Last day of filming
Unbelievable as it was to some (!!) we made it over to the Science Museum for 10am, and despite having our friendly camera crew with us we had an enjoyable couple of hours there. Abbie really wanted to go back but we didn’t manage it, so that’s something for another time.
We ended up trudging the whole way across Kensington Gardens to find the playpark (although we weren’t the only ones!!) and all really enjoyed our time there – the park is lovely and there were some great games going on I think. Abbie especially enjoyed seeing Piers again!
Slight disappointment as Anna didn’t manage to rope Poppy into her TV thing, because despite having asked Kensington & Chelsea Council for permission and having paid £100 to get it, it then turned out that Kensington Gardens is royal property and therefore not under council jurisdiction anyway – so no filming allowed. Still, it was a relatively amusing episode for Alison and I plus an entourage of vaguely related children to have traipsed over to the lake and then be held up by a police car!
Lovely to meet fellow muddlepuddlers too, although it was too short! Maybe that was our fault – we headed off around 3pm for our river cruise – organised by the tv people so we didn’t complain too much, especially as they were chauffeuring us around as well. So that happened, then they did a bit more filming by Tower Bridge, and after that we were free to go (phew! We’re off to see the editing this week though, so that should be fun).
Thought we’d do a spontaneous evening London Eye ride, as it was a nice evening, but our plans for that were short lived too, when we got there and found that it had closed early due to a private function!
Ho hum – so that night ended with pasta & pesto cooked in the hotel kitchen. Steve & I tried out the babysitting and went out for a walk after the children were asleep, which was pleasant – ended up in Tescos buying lunch for the next day – how sad is that?!