Thanks for the nudge and recent comments.....

I don't use LJ anymore.....but if you want to add me to facebook feel free...

http://www.facebook.com/p/Ellen_Stafford/627690187

Let me know who you are though ;)

Hope everyone is well.

I am on cloud nine at the moment. Went up to London to see Phillip Schofield yesterday.Was so nice to see him again and he was so cute. He spent over half an hour with us chatting, having pics taken etc. He wrote out a birthday card for my niece Lilly as she is going to be 2 years old and she likes him as well. My sister was so chuffed with it. Just wanted to post a happy post from me......wohoo!

Some pics....

Me with Phillip....



Phillip talking to me ;) (love this pic so much)



More photos are here.... http://www.schofieldfans.co.uk/gallery/v/members/?g2_page=18 - Page 18 (second row) to page 20.

It's amazing how when someone doesn't use their journal for awhile (i.e. me) loads of people just delete them! hmmm.....oh well :)

Not much interesting happening here at the mo :)

Yesterday I went to London to see Phillip Schofield again. It was so nice to see him, he is so gorgeous. I also saw his wife, Steph and girls, they were lovely. I also saw Dr Chris, Fern Britton (who loved her birthday presents we send from Schofield Fans) and Robson Green. It was lovely to meet up with Janet again and to meet another fan Liz from Belfast.

Here are some pics from the day...

Me outside the big This Morning windows....



( More pics under here )

Was a fab day! Will miss Phil and Fern over the summer. Don't think I will watch Eammon and Ruth much!

Yay the first bud from my Schofield Rose has opened!! I have about 18 more buds to go!!

I am soooooooo tired.....last night Anna went out with her friend and I stayed in to look after Lilly. She was a good girl as usual....unlike Anna who came home at about 1:30am after having a bit too much to drink and boy does she have a hangover this morning :) heh. Basically I finally got to sleep at about 3am. I have just sent Anna to bed as she is feeling really bad so I am just keeping an eye on Lilly until her Dad gets here.

Last night I managed to watch Phillip Schofield with Fern on Jonathan Woss. It was fab and as usual they were funny to watch. I knew that a few people would hit the website after the show but I didn't expect the stats to go from under 100 unique visitors to over 450 within an hour!! When Phillip was talking to Jonathan I felt so chuffed to be his fan (that sounds so sad). It's just there are a lot of people out there who like Phillip but won't admit it. I think its considered sad to fancy Phillip and I have taken a lot of stick over the years for it but I am proud to like him and proud of him. From as young as 8 he knew what he wanted to do, he knew he wanted to be on TV and started to write to the BBC for jobs, disguising his age by typing his letters to them. He followed his dream and now look at him and he has done so well to break out of childrens tv presenting and to continue. He has so much talent and can do what he wants whether it be tv presenting, radio presenting or acting. One day he would love to return to musical theatre, he was an amazing Joseph and I heard good reports about his a Doctor Dolittle as well (though didn't get to see it). I just think he is fab...just a wonderful guy! I received an email from him in the week saying that I can send him more questions to answer for the website which is cool! :)

Nige is coming over later today which will be cool....going to watch Any Dream Will Do tonight....go Lee!! Tomorrow Nige and I are heading over to Makro as we haven't been in ages.....I probably won't buy anything but its nice to look around and get away from work a bit.

Yesterday I felt complete and utter YUCK! Spent most of the day in bed (apart from working).....I just had a massive headache that wouldn't shift. I ended up going to bed at 8:30pm last night.....

Today I feel fab again though. I have managed to stay out of bed all day. My bosses are having the weekend off work so I am now in charge which I actually like. I like getting the email and being able to deal with it myself without having to sit around waiting for it to arrive.

Nige is popping over this evening. Don't know what we are doing. Depends on what Anna and Ben are doing. If they are going upstairs to watch a film I might suggest Nige and I watch Wah-Wah which is a film by Richard E Grant about his childhood. I read his film diaries book about it which I found for 50p in a charity shop so thought I would buy the dvd to watch! :) Nige has had good news that he isn't going to be made redundant!!! YAY! :)

I am hoping Mum will take me to a car boot sale over the weekend. I am just in the mood to go bargain hunting :)

My stepdad Tony got back from a 6 week holiday on a ship, he visited places like india and Egypt....

Here is the ship he went on....



He bought me a lovely tshirt from the ship which has the crossing date on and pictures of the boat on the back...its cool!! And he bought me this to mooch around the house in....hehe (by the way I do have two feet its just the way I am standing!!!)



It was very nice of him :)

Yesterday was a good day. yumseta and flucked_up_girl came to Bath to see me and nigelb28. I directed them to my house, I am so rubbish at giving directions but they got here in the end and then we went down to town and had a little look around. I bought Lilly a Mr, Mrs and Baby Potatohead from the Disney Store and a Doris Day book from Fopp. We then went to Shakeaway to get milkshakes.....I had a Twix one for the first time which was yummy!!!! We then came home and just chatted, popped down to Moorland Road to buy Nic a bubble gun and had pizza! Lilly was really shy around Nic and Ian.....it was funny, haven't really seen Lil like that but then she doesn't really meet many new people as Anna mainly hangs around with the same group of Mums and toddlers. Lil wasn't the only shy one though as Nige seemed to be very quiet too. I think it was quite hard for Nige to be honest because I have known Nic and Ian for years and have people in common and memories that Nige wasn't really part of. I am still very annoyed to hear that someone from the old Autograph forum has been slandering Nige when all he did was reject her. I am going to make sure I don't have contact with her again because that is not on, she never even met Nige and he is my best friend and I love him loads.

I am quite tired today so not looking forward to work really...but I was thinking to myself over the last few days how I have felt a lot better this year than any since I had glandular fever. Health wise I seem to be less ill than I used to which is great. I need to work on my weight and stop eating so much junk food but overall I seem to have a lot more energy than I used to which is great as glandular fever/post viral fatigue really did knock me! I just want to bounce back. I am making more effort to get out and walk and stuff. I was thinking as well how since I have been online since I was 15 how groups of friends change. I will always have my little group of friends from LJ/IRC days but I have changed over the past couple of years. I used to spend a lot of time online chatting mainly to men but now when I look at my MSN list I tend to chat more to the ladies from my Phillip Schofield site. Since I left school I tended to talk to men more on IRC and almost felt like I didn't belong in the group of girls that I didn't have anything in common and I felt uncomfortable with most girls but since setting up the site and meeting the ladies I have felt comfortable and happier that I can fit it! I think having depression I lost a lot of confidence.

I have also helped my friend Sharon from the Schofield Forum make a site about the actor Stefan Booth to go with her Stefan Forum which has been fun.

I have been watching "Any Dream Will Do?" each week on the search to find a new Joseph. I have been Sky+ing the Grease one on ITV at the same time but I just can't seem to get into that as much. In ADWD I am a big suppporter of Lee Mead....I really hope he wins.....he is such a cutie and would make a great Joe. When he sings its with feeling...he acts....he tells the story of the song. I am a member of the lee_mead and seem to spending a lot more time on Tanith's Joseph Board. I have been a member there for ages and a friend of Tanith's since setting up my Phil site as he was one of the most famous Joseph's many years ago when he took over from Jason Donovan. Anyway Go Go Lee! :)

Anyway, I better get on....got a feeling there will be a lot of work today! I haven't been the best at keeping my LJ up or reading others recently.....I will try to get back into it I think! :)

Phillip as Joseph....Wow.....amazing!

Lilly has taken a liking to Phillip too.....hehe....this was no way encouraged she just starting kissing the calender with him on and even kissed the tv the other day :)





Work has been mega busy recently and I did 100 enquiries yesterday!!! I am feeling good at the moment though. I am still working on my poll results from last years poll!!! hehe taking ages but fun. Will need to try and find some sponsors for next year.

I am looking forward to seeing yumseta and flucked_up_girl on Monday....not sure what we are going to do though but if the weather is like this it will be lovely and we can get some fresh air somewhere and chill!!! :)

I can't believe that Phillip Schofield popped on my forum, he private messaged me AND wrote a birthday message for me on the forum...

Look message from Phillip to the forum....my friend Sharon emailed him to ask him to come on. I am so lucky...

And a friend on the forum made me a cute picture too....




Thanks to everyone who wished me happy birthday today, its been fab. I had some lovely presents from my family and Nige, its been a perfect day!

I have been bad at keeping up to date! So here is a little update.

Not much has been happening around here....I have been working a lot recently. Over Easter I did take some time out to go for a few nice walks with Nige, Anna, Lil and Mum. Other than that I have been trying to keep up to date with my penpals (I now have over 50!) and have been sorting out some of my poll results from last years poll and moderating the forum on Schofield Fans. Phillip hasn't popped online recently but I am sure he will soon, however I have been in contact with the producer of Shazam! the first program he was on over in New Zealand, he emailed me and is really nice and pops on the forum.

On Wednesday its my birthday I am going to be 28....edging ever closer to 30 :) heh.

I will try to update more and read more.....I bet I have missed some important events amongst my friends. A lot of people have deleted me because I haven't been updating....nevermind!

Haha it seems a lot of people are more impressed that I saw the Tardis than met Phillip.....hehe....where as to me it was nothing....it was being taken out of the studios....

If anyone is interested here are my meet pictures with Phillip Schofield and the girls from the forum....

http://www.schofieldfans.co.uk/gallery/v/meet07/

Thanks for all the lush comments yesterday!

I may have a bad tummy bug but thanks to the lovely girls on Schofield Fans and Nige for looking after me I finally made my dream come true.....I met Phillip Schofield....



He is so gorgeous and was so nice...he spent an hour with us chatting and signing autographs etc.....such a fab guy! Also I met Fern Britton as well :)

Awwww Nige is so sweet...he bought me some new clothes and a new pocket dab as an early birthday present!! My old pocket dab broke....mind you I had it for ages!!

A year ago today I set up Schofieldfans.co.uk and we are having like a forum party on there tonight which will be cool. Some of the girls from the forum sent me a lovely posy of flowers to celebrate which was so sweet of them, I really didn't expect it! Phillip sent a message saying he couldn't make it online tonight because he is going to his niece's confirmation but he will try to pop on tomorrow....love him....

Anyway here is my in my new clothes....I look fat but I think it will do :) I may be fat but I know I am a nice person.