Thursday, November 10th …..

We treated ourselves to a show last night – Allo, Allo at the Earl Arts Centre. This local production has been running for a couple of weeks and has received very good reviews. It’s a very small theatre and our seats were right at the front and to the side, but we had a pretty good view of the naked thighs and had no trouble picking up the double entendres and sly looks.

This is standard British comedy fare, more than slightly bawdy and with frequent catch-cries, which everyone anticipates: Good moaning from the Idiot Gendarme who thinks he can speak French; It is I, Le Clerc, from the decrepit forger; Listen carefully, I shall say this only once, from Michelle the girl from the Resistance. The genius of the show is that everyone knows exactly what to expect and gets pleasure when it unfolds exactly right. Don’t expect surprises from Allo, Allo.

Everyone played their parts well. Rene was terrific but my favourite characters were Herr Flick and Helga. They showed great restraint in keeping serious faces even when they were involved in the most ridiculous situations.

Sister-in-law, Janet has gone home this morning. I think she enjoyed her few days in Tassie and has become quite interested in some of the crafty characters she met at the Craft Fair. Dianne who curated the Quilt Show, runs classes in quilting and Robyn from the sewing machine shop teaches how to get the most from the modern machines. I think Janet would find lots to do if she lived in this part of the world.

Now that the Craft Fair is over for another year, we start the process of reviewing the operations and analysing the comments and criticisms. We always receive lots of congratulations but, sadly, people are very quick to criticise. I’m starting to make a list of the comments which have been fed back to us to see whether we might do things differently in future years. The problem is you can’t please all of the people all of the time.