Yes actually nudie photos!
Of me!
I know!
Some say I was brave. Others, stupid!
But never the less I found myself posing nude for a charity calendar in aid of the local hospice and in association with our production of Calendar Girls this September.
In the spirit of the original story the cast and director all posed nude in the calendar, only in ours we were in the theatre where we perform. Our poses all centred around putting on a show, lighting, sound, costumes you know the kind of thing.
Having the pictures taken was liberating, exciting, scary and empowering all at once. But to quote a line from the play
" It's just when you start something that's only a few photos that a few people are going to see..."
Since the calendar was launched we have been in the local press and on the local radio. The national press awaits and then who knows what may happen. At the time I just stripped off and got on with it but now people are actually looking at the pictures, as beautiful as they are, I can't help wanting to crawl under a rock and hide my rather over exposed body.
I am extremely proud of us all and if you would like to buy one then they are just a minimum donation of £3 each for St Elizabeth Hospice in Ipswich and available from our Facebook page
www.facebook.com/tworiverstheatrecompany
So here I am with the rest of the cast doing our bit for charity. If you want to see some of us come out from behind the piano then you'll have to buy one!
Enjoy!
I'm a bit in love with my bunting!
I think bunting everywhere has been the best bit of this Jubilee weekend. It's just so... cheery.
We've had rain, wind, sun, more rain, choirs and orchestras in the rain, people floating down the Thames in the rain and the Duke of Edinburgh giving himself a bladder infection by not going for a wee in the rain!
Amazingly we've had a massive open air concert in the glow of the evening sunlight so no singing in the rain (or the sound of someone scratching their nails down a blackboard in the case of Cheryl - I used to be Cole but now I'm not) but pretty much everything else was in the rain.
We're very good at it in Britain. We've got used to it. Picnics in the rain, BBQ's in the rain, street parties in the rain - you name it and we've done it... in the rain.
So for your outdoor activities you need a study water proof bunting. Plastic and tied on tight to withstand the gale force winds so associated with June and the height of our British Summer.
Flaming June! Yeah flaming rain in June.
But the bunting I bought was cardboard that I'd picked up in Sainsburys which I thought was pretty. Which indeed it is.
So because I'm British and we are not to be defeated in such matters as mere inclement weather, I've hung it up inside!
And do you know what?
I'm keeping it up all summer long. For the Euro championships and the Olympics. So I can keep this feeling of national pride and cheery optimism going whatever the weather.
So keep your bunting up good people of Britain and lets keep this lovely atmosphere of national pride going for a bit longer.
We don't care that the country is broke we're British and we've got our bunting up!
And keeping your bunting up doesn't cost anything does it!
Until the bastards decide to tax it that is.....
