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It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere...
A very, very long time ago I read an article proclaiming that talking about the famous people you've met or have dubious connections to is a poncey, southern thing to do. Well, dear reader, I am proud to be a poncey southerner and I reserve the right to waffle on about anything which makes me happy. I am also aware that I am very, very boring. As a result of my boring, geekyness I am now going to discuss how I am connected to places featured in episode 2 of Red Dwarf: Back to Earth and a few other things for good measure.
( Cut for Red Dwarf spoilers... ) which is just down the road from where my Grandparents used to live in Richmond, Surrey. I've not been in the shop but I've walked and been driven past it lots of times. It has to be said that the Red Dwarf crew took a rather convoluted route from Kingston to Richmond via Canary Wharf tube station (they could've got a 65 bus for £2 each and it would've taken about half an hour - instead they managed to travel right to the other side of London, probably needing to change trains at least three times) however we'll let them off as they were new to life in 21st Century Britain.
I also went on to watch Kryton aka. Robert Llewellyn's excellent Llewtube film starring Chris Barrie (Rimmer) which was filmed whilst they were shooting Red Dwarf at Shepperton. I was hugely (and geekily) excited to see them drive round my local area (which they claim is West London but is actually Surrey - Feltham is the last place in West London) and then consider entering my home town of Feltham. They describe the part of Ashford on the way to Feltham as possibly being 'Britain's scariest housing estate'. They clearly have no experience of scary housing estates. That one is actually quite nice. Unfortunately, Feltham isn't shown but Ashford, Sunbury and Shepperton are. If you watch really closely in the Chris Barrie video (and also the Craig Charles one) you can see the reservoirs with the sheep on the banks. I still think it's brilliant that there are whole flocks of sheep working so close to London. When we drove past them on Monday there were lots of adorable little lambs.
So that's my geeky evening. I'll update tomorrow about other stuff which has happened to day.
( Cut for Red Dwarf spoilers... ) which is just down the road from where my Grandparents used to live in Richmond, Surrey. I've not been in the shop but I've walked and been driven past it lots of times. It has to be said that the Red Dwarf crew took a rather convoluted route from Kingston to Richmond via Canary Wharf tube station (they could've got a 65 bus for £2 each and it would've taken about half an hour - instead they managed to travel right to the other side of London, probably needing to change trains at least three times) however we'll let them off as they were new to life in 21st Century Britain.
I also went on to watch Kryton aka. Robert Llewellyn's excellent Llewtube film starring Chris Barrie (Rimmer) which was filmed whilst they were shooting Red Dwarf at Shepperton. I was hugely (and geekily) excited to see them drive round my local area (which they claim is West London but is actually Surrey - Feltham is the last place in West London) and then consider entering my home town of Feltham. They describe the part of Ashford on the way to Feltham as possibly being 'Britain's scariest housing estate'. They clearly have no experience of scary housing estates. That one is actually quite nice. Unfortunately, Feltham isn't shown but Ashford, Sunbury and Shepperton are. If you watch really closely in the Chris Barrie video (and also the Craig Charles one) you can see the reservoirs with the sheep on the banks. I still think it's brilliant that there are whole flocks of sheep working so close to London. When we drove past them on Monday there were lots of adorable little lambs.
So that's my geeky evening. I'll update tomorrow about other stuff which has happened to day.