We knew very little about the filming taking place. All we knew was it was probably on a caravan site. Maybe. Remarkably our knowledge of the caravan sites of South Wales was non existent so we used our Cumbatchian detective skills and gambled on somewhere between Cardiff and Barry and decided to take a bus that took the coastal route. Myself, Dorina, Becca and a Were-teddy (don’t ask) had to keep a sharp eye out for location signs. To quote a certain other show “DON’T EVEN BLINK” and thankfully we didn’t. We saw one seemingly in the middle of nowhere, pressed the button and went on the hunt. We had been teasing 3rd AD Ryan on twitter that we were hunting them down and he was insistent we would never find them. We followed that first sign down a country lane and it was quite a walk until we saw another. We found a caravan park and crept our way nervously in and quickly we were with the crew. Ryan was amazed to say the least and waggled his fingers at us. He did that a lot this day.
In the distance was Phil Davis who was once again dressed in THAT suit, causing us to speculate again. We liked speculating. We figured it was something to do with Alex’s holiday with the family so it must be a flashback. But why would Captain Hatch be there? Did he know Alex before? Is it in real time and is he meeting a newly human Alex? To our surprise Phil came up to us for a chat and called us “committed” – or was it “you should be committed?” Either way, both are probably true. His car turned up and off he went. Not long after, we saw Kate Bracken walking in our direction beaming a smile at us. She was not dressed in typical Alex gear. It’s fair to say she was surprised to see us and probably didn’t want to be seen by too many people in a dressing gown but she had a chat with us anyway. They then shot quite a few takes of a scene that was being filmed in a caravan.. well.. when in a caravan park do as caraveners do, right?
We were essentially perched against a wall awkwardly in silence during the takes. Out of the caravan came a tall man who we spent about five minutes trying to work out who the heck it was. It was Gordon Kennedy. Clearly Alex’s dad!!!! Kate and Gordon were hanging about for a bit and then went back in. Poppy, one of the runners said we could help ourselves to some tea and biscuits (it was a sunny day but pretty cold) in order to do this we had to move a lot closer, right to the head of the caravan so we just hung round hoping no one could tell us we were in the way and surprisingly no one did. Ryan, perched on a hammock questioned us on us on how we found the place and was coming up with elaborate theories but we would never give away our secrets. Gordon Kennedy looked at us with suspicion as he was being made up (we’d grown pretty used to that look) but he gave us a friendly wave.
We could hear things being said in the caravan but couldn’t really make it out. Alex was clearly crying and the only line that I got was “I know it’s strange”, Turns out it was “I feel so strange” There were a lot of takes of Gordon walking out of the caravan. To me, this seemed like they were having an argument but when shown in episode 6 this was clearly not the case.
We decided that once lunch was called we’d call it a day, mainly because we were right in with the crew and didn’t want to get in the way or be an annoyance. I had a task to do before we left. Before the week started we thought we’d do up some cards as a thank you. I made ones for Kate & Damien, Su for Ryan and Becca made one for Michael. So as Kate left I had to, hopefully hiding my embarrassment and awkwardness give her the card. Thankfully she seemed genuinely pleased and we all got a Bracken hug. You can never complain about a Bracken hug, dressing gown or not. She asked if we were sticking around and we explained that we thought we were a bit in the way. And off we went after just four hours of filming. Lightweights. It was a surprise to see as I was scrolling through the twitter later that afternoon that Kate had tweeted a pic of the card with a thank you message. So, for a nice change we had the rest of the afternoon and evening free and spent it in the traditional field trip manner: Eating, drinking and talking shite. Not necessarily in that order.
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