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»Forget all your worries and have fim ’ at Circus Funtasia - we
By Julie Magee
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® It really is like stepping into another world watching one of Circus Funtasia's shows.
' During its visit to Clitheroe Castle field earlier this month, the human travelling circus proved a hit with adults and children alike as they were entertained with a dazzling assortment of acts. The heated big top was full
@ whenmyself,mymotherAlice, daughter Ruby and her friend Maya Watson, both seven, as well as my niece Lucy Beard (11) turned up for Circus Fun- tasia’s Saturday matinee show. We were also accompanied
by my colleague Katie Ham mond’s husband Mark and their children Matilda (five) and Harry (three), who were shown to ringside seats.
. Itwasgoingtobeinterest-
ing to see how Circus Funtasia would fare with my little group of critics rangingfrom ayoung boy of three to a 72-year-old pensioner! Settling them in with a bag
, _ x of candy floss each to munch on throughout the show, my trio ofyoungsters were imme diately mesmerised by what would turn out to be a mixture of acrobatic, comedy and aer-
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ring has been set with a long trampoline and as the lights dim, there is the “hi ho” of Disney’s seven dwarves, and a comical bouncing display from Troupe Julio to open the second half. Both young Harry and Matilda’s eyes lit up when watching this spectacle. Up next are Attila and Do
minik in a gripping hand-to- hand routine showing their breath-taking strength and balance. As the ring is rigged for the
Clitheroeyoungsters Maya Watson and Ruby Magee (both seven) with Lucy Beard (11)at Circus Funtasia. (s)
ial feats. Clown Emilion Del- bosq immediately grabbed the attention of the audience - particularly when he per formed a date-night mime with one brave young woman from the audience taken for a ride in his invisible car, com plete with slamming doors, squealing brakes, and in-car stereo. Constantly chastised by
ring-mistress and co-direc tor of Circus Funtasia, Tracey Jones, the clown’s comedy act was a great warm up for what was to come with the cir cus’s company overtaking the stage and bounding in wear
ing bold workmen’s overalls to a big band circus tune. They opened the stage up foryoung Nia Nikolov’s juggling act. Wearinga backwards baseball cap and looking hip and cool, the 12-year-old is billed as the youngest performer current ly touring in a UK circus. Jug gling clubs, tennis rackets, and then four rings, she fin ished her routine spinning a cube to a War of The Worlds soundtrack. Other highlights of the
firsthalfwereAgnes’selegant moves on an aerial sling made of stretchy fabric, and Dia mond Duo, Honza and Jitka,
with their quick change act. The audience seemed genu- inelyamazedastheyappeared in a range of different outfits. “How did they do that?” My daughter Ruby asked. And the younger girls, including my colleague’s daughter Mat ilda, were mesmerised when, at the final change, Honza pours a bucket of confetti over his bride’s head to trans form her into a real-life Disney princess. When’ the Viennese con
ductor fails to appear for the next act, clown Emilion has a chance to prove himself to ring-mistress Tracey Jones.
Attila and Dominik in a gripping hand-to-hand routine, (s)
He leads the audience in a sequence of clapping which results in the audience hap pily playing the classical tune, The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss. The pirates are back as the
five-man Troupe Julio flood the stage, performing somer saults and layouts from a Rus sian swing. They arejoined by youngNiaforaleeterboardact that closes with a back som ersault performed by Nia and her father Julio, who is also one of the circus directors with his wife Tracey. After the interval-and raf fle for a giant Minion toy - the
finale, Emilion returns to the audience once again to find members for his band. Every adult in the audience must have been secretly relieved and glad that they had not been picked, but those who were, really embraced the opportunity with the female victor leaving the stage to rap- tuous rounds of applause. The finale sees the return
of the Diamond Duo dress to impress to perform on their sparkling chrome finished Wheel of Death. The pair run andjump to rotate themecha- nismandasthetensionbuilds Honza dons a black hood to walk blindfolded over the spinning wheel. A spokesman for the cir
cus told the Clitheroe Adver tiser that their “aim is to make you forget all your worries and have fun”. I can honestly say that it certainly did that.
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Mind the
gap...It’s that time of year that’s lacking in colour
Plants such as daffodils and snowdrops through to flower ing currants or forsythias, and as we all know the summer
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• months are lit up with flower ing perennials in abundance, but what happens in between, can if we’re not careful turn a little bit green! I always refer to it as the “Green Gap”, basically the transition period between spring and summer, Rho dodendrons which are all in full bloom now or certainly about to burst signal the end of spring and it is at this point it is essential to make sure you have plants that either have colourful foliage, or flower throughout June to help give the garden that lift of colour. One of my favourites has to be
Spotlight
he garden is an abundance of col our throughout spring with colour from every corner.
the geums. Being a redhead myself, the hot colours are what got me hooked on cro- cosmias! With their redyel- low or orange flowers, geums certainly sparkle, along with flowering for a considerable . length of time; six to eight weeks. They don’t require any special soil and will tolerate a sunny or partially shaded site so winners all round! Candelabra primulas are cer tainly a good choice if you have a wet boggy spot, with their cabbage-like leaves topped with the signature whorls of pink, white, yellow or orange flowers, they're striking. Also when you plant the differ ent colours together they will cross pollinate and produce seedlings with of all colours in between, the Asian cowslip primula florindae is a little dif ferent with its large oversized cowslip flowers which smell unusually ofspices, so if it’s- a wet garden you have then choose these! Nowyou can choose plants with flowers, or look at the leaves. This is sometimes where a lot of us can go wrong.
Q & A
HERE YOU CAN SEND IN AND FIND ^ OUTTHE ANSWERS TO ANY GARDENING PROBLEMS
Can I lay turf now? Yes you can. The key is in the prep aration. Rotovate the soil to a depth offourinches.rakeoverandtread £ in with your feet several times to settle it in and also get it nice and
level.Then layyour turf and the key thingistowater regularly, twice a day early on then once a day for the first few weeks. The best time to water is always in the morning to reduce the evaporation as the water goes in much
Flowers are nice but don’t last forever. Leaves last for a lot longer and can give that vi brancy; whether it be purple, orange, yellow or white varie gated they help give good basal tones to any garden. One of my favourites ifyou’re after dwarf plants, would be the dwarf
Jobs to do....
1- Split Pulmonaria After trimming them back, if you
are wanting to divide existing clumps to help spread early colour around the garden now is the time to do it. Wwa- ter them in well and before you know it they'll be in flower again! 2- Clip Box Hedging After having just put on a flush of
Review: “Boeing Boeing”, at the Coliseum Theatre, Oldham until June 6th. Boxoffice:016i 6242829.
• Website:
www.coliseum.org. uk
The Oldham Coliseum’s Pro duction of Marc Camoletti’s farce “Boeing Boeing” is clever and entertaining. The basic premise of the plot concerns Parisian archi-
. tectBernard (Robin Simpson), who manages to maintain three mistresses who are all air hostesses-American Glo-
© ria (Laura Doddington), Ital ian Gabriella (Maeve Larkin), and German Gretchen (Sarah . Lawrie). His complex love
* v<-- life has been working well, but, as those of us who travel by air these days know only too well, flight timetables can and do go haywire sometimes. When Bernard’s friend Robert ■ + (Ben Porter) arrives, there is
trouble in the air and on the ground. Thus we have a farce that
follows the usual pattern, six doors, unexpected arrivals, confusion^ narrow escapes and a great deal of humour. The madcap flurries are watched, and commented up on, by Bernard’s maid, the sar donic Bertha (Gilly Tomkins). The opening scenes are,
perhaps, a bit too long and contain more exposition than needed, but as the first act de velops the action speeds up and this gives Ben Porter, as the bewildered Robert, won derful opportunities for some excellent physical and manic comic acting. The second act is even bet
ter as Bernard’s love life disin tegrates and Robin Simpson has more chance to shine. The. three hostesses are charming, sexy and quite well distin guished by instantly recognis
able (if a bit cliched) national characteristics. Bertha, blunt and canny, is ajoy. The English translation, by
Beverley Cross, is effective and Michael Holt’s design gives us the feeling of a luxurious Paris apartment, albeit with an unu sual but necessary number of doors. HowBernard finds time to pay for such a pad, as he is too busy with his “fiancees” to have much time to work, is a puzzle, but who cares about such things with all the skilful ly timed entrances and exits? • This happy farce does “ex
actly what it says on the tin” and gives the audience pleas ure and laughs. The Coliseum’s next pro
duction is “Dreamers”, a brand new musical featuring songs of the ’90s and tells the story of a small town nightclub where peoplefind.orfailtofind, their dreams.
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hew growth trim any hedges or topi ary to help keep its shape. Feed with a pellet based fertilizer to help maintain a rich green colour to the leaves. 3 - Re-pot Rooted Cuttings. Having now established a root sys
tem, potting them on will help encour age them to grow bigger. On some cuttings remove the main shoot to help encourage shoots from the bot-
IT’S TIME TO GET
OUT IN THEGARDEN AND GET CRACKING WITH THOSE
MUST-DO JOBS...
BUT WHICH ONES? HERE JOHN FOLEY SETS OUT WHAT
NEEDS DOING AND WHEN, AND HOW TO GO ABOUT IT
tom and a better shaped plant. Don't place in direct sunlight as this can put too much strain on their young roots.
4 - Vegetable Feeding With new plants just having been
planted, feed with tomato feed to help encourage compact growth and plen ty of flowers to encourage a good crop 5 -
Chelsea Chop Any tall growing perennials with,
many pairs of leaves can now be trimmed back by half. Give them a feed as well and they will grow more com pact with flower, later in the year. 6 - Trim Brooms Trim any young brooms (Cytisus)
that have finished flowering back by half to ensure compact growth from the base. With older varieties, cut back to where the young green stems are. This stops plants getting leggy and keeps flowers at the base.
berberis. There are varieties that only grow to a small two feet high. Berberis diabolicum isgreatwithits orange and yel low foliage, or orange rocket which grows as a tiny column with its bright orange leaves 1 So even ifyou just chose a few of the above strategically
placed around the garden, this would be enough tojust help to lift the colours to lead you through into the summer explosion but never under estimate the power of foli age, especially as a backdrop for those colourful flowers around them!
moreef- fectively at this time of day. How many box plants per metre should I use? Tomakeanicehedgeoutofbox you would use approximately five plants per metre, this gives a eight-inch (20cm) spacing and they will fill out very nicely in time. Always feed once a year with box in the spring and you can simply use the Vitax Q4 or if you are after encouraging some strong growth then use chicken pellets, as these are high in nitrogen and that is the element that generates strong growth. Clip twice a year; once in the spring after the first flush of growth and then once at the end of summer after the second flush of growth to help tidy it up
Can I plant out my bedding yet? The answer is always yes from June 1st! At that point in time it’s pretty 99% sure that the frosts
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have gone away until the Autumn, Jack Frost certainly nipped a few shoots three weeks ago that Saturday night and it will certainly have caught out anyone who put 0 bedding out too early! Piantyour
N ext Ga r d e n ing C ourse Geranium sylvaticum 'Album’
An unusual varietyof Har dy Geranium with many compact upright stems of pure white flowers, great for late Spring colour and self supporting.
Plant in sun or shade and trim back after flowering for a flush of new growth. A great contrast against other flowering plants in June
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