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Friday Finally establish I am Lyta and Nursewhen, Sarah is Sarah and Talia and Simon is Doctor When and Kosh. Given room 511. Roam around trying to find fifth floor, 511 turns out
to be on ground floor. Rapidly fill room from floor to ceiling with
bags and costumes. * Note - Will eat at the Piazza bar from now on. Went to Torchwood Bingo. Absolutely love Bingo. Unfortunately, were required to watch an episode of Torchwood. Torchwood much more enjoyable with a Bingo card. Won huge numbers of Drazi points and chocolates. Bingo hosts run out of Drazi points and chocolates DISASTER! Run out of time and can't watch end of Torchwood. HUZZAH! Return to room to strap Simon into Kosh costume for opening ceremony. Sarah goes to put on Talia costume, I dress as Lyta. Simon asks me to work the laptop to play the Kosh sound bites. I remind him that smoke tends to come out of computers when I so much as look at them. Return to room to strap ME into Kosh costume. Simon goes to work computer. Sarah comes down in panic because Talia costume gapes at the front. I sew Sarah into Talia costume, can't find scissors, have to chew thread off with my teeth. Simon says later he would have paid money to see it. Sarah and I can't work out which way round the Kosh body curtain goes. Kosh's head is too big, have to wear Simon's flat cap under it to stop it sliding off. Can't see a thing, roasting in here! Wish I wasn't wearing the Lyta costume underneath. Sarah guides me down to the main hall. Body curtain on back to front, Simon has a fit and won't let anybody take photos until Kosh is dressed properly. Stand in corridor waiting to go in to opening ceremony. Heat is unbearable. Kosh leaves trail of clothing behind him as I disrobe underneath what is basically a mobile, alien, bathing hut. Sarah gathers up clothes. I wonder if I'll get to see any of the guests this time round. Turns out I was standing in the corridor with them, but as my head was stuck in a Vorlon bucket, I was completely unaware. Missed most of the opening ceremony, but do recall the Space Baron was very funny and couldn't or wouldn't be bothered to remember the name of the race he was addressing. Changed back into Lyta costume and went to the Ceilidh. Simon dons top hat and goes as Victorian Doctor When. We're absolutely hopeless. Simon dances with all the men instead of the women in Strip the Willow, I dance with the women when I should be dancing with Simon. I laugh so hard I can hardly stand. Simon and I manage to miss each other when we should be spinning together, everybody shouts instructions, we turn the lines into complete disarray. Exit with bag on head. Decide to do Teledu challenge. Absolutely hopeless, only win 3 stars. Exit with bag on head. Go and play charades in Rotunda then retire. Saturday I dress as Bald Centauri lady, Sarah dresses in lovely fantasy Middle Earth costume (From New Zealand!). Simon discovers he's forgotten his hair grips and can't get his Centauri crest up. Typical male! He did this at Redemption '03 as well!. Simon emerges from room with bag on head. Tardis emerges from room next door and bowls down corridor behind us. Simon scrounges hair grips from Londo who sympathises with the male Centauri hair problem. Go to the Tribble hunt. Struggle with shiny Tribbles which keep slipping out of Centauri gloves. Small boy follows me, picking up MY dropped Tribbles. Small boy pursued at high speed round the rotunda. I present mutant Tribble to Tribble host and demand extra points. Ops demand return of orange. I present furry Tribble to Tribble host and demand extra points. Teledu hosts demand return of cuddly hamster. Despite rampant cheating, Tribble hunt title still evades me. Curses! Simon, Sarah and I play 'Witch Trials' with Cath and Ed Reynolds (Tardis and Arthur Dent), then go to cabaret rehearsal. Realise that the 50 SingalongaKosh lyric sheets that we brought won't be enough. Tech do marvelous job of getting the lyrics on screen. Hurrah for Tech! Return to room to strap Simon into Kosh costume for the cabaret. Sarah changes back into Talia and gets crash course in movements for second song. I change back into Lyta. All cabaret and masqueraders stand in corridor. Simon can't see a thing, roasting in here! Miss most of the cabaret as usual. Were most impressed with the American Tribal sword and skirt dance. Also, Clare performing on Dulcimer and then herding the acts while suffering from a cold was something to see.. Performed 'Everybody vote for Kosh' and 'Meet the Vorlons'. Audience join in, clap along, sing along, do moves. HOORAY FOR REDEMPTION AUDIENCES!!! Exited stage in triumph to applause and drunken threats of legal action from the Centauri faction. Informed I have only 3 minutes for my costume change into wings of Isis. Sprint into loos, leaving trail of Lyta costume in corridor. Sarah gathers up discarded clothes. Emerge with 30 seconds to spare and head straight out onto stage. Disaster! Hem of dress catches on sequin on shoe and remains attached throughout entire dance. Can't move left foot more than 2 inches. Was supposed to spin like Dervish! Could only amble around like rotary washing line. Thank heavens it was an Isis dance, you can get away with murder when you're strapped into 7 foot wide gold lame wings. Simon changes into Steed and he, Sarah and I creep back in to see the rest of the cabaret. Came in during 'Under Torchwood', loved it. Can't stand Owen, so glad to hear 'Frog mouthed rapist and self confessed Twat!' Sheer poetry. Thoroughly enjoyed Fifi's lovely voice and Steve's hilarious lyrics and was impressed with the monologues. Went to Stepmania. Hey, I'm a dancer, I'll show them how to do it. Am totally crap, couldn't stop laughing, rack up a score of 7 to Sarah's 240. Exit with bag over head. Returned to disco and performed manic dancing until 2am. Gave glow sticks to people in disco and watched impressive light sabre fighting. Had a very nice sandwich in reception and chatted in the rotunda until about 4am. Sunday Woke up ridiculously early, ummed over Farscape Jool costume, but since knees no longer bend, decide to wear more comfortable pink confection. Simon dresses as character from the Prisoner. Sarah wears lovely Middle Earth costume again. Went to see 'New Blake's 7' panel. Many people including panel are somewhat hung over. Guests proudly show off their work and are met with smutty sniggering at 'I didn't expect it to be so big!'. House lights are raised to cries of 'Aaieee!' as audience do fair impersonation of a vampire convention where somebody has unexpectedly opened the curtains. Audio B7 looks very good, looking forward to it. Question of fan fiction answered to everybody's satisfaction. Huzzah! Simon slopes off to sort out Kosh sound bites for hustings, Sarah and I change back into Talia and Lyta. Simon gets strapped into Kosh costume. Ed kindly agrees to work laptop. Unfortunately, I was asked to carry the laptop, resulting in smoke pouring out of it and all the sound bites come out as white noise. Husting script was something like this:- Chris - 'Welcome Kosh' Actual script:- Chris -"Welcome Kosh" Best bit for us was question put to Kosh by Gordon the Gopher- 'Squeek,
squeek SQUEEK squeek squeek.' Had lunch, then went off to the closing ceremony. Unfortunately Kosh was unable to attend since sitting in an audience in an alien bathing hut is rather difficult not to mention obstructive. Also, a blind Vorlon sprinting on stage to join an alliance might have resulted in tramplings and a Vorlon shaped hole in the back wall. Enjoyed the rapidly formed alliances and the Space Baron asking if any of the inferior humans had a calculator. Had I not voted for Kosh, the Space Baron would have got my vote. 800 votes are cast by 400 people! The corruption at Redemption gets more marked each time. My heart glows with pride. My pink confection rasps my skin off as the stays escape out of the top. I get changed into jeans and T shirt and start the painful return to the world of the mundanes *sigh* . Had dinner in the Piazza bar. Simon's fish is sent back as batter wasn't cooked. I make 3 demands for onion rings which were missing from my curry. Sarah eats a pink beefburger against her better judgement. * Note, next year, bring a camping stove. After dinner, Cath, Ed, Sarah and I indulge our insatiable need for Witch Trials and are joined by Richard Proctor who quickly gets into the routine of shouting 'Woo Woo!' every time the Mad Gertie Hayes (thinks she's a steam train) card turns up. Simon goes to watch Wilderness. Simon returns to find us still enthusiastically pressing witches to death with stones. Laurie bursts in, takes photos of people with speech bubbles, squeeks an explanation and rushes out again. Ed gets his theramin out and we all have a good WoowooOooWoo on it until the hotel staff ask us to stop becuase it's interfeing with something. Possibly the chef's contact with the mothership. I can hear singing coming from the reception. The game wraps up and I hurry over to join in. I missed the singing in '05 because the mundanes complained and stopped it. I arrive all bright eyed and bushy tailed to find that the mundanes had complained and stopped it. I have to be held back from pressing the mundanes to death with stones (Woo Woo!) and retire to the rotunda. Admire Laurie's hilarious collection of speech bubble photos. Simon and I retire to our bombsite of a room and start to pack. Monday The saddest day of all. We say our fond farewells to friends old and new and emerge blinking into the world outside. Sigh, it is the life of a mundane for another two years....... .....starts planning '09 costumes. Song Lyrics
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