Thank The Lord I Had My Glad Rags On....

[gness]

You know when someone asks you to help out at an event and you assume you'll be doing something menial backstage?.....Take care.....

In my day as a parent at an Eisteddfod, being a caller meant being in a back room with the kids and calling their names when it was their turn.....nothing you would need to dress up for.......Well not any more!

Being a caller is now being the one on stage in front of an audience introducing the classes and the competitors.....three and a half hours......with a fixed smile, gazing at all those faces and hoping to heaven that I could pronounce the names....I had sussed out forenames in advance but had given up on surnames.....
But it went okay....I think.....enough for me to feel relaxedish about the evening performance.......not to be......
That was when I was promoted to assist the adjudicator....keeping track of names/scores/prizes....

That too went okay until the last presentation.....a silver salver with a filigree edging......
As I handed it over my lacy scarf got caught up in the filigree and the winner, excited and in a hurry to show her parents......turned and dashed off.....

I almost became the first person ever to be strangled to death at an Eisteddfod presentation.....☺

[sunny-dave]

I hope you had your sensible underwear on ... ?

[gness]

Do you know, Dave.....I did actually have underwear on......that's rare....☺

[tonyav]

LOL, you didn't get dragged of the stage by the excited child did you, gness ?.

[sunny-dave]

The Fallen Madonna of Kettering ....

[Jackdaw33]

I thought you were Irish. What on earth were you doing at an Eisteddfod?
Duw, Duw

[gness]

Tony....I made a brave attempt to appear as if I was escorting her....I think the croaks and turning blue face stopped her...x

[gness]

I'm Irish....at an Eisteddfod in England......♣

[gness]

Hey! Didn't the Fallen Madonna have big.........................☻

[Psybbo]

There's a song but I can't call it to mind, thought Lucy Jordan, but that's not it!

[Jackdaw33]

Now that's got me confused!

[gness]

No doubt Dave will bring it to mind....Owd would have said Dicey Riley...☺

[tonyav]

gness, that wouldn't have happened if you had been wearing a proper scarf.
http://www.officialfootballmerchandise.com/images/football/03jsav1.jpg

[gness]

Not as confused as I was, Jack....when I found myself centre stage....

And it was piano day.....I hate the piano.....sitting next to it and hearing the same flippin' piece over and over....and smiling like a simpleton.....x

[Jackdaw33]

So, after an Irish presence at an Eisteddfod in England, did you round off with a ceilidh, for the sake of national completion?

[gness]

Send one over, Tony....I'm performing all week...x

[Psybbo]

Are you suggesting Villa should be stoned?

[gness]

Jack....I make a hasty escape for home and a Guinness....♣

[DTCwordfan]

Phew, I had mental images of your dress unravelling - and, being under the lights, you were, as they say, in minimal lingerie.....

[sunny-dave]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fallen_Madonna

The picture is worryingly familiar ... (from the neck up, I hasten swiftly to add)

[gness]

No, DT....I did once land up on a catwalk in minimal lingerie....by accident. That was a long, long time ago....

Dave....Wow.....indeed....from the neck up...anything else is my secret....but they are pert aren't they?.......☺