Suzy
Funster
Well, if you thought I was a Diva before, there is absolutely no hope for me now 
OK, here is the story.
Four days ago the owner of the camp-site in Spain where we are staying came to ask me and my friend, Mary, if we would be willing to take part in a Spanish Documentary for Canal Sur television called '75 minutes'. It's a programme that is shown every week about things going on in Andalucia.
He said this episode was about people (usually retired but not always) who spend their winter months here. The catch was that you had to be able to converse in Spanish
. As Mary & I can both hold a reasonable conversation 'en espanol' we agreed to explore the request further.
We were told we would receive a call from the production company to ask us some questions, which we reckon was really to check that we could hold our own when conversing in Spanish. Anyway, the production team did call and whilst it was harrowing it was also exciting and they told us that they would speak to the producer and let us know. Very much a case of 'don't call us, we'll call you...' so we forgot all about it
Anyway, the next evening the camp-site owner came running up to the van, mobile phone in hand, to say that the TV company wanted to speak to me. I spoke to them and they told me that they wanted to send a TV crew to site the next morning to film us doing what we normally do and that they would be with us for the day, following us, filming us and having us do 'pieces to camera' (apparently an industry term)
When they asked me what I normally did on a Friday I had to think fast! The first thing I NORMALLY do on a Friday is to don a bright red swimming hat, goggles and a swimsuit and go to the local swimming pool for an hours exercise - and there was NO WAY I was going to reveal THAT and have them follow me there
oh:
I was beside myself with excitement and Mary said she was feeling physically sick and although we were told not to tell anyone because everyone around us had to act naturally, we called a 'council of war' and asked our good friends Annette and Jackie to help. We made plans for the following day which turned out to be a waste of time but what a giggle we had over a bottle of wine.
We could hardly sleep that night and any notion of a lie-in for any of us was ridiculous. We were all up earlier than at any other time since we have been here and even had our faces on before breakfast.
The next day - Friday the 4th March 2010 - was the big day!
They arrived on site and after filming me in my motorhome they whisked us into town where they filmed us having coffee opposite the seafront market which we normally visit every Friday. We then returned to the camp-site and were filmed eating lunchtime tapas in the on-site bar. They did film whilst they 'interviewed' us, but to be honest the laid back attitude and time constraints the TV crew placed on themselves meant that they didn't film us visiting the local fish market, cooking boquerones and having a casual lunch with friends - which IS a more typical day for us.
We felt a little let-down in the end, but that may have been down to our expectations - it was a bit like sex, the lead up to it was brilliant and exciting but the climax was a bit disappointing
Anyway, we had a great time doing it and whilst it might not be up-to the standard of 'The Kings Speech' (so I was told
) the camp-site owner thanked me profusely and said he is bringing me an Oscar
Not sure when it will be aired - if at all
but they did say it would be in the next 3 weeks. They did say that they will send a copy of the broadcast on DVD to the site and I'm sure that I will get my hands on a copy so watch this space :Cool::thumb:
Suzy.
[HI](Please Note: I am available for personal appearances, supermarket openings, bah mitzvah's etc. Please speak to 'my people' who will check my diary and get back to you
)[/HI]
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OK, here is the story.
Four days ago the owner of the camp-site in Spain where we are staying came to ask me and my friend, Mary, if we would be willing to take part in a Spanish Documentary for Canal Sur television called '75 minutes'. It's a programme that is shown every week about things going on in Andalucia.
He said this episode was about people (usually retired but not always) who spend their winter months here. The catch was that you had to be able to converse in Spanish
. As Mary & I can both hold a reasonable conversation 'en espanol' we agreed to explore the request further. We were told we would receive a call from the production company to ask us some questions, which we reckon was really to check that we could hold our own when conversing in Spanish. Anyway, the production team did call and whilst it was harrowing it was also exciting and they told us that they would speak to the producer and let us know. Very much a case of 'don't call us, we'll call you...' so we forgot all about it
Anyway, the next evening the camp-site owner came running up to the van, mobile phone in hand, to say that the TV company wanted to speak to me. I spoke to them and they told me that they wanted to send a TV crew to site the next morning to film us doing what we normally do and that they would be with us for the day, following us, filming us and having us do 'pieces to camera' (apparently an industry term
)When they asked me what I normally did on a Friday I had to think fast! The first thing I NORMALLY do on a Friday is to don a bright red swimming hat, goggles and a swimsuit and go to the local swimming pool for an hours exercise - and there was NO WAY I was going to reveal THAT and have them follow me there
oh:I was beside myself with excitement and Mary said she was feeling physically sick
and although we were told not to tell anyone because everyone around us had to act naturally, we called a 'council of war' and asked our good friends Annette and Jackie to help. We made plans for the following day which turned out to be a waste of time but what a giggle we had over a bottle of wine.We could hardly sleep that night and any notion of a lie-in for any of us was ridiculous. We were all up earlier than at any other time since we have been here and even had our faces on before breakfast
. The next day - Friday the 4th March 2010 - was the big day!
They arrived on site and after filming me in my motorhome they whisked us into town where they filmed us having coffee opposite the seafront market which we normally visit every Friday. We then returned to the camp-site and were filmed eating lunchtime tapas in the on-site bar. They did film whilst they 'interviewed' us, but to be honest the laid back attitude and time constraints the TV crew placed on themselves meant that they didn't film us visiting the local fish market, cooking boquerones and having a casual lunch with friends - which IS a more typical day for us.
We felt a little let-down in the end, but that may have been down to our expectations - it was a bit like sex, the lead up to it was brilliant and exciting but the climax was a bit disappointing
Anyway, we had a great time doing it and whilst it might not be up-to the standard of 'The Kings Speech' (so I was told
) the camp-site owner thanked me profusely and said he is bringing me an Oscar Not sure when it will be aired - if at all
but they did say it would be in the next 3 weeks. They did say that they will send a copy of the broadcast on DVD to the site and I'm sure that I will get my hands on a copy so watch this space :Cool::thumb:Suzy.
[HI](Please Note: I am available for personal appearances, supermarket openings, bah mitzvah's etc. Please speak to 'my people' who will check my diary and get back to you
)[/HI].
we were able to watch it on canal sur iplayer for a month after it was shown on spanish tv. a day's filming ended up as only 5 minutes of fame though, so bit of an anticlimax. but great fun
