28 March 10: We had Theatre Royal tickets for Hedda Gabler, starring Rosamund Pike.
As one always does with tragedies, one can't help thinking 'Why can't they just be nice to each other', but of course it wouldn't be a tragedy if they did that! Tragedies are mostly about personality flaws coinciding towards a fatal ending - Hedda has plenty of those.
I remember almost every word, as we did it in English in about 1965 (taking turns to read it through) - I had a very good teacher called Crawley who loved reading through plays with us - we did Hedda, and quite a few Bernard Shaw plays too.
A lovely sunny weekend at the end of March has preceded a horrible cold week of rain to follow (with blizzards in the north). On Sunday 28th, the PV roof panels and the sunboxes on the south wall both did splendidly - each taking nearly 15 kWhrs from the sun and sending either to the grid or into the ground!
