by Joanna | Oct 21, 2013 | ballet, Maggie Moncrieff, Perth Rep, Sadlers Wells
As students at Sadlers Wells we shared the dressing rooms with fully-fledged members of the company. For some reason I was resting on a bench recovering from a sick turn when the doors burst open and Margot Fonteyn herself flew in, late for class and very flustered.... by Joanna | Aug 27, 2012 | holidays, Maggie Moncrieff, Scotland
Another article written by my Mum for the parish magazine of All Saints on-the-Hill, Highams Park which I think deserves a wider readership. I still can’t get over the fact my grandpa made a caravan out of an old railway carriage! ******************** Caravan... by Joanna | Mar 19, 2012 | Birmingham Royal Ballet, Coliseum, Maggie Moncrieff, Sadlers Wells
Ballet was my first love. I can remember dragging my mother along Princes Street in Edinburgh worried in case I was late for class; I was three or four years’ old. After the usual progression of trials and tribulations including the declaration of War I managed to win... by Joanna | Dec 4, 2011 | Chris Moncrieff, House of Lords, Maggie Moncrieff, Palace of Westminster
It has been a very busy, happy year celebrating. In chronological order, as they say, our golden wedding in April, Chris’s 80th birthday and recently reaching 50 years of reporting politics for the Press Association in Parliament, and trailing exhaustingly after...
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