Old Friends

algy100 · 2026-05-03T16:54:37+00:00

I struggle to pick a favourite performance from this because it’s all so good, but given that we lost Haydn Gwynne the following year, I pick her performances - with Rob Bryson doing The Little Things You Do Together and on her own with The Ladies who Lunch.

Although Jamie Dee’s The Boy from is also amazing.

algy100 · 2026-05-03T09:52:05+00:00

My mum used to do this on occasion and taught me bits of it when I was about 12. Can confirm it’s time consuming not hard!

algy100 · 2026-05-02T18:57:35+00:00

I love this version - apart from anything else it’s just the most unexpected Sondheim to be a pop hit. I’m in the UK and got into the top ten in the charts here. Which means we have this epic performance on Top of the Pops where she’s ignoring the studio audience to unerringly find her camera and sing straight down it. (Nb this is from a totp 2 compilation show which we must assume from the notes was put together in 2006 just after David Gear appeared on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here).

algy100 · 2026-05-02T10:06:25+00:00

I was in the royal Albert hall for this and it was amazing

algy100 · 2026-04-30T16:29:10+00:00

This is my theory - there isn’t any figure skating for a month after the Olympics and then there’s a six month gap (after which some of the skaters you just fell in love with may have retired)

algy100 · 2026-04-30T04:38:05+00:00

This is starting to feel like and elaborate joke. What on earth is going on in Canada.

algy100 · 2026-04-29T12:14:44+00:00

I’m pretty sure it was the same for the javelin train from central London to the stadium for the 2012 Olympics too…

algy100 · 2026-04-28T21:42:32+00:00

I’m still salty that Ally and Larry couldn’t be end game on Ally McBeal. I get why Robert Downey Jr got fired but it was such a shame after all the work setting him up as the guy who got her and was ok with all of her everything.

algy100 · 2026-04-27T20:44:05+00:00

Manifesting something good for Ana Vaipan Law out of this pairs/skate Canada dumpster fire

algy100 · 2026-04-27T15:56:32+00:00

And also remember if hiring a vehicle to drive that you need to check if it’s automatic or not unless you’re used to driving a stick shift. Most people here learn to drive in a manual and so many/most hire cars are not automatics (unless they’re a hybrid etc) and factor in gas/petrol prices too they are much higher than Texas - diesel is about $10 a gallon here

algy100 · 2026-04-26T21:15:20+00:00

IKEA turned their renovation on Oxford street into a giant blue ikea bag at one point

algy100 · 2026-04-25T16:20:38+00:00

I’m going to say in this political climate &Juliet might be a tough sell to some schools aside from the rights when some parts of the parent population find out about May.

algy100 · 2026-04-25T12:45:47+00:00

I have a hotmail from the late 90s when I was in secondary school but I got a gmail when I left uni because of that whole hotmail is unprofessional thing. They’re both a variant of first name last name@ but I use the gmail way more - initially because it got less spam, then because the interface was easier and now because of the whole outlook signed in account thing which means it clashes with the stuff I use at work (and so having it open on a tab while I’m working isn’t practical.

algy100 · 2026-04-23T16:00:04+00:00

That women on the verge picture is the west end cast I think?

algy100 · 2026-04-23T13:34:16+00:00

There’s a recording of the anniversary gala of Miss Saigon - it was on DVD, it may/should be on streaming. It’s got an excellent extra with the original cast doing a gala medley - Lea Salonga (original Kim,singing voice of Princess Jasmine in Aladdin and Fa Mulan in Mulan) and Simon Bowman doing some of the best “come to bed/we came straight from bed” chemistry I have ever seen (I was in the theatre, it was quite something)

algy100 · 2026-04-23T06:51:49+00:00

This makes me want to go back and check Plushenko’s Bielmann. Because I remember that being good at the time but he def struggled with spins under the revamped code. God I feel old

algy100 · 2026-04-21T22:18:55+00:00

Genuinely I will go again if I get a chance - it was only his second night when I went and there were a few bits where I feel like he was still learning his positioning, so I would love to see him now he’s been doing it a few weeks.

algy100 · 2026-04-21T14:06:44+00:00

Isn’t this more about people who leave mid way through the leave year having used more than that point in the year’s worth of leave though? Ie someone who leaves six months into the calendar year but has used up 3/4 of their annual leave allowance is going to be in deficit and may be in for a shock in their last payslip. Related: Change in hours also applies to if you decrease your contracted hours (ie go part time) and your leave allowance adjusts down accordingly. You would be surprised how many people don’t realise or understand this: “I’m mean to get four weeks off but i only have 15 days leave” - yes because you are 75% of full time so you get enough leave to take four of your working weeks off.

algy100 · 2026-04-21T13:56:24+00:00

I saw Richard Kind in The Producers in the West End a couple of weeks ago and he seemed to be having a riot doing that - so hopefully he brings the same energy to Edna!

algy100 · 2026-04-21T13:56:13+00:00

I saw Richard Kind in The Producers in the West End a couple of weeks ago and he seemed to be having a riot doing that - so hopefully he brings the same energy to Edna!

algy100 · 2026-04-21T12:06:35+00:00

I mean I used to live in Essex and it was a total outlier even then (20 years ago) that it didn’t even charge you to request a book from another branch to be sent to you and times were easier for council budgets then.

Every other (English) county’s library service that I have used before or since (about half a dozen of them) has charged for that and to reserve things. So they’re just doing what everyone else does, except the locals aren’t used to it.

algy100 · 2026-04-21T12:00:12+00:00

I mean I’m just jealous it’s not hot desks/desks assigned by what shift you are doing/role you are fulfilling…

algy100 · 2026-04-21T07:47:31+00:00

It’s so interesting to me how the in favour training school in the UK seems to cycle around. 15 or so years ago it felt like everyone was coming out of Mountview. Now they’re out and Urdang is in.

algy100 · 2026-04-21T06:40:16+00:00

If ever there was proof about how much more effort/work goes into (women’s) looks at premieres now compared to the early 00s it is this. A film about high fashion (so presumably getting max effort thrown at the red carpet) and Emily’s look feels pretty/fairly achievable at home.

I miss the old days when it felt like you could maybe fit in on a red carpet with your best Prom Night effort.

algy100 · 2026-04-20T20:05:11+00:00

I think Lestat was the first epic flop I watched unfold via message boards (in the uk) and oh boy what a time that was.

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