Welcome back!

Apologies for the delay in posting this week folks - the busy life of a Diva! Well, last night we returned to the Wexler's for the first Rudsambee rehearsal of 2009. As usual we were greeted with left over Christmas chocolates and a glass of wine (or Guava juice, of all things, for us non-drinkers) and, rather brilliantly, the largest bag of cheesy wotsits I have ever seen (though I am fairly inexperienced in the world of crunchy snacks). It must be noted that rather than the Walkers variety, these were M&S cheesy wotsits - yes, just like the advert... A brief singsong of the now legendary Cheesy Wotsit song and just so you know, I didn't start it.

The first week back is always a night of jolly chat, a recap of the year and a discussion of all things Rudsambee. We began, as the Roses did the rounds, with (if you could believe it) a chat about Christmas! I think someone even worked out how many shopping days we had left - I almost felt compelled to run down to Thorntons and buy up their chocolate Santas. General consensus of opinion was that we had a great Christmas with some fab music, lovely audiences and (see a previous post) the world's most scrummy (a word I don't use often these days) mince pies. There are always things we'd like to improve but overall we had a very jolly time.

As the Roses went round again (and Rufus nearly helped himself to a tortilla chip or two) we went on to discuss things like the website (watch out for the new improved homepage coming in the new year and created by our very own webmaster John - stand aside Bill Gates), potential venues for the future and, most excitingly, music for the new year! We have a number of concerts coming up at the Portrait Gallery, St Giles, and down in York with Soon Amore, who we last visited in, oooooh, 2004? Experienced members described the venue in York as a cemetery and Jen suggested that actually the choir sang in a crematorium. Rudsambee have already branched out this year with instruments so I hope that venues such as this would allow for some pyrotechnics a la Pink Floyd. Nice! Anyways, the most exciting moment of the night was not talking about uniform (although I think the boys decided to buy some new shirts that were actually red rather than faded pink).

Anyways, as you can see by the time, it is late and I am tired out. Just a couple of final things to mention: welcome back to Rach who left wee Bel at home (with Granny I hasten to add) for the first time. It was great to have you back, lady. And lots of hugs to Natalie who is taking a little time out of the choir to concentrate on other things. We'll miss you until your return in the spring. Hugs also go to Alison who isn't too well - we missed your chairing though Anne did a valiant job.

Enjoy the rest of your weeks folks. Oh a wee recommendation for you - I am into Flight of the Conchords currently. Check it out! Musical genius.

CSW