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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ticket buying queue

25/04/2017

Grasping at Straws (okay, leaflets)

Today I spent four hours in a virtual queue waiting for tickets for The Cursed Child, only to spend my allotted twenty minutes of browsing time searching fruitlessly for the right number of tickets on the right number of days in the correct type of seats. So ‘miffed’ doesn’t really cover it. Anyway, the good… Continue reading

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ticket buying queue

Grasping at Straws (okay, leaflets)