Hello everyone!
I just thought I'd let you know that last year I did some 'stand up' after a course for 12 Saturdays...I travelled (despite my flipping headache) to Brighton from Guildford and ventured on ticking off something on my bucket list. My act had a lot of menopause jokes in it. I was lucky enough to get through auditions and perform in front of 256 people! (To be precise!!). It was AMAZING. People I had never met approached me at the bar afterwards and women were saying 'please do a one woman show because we will come and see you'. How utterly extraordinary! There is not enough known about our time of life and there is a lot to laugh about because it's so bloody painful going through it. Laughing is like pressing a 'release' button. Despite feeling pretty shabby I am now doing three more comedy courses in London. I guess what I want to say is, however ghastly you may feel, you just have to pray that you can get through things and you have to fight on through...(this is making me a bit tearful saying this, as I am not at all flippant and the fighting has been hell). Anyway...the next courses will involve menopause jokes too I'm sure...in a way that people can truly relate and think 'thank GOD someone understands me!!'....yet with a laugh... I am doing a sitcom course. A comedy sketch course and a comedy acting for TV course. FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT EVEN IF IT KILLS YOU...!! Our lives can't stop, although at times it feels like somebody pushed the STOP BUTTON.... I have never felt so terrible in all my life but I just keep praying the sun will come out tomorrow. xxxx