Awesome Moments of 2011 | BFI Merlin Screening (15th Spetember)

In September I went all the way down to London on my own, where I met up with Alex, who was lovely enough to let me hang out with her for the day :) 

The screening was awesome! I was sat on my own in the theatre but the people I was sat next to were very nice and I was sat three rows from the front. The episode was awesome in a cinema! I can actually talk about it now that it has aired. I got to see Bradley arse and him topless on a huge screen ;) I loved watching it in a cinema! Hearing everyone elses reactions and knowing the cast were sat in there with us too was just amazing! 

After the episode was the Q&A, Bradley was sick and couldn’t come but Colin turned up insted :D When they first appeared on stage Katie looked right at me, I smiled at her and she smiled back! A few times throughout the screening the cast would look over in my direction, and everytime my heart did a little jump. They are all so perfect! I couldn’t believe I was sat in the same room as them. I actually can’t remember much of what was said. I never plucked up the courage to ask a question myself. Maybe next year, I’m definitely going again next year! 

Awesome Moments of 2011 | Meeting Colin Morgan (6th August)

Me and Maegan went to Warwick Castle in August to meet Bradley and Colin. We found out on the train down that Bradley was unable to go as he was sick (poor baby). We met up with Eli and then walked down to the castle. When we went in, Colin Morgan was right in front of us. It was a bit of a shock as I wasn’t expecting that, and he’s so beautiful in real life. (When I see him on TV I’m not attracted to him at all but in the flesh he’s very pretty, it’s weird) He was getting he picture taken and there was alot of fans around. I met some other Merlin fans there that day and they were all so lovely :) 

The whole day was very unorganised by the castle, Colin didn’t stay in one place for long and most people were unable to ‘meet’ him properly. He went to the bird area place, and I’m guessing Bradley was suppose to the actual display cause Colin let a child do it insted and he only stayed of a few minutes before being moved off again. We spent most of the day following him around trying to get close enough to ask him to sign something. We had no luck until someone told us that he would be leaving soon so a group of Merlin fans, including us, went and stood on the path we knew he would be coming down. We stood there for a few mins and eventually he did appear. He didn’t stop but he did sign for people whilst walking. People were all trying to get close to him and I got very disorientated, I didn’t know where I was walking and then suddenly I was walking right next to him. I was like a few cms away from him. I just looked at him and he looked at me for a few secs, I think he was expecting me to ask him to sign something but I didn’t have a pen, I went to say hi but someone moved between us and I moved away. He stoppped at the gate and signed for a few more people and I tooke some pics before he was pulled away.

We spent the rest of the day just hanging around the castle, climbing the towers, watching the jousting shows and playing cards. It was fun day even though the day was completely unorganised by the staff at the castle.

Awesome Moments of 2011 | Manchester MCM Expo (30th July)

In July, Me and Maegan went to Comic Con in Manchester. It was awesome! I dressed up as Amy Pond and Maegan went as the Mad Hatter. We saw Craig Charles (Lister in Red Dwarf!) and Warwick Davies, we didn’t get anything signed cause it was £20! But we did get to meet Anjli Mohindra, Rani in The Sarah Jane Adventures (That is a good show!) She was so lovely and sweet! and so pretty :) We also met lots of lovely people there, and I kept hugging all the people with ‘FREE HUGS’ signs. Some people has awesome costumes! We saw Dartn Vader, The Queen of Hearts and the Mad Hatter, The Doctor, The TARDIS. I also bought a T-Shirt with Arthur on it and got a Merlin poster. It was a good day :)

Awesome Moments of 2011 | Meeting Bradley James (29th May)

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In May Me, Maegan and Amy went to The Big Match, a charity football match in Stoke which Bradley was playing in.

When we were waiting for the match to start I was talking to my friends and I was facing towards were the teams come out and suddenly Bradley James just walks out for a few sceonds, looks around and then walks back inside. I was so shocked, I just sat there staring at him. Then as he turn to walk back my brain began working and I started shouting at my friends ‘OMG! It’s him! Look! Look! It’s Bradley!’ They turned around but it was too late he’d already gone inside. I kinda freaked out but I got it all out of my system so later when we saw him again I was much calmer.

When the players came out to warm up before the match, Ralf Little was talking to the crowd with some guy and he shouted Bradley over, I can’t remember what was said but afterwards Bradley walked down the pitch and when he walked past us we shouted him and he saw our sign that we had made, he did a bit of a double take then pointed at us and smiled, then gave us a thumbs up. He then went to warm up some more and chat to some other players.

But then something amazing happened, after a few minutes he started the walk towards the crowd, we got really excited thinking we’d be able to shout him over for a pic but then he pointed right at us and said ‘are you the girls with the banner?’ well we freaked saying ‘YES! YES!’ and we picked it up to show him. He asked our names and shook our hands. I looked right into his eyes, they were so blue! and he was so gorgeous up close! (It’s had to imagine how anyone can actually be prettier in person untill it actually happens) I thought I wasn’t gonna be able to speak but luckly I said my name normally, abit quiet but he heard me and it wasn’t squeaky. Maegan went to take a pic of him but he took the camera off her and told us to all get in, he took the picture of us with him (he actually took two, we didnt realise till afterwards) but he cut Amy out.

Then all the players went inside to get ready for the match. They all then walked out like they do at football matches, with some children from the hospical that the charity was for. The crowd all stood up to cheer them and when Bradley walked past we had the sign up and he waved at us.

The match then began but Bradey didn’t play in the first half so me and Maegan were pretty bored, Amy got into it but we were just drawing on Maegans shoes haha. Then it was halftime, we called Bradley over when he walked past us but he said he would be a minute and went inside.

When he came back out, he came straight to us and I asked is we could get another picture because Amy was cut out of the other one and he said ‘Yeah sure, who can we get to take this?’ and took the camera off Maegan again and asked the bloke next to me to take the picture. This picture turned out much better then the others. He then signed for us. I handed him the sign we made and said something along the lines of ‘we made this for you’ and he said ‘oh really’, to which I replied ‘Yeah!’ then he said ‘thank you! I’ll put it in the dug out’ and he smiled at me as he took it :D Maegan then ased him for a hug to which he said ‘yeah sure’ (Kinda surprised me really, I just saw him as someone who would get abit freaked out and say no to a teenage girl throwing her arms out and saying ‘Can I have a hug?’) so I saw an opportunity, I almost just leaped on him, seriously my arms went out and leant forward, but I realised what I was doing and asked him if I could have a hug too. He said yes and hugged me, it was so nice! My chin was resting on his shoulder, I didnt want to let go but I felt him pull away so I let go lol He then moved down the line to sign and take pictures with other people.

Bradley played during the second half and he really got into it. I dont watch football so I had no idea what was going on but that didnt matter because I got to sit and watch Bradley all day :D

We saw him again a few times as he walked past us and at the end of the match. We tried to say bye to him but he was to busy signing for other people, which is completely fair as we had spoken to him twice already, so we decided to leave as my mum kept phoning me telling me she was outside ready to pick us up.

Can’t believe I saw Noel Fielding today! We only went into the centre last minute and I’m so glad we did!

Crappy picture to prove it

I’m in the mood to watch Mighty Boosh now :)