h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Little has never been to the circus - until this weekend, when he got to go twice. We got free tickets to Cirque de Celebrite on Sunday (today) and then we got free tickets to Cirque Surreal, which we went to see on Friday evening. They were both at the same big top on Woolwich Common. http://www.cirquesurreal.co.uk/

At the first one, we got really good seats - we were there with a party of 12 and it was great fun. Lots of really stunningly good skills and a nice clown - the fattest bloke I've ever seen in a leotard. http://www.cirquesurreal.co.uk/cirquecelebrite.html The women were absolutely gorgeous and extremely slim and supple and the chaps were pretty OK too. Little really enjoyed it.

Today we went to see Sky One's Cirque de Celebrite and we got the most awful seats - at the side where we couln't see most of the ring and none of the judging panel, so they were only voices. There was lots of waiting about and little got really bored and thought that their skills were really poor. They weren't - they'd done really well to be able to do that amount in only 10 weeks, but he could only see them in comparison with the performance of the professionals. What I did see, being rather sidelined, was the pride that their trainers had in their proteges.

Little was really upset that his favourite was dropped from the five that had made it this far. He was probably the better of the two that scored least, so I think that the one who was saved, was saved for political reasons.