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Date: 17 August 2008 10:34:38
I love it.
I love the family atmosphere and the anticipation.
We got seats right in the centre of the third row of ringside seats. It was a gamble - Honorary Auntie M pointed out we might be safer in the very back row, but as it happened a bloke in the most inaccessible seat in the very back row got custard-pied so nowhere was safe at all!
And it was worth the anticipation. It was a wonderful show. The boys were open-mouthed in amazement, when they weren't bent double at the antics of the really rather brilliant clown (whom I discovered at one point sitting on my lap and gazing lovingly into my eyes!). Smudgelet, having only on Friday passed his Cycling Proficiency test at long last, was enraptured by the skill and daring of the BMX rider, while Tiddles was captivated once again by the girl on the silks dangling from the roof of the tent (though not totally sure whether it was her amazing skill and daring or the fact that she was 14, rather beautiful, and very skantily clad!). For me, it was the strength and physical control of the strong men (OK, so they were rather good looking too, but that was beside the point!), one lifting another above his head in a straight arm lift --- and by that I mean both straight armed, with one inverted above the other and held only by their mutual hand grip (if that makes sense); one holding his own body in a cruciform shape from a vertical pole; both flying through the air from a springboard and landing, one on the other's shoulders.... And Honorary Auntie M had her breath taken away by the skill and confidence of a woman on a high loop of cloth who seemed just to plummet towards earth, only to stop herself by rapidly twisting a foot in the material and coming to a sudden halt in what looked a physically impossible pose!
http://www.jaymillerscircus.co.uk/performers.html
Anything make you think we had fun last night?