Getting a visa to live and work in South Africa is reportedly more difficult than pushing a camel through the eye of a needle. (Which actually isn't as difficult as it first sounds... It's a biblical quote and actually the eye of the needle was a small crevice in some rock - just for reference ( Read more... )

Before I got here our landlord was bitten by a spider in his sleep. His face swelled up like a football of yellow puss. Delightful. Traci and Frances (his wife) had hours of fun squeezing it on a daily basis ( Read more... )

So Naobi Noisette is something big in the South African/French movie scene. It's a difficult industry to get into. People strive for years to get in, suffering knock-back after knock-back. Eventually managing to get seen by the right person at the right time and slowly clawing their way up the ranks and eventually burning out just as they reach ( Read more... )

Now I've seen it all. Imagine driving down the M25 on a bright sunny day at lunch time. It's hot, there are cars everywhere, the windows are down, music blaring through the car stereo, sweat building up in your armpits ready to explode in a rush of highly aesthetic under-arm dampness, you crutch as comfortable as a lizard in alaska ( Read more... )

OK. So maybe I'm tired. I've been working for 70 hours in the last 5 days. On film sets. Which is supposed to be glamorous. Believe me it's not. (Some of the actors are. That much I accept.)

However. No-one's replied to my last 3 journal entries. No-one except libee has replied in the last 7. That sucks.

So stuff you all. Have a nice day.

Have you seen it? Reality TV nonsense, where teams (currently family's, previously couples) run around following clues, picking stuff up, finding their way to previously unknown locations and generally arguing a lot as family's and couples under stress tend to do ( Read more... )

It's snowing! In Johannesburg?!!??

Hasn't happened since 1981 you know. Everyone - except me - seems very excited. *yawns*

I keep getting funny looks at the gym ( Read more... )

I have nothing to moan about. Woe is me ( Read more... )

Meh. Just realised I haven't been doing my bit. People that look at my LJ don't necessarily look at my friends...

So. If you haven't already done so, go look at my friends online comic Siren Six or die a horribly painful death and let worms devour your eyeballs and maggots destroy your liver. And yes, that's before the doctor writes his