...almost famous

Came home the other day to find a non-enveloped letter in the box. Nothing strange about that, except this one said something along the lines of "We've been scouting for filming locations and your house matches the descriptions of the director's requirements...etc". The production is the second series of an AFI winning comedy that screened on SBS. Nobody really watched it (myself included) but I had heard of it. One of those shows you think "I wouldn't mind watching that", but five minutes later forget what day or time it is on.

At first Q though they must have dropped the letter into every house along the street. But we soon figured that if they were after a clean 1940's picket-fenced Californian bungalow with a neat garden, they would have dropped to the letter to every house on the street except ours. We live in a dump, though its an endearing dump.

So Q rang the producer this morning to find out more...

"So you're interested in our house?"

"Yep."

"You mean the boxy one in desperate need of a paintjob with the large, broken yacht out the front?"

"Aha"

"The one with the blue rowboat, retro lawnmowers and rusty 1950's concrete mixers?"

"You betcha"

"Our house with the giant banana passionfruit vine strangling the clothesline, the mouldy caravan and a Charles Dickens doorknocker?"

"The very one"

"The one with no fence, a letterbox being held in place with a couple of housebricks and a grumpy pussy cat?"

"It's perfect!"

"So when can you come over?"


Six weeks filming, unlimited access required. We're keen to learn more (and we we're meeting the producer on Friday morning), but its far from a given. It may be too disruptive to our lives (pussycat included) and the interior may not meet their requirements anyway. It is very cosy inside. But we may be interested for a couple of reasons. Firstly, we'd get a real kick out of seeing our house, inside and out, in a TV series. Secondly, we'd love to immortalise 'The Boat', the famous boat whose owner just passed away. And lastly, there is a nice little fee payable to us, if they want to proceed.

I probably can't tell you much more because there may be confidentiality clauses and the like.

Watch this space.

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