Getting in the Christmas spirit with Barnstormers

Do you have any dark secrets? I’ll let you in on one of mine. Somewhere out there is a photo of me dressed up as a very Ugly Sister – lipstick, bra, tights, high heels. I was a picture – but not the kind you’d put in your wallet. My wife was Cinderella, and we were both starring in a panto, the cast a disparate mix of British Embassy officials – not a stiff upper lip in sight; Ukrainian students whose first sighting of the English must have been discombobulating; and English language t