Met David Beckham in Harrods!

Been to London for a couple days and met David Beckham in Harrods!!

Me + Danny with Beckham!

London

Been to London with friend today :)

Got the train from New St at half 11 + we were in Euston before 1. We had a few hours to kill and 'cos friend hadn't really been to London we did a whistlestop visit of London.

Got on the tube and noticed the woman sitting opposite me. It was Sue, the mom off Outnumbered! Claire Skinner :P
She smiled and said Hi, and really stalkery I took a photo! Is rubbish though lol

Got the tube to Leicester Square, got food + walked round eating it up to Piccadilly Circus. Got on the tube there to Trafalgar Square and had a walk round, didn't do the cheesy tourist thing of a photo with the lions.
Walked down White Hall + saw the few bits there.
Saw the horse + guards. All the tourists were having their photo taken with the horses but everytime it moved they'd run off screaming? I went over + stroked it and he was fine, tickled his lips + he didn't bite :P

Past Downing St to Westminster and Big Ben chimed Quarter past 2. Went halfway over Westminster Bridge + saw the London Eye, Aquarium and all that lot. Back on the tube to South Kensington.
Natural History Museum + were going to walk to Harrods but was effort so we didn't bother.

Back on the tube again to Hammersmith and went to queue up for Britains Got Talent London auditions...

Mark Watson

Been to see Mark Watson! :)

I took Nat to the train station, home to Brum + on the way out I saw him waiting for a taxi.
Said Hi ... think I scared him a bit. He was nice though, said he looked forward to seeing me in 2 + a half hours! haha

Met friend Debs + got something to eat, up to the Arts Centre, sat down at half 7 ... 'very important' apparently.

MW came on with his laptop hooked up to a projector + Word open. Didn't say anything, just typed. Was about people walking in, Aber ... stuff like that. So thats why we had to be there early!

Anyway, he was really good.
Arts Centre is a bit funny 'cos the stage is wierd - low down + completely open - so he's really close to you, but thats probably a good thing. He mentioned 2 people talking to him at the train station though *yay*

It finished + we met him outside, everyone was queueing up for his book (I'd already bought mine!) + posters (which had ran out!).
Spoke to him, he remembered me scaring him at the station ... and remembered Debs 'cos she saw him in Brizzle a few weeks ago.
Said he saw my tweet :') - didn't tweet me back though *tuts* ;)
and then signed my book. He was actually really nice! Got a photo too ...

Dom with no Dick

So we were meant to have Dick + Dom from the telly at the Union tonight, with gunge tanks and everything, but we got an email to say Dick had to pull out ;)


Dom came on his own and the gunge tank which was basically just a bag tank + water.
Was still a good night though, just expected more!

Moreton In Marsh show - Cotswold Chickens

Have been in Moreton In Marsh this weekend - chickening again!

Working for Jude again, on the Cotswold Chickens stand :)

Up early to get there. Luckily they'd already set up the gazebo, shelves, housing + things yesterday, so we had to just had to put a few bits out, sort the eglus and cubes, install the chickens and go!

Inside the gazebo

Was on the stand with Jude, Anthony, Clare + Rosie. We had a proper card machine this time which worked really well.

Really different products were selling compared to Thames - these were proper chickeny people. We were busy all day though and took a load of orders, which is always a good thing. Nice to see people interested in keeping chickens!

Had a huge brown t-shirt with the logos on ... looked like a dress on Clare! :P

Have a chest infection + on antibiotics, so shivering + then burning up all day, but was still good - think we need a chair at the next one though!

There was a poultry tent + show there, right behind us. Alice (my barred wyandotte)'s sister placed in her class! :) Tasha, who she's from said Alice is better, but has the wonky toe!
My Cream Legbar boy went to his new home too. Pre-arranged to meet a lady there so she came and collected him + hes gone to live with her girls :)

We saw Alex James from Blur there, he came over and said Hi, said he was interested in getting an eglu so gave him a brochure. We recognised him but didn't realise who it was until someone said!

Omlet Stand - Gardeners World and Good Food Show

First day at the Omlet stand today!
We were at BBC Gardeners World and the Good Food Show, at the NEC in Birmingham. Got there at half 8 and met Clare from Omlet to collect my ID pass to get in.
Diane was there too, who I already 'know' from the forum, so was good to finally meet her - met someone else off the forum called Redbug, who just came to have a look at the stand :)

We were on a big astroturfed pitch, with the products set up on it: an eglu classic, eglu Go, a cube and a beehaus.
Was good to have a proper look at the beehaus too - I'd seen it before when we went to Grand Designs last year and James (from Omlet) demo'd it to me so if anyone knows about it its him!
I knew enough about it that I managed to talk people through it all, hopefully picked up a few bits from reading the website and the forum, and we have brochures to hand out with all the info in too.

Adam Henson from Adam's farm on Countryfile was there! He walked past the stand and said Hi! :)


Andi Peters off the telly was there too presenting the Good Food Show bits, Quin off the stand had his photo taken with him yesterday! lol
Was a good day - we sold 5 cubes between us - I took the orders for 2 and practically sold another but didn't take the order.
Had to convince 2 little girls' parents that a Go with 2 ducks would be a good idea :P - I think a did a good job and they ended up getting them!

Britains Got Talent

Today me + my friends got free tickets to go to watch the Britains Got Talent auditions in Birmingham.

We queued for a few hours, and we got quite good seats upstairs in the circle.

There was a warm up man, who was really funny, who introduced the judges - Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan - aswell as Ant & Dec. He explained how it all worked, and then we had to record clapping, standing ovations, boos etc.

Some of the acts were really good, and others weren't so :P! It started at 1ish and we got out at about 7.

Afterwards we walked past the Stage Door, and Tony - Simon Cowell's bodyguard was there, so I had my photo taken with him :D