My life – an update
As Golfy rightly pointed out - it's been a bit quiet in here recently. The reasons for this have been several, not least a cooling off period following a couple of career upsets, which I won't go into for fear of inciting a law suit for libel. Here's a run-down: I'm rehearsing for my first ever acting role with Quai des Prunes (a Strasbourg based am-dram company of players), for a stage-set sketch show in January 2011. This is testing my French to the limit - not only requiring me to understand the script, but also memorise it AND pronounce it without sounding like a five year old. It perhaps would have been wiser to start my acting career with something in my native tongue, but there you go - should be interesting/painful. Ticket info to follow. I have started writing a book about the trials of being self-employed in France. It's taking shape very slowly as I try and also earn money at the same time. (If you're a writers agent - please get in touch - I [...]