Ola amigos. Long time, my apologies! I've been too busy doing things to provide content for the blog to actually blog! So much so that this is part 1 of 3!! Buckle up....
RIGHT first things first: if you have me on Facebook, or Instagram, or know me in real life, you will undoubtedly be familiar with my brush with fame.
On 17th May I went along to Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution street party, because why wouldn't I. Ellie and Sarah came too, and we saw the Essex fella as soon as we walked in, I was giggling like a school girl and we all took some pics:
After we got over it (it took a while), we checked out the amazing food stuffs! There was pulled pork rolls, vietnamese street food, fish fingers burgers, pizzas, you name it. The only thing I could actually eat was eton mess minus the cream from the Meringue Girls (meringue is the new macaron you know).
So delicious.
Proof I ate it.
We sat down to watch some demonstrations and saw these guys: Ben and Jamie from Sorted Food, which is a YouTube cooking channel I hadn't heard of before, but have since become fairly obsessed with.
SO during each demonstration, while the kitchen was cleared up for the next person, there was a half an hour window where the audience watched something on the screen you can see in the bottom of that screen ^^^. We were watching Jamie Oliver and Russell Brand making 'boobie pasta' (whole tomatoes being the boobies), when it clicked that Jamie was in the same outfit he'd been in that morning.... which meant what was occuring on screen was live.... WHICH MEANT RUSSELL WAS IN THE VICINITY.
Long time lover of Russell, I have all his books, his live DVDs and listened to his radio show until it went bust. After hyperventilating a little bit, I was like "right i MUST get his autograph". Then a lady came out into the audience and said "does anyone want to ask Russell a question?", and I think not many people heard her, but Ellie's ears pricked up and she said "WE DO", so the lady came over and asked if one of us wanted to go and ask Russell a question personally. At this point, I may well have shoved Ellie out of the way and elbowed Sarah in the nose in my rush to volunteer (not actually, but soz guys if I was a bit exuberant), so she said "yup great" and led me away...... to Russell and Jamie's small hut.
I walked in which what was no doubt an expression of confusion and disbelief, to be confronted with the extremely handsome Russell (he may look scruffy on screen, but he is anything but in real life), and my personal hero Jamie Oliver!! I sat down and was told to cuddle up to Russell, which I obliged.
As they had been discussing eating strange things like placentas and breast milk, after Jamie ascertained my single-status and age, Russell said, "now Annie, you're single, and we need a placenta, so I'm going to have to get you pregnant". I replied, in what I hope was a casual, clever way, "well, can we at least turn the cameras off first".
Zing right? We chatted for a few more minutes, I panicked thinking they'd want me to taste the pasta (my natural enemy), but in the end Russell and I fed it to the crowd.
Then I gave Russell my number and the rest is too rude for the blog.
Joking. Unfortunately.
HERE IT IS!
After that excitement and thrill, I spent most of the following week (and the week prior to Russell-gate) at work! My work experience at the radio station has finished now, but I had such a great time, very good experience and I know have a lot more confidence in calling up strangers asking for things, a skill a journalist certainly needs.
My office was incredible and on the edge of St James's Park:
In other adventures: I ventured out to Kensal Rise, in the west near-ish to Notting Hill, to have a look at their Sunday morning farmer's market, really good one, full of fresh produce, meats, cheeses, ready meals, exactly what you want at a market.
I nerded up and went to Tate Modern (hated it, if you're reading Dad!) and an exhibition at the British Library, titled Propaganda: Power and Persuasion. I know that's probably not up everyones alley but I loved it, a really interesting look at governments from around the world, mainly Russia, China, US and the UK, not only during times of war but sports, health, technology and the like. Anyone in London it's on until September and if you're a student, only 5 squids!
I can only assume you're bored to tears now, so until tomorrows part 2! Good bye!
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