20th June, 2009 - Let's run off to the circus together

I have just been to the Tower Circus in Blackpool and it was utterly astonishing. Not astonishing in the way that we use the word now. Not astonishing in the way that Gordon Ramsay’s lemon cheesecake is astonishing. Not astonishing in the way that a house looks after Kim and Aggie have cleaned it. But astonishing in the way that quite literally takes your breath away as performers sail and soar through the air.


I cannot remember ever being at any event where my stomach actually lurched with a sense of danger. (Although I have been at a few where my stomach has lurched for other reasons. One amateur production of Viva Mexico springs immediately to mind). But here – the thrill was real. The physical risk was real. And the hair stood up on the back of my neck.

I appreciate, that as a regular reader of this blog, you are already used to an unusually high standard of entertainment, but even so, you could do worse than spend a day at the circus my friends.