London Rehearsals 11th Oct

It is nearly a month since I have seen the other Jeremy and Jemima's, and Pat our chaperone, so we were all very excited to see each other at Southampton station this morning, even though it was strange without Shannon as she is the only one of the original 8 not continuing. All 8 JJ's are rehearsing - Catie, the children's director has said that Fraser and Jessica need to be ready at a moments notice even though they are not travelling out with us.

It took ages to get to the rehearsal hall in London by train and taxi, and then we had to work really hard all day with almost nothing to eat as there were no shops or restaurants anywhere near. We rehearsed with Phil, the children's musical director, and with Catie, going over everything from before and all of the changes that are being made for Singapore. They were pleased that we had all remembered everything.

We had to stand up most of the way back to Didcot until enough people got off, and then shared a couple of seats. Katie was going very white as she was so tired and hungry.
We are all staying at our house and Pat is staying in a hotel near Didcot station, as it is much closer to London than everyone going back to their own houses. It was after 9pm when we got home, and then we had a mad rush for everyone to choose a bed, phone their Mum and eat supper so that we weren't too late for bed. It was great fun as Fraser, Sam, Harrison and I were all in my room, and Katie, Niamh, Harriet and Jessica were in Sasha's room. We were all asleep within about 10 minutes, even though I had Fraser's feet in my face!