I can't hope to be as entertaining as Laura and Francis have been in previous blogs so I'll attempt some fish based humour and then, if you'll forgive me, write a serious (but hopefully enlightening) piece. First the fish jokes.

Did you know that Noah actually built more than one ark? For example he built a split level one for all the fish. It was a multi-storey carp ark.

What did the fish say when he swam into a wall? "Dam!".

Anyway, let's move on to the b og proper. Actors have been a subject of fascination amongst ordinary people for centuries and I thought it would be good to reveal some of our secrets. So, you may ask, "How do you do it?"
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24 shows down, 34 to go.

Life on the road is just like it is in the films; a dirty, party-filled, stinking rock ‘n' roll mess. I am contractually forbidden to divulge too much of what goes on in that infamous Eastern Angles van, but I can reveal that we get through a lot of Mint Imperials and our capacity for loud, word-based travel games knows no bounds.

While we speed along in the back of that van, ankle deep in raffle prizes, empty packets of Jaffa Cakes and ha f-finished crosswords, the countryside outside our windows is blossoming. Seeing the flora and fauna of East Anglia springing to life has been one of the unexpected pleasures of this job. Speaking as someone whose fill of nature over the past year has been the urban foxes of Hackney it has felt like quite the Suffolk safari these past few weeks!
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