PICTURE CREDITS

PICTURE CREDITS

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR – JOHN
STARRING ‘T’ IN HIS FIRST ROLE
SUPPORTING ACTRESS ‘J’
SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES – JOHN
And introducing STOMPJIE – a touching performance by a footless scavenging chaffinch playing a disabled member of an ethnic minority!

CAMERA – RUTH
BEST BOY – RUTH
GRIP – RUTH
CATERING – RUTH
SECURITY – RUTH
LOCATION -JOHN
ANIMAL HANDLER – RUTH
LIASSION – RUTH
CONTINUITY – RUTH
GAFFER – RUTH
GOFER – RUTH
BUCK STOPPER - RUTH
STUNTMAN - RUTH
HEALTH AND SAFETY - RUTH
PROPS - RUTH

The company wish to assure their audience that no animals were harmed in the making of this film except the fish caught on Rozac beach, the four fish gutted by Ruth and eaten by the crew, all the wasps who died in the wasp trap, all birds foolish enough to eat white bread crumbs, and several ants given the ‘stone’ treatment by ‘T’.
FILMED AT TROGIR, SPLIT, OCKRUG AND THE SPLENDID ROZACS CAMPING

MORE WILD ANIMALS

We are getting to fill in more boxes in the I-Spy Book of European Fauna. (Does anybody remember Big Chief I-Spy? I certainly don't.) Anyway, after Bears, Beavers, Bison, Eagles, Lynx and Pine Martens (maybe) we yesterday came across our fiercest adversaries yet.

It happened like this. Ruth and I set out on a walk through an Alpine valley which would lead us eventually by a 12 - 13 km route to Lake Bohinj. The 2nd. couple of km are up a fairly steep and winding gorge. At the top Ruth said she needed to sit down somewhere for a short rest. A very short rest it was as, when she shortly afterwards jumped up (and she said she was tired!), she had hundreds of ants diligently and intimately exploring her clothing. And biting, both diligently and intimately. What was Ruth to do but rip off much of her clothing, leap around a bit and remonstrate with the pesky formicidi? Talk about Wild Animals! I've never seen anything like it! And neither had the passing motorists.

(Why do we say Bison and not Bisons, Fish and not Fishes, Lynx and not Lynxes?)

About a mile (1,6km) after the ants' nest and, with only 2 or 3 ants still on her, Ruth decided to examine within 2 inches (50,8mm) one of the hay racks they use in the Alps for drying err.. hay. That's when she found the wasps' nest.