FRED GOES LIVE!!!

It's been a bit busy at Fred's Flying Circus headquarters... driving up and down the M1 motorway, discovering Krispy Kreme lemon meringue donuts (AMAZING!!!), making popcorn and teaching some truly DELIGHTFUL children how to be as skilled and as daft as Fred and Chi Chi. A HUGE thank you to all the children and staff at Jerome School in Norton Canes - you treated us like royalty and the many cups of tea and friendly faces were much appreciated! Thanks also to the team of 'muscle' who stayed behind after the show on Friday to help take down... you do win the prize for getting the stakes out of the most difficult ground this year. At one stage we thought we would need to find a Land rover and a rope to get them out but your brute force and determination got the better of them!
Also a big thank you to the wonderful children we taught at Huncote near Leicester. We only had just over an hour to teach you the whole routine and you did it all SO perfectly...

We're back home now and I've been busy setting up a brand new website for Fred... It's quite basic at the moment but images and videos will be going up over the next few days so keep checking him out at www.freddelius.co.uk

If you have missed us this year, you now have the chance to see Fred and Henry, 'the World's only Mind Reading Dog' on youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7v_MCkpaHw
enjoy!

Toodly pip for now!
Mrs Fred x

Flying circus nearly flies away!

The sun is shining, the tent is up and at the moment I can hear Fred and Chi Chi in the big top amazing and amusing the children in the morning workshop.
We arrived here at Jerome School in Norton Canes, just outside of Cannock on Tuesday night to a great reception of smiles and tea a plenty.... but also plenty of wind!!! It was still rather strong after Monday's gales and so we set about bashing stakes in with our sturdy helpers. On Wednesday morning the wind had died down enough to lift the lid and the children gathered on the playground to watch the big top go up - now you don't see THAT every day at school!
Today and tomorrow night the school children will be working with Fred and Chi Chi and tonight they will be starring in their own circus show.
I'll be back soon with more news live from the circus caravan.
Toodly pip!
Mrs Fred x

Back on the road...

The schools are back and after a summer of fun, cabaret and entertaining the public we are back on the road for our last few gigs with our beautiful little big top (before it gets too cold and dark for Mrs Fred to be out camping!!!). We've just packed up the van and in a couple of hours will be heading off to Cannock in the midlands to spend some time at Jerome Primary School. Then on Sunday we head 50 miles East to the Blaby festival where we will be working with a group of children to put on a circus spectacular later in the day... watch this space for photos!

And finally... Have you heard of horse manning?... it's a craze that started in the 1920's named after the headless horseman and we just HAD to have a go!!! It's brilliant fun... go and google it now and see how others have beheaded themselves!
If you see us on the road, give us a toot!
Mrs Fred x