Archive for March 31st, 2006
TV Stars
What a busy week! We drove down to London on Monday night so the girls could attend their first ever TV shoot. We didn’t leave until after 7pm in the hopes the girl’s routine wouldn’t suffer too much as the filming was scheduled for the afternoon which is generally when they’re most fractious. We really, really wanted to avoid a sleepless night or lunchtime, both of which make the afternoon fractiousness spill over into meltdown.
In the end, we needn’t have worried. The girls were at their happiest all day: bright eyed, full of smiles and happy to be held by anyone. Which they were. My mum hasn’t seen them since mid-February and took every opportunity to hold and play with her first grandchildren as much as she could. My grandparents also came over in the morning. It was great to be able to introduce the girls to them without the hecticness of our last visit and for them to get a chance to really get to know their great-grandchildren.
Then we drove over to BBC Television Centre for the afternoon. If you can call taking over two hours to make a 5 mile journey driving. Luckily, the producer was very understanding even though it meant they all finished late (and we were late setting off on our journey back north).
The TV show starts is called Level Up and the segment the girls feature on is only short – a live-action version of a computer game they’re going to have on the BBC website where you have three babies and have to frantically provide nappies, bottles, teddy bears and other baby stuff in response to the babies’ demands. Not too different to my life, really. It’s fronted by the two lads who came second and third in Pop Idol a few years ago, Sam and Mark. They were nice but I’ve got to admit, I didn’t actually recognise them until I looked them up on Wikipedia when I got home.
Tune in on Monday, BBC 2, from 9.30 am, to catch a glimpse of my little starlets’ TV debut.
And speaking of film, who needs ther BBC? J has been exercising her own creativity. Yesterday she made a lovely video montage of our girls suing a website called One True Media. Check it out here.
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Edit: The Terrible Triplets game (I know, I know, the name’s awful) is now online – http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/levelup/ – my best score is 94,000. Can you beat it without 7 months of practice?