Visitors from down south arriving for Easter. The hotels filling up. Home Counties accents everywhere. For us an early dinner at the seafood restaurant and then onto the theatre .
The small theatre bar busy with locals enjoying a wee dram before the curtain goes up. The locals know they should get out while they can - the chances of getting reservations anywhere this weekend are close to zero. Tonight it's the student theatre group performing a 'modern take on an old classic'.
Ten minutes before the show starts and the first five rows of the auditorium are already completely filled by a large group of extremely cheerful young women. Students en masse. It soon becomes apparent that they are keen fans of the productions equally youthful leading man. After each of his dialogues they clap enthusiastically and - at the final curtain - they whoop and holler. Bouquets of flowers are thrown onto the stage. Curtain calls are demanded. It's La Scala on steroids. Forgotten lines and missed cues are ignored. Difficult to say whether the cast or the fans were more spirited. We agree that 'the fans' probably won by a neck.
The Cadburys Chocolate Creme Easter Egg Cheesecake failed to live up to its potential. 'The Font' takes one taste and announces it's 'dreadful'. I'd have to agree. More emulsifier than Creme Egg. It's also been coated with those small lumps of hard caramel that get stuck to your teeth.
The large Lindt chocolate rabbit in the window of the ice cream shop still hasn't been sold.
Yet more tours of the town for wannabe students and their parents. This morning it's mostly Americans with teenage sons. Two English men with a white dog tack onto the end of the tour. Today the wind is particularly biting and the rain 'relentless'. I catch a look of disbelief in the eyes of one couple. It's a look that says 'Never has Princeton seemed so appealing'.
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Readers (some) will share Angus's disappointment regarding the cheesecake. Others might not be entirely surprised.
Anyone intending a tour of Aberdeen University yesterday morning would probably have opted to staying in the bus and google info about UCLA.
Cheers, Gail.
It's funny the effect weather on a university open day does and doesn't affect final choice. We did the St Andrews open day with our daughter on a day of haar and chill east wind and she loved it. Among her other offers was one from Durham, which is hugely over-subscribed by applicants. We visited on a day of warmth and brilliant sunshine and disliked both the university and the town. So St Andrews it was!
The opening paragraph on that article about nootropics, makes me depressed to be human. I guess at least we can be creatively destructive - being more clever doesn't mean we will necessarily over-ride human nature; we will just find more clever ways to be destructive.
The theater sounds entertaining, in one way or another.
I do like the evening pictures of St. Andrews streets. What a shame that the cheesecake didn't meet expectations.
Oh, I was so hoping for a 10/10 cheesecake review! Your Cadbury Creme Egg cheesecake posts have inspired my Easter dessert.
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023097-hot-cross-buns?smid=url-share
Here's a hot crossed bun recipe from the NYT. Like Gale, I was thinking about UCLA when reading about your weather today. Though I loved Linda's post!
Sad that the creme egg cheesecake didn't live up to expectations. Looking at the photo of it in close-up, I'm not really surprised - it doesn't look appealing. Creme eggs are obviously better eaten straight from the wrapper!
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