{"id":626,"date":"2009-04-24T02:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larelle.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/24\/the-television-frekkin-baftas"},"modified":"2009-04-24T02:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T02:29:00","slug":"the-television-frekkin-baftas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"The Television FREKKIN&#8217; Baftas!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    On Monday (I think it was Monday anyway, or over the weekend) I entered a competition on the Radio Times web site. It was for tickets to this weekends television Baftas. I had second thoughts entering the competition as it did state if you won tickets the dress code is black tie. I was thinking &#8220;how the hell am *I* going to dress for that?&#8221;. Then thought &#8220;what the hay!&#8221; and entered the comp. anyway. I just assumed I&#8217;d never have a hope in hell of winning them.<\/p>\n<p \/>I had to go to the Bafta site to help me answer the question you had to enter the comp. Then I saw that tickets were available to the general public, but they were &pound;50 each!! That helped me decide to enter too \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p \/>Anyway, I&#8217;d just got out of the shower this morning. Had just finished drying myself off actually when my mobile phone rang. Em brought it upstairs to me and I answered. &#8220;Hello. Is that Larelle Read I&#8217;m speaking to?&#8221; Yes I say to the voice at the other end of the line. &#8220;Hi, this is (missed his name) _____ from Radio Times. You entered a competition online to win tickets to the television Baftas?&#8221; Yes, I say. &#8220;Well, I&#8217;m pleased to announce that you&#8217;ve won the competition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p \/>My flabber had never been so gasted! Couldn&#8217;t believe it! I enter ALL their comps online and the least I was interested in winning was this one, truth be told. But hey, it&#8217;s like being able to go to the Emmys or the Logie awards. I mean ZOMFG!! <\/p>\n<p \/>The guy reiterated the event was black tie. I declared I didn&#8217;t own a dress and he said jacket suit was fine. As long as dress was smart, it would be fine. <\/p>\n<p \/>Later in the day a lady from Bafta called and confirmed an address to send the tickets to me and also said about the black tie dress code. I checked with her and she said as long as we were smartly dressed &#8211; no jeans, trainers, etc, it would be fine. <\/p>\n<p \/>I must admit, I have had to buy myself a pair of tailored trousers &#8211; I&#8217;ve got suitable tops and a jacket. Em has NOTHING! But I was actually able to order her a suit with a mail order catalogue I use for &pound;20! Trousers and jacket. Both for &pound;20! They should arrive tomorrow. We&#8217;ll just have to get suitable footwear from town on Saturday. We&#8217;ve got to spend a little money to look the part, but it&#8217;s a once in a lifetime thing for us, so it&#8217;ll be worth it. <\/p>\n<p \/>I&#8217;ll let you know who we see, what happens and whatnot on Monday. OMG! Squee! The TV Baftas! F*ck me sideways!!!<\/p>\n<p \/>And you just never know &#8220;Who&#8221; might be there &#8211; nudge nudge, wink wink!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"posterous_download_image\" src=\"\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday (I think it was Monday anyway, or over the weekend) I entered a competition on the Radio Times web site. It was for tickets to this weekends television Baftas. I had second thoughts entering the competition as it did state if you won tickets the dress code is black tie. I was thinking &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=626\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Television FREKKIN&#8217; Baftas!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,70,85,283,296,311,327],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-awards","tag-celebrity","tag-competition","tag-shopping","tag-special","tag-television","tag-uk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}