Tony Sutton’s Blog!

Ever since I got back to work this week from my training trip last week, my call queue has been growing with number of jobs to do and I’m trying to catch up. It doesn’t help when you have headaches, people trying to drag me to their office to sort out some problems and trying to reduce the number of open calls I have.

The more work I have done, the more jobs comes in for me to do. Still, I guess it’s better to do some work, rather than doing nothing.

Yesterday, ordered a new coffee table for the living room, should be getting it this Sat. Got it on sale price (more than half price) thankfully, as most coffee tables costs more than £250! What’s up with the high price for a simple coffee table?

Should be a good match with the new sofa that we’re supposed to get at the end of Feb or earlier. We are also looking for a new mirror to go in the living room, near the fireplace. The style design is the biggest issue as we have seen loads of different sort of mirrors and we can’t find what we wanted.

Have been busy cleaning up the kitchen tonight and cleaned the floor too. Looks better now.

My head has been boiling with some new ideas for the porch area - new carpet, new wallpaper or paint, knocking down the old wall cupboard and change it into a new partition wall with door, so can fit the tumble dryer in there along with some shelves in there.

Anyone done some plasterboard work, with frames and door frame? How easy is it? I might get some books from the local library to have a look…

Well, it looks like its going well. the event has finished and the men was invited over for a photo and checking out the stuff.
Looks like a good night as the ladies enjoyed it!!
Maybe I need to plan for men night!

Now that I have recovered from the training (I slept till 11am today!!), I can now tell you more about what happened yesterday.

After the training was done, I texted the guy at BBC to inform him that I’m all done and was hoping I could pop round a bit early as there was not much for me to do in the middle of London, draging my luggage, waiting for the 4:30pm filming. He said I could come round early, so I hopped on the Tube and headed out to the White City, where the BBC buildings are based. He also warned that there are some technical problems with the lightings.

I arrived there, went to the building and asked for him. He turned up and we chatted and had a quick tour around the BBC building. It’s only 17 years old but it looks so new and very clean!

We got to the See Hear office and to my surprise, it’s not actually a big room, no big cameras in a big studio! It’s actually an “corner” studio within office! (if this make sense) There are even some offices & deskes that are practically next to the studio. There are only 26 staff working in there including editors. There are two editor desk to do some “rough” editing of videos before sending it out for “cleaning up” before doing a master copy. They use Avid for video editing sooftware.

Anyway, had a chat with the guy to see what they wanted me to do, what sort of questions they will ask and try to make the story more interesting. The time was about 3:30pm, an hour to go for the 4:30pm slot. They left me to relax, have a drink and read newspaper, with myself peeking over to see the filming for the next 3 weeks worth of See Hear, presenting by Clive Mason and a few others.

I also met Charlies (I think that was his name, let me know if I got your name wrong!) who is The”>http://scribblerspark.blogspot.com/”>The Scribbler on his blog, which I read now and then, but did not realise that he was there too! So it was nice putting the name to his face! We had a quick chat before getting interrupted by the productor.

The productor sat down and said that my slot will be delayed becaused they still have not finished filming due to earlier technical problem and he estimated that it will be done by 5:30pm. I looked at the time and it was a close call as I was going to catch the train home at 6pm. With the distance between White City and Liverpool Street Station, it was decided that the filming slot is to be dropped. What a shame! Everyone was disappointed including the productor because my story was very good. And the deadline for this is by Tuesday but I can’t go because I don’t have any leave left to take time off from work to attend this.

Nevermind, I still had a good time anyway, and have learnt a lot of how See Hear works and meeting some people, who were friendly. The overall experience has made me feel that I want to be more involved with this and I hope that in the future, we will be keeping in touch closely to help out with the Deaf world - whenever we can.

I left the BBC building, feeling happy and caught the tube back to Liverpool Street Station and then caught the train back to Norwich. Then my parents picked me up and dropped me off at home, had a quick chat. They went home.

We went to the corner shop to have take away because I couldn’t be arsed to cook.

And went to bed early! I deserved a good sleep.

Now today, I need to do some shopping to prepare for tonight’s Deaf Club’s event - Ann Smmers for the ladies night only. I think this should be fun for the aldies, but I won’t be involved obviously. Just the bar work and spending time with the men in te other room… lol

Anyway, better get on with the day!

The filming for my bit has been cancelled. that was down to the late filming of See Hear due to technicial problem with lightings. Nevermind…
Going to tell more about my visit to the BBC building later on once I get home.
For now, I’m focusing on getting home.

Here we go…

Only one more day of training to go. We finished late today as the tutor had loads of stuff to tell us.
For tomorrow, it looks like I will be able to finish just after lunch, which means its all good for me to visit BBC and get it sorted out before heading home. I’m going to find out when they will broadcast it, perhaps in 2 weeks time or so. More tomorrow.

Went to the Deaf Pub after the traing. It was good and there were loads of people there, compared to Norwich. But then London is big.
Met up with the man from BBC and chatted. Was an interesting chat and it’s all depends on what time I finish my training this friday. If early, BBC will send a taxi or BBC driver to pick me up to the BBC building for filming. Then they will drop me off at Liverpool Street Station afterward.
So all I need to do is to find out what time I will finish on Friday and if all is good, I will tell the guy to arrange it.
Wait and see then…
If I do go, then you will see my ugly mug on your TV box

Another day of training gone, two more days to go. Not long then.
Lots of chaos on tube due to signal failure and got to the training centre with only 5 minutes to spare! Sadly the interpreter got stuck and got there 25 mins late. Didn’t miss much as it was talking about some stuff that I already knew, so nothing to worry about.
Going to eat something before heading out to The Crooked Surgeon for the deaf meetup tonight. Hopefully there will be some people there!

We just had a bit of snow here in London overnight. According to the weather, it’s minus 1
Brrrr!
Better wrap up warm on the way to the training…

Went to Angel as recommened by Stefan but when I got there, I was so lost with wandering around and freezing my arse off. Lol. So I headed to Leicester Square as there was loads of places to eat.
Training today was okay. It was on a module that I already knew how but still its nice to be refreshed up on it anyway.
Deaf pub tomorrow, hopefully no snow and some people will be there!
Going to watch a bit of TV before going to sleep.

Didn’t go out for dinner, stayed in bed, felt sick earlier. Think it was the sausage roll I ate this afternoon. And it gave me very bad headache too.
But after a quick barf, felt a lot better and ate some apples and plently of water and am all ok now.
Yo peeps who lives in london, recommend a good dinner place near king cross and euston stations? Cheers.

Today went pretty well. But exhaused! There was about 10 of us along with a tutor and my interpreter.
Arranged to meet the man from BBC to talk about what is involved with the filming this wed night and see if I can make it this friday’s filming. We’ll see how it go…
Relaxing at the moment before deciding where to go for dinner. The wind is cold and it looks like london may have some snow. Bah. Bad timing.

While the bed is nice and very comfy, I didn’t sleep well overnight. It felt weird! Kept waking up all night. hopefully by the end of today, I will be sleeping like a log.
Going to get ready to catch the tube to the training center.

This is the bed I’m going to use this week!
Big eh?

Thanks to my parents for the lift, got to Norwich train station okay for the 12pm train.
Cold and windy weather today. Engineering work today which means the train stops at Ipswich to catch the bus and then drop off at Marks Tey to continue with the train journey to London. Annoying. Oh well.
Hotel is very nice. Bed is massive, bigger than double bed as it has 3 pillows across! Went for dinner and it was nice. Walked to sainsburys to get some food for the week. Was a bit of a trek from the hotel to there and back! Took me about 45 mins. But it was nice going for a walk.
At the moment, I am relaxing on the bed and watching TV.