Slings and Arrows..

[fajrdrako]

What a great evening!

Did an hour of yoga. It must have been relaxing - I kept yawning throughout it. This is good. In recent months or years I've been having trouble relaxing.

Then I visited maaseru to watch the opening of season 3 of Slings and Arrows, a Canadian TV show starring Paul Gross, about the New Burbage Shakespeare Festival and the Artistic Director who runs it. This year, Geoffrey Tennant - our creative, artistic, troubled hero - is producing and directing King Lear, but as usual life doesn't make his path easy.

Had me in stitches. This is odd, since I normally never watch comedy on TV, and if I do watch comedy on TV I don't laugh, I don't even like it. Why is this different? Is it the Canadianness of the humour? The familiarity of the setting?

And it has William Hutt in it, too, as a sort of bonus.

Then after it was over, maaseru gave me a camel named Humpy. A soft, imperious stuffed camel who I think came from British Columbia. He's lovely. Sitting on my lap as I type. maaseru said she'd thought I wouldn't want a camel - now, why would she think that? I didn't tell her it was a Dunnett tradition to have camels, since Nicholas had one in Spring of the Ram.