Village ponds. Forests. Lakes. Winding lanes with hedges on either side. Songbirds on the wing. And although much of the English countryside was still...pretty much like that, now Iris was employed as conscript labour on England's green and pleasant land, what she mostly experienced of life outside the cities was nothing at all like what she'd hoped it would be.As far as Iris was concerned the least romantic aspect of it all was the actual work she had to do. It wasn't as if she'd exactly. The horses and mules seemed to have weathered the storm without much harm, and we gently unwrapped their heads one at a time, swabbing out their nostrils with our damp cloths, giving them small drinks and arranging feed bags.It was almost dark by this time, and we spent what little daylight we had left finding firewood and pulling out what we needed to cook our first hot meal since breakfast three days ago. The last thing we did before going to bed was strip down to get out of our sand laden. I am convinced that all my teachers hated me, except for one-my acting teacher.When I first arrived in Los Angeles, I had enough money to take actinglessons twice a week. I devoured the teaching, absorbing technique andmethod. Every nuance of the craft was fascinating to me. This was why Iwas so painfully frustrated. Acting was a childhood dream, and it wasslowly being crushed by the weight of this city. My agent listened to mysob story, one I am sure he had heard a million times before and. And the rest of the team made the same determination.However it was going to take some doing, and giving them a start of seventy-four pins and with Sandy already nude and minus-1 we needed something special and I was determined to lead the way.More often than not, wanting something so badly, being so determined to do something well can have an adverse effect, usually because you try too hard and tense up in the process, but on the rare occasion it can work for you and make you concentrate. This.