I'm New saying Hi

[postscript]

Oh Hayley! Aren’t you supposed to be taking a holiday in January but already the month is filling with dates and how New Zealand is intent on welcoming you home! Which means that I must gather my stumps and grab every last opportunity of seeing you in the UK, for you will be gone for some months (or so it will seem).

Touring with Il Divo in 2006, will we be able to continue that wonderful privilege you extend so generously to those who brave the crowds and the wait to grab a passing word?

Why on earth I chose ‘postscript’ as a username I can’t now think. Well, I can. I thought there would already be at least one Peter. In any case Hayley thinks I look like a William but then there is probably a William already and to be Peter and call myself here William really would be confusing!

I’m the Peter Roger kindly mentioned in his report on The Stables at Milton Keynes. So, ‘Hi Roger!’ Thank you for that mention. ‘Hello’ to Paul who was with him. Also to Roger and Simon whom I’d met previously and particularly to Keith, hoping he is still able to read posts and wishing him well.

I first connected through Keith, met the aforementioned at St James’, including (as I later discovered) Belinda and her daughter Kim), meeting them all and again at HMV.

Most important of all, ‘Hello Hayley’. I’m the guy you think looks like a William, is actually Peter and is using ‘postscript’ here: Peter Such-PS-postscript!

It may be I’m the latest ‘new boy’ and the way I was dragged up its proper for new boys not to be too noisy too soon, so I think that’s all for now!

However, while this is my first post to the web site The Stables was most certainly not my first acquaintance with Hayley. About those early times, if people are interested, I’ll post later.

Hopefully I've posted this in the right place too!

postscript

[roger]

Hello Peter and a warm welcome to our ever-growing family of Hayley supporters.

Please feel free to post anything you wish concerning the earlier times when you have seen Hayley. No matter how much has been said about those events, it is always interesting to read the views of another member.

I know you have visited this forum many times and so you will be familiar with the names of some of the regular posters. However, there is currently no other member called Peter.... or William.... or postscript! That makes you unique three times over!

I look forward to reading your future posts and meeting you at future concerts.

All the best,
Roger

[Richard]

Hello Peter and welcome to our forum!

I was also at St. James's Church and HMV, so I may have met you as well. If you're going to St. John's, Smith Square on 12th December you must look out for me, Roger and Dave! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Actually, I think I might have met you at Hayley's concert in Banbury 10 days ago!

I look forward to reading all your future posts.

Best Wishes,

Richard

[Belinda]

Welcome Peter,
Great to meet you at St James,Piccadilly and HMV in September.I'm sure you will enjoy yourself on the forum. i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif
I thought in the beginning of your post you were saying Hayley should come home for her all but short holiday and not sing for us
Its two years since she's toured here
You gotta share, i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif
I just hope it won't be three years till her next one.
Looking forward to you posts about the concerts you go to.

Belinda
Hayley's Coming Home i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif and i'll be seeing her on the 18th January.

[Joe]

Hello Peter,

Just want to welcome you to the forum. I'm keen to learn about your prior meetings with Hayley. Looking forward to reading your posts.

Greetings from the USA,
Joe

[postscript]

Oh wow! Where do i start acknowledging so many kind welcomes? I suppose, in order of responses.

First then, Roger, thank you for your kind good wishes. I am sure I shall enjoy interacting with one and all. We will be meeting again arond the Haykley signign table!

Richard, .yes, you are absolutely right, we did chat at Banbury. You were missed at The Stables.

The sequence at St James was that I had introduced myself to Keith by direct personal email some time earlier when he was organising a pre-meet. Somehow, for diverse reasons I never logged into that option where I now realise I would have met Belinda, a Kiwi, which was my motivation--the chance to meet some Kiwis for a long-term project. Namely, touring NZ for a month or so.

Obviously it wuld be ludicrous to be in NZ when Haley's not there. The tour planned for Jauary 2006 would be a superb opportuity but too short notice for me to handle in time. So I'm looking at 2007, or it may have to be 2008 if Hayley only tours NZ on a two-year basis.

I woud just love to see her amongst her home crowd in Christchurch or St James' theatre Wellington where the 'Hayley LIve from NZ' DVD was shot. For anyone not familiar with that DVD, go to Amazon and order it. It is well worth it.

However, missing Keith's pre-meeting, about which Belinda has waxed lyrical on her own site if not here, I took the opportunity of introducing myself to the key people there: Roger, Dave, Keith and, 'yes, Richard' with you too and of course Belinda. We then met again at HMV.

Now, Belinda. No, of course I would not begrudge you Hayley touring NZ. Especialy since I realise it is two years since she did. She's young, exuberant and full of energy BUT (and yes, I'm old and wrinkly and running out of steam perhaps etc) I'm suffering post-shingles trauma due to two bad years of the sort of family stresses we all suffer at some stage during normal progression of life and I'm zonked out trying to keep up with her schedule as a passive fan in the UK--hence it won't be January 2006 that I visit NZ.

The problem with stress is that you do not realise you are stressed until it is too late and the consequences can be devastating. But Hayley has her head well screwed on. She is serious about being and keeping healthy and I guess she knows herself well enough to be aware and truly does pace herself. That last being, I hope, NOT wishful thinking!

Hopefully, those really close to her are keeping tabs on her for her own good but just in case they need some moral support, I'm just sticking in my twopennyworth. Hopefully, that doesn't mean, as far as Hayley herself is concerned, that I'm sticking my neck out so far she wants to chop it off!

As for Joe from the US, Hi! Hi! Hi! I love the States. I would have been at Easton had I not then learned of the UK tour and the friends I was visiiting had a change of holiday plans. My friends are in Plymouth and had it been summer I would have hired a car and trundled around the area booking myself into that theatre.

Judging from the theatre's web sikte it is similar to the St James' at Wellington, built about the same time, a Victorian theastre decorated in the Italian style, if I remember correctly. That too would have been a great experience.

So, yes, I too would like to se Hayley in the States. That is easier to follow her through than NZ, to which I intend to stop off a couple of times on the way to and back, making it a grand world tour.

Well, folks, I hope I haven't twittered on too fulsomely and bored you all. I'll say more another day.

Peter

[Joe]

Hello Peter!

You mentioned that you were here in the states recently; visiting friends in Plymouth, PA ? That's quite near the city of Wilkes-Barre? If so, you were very close by to me; less than a hour and a half by interstate highway!

I enjoy your 'twitterings' ; keep them coming!

Joe

[postscript]

Hi Joe!

Thank you for your encouragement. Unfortunately you floor me! I didn't know there was a Plymouth in PA. I was referring to Plymouth Mass. However, I must obviously let you know if I manage a Hayley with the Boston Pops concert, perhaps we could meet up if you decide to make it?

Their Christmas fare this year looked great but it was a matter of timing with friends' convenience, so I could not fit in either Easton or Boston.

I have a god-daughter in PA. She's jut achieved her Masters and is working on her Doctorate in one of the psychology/psychotherapy disciplines. It is a state I have not yet visited, hence the Hayley prompt.

In this year's UK tour she is visiting cities i've been meaning to take a midweek break in for years and in PA I should have enoyed (had it been summer) simply driving around and visiting my god-daughter as well as seeing Hayley at what seems a lovely liitle theatre (sorry, theater for you!).

Thanks for your encourageent on my posts. I hope that will not lull me into excess and becoming a bore.
Peter

[Lothar]

Hallo Peter,
very welcome at our HWI-forum and many greetings from Berlin.
I was at St.James concert also ...
Regards, Lothar

[postscript]

Thank you Lothar.
I think I did see you there (at Piccadilly), perhaps at the very beginning amongst the incoming crowd. I'm going on your avatar photo. I have yet to work out how and to decide on what Avatars for myself.

I have just come in tonight from playing for the first time with a new digital camera (it was switching on time for the town's Christmas lights) and I hope I have some photos for the town council's web site. More particularly, I hope I shall prove I've got the hang of it before I dare wave it inf front of Hayley, whom I'm hoping to see again soon.

I hope I will be sufficiently practised by that time to have my own Hayley picture.

Anyway, thank you for your welcome. I will make Germany some time. I do intend to visit whether Hayley is there or not, as I have childhood memories of the Black Forest, which I would like to revisit and I don't think it's an area in which Haley is likely to tour.
Regards
Peter

[Joe]

Hi Peter,

I see...the Plymouth you were referring to is in Massachusetts. I'd love to visit there; some places are done up as things were in the 1620's when the pilgrims arrived. Boston is quite distant from me but I won't pass up a chance to see both you and Hayley!

Congrats on your God-daughter's education! May I ask where in PA she resides?

Keep on twittering :je
Joe

[postscript]

I'll have to come back to you on that one Joe, we email and she tends to move according to her research needs. She's just had her first research paper accepted by the reviewing board and is waiting its publication in one or other learned journal.
Peter

[Belinda]

Hi Jeremiah,
Welcome to Our Family
Thankyou for you kind words re keith,

I'll leave it to Gerrit to answer your question re Yulia hes the expert there.


Welcome also to our other recent new member Steve A

GreetingsBelinda, Christchurch, New Zealand

[Joe]

Hello Jeremiah,

I'm so glad you decided to join us.

Joe

[gareth]

jeremiah said:

Hi.

Anyhow, i'd be interested in reading here in addition to Hayley's news items the entire array of vocal artists covered on this forum. In particular Yulia Townsend. Howz that new album of hers doing??

Hello Jeremiah,

Welcome to the forum! Good to hear you're also interested in Yulia's music. Unfortunately, very little news is forthcoming from her record company, nor are there any newspaper reports since she won two NZ TUI awards. Recording for the new album was supposedly to have finished in October.

I do know she was on NZ TV One last Saturday, as part of the Howard Morrison celebrations. My NZ correspondent Sue has recorded it, so hopefully it will be available soon.

Gerrit