It's art Dahlink....

South West Trains, how I do hate thee - let me count the ways....

I swear that the train station I have the misfortune to use daily, has the most unhelpful staff in the history of people working at train stations and that it is on the employment form that they are under no circumstances to have any kind of customer service skills. I also believe that they are actually pleased when people miss their trains - honest, I'm positive of it. Let me explain what happened today:
I arrive at the station 15 minutes before my train leaves to buy a travelcard and a car park ticket. The queue of people buying tickets is out of the door so I go to the machines outside to see if I could get a car park ticket from the machine (I can't), I then ask the evil Scottish woman (I'll explain in a minute why she's evil) if she could help me with the little hand held machine so that I could buy the tickets and still be in time to catch my train. She makes me wait until all the people getting off the previous train have gone through the gate before coming out to the main machine and saying to me "Can you buy car parking tickets here? Oh no you can't you'll have to queue" So I am finally served by the slow lady, who is ssssssssssssslllllllllllllllooooooooooowwww 4 minutes before my train arrived and I still had to park my car. So I missed my train and the station staff laughed (I swear I heard them) and had to stand in the cold for half an hour till the next one came - and I left my gloves at home, so, not a good start to the week....

However, I must now do some luvvy gushing about my wonderful set build team of yesterday.

The set looks fantastic, the artistic department (Evremonde and me, and a little help from Defarge) painted the set. Evremonde's vision has now come to life and we are going to sell it to the Tate modern or the Saatchi bloke (who's wife Evremonde would like to cook for him - among other things) as it is a work of art. We did good.

The Construction Department did a sterling job as well, creating some safe platforms for us to fight on and in front of, they put the guillotine in place and did some other stuff as well (I think). Carton brought with him his tool pouch which is the power tools version of the "pencil case".

The Painting department painted everything that didn't move for a couple of minutes, but we used no black paint - did we Evremonde?

Leaflets were distributed by Mr Lorry and peasant girl and Mr Lorry got lost (as he does normally during a leaflet distribution I seem to remember) as did Director Guillotine and his helpers.

Astoundingly enough we have only one small job left to do and we are still two weeks away! AND from a Producer Guillotine perspective, the set cost us £34.48 for two pots of paint, that wasn't black....