Well it's been a busy week here at MacBeth Towers. The first half of the week was taken up with Senior Son's stage debut in his Theatre Group's Panto at the Arts Centre in Aberdeen. The wee man did brilliantly. Being the youngest and smallest cast member by some distance everyone was a little concerned he'd freeze when the curtain opened and he was confronted by an audience of about 300. But he rose to the occasion. The cast of 20 kids aged from 7 to 15 staged a brilliant show, with two teenagers in particular giving amazing performances as Ugly Sisters. The amount of work put into this show (the two women who run the Theatre Group wrote and directed the show) was incredible and no-one fluffed a cue or line all night. I was there for the performance the night after as a chaperone for the kids and again the show went down incredibly well.
A couple of weeks previous, I went with my dad, sister and brother in law to see my nephew play football. He is captain of his team and plays sweeper. They expected a tough game against a side who are signing up talent from all over the North East. It didn't help them - they were destroyed 8-1. My nephew has a real chance to play at a higher level, he strolled through the game and has excellent timing of a tackle. The tall centre forward for this side scored 6 goals and I was struck by the teamwork and togetherness of their team, whilst the other mob, thrown together as individuals and with no camaraderie, simply fell apart when the going got tough.
These occasions have really shown me for every "hoody hooligans terrorise neighbourhood" story, there are kids out there with genuine interests doing great things and making their communities proud.
And that was going to be the end of an upbeat blog tonight. But I have to give special mention to the boys in blue who decided to park up in the car park in our village centre tonight in order to stare menacingly at any passing motorists/pedestrians. Is our village viewed by Grampian Police as a notorious 'hood' which requires this kind of policing? Or maybe it's a nice cushy place to sit and while a couple of hours away waiting for the end of your shift.
It's a real shame their car is obviously soundproofed as this is the only reason I can think of for them missing the maniac in a Subaru driving down the main road of the village at around 50 miles per hour with the obligatory huge exhaust howling as he went.
Surely our wonderful Police service wouldn't take the easy option and turn a blind eye to this prat and instead wait patiently for the first poor sod to drive past with a rear light out.....would they............
It's 1980s pop week here on Tragic Kingdom and let's kick off with Duran Duran and Rio. Over the top video, expensive clothes, great chorus, oh it's all so vulgar and all the more wonderful for it.
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