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Netflix and ill

There can be a lot of guilt in a life as an actor. When we are doing something pleasurable during the day -  a winter's afternoon visit to the cinema,  a mid-week picnic in the countryside or an unplanned day by the sea - and yetwe know that we should really be working. Except that somebody forgot to tell all our potential employers, so hence th time for us to indulge in a little trip. I'm lucky I no longer have that feeling of not being able to relax at Christmas because there is no prospect of a job booked in for January. The thought that all the festivities, all the food, and all the money that one spends, was not going to be easily replaced by work in the coming year. But the guilt can still be there.  The feeling that I should be doing something and I'm not. Or not what I'd planned. Following the passing of my Mum at the end of May, and all the arrangements that followed it, I was looking forward to a lazy summer but with just the right amount of things to ke