Showing posts with label sophie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sophie. Show all posts

Monday, 19 May 2014

Sophie's World

I promised it, and here it is, a quick write up about our visit to Orbital Comics to meet Sophie and Steve Cook for their "Sophie's World" event.

After a much haphazard morning, a speed repair of the car, we jetted off to Mill Hill Broadway train station to get the train to St Pancreas and then the underground to Leicester Square. [Thats our usual route, we don't like to take the train all the way from Bedford to London for some reason - I think its cheaper.]

I called the comic book shop to check what time everything finished, 3pm! EEK, we were already late! But we managed to get there, 3pm on the dot but after all that rushing around, Sophie and Steve were still lingering around till 4pm anyway! Result.

Sophie was sitting at her little autograph table in the "Orbital Gallery" a little cubby hole length of room. She was still signing away and fortunately, despite the customers, it was a very quiet affair - just the way we like it. A short welcome and reveal of The Wife's Ace jacket lit up Sophie's face, as did the Wife's - she was loving every second of Sophie adoring her jacket. And then there's the money shot:



Sophie even signed the inside of the jacket! :)

Here's a few snaps of Steve's photo gallery of Sophie, all prints were purchasable.








And here's yours truly with Sophie and Steve:

Thursday, 8 August 2013

It's been all quiet on the Western Front in Sophie's World

... it has unfortunately, been very quiet. For this blog especially.

Apologies to regular readers expecting new updates on our jacket/costume, the real life world has reared its ugly head and one doesn't quite get to spend as much time 'playing' anymore.

Anyway, those who do drop by will be pleased with this update, photographer Steven Cook has discovered reels of photos he took with actress Sophie Aldred and has created an event for their reveal.


Entitled "Sophie's World" Cook celebrates 50 years of Doctor Who by opening up a gallery of the photographs and also a signing with Sophie. This happens on 5 September 2013 at Orbital Gallery in London. You can find more details at the facebook event here.

Further to this Steven Cook has released an image that all us Ace-obsessives will recognise:


This picture taken at Crystal Palace park in June 1990 and commissioned by John Freeman (then editor of Doctor Who Magazine) is THE picture that you will find when googling for Ace and Sophie Aldred. The online one being a bad scan from DWM all those years ago, but Steven has kindly released it on Facebook for those of us to replace it in our digital collections - thanks Steven! Reproduced here (without permission) simply because its Sophie in her Ace costume :)

If you do attend the Sophie's World event then we'd love to hear from you, hell we might even see you there! If not, we hope to include a report about it here. And release some pics of our own of any Ace-related imagery that we see.

Tuesday, 13 November 2012

Unknowns Soon to be Revealed

Sophie recently teased on Facebook that she will be taking close up pictures of her original screen used jacket's badges and patches, including the "Unknown" ones.

Lets hope our continuous investigations are correct!

Sunday, 30 September 2012

Ace on Facebook!

No she isn't poking others with Nitro 9 but actress Sophie Aldred is breaking that audience/celebrity barrier with her very own official facebook page.

Click image below to go straight there and Like! her!!

Wednesday, 28 March 2012

Ace on Twitter!

And don't forget, THE Sophie Aldred is also on Twitter!

click to tweet!


Tweet nice things at her by tweeting @sophie_aldred

I might try and tweet her and see if we can get a cheeky little costume related interview, wishful thinking I know!