h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So yesterday the tickets for the annual Shakespeare festival in Neuss went on sale. We had carefully planned which performances we wanted to see and with the aid of Gruesome #2 managed to book them.

The one I particularly wanted to see is a performance of Hamlet, in Portuguese, by a troupe from Brasil. I can't really describe it but if you want to know more, try this:

http://www.shakespeare-festival.de/en/programm/2015/Trans-Hamlet-Formation-from-the-Favela-into-the-World--622/

We'll see Shakespeare's Kings. Murder Kills based on William Shakespeare - in German with some friends. That looks interesting

and we'll be at the very last performance on 27th June which is Love's Labours Lost. That's a play I don't know very well and haven't yet seen it performed.

For the last two we'll go early and have a picnic outside before the performance. All very civilised.

The Hamlet is a weeknight. And I cannot believe that I have chosen to go to a performance the night before my philosophy exam. Oh well, I'm not expecting a good grade anyway. As long as I pass.

As for knickers: I finally made my visit to Rigby & Peller, suppliers of corsetry to no less a personage than Her Maj Liz the second, and spent the voucher I got from for Christmas.

I am never buying underwear anywhere else. Ever.

Was it just knickers, or did you make an appointment and have a bra fitting?

I'd love to be able to afford underwear from somewhere like Rigby & Peller. Ah, well! Until I win the lottery I'll have to make do with M&S undies.

bras to fit me generally cost nearly 3 figures anyway, so going to R&P isn't that much more expensive.

I didn't realise you had to make an appointment, so I just walked in. Luckily for me they didn't have any customers at that time and none booked so they gave me the full works. So I got a bra and matching knickers

I've been to a few outdoor Shakespeare performances, most excellent. The most memorable was The Tempest, a free performance in the Iveagh Gardens. Hope yours are fun!

TRiG.

*Wonders where the DoE gets his trolleys... and what being fitted for them might entail*

The appointment thing at R&P might just be for one particular woman who works there. Apparently she can tell your bra size just by looking at you. Jo Brand went there for a bra fitting and was seen by this woman. When Jo undressed she said, "Not as bad as I thought."

well, I was in the one in Düsseldorf, so I'm guessing the "by appointment" is standard practice. I must say that it was lovely having one assistant all to myself with absolutely no distractions. I was absolutely amazed that the machine was spot on with mine, and the advice and information she gave me when we were doing the fitting (as well as when she was showing me how it should sit she said "is it ok if I touch you" and would point to where it would be before doing it - it was brilliant)

They also give you a washing bag for your smalls, but since I have nothing else that goes on the hand-wash cycle I may do the wearing it in the shower trick.

So - how does that work? I'm assuming use no soap, just the water?

DoE - Department of the Environment?

haha - I'm guessing Duke of Edinburgh?

Of course

Don't worry TC, that's exactly what I thought the first time I saw it written like that

I thought of the US Dept. of Energy, which formed out of the former Atomic Energy Commission that gave us the Manhattan Project which performed the Bikini Atoll detonations that inspired the name for the two piece bathing suit called a Bikini which brings us back to bras.

It's all interconnected.

That particular episode of QI on which Jo Brand discusses that brassiere expert proclaiming her "not as bad as I expected" ran on BBCAmerica this weekend. I'm just catching up with my DVR and she just mentioned it.

haha. Well, I've been wearing The Wonderful Rigby & Peller Bra for a couple of days now. And I have to say it's flipping wonderful.

A well fitting bra is a thing of wonderment to me. (after years of just containing the flipping things...)

So now I need to try the "washing it in the shower" activity.

and I want to get another one, in fact I think I'll make an appointment asap

oh and all the Shakespeare tickets have arrived Chez Sho so... we're ready!