planned. Em, Tash and I had just finished writing our show which was ready to be performed for 3weeks in London. Em was so commited to everything she did and i carnt believe that we are no longer going to be able to "live the dream" as she always used to say.

There will never be a reason why this has happened to such an amazing person, and i dont know how i will continue without em, she had such a massive impact on my life in so many ways.

My thoughts are will all her family who have always come to our shows, and been there to support her.

I dont know what else to say............

Richard.

The golden rule is

I was thinking the other day about rulers!
From the ages of 4 - 17 rulers pretty much dominate our education, not in terms of actually teaching anything but how we present the work we are tought!

In primary school everything must be underlined. NAME, TITLE, DATE. Perhaps with a simple red line under it, or if you went to private school two lines under it. (this is was when doing a line at school didnt mean going to the bathroom!!!!)

So from the ages of 4 - 17 rulers serve the purpose of drawing a straight line.

If one is to look closer at a ruler you will find that there are measurments on this ruler. Once again this, for the majority of us will only be usefull from the ages of 4 - 17 when we are in school and have to measure "stuff" (example, when doing science and you have to measure things!)

So from ages 4-17 rulers are used for drawing straight lines and measuring things.

I want you now to ask yourself, UNLESS YOU WORK IN A PROFFESION THAT NEEDS YOU TO USE A RULER (eg, scientist, builder) if you are either of these two i carnt imagine i am friends with you!!! WHEN DID YOU LAST USE A RULER!!!!?

You asked yourself ?

Last time I used a ruler - A-LEVELS - Underline my name and essay title!

My theory is a ruler is a top heavy piece of equipment when growing up, one is bought every year, if not every term. They are carried every where with you and at the beginning of class that same question is always uttered by someone "Can i borrow your ruler"
Then from being such a major part of ones life............NOTHING!!!!

RULERS!! WHO KNEW!!

Porta Paradise

Bank holiday weekend i went to Barcelona with some friends...despite being their for less than 40hr's the activites were immense, they ranged from drinking, eating, going to a football match, drinking, travelling on trains, planes and cars, drinking to my favourite of all a THEME PARK.

The theme park in question, PORTA'VENTURA. this park is owned by Universal so my expectations were high luckily i wasnt dissapointed, however this wasnt your average theme park trip.

Any enthusiast arrives at the park minimum 20mins before the park opens so my plan was to get their around 9.30am... however this was smashed when we all decided, and by all i mean everyone except me to leave the hotel at 10am...arriving at the park by 11ish. I soon dealt with this as we would still have 9hrs of park time!

The night before can only be described as BRITS ABROAD GO WILD, plenty of drinks, paellla and any other spanish sterotypical thing you can think of!..so waking up the next morning only to find a member of the group who i will label "smash" being sick!....the delay continued and we arrived at the train station by 10.30 only to find the train wasnt leaving till 12.30. DEEP BREATH!

We got off the train at 1.30 and looked for a taxi to get to the actual park gates, no taxi's could be found so we decided to walk, and by walk i mean ME dragging everyone atleast over one mile across spain into SALU where we reached PORTA'VENTURA by 3pm!!

After toilets, lockers, and obligatory sit down we got into the park, not before however i was "shushed" by some spanish woman!...i was told to lower my voice in a theme park, i think this demonstrates how excited i was!!

END RESULT - AWESOME. The park is world class, great rides, great themeing, we all had a great day! please see pix for evidence!








Great rides!
Dragon Kahn the red rollercoaster - 4X riden!!