Let Me Entertain You

Caerwent was buzzing to the sound of live music last Saturday night. Our musical extravaganza certainly went down well with the hundred or so who turned up to hear and see Mid Life Crisis. They rocked through the night with barely a stop for a cheese and onion sandwich. Their enthusiasm sweeping up the crowd into a frenzy of dancing feet. We had all worked hard, both friends and family to bring the night together so I was a little nervous when the clock ticked past 8.15pm and we still only had 50 people in the village hall. Panic over, by 8.30pm we had nearly 90 and the show was well and truly on the road. The girls selling raffle tickets were nearly overwhelmed as ten pound notes were waved frantically in an attempt to get sticky hands on our prizes. Our top prize of two flights to any of their destinations, care of Easy Jet was just too good to pass up and tickets were being sold quicker than we could tear up the stubs for the draw. An expectant hush fell as the winner, Karen Rogers was anounced and stepped up to claim her prize from Ian Williams, Derrick's son, who works for the company. If people were dissapointed at not winning then it didn't show as the joviality continued into the night. Just for something different a visiting Pot Noodle Miner was asked to give a rendition with the band. Ears were as he crucified "falling in love" although he, nor anyone seemed to care. Having been bribed with a ham sandwich he left the stage and the professionals continued. And the band played on, and on. Formalities out of the way the atmosphere and alcohol took effect and the dance floor was swamped with eager feet. Everyone from 14 to 80 years old were either laughing dancing or singing, some even tried all of them at once. This event certainly took the village hall by storm. Tickets were sold out within a week. Over 100 people came to enjoy Mid Life Crisis and had a whale of a time. By the end of the night, when we counted up the cash we had made £986 from the night to benefit Cancer Research Wales. We are extremely grateful for all the support given to us on our first event of this kind. We are now a little more confident that we can pull off our next one which will be on the 14th July 2007. Our leaving party!

Erections

Well it finally arrived, all the way from the good ol' USA. It may not be dayglo pink but it certainly is bright! Had it not been for the failing light when we put it up then I'm sure that sunglasses would have been required. Just to capture the moment we had the pic opposite taken, please notice that Derrick has tea and I don't. For those who like to know it's a GOLITE HEX3, where on earth the third "man" is supposed to go is a mystery, as you can clearly see there is no room to swing a cat. It weighs in at under six pounds, complete which is something to grin about. I suppose the next thing will be testing it out. I can feel a weekend jaunt coming on. On the subject of jaunts, I've just returned from France where I went skiing with Huw, my brother in law and his family, as well as a large group of others. Huw, if you can remember, was the catalyst for this adventure and is currently in remmission from cancer. it was a great way to celebrate his 40th birthday and was also a bit of a rest from the normal training routine. Ahhh the joy of skiing on the pistes of the French alps in Avoriaz, much better gliding down a hill than running up one I can say. Huw insisted that I had to keep up with some form of excercise, so we both decided on this particular form of weight training which we ended up doing nearly every day, well Ok, every day.

Our first dance is this Saturday which is a sell out, all 120 tickets are gone and I can't wait to see how the night goes with our ageing rockers "Mid Life Crisis" blazing the way with their live music. be sure to see the pics from that soon.