By Stacey x

On Saturday 18 th December me and my fiancé’s family went to see the Jersey Boys UK tour matinee show, which is on at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham. I have not seen this show before and this was the first time I saw a musical at the Alexandra Theatre. I thought I would share my thoughts on the show and the theatre. Synopsis & Cast Jersey Boys is the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and how they developed over 20 years within the group. The story is told in four chapters using each one of the stars as a narrator, over 2 hours and 15 minutes with interval. We start with spring told by Tommy DeVito played by Dalton Wood, Summer told by Bob Gaudio played by Blair Gibson, Autumn told by Nick Massi played by Lewis Griffiths and finally Winter told by Frankie Valli played by the alternate Luke Suri. The narration is easy to follow throughout the show and gives you a story from each person’s point of view. The first half really sets the scene for how the band came toget...

It feels like November flew by but it has been quite a quiet month before the chaos of Christmas and December hit us. I'm still taking everyday as it comes and I am continually grateful to be able to experience what we can and for the life we live. Here are the 5 happy things that have happened this month, Darren's Birthday This month was my fiancé's birthday and whilst we didn't do anything big to celebrate it. However, we did go and have an amazing meal at Miller and Carter which was so lovely. We both had salt and pepper calamari for starter, then we both had a steak with chips and I had it with beef dripping sauce and no wedge because I don't like them. It was so nice that I could treat us to this and it was the perfect way to celebrate Darren's birthday. Mum's Birthday This month was also my Mum's birthday, it was really nice to go to my parents and just chill there for the day and then have a Chinese takeaway to celebrate my Mum's birthday. We ...

After 21 months and a pandemic, on Saturday 14th August, I finally stepped back into a London theatre. It’s been a testing year with the stay at home orders, social distancing and mask wearing. It was emotional and an absolute joy to experience live theatre again. Originally, we had booked to see the Prince of Egypt in August 2020 but obviously couldn’t so we moved it to the same weekend in 2021. However, we were very close to missing the show again due to COVID as the show had a case and shut down for about 10 days or so but reopened on Thursday 12th August. I’m so thankful we were still able to go. In regards to the pandemic and safety within the theatre, I thought it was done really well. The day before I was sent a text message with a link to e-tickets and also where I could provide track and trace details and assign the tickets. Additionally, on the e-ticket it gave us our staggered arrival time of 6:55pm-7:10pm. Once at the theatre, there were separate doors for the stalls and ci...

We got engaged in February and we’ve started to think about what kind of wedding we want. I thought it would be interesting to document various steps we get to in our wedding planning. We’ve settled on getting married in summer 2023 and originally we’d booked a registry office for the ceremony and then hold the reception somewhere close such as a sports and social club. We’ve put the deposit down for this which was about £100 and is non refundable. Originally, we wanted a fairly small inexpensive wedding, where we just have a big party and that, then go on a really nice honeymoon after. However, in the past few months this has all changed, my fiancé's parents went and had lunch at a small hotel that’s about half an hour away from us and picked up a wedding brochure as an idea, originally for the wedding reception. We looked through the brochure and just fell in love with it and started thinking about how our wedding could be there. I then booked us an appointment to have a show ...

May, marked one year since I bought my Nintendo Switch Lite, so, I thought I would give an updated review about what I think one year on.   I bought the Nintendo Switch Lite because it was a bit cheaper then the big one as well as being more portable for me to travel with. I don’t regret getting the smaller one because I’m still not fussed about putting it through the telly. Also only one set of my friends have the bigger Switch and I don’t see them often so I don’t buddy play with anyone, it’s just me that plays. Overall, I’m still very happy that I got the smaller one but I have thought about getting a bigger one at some point purely so I can play Pokemon on the through the telly but if I get one it'll be a second hand one. Honestly, I do dip in and out of playing it, I don’t gravitate towards playing it that much at the moment, I think this is also down to trying to find out what games I like playing. I’m currently playing Pokemon Sword which I borrowed off my sister as I wante...

I know, I know, I have left my little space of the internet unloved and untouched for about 9 months now and I’m not going to apologise because honestly, a lot has happened and I haven’t felt inspired to talk about anything. However, I’m going to try and be a bit more present here and just talk about the things I want to talk about. So I thought I would catch you up on what’s been happening whilst I’ve been away. Back in September me and my fiancé moved in together and are renting our first ever house. It’s a 2 bedroom terraced house in a borough of Birmingham and we absolutely love it. We’ve extended our lease on it for a further 12 months as well lately. We’ve got it to exactly how we want it and just have the garden left to sort out now. The location is great, we live in a town but we haven’t had chance to explore because of the pandemic. We are really close to the motorway which is helpful for our jobs and going to visit family and friends, when we can. I miss my parents but movi...