Christopher Eccleston in the Park
Jul. 23rd, 2019 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

Easily the most exciting thing to happen to me to today occurred while I was running through the park. As I did a loop around the lake I saw what looked like some kind of event. As I got close I realised it was a film crew and as I ran between them I saw someone in dungarees. Something about the outfit made me think "Ah, that must be an actor." About 100 yards further on I thought, "He looked a bit like Christopher Eccleston" and about 100 yards beyond that I thought, "You know I think it was Christopher Eccleston." I wasted a couple of hundred yards more debating whether to turn round, go back and start taking photos but decided instead to carry on, on my usual circuit and if they were still there in 25 minutes or so when I would pass that spot again, I would stop and take photos.
They were still there (and given it was almost midday at that point and really rather hot, I was not sorry to have an excuse to stop), though rather more obviously filming than earlier so I felt vaguely obliged to keep out of the way. Some school children had also been produced. Given Christopher Eccleston's get up and the fact there are a number of community gardens/raised beds in the park, some of which are sponsored by schools I'm guessing that this is a segment in a children's TV show about gardening (EDIT: though it occurs to me there is also a lake and there was a woman dressed as a pirate - so something to do with boating is also an option).
I'm pretty sure the woman in the red and white bobble hat is Julie Hesmondhalgh who played Judy Maddox in Kerblam! which doesn't quite make it doubly exciting, but does make it even more exciting.
So exciting that most of the pictures I took turned out to be of the ground (how did I manage that?), but this one came out plus a short video of Eccleston saying "What time do you call this?"