Property News · April 15, 2017

Me and my garden: ‘I want to live on the first road to have a hedgehog box in every garden’


Stuntman Wayne de Strete on why he loves nothing more than sitting by his garden pond in Brighton, watching and listening to the local wildlifeI try to channel my adrenaline to enhance my performance, which is physically very demanding. I mostly do live events rather than film work, and sometimes I play themed characters at corporate events. I like doing those, because no one is punching me and I don’t have to fall off anything. If you’re on a film set, you just turn up and do the fight, or part of the fight, and you have to memorise only four or five hits. With a live event, you’re there all day. If you’re doing a sword fight, for instance, you have to memorise more than 300 moves.My wife Lorna and I moved to Brighton 17 years ago. It’s quite a built-up area, so I sent a mail shot out to neighbours, asking who had a pond and what lived in it. Then I dug two in my garden, one for frogs and the other for toads. Come spring, we now get around 300 frogs, toads and newts breeding here. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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