After a hugely eventful year, it's a massive CONGRATULATIONS again to Ross and Pinar this time on the birth of their daughter Amber Charlotte.
They had a stressful couple of days leading up to the birth, but Amber's here now so that'll all soon be forgotten about. Keep an eye on their blog for more updates, pics, videos......
*Sorry - I know that's a terrible headline, but it's Ross that's the journo!
Red, 'Amber'......GO!!! *
Star Wars Academy
Jen mentioned some posters around her work for a Star Wars event at a local high school where "the man who plays Darth Vader will be there". As any Star Wars fan worth their salts knows - David Prowse was also the 'Green Cross Code Man'.
I didn't have much fancy to go because I thought it would just be some plain clothed bloke signing stuff surrounded by annoying teenagers. (How old do I sound!). However one my mate's girlfriend lives at the school (Dad's the caretaker - still following this?!), and he rang to say there were load's of Stormtroopers there. Well that was enough for me to jump in the car complete with camera and Jen in Tow...!
I don't think the event had been advertised very well as there weren't many people there, - either that or the school decided it was too 'un-cool' or summit, but it worked out better for us! Photo opportunities galore!!
The costumed crew were all from UK Garrison, which judging from the website is of huge importance to it's members. They were certainly very accurate and imaculate costumes, and the way they acted combined with their digitally sythesized voices all made for a great effect.
Another of my mates turned up later with his 1 year old son, and the local press loved the photo's they got with the pair of them and the Stormtroopers. They'll be in our local rag next week.
I totally didn't agree with the way they were charging for David Prowse's autograph, but I wasn't too bothered as it's not what I went along for.
EDIT: It is worth pointing out that Jen is seriously not happy with being pictured in the same top in 2 consecutive blog entries!! (If only I was better with Photoshop!).
Where did the last 7 months go?!
Time is really flying now and all of a sudden there's only 7 weeks to go.
People have said that the last few weeks seem to take an age, but I'm starting to wonder!
Jen only has 9 days left at work (at the time of writing), and her hours are being reduced each week. - There's a lot to be said for working in the public sector I tell ya!
