In the quest to learn this here forthcoming script, I'm enlisting anyone and everyone to help me with my lines.

A couple of weeks ago, weekend away, saw Russell and sister Ruth enlisted to read all the parts. This worked quite well. Russell read the boys and Ruth read the girls so it wasn't too confusing.

A couple of nights ago, mother neatly solved the 'who's speaking' problem by adopting a different voice for each. For Marion, she was posh. Irwin, she went kind of Texan. Rhonda, she was silly, flirty, flighty. Katherine, she slurred like a bastard. And Tom. Tom was a triumph. She did American speaking with a cut glass English accent. A tour de force.