Monday 5th November

This week's going to be particularly busy, given that we have three days of shows rather than two. Thankfully, we were in Chorleywood today, which meant I had the double luxury of not having to travel on a Sunday evening and being able to take the tube this morning rather than drive. We'd been to this school before, back in February, when we did Grandma's Birthday, and I remembered it as a really good show with particularly able children. But perhaps my memory is starting to crumble a bit in my old age, because the gang we had today were a bit all over the place. To be fair, so were we - Jumble Bag is still running itself in, and we are by no means fully on top of it yet, so there were a fair few snaffs and one or two technical glitches. The Animatronic Bear managed to completely destroy the emotional final scene by gently falling over backwards at the moment the central character is reunited with her father whom she'd assumed was dead. But already I like this show a lot, and I like the shape of the workshop, which makes for a much better working day.

Round to Essex once we'd packed up, to Thurrock for tomorrow's larks.