the child and the dog 21 May 2008
They were both wonderful – tarnation, can no wisdom or old wives’ tale be trusted at all anymore? (By the way, it may have been WC Fields who first started the idea that you shouldn’t work with either). The dog is called Spot and is a lady dalmation – a strong gal, I’ll tell you, and as trained as she is she has her own ideas from time to time, but nothing she can’t be persuaded away from by doggy treats/pig’s ear type chews. I think that’s the secret with getting animals to do things – you have to remember that they will work for food (as will most human actors, these days, I can assure you – sad but true). And our lovely young girl star is a total joy – Keekee is her name and I think she’s probably a more experienced actress at age 11 than I am at age…well, we won’t go into that again. So, both were a joy and we are lucky to have two such professionals on board. And, as I think of it, I have worked with plenty of older human creatures who were nightmares – and somewhere someone is probably saying the very same about me…
two other things:
one – apparently a truly awful computer virus will be going around soon and you’ll know it cos there’ll be an attachment called POSTCARD with the email – no matter who it is from you shouldn’t open it as it will destroy all in it’s way.
two – Aine in Austalia – I tried to reply to your email but it came back as undeliverable, don’t know why
