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JUNE 2010
Gardening is fun – hold the front page – I never got it, Dillie Keane told me gardening was her yoga, and I said ‘yeah yeah’ but suddenly yesterday it all came clear. I’d come up to Stockport to see my mum, and she had asked me to help her with the back of her garden where the trees were overgrowing, and I got stuck in and pruned and gathered and sweated and strained, and the end result was wonderful. So now I am thinking, maybe allotments are the secret of life in the city, maybe a garden is the road to happiness. It will probably pass, along with most of my enthusiasms, within days. My main joy is a rescued plant from the garden centre, that, re-potted, seems to have sprung to voluptuous, flowering life. But, enough about gardening – and back to shows and yoga and song and music. I’m back into Mabel Stark at the moment and reading and writing, after a fabulous week at the Metropolitan Room in New York. It was a superb run, with friends and sunshine thrown in for good measure. Jane made me feel so at home in the East Village, and Thelma kindly picked me up from and took me to the airport. I went to a play reading of Kristine Reyes new piece for Victor Lirio’s Perl Project, and saw my friends Andy,, Gaby and David, and Hal and Alaine, and managed to fit in some yoga at East Yoga on 13th Street. It was gorgeous. Lovely audiences and a wonderful time. It passed by too fast. Simon played up a storm and I think had a ball too, hanging, as he does, with the ‘jazz cats’. Back in the UK I went back and saw The Fabulous Flutterbys at The Little Angel with a unch of friends including Claire Martin and Mari Wilson, my God-daughter, Amelia and Mari’s daughter Lili. The cast have gotten so tight, Seonaid and Johny are precise and brilliant and Arran has blossomed into a puppeteer and plays and sings and plays like an angel. Gorgeous. And now summer beckons and I’ll research and write and I hope to swim in the sea and catch some rays in Cornwall and see family and friends and relax, before Edinburgh and Australia in August and beyond. And do some yoga! So please do have a fab fab summer, and I hope to see you somewhere soon, As always - namaste! Love, Barb xxxx |
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LETTER FROM PIMLICO & BEYOND
