Friday, May 9, 2014
This is it, folks: I’ve reached the – slightly extenuated – end of my month-long daily learning blog challenge. And I wanted to finish with one to keep you happy! Let me set a scene. Y…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:15PMThursday, May 8, 2014
My partner’s sister Carry was in a tizz the other day as she related her airport tale of woe. She and her husband were travelling with their two thirsty children and had made the mistake o…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:14PMTwelfth Night is generally classified as one of Shakespeare’s comedies, but last week it officially became a history play as well, after its phenomenal haul in this year’s Tony Awards no…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:28PMWednesday, May 7, 2014
I’ve decided to squeeze in a special request before the official end of my #WhatILearnedToday daily blog challenge. If you follow me on Twitter (@TerriPaddock), you may have noticed – as…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:55PMTuesday, May 6, 2014
Learning meditation is one of those things I’ve had on my life to-do list for years. I have several friends who swear by it and who have been to multiple escape-way-out-of-London retreats …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:23AMFriday, May 2, 2014
Have you been Myers-Brigged? I first heard of this “personality inventory” test in a psychology course at university, and first encountered it in the real world in my late twenties when …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 03:53PMThursday, May 1, 2014
Composing yesterday’s blog about my recent experience with Hopi ear candles, first evangelising and then debunking them, provided me with a reminder lesson opportunity about confirmation b…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:06PMWednesday, April 30, 2014
I first came across Hopi ear candles about 15 years ago at a new age festival at Alexandra Palace in London where an exhibitor was selling, for my pocket, far-too-pricey therapy sessions. Sh…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:49PMTuesday, April 29, 2014
With all the blood and gore – and fantastically poetic staging care of director John Tiffany and choreographer Steven Hoggett – Morse code may not be the first thing you associate with t…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:10PMMonday, April 28, 2014
Even if you’re not a great reader of it, you will know that your body language communicates volumes to others. First impressions are formed in less than ten seconds and, overall, the actua…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:32PMHaving tweeted copiously about the sudden closure announcement of I Can’t Sing! over the weekend, as I started to write this blog this morning, a link to the much-faster Mark Shenton�…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:30AMFriday, April 25, 2014
I’m currently holed up in a small seaside village in Mallorca – no Starbucks or any other type of coffee chain round here – and my live-in barista Peter is about to abandon me to retur…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:50AMThursday, April 24, 2014
The past two blogs have been pretty serious – and long! – so here’s a shorter one for a change of pace. Ever run into someone you know but haven’t seen in awhile. You know you know t…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:05AMWednesday, April 23, 2014
Yesterday, I told you about what’s been happening with my father, who slipped into an extended Delirium following knee replacement surgery. For the family, seeing a loved one in Delirium c…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:26AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
(Preface: After a two-week, medically-necessitated hiatus, I’m able to resume my learning blog challenge – with a serious topic. I urge you to read this one, especially if you ha…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:00AMWednesday, April 9, 2014
The follow-up family call came last night so this morning I’m at Heathrow waiting for my flight to Huntsville, Alabama via Washington DC. (In case you ever wondered, there are no direct fl…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 05:55AMTuesday, April 8, 2014
The plan today was to tell you what I’ve learned about Morse Code… Then this morning, I woke up to a clutch of worrying texts from my family back in the States. What was meant to be a ro…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 02:21PMMonday, April 7, 2014
Having just posted about St Paul’s Cathedral, it may seem a little odd to immediately follow up with an apparently “anti-church” blog, but I did warn you that my topics, an…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 10:58AMThe Book of Mormon now has two major contenders for the title of funniest musical in London. But why just coronate one?! Let’s go ahead and give them all crowns (or tiaras, if they prefer)…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:00AMFriday, April 4, 2014
I’ve lived in London for more than 20 years and there are still whole areas I’ve never heard of, let alone been to. Once you factor in the sheer magnitude of things I don’t know about …
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 04:49PMThursday, April 3, 2014
There are two universal truths about modern life (in fact there are more than two, but these are the ones relevant to what I’m going to tell you): Everyone is busy Everyone receives too ma…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:40PMI hate reviewing. There, I said it. Years ago, I reviewed very regularly, and became a member of the Critics’ Circle as a result. But the truth is I’ve always hated doing it. And, the mo…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:02AMWednesday, April 2, 2014
Today I learned something incredibly important if you’ve just set yourself a public challenge of blogging daily on a particular theme: in WordPress, if you pre-schedule a post to go live a…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:10AMTuesday, April 1, 2014
It may be foolish to launch on April Fool’s Day, but please reserve judgment until the 31st. For the month of April 2014, I’ve set myself a challenge: to learn something new every day. T…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 06:00AMMonday, March 31, 2014
Before we were so rudely interrupted by the weekend and my boyfriend Peter’s demands (schlockily entertaining by the way, even while having to wear 3D glasses), I was recapping “The Mon…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 07:54AMFriday, March 28, 2014
What an odd feeling not to be able to write or shout about theatre – or indeed see much theatre – for more than a month, which was the unfortunate situation I found myself in ove…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 01:40PMMonday, February 17, 2014
I came home from the opening night of Headlong’s 1984 at the Almeida Theatre in a foul mood. It’s a brilliant production and a slick adaptation by Robert Icke (@robertwicke) and Duncan M…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 08:26AMThursday, February 13, 2014
Two things kept coming to mind as I watched The Mistress Contract at the Royal Court. The two-hander, starring Saskia Reeves and Danny Webb, is based on a memoir, authored by the anonymous S…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 09:33AMWednesday, February 12, 2014
Every subsidised theatre, as well as PR and social media savvy commercial producers, has an audience development agenda. Though the idea, of course, is to make theatre accessible to all, inc…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:30PMI’m a sucker for a good infographic so, in writing about old vs young audiences in my blog about Home Sweet Home, I couldn’t resist dusting off this Ticketmaster infographic from…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 12:01PMSaturday, February 8, 2014
When a loved actor dies, those of us in the business mourn the person as well as the future performances that we’ll now never see. And we reflect on past performances and, if you’re a jo…
SOURCE: Terri Paddock at 11:49AM 
