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Jun. 19th, 2006 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eiffel_71
Just spent a fraught hour helping my mother deal with all our invitations to civic engagements that have come pouring in while she's been on holiday. We've sure got a full few weeks ahead of us.
Checking over the calendar, I noticed we have a bowling club dinner dance on 11 November - the very day for which, earlier today, I booked tickets for a Sarah Kane symposium, followed by a performance of Blasted in German, at the Barbican. I glanced at my diary and, sure enough, I'd already put the wretched dinner dance in there.
Note to self : check diary before booking theatre tickets.
Having just looked at the Barbican's web site, I can't simply cancel and get a refund. I have to wait for my tickets to be posted to me in the next few days, then send them back with a letter explaining I now can't attend the shows. If my seats are resold, then and only then do I get a refund (less £1.50 administrative charge).
At least I was spared a double dose of theatrical bad luck. I have a ticket for the Full Monty at the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth on 6 July; we've now been invited to a cocktail party aboard a naval ship that night. Thank goodness, my mother has a meeting she absolutely cannot miss that night, so she's passed the cocktail party invite to the Deputy Mayor and I'm free to go Full Montying...
Checking over the calendar, I noticed we have a bowling club dinner dance on 11 November - the very day for which, earlier today, I booked tickets for a Sarah Kane symposium, followed by a performance of Blasted in German, at the Barbican. I glanced at my diary and, sure enough, I'd already put the wretched dinner dance in there.
Note to self : check diary before booking theatre tickets.
Having just looked at the Barbican's web site, I can't simply cancel and get a refund. I have to wait for my tickets to be posted to me in the next few days, then send them back with a letter explaining I now can't attend the shows. If my seats are resold, then and only then do I get a refund (less £1.50 administrative charge).
At least I was spared a double dose of theatrical bad luck. I have a ticket for the Full Monty at the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth on 6 July; we've now been invited to a cocktail party aboard a naval ship that night. Thank goodness, my mother has a meeting she absolutely cannot miss that night, so she's passed the cocktail party invite to the Deputy Mayor and I'm free to go Full Montying...
