Stuff

When you live in the same place for many years, there is a tendency to build up lots of "stuff" which is put into drawers, cupboards and lofts.  

I have cleared another box of stuff from our loft. This one turned out to contain, among other random things (a slide rule, old photographic prints, a collection of pre-decimal coins, for instance) a number of theatre programmes.  It seems that, in my youth, I was a far more regular theatre-goer than I am now.  In particular, in the mid 1970s when I was still living in Birmingham, I used to visit the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford on Avon quite regularly.  When visiting a show I invariably purchased a programme, and many of them were in the box.  This display of programmes shows the range of performances I saw.  It is interesting looking back at the cast lists to discover many familiar names who were, or became, internationally recognised stars of stage and screen.