Elton.
And here we go. Number 52. The last one. We have an incredibly non-cohesive story for you and a lovely bit of imagery to ease you out of our year together.
And what a year it’s been.
We have enjoyed this project so much and hope you have too.
As such, we hope you don’t mind but in the near future, after we’ve had some time to look back over the last year, we’re going to bombard you with just one more blog. It’ll just be a piece (with unlimited word count) for us each to look back over the last year and chat about the highs, the lows, the fun bits and the more challenging little twits.
For now, thank you so much for your endless support and for keeping your peepers on us. Enjoy this week’s offerings and we hope to see you again soon.
Alexandra&Nico|Nico&Alexandra
ALEXANDRA
There once was a boy called Daniel. He was kind and friendly and he was also quite short and had lots of hobbies. One of his hobbies was playing computer games, another was rock collecting – his favourite rock being the crocodile rock – and another was dancing. Out of all his friends – Sam, Lou-Lou, Bennie and the Jets and Patrick – Daniel was the smallest, the tiny dancer of them all, and his favourite song to dance to was, Your Song by Elton John. You may have heard it or, if not, your parents might have and if they haven’t, your grandparents might have; this is just how the circle of life works, see? It’s a dizzying circle but even once going around a few times, I’m still standing.
Anyway, it was nearing the end of the summer term at school and Daniel and his pals were very excited for the upcoming annual summer school musical: A Space Odyssey: The Musical. All of the friends had been given great parts! Lou-Lou was playing Venus and Patrick was playing Astronaut No. 4. But Daniel had been given the one role everyone wanted. He was playing Rocket Man who, sure only had four lines of dialogue but he also had a 34 second dance solo.
After weeks of rehearsals, nerves and post-rehearsal milkshakes at the McDonald’s drive-thru, opening night arrived! It was a Saturday. The director had originally asked that the show to open on a Friday but in the end agreed that, Saturday night’s alright. ‘For fighting?’ asked one silly student. They were cut from the show. So, opening night. The audience were in, even though the local train station had been closed for ages because the train that went through it? Well, this train don’t stop there anymore. Anyway, the cast were in costume and everyone was excited. Until…BLACKOUT.
The lights went out in the dressing room, the auditorium, the toilets and even in the lightbulbs of Patrick’s costume. Some people screamed, Lou-Lou cried and a girl playing half of Uranus started playing sad songs on her phone to distract herself from the fact that even though a teacher had lit some emergency candles, she dated a candlestick maker and knew that a candle in the wind would never last. The dressing rooms had no roof. Thus: wind. Eventually, in the dark, Daniel saw a way to save the day!
He followed his big blue eyes towards a fuse box in the corner. He fiddled some sticks and tweaked some tricksters and, just like that, the lights snapped back up. Some confusion remained when a voice could be heard shouting, don’t let the sun go down on me. This was cleared up when Bennie, playing the sun and whose mask had fallen over his face, was seen scrambling off Sam, illuminating with embarrassment. And then, it was show time. ‘Can you feel the love tonight?’ Daniel whispered to his friends as they stepped on to stage. He was talking about the audience.
NICO
A picture says a 1000 words. We only have 500 so here 475 words worth of....ELTON! ENJOY! THANKS FOR READING THIS PAST YEAR!!! BYE!! X















