We have the beach completely to ourselves this morning. Hail, a biting wind and temperatures on the wrong side of freezing keep sensible folk indoors. There is not a soul to be seen.
Filming continues in town. The sheer scale of the operation is amazing. Netflix has a budget that most studios can only dream of and 'The Crown' is their most popular and profitable series. There must be at least a thousand people involved - actors, camera men, security guards, drivers, odd job men and five hundred folks in the crowd scenes. Today it's the turn of the stretch of the road in front of the Wee House to be closed off for the day. The Waco tenants are in for a surprise. Let's hope the weather improves.
The Falcon cooker which was supposed to take four months to get here has arrived . From placing the order to delivery has taken exactly eleven days. The supplier agrees to keep it in their store room until the builder starts work on the new kitchen in May. June is set aside for the bathroom team and the conservatory and summer house will, hopefully, be put up in July. What could go wrong ? We shall move back into town for the summer during which time Sophie will revert to being a city girl.
Not a paper I usually read but this link shows what's been going on. Long time readers will recognize the cinema opposite the good coffee cafe and the window with the ever changing vase of flowers :https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11863529/The-Crown-recreates-Prince-Williams-day-St-Andrews-University.html
10 comments:
Hari OM
My sister announced yesterday that she was heading for St A's with our cousin; I warned her of the filming fiasco. YAM xx
(Yes I'm still here, just been off air with some mystery lurgy...)
Y - Hope you're back to 100%. Best to avoid St Andrews. Road closures don't seem to have deterred the throngs of tourists who want to see the filming take place. With parking suspended in the old town every empty space has been converted into temporary car parks. It's rather like living in a stylish war zone.
The catering vans must be taking up a lot of room as well, and trailers for actors and wardrobe. Filming is impossible without a village of support.
With any luck the building work will go smoothly and the cooker storage won't be an issue. Take heart from the fact that John Lewis ended up storing a range cooker for us for 18 months after purchase, because of delays to our building work.
After all that disruption, I'm wondering how many minutes of footage will end up on air? The Daily Mail is certainly covering the story in some detail.
I'm confident that Sophie will adapt to city life - so many cafés with shortbread and jaffa cakes, and the beach still close by. Today is one of those mornings in Aberdeen when I'm grateful for Nobby's relatively water repellant furs...
Cheers, Gail.
What a shame that the weather has turned just as they start filming. However it's ideal Sophie weather, so a certain furry PON is happy!
Should be a nice boost to the local economy. Let's hope this is a sign that the appliance supply chain is easing up, the shop had to get my refrigerator twice, the first one mysteriously disappeared from their storage.
Sophie is looking quite sprightly and with a spring in her step.
It makes me really uncomfortable for you to say "what could go wrong"!
Sillygirl - Fear not - we've found that you go with the tide.
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