Just to elaborate on the below mention of cake-cutting, thought this was worth sharing...

Filming down in the village, we found ourselves without a knife to cut a cake we were using in one scene. We asked our assistant Josh to go grab us a little plastic knife... he came back with a machete that was the best part of 2 feet long. Borrowed from the butcher.

Can't decide whether it's a good thing that in quiet little villages, that still have community spirit, a butcher will hand over something that could fell a tree to a complete stranger without worrying that he's a psychopath.

Or, was this in fact madness. If so, I think the only option we are left with would be to go down to the butcher's with an even bigger machete (this would be difficult) and tell him to stop handing out machetes or we'll machete him. It's your classic reverse machete tactic. If we don't blog next week, then you'll know things didn't go to plan.