Destiny in a blue cloak

On Thursday, CBC and I headed up to Knightsbridge to attend the performance of a new musical by our friend.  She wrote a musical based on Thomas Hardy's 'Destiny in a blue cloak', renamed, 'The girl in the blue coat'.  It's always so wonderful to hear the creations of friends, especially talented and modest ones! Her musical had a really wonderful Stephen Sondheim feel to it in places, particularly the lyrical songs in 3/4 time. She adapted the story so it had a nice ending but the tension built right to the end about whether Abbie, one of the female leads, would have to marry the old farmer.  Horrid Hardy to have married her off to him in the real story- just like Tess of the D'Ubervilles which had a horrible ending for again, a female main character! I want to read it now, though I will probably get very cross with Hardy!Have you ever read it?  So if you ever get to see it in the West End, I was there first! She premiered it with her teenage school children and most of them were around 12-13 with the oldest at 16, so that is an amazing achievement for them!

It was such an amazingly warm day on Thursday, I definitely enjoyed basking in the sun!  Here, we took advantage of pretty West London townhouses for a setting!  The majority of the outfit is Primark with the blouse thrifted from Hobbs with ribbon added by me and trusty Toms!  It's definitely been Toms week!

Thanks for all your advice and comments re the camera- I am investigating the option Rach mentioned thus far and will contact Canon etc if all else fails! xx