Santa Claus, Peter Pan and Bonnie Prince Charlie!

My life has been highjacked for the moment by Santa Claus, Peter Pan and Bonnie Prince Charlie. I apologise to the readers of my blog for the short delay there has been this week in getting this post out. Part of the trouble is I have spent so much time on the computer with these three gentlemen that when it came time to write a blog my fingers and back side were sore!
Let's take Santa first. The Dinner Theatre group are doing a Murder Mystery in Mar Lodge at the beginning of December. The pack we chose, 'Who Sleighed Santa?' gave us the scenario and character descriptions (that's where I play the drunken elf)but dialogue is supposed to be ad libbed. One or two of the players, but mainly Santa, wanted a more formally organised piece, where there were scripts and a running order. So on two afternoons this week I typed for what seemed hours...actually it did take about 4 hours to put 7 pages of script and stage instructions together. Hope it works.
Now for Peter Pan! Well the panto rehearsals are 3 nights a week for 3 hours at a time, but in addition to that I have spent a lot of time on the computer looking for Tinkerbell and Elf costumes. Particularly for Tinkerbell, I want to look cute! And by the way I have had a great idea about the weight loss campaign! I know exactly what I should do to lose weight (Scottish Slimmers programme is fantastic) but I need an incentive to keep going. I think I will do a Bridget Jones and tell my blog readers my current weight each time I write, and you can all help me keep on the straight and narrow. As of today I weigh 54.1kg. I would like to be 51kg by the time I fly on a wire!
Coming now to Bonnie Prince Charlie! He is the third man taking up my time at the moment and I know that once Christmas is over he will be the main culprit. We had the Castleton dancers AGM here last night and I 'made' them watch part of the show which we had done in Jakarta. I must say they were VERY impressed with the standard of dancing ....and so was I. I had forgotten how good we were. I have been doing quite a bit of planning and typing up memos for the proposed Jacobite Experience! This will be a kind of whole community Living History exhibition followed by a show of music, dance and drama telling the story of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion. I want to involve all ages in this, from the babies to the grannies, and turn Braemar into a 1745 village for one day! (Overtones of Brigadoon). The project will be to raise the awareness and raise funds for Braemar Castle and if it is successful it will be repeated throughout the summer...maybe once a month. This morning I have been using the internet (God bless it)to research what kind of sports and games were around at that time. My French neighbour and Jacobite expert, Magali has just been at the door to tell me Michel has already started planning to make wooden Red Coats as target practice, and also an idea to make white cockades for sale. Watch this space as this project unfolds. I am about to search online for some cheap bolts of tartan to make costumes!
So a busy but fun time ahead, as a captive of SC, PP, and BPC!