OK, a quick catch up post.
1. The rest of my trip to London wasn’t anywhere near as disastrous as my first day, thankfully! I made some good contacts at the career fair that I now have to follow up on and I think it was a good thing to have done. I was pretty exhausted after the four days though…I did so much walking between Waterloo and Regent Street. It looks close on the map but London isn’t Dublin and I was forever misjudging distances.
2. I had an interview for a permanent position while I was there…I’m trying to think of what I can say about it but I’m afraid to jinx it.
2. My animation course is continuing to kick me in the backside. I’ve learned so much it’s boggling my brain somewhat but it’s all good.
3. We have decided to start sending Eve to playschool for a few days a week. She’s just getting to the age where we aren’t enough entertainment for her and she needs other kids. When I was young there were plenty of children around the neighbourhood but nowadays they’re all in some kind of nursery so you have to actually send your kid there to have playmates. Hopefully she’ll start next week.
4. On the flight back from Heathrow to Dublin I found myself sitting beside Robert Vaughn and his wife. Actually, I kept bumping into them from standing with them through security beforehand, to finding our seats were assigned together and afterwards getting stuck in the same passport control line. I grew up watching The Man from U.N.C.L.E. so I was having a bit of a fangirl moment. I didn’t have the nerve to speak to him but I was eavesdropping like a big geek. His wife was doing most of the talking so I only got to hear his wonderful gravelly voice saying things like “Yes, dear”, “Hmm”, “I see.” At one point while we were standing in line she was telling him that they ought to put their belongings into the safe at the hotel because they might get stolen. She started to get quite agitated with him and finally said, “You’re just too naive Robert, you don’t think like they do…you have to learn to think like a thief!” When I heard that I had the overwhelming urge to butt in and say, “Don’t you know who you’re talking to? This is Napoleon Solo, he spends his days battling the agents of THRUSH!”
In retrospect…I’m glad I kept that to myself.
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Hi Claire. Interesting read.
Robert Vaughan – wow! I soooo loved The Man From U.N.C.L.E. as a kid. I’m surprised you are old enough to recall it, but I suppose you were watching the re-runs! He has one of those distinctive voices that you would know him immediately without seeing him – a la Michael Caine, John Wayne and others.
“In retrospect…I’m glad I kept that to myself.”
And I’m glad you shared it with us! Funny girl!
🙂
You are a model of constraint. I wouldn’t have been able to resist asking him a million questions, even as security hauled me off the plane. When I was a nipper Man from Uncle was the coolest thing on TV, I had all the annuals, toys, and stuff that I could get (probably where my gadget lust started). I won’t be happy until I have a PDA like Kuryakin’s pen/radio. There’s rumour of a big-screen remake of MFU, hope they don’t make a hames of it.
Cheers.
John: Yes, it was the re-runs in the 70’s and 80’s that I watched. Along with Get Smart, Mission Impossible and The Saint. I’ve always thought I was born in the wrong era.
Angie: I had to say it somewhere! I guess it’s good to have a blog for saving me from myself 😀
DavyMac: Hmm, I’m not a big fan of tv show remakes. I can’t think of a single one that’s been done that hasn’t been a bit of a hames. I wonder who they would cast.
Good luck with the job..