Nights at the circus
Monday, 04 September, 2006
Ben has an interesting-looking beverage over dinner before we go to see the circus:
The big top, says Ben, doesn't look that big:
Inside, it looks like a bamboo forest:
My favourite act by far was the flight of Icarus. He moves from tumbling and turning from inside the net to outside the net (as seen in the picture), and then he unhooks one end of the net and continues using the entire thing like a length of rope. When he wound it several times around his waist and then just let himself go as it untwisted, I nearly forgot to breathe.
Other favourites were the aerial straps, the triple trapeze and the water meteors who, even though they kept dropping their ropes, got themselves back on form with grace and rapidity beyond their years.
Blinks:
A way of funding writing in the future: pitch and idea and get people to support it.
Place where you can hire play equipment for parties, etc.
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
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