Come Rain Or Shine

Another busy couple of weeks! Being a grown-up in real life is hard! Thankfully I have my lovely Cabaret life to even things out...

A few weeks ago a group of us went to the most amazing little spot - a beach in Surrey! It's a man-made lake with a beach next to it and we spent a beautiful day sunbathing, playing in the lake and drinking champagne and cider. Absolute perfection.

 

Sun worshippers! ** Sand and Cider

Toasting the Beach while toasting on the beach

I have to admit though, it made the next couple of shows rather difficult as I caught the sun more than I expected to...

Ouch!!

However it did lead to the production of one of my favourite ever backstage photos as the team clubbed together to help cover my tan lines using fake tan, foundation, concealer, powder, talc, and whatever else came to hand...

Joe Morose and Chastity Belt *helping*

Shows have been fun and included a couple of private parties alongside the public shows. The problem when I do private events is that I always forget to take pictures, although I did get given cupcakes.

Delicious! I am the sex.

 

Mirror Pictures! With Leah Debrincat, Adama, Natalie Fish, Taz Zebrowski, Slinky Sparkles and Joe Morose! ** With Coco DuBois, Mat Ricardo, Jolie Papillon, Betsy Rose and Taz Zebrowski!

 

Selfie! With Ben Brown and Jonathan Finch! ** Mirror Picture! With Ben Brown and Missy Fatale!

Last week I was lucky enough to be able to go to the London Coliseum again to watch two of the best ballet dancers in the world *not* doing ballet! Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev have experimented with contemporary dance in 'Solo For Two' and it was wonderful!

Cutain up and curtain call!

In more banal news, I've been playing with my hair now that it's long enough to actually play with and experimenting with braids. It's fun. 

 

Two recent hairstyles

And that's that for now - I'm poorly today so I'm off to hide underneath a hoodie, drink tea and watch Disney movies. It's a patented (by me) cure-all for any sort of sickness. And wine. Wine is also good. But I don't have wine so tea will have to do for now.

Hoodie and Tea. It *is* tea. Honest.

Show-Days, Birthdays, Days Out, Nights Out

It's been an action packed couple of weeks! So here we go...

Shows:
Quite a few! Can't remember a lot of them though as I've been a bit pants at remembering to take backstage pictures, but I found these pictures on my phone that are obviously from Proud but must be a couple of weeks old - I can't find them further down on my blog so I'm going to add them here with an apology!

 

Missy Fatale's co-star! ** Mirror Picture! With Ben Brown, Ruby Deshabille, Taz Zebrowski and Joe Morose!

New bird-feeder outside Proud City - I don't know why this amused me so much... I was probably drunk.

Mirror Picture! With Betsy Rose, Coco DuBois, Helen Orford and Mat Ricardo (who looks a bit distracted!)

London in the summer sunshine

I was excited over the weekend to assist Zebrowski Photography on an exciting shoot with the super talented Ben Brown and Jonathan Finch; I can't wait to see the results! Those boys are amazing!

Behind the scenes: Jonathan Finch and Zebrowski Photography

I had a couple of lovely days out with the boy, visiting various places. We spent a beautiful sunny day in Hastings where we visited the castle, a couple of museums, a nature reserve, went on a cable car up a cliff, and had a drink in a smugglers den!

 

My pictures of Hastings...

 

 

And the boy's pictures... yeah, he's a professional!

And we bought *all* the seaside candy!

A few days later, we found a hidden gem so close to our house; Beaver Water World (snigger) is a nature reserve, miniature zoo and exotic animal rescue centre! I got a bit giddy; we saw crocodiles and tortoises and snakes and meerkats and raccoons and lemurs and owls and parrots and... yeah, it was a good day!

 

 

There have also been a couple of awesome nights out; first for Amory's leaving do - for those who don't know, Amory was the booker at Proud for a couple of years and since he's moving on to pastures new it was only fitting we sent him off in style!

Blurry pub picture! With Michael Standen, Slinky Sparkles, Betsy Rose, Coco DuBois, Missy Fatale, Randi Lee and Bettsie BonBon!

 

 

 

 

 

All the selfies!

Guess the Cabaret Shoes!

I had a couple of accidental nights out at the London Wonderground watching House of Burlesque and Black Cat Cabaret. Accidental because I honestly didn't plan on getting tipsy and going out, but these things happen... and they were fun!

 

Selfies! With Lolo Brow and Dinah Might! ** With Tempest Rose and Bettie Blush!

Bar selfie! With my partner-in-crime for the evening, Delores Deluxe!

Oh yeah, and it was also my birthday! Wooh! So I celebrated with a group of friends in the best way; eating food and drinking bubbly wine! I got cake from the girls at Dancia International, free pizza and prosecco from the restaurant we went to, and seemed to have a bottomless glass of wine at the bar afterwards! We all ended up at The Coach And Horses in Soho joining in with Mister Meredith at the piano for a good-ol' fashioned knees up, and a wonderful time was had by all - even if I had several messages the next day from various people claiming I'd destroyed them. It's my birthday - I win.

 

Birthday Cake!

 

Selfies and photobomb! With Loz Stevenson and Emma Campbell!

 

Birthday Cards and Roses

Some of my favourite cards - thank you!!

 

Pink wine and bubbly wine! The best! ** With Ruby Deshabille and Jasz Vegas!

 

 

 

 

 

Pictures by Zebrowski Photography - obviously. I was far too squiffy to take pictures.

My favourite present was obviously from the boy - and I designed it myself!

 

Tattoo!

And you know what - I still found time to chill with the cats. It's the little things in life!