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Aug. 10th, 2010 09:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llywelaOooh, major filming going on outside the museum this morning - very interesting! I often see film crews setting up there, but they are usually taking stuff inside. This was an external shoot - lots of extras milling around and a catering station set up, plus a fleet of classic cars (if I were a motorhead I could tell you what they were, but alas I am not) and a bunch of banners draped across the front of the museum bearing some kind of political logo and slogan (about a leader named Mosley). The extras I saw appeared to be dressed for the 1930s, from what I could tell (possibly the '40s?).
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justwolf has identified the banners I saw as relating to Sir Oswald Mosley, who founded the British Union of Fascists in the '30s - definitely the right logo, and fits with the costumes and cars! Potentially a fascinating episode there, then. I'd have taken photos, only I wasn't sure the crew would appreciate a passer-by whipping out a camera! They don't usually film at the musem on a Tuesday - Monday is filming day because the museum is closed, so they can hire it out and have the place to themselves. But maybe this was an early morning shoot already wrapping up, so as to be done before the musem opens to the public.
In other news, I was woken in the wee sma's by an alarm going off at one of the nearby stadia this morning - either the Athletics Stadium or the new Cardiff City Stadium, not sure which, as they are right alongside one another. That was fun. That alarm has gone off a few times lately, always the same - a siren followed by an echoey pre-recorded announcement over the tannoy, recurring; loud enough that I can hear it from my house, while distant enough that I can't make out the words. Whatever the fault is, I hope they get it fixed soon!
Also, my cats actually compete to be brushed and flea-combed - they push each other out of the way to get another turn! I'm sure that can't be normal.
And finally, I have been invited by central HR to join the staff redeployment register. My contract runs out in December, no news yet on whether or not it will be renewed.
ETA that the lovely and very clever
justwolf has identified the banners I saw as relating to Sir Oswald Mosley, who founded the British Union of Fascists in the '30s - definitely the right logo, and fits with the costumes and cars! Potentially a fascinating episode there, then. I'd have taken photos, only I wasn't sure the crew would appreciate a passer-by whipping out a camera! They don't usually film at the musem on a Tuesday - Monday is filming day because the museum is closed, so they can hire it out and have the place to themselves. But maybe this was an early morning shoot already wrapping up, so as to be done before the musem opens to the public.In other news, I was woken in the wee sma's by an alarm going off at one of the nearby stadia this morning - either the Athletics Stadium or the new Cardiff City Stadium, not sure which, as they are right alongside one another. That was fun. That alarm has gone off a few times lately, always the same - a siren followed by an echoey pre-recorded announcement over the tannoy, recurring; loud enough that I can hear it from my house, while distant enough that I can't make out the words. Whatever the fault is, I hope they get it fixed soon!
Also, my cats actually compete to be brushed and flea-combed - they push each other out of the way to get another turn! I'm sure that can't be normal.
And finally, I have been invited by central HR to join the staff redeployment register. My contract runs out in December, no news yet on whether or not it will be renewed.
