Stars of Time 2013

Yes he was dancing, everyone was dancing!

So as everyone knows I went to Stars of Time yesterday, first time at the event though I've been meaning to go for years and I have to admit I enjoyed myself!

We had to get a train to Weston-Super-Mare, long train journey but didn't feel half as long as the train/bus journey to Beer! It also helped that the weather wasn't that bad! So even though the train was packed (thank the Gods for reserved train tickets!) I didn't have a terrible headache before I left Plymouth!

When we got there I have to admit that it wasn't anything like I thought it would be, to be honest with you I wasn't sure what I thought it would be!

Obviously we were in Weston's Helicopter Museum, not quite as pretty as Pecorama but it would be a wonderful place to visit if I ever found myself in Weston with nothing to do! After getting into the main part of the building you had a "corridor" of Doctor Who models ranging from the Second Doctor and an original Ice Warrior to Zygons and Masters.

Down one side you had all the guests, I have to admit I only really went to see Chris Barrie (Rimmer) so I didn't actually go to any other guest. I didn't even go to Chris Barrie first!

When we got there we were just in time for An Audience with Daleks. Even though it was at both Beer events I've been to this is the first time I saw it all the way through and I have to say the Daleks were awesome! It was hosted by Matt Holden, and it was only a coincidence that so many photos were of him, and had me laughing from start to finish. Best answer was to "Why does Dalek Khan look like that?" to which Dalek Candi (the pink one) answered because he was her ex.

Jedi's at war!

In between that and the Exterminate Factor we kind of wandered between the stalls, I brought myself a mini-Gloomy Bear and a Hello Kitty umbrella (it is really pretty!), got my picture taken with Chris Barrie and achieved my goal of getting a photo with Matt Holden. Wasn't brave enough to SAY anything to him I kind of just looked like I was about to throw up/faint but I can honestly Geek out now when looking at that photo saying "OMG THE MOST GAWJUS GEEK IN THE WORLD TOUCHED ME! I am not worthy!" etc...

Not only has that photo landed itself over here >>>> but it will probably be blogged every now and again and I feel it'll be the photo that I look at whenever I feel down because yeah... I was touched by a good looking guy (Tomoko I'm one up in the world!)

So yeah *ahem* moving on from Mr Perfect Geek Man...

I did get to see all the costumers dancing! They enjoyed themselves and it was brilliant seeing them so happy! I have a few little videos of that (and a couple others I'll upload later) but I didn't stay to see who won the best costume.

The Exterminate Factor was probably the highlight! Three Daleks singing, ohh what a wonderful site! Personally I loved all three even if Spot and Phil didn't remember the words and went out of time. Dalek Al won after a wonderful rendition of Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" which was actually really good.

I will hopefully go again next year! Really worth the money and a lot of good fun!

The picture that summed up pretty much the whole day for me!

 ***MORE PHOTOS BELOW : Slight warning, yes quite a few of them are of Matt Holden, don't judge me I'm only human.***

ExeWing Sci-Fi Day 30th June 2013

So yesterday I made the stupidly long trip to Beer to visit Pecorama. Why you ask? Because ExeWing were holding a Sci-Fi day!

I went to their last charity day at Pecorama (a Doctor Who day) way back in 2011. As you know. I wrote a blog about it during the week with some of the photos!

This time around it was just as good, other than the fact it didn't have Mr Perfect Colin Baker.

Once again it was a fun day out, this time Christy (my niece) was much more brave and went and hugged a load of Daleks as well as talking to anyone in costume she could get her grubby little paws on.

I missed everything though! It was so hot and my mum was so slow walking about that I didn't see anything that was happening, we made a few tours around the gardens, looked in on the exhibition and that was about it! We missed what ever the Daleks were doing because Christy went on the train and none of us felt in the mood to go see Sophie Aldred (not in a mean way it was just so hot!).

I didn't even get half as many photos as I would have liked but some I did get so I'll share them with you now.

It was a perfect day out, Pecorama is a beautiful place and everyone from ExeWing, Dorset Troopers, Southern Troopers and the rest of the costumed guys were wonderful! Oh and Matt Holden was there again I still haven't got the guts up to ask for a photo with him! I feel like such a dork so run in the other direction but he is brilliant.