Wednesday, 7 July 2010

Back online, and thinking about spring cleaning

Oh it's been quiet from us here in the snake den, but not because things have been quiet! Quite the opposite infact, June proved to be crazy busy not only the the Bizarre ball, but shortly followed by a gig in london for our friends at Explosive Events and two may balls. Durning this time new chap Dhara was put through his paces some more and proved himself to be a true star taking it al in his stride, and he wasn't the only one...
This year we have seen more mish mashing of snake handlers than ever before due to all kinds of different things- anyhoo at the very last minute I was truly stuck for a male handler to don our aladdin costume and assist me for the Explosive gig. As fate would have it, while phoning round at 11pm the night before the event and at the pinnacle of my stress capacity, my old friend and at that time soon-to-be Cold Blooded Crew member, stand up comedian, Mr Tommy Ettling came to the rescue. Now myself and Tommy had been in talks about drafting him in as our compare/ring master for our forthcoming circus stage show for next year, but he has now proven himself as an accidental but wonderful snake handler! It makes sense in retrospect, the guy has been handling snakes since we were 14 years old and used to hang at my house after school... anyway, thanks Tommy, a true life saver and a great friend. Here's to more future gigs together!

We have another last minute newbie in the form of Swedish Blonde bombshell Alex (still working on show name- all suggestions greatfully recieved and considered!), a lady I met through my previous employment as an animal wrangler, who by chance has now taken up employment at my current day job. She and Dhara have hit it off and he is now under her full time care. She made her debut at Clare college may ball in belly dancing get up and was an instant hit! Funnily enough, at the same event was a chap with camels, whome I used to jockey camels for at public races- small world!



In other news Wotan is recovering well from laying 9 eggs and is eating like a horse to make up for her loss on condition, Dhara has settled in well in his new home at Shepreth Wildlife Park adn Inca is growing mighty big and fast!

You may have noticed our main website (www.snakesandladies.co.uk) has been out of action for sometime- this is thanks to the service provider going bust and not telling us about it. Thankfully all is sorted and pretty much in order again. Our most sincere apologies for any inconvenience our lack of availability may have caused. Now wer are getting back to normal we can get on with sorting out our handler profiles and gallery, which will come as a welcome relief I'm sure. Watch this space!


Squeezes,


Good Gracious x


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