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bZents go blogging
Welcome to our Blog! We plan to keep you up date with all our children's theatre events / workshops and hope that you will send us lots of pictures and comments. If you have got to our blog you will have probably seen our brand new shiny bZents website which will give you some idea of the wide variety of stuff we can offer.
If you have any comments or photos please send them through our contacts page.
27th July 2010
Another Festival!..................
And it's a beauty! The Robin Hood Festival is all next week. Naturally enough it is in the sublime Sherwood Forest
We are there all week and working with some of our favourite people. "What a Palaver", "Legends," "The Singing Plague Victims"
to name a few. However.........., there are a fw problems occurring. The guy who plays Robin Hood for Legends broke his leg whilst practising, and Hanneke, on of the leading lights of the "Crazy Dutch Regulars"
has had to go into hospital and so is unlikely to make all of the festival. This will be a sad loss! They are the international element and always great fun. All this and Billy of Loxley too!
25th July 2010
Festival!..................
Well, loads happened. There were projectile vomiters, and mobile 'phones passing the message for Trafalgar.
Suffice it to say that a good time was had by all. Big, appreciative audiences.
19th July 2010
Wow!..................
A great and very exciting weekend. More when I come back from a few day's hols!
16th July 2010
Thick and fast..................
It's that time of year when all kinds of our favourite jobs crop up. This weekend it's English Heritage's "Festival of History" It is brilliant, especially if the weather holds out, fingers crossed.
15th July 2010
Sick fire-engine..................
But an appointment has been made with the fire-engine physician (or should that be Fysician for comic effect?) Hopefull he will be back in business before too long.
In the meantime just recovering from Fristock where a good time was had by all. Managed a bit of spooky stiltwalking. Worth clicking on the link and looking at the pics.
5th July 2010
Sick fire-engine..................
Freddie is sick. We had a show at Croft up in Cheshire on Saturday, we got into the arena for our first show and Freddie's clutch went. This was not A Good Thing. Luckily that was the last show for a week or two so hopefully he will be fixed in time.
1st July 2010
Wild..................
Had a couple of very different, very lively, but fun shows in Leicester on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Firstly at Rolleston Primary School we did a Tudor dance workshop.
(I'm the one with the well-turned calf) It was great. We had to coach three groups of kids to do a dance for their banquet which was the culmination of their Tudor project. Huge amounts of fun as we had the parents in there too.
Secondly was at South Wigston High School with Robin Hood. Out of our comfort zone here with older kids. It was wild. At times we were holding on by our fingertips, but it was still a hoot. Lovely response, but more of that later!
Monday 21st June 2010
Off again..................
Almost the same as the last entry - off again to Cherwell. Another great couple of shows at the weekend with Freddie the Fire-engine and it was warm. This already makes it an improvement on last summer!
Wednesday 16th June 2010
Off again..................
Back to Cherwell for another couple of days with "What A Waste!". Had some lovely letters from one of last week's schools
."I'm more aware of the need to work as a team with others from the local community to reduce waste" Travis yr 5
"It was fun, I learnt more about recycling, reusing and composting" Daniel yr 5
"It was great fun, I helped them set everything up" Ellen yr 5
"It was hilarious, it reminded you of recycling in a fun way rather than in a boring way like your Mum might tell you" Charlotte (yr 6)
"I learnt a lot about the importance of not wasting things. Things I did know but I had forgotten" Karina Yr 5
Must be doing something right!!!!! Bet Charlotte's mum wouldn't be too chuffed though!!!!!
Tuesday 15th June 2010
New publicity..................
And it's very ORANGE!!!!!
Monday 14th June 2010
Busy, busy, busy..................
Things not letting up! Last weekend we were out with Freddie for the first time, as mentioned earlier. Fabulous first show and then the heavens opened with the mother and father of all thunderstorms. Ended up coming home early. Yesterday it was our third trip to Scunthorpe for the Corus Steel Gala. Great do with reasonable weather and a couple of cracking shows. We love it!
Friday 8th June 2010
Happy Birthday - ish..................
This website is about a year old now. We've had about 12,000 hits. Pretty good huh?
Thursday 3rd June 2010
Oh dear..................
This is a great business to work in, especially when things are going well. However, it is not a particularly easy one at times and it does not need a few people to appear to act as charlatans in the way that George Sycamore of Newark and Sherwood District Council has recently done to make it more difficult.
Seeming to book people and agreeing a fee, then going quiet until it appears too late for the acts to get any other work and then telling them he is not going to pay the full fee, but a much reduced one does not seem ethical. It wasn't just us, but also to our friends Rob and Ian from "What A Palaver!". These are just the ones we know about. Equity might be getting a call!
Wednesday 2nd June 2010
First of the year..................
The first Freddie the Fire-engine show of the year this weekend!
This means It Is Now Summer. This is A Good Thing. We are in Kings Lynn and the sun is set to shine, so hopefully by the end of our show there will be lots of happy and wet spectators!
Sunday 30th May 2010
What a week!..................
It was fantastic! We resumed an association with Stephen Hales, a head-teacher we first worked with over twenty years ago. He is very clever and very open and innovative. I onlty wish my son had had a head-teacher like him.
As with all of Steve's schools the kids were delightful. Open, questioning and responsive and the staff enthusiastic and supportive. The shows in both schools, Burnham Market and Walsingham, were terrific. I'm hoping to have some pictures here soon.
Friday 21st May 2010
Phew..................
Just back from a ten show week in Wychavon and it has turned very warm!!!!! We werte both decidedly smelly by the time we got home this evening! Long may it last.
Sunday 16th May 2010
Successfully negotiated..................
Strike one! Despite her dodgy arm Gayna coped brilliantly with the shows at Nottingham Castle today. Venue was lovely, but audiences were a little thin. Still the Robin Hood bit worked. Able to gert in a gag about Russell Crowe's Irish accent!
Saturday 15th May 2010
Interesting times..................
Interesting times indeed. Gayna fell off her stilts at a job a few weeks ago. She seemed OK, just a bit of a sore arm. It didn't improve. Yesterday she went to have it checked out. BROKEN!
This is a bit of a pain (literally) since we are incredibly busy. We are away all next week in schools in Wychavon with "What A Waste!". We've decided to give it a go and see how we get on. Things will be slow for get ins and so on and some of the routines will need tweaking. If it doesn't work then we'll be home early!
More immediate though is a dose of Robin Hood tomorrow at Nottingham Castle.
May is "Robin Hood Month" in Nottinghamshire. It's to jump onto the launch of the new Robin Hood film with Russell Crowe.
From the trailers I've seen it's a bit like Gladiator with tights. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Hopefully it will mean a fair bit more work!
Friday 14th May 2010
Grand Finale........almost
My last official day at The Grove yesterday for "The Grove Motor Show" It was great. Loads of parents came in to see the work the kids had done, which was fabulous and a good time was had by all. The two projects I have had at "The Grove",
the kite building and the motor show, have been fantastic. The whole thing was a beacon example of the way that Creative Partnerships should work. The staff were receptive and supportive an both projects became real partnerships. The whole thing was an absolute pleasure to work on.
Thursday 13th May 2010
Sorted..............................
Well the government bit is sorted - Tory/LibDem Pact. Apparently the Olympic funding is already under threat.......
But back to real life. Had another few days away with "What A Waste!" in Wychavon. Set the smoke alarms off in one school and caused an entire school evacuation. A hoot! Apparently they needed to test their new system and everyone thought it was great fun! More anon.
Friday 7th May 2010
Do we need a crystal ball?..............................?
Yesterday was a general election and nobody won. I mean. what's the point of having a general election if nobody wins? Does this mean the whole thing was a waste of time? We were in Wychavon doing "What A Waste!" and postal voted.
In these financially straitened times it will be interesting to see how the arts fare. According to the manifestos there was only one party that held out any kind of resourcing promise to the arts, and they've not done very well. Pish-tush
Monday 3rd May 2010
What could possibly..............................?
I'm hoping Gayna is going to write a little more fully, but she and Lenni had a riot of a Robin Hood show on Saturday.
It was at a village fete in Northamptonshire. Firstly, they were expected to perform on a postage-stamp sized piece of land behind a shed, then no-one could get into the ground because one of the carnival floats blocked the entrance completely, and that was just the start!
Saturday 1st May 2010
And there's more............
And this one's from the boss...................
I just wanted to drop you a quick email to thank you for all your hard work at the weekend, the feedback regarding your performances has been fantastic as usual and it was great to see your new material.
Friday 30th April 2010
Always nice............
It is always nice to receive compliments about our work, and particularly so when someone takes the trouble to write to you. This arrived during the week about last weekend:
My family and I enjoyed "Robin Hood" and "Don't Mess With Bess" at Wrest Park this year. We've been coming for several years now and your shows are always a highlight (my own favourite is Horatio!) See you next year I hope!
Monday 26th April 2010
Quite a weekend............
Bit of a mixed weekend I suppose. Off to a really bad start with both the car and the van proving VERY unreliable. This was annoying, especially since I had just picked the van up from being serviced. The work at Wrest Park was fabulous and the weather on Saturday was glorious. Sunday was a little more dodgy and it rained just in time for us to put all the kit away wet! However, we arrived home last night to receive the following delightful e-mail:
My family and I enjoyed "Robin Hood" and "Don't Mess With Bess" at Wrest Park this year. We've been coming for several years now and your shows are always a highlight (my own favourite is Horatio!) See you next year I hope!
The moral of the tale is that no matter how bad things can get with your cars, someone will always cheer you up!
Friday 23rd April 2010
Happy Birthday..............
..............to William Shakespeare!! Yep, it's the bard's birthday today. Not only that it's also St George's Day which means it's Wrest Park weekend!
Now does that or does that not look a pretty cool place to work? We are there with Heroes, Heroines and Hoods for English Heritage. Just hoping for some good weather.
Monday 19th April 2010
Back to what we know..............
Creative Partners back in full swing. I'm at The Grove at the start of the week, pushing on with the vehicles project and Gayna is at Hazel continuing with her Leicester project. Mixed bags really - I've been having a great time, Gayna has really been having to work hard.
Friday 16th April 2010
And now for something...............
Off for an audition for a TV advert today. Who said life was dull?
Wednesday 14th April 2010
A time trip..................
A busy day for Gayna today with some of her Creative Partnership work at Hazel School. She went with a bunch of kids to the Abbey Pumping Station and the National Space Centre.
How's that for a time spread to test the kids? Apparently a good time was had by all!
Tuesday 13th April 2010
And there's more........................
It really is great working in these places - just imagine, having a good time, doing circus tricks on the green of a thousand year old castle!
Monday 12th April 2010
Camera found!.............................
Just to prove we were there with the people we were with!
Firstly a picture of us doing Horatio at Dover..........
Friday 9th April 2010
What a week!.............................
It was great, but very, very cold!
The stilt-walking went well - we got rid of nearly 2000 (yes, that's two thousand) chocolate eggs very kindly donated by Lindt, and not only that, Tigers really tucked it up Bath!
Dover was great but freezing. Some lovely shows to over 8,000 visitors. There will be pictures, but I can't find the camera at the moment.
Friday 2nd April 2010
Busy times.............................
Happy Easter to all our readers!!!
What a busy weekend we have coming up. Let's hope the weather picks up. Starting tomorrow we are stilt-walking for the NSPCC at Welford Road before and during the Tigers-Bath game.
Will be quite interesting. When I stilt-walked at Birmingham City before a football match I did receive a lot of abuse. I wonder if it will be the same tomorrow. I think not.
Then we go from there to Dover Castle
for our first English Heritage job of the year. This has become an annual event and is a fabulous childrens' festival. We will also be meeting up and working with some old friends, most notably the fabulous Wyndebagge
and quite possibly the clinically insane
I'll let you know how things go when we get back!
Wednesday 31st March 2010
Is there any hope?..........................
There has been a long gap between edits here - I have had computer problems, and we all know how much I love computers..........NOT!!!!!!!!!
Besides all these problems, we have been incredibly busy. Gayna has been projecting away at Hazel School and I have been doing the same at The Grove for Creative Partners. I have finished the first project about kites at Grove - it was brilliant! Last Friday I had nearly sixty kites that the kids had made all flting. It was fabulousy colourful. I hope to have some pics here soon.
We have also been away with "What a Waste!" at schools in Cherwell Council area.
The shows went very well and the council have booked another twelve so, as you can imagine, we were mighty chuffed.
However, we had the question of our career. The way the above tours work is like this...... The council contacts the schools and writes to them, telling them that Bozo and Zizi the Clowns are coming to their school on such and such a date at such and such a time to perform their environmental show, "What A Waste!" On this particular day we turned up at the appropriate time at the appropriate school. We walked into the reception...... bright clothes, big boots, red noses. "Hello, we're the Clowns" we said cheerily.
"Have you any ID?" came the oh so serious response.
Is there any hope?
Tuesday 16th March 2010
Coming or going..........................
I am so busy at the moment I am struggling to keep the old website up to date. The Kites at The Grove are reaching a climax - the Sea in the Sky idea is taking shape and we're getting ready for the big fly-in, and yesterday I started work on the transport project with the other group and I've had half a dozen cracking lessons and some super poetry out of them. Gayna is equally busy at Hazel School and was busy doing circus workshops today at a primary school in Leicester,
a job courtesy of this good old website. Keep up the good work!
Wednesday 10th March 2010
Be afraid, be very..........................
The Vikings are coming
Saturday 6th March 2010
Busy, busy................................
Well, I have had a busy week with the kite project at The Grove and it seems to be going pretty well. The biggest problem I've had so far is that there has been no wind! What's the point of making a kite if there's no wind?!
Saturday 27th February 2010
Yorkshire Robin........................
Had a fantastic day at Allerton Primary School in Bradford yesterday. Spent the day doing Robin Hood type things with a lovely bunch of year 3/4 kids. The best bit was the kid who had his Robin Hood hat sellotaped to his head.
Thursday 25th February 2010
Off to a flyer..............................
Started the kite project today at "The Grove". Great day and made loads and loads of kites! This is A Good Thing. Looking forward to round 2 on Monday!
Monday 22nd February 2010
When the north wind doth blow...........
Well, we're off to Banbury with the environmental show this week, but the environment could beat us!!! Loads of snow forecast!
Monday 15th February 2010
What a disappointment.........................
York was, as ever, fabulous. It is lovely to walk around a place and see lots of one-off little shops and not just be hit by the usual array of shop fronts that mean you could be anywhere in the UK.
However............................................................................................................................. Jorvik was DULL. No enthusiasm, very little information and incredibly dry. I have to say that if we do decide to write a show about the Vikings, it will be more informative and much, much more FUN.
Sunday 14th February 2010
On the other hand.........................
After visiting the English Heritage Shop in Carlisle Castle today
and seeing the emphasis of their children's literature, it could be the Romans that get this year's bZ treatment!
Friday 12th February 2010
Great Fun..........................
The kite project that I am about to start at The Grove in Melton looks fun. Not only will I be making loads of kites, but we are aiming to end up with a "Sea in the Sky theme, where we make loads of kites that look like sea creatures and fly them in the sky..... Sea in the Sky!! Funky huh?
Thursday 10th February 2010
A hit................
The purple mailshot is hitting council desks - one enquiry from South Norfolk and one from Yorkshire.
Wednesday 9th February 2010
A sort of day out................
Now as some of you may know we try to create a new project/show each year. We also never throw anything away so we have an enormous props and costume store as well as a vast number of different shows and routines up our sleeves. This year is no different and this year it's going to be ..............................
THE VIKINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our extensive market research (joke, we've heard a couple of whispers) suggests that there is a bit of an opening for primary school viking work, so we thought we'd give it a go and come up with a Robin Hood style show, but about vikings (This is begining to ramble isn't it?) ANYWAY....... We're off to York on Monday to go to the Jorvik Centre for a bit of jolly research. It's jolly research because we are doing research whilst having a bit of a jolly!
On another front, we've had four fire-engine bookings so far this week. In fact we've had a lot of work in this week. Nothing today yet though. Still, the day is yet young!
Sunday 7th February 2010
All of a sudden................
More fire-engine and other stuff in. All of a sudden what looked like a thin wall calendar is filling up.
Friday 5th February 2010
A steady trickle.................
Well, there's been a steady stream of work coming in this week, which is brilliant. The first fire-engine show definitely booked through Tony Yorke, this is good. Hopefully more will be on the way!
Tuesday 2nd February 2010
Another good day....................
Well yesterday was anyway! Several jobs coming in for all kinds of work. One of them was for a Freddie show up near Manchester. We were booked for the same show in the monsoon summer of 2008. It was a lovely show, but he conditions were dreadful. Freddie sank up to his axles when we drove onto the field.
Sunday 31st January 2010
Back to it....................
Busy week coming up for both of us. Back to the grindstone! Start with kite meetings at Grove on Tuesday. Raring to go!
Friday 29th January 2010
Home again................
Well we're back after a great week away, and a fair few job enquiries and bookings through too. Always good news.
Thursday 21st January 2010
A good day again................
It's a good day because we are going on holiday tomorrow!! Whooo-hooo!
Tuesday 19th January 2010
A good day................
Well, The Grove came in with the Kite-making project, which is brilliant. What is even more brilliant is that they've asked me to take a look at another project they are considering, so that is all looking good. Not only that, an enquiry came in for Freddie
for Spring Bank holiday Monday. Keep it coming!
Monday 18th January 2010
One to go..................
And that's where Gayna is now in the lovely town of Stamford.
Well, we're putting in the time on these, and this is probably the most difficult. Anyway, if a couple of them come off it should be pretty good.
Saturday 16th January 2010
One to go...................
Well I had my kite interview at Grove yesterday - all seemed to go pretty well, should know next week. Just Gayna's interview in Stamford on Monday to go. It would be good to get a couple of these under our belt!
Thursday 14th January 2010
One down...................
Well, just had my first interview at Abbey School. Another one of these fantastic Victorian/Edwardian inner city schools. What a brilliant building. I know it won't be particularly eco-friendly but nevertheless such a huge building with high ceilings and so many other attributes that just would not be entertained today. Also, an absolute warren of a place.
Wednesday 13th January 2010
More interviews...................
This time for Gayna over at Stamford. An environmental theme for this one - right up our street. Will probably start with a performance of "What A Waste!"
and take it from there.
Monday 11th January 2010
We've still got the weather...................
Well still managing to earn a bit even though the weather is not making it too easy. On Saturday we started our latest stint at Center Parcs. It was back to where we all started with the free kids' shows and it was a bit of a laugh, and a big improvement on the audience size from the last time we did one of these.
So now it's the big push through to the summer. Work does seem a little harder to come by, although we've had some interesting enquiries, including the commissioning of a new environmental show for Cherwell Council which is pleasing. Also this week I've a couple of interviews for Creative Partners jobs. One of them at Abbey School in Leicester and the other a course making kites at The Grove in Melton.
That's one I would love to do, so I hope I get it. I will let you know of the outcome. It's quite hard going back to being interviewed again. There must be something very deeply psychological there.
Wednesday 6th January 2010
Even more weather...................
It's great! I'm off to try and take a picture of the village from our bedroom window to put on here.
Hey, that worked! Am I getting the hang of this technology lark? Don't hold your breath!
A downside though...CRBs. These things are totally and utterly ridiculous and are just another symptom of nanny-state over-government. It used to be the case that in weather like this, if teachers could not get into their own school they would report in to the nearest open school to them. This was a good thing. It meant that there was a kind of even-ing out process going on and that most schools could stay open. This is no longer the case. CRBs for teachers are site specific and so they cannot go to work in another school and so schools have to close, people have to stay at home to look after the kids, wage packets and companies are disrupted and the economy which, let's face it, is a little fragile suffers. Genius.
Tuesday 6th January 2010
The weather...................
Well I'm English and I'm allowed to talk about it. We are up to our ears in snow!!!!
Friday 1st January 2010
Nearly there...................
Wonderful crisp bright day. A Happy New Year to everyone
Wednesday 30th December
Weather watch...................
Well a couple of ghost walks booked for this evening, but the weather is vile.
When I was driving home from Thoresby yesterday evening the snow was a-falling and by the time I went to bed there was a lovely white covering everywhere. "Great!" I thought, just right for the walks through Sherwood Forest tomorrow night. All turned to rain, no snow, horrible under foot and it's blowing a hooley! Ah well, the best laid plans of mice and men eh?
.............................day 28th December 2009
What day is it?....................
I know it's the 28th, but I couldn't tell you what day it is. Been good so far, Christmas Day was a bit of an oasis in the middle of it all. Had a day off today - small, but very select, ghost walk yesterday evening. A Toastmaster job tomorrow at Thoresby Hall.
Rolling beginning to pick up momentum again.......................
Last bit of a breather before Christmas starts in earnest. Big day at Center Parcs tomorrow, there all day, finishing up on my own doing a couple of late ghost walks. With the light dusting of snow we still have it should be pretty cool out in the snowy forest (in every way
)
I really like the ghost walks and I also really like the Victorian character, Mr Squires, I use for this walk. It's all a bit of a crossover between my entertainment work and my Toastmaster work.
Sunday 20th December 2009
The rolling has slows down for a couple of days...........................
Zizi's Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Big celebrations. It's snowy, it's Christmassy and it's birthday time. No shows for a couple of days, but have had an enquiry from the new publicity mail shot to the National Trust at Croft Castle.
 This is A Good Day.
Saturday 19th December 2009
This rolling along is getting downright dangerous! .............................
The first "Breakfast With Santa" today. Not too bad. Fidget the Fairy was, of course brilliant, but not sure about the outlaw. His accent roamed around Norfolk and then the South west, occasionally breaking into Irish. A gentle introduction today - another 90 people on Thursday. Perhaps a triumph of avarice over reason?
Thursday 17th December 2009
Christmas is rolling along at a breakneck speed .............................
Whoa!!!!! This is a hoot. Robert Mellors School was the venue for "Oh Yes It Is!" on Tuesday and we're off to Thorns School in Kenilworth today.
That'll be the end of the schools' shows for this year and we start the "Breakfast with Santa" malarkey at Center Parcs on Saturday, leading into Mr Squires ghost walks.
Monday 14th December 2009
Christmas is rolling along .............................
Great day at Pinchbeck, and not only that they've booked us for a King Arthur day at the end of next term. That's what we like to hear!
Saturday 11th December 2009
Christmas has started .............................
It was great fun! Everyone, staff and kids alike loved the show, and we seemed to have so much material. I don't know if it's all a part of "as you get older you work smarter", but we just had so much material. Years ago we would get to 45-50 minutes and run out of stuff, now we are having to cut things. I hope it's this and not the fact that now we are older and move more slowly so that we cannot get through routines so quickly!
Monday morning we are up bright and early to go to Pinchbeck School in Spalding. Long drive, early start. Hey ho!
Thursday 10th December 2009
Christmas is starting.............................
First "Oh YesIt Is!" show tomorrow in the big Christmas build up. Long time since we've done an hour's clown show - should be a hoot! We're off to St John's School in Worksop
Tuesday 8th December 2009
Decisions, decisions.............................
Big decision day today. For the past few years at Center Parcs we have worked a "Breakfast With Santa. All jolly good fun, Gayna has been Fidget the Fairy
...and I have been a thoroughly rehabilitated and very loveable Captain Hook, not like this old scoundrel at all...
Anyway, something different this year is required of me, not the others, just me! It looks as though it could be a Sherwood Outlaw. Should be able to do something with that.
Monday 7th December 2009
Weather.............................
Now, I know it's fairly seasonal, but I'm getting fed up with it being so wet. It's chucking it down again now and it's only 18 days to Christmas! Bah! Humbug!
Thursday 3rd December 2009
An old friend surfaces..............................
It was great to hear earlier in the week from an old friend, Stephen Hales. We've done lots of work over the years for Stephen, following him around the country from Leicestershire to Cambridgeshire to Norfolk. well he's now Headteacher of Burnham Market Primary School way over in hilly Norfolkshire and he's booked us for three days next May. Steve is one of those inspirational heads that you always wished you'd had as a kid. It will be great to hook up with him again. We are doing one performance of "Horatio's Last Hurrah!"
Have to really since this is where the great man was born, and then a series of circus workshops leading up to a kid's show at the end. In artistic terms this is a "residency". Impressed huh? All a load of twaddle to me.
Friday 1st December 2009
Back from work!....................................
What a fabulous weekend's work in Ludlow. We just about got away with the weather, it was chilly and damp but nothing like the torrential rain forecast and apparently on Saturday they had something like 14500 people through the gates. We had a ball. We shared the stage (and digs) with our good friends Rob and Ian from "What A Palaver"
Alan Kirkpatrick from "No Strings Puppets" and some superb looking re-enactors from "The Plantagenants "
And all in the fabulous surroundings of Ludlow Castle
Thursday 26th November 2009
Back to work!....................................
Back after a fabulous couple of days in Potsdam with our friends Paul and Ulriche. They have built a Huf Haus which is stunning. Anyway, we're back and off again. This weekend is the Ludlow Festival which is BRILLIANT!
It's at Ludlow Castle which is stunning. Hopefully there is a picture here somewhere.
It is a wonderful festival and is part-organised by our good friend Wyndebagge .
If you have a chance, be there.
Wednesday 18th November 2009
Bad computer day...................................
Yesterday was a bad computer day. Those of you who are familiar with me and my travails in maintaining our other site, "Class In A Coat", that site for all things in the world of Toastmasters, (there was to be a picture here, but the computer isn't letting me put the chosen picture in grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.), will know that Computers and I don't get along very well.
 It has now!
Yesterday I did a DB of an entry about our new publicity. All singing, all dancing. Loads of pics, witty, informative. Then the computer ate it before I could save it. So you haven't got it. All I can say is that it is the world of great literature's loss. I might try to recreate it today, but I'm still feeling a little piqued.
Right then, the new publicity................... pretty cool. We are having a big paper publicity push this year. As well as the new schools' programme publicity we have just had delivered our events stuff. It's aimed at people like English Heritage and The National Trust as well as sundry castles and stately homes.
It's telling about the stuff we already have, but is also promoting our new project for 2010 which is the "Time Travellers' Mystery Trail". Basically this is a kind of treasure hunt with clues and performances designed so that there is not a set starting time. This means that sites can have something going on all day and we don't have to have kittens if there isn't a big enough audience at any given time. The other thing about it is that we are aiming to make it adaptable for different periods. For instance, medieval:
Tudor:
 Well, they scare me...
Victorian:
 We're hoping she'd be a little bit amused...
and even Roman:
 Work it out.................
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