AnneMarriott

1 hour ago, capybara said:

I had something similar with the form for a donation/credit/refund. This said: "If you have booked for multiple events, please submit an individual request for each performance. Really? That means 15 forms for me and 15 forms for them to process.

I had fewer than you, but forgot to uncheck the donation option for three lots of tickets.  I wasn't willing to make such donations, still smarting from the notorious marketing strategy that seemed to discourage regulars and increase prices as a means of doing so, so I resubmitted the options and emailed the box office to explain.  No idea if it will work and I'm embarrassed to have added to the box office's workload, but the complicated system was a real pain.

7 hours ago, LinMM said:

Well I would hope it doesn't include supermarkets!  Not all of us have gone out and bought 100 tins of bake beans and bog rolls already! 

Interestingly on my last supermarket trip on Wednesday I spotted an employee (management, no less) scurrying off with 48 rolls of loo paper, two packets of dried pasta and 24 bottles of water and loading the lot in her car.  Needless to say there were no loo rolls or dried pasta to be had - and I didn't bother to check the water situation.

31 minutes ago, RuthE said:

 

If you have a smartphone, you may well find that your online banking app supports cheque deposits by scanned image.  Some of my choir jobs still pay by cheque - I can now pay them in on my phone, and haven't needed to visit a bank for months.

Aha!  Unfortunately my phone is of the antiquated type that just sends and receives calls and texts.  In fact it takes me so long to assemble a text that it would be quicker to walk to the intended recipient and deliver the message in person.  So no apps, I'm afraid.  Thanks for the thought, though.

On 14/12/2019 at 17:57, AnneMarriott said:

Having posted my little triumph with administration of tablets to a cat, I'd like to put vet  consultations ito Room 101.  My cat had a sore 

 paw (left front foot).  I told the vet who then proceeded to examine her eyes, teeth, temperature, heart beat and legs, putting each leg through a range of movements starting with the back two and finishing with the front left.  She then put the cat on the floor and tried to make her walk.  Lexi declined.

 

After an eternity of fiddling about with her paw there were antiseptic soaked swabs all over the place, a very distressed cat and a very frustrated owner.  The vet then took 20 minutes to research the treatment before sending us away with antibiotic tablets, Metacam (guaranteed diarrhoea in my experience), a bottle of Hibiscrub and some gauze swabs.  The vet was clearly far from well, coughing and spluttering during the 45-minute consultation.  I am now coughing and spluttering and feeling rotten, the cat seems fine.

 

A quick follow-up:  My dog was due his 6-monthly health check.  The vet turned out to be the very same as the one who gave me the above heavy cold.  She was efficient and charming and when I tried to pay for the nail clipping said "oh, no, forget it, it's nothing" with an airy wave of the hand.  This ought to go in Room 202 really!

I'm nominating offshore telephone helplines (or even onshore ones, sometimes) for inclusion in Room 101.  Having mistakenly paid a cheque into an account I closed a year ago, I have just spent a miserable half-hour listening to an operator delivering tommygun-style explanations for simple questions, like "where has the money gone?"  in fluent but heavily-accented English, having first, of course, gone through an interminable security check.  Why is it necessary to use my name so frequently?  I know who I am.  Why is it necessary to repeat the whole sequence of events each time I ask a new question, with profuse apologies for the inconvenience.  In fact I suppose I should be nominating AXA health care insurance for continuing to use such an antiquated method of settling claims as a cheque through the post, necessitating an inconvenient trip to one of the few bank branches still available in the area.

3 hours ago, alison said:

Prompted, unfortunately, by Scheherezade's thread on humour elsewhere, I am now going to ruin people's recollections of Dances at a Gathering by asking whether I was the only one to think "Monty Python" at a few moments?

 

Sorry  

I hope you don't mean the Fish Slapping Dance ...

1 minute ago, Fonty said:

 

Sorry, I am a bit confused.  Are you saying this wasn't the original double bill planned by the ROH?  If so, what was programmed originally?  Apologies if this has been discussed somewhere else.

 

Or were you saying that you weren't originally planning to go, and went at the last minute?

The Cellist was originally going to be performed with a new Liam Scarlett piece which was cancelled.

2 hours ago, capybara said:

I'm sorry - and I have tried - but I don't understand the adulation which seems to surround Dances at a Gathering. I was in difficulty at its last RB showing and I am no more captivated this time around.

[I am now running for cover!!!!!]

Don't worry - there are at least two (or more accurately one and a half) others ...

Both tickets now spoken for.

I have a request for a single ticket.  Does anyone else want the other single ticket?

Stalls circle standing D5 and D6 £11.00 each. Cast: Lamb/Hirano.  Prefer to sell as a pair unless anyone is desperate for a single ticket.    Paper tickets so anyone interested please contact me with name and address for posting.

16 hours ago, Meetmeatthebarre said:

 

 

 

P.S. I saw someone sneak fried chicken into the auditorium in December... 😬

Oh, good grief!

12 hours ago, annamicro said:

Thanks everybody for the suggestions 🙂

Anyway if I will not be attending to the show I'd love to go outside London: I've been in London more than 100 times but usually busy in the evening, having shows to attend to.

Thanks the outrageous ticket pricing for this show, this time maybe I could finally visit Oxford or Cambridge...

Or Windsor for a half-day visit, just under an hour from Waterloo by train to Windsor and Eton Riverside or via Slough from Paddington to Windsor Central.  The Castle, The Great Park and river trips through pretty countryside all a nice way to spend some time. 

Perhaps the enthusiastic gentleman is a plant - employed by the management to stimulate applause if the audience seems a bit quiet.

Bundesjugendballett now on the ROH website.

7 hours ago, Lizbie1 said:

 

 

Also: as has been asked elsewhere, where are the promised details about the Next Generation Festival?

Now available on the ROH website (with a few programmes still to be confirmed).  See my posting under Next Generation Festival in News and Information.

I emailed Customer Services and am happy to say that most of the Next Generation Festival is now on the ROH website.  Only Bundesjugendballett, a Symposium and NFG Creatives are still to be confirmed, but the rest are in the Linbury, except for one programme in the Paul Hamlyn Hall.

This festival runs in June and early July.   Performances by Queensland Ballet JPYAP, The Royal Ballet School, Rambert School, ZooNation Youth Company, New English Ballet Theatre, Rambert 2 and Bundesjugendballett.  According to the Friends Summer 2020 magazine, venues, and I presume information about the programmes, is available from the ROH website.  So far I have been unable to find out anything at all - all I get is "no results found".  Can anyone help?

Having posted my little triumph with administration of tablets to a cat, I'd like to put vet  consultations ito Room 101.  My cat had a sore 

 paw (left front foot).  I told the vet who then proceeded to examine her eyes, teeth, temperature, heart beat and legs, putting each leg through a range of movements starting with the back two and finishing with the front left.  She then put the cat on the floor and tried to make her walk.  Lexi declined.

After an eternity of fiddling about with her paw there were antiseptic soaked swabs all over the place, a very distressed cat and a very frustrated owner.  The vet then took 20 minutes to research the treatment before sending us away with antibiotic tablets, Metacam (guaranteed diarrhoea in my experience), a bottle of Hibiscrub and some gauze swabs.  The vet was clearly far from well, coughing and spluttering during the 45-minute consultation.  I am now coughing and spluttering and feeling rotten, the cat seems fine.

20 hours ago, LinMM said:

Keep us updated!! 

9 hours ago, Jane said:

Well done getting the tablet down with food. After numerous failed attempts the only food that hides a  crushed tablet in our house is the Felix cat soup. I’m sure he heard the vet say ‘the tablets are fish flavoured so cats love them’ and thought I’ll show you vet I’m not that stupid. 
Hope you find a way to bath sore paw and keep your hands intact. 

So far no luck.  At the merest whiff of antiseptic solution she squeezes herself into one of many places in the house inaccessible to humans, or dashes out into the garden which rather defeats the object of the exercise.  However, she's not limping any more so my fingers are crossed for the follow-up appointment when I hope she'll be signed off.

On 06/03/2017 at 13:34, Jacqueline said:

Last few times I was at our local vets, they were selling/promoting a plastic syringe like device for getting pills down feline throats. I well remember the struggle with our cat, holding her under one arm while trying to prise her mouth open and get the pill in her mouth. Then you were supposed to massage her neck to encourage swallowing the pill.

She would then hold the pill in her mouth before spitting it out elsewhere. The vet made it look easy but animals sense your unease and play on it. This syringe is placed in the cat's mouth and the pill is launched down the throat before the cat has a chance to object apparently. What could possibly go wrong?

On 06/03/2017 at 15:24, taxi4ballet said:

Er... You hold the cat down with both hands, and with your third hand you grab hold of its head, with your fourth hand you prise open the jaws, and with your fifth hand you manipulate the syringe. Piece of cake 

On 07/03/2017 at 13:02, porthesia said:

Me and my other half tried the green syringe device - still didn't manage to get the pill down the cat, well yes we did, down the front of the cat when she spat it out

 

Edited for typo

 

PS why can't I use the smiley faces?

On 11/03/2017 at 23:27, LinMM said:

We used to put Toscars pills into bits of chicken ....make a sort of hole and hide it in the piece.

Sometimes it worked.

On other occasions we thought it had worked but would then find the pill on the floor near his dish later!!

 

By far the best were the homeopathic powders because these we could just mix in with his food and he more or less accepted this

 

A pity you can't get all these pills in powder form or liquid and mix into the food.

There would still probably be days when they would just not touch the food though!

A small miracle to report: our rescue cat, who is very resistant to handling, has been prescribed antibiotic tablets.  After an initial failed two-man attempt to get the tablets down her I have happened upon the following solution:

Using two spoons or a pestle and mortar, grind the tablets into a fine powder.  Mix the powder into a teaspoonful of Gourmet Gold Pate (or whatever your cat's favourite wet cat food might be) and add to a regular meal.  Success!

All I have to do now is find a fool-proof method of bathing a sore paw with an antiseptic solution ...

1 hour ago, Shade said:

For those who use SouthWestern Railways be aware that there may be strikes throughout December. 

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

30 minutes ago, bridiem said:

I positively hated Marguerite and Armand, and then I saw it with Rojo and Polunin... 

Snap!  Sadly however the magic disappeared with subsequent viewings and I shan't book to see it again - or at least I'll sit it out ...

8 hours ago, Jane S said:

 

Anne, I believe that if you really don't like a ballet after 20 years of trying, you probably never will. Just stop going to it - it' s a huge relief, as I found myself with Manon , decades ago!

I agree, Jane - and I have been doing that with the two other Ashton ballets that I have never liked, namely Two Pigeons and Marguerite and Armand.  However when a piece is in the middle of a triple bill it's hard to avoid unless one sits it out in the bar (as my other half did!).  However I used to wonder what all the fuss was about over Month in the Country and then I saw Genesia Rosato do it and suddenly "got it".  Now it's one of my favourites.  And I know your feelings about Manon which I really love.  It takes all sorts ...

30 minutes ago, JohnS said:

An enjoyable matinee and I very much agree with Capybara and others regarding Enigma and Nimrod.  The more times I see Enigma, the more I want to see it and I am looking forward very much to the cinema relay and hopefully a DVD.

 

 

Sorry to be a party pooper but I saw the triple bill this afternoon and it just served to confirm that the more times I see Enigma the less I want to see it.  I enjoy the music and designs but the ballet itself just leaves me cold.  It appeals to so many balletgoers that I can only assume the problem is mine. (Puts on tin hat).