P.A.

Today I have been playing at being Melanie Griffith in Working Girl
Ok I don't have the big hair, the whispering voice and I have never said breathlessly
" I have a head for business and a bod for sin. "
But I have been putting digit to netbook in an effort to act a little like a personal assistant

In order to publicize the village Flower Show, which is under a bit of a threat from dwindling entry numbers, we have brought the big guns into play
Our Big Gun is Auntie Gladys
Single handed she sells over 300 hundred raffle tickets every year and when every household in the village has been cajoled into buying a one pound book, she just pulls up her stockings and marches around the neighbouring villages of Llanasa and Gwaenysgor..
For over 60 years she has worked consistently hard to provide support for the Trelawnyd Welfare committee and then for the Flower Show,,
The simple fact is that she ticks every news worthy/cinematic box:-

ie
she's a sweet old lady
who has bags of chutzpah
she sports a string of pearls 
and some Woody Allen spectacles

Think of Helen Hayes from Airport with a Welsh accent!

So I emailed every local paper, newsroom and even the BBC website, to inform them of Auntie Glad's  66 years of village work and today the first of the reporters (a businesslike young lady with a cracking shorthand) turned up to document Gladys' contribution to Trelawnyd and publicize our Flower Show.

Gladys was an old pro at all the fuss....while I farted around like a flunky, she enjoyed the chance to chat about her days "in service" before coming to the village just before the war...

I could listen to her stories all day....after half an hour I forgot the reporter was there........

The "official" photographer turns up on Tuesday.........already we have been discussing "outfits"