I'm off to join the circus…

Took the boys to the circus today https://www.netherlandscircus.com/index.cfm we all enjoyed it…

As an adult you can see how its not so attractive but to a child wow bright lights etc…

On a serious note I’m off to join the circus the female artists are fit…and you get to live in a caravan so it would feel like a holiday everyday.

Im not sure of the pay or how hard you’d have to train (I think pretty hard) but who cares…

I’ve not told the Mrs or children yet.

Have any of you been to the circus recently ?

I’ve always loved the circus. not been since the end of last summer though.
a friend of mine joined a circus instead of finishing her PHd. Met up with them for a weekend by the coast in Wales. great summer job.. ‘bit grim in winter.

You are Nellie The Elephant and ICM£5

Went to watch cirque du soleil at MEN arena a couple of years back.

It was AWESOME and I’m not really much of a ‘travel miles to sit still and watch something’ person (unless it has minions in it)

I will fondly remember the elephants being walked on st andrews beach every year when the circus came to town.

Marvellous

I’ve wanted to learn trapeze for as long as I can remember. looks so cool

One of my freinds was gored by an elephant when the circus came to Brighton.

Paul Foster’s dad got pissed on my a lion. Not in Brighton.

My colleague Coco ran away to join the circus when he was 16.

My dad ran away with the fair when he was 17

I sense a theme. Well remember seeing the Circus in our village on the recreation ground back in the 70s. As a boy I was fascinated with the whole shenanigan, so hung around watching them pack down after the show was over. I wanted to run away right there and then. It may also have had something to do with the slender, sun-browned, long-limbed raven-tressed girl a few years older than I who was effortlessly shinning up the main pole with an easy smile that spelled some kind of exotic freedom and intrigue that I was just about old enough to be curious about. After that day I always dreamed of running away. Yeats wrote ‘The song of Wandering Aengus’ just for me.

Walking alongside a tiny river that runs around the outskirts of the dullest small Norfolk town and there across the river were open sided lorry cages with tigers within. Actually going to the circus couldn’t have topped the weird, unexpected juxtaposition and sadness of that sight.

My ex’s brother ran away with the circus of horrors. That’s a blow for the parents, not just any circus, the evil circus. It was mostly for the hot chicks, who of course he never got near, but I think he had a good time anyway.

Anyone else seen Archaos? Now that was a circus.

Giffords Circus of the Shire is fantastic for all Hobbits great & small.

Used to go to Giffords Circus when sprog younger. Tours around the Cotswold area every year or two. Despite being a bit of a colour supplement chi-chi affair it’s actually very enjoyable.

I took my kids when they were very young to see the amazing Archaos on Highbury Fields. My son got bronchial with all the fumes from the chainsaws and motorbikes but is now an accomplished juggler.