A bit of gloating...

[selenay]

When my sister was at secondary school, there was a kid a couple of years
above her who was often the lead in the school plays. I'm told that he knew
he was good and sometimes could be a little obnoxious because of it but he
was a pretty decent kid most of the time. I can still remember being in
absolute stitches in at one of those school plays because this kid had such
great delivery and comic timing. He was also a pretty decent musician and
singer, always a help in school productions where they insist on doing
musical numbers. So any arrogance wasn't without cause because he probably
was as good as he thought he was.

To see that kid, now a rather famous actor/writer called James Corden, pick
up two BAFTAs last night was just brilliant. I had no idea that he'd been
nominated untill I watched the cermony (I love film and TV awards shows) and
there was quite a loud squeal when his name was called out as Best Comedy
Actor. To see his show, Gavin and Stacey, pick up the audience award
as well was wonderful because he's been honoured for his writing as well as
his acting.

Now I have to borrow G&S from Amazon, I can tell.

In other news, I am out at a concert tonight and The Minion has actually
finished his big job of the day already, so it looks like I'm on track to
leave at 4pm tonight. What happened?

In knitting news, after two hours of glaring in frustration I gave in and
consulted KnittingHelp.com where I found a nice video of How To Knit In The
Round. And I now have the first four rows of my new knittens all done. My
original attempts were somehow ending up with the cables on the inside,
which I felt was distinctly wrong. It was definitely more difficult to start
that I thought it would be, aided by Mum confessing that actually she had
forgotten how to do it so couldn't show me, but I feel triumphant at being
past that nasty little sticky point. Hopefully I'll be trouble-free now
until I need to do thumb holes.