Life, the universe, everything - but mostly crafty stuff!

  I was a little surprised at deciding to do the Critic badge - it was when I realised I would actually write reviews covering three of the five requisite clauses that I decided not only was it possible, but that I would indeed get on and do it! The surprise clause for me has to be a review of a Gig / Music Festival. I don’t do gigs - and I don’t do music festivals. When growing up there was not much spare money, and so I learned to save up for things, and to concentrate on the essentials. This mindset has stayed with me - I don’t go out to shopping centres or town centres every weekend, I don’t have a new wardrobe of clothes every year, and I don’t tend to buy books these days either (that was usually where my money went as a child / teenager - on books, - novels and music books). I’m not in the habit of booking theatre tickets or gig tickets either - so how is it I’m reviewing a gig? It starts with Facebook. The Big Sheep had a competition to win tickets to their Cider and Real A...

 It’s been a long time…getting from there to here…. whoops! Wrong thing entirely - but now I’ve given you that ear worm, I’ll happily provide one or two more. On a complete tangent from what I’m writing about today, that song from Star Trek Enterprise - I was in two minds about it when I first heard it as to whether I really liked it or not. But now I’ve accepted that I really do quite like it, and it is totally different to any other Star Trek theme tune. But I digress. I was looking through the badge book, thinking about what badges I could do (partly avoiding starting on one of my Badge Roulette badges possibly?), and saw Critic - and realised that this year I have done a few things, been to a few places that  count towards this. So here I go. Starlight Express - London Wembley July 2024 - a review As a teenager I got to see quite a few musicals in London, as Mum used to organise coach tours up to them through the PTA. I got to see Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamc...