Du Nord: The Believing heart lost years (EN)

Making ads

Saturday 18 November 2006, Dublin, Ireland

"As I've already shown you, I'd been drawing and colouring what would be the future Shiny Chariot cards for a few days, I'd already finished making them, at least the drawings were done, what I needed to do was to continue working on one more thing and that was to create a captivating advertisement, As well as spending time at home making a variety of cards to spread around, which I'm sure everyone would enjoy, as we were starting to sell all the hype behind Shiny Chariot for a big world tour that was coming up, I was really looking forward to it all."

It's new for me to come here to Mum Laura's house, well I'd just finished drawing the cards and sending them to Croix, I want to see what's going to happen here, is there going to be a party? Let's hope so, Halloween was already very interesting, Meridies also came with me, just the girls who stayed in Luna Nova, we landed there and saw Mrs Jordan waiting for us, so we waved to her and even had a hug.

"You've finally arrived" said Aunt April.

"Yes, we're here, we're ready to start" said my mum.

"Start what?" I ask them.

"Ah, we haven't told you yet, but we're about to start recording their commercials, since it's been a long time since Shiny Chariot has advertised anything on the internet, it's a good time to get the word out and with some commercials it could help, especially around the cards, I'm sure they'll buy more if you appear with your little face promoting them" That's marvellous, my eyes even sparkle.

"Is it like a TV advert?" I ask excitedly.

"It's almost like that, we're going to get some money to try and publicise it on television, since in a fortnight' time the cards are going to go out in the shops, which we've already started to produce some of" Mrs Jordan said, showing them to me and I took them in my hand and wow, this is beautiful.

"They're perfect, they're marvellous, I really love them! The children will really like the cards like this, you're marvellous" Wow, you've really put everything together, imagine when the packs come out for sale, it's going to be wonderful.

"So come on, let's go to an empty room, you're going to record some takes in a green, well-lit room, so in the edit we can put you anywhere" said Aunt April.

I nod my head, I'm very excited about this, and we go into a part of the McLaren house, which on the way I can see that my little sisters are watching cartoons on the telly, they're cute together, until we get to the bedroom, where you can see that not only does it have a green background, but it also looks like there's a wall dividing it with glass, with some foam on one side.

"We haven't thought about what you said yet, that's why we've called you here, we can think of something that could be said to publicise the letters in a video of up to 30 seconds" said my mother.

"I can improvise a few takes, I'll just need to put my clothes on, I don't know where they are now, if I think about it, when Alan brought down my career he took the bus that had all my costumes, I think most of my clothes were there" I say to them while rubbing the back of my neck.

"That's not a problem, we've sewn new ones with a much better quality than the ones you used to wear, we've seen where we can improve and that without affecting your mobility, since I imagine your concern must be about your parts popping out of your clothes and you exposing yourself too much" Mum Laura said and my eyes lit up.

I follow her through the house, where we go to another room, it used to be the room where I stayed every time I came here, I remember well some nights sleeping here in Ireland receiving affection before going to sleep, it brought me a feeling even a little nostalgic, after years this beautiful place has not been abandoned.