Rainy days and....uh, wednesdays?

[gothams3rdrobin]

There was another attempt to hold the infant school's sports day today - and yet again it was rained out. But this time they held off cancelling for as long as they could, so I ended up not going to work.

Headed into town as normal once I'd dropped Rowan off, but instead of going to the office I went and booked an appointment at the opticians. And who should I see as I leave, but my lovely friend Graham! We used to work together at the cinema, and he was briefly Two Face for jla_watchtower before his health got in the way.

He's looking loads better now, and has a job at the opticians - I may well see him again later when I drag Rowan to my appointment, since I couldn't get one any earlier.

Spent a great portion of the morning hunting the bookstores in town (of which there are vastly fewer than there were, thanks to this St Davids 2 redevelopment *grumbles*), looking for the book laylee recced. Couldn't find it, as its apparently gone out of print, though WHSmiths were willing to order it in for me - if I was prepared to wait a fortnight. So I checked Amazon.co.uk again and got a used copy for a fraction of the price, and hopefully it'll reach me in the next few days. *waits impatiently*

So, the Torchwood filming on Sunday? No spoiler-stuff, just about six hours standing around Westgate St, waiting for something to happen - I would have had time to go have some chinese food after all *sighs*

What happened was that we arrived there at about 12.30, and observed the special effects crew basically preparing to 'blow shit up'. They'd taken the windows out of the ground floor of the building (which was a former Inland Revenue office, much to the amusement of Tim and Nigel, who have the misgood fortune to work for that fine establishment). There was also a car and some bins rigged to blow too.

From what intel we could gather, they were filming that morning out in Penarth, and it was running late but they were expecting to get cracking at about 1.30. So we decided to go get a bite somewhere, and asked a friend to text us if things started happening. We then ran into some other friends, and we all got together in a bar on the same street to have lunch. 1.30 came and went, with no loud bangs, so we figured it was safe to return. The others drifted away, apart from Nigel, and we sat on a flagstone to wait, watching the vans bearing the camera equipment finally arrive, then the extras. My backside got rather numb while we waited, and I could still feel it yesterday.

Eventually they moved us down the street to a safe distance, and the guys climbed up on a short wall to get a better view. No way I could have gotten up there on my own, so I ended up staying at street level with vans and people blocking everything.

And we waited.

And waited.

Finally, at about four, they started rehearsing the extras. I had to leave at half past, to go get Rowan, but Tim stayed behind with my camera. Unfortunately, the damn batteries ran out before he could get anything, despite me having put fresh ones in just hours before. Damn thing eats batteries, I swear...*grumbles* I do have some photos, I just haven't downloaded them yet.

It was about six before they finally went for the take - which apparently frightened a great number of people in town that afternoon *shakes head in bemusement* I guess not everyone heard about it beforehand on the local news, but that's hardly the crew's fault. These things take weeks and weeks of planning and permissions before they can go ahead.

I may have missed it, but I do now have a piece of cork or something, from the blast debris, sitting on my bookcase. *grins* At least it doesn't smell as bad as the sugar glass they use in the windows apparently does.

You can imagine how blue I turned the air in my room last night when I got a text to let me know there was filming down the Bay at that very moment *grumbles* No way I could have gotten down there, not with Rowan in tow (or even if Mam could have babysat - she'd have been bound to say no) so I was left sorting out my most recent comics acquisition into box files. Yay me.

There's probably more filming tonight too.

Those stories plus - Catherine Tate's coming back as a companion? Oh hell no, please?

I'm already dreading season four - which is an upsetting thing.

Comments

[laylee.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that you'd probably have a hard time finding it in a book shop these days. Thank god for the interwebs, I say.

[gothams3rdrobin.livejournal.com]

Indeedy! *waits impatiently*

I finished my most recent book yesterday, and I'm deliberately not starting another one till that arrives.

Also: Pingu!