This morning, and every morning Monday to Friday these last few weeks, there's been an increase in traffic along Launching Place Rd. I only walk along there for about 600 metres each way from the end of Quinn rd. at Leo's house but it has made this stretch unpleasant as I have to get well off the road with 'Snowie' for every vehicle and it's almost a constant stream. And the noise is irritating.
When it started I commented to Glenda in the Post Office agency and she said it was because they were filming out of town a bit at Kurth Kiln. (An old kiln where they burnt timber to make charcoal fuel in WW2, which has has been preserved as a tourist park) Some sort of kids show with animals was all she said.
This morning on this stretch I met Harry coming the other way and we stopped to talk. He was unusually animated, he'd just witnessed a close shave in the main St. outside the pub. Someone overtook two cars at great speed and just missed an oncoming car by millimetres. While we talked the cavalcade of traffic passed us going to Kurth Kiln. Cars, box vans and trucks displaying 'Thrifty' rental signs and even an ambulance which I often see and must be required on standby. I asked Harry had he noticed this traffic since he'd come back from holiday, and he said yes it's because that Tom Hank's film is being made down there as well as another location.
So if Harry's right, this film must be quite a big deal, but I've read nothing of it in the local rags.
