Small steps and big ones.

As I’ve let you know before, of the health situation at home, I wont mention it here, except to say it’s been a rough few weeks coming to terms with a slower pace of life. ‘But hey!’ I hear some comment, ‘I mean, you guys are getting on, right? Oh yes, we are, can’t deny it, but that doesn’t mean one is supposed to sit on the settee and watch movies all day, well, not the always doing stuff kind of people we have always been. We do our movie watching in the evening, thank you very much.

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A New Zealand actor and an Australian play, ‘Julia’.

Promo photo before Lara’s revamp

Rather than report more on our health status at home which now includes my husband’s demise, I am choosing to focus on the positive. On Saturday 20 June, tickets are booked for seats at Circa Theatre in Wellington, as we couldn’t attend the opening of ‘Julia’ on 30 May. I am still hopeful of seeing the one-woman show, as my daughter Lara is ‘Julia’. Although it is rather ‘wait and see’ for us here.

Most Australians would know the name Julia Gillard, and her short period as Prime Minister. As the commentary says on the flyer “In 2012, Julia Gillard delivered a speech that ricocheted across the world.”

“‘JULIA’ brings the woman and the moment to the stage in a gripping one-woman performance that puts us inside a very public storm and reveals the life and pressures that led to it.”

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