Cardiff Comic Con and Meeting Alex Vlahos

Today I went with my friend Molly to Cardiff Comic Con. Truth be told I was only going because of Alex Vlahos and wasn't holding out much hope for the actual convention. However, the convention itself was absolutely incredible and so much fun. There were loads of stalls selling postcards, badges, posters, wrist bands, you name it they sold it with Doctor Who to The Hunger Games to Game of Thrones to The Avengers to Harry Potter and so much more. My self and Molly spent ridiculous amounts of money but it was totally worth it.

We queued to get Alex Vlahos' autograph and we had a small conversation: I was so shocked by how nice he is and was a little bit speechless for a while so thank God for Molly, however, after I got some courage I spoke to him and gave him a letter with some sweets in it, he got quite excited about the sweets, haha.

We shopped around for a while more until we literally had about £1 between us and queued to get our photos with Alex, it was pretty quick and so I am really glad we queued up to meet him before so at least we got a conversation with him. He was so lovely and funny and I honestly cant believe how brilliant he is. So I'm going to stop now before I gush too much but overall I had an amazing day and my room is looking even more fandomy than before, which I didn't even think was possible, but there we go.

*Sadly I am going back to school tomorrow and that means summer is obviously over and so I will be posting less frequently.*

The Tempest and meeting Colin Morgan!

On August 6th 2013, I went to London with my family for a few days. The reasoning behind this was because I brought tickets to go and see Colin Morgan in the Tempest on the 7th, we live in Wales and so its not really easy to just go down for the show and come back. I have been excited for this day since buying the tickets at the very beginning of this year, I held on to the hope that even if I couldn't meet him I would still be able to see him in the play.

I am not a Shakespeare lover and so I didn't really know what to expect, I did have misconceptions that it would be dull, boring and lifeless however, in retrospect I couldn't have been more wrong. It was actually hilarious and very interactive. The cast were amazing and interacted with the audience whilst still staying very much in character. However, the star of the show for me was obviously Colin Morgan: he was breath taking; not just because he is obviously ridiculously attractive but his acting is absolutely mesmerising. He has said that he trained in parkour for the role of Ariel and he was swinging around on the stage with such ease that you thought he was walking down the road. He was literally swinging around the walls, steps and stage. There was a moment where he sat on a rock literally about a metre away from me (I think I died slightly). As for the actual play I was very impressed and I wouldn't rule out seeing another one. The only downside was that I stood up in the gallery which killed my legs but when you're there you get too wrapped up to really notice; its only when you try walking afterwards it becomes a bit of a problem.

After the play I rushed out with my mum to get to the stage door. There was absolutely loads of people there on the 7th and so we went behind a barrier because there was probably about 90 people there, I was lucky enough to get right at the front and so had an amazing view. When he came out everyone was fairly respectful and there wasn't too much pushing. As for Colin himself, he was everything I expected and more: he was so modest, happy and kind. He must have been there for a good half an hour trying to sign everything, and he basically got round to everyone and if he didn't sign something he at least acknowledged them. He signed two things for me and I managed to even speak to him, I told him that he was amazing and was wicked in the play and he looked me in the eye, smiled and said thank you it meant a lot(!!!!!). Then I asked him if he could sign the programme as well as the ticket and he said yeah sure.

It may not seem like a lot but it honestly has made my entire year, despite the fact that he had just done a three hour show he still came out to meet his fans and was happy and so lovely. It's honestly so refreshing and I know I am waffling on now but my opinion of him has gone so high right now that its sky high. Also you should probably spare a thought for my family and friends because I don't see myself shuting up about this little escapade any time soon!

Meeting Benedict Cumberbatch

After a very dull school revision myself and Molly decided to go to Cardiff for lunch. It was only when we were there did she realise that Sherlock was set to be filming there about 10 mins from where we were, so we used the gps on Molly's phone and headed over there.

It was freezing cold and we had very little in the department of layers so we stood and jumped around trying to regain body heat. Just as we were about to give up, the extremely kind people of the Beverly Hotel gave us some hot (and very, very welcome) tea and some chips and soon enough I could at least start to feel my feet again.

Some other Sherlock fans arrived short after, along with Molly's mum baring gifts of two huge warm coats, gloves, scarves and hats. We waiting for a while longer, talking to the other fans about Sherlock and the other masterpieces of the BBC.

One of the crew came out to ask us to be a bit quieter as Benedict was inside the bed and breakfast shooting and they could hear us, he gave us some information about the shoot (nothing too significant though, so don't worry), he also took our address to get signatures to be sent to our house because they had none on them at that present moment, so we were all very happy that we would at least be getting a signature. A short while later Sue Vertue came out and told us that as long as we didn't scream or run over, Benedict would come out and say hello.

We all were extremely happy and I would like to say a massive thank you to Sue for arranging this because it meant that all that waiting around in the freezing cold weather was completely worth it just to finally say that we had seen Benedict Cumberbatch.

Here are some pictures I took.

also here is a video Molly took.

Thank you Benedict for taking the time out of shooting to say hello to us all I'm pretty sure you have made all of our Easters that little bit more special, and given all of our parents an earache with the amount we will be talking about it!