I know that it's been out for weeks now back home, but it doesn't come out here until Boxing Day *sigh*. There's a charity screening next week that I'm trying to get tickets to, but in the meantime, we had a lot of fun rushing into the city after work and checking out the red carpet at the premiere.
We were slightly delayed in arriving at Leceister Square, thanks once again to the outstanding success that is National Rail East Anglia. I'd really like to commend them on their ability to ruin any and all of our plans, no matter how last minute we may have organised ourselves. Anywho, Tamara and I met at our usual spot at Liverpool Street, and jumped on the tube. We raced around Leceister Square to get to the premiere side of it, and started to force our way through the crowd. Being as vertically challenged as I am, I saw a good portion of Nicole and Hugh wandering around through the screen of other peoples' cameras. Praise technology - if this was in the time before digital cameras, I would have seen nothing!
We managed to eventually squeeze our way through to the front of the crowd, or near enough, after a little while. With that magic gift I have of finding the perfect spot at the right moment, we found ourselves right where the cars were pulling up and the stars were getting out. We'd missed the arrival of Nicole, Hugh and Baz, but we were there for Twiggy and Konnie Huq. Having forgotten the date of the premiere, I wasn't prepared for it and didn't have my camera, but luckily Tamara did. She was all set to take a photo of the next car to pull up, but I don't think she managed to get the photo. We were too stunned - it was Elton John! We were seriously like 3 or 4 feet away from him, and more than a little shell shocked. I'm still waiting for Tamara to upload her photos, so I don't know if she got one at all (he did move away quite quickly).
We hung around until the end of it, hoping to see a few of the other stars up close and personal, but it didn't happen. It was so cold, no wonder they went inside! We'd said when we first arrived that it would be great if we could get one of the big signs on the fences keeping the plebs back. Well, we managed that (thanks to my sheer brute strength, unlike the pansy men standing around wishing for pliers), and then figured we could probably go for one each. That started a trend - one each became one for each of us and one for Millsy for her media classroom, and then one each for three of our Aussie friends who couldn't make it. That was 6 all up. Then we scored two more, so that Tamara and I had one for home and one for our classroom each. By then the security guards were helping us out, so we walked away with ten all up!
They're massive, and even carrying 5 each, they were damn heavy! We had to walk them around to Leceister Square tube station, down the stairs, through the gates and down again before getting onto the train. Then we had to change tube lines at Holborn, which involved walking down stairs and around a corner. Let me just say, those suckers caught the wind and it was like we were kite surfing! We then had to get back to Liverpool St, before we took them up the stairs to McDonalds for dinner. We then of course had to take them back down for our trains home! The next morning the kids were laughing at me because I could barely lift my arm to write on the board. It hurt like hell, but was so worth it! They've actually got pictures on Bowen on them, and of course the large picture of Hugh Jackman doesn't hurt...
You can see on the left of the photo an A4 page on the wall. That gives you some idea of how big the signs are - that and the fact that you can't even see the chair that it's on!
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