Blood for the Baron!

....and I'm off hold

and the Innkeepers Lodge couldn't been less helpful

There's no "advance" rate showing for the Memorabilia weekend, only the more expensive flexible rate

Apparently all the advance rooms are gone and the call-centre are powerless to offer any other rate AT ALL or any discount ...

The Innkeepers Lodge is perfectly adequate for cheap accommodation - you get what you pay for; it's clean, motel style with a Toby Carvery attached - Ed and I had a good-size very tasty carvery meal for £5 each on the Saturday night in November

If you're with Dave Tree he can organise to complain ...

It also seems that they have a huge mail order operation thats very profitable for them so they are concentrating on that, which sucks when you want to go browsing their stores.

There's nothing quite like having a browse round real items... I can look at modern toys all day online (and often do ...

Yeah, ODB's right - you can only pre-order early entry tickets, though these are well worth while as it's MUCH quieter for your first hour of browsing, and it means you can have a friendly(!) competition with Ed to see who gets all the AF.

Most of the autograph signers are there for the early entry ...

this was the scene outside our old house in February - snowy beach was AMAZING! (quite dark as taken at 6.30am)
http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2171/198/79/1411132855/n1411132855_30238768_9824.jpg

and these were at the end of our old road
http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1 ...

I've variously seen it described as "amazing", "outstanding" and "Cameron's been playing too much Halo"

something like this?



or one of those photo albums with the very slightly sticky plastic that covers each page?

Not here, but that's a good thing as our work just becomes absolutely ARSE in the snow.

literally

It's the base for Autobot Groundshaker - I think Groundshaker himself sat in the middle, and the bases linked up to form some sort of big base playset???

I've just had a look on UK ebay - there's a few listed on there - one that appears to be of about the same condition is on buy-it-now for £10 ...