Death on Dartmoor

We're going to be famous!

Beloved Daughter and her friend Julia are in a film being shot this afternoon!  A proper feature film - not just an episode for telly!

It's called 'Dartmoor Killing' and is the baby of our mate, Peter Nicholson, who has won a Bafta, as has his co-writer. Isabelle Grey, whilst his producer Jayne Chard and production designer Amanda Bernstein from Star Wars are both Bafta-nominated.  Wow!

We think Beloved Daughter and Julia might be playing two friends who are 'led in to a web of mind games, sexual deceit and betrayal, on a weekend trip to Dartmoor.'  I suppose we will find out on location at Poundsgate, at 5.30pm.  We'll drive there direct from today's school Rounders Match.

Yesterday I had to pop  into Tesco's to see if I could find a pair of '90s looking jeans for Beloved Daughter to wear in it.  I discovered that Tesco's stock  skinnies, very skinnies, 'boyfriend' (severely oikish), cut-offs, bootleg, and flared.  I was forced to buy flared (at £16!!!), as bootleg wasn't available in a Size 10, so Daughter will look as though she's out of the 70s, not the 90s.

Most loyal readers may remember that some of the promo for the film was shot at Wydemeet, less than eighteen months ago, with those involved staying here.  It was a my first experiment into providing a B&B service, cooking a full English breakfast for five, not having fried an egg for fifteen years. Talk about Dartmoor Killing - the experience nearly killed me!  They were all lovely though, and I would have liked to have had them back.

But now Wydemeet is too small, exclusive, expensive, and anyway, I'm already fully booked, so they're not staying this time. Boo hoo.

And in the meantime,  Four in a Bed has raised its head again.  Only this time it might be Three in a Bed.  During the time slot I gave them that Wydemeet might be available, they're going to be filming in Scotland.  However, they have now emailed to say  that 'they all like me' and could I be in their new series in early Autumn?

Well their new series is changing back to the old format: three B&Bs competing against each other, to be screened in a one hour slot at 8pm - peak viewing time - on Channel 4.

So that's much better.  I was beginning to panic at the thought of providing six breakfasts at once, to people who will be determined to test my mediocre, amateur, limited cooking ability to its limits.  And envisaging deep-cleaning three bedrooms to such a degree that we could guarantee not a single 'curly' inside or outside a mattress protector, nor bog brush, was filling me with dread.  And where would I sleep with all my immaculate bedrooms full? Back in Revered Son's attic room I suppose. 

Meanwhile, my romantic life isn't going very well. In fact it's pants. Not literally - quite the opposite. So my being featured on telly could give that side of things a boost.

At the moment, there's a lovely, good-looking, tall bloke from Times Encounters with a small sports car who has taken me out for fantastic lunches twice, who understands a wine list, and who pays.  That is a most exciting start, but he doesn't want a relationship.  Then there's someone from Taunton who writes so well that I've paid £14 to join matches.com in order to be in contact with him.  And my last, final, forlorn and expensive hope - I've booked a Nielson sailing beach resort holiday in Turkey for us all, for a week in July, where I may bump into the solvent single Dad of my dreams!  If I do, I dare say he will live in Scotland. But that will only happen if our passports get back in time.

So - after that? Four in a Bed! Or will it only be Three?
 

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