Quite Interesting

 We were up and about as soon as the alarm went off. Ellie was expected soon after 07:00 and the Silver Vixen had things to do. Ellie was duly dropped off and the usual start to the morning was executed to completion and the classroom door.

Back home, we grabbed our stuff and climbed into the car to whizz around to the station. We caught the 09:29 train heading for London. A quick change at Clapham Junction and a few stops on the Overground saw us deposited at Shepherds Bush. 

We wandered across the road and made our way towards the Westfield Shopping Centre. After checking the menus at a number of restaurants, we decided on "Busanda" a Bangkok-Thai restaurant. The Silver Vixen had a green curry with coconut rice, and the Gorse Fox had chicken Pad Thai. These were washed down with suitable glasses of wine and then followed by deep-fried banana-filled spring rolls, coated in toffee sauce. It was a delicious lunch and would set us up for the afternoon. 

We still had some time to kill, so took a stroll around the Westfield Mall.

From Westfield, we made our way to TV Centre and joined the queue. We had (guaranteed) tickets to see the filming of QI. The queue was epic, but the production staff saw that we had guaranteed tickets and shifted us to a different queue. We still had a good hour to wait in the queue and were thankful that it wasn't raining. That would have been miserable.

Eventually, the doors were opened and the queue started to move. We were ushered into the Studio and made our way to the seats. We were right at the back, directly in front of the set. It was a very good spot and there were plenty of monitors showing what the cameras were recording, so there was no excuse regarding visibility. It was clear that they were running late and when they were ready to start the floor manager and Sandi Toksvig both apologised for the delay.

The panellists were introduced - Judy Love, Kiri Pritchard-McLean (a Welsh comedian), Gyles Brandreth, and Alan Davies. The biggest cheer went up for Gyles. It was clear that it was going to be a good show!

So it was. The recording took about 90 minutes and was hilarious. Clearly, much will be cut for TV consumption but seeing the whole show was brilliant and was certainly worth the trip. The recording was the penultimate episode of the "U" series and was titled "Unsavoury". 

As we shuffled out at the end, the Gorse Fox asked one of the production staff if they would record the final episode tonight. She said they would. They had a further recording in a couple of hours.

We made our way back to Westfield for a drink and a snack and to let the worst of the rush hour finish. Finally, we grabbed the train to Clapham and the 19:12 to Bognor Regis. We pulled into the station just before 21:00. It had been a fabulous day, but it was nice to be home!