Is "Whiting-Up" Allowed?

I have just been in the very unusual but fortunate position of going on holiday with my agent's blessing. It's normally a real quandary for an actor: You're desperate for a break away from the big smoke but you know as soon as you book that flight your agent will call with an audition to be the new face of Persil and an offer to do a guest spot on 'Midsummer Murders' (or more likely an audition to be the 'face' of Anusol and a schools tour around the Lambeth borough).

It's not that you get told off as such for taking time off but the "disappointed" tone says it all and there's an implication that you've somehow sabotaged your own career: As if the only reason you'll be playing children's parties not the National this autumn is the ten days you took off in early May. I've even tried sneaking off for a week on the qt, but it's odds on that despite the fact that you haven't heard from your office for several weeks you'll get a non-plussed call asking why you have a foreign ring-tone. I was actually caught out by my agent once while on a ski-lift in Austria, he had bizarrely called just to see if i could scuba dive. I can't scuba dive, but was tempted to say "If you hadn't have discouraged me from taking that holiday to Egypt last year I might be able to" but as I was AWOL up a mountain I thought I'd better not.

Anyway I had already planned to slip off (I have an 11 month contract about to start in town so it's my last opportunity for a while) but still hearing my agent say the words "You'd better take a holiday now" was a novel and pleasant experience.
So off I toddled to Egypt (no I still can't scuba-dive) and had a very nice time thank-you-very-much. Unfortunately despite trying to avoid one I now have a deep, golden tan which may well look slightly incongruous when in a months time on stage I will turn up on skis in the English mid-winter as a sergeant in the Berkshire police force. I'm hoping a combination of powder and stage lighting will bring me back to a suitably pasty pallor. If not a slight rewrite might be needed: "Good evening sir. Sergeant Trotter, Barbados Police"