London trip part 2. Okay this might be the sort of thing that loads of people do, but it was a first for us, that's why we were so excited about it.
Because we had got free tickets to be in the live studio audience for the TV recording of this show....

It is a light entertainment quiz show hosted by Danny Wallace (A hero of mine! REad his book The Yes Man- it's excellent) which quizzes three celebrities knowledge of things taught in the modern GCSE curriculum.
It was a first come first serve basis in terms of seats so we tried to get to the TV studios early. When we were let in, we sat quite near the front so we had a very good view (I was right at the side so I doubt I will be seen on TV). And there was something odd on my chair- a piece of gaffa tape with the word Edmunson on it. I didnt think anything of it as the recording started. The three guests on the show were Rory Bremnar, Patrick Kielty and Shaun Williamson, and it was very good. It was like watching a free comedy show. There werew only a few reshoots and one 'spontaneous' audience participation bit. but there was also quite o bit of 'material' which would definitely need to be editted out! The scripted jokes were good, but you couldn't beat the spontaneous stuff from both Rory and Patrick (or Dr Patrick as he should be called). Very funny! There is a part of the show where one of the celebs gets to meet an old teacher, and I thought maybe one day that will be me.
After the recording of the show (and the trailer) there was an opportunity to stay for the next recording, which apparently had Adrian Edmunson in it, hence the piece of gaffa tape with the word Edmunson on it. But we decided not to stay and went off home.

We decided to walk a bit rhough Wembley and find somewhere to eat. by this time it was 9pm and we hadnt had dinner! It was in Burger King that something that really creeped me out happened. It was probably meaningless, but it did creep me out. It was empty and there was a strange little man serving. He looked at us both with anreally creepy look and said "You're not from round here are you"
"ER... no" I said
" I thought not" and he just looked with a look that was reminiscent from something out of The Hills Have Eyes.
He went on..
"You don't act like you're from round here?" I wondered what he meant. Is it because we actually came in and ordered something from his shop? Which I can understand people from round there not doing!
"Really?" I enquired "Hows that?" (Perhaps I shouldnt have asked.
"Its just that..." creepy pause "you have a different manner than other people"
Weird! I asked my OH what she thought he meant. She said he wasn't used to people being polite and considerate. Not a great advert for Wembley I'm afraid!

Anyway, the journey home wasnt bad. I had totally forgotten about the piece of gaffa tape from the show and also totally oblivious to the fact that it was missing when I got up. I had no idea that it had stuck to my trousers. And when we finally got home, I found that I had been walking home with Adrian Edmonson stuck to my arse.

Yesterday we went to London. We had booked online for the London Eye and all we had to do was take our number to the desk and get our tickets!
After a leisurely morning, we meandered our way into London for 2:30 and set out for the big wheel by the river. When we got to the 'Town Hall' where we to get our tickets I noticed a huge queue for the desk that said 'pre-ordered tickets'. There was a guide next to the doorway and I asked him where to go if we had booked online and had a reservation number. "This person will help" he said pointing to the woman at the customer services desk, where there was no queue. So we got our tickets without a fuss! However there was a longish queue to get onto the Wheel itself, about 15 minutes.
The actual ride was not unpleasant. Being scared of heights I wasn't sure I would handle it very well, but it was slow enough not to be too much pf a problem. The worst bit was just climbing to the top where you could see the pod in front rising then falling, but if you look at the horizon it doesn't feel too bad.

On the way down there was an opportunity to have a photo taken. "If you wish to be in the photo please stand in the North west or the North East corner" came the voice over the tannoy. So I did. My OH on the otehr hand couldn't quite follow the instruction and spent a few minutes looking around the capsule tryin to find the camera, before makein her way to the north window. I had spotted the two cameras ooutside the two windows (North west and north East) bt my OH was still looking bemused.
"Has the photo been taken?"
"Yes. The cameras were outside in the corners"
"I don't think I was in the photo's" she mourned.
"That's probably because you were asked to either go to the North East or North West, where the cameras were, wheras you went to the north wondow, where no-one was"D
"oh"
When we eventually got outside we checked the photo's and found that she had actually appeared in both photo's both in the distance and not looking the right direction in eitherD
After the joy of Spinning around, we had a coffee at Costa-narma-nalegg Coffee and headed back to the station to get the underground.
At the station I approached the ticket information.
Me: Can we get underground tickets from here?
Helpful woman: No, you have to go downstairs for that
Me: Oh (I was surprised seeing as this was a ticket office)
Helpful Woman: Where are you trying to get to?
Me: Wembley Park
Helpful Woman: Your best bet is to get a travel pass
Me: Yes, that's what I was thinking. Bye
Helpful woman: I can sell you that
Me: Thats what I thought, which is why I came here in the first place, you silly woman thank you.
I made her feel like she'd really done us a favour, and that seemed to brighten her day. Silly woman.
Then it was off to Wembley, where we had got tickets for.......... {to be continued}

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Sad I know, but it made me happy

It's late.
We've just go home. But a quick note to say what a fab afternoon/evening we have had. Too much gone on to write it down now, but if you want a quick teaser as to how the evening ends.... here it is...
"... and when we finally got home, I found that I had been walking home with Adrian Edmonson stuck to my arse"