Prop Hunting

So, the race is on to collect all of Gordon's collectibles before the shoot, which is in approximately eight days time! Lilli and I got most of his wardrobe from charity shops in Bridgwater -oh what a beautiful collection of ties you have now, Gordon... all (about four costume changes) for less than £30. We are on a non-existent budget, so I'm all for a bit of recycling.

Today, I went to a car booty just outside of Taunton - not a complete waste of time, but it wasn't quite as rewarding as I'd hoped. We found a number of figurines, but no matching tea sets or interestingly naff condiment dispensers. It is a bank holiday weekend though, so we're off again a bit further afield tomorrow for the rest of the prop list... lets hope there's some buried treasure. And at least these treasures come at 50p or £1 max, so it's not such a drag to keep hold of such tat - sorry Gordon, I love you really!


Below is Ermintrude, and she figures in one of the most important scenes. She is intact here, but a young couple later break her head off in the heat of a passionate, and slightly violent embrace.

Below is headless Ermintrude, a lot of comedy comes to the fore when Gordon looks for the head which has rolled under the bed, but he has to abandon his mission when he realises the young couple are on their way back up to the room...


We may use this set of figurines (below) for the final scene, when Gordon fight over them, but I think we will need copies of these if we want to do the scene in more than one take... oops, didn't think about that!