Come on guys, any of you seen the film? Of course you have, and if you haven’t, well, you’re missing out! Who wouldn’t want to watch a feature length full of naked women posing strategically behind iced buns and watering cans? Exactly. Oh, but there’s one thing you should know before you start rushing down to Blockbusters’ adult section – the tactically positioned women are OAP members of the WI. I suppose you’ve put you coats back on the hook by now, haven’t you?
Okay, okay, let’s have some background.
Simply enough, the central character of the film (played by Julie Walters, no less!) suffers the bereavement of her husband due to Cancer and to raise money for a charity for him she and her ‘still-got-it’ friends decide to pose for a naked calendar.
Interested again? Probably not, but even so I’m not writing a film review here so I’m not too bothered if you go out and rent it this weekend or not.
What I’m bothered about is promoting something not dissimilar to what Ms Mirren did that – perhaps more appealingly – my lacrosse team and I took part in yesterday.
So, we’re not old aged pensions and definitely not members of the local Women’s Institute but we do have something in common with the Calendar Girls; we’re going to be calendar girls ourselves! In aid of raising money for our university sports teams we posed for one month of our own University of Kent calendar, and it was a brilliant experience to say the least.
Walking into the university changing rooms where it was being shot everyone was a bundle of nervous giggling as – unlike the men’s rugby team who get naked together after practically every match – none of us had ever been in a situation like this before. Thankfully the ice was broken quite quickly by a simple ‘Well, let’s get them in their underwear’ comment from the photographer in a no-fuss-just-get-your-kit-off kind of way, and everyone relaxed into it and just had a laugh.
We had a few different shots taken but the one we opted for in the end was...
...ah, sorry – I’m going to have to stop right there!
You’re going to have to buy the calendar if you want to find out how a group of nine women’s lacrosse players posed together yesterday. If you don’t the buy calendar, what happens in the changing room stays in the changing room!
Calendars are going on sale before Christmas, perfect stocking fillers – but perhaps don’t buy one for your Nan! – and all the money goes to raising funds for the sports teams of University of Kent. After all, if we didn’t have the teams we wouldn’t have such fit players to put on a calendar in the first place!
So spare the money this Christmas, it’s all for a good cause, I know I’ll be buying mine..
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