So here I am, suddenly reminded that mother nature clearly has the upper hand and boy does she spank hard sometimes!! I know and not a chequebook in sight!!
I am currently managing a campaign for the Central Office of Information, ( Government dept. BIS !!, need anymore coded info!! ), where myself and a small team are ploughing and seeding the beautiful land of this country with much needed information about the new Pay and Work Rights Helpline.
So geographically we find ourselves in Tom Jones’ Green Green Grassland of Wales last weekend, with a tune in our voices and an eeeeeerrrrnnnormous gale/storm plunging this part of Great Britain back into something biblically fantastical!! Of course the metereologically minded were having the time of their lives, flood warnings, excessive excitement on the weather reports on tv, exageration no longer being part of their vocabulary!!
Well, they were’nt wrong as I travelled back with my fellow workers in a van and trailer along the M4, negotiating the flyovers from Swansea ( and when I say flyovers I do quite literally mean something from the Wizard of Oz!!) and of course the tentatively and optimistically opened Severn Bridge!!
OMG, it bears repeating…. OHHHH MY GOOODDDD!!!, as I was driving across the said bridge, both the van and trailer were thrown into the next lane and there was nothing I could do as Mother Nature gave me a spanking!! , thankfully there were no other vehicles in that lane, but there was that moment where we all grabbed each others hands and said how much we loved each other!! , it was the stuff of Airplane the Movie!!
A clean set of underpants and a nervous larf later I regained my composure, reassured my passengers that they were in capable hands and the journey continued, all of us feeling that turning up the radio was the solution whenever there was a problem whilst driving!!
Wow, so there you have it, a moment whilst out spreading the good word of the Pay and Workers Rights Helpline of sheer white knuckle hysteria, overcome by quite obvious heroism by myself and my team, because if there’s one thing I’ve learned in the world of Showbusiness, it’s that the Show must go on and you gotta leave your audience Blown Away!!!!!!!