Category: Newcastle

My birthday started on Thursday as far as I’m concerned, since it was First Thursday – and a busy one now that the weather is warmer and the daylight lasts past the end of the …

February is nearly done, its warmed enough to maybe put away the thermals, and the sun is still out when I close my work laptop at the end of the day. Eastercon is hovering on …

After being disappointed by the wildly uneven 28 Years Later, I went into this cautiously optimistic based on word-of-mouth and the knowledge that at worst it would have more Ralph Fiennes. I knew it was …

Miniature Worlds: Little Landscapes from Thomas Bewick to Beatrix Potter is lovely exhibition at the Laing, focused on tailpieces and other small vignettes. The emphasis on landscapes in the title feels a tiny (hah) bit misleading …

Slightly over a week in, already tired of it. Closer to home it’s been not so bad though. Christmas was pleasant, twixmas quiet, and we had visitors for an at-home NYE and a few days …

We are in the runup to the end of the year, marked mainly by top ten of the year articles, app year-in-review marketing campaigns, and roundup blog posts. So here I am doing my bit. …

If you know me, you know I love a gimmick, so I was very excited to go see the space prog rock band Henge on their current tour. They call their sound cosmic dross, and …

We had a Halloween party again this year, cosmic horror themed this time. Almost everyone wore some sort of costume, and as Halloween fell on a Friday this time we had lots of trick-or-treaters to …

I had been under the impression that Bristolcon was a newish convention, a decade or so old, but it has been running since 2009. For most of its run it was a one-day event, but …