It's hard to believe that I could have anything better to do than write this blog, but as it happens, I'm actually quite busy. I also have a raging sore throat which I think I've caught from my son, and explains why he's been as miserable as sin for the past forty-eight hours...


Although it doesn't help that he's being held by Freddy Krueger.

So while I press on with the seventeen things I need to do this morning, here's a video of Amelie encouraging the public to throw flowers at her feet with an open-air show in St Leonards...


She's generally more bolshy than Bolshoi, but I think she's doing pretty well. Let's face it, it's not every ballerina who has to contend with a rotary clothes line.