Brings forth April showers ....

So I arrived back in London at the end of February and as I flew in mum flew out for her annual visit to my sister's in Australia.

And so it was time to find a job.  Well actually it was time to catch up with friends and enjoy being back in London and also find a job!  The first social engagement was a private screening at Somerset House of "Riot from Wrong" - Teddy's new documentary dealing with the UK's riots in the summer of 2011.  Teddy and the Fully Focused team are making noise with the documentary and screenings over the coming months would include academics, politicians as well as film festivals.  This was followed by the Wildlife Photography Exhibition at the Natural History Museum and "The Woman in Black" all in the same week.  A couple of weeks later, the Ideal Home Exhibition and a two hour catch up with Carol who was over from Kiruna.  

Alison, Sophie and I went to Bath for Piu's fiftieth birthday celebrations.  We managed to look at the baths, eat (!), and then change into party attire.

The party was fun - Sophie and I seemed to do a lot of dancing (and I was in heels which means pain later!).    But it is piglet who actually tells you how exhausted we were when we got back in.

But enough of the enjoying myself - let's get back to work!

"Common People" is a new British film produced by my friend Darin and it shot in April.  Three weeks of filming - all set outdoors on Tooting Common - amidst possibly the wettest and coldest April in recent history ...  Days of lumpy rain, freezing hands, rain on top of more rain and the occasional stunning sunset.  A great way to get back into working in the UK!  One or two of the crew I knew already, Darin obviously, the DOP and the editor.  A few photos below - not sure how they look so bright and sunny - because it wasn't!  We'll come back to this later.

Kerry (co-director) and Stewart (writer/co-director) 

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Merlin (sound), Kerry, Michael, Andrew (DOP)

And then it was May - an interview for a job and some more time with friends.  We managed good value tickets for The Duchess of Malfi at the Old Vic Theatre - not sure that Kimberley, Karen or Alison enjoyed it as much as me.

A couple of work courses - First Aid at Work and Safe Management of Productions and then I got the line producer job for a new series.

So - off to do some last minute relaxing before I'm back in the working world.

Maryx