Party People

Family picnic day at church with Oma and Opa to help out. The girls made lemonade. Heather accosted some funky glasses from a reveller.

Shutting it all out

Circus Correspondent

That's a job. A paid job. I was watching a documentary the other night about the history of the circus and one of the people they interviewed was the Circus Correspondent for Stage magazine. Guidance Counsellors, Careers Advisors should take note. If a kid tells them they want to join the circus, but are afraid of heights and can't do any gymnastics, here's a direction to point them in. In fact, they should change the league tables for schools. Instead of rating them highly for the number of pupils who go on to university, they should score them for the number who go on to do fun and exciting jobs!

Something else I learned was that in the early days of the circuses, everyone had two jobs: a shirtsleeve job and a spangly job. And the two were related. So, for example, the tumblers were responsible for sweeping the ground free of stones and laying down the sawdust. They would do a thorough job of course, because they didn't want to do somersaults over any stones.

don't anyone think i am too old to run away with the circus. i still could.