Last weekend we went to the SciFi Ball for the day on Saturday. It’s a local convention which is almost the reverse of what I’m used to in some ways, with the big focus being …
Category: Conventions
Con reports
Good news everyone!
Well, not for everyone. Generally the news has been pretty dismal, but on a personal level I got a raise, and some adjustments to my job, and some other good news hopefully tab. So that’s …
Beyond the Brotherhood
So far 2020 has been chock full of culture for us, we’ve fitted in two museum visits and a movie trip and the month is not over yet. First Saturday of January we took the …
2020
Well here we are in the far-flung future of 2020! We had intended on a relatively low key NYE at Unity Brewing’s taproom, but both of us had sore throats so we scaled it back …
Turkey and burritos
On the weekend of the 23rd, we had an early Thanksgiving with John’s parents, George and Kathryn. I had made two practice pumpkin pies with the Halloween jack-o-lantern and although the third attempt was with …
Food, cats, more food, more cats.
Yesterday we walked up to Wickes to find out about bathrooms (spoiler; they’re pricey) and had a lovely meal at Steak Bar, the little eatery attached to Uptons of Basset. They’re a Slovakian style butcher …
No Novacon, yes chilaquiles.
On the weekend after Halloween we had planned to go to Novacon, but a proper look at the budget suggested that actually maybe quality time with the cats would be better. As a consolation prize …
Treats, mostly
Hot damn, it’s almost Halloween! (Guess who forgot to post her draft!?) Inktober got rudely shoved aside so I could get art ready for World Fantasy. John helpfully worked around me as I buckled down and …
Inktober
The second half of September had two Coxon family visits in a row.; first George and Kathryn came down for a brief visit which involved pizza and beer and Into the Spider-Verse. The following weekend …
Weekends!
The last few weekends we’ve stayed in Southampton, but managed to have nice mini-adventures regardless. The last weekend in August Michael came over and we wandered across the bridge to Riverside Park and Trifest, a …