Page 131 - IT'S A RUM LIFE BOOK FOUR Volume 1 "Northcote 1984 to 1998"
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NEARLY A TOTAL DISASTER
By the second week in December, we had not seen a penny and had to pay for the lorry
hire and fuel etc. on our overstressed credit card!
I phoned the film company almost every day, we sent fax messages and letters and it was
not until the first week in January 2003 that we managed to get someone on the phone.
It was still “Christmas Holidays” and I pleaded our case very strongly, explaining all about
the sick horses in our care and all volunteers etc.
The money, all of it, virtually £2500, suddenly appeared in our bank account.
It had been paid by the personal credit card of one of the film producers.
A week later they declared themselves bankrupt!
What a lucky escape and by the “skin of our teeth”!
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I did manage this picture during the break in filming at 2am in the morning.
This is Robert's horse Brandy pictured in our 1908 Spilsby built Market cart.
Picture taken with my camera used in my days as a photojournalist, it is an
Olympus OM2.
