(Snow) White Christmas
December 23, 2006 at 3.55 am
I’m going to have Snow White over for Christmas dinner.
No, really.
There’s no need to summon the men in white coats just yet.
Emily’s spent the last couple of weeks playing Snow White, in panto at Southport Theatre. I trekked over to see the show yesterday evening, dragging Nicola along for company. Unfortunately, we got there 10-15 minutes late, having been caught unawares by the traffic on the M6. Still, apparently we didn’t miss too much — it’s not like we didn’t know the story!
We were ushered to our seats, which turned out to be next to Em’s mother. This didn’t seem like much of a coincidence at the time — it was only later that Em told us that the two sets of tickets had been booked completely separately, a couple of weeks apart. So, the lady to whom I turned and asked "You must be Emily’s mum, then?" really could have been anyone! In my defence, there is a fair family resemblance.
After the show, it was to The Lakeside Inn – "the smallest pub in the Britain" — for a drink or two. I have to take umbrage with that claim, unfortunately — there’s at least one smaller pub in Manchester, and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen smaller in York. I believe the "official" smallest pub in Britain is in Bury St. Edmunds, however — The Nutshell. I walked past it once, I think, but it was full.
So, size of pub notwithstanding, we chatted away merrily, and it turned out that Emily was doing Christmas with her friend Martin (I think), and was open to suggestions — of course, I was going to be all on my lonesome this Christmas, and somehow the plan became a nice big meal at my place. Which is nice. There will be Trivial Pursuit, and possibly Risk as well. Oh, and lots of exciting nibbles, and perhaps one or two alcoholic beverages. No dwarves, though. I’m really rather looking forward to it.
I’ll have execute Plan A* some other time, I s’pose. Shame 
* Me, a selection of high quality ales, and The Lord Of The Rings in its extended DVD entirety.
