I’d hardly had chance to recover from my Kuwait trip (see previous blog below) when I was off on my travels again, this time to Beirut! Except that I almost wasn’t… Jessie and I were heading off to Beirut for two days performing our roller skating act at a street festival – but when I tried to check in at Heathrow (Jessie was flying separately from Berlin), I was told that unfortunately BA had overbooked the flight and I didn’t have a seat. They have a pecking order for who

In my 17 years as a professional entertainer, I can safely say I have built up quite a collection of audience types – or more precisely, reactions. But none matched, let alone prepared me for, an interesting experience during a recent gig in Kuwait. It resulted in women actually covering their faces and turning their children’s heads away from the sight of me! I was with Scarlett Entertainment and a group of nine other performers and five crew members. We were staging a no

Note to the great weather organiser in the sky. Can you send some more of that fabulous sunny, warm stuff you so kindly provided last month, please? Especially for me and a hardworking group of fellow performers? Remember that heatwave last month? Hottest June day since 1976! I missed it. Well, not literally missed it, but missed the opportunity to enjoy it. It was all down to the “hidden” side of an entertainer’s life. When I tell you that, shortly after that heatwave