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One of the pleasures of stopping smoking is that I can taste wine properly. I can also now afford to spend more on wine, since I'm not spending the hard earned on smoke. I had a very nice Haute Cotes de Beaune last night; so nice I accidentally drank it all which was a Bad Thing.

Tomorrow am off to French France for lunch to this place. I've not been there before but Michelin seem to think it is okay and - despite the lary website - it looks like a nice place. It has the benefit of being at the seaside which is a Good Thing. I like the coastline south of Calais - all those long empty beaches and sand dunes. It seems rather unfair that we got the chalk cliffs and the pebbles and the French got the sand and the dunes (as well as good food, fine wine, beautiful and varied countryside, interesting churches, chateuax, sweeping rivers, mountains, lakes and, of course, saucisson) but I try not to be bitter.

I have rather frittered this last week of my holiday doing not-very-much and quite enjoying it. I need to do some more work on Crime and Punishment today - auditions are only a couple of weeks away and I have yet to finish editing the script.

C&P "set"

C&P "set"
Originally uploaded by groan.

I have been dicking around making a model of the stage to scale and then trying to figure out how to portray a vast St Petersburg lodging house that needs two primary acting areas as well as a subsidiary area big enough for up to 20 people. Here is my first attempt.


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