Fired! When Todd Christian Was Sacked As the Human Cannonball Who Was Afraid of Flying, It Detonated an Unlikely War of Succession . . .
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THREE human cannonballs and I are sitting under the Big Top of the Cottle Austen circus, perched on a hill just outside Glasgow. They are all smoking furiously.
There is a romance to the circus.See the full content of this document
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Fired! When Todd Christian Was Sacked As the Human Cannonball Who Was Afraid of Flying, It Detonated an Unlikely War of Succession . . .
When I was a child, I devoured Enid Blyton's circus adventures - Mr Galliano's Circus and Hurrah For The Circus. For a child from the suburbs, they conjured a strange world of sawdust and glamour - burned sausages, camp fires, friendly elephants and camaraderie.
The reality is different. Television, DVDs and rising rents are killing off family-run circuses. In the Big Top it is dark and gloomy. And two of the human cannonballs aren't talking ...See the full content of this document
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