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Shelbie is our guest blogger

 Well, the day started off with the great Mikey taking charge of best and worst, which was full of sympathy, until the glorious Sarah walked through the door. We played some games that included Amy. T being the last mafia in the game and winning it over all. We did our weekly vocal warm up to be ready to start rehearsing Christmas Carol, as ever the 3 present ghosts were fab with they charm and happiness. I guarantee you will always laugh when they are about. To finish Gold Company off we had a quick rehearsal of our Halloween physical theatre piece, which didn't feel right not having the lovely dancers there with us. In only 1 hour the members of Gold who were doing the physical piece had to be in Osset ready to perform, it started off with a dance from the Sarah Thomas girls who did incredibly well. We followed with our piece only to get complement after complement, not to mention the fact that a lady chose to watch us over drinking her daily coffee. At about 4 Beth. G, Dee and a very helpful Bobbie filling in for Lucy. T did their first rehearsal of the play, "What A Witch," which went surprisingly well for the first ever run through, the play put a smile on everyone's face and I know one person in particular who goes by the name Mikey was raring to get involved not sure if that's because he really liked the play or because he had too much sugar. To end the day off we had a very thought filled Halloween and Nostell rehearsal but I don't want to give too much away about that. All in all we have had a busy at Yew Tree but it's been worth it!

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