Today stared like any other: pat F on the face, insist on getting my breakfast, supervise watering plants and the doing of Pilates, and then get trotted off to work.
Today however, F forgot we were to be visited by an internal auditor from head office (Luxembourg).
Fortunately the auditor is a fan of felines and more interested in bookkeeping and regulatory compliance than how the office desks are allocated. I raised the small matter of my honorarium but it fell on deaf ears. I did get extra chin scratches, I suppose that had to count for something. And he did take a photo of me and Donkey...which he hasn't absolutely promised will not go in his report. Bother...
I reckon he should be advocating that all offices have a feline overseer to ensure the proper running of things.
As we meandered down the hill towards home this evening we could see a 'commotion gathered around the top of our rickety stairs to the beach. A truck with a 'hi-ab' was extending its bucket out over the ancient walls and we wondered if the stairs had collapsed and someone needed rescuing, so we did what any normal supervisor would do and went over for a better look.
Filming.
Boring.
No one dead or injured. Just a couple of teenagers standing on one of the stairs' landings with cameras pointing at them from everywhere (including the hi-ab bucket which was by this stage looming right over them) and lots of useless people zooming around trying to look useful.
What do all those people do on a film shoot? One was standing beside a strange balloon giving off bright light (bright but doesn't compete with daylight). OK so he's the lighting guy. And the rest? What - all 20 or 30 of them? Most are just standing around inside the taped off area with their arms folded, of flicking their hair about trying to look well-arranged. Maybe one fetches coffee. Coffee is important in Greece.
Wardrobe Department.
We would really like them to go away because the truck engine is running to work the hi-ab (how does that not come out in the sound track?) and it is making smelly Diesel fumes.
I'm just peeved they didn't see the film opportunities in a Donkey-driving cat.
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That wardrobe seems sadly lacking... and how clever of you to have mastered the art of auditing with your eyes closed.
ReplyDeleteWardrobe was a bit like the lighting department in full bleaching Greek daylight. Clients love auditors with closed eyes. It's a real hit.
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ReplyDeleteHaving been involved with some filming operations, I too have often wondered at the variety of individual tasks that get assigned, rather than one person multitasking... as you clearly are capable of doing, Tigger dear. I mean, napping and snoopervising takes extra special skillz!!! Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
You might be right YAM-aunty. There must have been someone to tie right shoe-laces and another one to do the left. xxx Mr T
DeleteWell Tigger and and F you do see some interesting things, but feel they missed a trick not including you and your donkey in the film. I am sure the auditor felt everything was ok with you there to check on things.
ReplyDeleteTheir movie is all the poorer for it. They were there nearly 4 hours in the end. They are going to have continuity problems because they started in daylight and ended in pitch darkness. I bet the actors were getting tired of that landing on the rickety stairs by the end.
Deleteyears ago my friend and I had a similar view of them filming models at the beach. it was not as exciting as your story, the thing is, its better from the feline view of things. you would have been perfect in it or at the end pouring out of your sleeping basket. Beau said he had no ideas cats could melt.
ReplyDeleteMelting my specialty, especially in front of nice hot fireplaces.
DeleteSo glad the audit went well!
ReplyDeleteGail says they have to have that many people on a film shoot so the credits at the end of the film go on and on and on and this gives people like her friend 'N' the opportunity to irritate their companions by insisting on sitting there in the cinema until they've learned the name of very last teaboy, when normal people (i.e. Gail) just want to get up and go home....
Gail's friend N must be able to read really fast. F only wants to read the first 5 characters and any information they provide on ths music they used (if music was a feature). Having said that, leaving a cinema is like getting off an aeroplane - a lot of pointless standing around in strange bent positions waiting for other people to move......
Delete... so you might as well read the credits.
DeleteThey were obviously making an adults only movie. There were no little children around……they usually come running when trucks and cranes appear. There was something magic about swirling those rolls polly circular card index thingies - do you get to twirl them Tigger?
ReplyDeleteThere were kids in the crowd collected around watching (outside the stripy crime scene tape). Incidentally that tape didn't deter our elderly partner in gardening Crete Lady, she just hobbled on through, right into the melee of 'crew'.
DeleteThe plastic folders in the roladex thing are starting to crumble and white flakes go everywhere if anyone touches them. Does anybody use those things these days?
DeleteI haven't tried pilates but whenever my daughter and I try to do yoga there is Mr Cat in between us trying to figure out what the hoomans are doing.
ReplyDeleteI supervise yoga too. Mr Cat isn't figuring it out - she's making sure you are doing it well; staying focussed.
DeleteIn some places actual crimes do happen and filming is so common that people assume it's a movie in progress.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. Every office should have a feline
ReplyDeleteAnd yes coffee is very very important
Such an exhausting day you must have had, dear Tigger. I love that last photo of you :)
ReplyDeleteYou are a very clever cat and superior supervisor Tigger! I agree that all workplaces should have furry companions.. it would make the days so much more pleasant!
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