BEACH BABY Alum Chine Beach Poole. Just popped down to the beach to clear my head after a film script for an audition arrived with an email: " Don't worry about the words. Show us the personality and bones of the character. It's not a matter clippen off the lines". New things to come for actors?

SURVIVING ACTORS AT THE RADISSON PORTMAN HOTEL After attending seminars and workshops the whole day in London, meeting top names in the industry, one stood out. Here is what he said: 'The secret to a long and successful career is surviving. Not talent, not hard work but the will to keep going, keep surviving. Talent and hard work helps, and there are many talented and hard working actors, but only those are successful who know the secret to surviving is surviving'.

WHEN PARENTS MESS UP My father a hunter and farmer, once lost control over his trained hunting dog. I was just saved in time before savaged to pieces in my pram. As a toddler I fell into a large bucket of boiling suds, left by my mother on the tiled floor in the farmhouse kitchen. 3rd degree burns. My father always pushed me away, and my mother told me when I was 16, that I was too ugly to find a boyfriend. The wounds parents inflict hurts, they emerge again and again unless we move on. Yes, I was strong enough to move on.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016 to all friends and liked-minded professionals. We must believe in our vision. It's impossible to do anything without believe.

CHRISTMAS FEVER IN LONDON TOWN.....Another audition Covent Garden. One hour late, fatal crash on track B'mouth London. Crowds pushing and drinking. Christmas lights blinding. Cars bumper to bumper. Buses not moving, trains late. Flashing police cars pushing through the masses. One hour walk to get to Waterloo. Got lost several times in the dark. London, my London I love you.

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES! Gardening one day, audition at Spotlight and One-To-One-Session at the Actors Centre in London the next day. And .....on the way back in a crowded train, my gorgeous looking silver-fox passenger started talking to me, bought me a drink and revealed that he too was an actor. We talked and talked.....

A SINGLE SESSION OF GARDENING results in an instant reduction in stress, boosts self-esteem and general feeling of good health, according to experts. Today I left a world of shriekers, show-offs, drunkards, moaners, selfie-addicts and exhibitionists behind and planted these colourful flowers in our garden, for all residents to enjoy. FEELING GOOD