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Visited The Skills Show at Birmingham NEC with B this morning. Some useful advice given to him about apprenticeships, also found a company known for their bin lorries. Chatting to the staff revealed they are also involved in recycling, particularly interesting was the recycling of out of date medicines to extract the platinum, the lad seems keen to look into that.

We then joined Mr J, H and her friend A at Comic Con. Fair play to Darth Vader who moved a barrier on the way in rather than walk the long way round, no one challenged him. Some great costumes and some unsuitable rubber and Lycra outfits but a great friendly atmosphere. Saw Sam Jones (Flash Gordon), Peter Davison, Chris Barrie and Danny John-Jules and many others signing autographs, about £20 a time. A large number of Storm Troopers kept pretending to be security and getting moved along, as Mr J left he said they'd all formed a long orderly queue outside the gents. H and her friends are already planning next years trip.