Collectormania 3 2nd-5th May 2003

Milton Keynes England.

My son David and I had a great day out at Collectormania

We went on the Saturday of the four day event. Though enjoyable it was a tiring day my feet were still aching the next day as we walked quite a bit going home walking to back to the Railway station, though it was interesting to see the city of Milton Keynes.

The first thing that surprised us when we arrived was that the event was right in the middle of Milton Keynes shopping centre I expected a separate hall, so it was also crowded with all the usual Saturday shoppers.

Bumped into my friends, Meesh, Matti and Wendy straight away. Yes Meesh David has grown since the Wolf SG5 convention !

While eating our lunch we saw James, Phil and Darran. James and Phil who some people will remember from some of the Wolf cons were dressed as a Ghostbusters!

At first I thought the huge queue we saw was for Corin but it was for John Rhys Davis next to him, I saw him as we waited to chat to Corin he's lost a lot of weight, nothing like Arturo from Sliders anymore!

Corin was wearing a leather jacket and his hair is longer and softer with a fringe, quite different from the recent look as Jonas, I gave him a packet of Jaffa Cakes which he had heard of but never eaten before.

Jaffa cakes are a British delicacy, a cross between a cookie and a cake. A sponge base with orange jelly [Jell-O] covered with dark chocolate. Yummy :-)

Jaffa Cakes

I told Corin how much I liked the character of Jonas and how he'd made us laugh, but by now I was getting very flustered, I don't normally have this type of reaction but I was totally bowled over, he is gorgeous!!!

I asked him about season 7 and he's in 3 episodes one of which he wrote.

I brought a picture which he signed I've scanned it and you can see it here....

Jonas Picture

Took a couple of photos, shook his hand and left.

Saw the girls again in the queue for another guest and I was quite beside myself. The only other actor that gave me this reaction was Robert Leeshock of Earth Final conflict, certainly Michael Shanks didn't have that effect on me!

I've calmed down now, but was an enjoyable moment in a fairly good day.

It's such a shame he won't be at Wolf SG6 convention, he would have been a great guest.

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