lucy
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Post by lucy on Jul 2, 2009 4:29:51 GMT
Here's my bit of news for the day: May will be crossing his moving meccano bridge this Sunday, 5 July, at the Pier Head (sorry about the vague place references I posted earlier). The event is open to the public, and free, from 1:30 to 5:00pm. There's more information here: www.merseytravel.gov.uk/eventdetails.asp?eventid=95 |
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Post by lindenchase on Jul 2, 2009 5:44:09 GMT
Great! Hopefully the press will pick it up and we'll get some nice repors. Liz, I hope you will be able to make it and get the chance to meet or at least see James.  |
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Post by jacqui on Jul 2, 2009 8:53:48 GMT
Get down there Liz - say Hi from all of us girlies ;D  |
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Post by fallatyourfeet on Jul 2, 2009 8:59:00 GMT
Good luck with the May spotting Liz. |
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Post by Mystik on Jul 2, 2009 10:29:49 GMT
Photos (if possible) please  |
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Post by Liz on Jul 2, 2009 12:16:14 GMT
*SCREAMS!!!!*
Babbles incoherently, gibbers, *takes deep breath*
Thank you lucy (it was you, wasn't it?) Oh god, I've come over all stupid! ;D
*dances round like a loony*
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jul 2, 2009 12:44:56 GMT
Yay! You are going to have your moment with James at last, Liz!! Hope you have a great time. |
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Post by Liz on Jul 2, 2009 12:52:03 GMT
I know! I just can't believe that a) it's a confirmed official event, b) I've been given notice and c) it's not on a work day! ;D No more hopping across the Mersey on wild goose chases anymore!
I shall take plenty of pics! ;D
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jul 2, 2009 13:02:22 GMT
Yay! Go Liz!! |
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Post by jacqui on Jul 2, 2009 13:04:51 GMT
*bounces round room for Liz*
Have a great day! ;D
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Squidge
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Post by Squidge on Jul 2, 2009 16:21:53 GMT
I am CONSUMED with envy!
Good luck, Liz!
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Post by starfish on Jul 2, 2009 16:46:47 GMT
Cant wait to hear about it liz
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Post by Liz on Jul 2, 2009 18:20:38 GMT
Thanks for all the good wishes ladies... a full report and pics will follow  I just hope I don't jinx it again!  |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jul 2, 2009 18:27:05 GMT
Jinx it? If you have a checklist, and have all your things in place, I am sure you will be fine. Checklist as in camera, batteries, bus/train timetables if you need them things like that.  |
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Post by Liz on Jul 2, 2009 18:31:51 GMT
Packed already! ;D It's my nerves I'll probably leave behind!  |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jul 2, 2009 18:34:41 GMT
Chant a mantra before you meet him; 'I will not turn to goo, I will not turn to goo..'
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2009 20:00:50 GMT
have fun Liz  |
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Post by nobody on Jul 2, 2009 23:57:30 GMT
Someone posted this on FG.
Sorry, it isnt this sunday, its a week on sunday. Been postponed for a week...
We have had no end of problems, Meccano in france not sending the correct parts for weeks and then not sending enough and the engineering firm Atkins changing the plans halfway through the build..
We have just exhausted the entire stock of nuts, and think we have used 41,000 of them so far and over £36,000 of meccano parts...
We dont have enough people, the Meccano clubs are next to useless.. The Newcastle group esp is a waste of space.. The made two sections to 'help' and turned up on monday all smug saying how they had saved the day, when in reality what they built was wrong. His '40' years of meccano experience was c**p then... Plus James said on camera that what they did was rubbish!!
We have been working on this for 5 weeks, working 9am till 9pm and Im cream crackered... One more week to go..
By the way when the program is on tv and James says how relaxing and rewarding Meccano is, its because he turns up for a few hours filming and the skives off again.. Very nice guy though
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Post by nobody on Jul 2, 2009 23:58:59 GMT
I wonder if the shops are all out ;D
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jul 3, 2009 0:10:12 GMT
Oh dear, that's not good. So much for all the experienced Meccano people. Poor James and the poor people who have to try to get it right.
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lucy
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Post by lucy on Jul 3, 2009 4:19:55 GMT
lucy reappears, embarrassed. Sorry to get everyone's hopes up. Plum called for more volunteers on 30 June and it looked like they'd got it sorted. If the Final Gear mole is to believed, that's very far from the truth. Still, fingers crossed for the 12th, eh? If anybody wants to ensure that the Lego house project runs more smoothly, they can apply for the position of site manager here: guildford.gumtree.com/guildford/28/41211728.html |
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Post by lindenchase on Jul 3, 2009 5:36:51 GMT
Liz: maybe you call in to see if they still need volunteers during this weekend? (Not sure if James would be there though.) Hope you are free to go the next weekend as well. And so the Lego house will be build at Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, Surrey. I wonder if Oz had anyhting to do with that. ;D |
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Post by jacqui on Jul 3, 2009 7:56:54 GMT
This sounds like its turning out to be a really stressful piece of TV to make, poor James Like the idea of being James' right hand man woman |
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Post by TheDaisy on Jul 3, 2009 9:00:53 GMT
It's as well that there wasn't a specific time that the bridge had to be finished, isn't it? Mind you, if there had been, maybe people would have been better organised and got the job done properly in the first place.
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Post by lew on Jul 3, 2009 9:50:44 GMT
Should have asked us on here, I'm sure us ladies would have done an excellent job, offered us a bit of bribery and corruption, and I'd have dragged my boys there too seeing as they played with the stuff ;D job done.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2009 9:57:05 GMT
It's as well that there wasn't a specific time that the bridge had to be finished, isn't it? Mind you, if there had been, maybe people would have been better organised and got the job done properly in the first place. I'm thinking the same thing. But I haven't got the energy to rush off to Dorking (LOL) to make a house. The organisation for these things has been bonkers. If I was to be given a loud hailer and many cups of tea and a hi viz jacket I may reconsider |
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Post by TheDaisy on Jul 3, 2009 9:58:46 GMT
I could make it to Dorking ;D but my skills with Lego aren't brill. I think I shall wait to see if they want any bog-standard builders - if so, I will be IN there |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2009 10:12:02 GMT
I could too but my patience and energy levels have seriously depleted. Any bonkers people going I wish them well but be prepared for slave labour and lego proof boots.
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Post by TheDaisy on Jul 3, 2009 10:15:36 GMT
Those would be a must *winces* No ballet slippers there - or indeed my spiked trainers. I dragged them from the shoe cupboard the other day - still there is plasticine embedded in the gaps between the spikes ;D |
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Post by jacqui on Jul 3, 2009 10:21:53 GMT
I could make it to Dorking ;D but my skills with Lego aren't brill. I think I shall wait to see if they want any bog-standard builders - if so, I will be IN there Me too ;D Bob the builder I am ;D - Christopher Wren I'm not  |
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