Full Day Off
Sep. 11th, 2008 12:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mbernardiLast week I finally decided that if I wanted to visit the Doctor Who Exhibition, at Earls Court, I'd have to take a day off and do so soon (it was due to end later this month, but I've just noticed it's been extended to November). I booked last Friday off and book a ticket online.
So on Friday didn't have to get up quite as early as normal as the Exhibition didn't open until 10am. I did actually arrive at 10am, but was told they were working on a Dalek and would open late! So I got a coffee and returned at 10:25 and went straight in.
Despite the following on the website "from all the latest episodes of the hit BBC TV show, including the Christmas special and eagerly-awaited fourth series. Items will be on display following transmission on BBC One." There wasn't any material from series 4 (though some designs from the last Christmas episode were on display). There were cool dioramas of both the Daleks and Cybermen, and a step by step display on how to build an Ood head! It took nearly and hour and a half to get through everything (including the shop) and then I was on my way to The Science Museum (where there was a free Dan Dare exhibit). It was actually only two display cases and some walls of Dan Dare material with the rest being a look at British technology from the period while The Eagle was being published.
After a wander around the exhibit I left for Victoria, and a train to Brighton, where I visited "Cleaver with Leather", and ordered a replacement belt / book bag, season ticket holder, money bag and PDA case repair.
Then to Hove for a chiropractic adjustment. I arrived over two hours early but was able to get seen before the actual time of my appointment at 6:30! Then I managed to catch a train directly to Burgess Hill where I got to Specsavers before they closed to discover that my new glasses, ordered last Saturday had just arrived. They were fitted and were a big improvement.
I then discovered that the local cinema was showing a number of films I wanted to see, so i decided to stay for the next showing, which was Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, which wasn't too bad. (the following Saturday I returned to see Get Smart, which was very silly in a Austin Powers kind of way.) and then home.
So on Friday didn't have to get up quite as early as normal as the Exhibition didn't open until 10am. I did actually arrive at 10am, but was told they were working on a Dalek and would open late! So I got a coffee and returned at 10:25 and went straight in.
Despite the following on the website "from all the latest episodes of the hit BBC TV show, including the Christmas special and eagerly-awaited fourth series. Items will be on display following transmission on BBC One." There wasn't any material from series 4 (though some designs from the last Christmas episode were on display). There were cool dioramas of both the Daleks and Cybermen, and a step by step display on how to build an Ood head! It took nearly and hour and a half to get through everything (including the shop) and then I was on my way to The Science Museum (where there was a free Dan Dare exhibit). It was actually only two display cases and some walls of Dan Dare material with the rest being a look at British technology from the period while The Eagle was being published.
After a wander around the exhibit I left for Victoria, and a train to Brighton, where I visited "Cleaver with Leather", and ordered a replacement belt / book bag, season ticket holder, money bag and PDA case repair.
Then to Hove for a chiropractic adjustment. I arrived over two hours early but was able to get seen before the actual time of my appointment at 6:30! Then I managed to catch a train directly to Burgess Hill where I got to Specsavers before they closed to discover that my new glasses, ordered last Saturday had just arrived. They were fitted and were a big improvement.
I then discovered that the local cinema was showing a number of films I wanted to see, so i decided to stay for the next showing, which was Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, which wasn't too bad. (the following Saturday I returned to see Get Smart, which was very silly in a Austin Powers kind of way.) and then home.
