Oh No! Not Again!

If there's an award for Season With Most Injuries, I think that the tour of 2013 is a heavy contender to win it.

Our costume woman was trying to get into her compartment after the stairs had been put away for transport and didn't quite make it. The resulting fall left her with a dislocated shoulder and a minimum of three weeks on the side lines.

It's incredible how the absence of just one person can weigh so heavily on a circus. Build up and tear down are a fast and furious frenzy, and when someone is missing, it's as though the entire circus stumbles over itself. If one step in the process is delayed, somehow no one can do their job properly! X can't be done until Y is completed, but Y can't be completed unless Z is moved out of the way and so forth and so on. And that's just build up and tear down. There are all the day to day tasks as well.

Here's wishing M a speedy recovery and even more importantly, that things settle down on the injury front.