Welcome!

Hello and welcome to all fellow bloggers (I think that's the right term) and surfers of the world wide web! I'm only just getting the hang of this technological marvel but fortunately Gordon Pugh, our redoubtable stage manager, is a bit of a whiz with most electrical equipment (the exception being, so his wife tells me, the washing machine and the iron).

Anyway, if you've found this blog, you are no doubt interested in the Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild and it's associated Dramatic Society, of which I am chairman. Of course, some people - those politically correct types - would prefer it if I called myself chairwoman. I don't mind either way, but I do object to being called The Chair. I'm not a piece of furniture, nor a fence at Aintree. Thelma Greenwood will keep calling me that at committee meetings and I'm sure she does it on purpose to wind me up.

I'm digressing again. Sorry about that. Suffice it to say that I shall be making postings here as rehearsals progress for our current opus, MURDER AT CHECKMATE MANOR, which we are staging at The Playhouse in Cheltenham this coming July. You can get information at www.farndaleavenue.org.uk or www.playhousecheltenham.org and your tickets by calling 01242 522852. We've had a few rehearsals already, despite the production being a good eight weeks away. Can't think why we've started so early but then we do have a new director who has some really avant garde ideas. We'll soon stamp those out of him.

So, come back regularly for all the latest news, gossip, fallings out, requests for help with finding those difficult props and possibly even some photos!