Driving Home for Christmas
It varies each year, but there's a cut-off date in the weeks leading up to Christmas when you know that if you're not working by then, you won't be working again until January. As someone who did his last pantomime nineteen years ago, this has never worried me and Christmas with my partner, and family and friends is something I relish. I can't imagine how I ever spent most of December and the whole of January doing two shows a day away from home, and trying to cope with all the demands of the festive season as well. This year, my working year finished rather early as we had a holiday heading off to Mauritius on November 29. This meant that November was my last working month of the year. I had been offered two jobs that both were to take place in early December However they were unable to fix their filming dates for after 7 December which was our return, so both jobs had to be turned down. We have a rule in our house that once a holiday is booked, a holiday is taken,