Connemara Feeney & Taylor Davies, A prelude to Adventure.

       NICKEL & DIME PRODUCTION'S 
                          proudly present's 
  CONNEMARA FEENEY & TAYLOR DAVIES 
                                     in
           THE HEART STONE OF AFRICA                                  
Called after the land she was born on to Connemara Feeney was as rugged, wild & beautiful as the land its self, with a temper befitting any redhead.

Picture of Connie just before she left Ireland

At the young age of 17 she left home with all she owned in a little old suit case, walking the 5 miles (8.5KM) to Cliffden.

                                                        
There she took a train to Galway city were she boarded a ship bound for Newyork.
                                              
A short time after arriving in Newyork she got a job in the office's of the self made millionaire Taylor Davies, Taylor had struck it rich in the gold mining prospecting business, followed quickly by some smart wheeling & dealing on the stock market, he now owned a globe spanning company with interests all over the world.

Taylor pictured here on his favourite horse Snowflake  

4 years later through hard work & dedication Connemara (Connie to her friends) became Taylor Davies personnel assistant, Taylor would tell people that she got the job as much for her spunky spirit  as for her secretarial & organisational skills, & there are few who know Connie that wouldn't believe that to be the truth.

The British South Africa Company (BSAC or BSACo) was established following the amalgamation of Cecil Rhodes' Central Search Association and the London-based Exploring Company Ltd which had originally competed to exploit the expected mineral wealth of Mashonaland but united because of common economic interests and to secure British government backing. The company received a Royal Charter in 1889.
                                                      
 From around 1920, the company favoured a union of Southern and Northern Rhodesia, followed by their inclusion in the Union of South Africa, and it was in discussion with South African leaders about this. South Africa offered favourable terms for buying out the BSAC’s interests, and the company would be relieved of any future administrative costs. The BSAC did not want to be left with responsibility for the administration of Northern Rhodesia when Southern Rhodesia gained responsible government, but did want to preserve its commercial interests there, in particular its mining and land rights. To do this, it had to negotiate a settlement with the British government for both parts of Rhodesia. The two parties began negotiations in an atmosphere of mutual suspicion at the end of 1922, but nevertheless reached an agreement of 29 September 1923 to settle all the outstanding questions on Southern and Northern Rhodesia.

Davies firm T.R.D Global Excavation's LTD has interests in all 3 of the above countries, & both himself & Connie are about to take a flight from Pretoria to Livingstone, it is at this point that we'll pick it up in the next part of the story. 
Coming around the end of April. 

Designer Notes The story above is both fictional & fact & no infringement of copy-write is intended, for more about the British South African company  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_South_Africa_Company, I make no claim to the image of the ship, Clifden station or the map of Africa & point out that all are used without the consent of the owners.

The next part is where the story really begins but I felt the above was necessary to set the tone as it where, I felt doing it this way would be easier then trying to do it as the story advanced.    
  
That's a rap for this post as always my thanks for dropping in & if you'd care to leave a comment it would be welcomed.

AUDERE-EST-FACERE

Hello & welcome to my new blog Nickel & Dime Production's, I'd thought about setting this up for a good while now & felt this was the perfect time to do it. the old blog if it wasn't for one's doesn't have the right ring to it's name for what I do these days.

Audere-est-facere, will only mean something to two kind of people, those that know Latin or those who support Tottenhem Hotspur F.C, I'm of the later.
As there is a very big chance that some of you are neither of the above I'll translate, it mean's dare  to do, now just because you dare doesn't mean you'll succeed, but there's one thing for sure & it's this if you don't dare then you won't do. 

I'm about to try something over the coming month's that I've never done before, I guess you could call it a pictorial but as it the movies business I'm going to call it a following upper, it's something that I've thought about doing for about a year or so & have started working on over the last 3 or 4 month's.

I've been inspired for the main part by Bill P & his wonderful blogs  http://generalpettygree.blogspot.ie/ where a part from his epic Campaigns of General Pettygree you will fine the equally epic Expedition to Alexandrapour.

His other blog  http://lostsouthpacificadventures.blogspot.ie/ tells another trilling tale, which sadly is at a standstill dew to camera problems, & if I can do something even one 5th as good I'll be more then pleased,.
There are some others doing similar things, but it's Bill after I read the words ( you to can do this) on one of his closing notes that got me going. 

My only hope now dear reader is that you'll enjoy it as much as I'm enjoying making it, as I've collected the model's I needed, built the terrain & created the sets, at the time of posting the prelude (which will be the next post) plus the first 4 episode's are completed script wise with the 5th well advanced, that said I still have to make & paint up some more things plus shoot the scene's, but as each episode will be posted at monthly interval's I should be able to keep ahead

That's a rap for this post as always my thanks for dropping in & if you'd care to comment it would welcomed.