Hobnobbing with the stars

Being a valued group booking customer, the mummy was invited to the press launch of the Hippodrome Pantomime

Having survived an encounter with a bull in the bullring...

...we we given a preview of the Snow White set and met the cast - there was the wicked queen (Stephanie Beacham)

Mirror, mirror on the wall (Gok Wan)

"Dame" Gary Wilmot

Oddjob (Matt Slack)

The Prince (Don Partridge)

Snow White (Danielle Hope, winner of the BBC talent contest Over The Rainbow)

and Muddles (Paul Zerdin, ventriloquist)

Three different butterflies in one shot

We have all been grumbling that winter has set in early and we have had to turn our heating on in September. Then we suddenly get a warm sunny day and the butterflies are back

 This comma butterfly was in the back garden

And here we have a red admiral, a painted lady and a tortoiseshell

all in the same shot at the front of the house!

And then the admiral posed on this apple in the sunlight

Stuart Townend @ Emmanuel

We bought tickets as soon as we saw the advert because we guessed it would be popular. We thought we would get there early to get a good seat, but so did everyone else so we ended up on the back row.

Just him and his son (percussion) and, for a couple of songs, his iPad

Oh and the piano

We didn't win his competition prize (one of his CDs), but I have since bought "The Journey"