Celia Mae

I can definitely vouch for the fact that a lot of people with mental illnesses are a lot more challenging than those with physical ones, coming from someone who works with disabled people on a daily basis.

The thing is, the Ride Access Passes are effectively a system like you're all suggesting, but on paper. This is one of the passes used by the charity I work for when we took a group of our disabled young people to Chessie for the day. As you can see, when they let you onto a ride they look at the queue time for that ride, add it to the current clock time, and write that in the next box. You then cannot go on a ride until that time is up. And on the topic of making sure you have a disabled person in your group so the whole group gets fastrack, that doesn't work either. There is a maximum number of companions for each ride.

Well CoasterDude was right, I was one sweet away from eating all of them... Apart from the Bountys. Ew. But seeing as he forfeit his go... Go Thorpeparkfreak!

1) My first ever inversion on a ride was on Slammer. 2) At the time of writing I am sitting watching tv one sweet away from finishing a box of celebrations... Which means I've eaten the whole box in two days. 3) My mum has gone out more times than me this week. I feel like a hermit.

So, one then?

But... Your blog is called a year of BRITAIN...

There's one that goes off behind the train too, they've been around for a while but are either so pointless you don't notice them, or they're hardly ever turned on/working. Only noticed them myself a few weeks ago when I was walking past. Then went on the ride and didn't notice them when I was on it.

But what if the Scenic isn't open by then...?

I just realised I hadn't written a blog from the TPM LEGOLAND Meet! Should have been a quite important one too seeing as I haven't been before... First impressions of LEGOLAND, it was alright! Obviously designed with little children in mind but it was a fun day all the same. Though I will admit that I fear I'm too much of a thrill seeker and it definitely needs a few more serious coasters... Still loving the meets though Lego Bingo... Got very competitive. Got a list of 20-ish questions from Peaj the night before and sent my answers back, and on the morning we were sent a list of the questions and people's answers. Then you have to work out who gave which answer. But some answers apply to more than one person, and some people apply to more than one answer. Ugh. Talking to people. I'm vaguely ashamed to admit that I came second... Alpengeist killed my winning streak But we were the only two to actually complete the list. He just got it faster than me. So SCB, you'd better be grateful I gave you my prize. To the park then, Dragon was quite good, probably the fastest coaster I've been on with only a lap bar (Yeah, REALLY shows how travelled I am that...) and lots of the other rides were quite good. LOVED the Lego theming. Like, really, it was fab Now I understand why the LEGOLAND brand works so well for Merlin. I would love to work on a project like that, building things like that. Miniland was amazing, I could have just wandered around for hours. This is all really increasing my belief that Scruffy Dog could be my dream job...!

So we went yesterday and the chuckle was one of the best ones I've had in years, five or six or more spins on each side, I lost count. Yet today the cycle was awful, only got two spins each way, sat next to two American guys who were having their first ever ride on a top spin who came off incredibly disappointed. What is going on with this ride?!

I don't know about the bus pass thing but you fill out the forms and they take your photo and then they can print it out basically immediately

Have read all the links included and there will be nothing on there to confirm or deny until the 15th when they publish the Broadcast Bulletin. The writer of the email (the creator of the petition) was definitely jumping to conclusions. "10 Jun 2015 - With over 1,000 Ofcom complaints so far, Ofcom will now investigate Kay Burley's interview with Nick Varney." He knows well that most people won't bother following the links and seeing the actual truth on the Ofcom site. What I did notice was that the complaints logged between 02/06 - 08/06 for the interview were 1002, the only number higher was only 21 more and remember that the interview didn't even happen until over halfway through that week...

See, other than the fact that the petition is to have Kay Burley sacked, and that there is now being an investigation (confirmed to me on email as one of the people who have signed the petition) you'd almost think the papers had bucked their ideas up

It's been happening quite a while, it was like this when we went on 13/05

I know at GCSEs my exams didn't finish until the middle of July... But most schools will at least be on study leave and we know not all students use this wisely

Well at that point it wasn't either so even if it is the second lift hill they still broke the rules. But I assume as long as you'd like as long as you don't get bored... EDIT: There is now actually a petition going round to get Kay Burley sacked after her interview... Gaining signatures at an alarming rate. Going by the comments it's both people who have a grudge against her anyway, as well as those like us who know she didn't have a clue what she was talking about, that are signing https://www.change.org/p/sky-news-sack-kay-burley-after-awful-interviewing-of-alton-towers-ceo-nick-varney

Just read that link and it definitely seems one of the most fair, until I saw a link to this article, also by the Guardian, at the bottom of the page... http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/03/human-error-likely-in-alton-towers-smiler-crash-former-staff-claim I can't quite believe any former staff members would think it wise to say anything like this to a newspaper, knowing what the GP are like. No matter how bad the feeling may be towards Towers when they left, they must know this is only going to make it worse for the poor staff that were working on the ride at the time. Though I must admit this is one of the first articles I have seen a newspaper make a link to Gerts and the Texas Giant incident, but it still isn't made nearly as much of a deal of as the Smiler's past, which isn't nearly as bad. Is it actually protocol to wait until all test cars are back before starting to send occupied ones again? I guess it would be common sense.

I have two phobias. I've always had arachnophobia, can't stand spiders or spidery things... Ewewewewew. I see one or think about one and I can't bear to look and I go all funny and itchy all over as if they're crawling all over me and I just can't stand still. Apparently it's hilarious to watch. My second one started around seven years ago, I'm terrified of mannequins. Which makes both clothes shopping and queuing for SAW an experience... I get all fidgety and get chills down the back of my spine and feel like they're staring at me and could move at any moment. I have no idea what started it, my mum's convinced it was the first episode of the Doctor Who reboot in 2005. I can tell her for a fact it wasn't, I watch that episode completely fine, it was probably more likely to be the weeping angels... EDIT: How on Earth could I forget to add my phobia of needles... This started when I was 12/13 and I had an operation on my knee where I had to be put to sleep which they decided to do on a drip so I had to get a tap put in the back of my hand. Basically coz I was so young and my veins were small the nurse missed the vein in the back of my right hand, so had to pull it out again and do another one in the back of my left, which hadn't been numbed unlike my right (which had hurt enough anyway even with the numbing!) and yeah it killed so I was lying there crying and shaking and like no. Plus the anaesthetist had no bedside manner at all and considering I was a child had me crying even before I'd gotten to the operation room. Joy.

I don't know about the ride having problems, but last time I was on park the setting was genuinely awful, we got maybe three upside down twists and that was all, and I've heard other people saying similar. At the time I genuinely thought it had broken or something and they'd had to stop us early, but much to my surprise we were got off the ride like normal and the staff proceeded to put more people on in our place. Anyone heard anything that it might actually be having more significant problems?

This is getting to the point where even I'm starting to wonder if there's a wider problem... Imagine what it must be like for the GP

Don't give them ideas.

I meant way over :')

On the subject of young ride ops, I've met two of the Smiler ones and trust me, they were nowhere near 18 (I mean that in the nicest possible way to them! )

There seems to be some debate, I've seen on different pages just within the BBC that they were both teens and in their 20's

Thought all four of the people rescued were in their 20s...?