HOLDING MY HEAD HIGH

Question: What happens when you are seduced by images of colours and laughter anf fun and frolic, beguiled by the thrills of watching the trapeze artist swing high above or the fire-eater spout the living flames, when you fancy the music and masks beckoning you?

Answer : You get to wear a pink nose - just like me

And so it was one afternoon that I found myself in front of the famous Yuri Nikulin Circus, named after the famous clown there in Moscow, wearing a clowns pink nose in the middle of a park while sereval by-standers looked on.

The bone of contention was should I pose sitting on the lap of the cast-iron clown in the photograph : Thankfully all it took was just a poke upwards..

Loved wearing the nose though : My best souvenier from Moscow... hehe