Heh heh...maybe I'll have a wander round there too ;D
You know I'm not one for con reports ....couldn't even remember which road I lived in when the Taxi driver asked 'Where to' earlier
...but here goes...
Awesome....the whole thing....just awesome, made even more special because of our wonderful DG's.
OK...we finally got to the registration late on Friday, and of course I was so busy nattering to Allseeingeyes , that I missed James walking in with his guitar, and the much talked about lady friend....although I saw the back of her head
I tried to call PK on her mobile, completely forgetting it's a pile of crap LOL, so whoever gave out the info on the supposed G/F...It wasn't me !
We did go and say Hi to the CDS girls, but there were too many of us to all fit on the tables outside
I did get to have a quick chat with Sueworld before she left though.
Saturday morning, I felt too queasy to make breakfast...and no, not because I'd had too much booze...I only had a pint and a half
So I ate a few hoola hoops, and got ready to leave!
We'd not been there long before they did the welcomes, and the first 2 rows had to go and have pics taken with James and David
I'd had a bit of trouble with my lenses, and I'm sure the right one was in back to front, so my eyes were all over the place
The pics were def being rushed through, and barely had the person before me finished than I was thrust forward into the presence .
At this point, old 'All mouth and trousers' here turned into a semi-mute idiot
James said 'Hi...good to see you again, and held out his hand whih I shook ( while the rest of me shook !) and I carefully made my way over the slippery floor to go round the back of them....I mumbled something like 'Crikey...I don't think I can bend my knees too far' when the photographer asked me to hunker down a bit, but I remember putting my arms on James and Davids shoulders and grinning like a loon, and it was all over
James put his arm round my middle, while a stunned looking David had his hands on his knees ...he may have been thinking I'd better protect the crown jewels from the mad eyed woman....I could have told him I only looked like that cos of the squiffy lens
;D
David and James did a few signings in the afternoon, and again the first 2 rows were called, so I gatherd my 2 gift bags and got down to the basement quite quickly
James was at the first table, and of course took his time examining gifts and having a few words with everyone, whilst poor David was in shy mood again, and was sat twiddling his pen and looking over at James' table wryly LOL
My turn came, and I handed over the bag with the immortal line 'Goodies!' Of course he dived straight in, and saw the Tigger socks first, and laughed, and then he found the little Lush gift box, and the next thing I know, he's got it up against his nose sniffing lustily LOL
He aked if I worked there, and I said 'er , no...just spend all my money in there
!', and he laughed, grabbed my hand and said 'Thank you so much' and I walked over to David...still twirling his pen
He signed the pic I'd bought for Vicks , and thought I'd slope off like everyone else ...Ha Ha.... I said ' hear you like socks ?' ..he said 'um Yeah' , so I said ' Good, ere yer are then' and plonked the bag on the table ;D I then said 'Can I have a handshake then' and bless him , he shook my hand, said 'Thank you very much' and off I went ;D
The acoustic set was stunning..James was so much better singing in his own key and to his own pace....and the unbuttoned shirt went some way to redress the swapping of tight jeans for baggy holey ones
Poor baby had a black knee brace on his right leg, clearly visible through the massive holes in the knees of said jeans , and probably explained why he actually spent a goodly proportion of his time on stage sitting down
He played a brand new song that he said no-one had heard called 'Patricia' which led to speculation that this was his lady friends name
He also said that the guitar he'd been given in May, had been mangled by baggage handlers, and was playing a fabulous sounding guitar he said was THE best instrument in the world, although he had to wiggle his left hand after a couple of songs, which is when he told the story of how he 'should have hit the preacher'
Others have reported or will report the sessions on Sunday in the hall better than I , so here's my silly question report.
Bendy was working the line, and after she'd seen my q. decided to move me, and the lady next to me up to 4th and 5th in the line....Thanks very much Bendy
! She is such a lovely lady, and went haring off to find Ditto once I'd picked her out ;D
So, my turn comes, and I'd decided to thank J and DB for bringing the sunshine with them
which I did, and everyone started clapping whilst I'd already started in on 'If the world were to end tomorrow, what would you do today?'...I sort of stopped, and James was smiling ....but I stumbled on, and David ws having trouble with everyone's accents, so James turned to him and said 'Basically , if you had 24 hours to live what would you do in that time? So, David says hmmmm...spend 9 hours flying home....3 hours in holding...and go home to Jaime and Jaden...with Haagen Daz ! James said yeah, go and be with his family, and then David muttered something about it being a hard question (
) and I made a dash for my seat LOL...the next person in line was talking, when I heard James say 'I was just thinking about that 24 hour question ' LOL...maybe he was going to add some extra activities
.
If my shattered brain can remember anything else I'll post it , but that was my con, and I had a fabulous time ...thanks to Lisas organisational skills, the guests, the Jossverse fans in general who were so friendly, and particularly my amazing BS Sistas