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

Up up and away!

We were up early this morning and by 9.30 I was tootling round to pick up Chi Chi and Kate - our glamorous helpers! We met up with Fred to pick up the caravan and we were soon arriving at Shoreham airport where it was a hive of activity! As we came in on the A27 a hurricane was coming in to land and stall holders were on the airfield setting up for the weekends events.
The first thing out of the van were the teabags and the doughnuts... and by the time the kettle had boiled our great friend The Incredible Mr Marsh (www.rufusmarsh.co.uk) had arrived to lend a hand. Other helpers were slow to turn up and so even yours truly took up a sledge hammer. Don't think I was MUCH help but was quite proud of the fact that I drove 3, 4ft stakes into the ground when normally I wimp out half way through the first one. The medal does have to go to The Incredible Mr Marsh (otherwise known as Rufus) as he drove in the majority of the stakes and quickly took the nickname of 'the machine' as he just didn't stop!

The Team (including me who is behind the lens)

We will be back at the Airshow first thing tomorrow morning to help lead the procession at 9.45. The circus tent will be open all day both Saturday and Sunday so DO come in to see us.

More news coming soon...

Bye for now

Mrs Fred x

Chocs Away!

We're all SO excited here at Fred's Flying Circus headquarters! Tomorrow we are heading over to Shoreham airport to put up the 'Little' Big Top in preparation for the Airshow weekend. It's an event we do every year and thoroughly enjoy!
We will be one of the major children's events and are starting the proceedings with a Circus parade at 10am Saturday morning. The tent will be open all day Saturday and Sunday so you can come and try out some circus skills. At various times during the day Fred will be amazing and amusing with his magic and Chi Chi will be performing her incredible hula hoop routine. I will be there to help out and make cups of tea.
I'll be back very soon with news of the Airshow straight from the circus caravan!
Watch this space!
Mrs Fred x

Mr and Mrs Fred go on a photo shoot!

Fred is busy planning a guitar offensive to keep him out of mischief in the cold winter months. The ground will be too hard (or too soggy) to knock the Circuses 4ft stakes into the ground and Mrs Fred definately will NOT be found sleeping out in a caravan!!! (don't think Chi Chi will be up for that either!).
A publicity card is being produced by yours truly and here are a couple of photos I took of Fred down by the beach huts at Rustington last night... Think he looks rather handsome! Amazing what a bit of photoshopping can do in the right hands! (sorry Fred!).
Fred is available to entertain and amuse with magic, music, comedy and other dangerous stuff!

Speak again soon

Mrs Fred x

Home and dry!

We'd just like to say a HUGE thank you to everyone at Upminster Junior School. We have just completed a 3 day circus experience for the year 6's - each day a new class worked hard in the tent with Fred and Chi Chi and each evening they put on a fabulous show. There were so many brilliant moments with hoops landing on heads, diabolos being flung around and volunteers on stage who were an absolute gift!
Last night we hit an all time record for the take-down of the tent - thanks to all the brilliant volunteers who stayed on after the show in the pouring rain. In 15 minutes we had the tent packed away in the van and in half an hour we were saying our goodbyes. Thank you especially to the 2 guys who were there at the putting up of the tent in the thunderstorm AND they made a special trip to come and help with the take down - you know who you are. If either of you ever want to run away with the circus....
This morning Fred and I went and emptied the caravan and put it away until it's next trip in August. The washing machine is on constantly, I'm busy catching up with emails and Fred and I had to go and treat ourselves to an ice cream to give us some energy!
Fred, Chi Chi and I have had the most wonderful schools tour this year. We are back on the road again in September with the tent and then working in schools during the winter months  (without the tent... it's far too cold). We still have dates available so if you want a circus experience to cheer up those winter blues, do give us a call.
Fred and Chi Chi are working at several events and doing quite a bit of cabaret over the summer. Chi Chi is also running a hula hoop workshop at the Sidney Walter Centre in Worthing during August. She has had to hire the room for an extra hour to run another class as she has been inundated with people signing up. There are still places on one of the courses - go to http://www.chichirevolver.com/#/workshops/4552344081 for details.
The next time the tent goes up is at The Shoreham Airshow http://www.shorehamairshow.co.uk from the 20th-21st August where we will be running FREE workshops all day... hope to see you there!
A BIG thank you to all the schools we have visited this year, the pupils, the teachers, the caretakers and the audiences... and all the people who gave us a toot on the road!
I'll be back soon with more tales of our adventures...
Mrs Fred x