Bye Bye BoJo

The whole shoot crew was rather energized after hearing of Boris Johnson's departure. Jibes of 'About time!' and 'Thank the Lord's could be heard while queuing up for breakfast. That aura lingered with me for about 30 minutes, then it was back to the grindstone of, no wifi, booking cars, cancelling plans and doing long drives to the supermarket. I learnt how hard it was to break a £10 note these days too. Not even the off lisence would look me in the eye when I asked. Luckily I found a classic 'old man pub' which didn't even bat an eye when I asked. The crew shan't go out without their laundrette money this weekend on my watch!

Canadian Road Trip

 Took one of our Canadian cast members on a little road trip to get them a hire car. We chatted about hometowns, work and bonded over coffee. Dropped them off at midday, which funnily enough was only the first hour of work for me. We went up until just after 10pm tonight, working late once more to get some evening stuff in the can. My sights have shifted towards wrap plans now, specifically the get out side of it all which ain't fun but someone's gotta think about it.

Summer Sunsets

 I became our unofficial wifi engineer around Unit Base, seemingly I was the only one with the magic touch to get the system up and running again. Even with all my good efforts, the signal kept dropping out all the time which made it near impossible to get anything done at times. Still, we shoulder the hardships and move on. More Luton driving and plenty of printing today, classic stuff really. We segwaying towards later days now so I'll be finishing after Summer sunset for most of this week. My circadian rhythm has been a little disturbed already but I'll soon settle into a groove.

Misspent Monday

Rest days on Mondays are forever cursed. Though your meant to be enjoying a day off, the rest of the world doesn't give a damn. So my morning was spent replying to emails, when I looked up it was lunchtime and the only thing that went into my stomach up to that point was a cup of black coffee. It did slow down latterly and Matt and I watched some CBBC together to catch the live link of our cast chatting with the TV hosts. Crazy to think I'm on the other side of that looking glass now, children's TV used to be my life growing up and now I'm making it.

At least thinking like that makes my misspent Monday feel a lot better.

Tintagel

As a team, we reckoned we should make the most of our off-day. We were due to travel back from Cornwall to Devon but we thought we'd do a pit stop at Tintagel - a spot that I was recommended to visit last year but never made the time. Well let me just say that even thought the ticket price was jolly steep, it was gorgeous there. There's an English Heritage site there which is mostly cliffs and reminents of an old citadel. It's an insanely beautiful part of the world and we somehow got permanent blue skies the whole time. Ice cream, mead and coffee completed the day out. With a camera full of photographs we continued up the coast and back into Hartland. This felt like my first real day off since we started shooting and reminded me of why I loved this job so much last year.

Production Guardian Angel

Most of my working day is spent teeing up well laid plans, then scrambling to sort them all out when they invariably come off the rails. A taxi I booked for someone never materialized. It was a farly time sensitive one as someone had a train to catch so I had to hoof it down to get them myself, screeching in at the train station with only 7 minutes left to spare. I helped another colleague sort out their car that got badly damaged on the road in the morning, all the while I had to rush down car keys to a member of cast many miles down the road. A lot of problems landed on my desk basically but I took a lot of pride in helping sort them. Just hope I can stop being a guardian angel for the weekend!

Run Ragged

Think the highlight of my day was double booking the same courier job, then having to make an awkward cancelation phonecall in front of my whole team. Felt like such a plum. Friday has been and gone, now it's just one last push through Saturday to complete the week. There's actually zero room for error tomorrow so we just gotta keep ploughing through it. I don't remember the job being so tough this time last year, perhaps we've bitten off more than we can chew...