Lights On!

Last night was the highlight of the year in terms of entertainment. Nope, not the grand opening £20million party at the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai with guests such as Kylie Minogue performing...last night was the official turning on of Morley's lights.

Yup, in the freezing cold and blustery wind, I ventured up to the front of Morley Town Hall with Charlotte and my sister Louise (the eldest one because the younger sister didn't want to go...she's obviously "too cool" for something of this stature!). We managed to get right to the very front which, to be honest, wasn't very hard. Magic 828 were in charge for the evening with Glenn Pinder and his motley crew helping him out.

We had numerous "acts" performing for the evening. First up was a young girl dancing...boring. Second up was another young girl dancing...boring, next up were a "professional tumbling act" who had apparantly performed on Britain's Got Talent. Did you see them? Nope, probably not because they were shite.

Then we had a girl from Bruntcliffe High come out and sing a song which was quite good, then another lad from there sung "Shine" by Take That.

Then the real celebrities turned up...first of all we had Ronnie Rhino, the peanut-hugging mascot of Leeds Rhinos. He did a little dance which, to be honest was better than the two kids from earlier. Then out came Johnny Howson and Frazer Richardson, the Leeds United players who received at least a decent pop from the Morley crowd. Then out came the "surprise" Celebrity. So...usually we get a star from Emmerdale...and recently Eli Dingle has moved to Morley...so who did they get to help turn on Morley lights? The guy who plays Bill Webster in Corrie! Rock and bloody roll!

So the lights went on, the fireworks blew up and were actually quite impressive and then Howson and Richardson came around and posed with everyone who wanted/cared about having a photo with them. Charlotte got her photo with both of them and I got one with Richardson.

All in all, it was a fun night, very cold, but interesting all the same and according to Howson we're going to "do 'em" on Saturday in reference to Hartlepool at the weekend.