The Making of Sharpe's Peril |
| Last Update: 19 Oct 2008 |
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Back at our hotel around 7.30pm (where the first cold beer taken from the kitchen fridge didn't last very long) led to sixty minutes sorting-out the internet connections to past and existing Sharpe fans (some of whom have now been with us for over twelve years) and a brief report on proceedings to 'home-base' (which I know some Sharpe fans had the chance to read before we went off-line) before a shower and 'tiffin'. After some e-mail disappointments and some internet upsets (power failures, pirates, viruses etc) things were now set for our 'home-base' - Adam Paylor of www.95thRifles.com - to arrive and join us in Khajuraho. I left a variety of messages with various people pending the day of Adam's arrival - the only one that didn't get through to him was the one left at the 'modern' hotel - but we knew Adam had landed at the airport and arrived at the hotel through a cell-phone call from my spy with his ear to 'the jungle telegraph'. As is usual with Armoury 'guests', Adam was shown his room to drop off his bag, taken to be fed and watered at our expense at the local restaurant - just across the road - before being dropped in the 'deep end' (literally) next day with a 6am start for a potential 14-hour day for scenes involving a river-crossing 'under fire' and stand-by for 'underwater' to recover and retrieve any dropped and/or lost items of armoury by extras or cast. Crocodiles were the least of our problems so I thought not to mention them to Adam at the time - but I did mention the need to wear a hat and apply sun-bloc cream and Adam can testify to the results of forgetting both … |
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