You’re either a capable person or you’re not. I’m a capable person. If something goes wrong I try to find a solution, if something breaks I try to fix it. I’m not one to sit moaning about a problem particularly (not until I’ve exhausted every avenue anyway). I’m a do-er! Like the time I bought a dress online and it arrived on the day I wanted to wear it. I put it on and it split at the seam. Now it WAS a flimsy dress and I WAS probably slighter larger than a size 8 at the time but I didn’t have a paddy, I simply got my sewing kit out and sewed it up. I wore it that night and felt fabulous. I didn’t feel the need to email the company and rant at them. I didn’t have a melt-down. I fixed it, I wore it and everything was FINE. The way I see it, there are much bigger problems in the world and if I can fix something myself and it doesn’t take too long then why wouldn’t I do that? It’s far simpler than causing a big song and dance about it.
I love other capable people too. I love people who just snap into action when something needs to be done. I’ve worked with so many different people over the years on various different film shoots all over the world making my documentaries and you get to see ALL types. There’s The Crier (who literally cries when something goes wrong), there’s The Stress Head (who rubs their face a lot and paces up and down, red-faced, huffing and puffing), there’s The Ranter (who gets really shouty and makes lots of angry phone calls), there’s The Nervous Twitcher (who