Celia Mae

And those of us that don't like coffee?

Pretty sure every time I've been on park Charlie has had one of the longest queues of all

TPM?

Not convinced :-/ Bit messy for B&M surely? And all the extra bits coming off of it...

Is it bad if I've never played COC...?

Had quite a successful first year as a geek... Thorpe Park: 20-something Alton Towers: 5 Chessington: 4 Adventure Island: 1 Drayton Manor: 1 Legoland Windsor: 1 Oakwood: 1 Funland Hayling Island: 1 Plus once in the London Dungeons, Shrek's Adventure and Sealife, and a couple of times on the Eye

Pls be the first weekend then I'll still be at home and will basically be able to walk there :') Other than that should still be able to go

Hi again, managed to get Windows 8 to play ball so I can upload my photos from since September Early September me and SCB headed up north to Drayton Manor for my first time. It was a cold, damp day, but we got loads of rides done, including the "humpty bumpty oddity" that is G-Force, and my first standing coaster (Shockwave) that was... Challenging to get into due to being a little bit short :pardon:Eventually developed a technique by the end of the day though and really enjoyed it Also enjoyed Pandemonium and watching SCB on Apocolypse... Yeah I still refuse drop towers. The only slight issue was that it was incredibly quiet and a few of their rides require a certain number of people to run. I ended up waiting about 15 minutes in my seat on Pandemonium... Also didn't go on any of the water rides because it was VERY cold, but I got the gist just by looking so that was enough for me Then in late September we headed down to Adventure Island with Paige for her birthday! I'd never done an amusement park before other than travelling fairs, so loved the fun Some of their in-house creations though were insane! Time Machine for example. Insane. So intense I whited out for most of it... God knows who came up with the idea of it in the first place Absolutely LOVED Dragon Claw. It was amazing, despite the fact that I had to ride it alone (as with most of the spinny rides...). Rage was also great, nifty ride for a park like this. Great fun and a nice little thrill for the older visitors to the park. And yes I got very excited that we were visiting the seaside and insisted on looking for shells on the beach. Even though it is Paige in this photo. And can I just add, the park looks incredible after dark. Anyway, that's this part done, shall be back with my final installment soon!

Hey again nerds! I kinda went AWOL for a bit. I'm sorry. I disappeared somewhere around July but I'm back again! And I have so many blogs to catch up on... So I'm gonna try and smoosh them all into one So late July I went to Holland with cadets to do my 100-mile hike. Owch, my god it was painful. But so rewarding This year I did it as a member of the British military contingent, so we had to stay on this camp with the 5000 other military personnel from all over the world. On the first day they raised the flags of every country that had sent a contingent. This was the entrance to the camp, which was the starting line for each day of the march. Each of the four days we walked a 40-kilometre (25-mile) circuit, which ended in the same place, apart from the final day where we finished in the centre of Nijmegen town. Every day the route was lined by people who lived in the surrounding areas who came to watch, who handed us sweets and food and freebies and things. They really help so much. I've done marches before where no one is watching at all, and it DRAGS so long. Summer Nights was good. Of course it was, a quiet park is always good. Not sure about the music at that night's Island Beats, I can't remember who it was but it was someone who had been raved about, but ended up from the sound of it like just one guy rapping over the top of other people's songs. I enjoyed the atmosphere created by hearing the pop music all over park, it was very relaxed. In August I attended the TPM meet at Oakwood. Unfortunately I was ill the whole weekend but still had fun! Was great to meet fellow TPMers from all over the country! Rides at Oakwood were great too, especially Megafobia (my first ever woodie!) The night rides were good, but the fireworks and water screen were slightly disappointing. Maybe at some point I'll get to see the Alton Towers fireworks display and see how it really should be done. Megafobia! Megafobia and water screen in the dark The rest of August I worked full time, until the 28th, where I moved house. Then two weeks later I moved out of home and into university So yes, life has been very chaotic. Anyway, the rest of my catch up will be in another blog coming soon, so yeah! Speak soon! I'm back, did you miss me? (Sherlock fans please get the reference so I don't sound like a prat )

This happened to you in a maze...?

Having done Thorpe's mazes for several years, I have NEVER seen anything on this scale and neither has SCB

I'd like to point out that if Towers' marketing is based on touching that's because it is a pretty big deal for them as I'm sure this is the first year they've gotten rid of their non-touching rule. SCB did Sub Species yesterday, and the 'touching' was extreme - he got yanked from room to room, dragged down a tunnel, pushed, as well as the normal stroking, poking etc we'd see at Thorpe... This was something else, something like we'd expect from a face it alone at Thorpe.

That, is how you theme.

I should be able to too!

Actor budget I heard

I've done that before in real life, it really isn't worth nightmaring about :-P

No.

Okay so I'm gonna go ahead and assume no one else here is as girly as me and watches the series Hair on BBC. Basically in the latest episode they did two challenges. Firstly they did the hair for the actors in the London Dungeons, and secondly I came across a bit of a spoiler for a change coming to all dungeons across the country quite soon. *SPOILERS* (can't use the spoiler thing on my phone) The dungeons are introducing a new character. She is called Miss Edmunds, she was 43, an immaculate perfectionist, lived in the Victorian ages and was known for poisoning people with chocolates I don't know what they're doing with her but for the challenge they had to design a hairdo for her, and the winner is the one that will actually be used for the character. Maybe this could explain why there have been all these changes? Maybe they're rebuilding part of the set for the new scenes and have had to do a quick bodge job to get around missing certain scenes? (coming from someone who never saw the old dungeon with Sweeney so bear with me). But yeah, maybe. Big changes definitely on their way.

So very early on Saturday morning I leave the country to travel to Holland and attempt to complete the Nijmegen Marches, a hundred mile march over four days. Over 40-thousand people do it each year and about 5,000 complete it in military teams, wearing full kit and carrying weight. This year one of those 5,000 is me. I confess that although I completed the march last year as part of a civilian team, I'm getting more and more worried the closer it gets about doing it in kit this year as I think I'll struggle with the weight and heat. Other than that I'm really excited and can't wait for the experience, but that doesn't mean I can't be nervous!

That looks horrific... I love it.

Banned for hypocrisy. Your name has never had a capital letter and you use it to annoy people that have the exact opinion you just used yourself.

I advise everybody to avoid the rest of this week and next week at all costs unless planning to only use RnR.... School trip cattlepens are out today, and the whole concrete car park if blocked off for use of coaches Luckily we aren't going today, SCB just needs to renew his pass!

Meanwhile on TPM, Matt Creek was jealous over a holiday of prancing fanboys who rode many surprisingly, monstrously large dark rides and drank lots of

Banned for not going further and whiting out like I usually do on Nemmy

Meanwhile on TPM, Matt Creek was jealous over a holiday...