There was an interesting dressing up event at Warwick Castle today. They were trying to establish the world record for the number of people dressed as witches. Must have been interesting to see local buses travelling to event, full of people wearing pointy hats, all chanting Buphthalmum Speciosum.
TBH, I'm not sure what the spell Buphthalmum Speciosum is intended to do.
My what a day. Was up at 5am to take Sammy to her audition. We got there at 8.15am and it was all over by 1.30pm! A lot of faffing around and waiting, And I didn't even get to see them sing!! Just got to wait to hear if they got through now.
Haven't read everyones posts yet, will catch up in a bit. We got home at 3pm, we had a long nap, then have just been to the chip shop. Catch you all in a bit. x
Maud- complete agreement re kids nowadays.... or perhaps it's our age, sorry.
Biba clothes- bet that was good. I was too young too, but think I had some make up? certainly had Quant make up.
Was cross acouple of Easters back- daughter & OH clearing the loft, which is almost as full again-oops. I could have sworn that there was a bag up there of Laura Ashley originals. No sign of it, drat & nor the original 70s Miss Selfridge dresses too. Must have had a clear out at sometime, but neither OH nor me can remember when.
There was no-one famous there at all! LOL There was one producer and one camera man in the room where they had to do their audition. No recording of it allowed at all. In fact, mobile phones were supposed to be banned even in the holding room where we were waiting, but no-one took a blind bit of notice!
Sammy got all upset as she messed up in the song a couple of times, but she said the producer was friendly enough.
It was funny to see how they did all their recording of the crowds. After 2 hours of waiting lined up in the street, they decided they wanted to film us all walk through the barriers smiley and happy, so the whole queue of about 400 people had to turn round and 'reverse' up the street so we could all walk back down it with the cameras rolling!
Then, they stopped us all again before letting us through the barriers to ensure we were smiley and happy enough!
Once inside, the select few in the holding room were chosen to 'do their thing' on the warm up/practice stage area (Which Jess loved!) while they filmed.
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I will be in gothic black but nothing unusual there
There was an interesting dressing up event at Warwick Castle today. They were trying to establish the world record for the number of people dressed as witches. Must have been interesting to see local buses travelling to event, full of people wearing pointy hats, all chanting Buphthalmum Speciosum.
TBH, I'm not sure what the spell Buphthalmum Speciosum is intended to do.
Evening lovelies!
My what a day. Was up at 5am to take Sammy to her audition. We got there at 8.15am and it was all over by 1.30pm! A lot of faffing around and waiting, And I didn't even get to see them sing!! Just got to wait to hear if they got through now.
Haven't read everyones posts yet, will catch up in a bit. We got home at 3pm, we had a long nap, then have just been to the chip shop. Catch you all in a bit. x
Gary why did you not join in?
Becks how long will you have to wait?
Maud- complete agreement re kids nowadays.... or perhaps it's our age, sorry.
Biba clothes- bet that was good. I was too young too, but think I had some make up? certainly had Quant make up.
Was cross acouple of Easters back- daughter & OH clearing the loft, which is almost as full again-oops. I could have sworn that there was a bag up there of Laura Ashley originals. No sign of it, drat & nor the original 70s Miss Selfridge dresses too. Must have had a clear out at sometime, but neither OH nor me can remember when.
Who forgot the wine with tonights' meal then?
J.
BTW Geoff, yes LEEKS, but quite like the leaks...... J.
I won't be dressing up for Halloween, having a bonfire night family get together Friday instead.
Have some parkin cooking at the mo, almost done. The kitchen smells lovely
I have a recipe for sticky toffee apple cake to try later in the week too.
Jo-my spare room is waiting for a sort out as well (it has been on the to do list for a while!)
Dean-it is getting trickier to be bright eyed and bushy tailed with these darker mornings!
Right, oven timer beeping.....better dash!
Becks -nice to have you back-what reaction did they say they got?
Nola-I am now getting firework complaints -more going off now-OH not happy but she has now gone swimming
I am also fed up with the fireworks
kate, they won't hear until January!
There was no-one famous there at all! LOL There was one producer and one camera man in the room where they had to do their audition. No recording of it allowed at all. In fact, mobile phones were supposed to be banned even in the holding room where we were waiting, but no-one took a blind bit of notice!
Sammy got all upset as she messed up in the song a couple of times, but she said the producer was friendly enough.
It was funny to see how they did all their recording of the crowds. After 2 hours of waiting lined up in the street, they decided they wanted to film us all walk through the barriers smiley and happy, so the whole queue of about 400 people had to turn round and 'reverse' up the street so we could all walk back down it with the cameras rolling!
Then, they stopped us all again before letting us through the barriers to ensure we were smiley and happy enough!
Once inside, the select few in the holding room were chosen to 'do their thing' on the warm up/practice stage area (Which Jess loved!) while they filmed.
Here's Jess on that area!
And a few other pics.
Don't know if that video will work.