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By now I had plenty of help to remove the cart too and we re-attached the horse and drove
them back to the lorry for a well earned rest.

Ruth then found the director and told him in no uncertain terms what she thought of his
shabby trick in getting us there without explaining the full circumstances.
I should imaging that after confronting another horse outfit with all the facts, they were met
with firm refusals all round, until they found us poor wretches, desperate for the money!

The director did admit that they could finish the remaining scenes without the horses and
we left for home, threatening not to return.
We did not have fax facilities or even emails at this time and a friendly local business,
(Tong Engineering) in nearby Spilsby, helped us by accepting and sending fax messages
from time to time.
They telephoned us the next morning to tell us a frantic fax had been received from the
film company to the effect that they desperately needed us to finish the planned film
sequences and apologised profusely for what had happened the previous night.
Thinking about the money we did agree to go again.

The “Team”, Robert, Joe, Jane and Ruth, break time at 2am.

THE LAST SHOOT
It was a couple of days later and this time it was just myself and Robert again, with Sam
and Ebony. They wanted a different larger vehicle so we borrowed a traditional
Lincolnshire farm wagon from a good friend at Wrangle for Ebony to pull. Sam had the
same farm cart he was using at Weybourne.
Then once on scene it was explained that I had to be in costume as both horses were
likely to filming at the same time.