Nikki’s Notes | May 2023

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. Firstly dear readers, because I grew up in the 1960s, I want to say a fond farewell to the brilliant Mary Quant who has died aged 93. I actually had a lovely mohair sweater from her boutique and only got rid of it because it was…

Nikki’s Notes | March 2023

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. This month’s musing may be my last for a while dear readers, as I am awaiting a hip replacement and may be too busy with physiotherapy, and climbing a seemingly endless flight of steps! So what to muse on this month? Well, an article in the…

Nikki’s Notes | February 2023

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. Well, dear readers, I hope by the time this reaches you, the nights will be lighter, and spring will be in the air. I think most of us agree that January is the worst month of the year because we’ve had the excitement of Christmas and…

Nikki’s Notes | January 2023

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. As you read this we will be approaching a new year and hopefully one filled with drama. For me, writing this in December, with snow on the ground, my thoughts turn to the last 2 weeks, when I drove to Caterham to perform Mrs Higgins in…

Nikki’s Notes | December 2022

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. I am going to start my piece this month with two of the most treasured words in the English language – Thank You. If you thank someone I think that makes their day and it makes the giver feel, well a million dollars as the saying…

Nikki’s Notes | November 2022

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. When you read this, dear friends, my last foray into the world of nonprofessional directing will be over and I shall be concentrating on learning my lines as Mrs Higgins in Pygmalion at the Miller Centre in Caterham. Directing brings many challenges and sometimes more arguments…

Nikki’s Notes | October 2022

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. Way back in March I had a big birthday dear readers, and some of my wonderful friends, including our very own Margaret Uzzell, Box Office Beauty, Wardrobe Wizz and sometime Rollicking Raffle-seller, gave me a plethora of Theatre Tokens. Finally, last month I bought tickets for…

Nikki’s Notes | September 2022

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. Well dear readers, as I embark on another of my musings on the arts and drama in particular, the second heatwave is almost upon us in spite of my rain dance every day. I know I’m not the only one whose brain feels in a ‘fog’…

Nikki’s Notes | July 2022

Every month Nikki offers her musings, opinions and anecdotes. Emlyn Williams wrote wonderful dialogue – “The few English people I had encountered said what they wished to say with limp decorum, moving the lips as if they were egg-shells; this one, while not sounding in the least Welsh, hit every vowel fair and square between…