I'm going to change the format of this year's round-up page; no longer tracking every time I visit local places - Locko, Shipley, Swan Lake, Chatsworth, Calke, Kedleston - or perhaps putting them all together (maybe at the end) so that I can easily access this year's posts for a certain place and track the change in the seasons.
Instead I want the emphasis to be on new experiences and places - hopefully there'll be a lot of them this year
January
8th - quite late for first walk of the year but at least it was somewhere new - St Chad's Water nature reserve, Church Wilne, Derbyshire. A short circular walk around a lake with swans, ducks, seagulls, coots, and a heron.
23rd - Gecko Theatre's Institute at Nottingham Playhouse. Physical theatre, so although I'm a comparatively regular theatre-goer, this was something outside my normal 'comfort zone'.
30th - First gig night of the year - Ira Wolf, Alex Hale and Ayres at Chameleon Arts Cafe, Nottingham
February
12th - Hopton Hall snowdrop walk
20th - Crompton Acres pond
23rd/24th Manchester - Salford Quays, Ordsall Hall, Lyme Park
28th/2nd March - Norfolk; a mixture of familiar places and new experiences. Staying in a quirky property, and visiting Walsingham snowdrops were two items from my 'wishlist'
March
2nd - Belton House - not actually a 'new' place to visit but not a 'regular'
4th - Markeaton Park - local but not somewhere we often go
5th - Moonlight and Magnolias at Nottingham Playhouse
15th - Manchester
23rd - Locko Park
At this point the corona virus lockdown stopped me going out beyond very brief walks on the playing fields and up to the wood, but individual musicians started to stream gigs from their living rooms, and theatres, arts organisations and museums went online with shows, book events and virtual tours, so I've decided to keep track of those here too (though as I thought about doing this afterwards, the dates are messy at first)
Sarah Jasmon 'You Never Told Me' book launch
Frank Turner 'Sleep is for the Week'
Gecko new single launch party
Fast Car To Florence
Grace Petrie
April
2nd - S T Manville and Frank Turner 'Love, Ire, and Song' at Isolate Live Facebook page
3rd - Max Runham, Thom Worth and Tankus the Henge at Isolate Live
4th - John Allen livestreamed gig. One Man, Two Guvnors at National Theatre Live (on YouTube)
7th - Hamlet at The Globe (GlobeTV)
8th - Sean McGowan at Isolate Live
9th - Jane Eyre at National Theatre Live (on YouTube)
13th - Front Room Festival organised by FolkOnFoot presenter Matthew Bannister
16th - Treasure Island at National Theatre Live (on YouTube)
17th - Phantom of the Opera - The Shows Must Go On (YouTube channel)
20th - Romeo and Juliet at The Globe (Globe TV)
23rd - Frank Turner
24th - Twelfth Night - National Theatre Live (with Tamsin Greig playing Mavolia, so I followed it with Friday Night Dinner on Ch4)
25th - Bustival - livestream fundraiser organised by Vans for Bands to provide doctors and nurses with rest and accommodation facilities; Mark Evans (Young Rebel set), Frank Turner, Will Varley, Skinny Lister (and baby)
- tapas at home
27th - Sean McGowan FB livestream gig (again) followed by a trip to the (virtual) theatre - RSC production of Macbeth starring Christopher Eccleston and Niamh Cusack
29th - Gecko Theatre's Institute. Saw this back in February at Nottingham Playhouse, this time was on Gecko Theatre's YouTube channel
30th - K T Tunstall - Royal Albert Hall Home, followed by Frankenstein from National Theatre Live with Benedict Cumberbatch as the Monster, and Jonny Lee Miller as Frankenstein
May
1st - Frankenstein again, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller swapping roles. Both versions were brilliant but I marginally preferred this one.
2nd - Midsummer Night's Dream from The Globe
7th - Frank Turner livestream gig
8th - Antony and Cleopatra - Sophie Okonedo and Ralph Fiennes - National Theatre Live
10th - Morning Crush, Tom Dulieu, Joe Tilston - Isolate Live gig
19th - Frank Turner - last Thursday's venue-funding gig
20th - A Doll's House from the Lyric, Hammersmith, and Andrew Scott's The Sea Wall
22nd - A Streetcar Named Desire - National Theatre Live/Young Vic
25th - Folk On Foot Frontroom Festival (2)
29th - This House - National Theatre Live
Hay Festival - was unable to take place physically, so author events were streamed on-line this year. See my post here
23rd - Maggie O'Farrell taking to Peter Florence about Shakespeare, plague and grief
27th - Jackie Morris painting
- Michael Wood on China
28th - Claudia Hammond talking to Guto Harri about The Art of Rest
30th - Hilary Mantel talking to Peter Florence about The Mirror and The Light
- Polly Samson
June5th - Coriolanus - National Theatre Live/Donmar Warehouse - Tom Hiddlestone
7th - Romeo and Juliet (again!) this time an RSC production broadcast on BBC4
11th - The Madness of George III - National Theatre Live/Nottingham Playhouse - I saw this twice during its run at Nottingham Playhouse, including the night it was streamed to cinemas through NTLive, so I HAD to see it again - and again, as we decided to watch just one more time on 17th
21st - A Small Island - National Theatre Live
26th - 'Glastonbury at Home' BBC Glastonbury - Foo Fighters, The Cure, Elbow, The Killers (2004) - plus nipping over to another gig The Blackheart Orchestra's The Big Armchair Concert 2 on Facebook
27th - George Ezra from BBC Glastonbury
- Midsummer Night's Dream from National Theatre Live and Bridge Theatre. Gwendoline Christie of Game of Thrones fame (Brienne of Tarth) as Titania
28th - more from Glastonbury - Florence and the Machine, Bon Iver, some acoustic sessions, The Wombats, The Killers (2019)
30th - Hamlet, with Paapa Essiedu, in the title role, part of BBC Culture in Quarantine season from the RSC
July
3rd - Les Blancs by Lorraine Hansberry- National Theatre Live
Timber Festival
3rd-5th - Timber Festival
5th - Much Ado About Nothing - RSC as part of BBC's Culture in Quarantine Michelle Terry as Beatrice, Edward Bennett as Benedick
6th - Belton House
10th - The Deep Blue Sea by Terrence Rattigan, with Helen McCrory - National Theatre Live
10th - The Deep Blue Sea by Terrence Rattigan, with Helen McCrory - National Theatre Live
12th - Othello - RSC/BBC Culture in Quarantine - Hugh Quarshie as Othello, Lucian Msamati as Iago
17th - Hardwick Hall
18th - Amadeus by Peter Shaffer - with Lucian Msamati (again) as Salieri..The last National Theatre Live at home and a wonderful show to end the run on.
17th - Hardwick Hall
18th - Amadeus by Peter Shaffer - with Lucian Msamati (again) as Salieri..The last National Theatre Live at home and a wonderful show to end the run on.
24th - Manchester
27th - Carsington in the rain (torrential downpour)
- The Tempest - BBC in Quarantine, from the Globe Theatre
Edinburgh Book Festival another book festival making the best of things by streaming online
August - 16th - Amelia Gentleman on how she uncovered the Windrush scandal and brought it to public attention
- 19th - Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi: Uganda's First Woman of Fiction
- 22nd - Bernardine Evaristo
- 27th (though the event was on 15th) Olivette Otele and Angela Saini; Pseudoscience and Slavery
- 28th (from Sunday 23rd) Sarah Moss; Unhappy Campers - talking about her latest novel Summerwater, set in a Scottish holiday park in a fortnight of torrential rain
- (from Monday 24th) Alexander McCall Smith talking to Ruth Davidson in his garden with seagulls squawking in the background, about the number of books he has published this year (5!), writing methods, his move from children's books to adult fiction
- 28th (from Sunday 23rd) Sarah Moss; Unhappy Campers - talking about her latest novel Summerwater, set in a Scottish holiday park in a fortnight of torrential rain
- (from Monday 24th) Alexander McCall Smith talking to Ruth Davidson in his garden with seagulls squawking in the background, about the number of books he has published this year (5!), writing methods, his move from children's books to adult fiction
- 31st Arundhati Roy; Portal to a New World, talking pandemic, caste, fake history and writing
North Cornwall Book Festival - should have been taking place in October but for now you can see some of the authors online
August - 22nd - Sophie Ward; Love and Other Thought Experiments
29th - Philip Marsden; The Summer Isles
September
12th - The Good Life Experience - another festival at home, with talks, crafts, campfire cooking, music and gin
29th - Cromford - canal and High Peak Trail
Chatsworth - June 29th,
Locko - Mar 24,
Chatsworth - June 29th,
July 13th - wildflowers, and Long Walk,
July 31st the wilderness,
Aug 3rd gardens, and short walk
Aug 10th gardens, short walk and lakes
Aug 20th gardens. long walk and lakes
Aug 24th lakeside walk
Locko - Mar 24,
Feb 8,
May 29th picking elderflowers,
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