16th December 2009

Another wonderful few days and I am now feeling upbeat and festive.  The past few weeks have been great and the last few days amazing.  It started with the Russell Howard show at Wembley on Sunday night (hilarious) and continued until today as Tony, Emily, Daisy and I were staying in our favourite hotel in Covent Garden to celebrate Emily’s 21st birthday.  We also celebrated Daisy’s eighteenth as we had not been able to as her birthday was in March which was a hideous month for us all.  The girls went ice skating at the Natural History Museum whilst Tony and I watched (my ice skating years are definitely behind me) and I think that Emily made the right decision in turning down the opportunity to appear on Dancing on Ice (or Strictly Come Icing as I call it).  She isn’t quite as sporty as Daisy is and I swear when her class were told to label their new Hockey sticks at school that Emily wrote ‘Please Take Me’ on hers as she only had it for one day.

I also had the most amazing experience on Emily’s birthday.  Tony has been rehearsing in The Cut near the Old Vic Theatre for Six Degrees of Separation and the girls and I walked over Waterloo Bridge to meet him for lunch.  On the way we passed the National Theatre and met him in the Young Vic Theatre which is just down the road from the rehearsal rooms.  One of Emily’s God Fathers is a wonderful man called Michael who used to be a dresser at the National when Tony and I were working there. Michael then moved on to run the cafe at the Young Vic where my mother also worked after leaving the National. I used to take Emily into the theatre on a regular basis to see my mother and Michael and we also spent many wonderful weekends in each others company but when he left the Young Vic several years ago we lost touch. We were all talking about him at lunch whilst we were eating in the new cafe in the Young Vic (it’s not as good as it was in Michaels day!) and I made a resolution to reconnect with him as we still have friends in common.  It must have been nearly ten years since we last saw him.

After lunch the girls and I headed back to Covent Garden and split up so that we could buy some Christmas presents for each other.  I also wanted to buy some truffles for the girls for their Birthday Celebrations but could not remember where the shop was.  I asked several people but their directions were wrong and I spent an hour wandering around, buying gifts and trying to locate the darned chocolate shop.  I suddenly had a brain wave and remembered where it was.  The shop is small and as I entered the store had to ask a customer standing by the till to let me pass.  He turned around and IT WAS MICHAEL!!!!!!! We stood there staring at each other and hugged and squealed and hugged again.  How amazing is that? And on Emily’s birthday too.  I called the girls immediately and they were as stunned as I was to see him again.  He doesn’t even live in the area and had I found the shop straight away I would have missed him. We spent the next few hours catching up and it was as though we had seen each other only the week before.

Emily’s birthday ended with a meal at The Ivy and then drinks for around twenty of her friends in the glorious library and meeting room at the Covent Garden Hotel.  Friends from her school days in Bath, her time at the Brit School and from The Inbetweeners came to celebrate with her and we despatched them to a night club just before midnight before we headed to bed. 

I had a meeting with a television company this morning and then met up with my daughters for lunch. Snow was falling outside and we all felt at peace and very content. I left them in London and caught the train back to Bath in the afternoon. 

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