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The Making of Sharpe's Peril |
| Last Update: 19 Oct 2008 |
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The author is riding the motorcycle ringed. |
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The kitchen staff, chefs and cooks on Sharpe deserved a gold medal for the meals they prepared, cooked and dished up in camp for over a hundred people on a daily basis on the two months location-filming of Sharpe's Peril and even surpassed their usual high-standard of menu (a mix of five salad bowls and a choice from ten hot meals) when they began serving chilled fruit-juice and ice-cream by request. I came to a twice-weekly arrangement with them for a small bag of banana, melon and apple to be put to one side for me to feed the elephants after lunch, which made an agreeable change to their diet of sugar-cane. I never bothered with the camels - had enough of their unpredictable and often ungrateful behaviour on Sharpe's Challenge. Our 'bheestie' (water-boy) - nicknamed 'Gunga Din' after the immortal poem by Kipling - and 'Kung Fu' (our masallah-wallah, who got his nickname as he looked like Bruce Lee) rarely failed to keep us supplied with water and tea … and their efforts were duly rewarded. |
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