Me and Lis Sladen I tried to post this from flickr but it was having none of it, so you'll just have to go to the link yourselves to see the photo.

I went to London today to the Lis Sladen signing at Borders.

I had a fright getting out of the car park to get to the train station, when something big and black with lots of legs suddenly appeared at the top of my windscreen, which then resolved itself to be a cat jumping from my roof to the bonnet and then to the ground. It must have got on once I was in the car because I never saw it before then. As I got over the shock, it sat in the road in front of the car, and I had to get out and shoo it away.

I got to London without further incident and met up with , , , , and her friend Sasha. The signing was on the top floor, where we went and picked up the audio books, then went down to the ground floor to pay for them, then back up again to try and work out where to queue. Which turned out to be the wrong place and we were moved to queue in a thin strip of space between the wall and the escalator. Which meant that not everyone in the group could hear what everyone else was saying. had made badges saying 'What would Sarah Jane do?' and 'Eldrad must live!' which she handed out to most of the queue, and Lis.

When Lis came out, just past 2pm (to cheers and clapping) she then spent time with each of the people there, taking photos and chatting as well as signing. I managed to confuse her (I have this effect on people for some reason!) by giving her one cover with my name and one with and then she was confused which my name was and whether she'd signed the right one with the right name.

But I mentioned that the one that wasn't for me was for my friend in America who would like to be there, but was in America. Lis said that she liked America but hated travelling (I agreed with the latter). She said she did like the American conventions but hadn't been to one for years. I said that if she went a lot of people would love to meet her.

By the time we'd all gone through it was 2.30pm, so it had all gone really quickly. We then spent the next couple of hours chatting, eating and drinking before going back to the tube station. Except that spotted her outside Costa Coffee, so we went over and thanked her for coming and doing the signing.

The demographic of the queue was interesting, because it was partly people with kids, partly blokes, and then there was us - a group of 7 girls.