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Between Sarah's wedding and our first one I went back to work for a couple of days, and then we travelled up to Inverness gradually as a mini holiday. We were in Edinburgh for just an afternoon, but still managed four festival shows and lunch with my old friend ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bastard. The shows were "Blood and Gold" - a one woman show about colonialism and the legacy of slavery but also about the power of stories and the experience of being from two different cultures; Comedy of Errors - performed in a garden, which was fine, a bit rough and ready, hampered by a missing cast member, and not one of Shakespeare's stronger plays, but the acting was good; Frisky & Mannish - they were a really good cabaret duo, doing mash-ups and filks of pop music. I would have enjoyed it even more if I were more familiar with source material, but I very much appreciated their skill and Ramesh really liked them; and Cruel Intentions: The 90s Musical - I loved it, but I adore the film and know it backwards. The spoken text was heavily cut but otherwise lifted word-for-word from the film, and the songs were all 90s pop - It's quite tricky doing a jukebox musical with an existing script, and sometimes that showed in the songs not quite fitting the plot. This bothered Ramesh, but I was more willing to suspend disbelief.) We stayed just outside Edinburgh in Inverkeithing to minimise the impact of the festival crowds and ramped up accommodation prices. The guesthouse was basic but fine, and I enjoyed some spectacular views when I went for a run along the coast in the morning.
There was a slight mishap with trains which meant we travelled to Dundee via going back to Edinburgh, but we weren't in a particular rush so it was fine. We checked into our hotel there which was much nicer than expected, and then I went to church for the Assumption. They'd transferred it to the Sunday, so it was just their usual daily Eucharist, and the priest was away so it was by extension, but I think that still fulfilled my obligation. Then we had lunch at a pancake place, and made the mistake of thinking we should have some savoury food first, so only managed about half of the ridiculous pile of pancakes - I must remember that being a grown-up means we can just have pudding if we want to. Then we went on to the V&A for the videogame exhibition (which Ramesh had missed in London despite two attempts to get tickets and was the reason we'd come to Dundee). We both enjoyed it, unsuprisingly Ramesh more than me. We also enjoyed different bits - the first room had a lot of detail about the process of making a handful of particular games, which I found a bit repetitive and too detailed but Ramesh really liked. The second room, about socialogical development in the gaming industry was really interesting to me, but he found most of it too basic and stuff he already knew. We'd not left quite enough time so had to rush throug the 3rd and 4th rooms, but it looked as though there was plenty of interesting stuff there.
We made a last minute decision to go out for fancy food in the evening, which was a good one. We went to the Newport - where we had a nice tasting menu, looking out over beautiful views. I didn't get to enjoy those views again in the morning, because it was raining, so tried running inside at the hotel gym. Man, treadmills are boring - next time I will brave the rain. After breakfast we headed on to Inverness and checked in at the first night's hotel (which unfortuntately was not the same as the hotel we were having the wedding reception in, because I was too disorganised to book it before it sold out), and went out to try and find lunch. After a certain amount of faff trying to find somewhere that had nice veggie options I realised time was running a bit short, so left Ramesh to find food by himself and went to the registry office - I got a slightly concerned phonecall from them a few minutes later, making sure that I did know I had to be there in person, but reassured them I was on my way and picked up the licence. By then it was about time for evensong so I went to the Cathedral and met the proctor afterwards, then headed back to the hotel to meet Ramesh and go out for dinner with those of our wedding guests who were already in town.
bastard. The shows were "Blood and Gold" - a one woman show about colonialism and the legacy of slavery but also about the power of stories and the experience of being from two different cultures; Comedy of Errors - performed in a garden, which was fine, a bit rough and ready, hampered by a missing cast member, and not one of Shakespeare's stronger plays, but the acting was good; Frisky & Mannish - they were a really good cabaret duo, doing mash-ups and filks of pop music. I would have enjoyed it even more if I were more familiar with source material, but I very much appreciated their skill and Ramesh really liked them; and Cruel Intentions: The 90s Musical - I loved it, but I adore the film and know it backwards. The spoken text was heavily cut but otherwise lifted word-for-word from the film, and the songs were all 90s pop - It's quite tricky doing a jukebox musical with an existing script, and sometimes that showed in the songs not quite fitting the plot. This bothered Ramesh, but I was more willing to suspend disbelief.) We stayed just outside Edinburgh in Inverkeithing to minimise the impact of the festival crowds and ramped up accommodation prices. The guesthouse was basic but fine, and I enjoyed some spectacular views when I went for a run along the coast in the morning.There was a slight mishap with trains which meant we travelled to Dundee via going back to Edinburgh, but we weren't in a particular rush so it was fine. We checked into our hotel there which was much nicer than expected, and then I went to church for the Assumption. They'd transferred it to the Sunday, so it was just their usual daily Eucharist, and the priest was away so it was by extension, but I think that still fulfilled my obligation. Then we had lunch at a pancake place, and made the mistake of thinking we should have some savoury food first, so only managed about half of the ridiculous pile of pancakes - I must remember that being a grown-up means we can just have pudding if we want to. Then we went on to the V&A for the videogame exhibition (which Ramesh had missed in London despite two attempts to get tickets and was the reason we'd come to Dundee). We both enjoyed it, unsuprisingly Ramesh more than me. We also enjoyed different bits - the first room had a lot of detail about the process of making a handful of particular games, which I found a bit repetitive and too detailed but Ramesh really liked. The second room, about socialogical development in the gaming industry was really interesting to me, but he found most of it too basic and stuff he already knew. We'd not left quite enough time so had to rush throug the 3rd and 4th rooms, but it looked as though there was plenty of interesting stuff there.
We made a last minute decision to go out for fancy food in the evening, which was a good one. We went to the Newport - where we had a nice tasting menu, looking out over beautiful views. I didn't get to enjoy those views again in the morning, because it was raining, so tried running inside at the hotel gym. Man, treadmills are boring - next time I will brave the rain. After breakfast we headed on to Inverness and checked in at the first night's hotel (which unfortuntately was not the same as the hotel we were having the wedding reception in, because I was too disorganised to book it before it sold out), and went out to try and find lunch. After a certain amount of faff trying to find somewhere that had nice veggie options I realised time was running a bit short, so left Ramesh to find food by himself and went to the registry office - I got a slightly concerned phonecall from them a few minutes later, making sure that I did know I had to be there in person, but reassured them I was on my way and picked up the licence. By then it was about time for evensong so I went to the Cathedral and met the proctor afterwards, then headed back to the hotel to meet Ramesh and go out for dinner with those of our wedding guests who were already in town.
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