last leg/log

hello merrow smithies, it's the last leg and the last log of the tour, in oxford. we have just done the last pelleas and the last flute, with three more bohemes to go in wimbledon next week, then HOME!!!! a rare and strange thought! steve we never made it to see each-other, which is a shame. sounds like you have been busy with your wirelessnesslessness (julian will be very jealous), and what happens to me towards the end of the tour is that i just about hang on to each day as it comes along, a sorrt of mobile exhaustion, but here i am in headington thinking of you.
we're all a bit fed up and pissed off with eachother. too long on the road and troo many warts and all seen and all missing family and home. many have hardly seen their children.
i'm a bit nervous about going home as Julian seems to be both very in love and content and fulfilled with the cats and in a good working rhythm, producing beautiful new paintings, which i do not want to disturb!!! but of course we are dying to see each other too. what a strange life! i know he wants wirelessnesslessness for christmas but instead he has a trip to madrid - after a week in paris- to see the el greco to picasso portrait exhibition which all say is unmissable and five stars etc...
bought xmas books in borders and wondered where you are gemma and where my er tapes are?????????would ake very good xmas watching HINT HINT????????????

hugh and margaret i am jealous of your carols, christmas is not the same without them and 'in the bleak midwinter' is not quite adequate a deux..however just being together again with julian and kitties could not be a nicer christmas prez. it has been a long haul.

pete and jan your pics and news have been great and i am so looking forward to when we next meet either here or there or the other place.

GO MANDY!!!!!

much love to all, and see you hugh and margaret next week to give back the car. is the 8th or 10th any good? these are days i do not have to perform so will be less stressed about getting back. shall we meet for lunch somewhere? let me know whicxh is better for you.

ruthx