If you're interested - March 2nd, 2008

Happy Mother's Day to my mum, Kieran's Mum, Priti's mum, Terry,Paul & Gerald's mum and everyone else's mum for whom today is that special day...you know the one where their various offspring get to dote on them hand and foot..or where Kieran is concerned, I get to dote on his mother by proxy..this of course is no hardship.

Anyway..it's great to have my mum on one arm and Kieran's mum on the other on such a beautifully sunny and springlike afternoon...just had a lovely family lunch out at the Spencer Arms in Chapel Brampton...excellent food..better company.  ..

By co-incidence..this year's special day is also #1 daughter's birthday...24 years old...aaarrgh!!! Am I really old enough for a grown up lady to be my daughter...unfortunately yes...have a good one.

 

Priti and I escaped again last night...this time a night at the Theatre...Rafta, Rafta...a comedy by British Asian actor, wordsmith and playwright Ayub Khan-Din of East is East fame.  Based on All in Good Time, the 1963 play by Bill Naughton  later adapted for the screen as The Family Way he has brought it up to date,  set it within an Indian immigrant family but still rooted  it firmly in working-class Bolton. 
The play tells the story of marital difficulties, mainly of the non-erection variety, between the eldest son Atul and his beautiful new bride Vina Patel.  Eeshwar Dutt...played with brilliant comedic timing by Harish Patel is a first-generation immigrant and patriarch of the family who has a troubled relationship with his newly-wed son , whose married life with Vina has got off to a rocky start..not helped by his interfering family. 
Rafta, Rafta... opened at the National Theatre, Lyttelton in April 2007 to good reviews...last night's performance was the final one in Milton Keynes...I don't know where  it's next stop is but I would recommend it unreservedly...a good night out...go see it...especially if you liked East is East.