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these memoirs I was very flattered but somewhat unsure. The title sums up the question I have been asking myself for years. |
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The book is available from More about it |
One by One
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Zoo vet series shot at Jimmy Clubb & Sally Chipperfields world famous circus farm in the Cotswolds.
Adventures with lots of animals!
The series had some faults but the chance to work with circus people - particularly Jimmy Clubb, was far too good to miss.
The whole zoo vet story line was interesting because it took me into a world of wild animal training - you can buy lion cubs for £50 each so with for £300 you have the basis of a circus act! If you then spend hundreds of hours teaching, loving, training them then after a while you have a circus act worth £5000!
Jimmy Clubb joined he circus as a young man and learned from the bottom up how to become a wild animal trainer. A pupil of the famous Dick Chipperfield he married Sally and the pair of them toured their own circus around the UK for many years.
Jimmy is now famous for supplying trained animals for commercials, films and television productions and was the central figure behind One by One - without him the series could not have had the success it achieved.
Peter Gilmore played Ben Bishop the Circus owner and it was a pleasure to work with him again.
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Peter makes it all look so easy - he is an excellent actor who quickly learned from Jimmy how to make it 'appear' he could control circus horses doing their routines - elephants doing their acts and working with all sorts of wild animals....?
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Contents 1 – Planning the voyage 2 – South coast to Chenal du Four 3 - Chenal du Four to La Rochelle 4 - La Rochelle to Spain overview 5 - La Rochelle to Coruña 6 - Coruña to Gibraltar |
Why not take your boat to the Mediterranean next summer?
There are several ways of getting your boat to the Mediterranean. On the back of a lorry, via the French canals, four or five day’s non stop across the Bay of Biscay then down the Portuguese coast or spend the summer or two, gently coasting southwards, enjoying the harbours, cities, towns and villages of France Spain and Portugal.
This is not a pilot book, rather a passage plan and guide to the nicer places between the South Coast of the UK to the beautiful Mediterranean Sea. It can all be done in easy stages, to suit a lightly crewed boat, with perhaps only a couple of people on board who are without ‘offshore’ experience. Actually, it is a lovely way to explore a lot of delightful foreign places.
The Ebook version is available now £4.50 |
Specially drawn charts of:
Cherbourg to L’Aber-Wrac’h. Chenal du Four to La Rochelle La Rochelle to Spain La Rochelle to Coruña Coruna to Gibraltar + illustrations, pictures, paintings |
