It Was Costa! With Nicola May after out great One-To-One
It’s been a rewarding, busy time for me lately, I’m pleased to report.
Last Wednesday was spent rehearsing for Thursday’s Rehearsed Reading of Singles Holiday, the play, which took place at the Wenlock & Essex in Islington. It was exciting to feel the play coming to life and I love what director Dave Milner is bringing to the production and performing to an audience for the first time, all be it a small one, gave the rehearsal vibrancy. I can’t wait until we’re into rehearsals-proper and am very much looking forward to October when we are performing at the Brentwood Theatre.
On Saturday I had a very worthwhile one-to-one with Nicola May, once we found each other, that is! We got our Starbucks and our Costas mixed up! Fortunately they were very near each other. Nicola is an extremely successful self-published author who runs courses and advice sessions for self-publishers and indie authors and she is extremely supportive and believes in sharing success. You can find out more about her at www.nicolamay.com. Nicola was, of course, a guest on my Hot Holidays! feature last week and tomorrow’s guest is another fab author Caroline James, so I know you won’t want to miss that!
Yesterday saw me working as an S A on a film that was being shot in Ridley Road Market. What a place! I brought the smell of fish and drains etc home with me. My mum used to always talk about the old East End markets and would often mention Ridley Road although I’m sure that now it wouldn’t be anything like the place she knew, being mainly African grocers and Halal butchers, which I suppose reflects the changes in the demographic over the last twenty years. She used to love buying bread from Jewish bakers, which seem to have all but disappeared from East End markets now. Filming was fun, though the crew needed such patience, especially when people just kept wandering through. And then, of course, there were the idiots who thought it necessary to disrupt filming by shouting out about their ‘right’ to walk through the market. They weren’t being stopped from walking through, simply being asked to walk round the scene and not make a noise. Why do so many people feel the need to shout into mobiles while walking through the market?
And after my last blog, what great news about our Superman, Stephen Sutton. He’s now raised £3,000,000 and counting and has come through the crisis that threatened to bring the end to his life last week. As I’ve already said, I’ve never wished someone well so much. Many of today’s ‘disaffected’ youth should look at him and hang their heads in shame. Instead of hanging about in gangs, causing trouble and expecting the world to provide for them, they should count their blessings and use their energy and talents for good.
And this week will be another feet-don’t-touch-the-floor week. But I won’t tell you what I’m up to until my next post 🙂
