No Top Gear for Brenden

Written on Nov 02, 2008 // Livin La Vida London //

As the title expresses, I am quiet bummed about my weekend.
I booked tickets over a month ago to go and see Top Gear Live at the MPH Motor Show in London this Saturday. The tube lines were down so I had to catch replacement buses that more than tripled my trip, once arriving at the MPH show it appeared to be almost the same as the British Motor Show (except they had a cool replica Bat Mobile) I went to a couple of months back so decided the £22 ticket price was still  OK because I got to see the Top Gear guys perform a live show. Their recorded show on the BBC is booked solid for the next few years too by the way.

I stand in line for almost an hour, the queue finally starts to slowly shuffle in, I get to the gate and I am informed that I do not have tickets for the show…only the car display!
I argued for a while and then was shown that a Top Gear Live inclusive ticket is £38 and I have stupidly booked the wrong tickets online.

I had a drink and then went shopping to cheer myself up!

The new 1.6 billion pound (3.9 Billion AUD according to XE) Westfield shopping centre in London opened during the week so I thought I would drop by and check it out. It was pretty much what you would expect for that price, all the most expensive stores in the world, flat screen TVs everywhere and loads and loads of cool stores.
I ended up getting some new jeans and some leather gloves (the snow gloves I have been wearing make me a little clumsy when trying to put my train ticket into the gates). There was massive displays on, a Boost Juice (first one I have seen over here) and even live lingerie models in the windows of a store!

Sunday was quiet, washed clothes, cleaned up and bought some new bedding to cater for the cold snaps we have been having (snowing and what not).

I have a massive week ahead of me and Seal’s site will be going live soon, so I imagine more late nights. On the plus side I will be getting a new work computer (encouragement to work harder maybe?) and you will all get to see some of my hard work :-)

 

_B

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