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pezImportant question: what colour are Dave's earrings? Sometimes they seem blue/turquoise, other times they seem clear. O_o
Decent hotel in Clapham/Wandsworth area? Almost none. Any I do find, they don't take three people. In general it's hard to find places that do triple rooms. I've extended my search to Chelsea, Fulham/Earls Court and Kensington/Knightsbridge. (Also, sometimes there are special offers on amazing hotels but it's only available as double, not even twin. =/) I guess people generally don't travel in groups of three? Sigh. But whatever I find it won't be nearly as cheap as the Cardiff one.
VGL tickets via Ticketmaster: okay, I understand about the fee per ticket thing, that's how TM makes money. But to add £3 on top as "delivery charges" even when I chose e-ticket option? That's just out of order. But that's still the "cheapest" option and I don't want to lose things in the post. Sigh.
For VGL, in retrospect maybe I should have booked Park Inn because that's literally right across the road and if I really wanted to cosplay that's more convenient (although Radisson Blu is hardly another minutes' walk. XD) Anyway, now that there is a place to leave my stuff and get changed (and leave stuff with the following day until it's time to go home), I could cosplay if I really want to. I've got the hardest part of ballroom!Dave made anyway. the rest is just buying ready made stuff, so I've got plenty of time to prepare. Dave with Gae Bolg will be worn at October Expo, so maybe someone else? .................TONBERRY (stabbity stab)? MARIO (oooh, moustache)? A SAVE POINT (I'd be mobbed by FF cosplayers. XD)???? or make a spinny glowy crystal thing to wear on my head, wear sim-esque clothes, make speech-bubble cards and say I'm from Sims 3? I don't suppose anyone's got suggestions?
Hmm. I shall ponder on this. Not sure if I should or not. But guess I can still make whatever costume I might or might not end up taking, because making stuff is \o/. Realistically I can start on Zidane now and wear it there, since I need it early next year anyway...
Every time I type \o/ I can't help but imagine Rush throwing his hands in the air and shouting ACE! It's that bloody TLR/Heroes crossover's fault. I can almost see the word ACE! in tiny little letters above the head.
Work meeting again at 11. Fortunately I've delegated most of the work (!) so I'm only there to check the progress.
Decent hotel in Clapham/Wandsworth area? Almost none. Any I do find, they don't take three people. In general it's hard to find places that do triple rooms. I've extended my search to Chelsea, Fulham/Earls Court and Kensington/Knightsbridge. (Also, sometimes there are special offers on amazing hotels but it's only available as double, not even twin. =/) I guess people generally don't travel in groups of three? Sigh. But whatever I find it won't be nearly as cheap as the Cardiff one.
VGL tickets via Ticketmaster: okay, I understand about the fee per ticket thing, that's how TM makes money. But to add £3 on top as "delivery charges" even when I chose e-ticket option? That's just out of order. But that's still the "cheapest" option and I don't want to lose things in the post. Sigh.
For VGL, in retrospect maybe I should have booked Park Inn because that's literally right across the road and if I really wanted to cosplay that's more convenient (although Radisson Blu is hardly another minutes' walk. XD) Anyway, now that there is a place to leave my stuff and get changed (and leave stuff with the following day until it's time to go home), I could cosplay if I really want to. I've got the hardest part of ballroom!Dave made anyway. the rest is just buying ready made stuff, so I've got plenty of time to prepare. Dave with Gae Bolg will be worn at October Expo, so maybe someone else? .................TONBERRY (stabbity stab)? MARIO (oooh, moustache)? A SAVE POINT (I'd be mobbed by FF cosplayers. XD)???? or make a spinny glowy crystal thing to wear on my head, wear sim-esque clothes, make speech-bubble cards and say I'm from Sims 3? I don't suppose anyone's got suggestions?
Hmm. I shall ponder on this. Not sure if I should or not. But guess I can still make whatever costume I might or might not end up taking, because making stuff is \o/. Realistically I can start on Zidane now and wear it there, since I need it early next year anyway...
Every time I type \o/ I can't help but imagine Rush throwing his hands in the air and shouting ACE! It's that bloody TLR/Heroes crossover's fault. I can almost see the word ACE! in tiny little letters above the head.
Work meeting again at 11. Fortunately I've delegated most of the work (!) so I'm only there to check the progress.
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Date: 2009-09-22 02:31 pm (UTC)Oh, in the Chelsea area there is this place. Not cheap. *ahem*
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Date: 2009-09-22 02:39 pm (UTC)....no, not cheap. *woe* But very pretty!
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Date: 2009-09-22 02:48 pm (UTC)Or this place in Knightsbridge/Kensington, £268+vat for one of those really pretty rooms.
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Date: 2009-09-22 02:52 pm (UTC)Good god, the Tudor Room has a Minstrel's Gallery. That might be a bit ostentatious even for Dave.
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Date: 2009-09-22 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-22 02:55 pm (UTC)The Dame Nellie one has statues of David and Venus in the bathroom. Woooow.
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Date: 2009-09-22 02:58 pm (UTC)........I can paste Dave's head on David and Rush's head on Venus?
ANYWAY. Um. Including VAT that's £300 a night. x_x
Getting a double room all for Dave himself would be fine I guess... Rush and Emma would just have to sleep at the servants' quarters. =/
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Date: 2009-09-22 03:01 pm (UTC)You can, but only if Rush also gets a corset painted on, I suspect.
And, ow. But Rush and Emma could sleep in the Minstrel's Gallery!
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Date: 2009-09-22 03:05 pm (UTC)Brave Sir RobinBrave Lord David song?Bravely bold Lord David rode forth from Camelot.
He was not afraid to die,
O brave Lord David.
He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways,
Brave, brave, brave, brave Lord David!
He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp,
Or to have his eyes gouged out and his elbows broken,
To have his kneecaps split and his body burned away
And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Lord David!
His head smashed in and his heart cut out
And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged
And his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off
And his penis split and--
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Date: 2009-09-22 03:08 pm (UTC)Poor, poor brave Lord David. I think he's better off not hearing such songs. Though somehow I can imagine Emma and Rush singing something like that when *very, very* drunk.
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Date: 2009-09-22 03:17 pm (UTC)Torgal has to be Lancelot.It's all very well to watch Emma and Rush perform a drunken song, but our problem is still not resolved. :(
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Date: 2009-09-22 03:21 pm (UTC)I don't know, Pez. I can't choose between all these very-pretty-but-increasingly-pricey rooms. What does Syl say?
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Date: 2009-09-22 03:23 pm (UTC)Dave is Prince Herbert.XDDD Maybe I'll just list them all out, name, website, location, price, then it'll be easier to compare. Syl's in Paris atm, but I know that she wouldn't mind whatever we end up choosing even if it's freakishly expensive.
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Date: 2009-09-22 03:31 pm (UTC)That might be wise, or I suspect we'll be dithering forever. I'm not too bothered price-wise either, to be honest, but at some point my brain will probably hit the 'burgundy frock coat' comparison-meter and break slightly.
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Date: 2009-09-22 03:50 pm (UTC)The search so far:
*works VAT into whichever rates that weren't quoted with it*
Millers, Notting Hill, £400
San Domenico House, Chelsea, £370
The Gore, Queen's Gate, £310
Dorset Square, Regent's Park, £290 (so much more after they added fees and taxes!)
Wydnham Grand, Chelsea, £240
Brewer's Inn, Wandsworth, £140
Jurys Inn, Chelsea, £80
(There's a Travelodge nearby, too, but apparently it's very noisy.)
(And I'm kinda thinking we should ignore anything that's above £300.)
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Date: 2009-09-22 04:01 pm (UTC)That's four, one of which is a long way away and for which the taxi will push it above £300.
Of the remaining ones, they are all fairly reasonable but not spectacularly pretty. What does the inner Dave make of those three?
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Date: 2009-09-22 04:14 pm (UTC)Of the others, Brewer's Inn is 20 minutes' walk. I don't know whether or not you want to walk late at night in that area. I haven't been to Clapham Junction/Wandsworth for years but heard it's been regenerated into a nice area? I think Jurys Inn will also be fine, and it's a short taxi journey. Wyndham Grand will be posh with facilities which we won't use, and much nicer looking.
It's been such a long time since I last called for a cab in London. Wonder how much a Clapham Junction to Chelsea cab would cost? Should hardly be anything, right? They look pretty close on the map...
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Date: 2009-09-22 05:45 pm (UTC)Hmm. I haven't been to that area in years either. :/
I am staring at a taxi fare calculator but I think my brain has switched off after work. Shouldn't be a vast fortune, anyway, as far as I can figure out.
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Date: 2009-09-22 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-22 06:11 pm (UTC)*has a sneaking suspicion that is where they will end up staying, in that case*
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Date: 2009-09-22 04:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-22 04:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-22 04:10 pm (UTC)I'm big and strong and hot
Occasionally I'll do
Some fings that I should not
..............that's just WRONG in this context! XD;
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Date: 2009-09-22 04:18 pm (UTC)Erm. Unni? "Fings"?
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Date: 2009-09-22 04:23 pm (UTC)Yes, 'fings'. That's how the Lancelot on my mp3 pronounces it. XD