Quickroute and Baino; I’ve never seen Cirque du Soleil, but I’ve heard lots about them… must definately see them now!

Thanks Baino and Gaye :) I got myself my first ever facial yesterday. Now I can see what the big deal is. It’s quite pleasant, blackhead squeezing aside…

Peter Donegan; Thanks for commenting:) I like your blog… needing gardening ideas about now for my new house whenever it arrives… great insider tips!

manys a time I wish I was in a circus…

great article.
peter

Ah that reminds me, must get Cirque tickets, Dralion is playing here until September!

Back in the day the poor old bedraggled animals were kept in awful conditions and lived and died a miserable sad existence. Cirque du Soleil is more my cuppa!

His animals were never cared for properly, so I can only guess they were taken off of him and given to a zoo.

Next time you go, have a look out for a cash register in the admission tent, you just won’t find one. Which means that he has no records of the amount of tickets he sells in a night/season. How does the tax man know how much to take?

Not much point in that now, as he’s been classed as an art form which he campaigned for very publicly after he brought his tax collection letter into the pub I managed for all to see declaring “They’re not getting a penny”.

His family lot in Lucan/Newcastle is acres of unused land where old Fossetts vehicles sit and rust because he won’t pay a scrap yard to take them away. He’s probably since sold the whole place to developers of Adamstown. He and his whole family live in caravans all year round so he has no mortgage, or bills. He doesn’t pay tolls or rents to the sites he camps on.

When he plans a show itinerary he wonders how he can cut corners and give the bare minimum. I know, I’ve seen him do it.

The performers are also the people who lug everything around and put up and take down the massive tents. With the money he got from the arts council, he gave himself a brand new car, and a holiday.
The only thing he did to improve his business was give a paint job to the fleet of old banged up vans and trucks that aren’t road worthy.

The thing that annoys me most about the whole circus thing is that we suffer from a massive lack of proper entertainment in this country that when people pitch a tent in a field and charge us €20 for the privilege, we praise and chant just because we didn’t see it on TV.
We have Fossetts in the summer and Funderland in the winter – do me a favour.
Go and support your local amateur dramatics society instead, they’re more entertaining and I happen to know that nearly all of them aren’t getting a cent from any arts council.

He knows all of this himself and boasts about it during the many lock-ins he has with his cronies.

Thriftcriminal is right, Fossetts are rolling in it and they don’t pay a penny in tax. They never did, but at least now they can do it legally.

Sorry about that, but I hate that man.

Roy; Me neither, but in the age of TV and games consoles, you’re right… it’s good that oldskool survives.

Thriftcriminal; I was checking out their line-up for the summer… they perform pretty much every day and are constantly on the move. They must be knackered but boy must they roll it in!

Deborah; Circuses should be about human acts, animals belong in zoos and safari parks, not caged and whipped. I met a circus elephant in a field in Galway once, his hide was covered in scars and he looked half demented. I’ve become seriously left-wing about the whole idea since.

King Bob; Everyone’s a sucker for the seedy underworld of magic I suppose.

Mammy; That’s her first ever candy-floss in the picture :) Stickiest stuff in the world, that… had to chisel it off her later!

Maxi Cane; Spill!

Baino; I hate clowns and carnies too. I have visions of them sleeping upside down from the rafters after a show. Ronald McDonald didn’t exactly help when I was a kid. *shudder*