What a year, huh? And so on.
January 31, 2025End of January, mostly recovered from that bug and enjoying sunlight that almost lasts till the end of the work day. On the other hand, some new fun projects coming up and a calendar with some conventions to look forward to. Huzzah.
Start as you mean to continue?
Gosh I hope not, as we are just emerging from bug we caught over the holidays and which laid us out for the better part of two weeks. A brief outing on NYE under the delusion that, actually maybe we…
I won the Rotlser!
File 770 has a nice write up, at the time of posting the official page itself is not updated yet as I assume everyone involved is recovering from a lovely Loscon weekend. One of the nice things about this is…
The Museum of Classic Sci-Fi
On Saturday we finally headed up to Allendale to visit this local treasure. It’s a one-man operation and clearly a labour of love on the part of its creator Neil Cole. It’s small but absolutely packed with exhibits, with a…
It’s been cold here, the rest of the area had snow a few days ago but it didn’t quite hit here, just rain and cold. I’m very glad for our new heat pump, have cracked out the slow cooker and…
Okay then.
(Whoops, forgot to press publish – have backdated this now) Took a little break from most of the internet, for obvious reasons ,but also because I was travelling and then tired/ill from said travelling. Feeling slightly better now, physically I…
Here, there, everywhere
The last month flew by, a work visit to London, a family visit here in Newcastle, and then a week of men tramping through the house to install a heat pump. All positive things but each a bit disruptive. The…
Kynren
The grand finale of our weekend in Durham was Kynren. The first big surprise was the surrounding park, its in the middle of nowhere and I wasn’t expecting that much, but its modern and generally well-designed. There are shuttle buses,…
Bishop Auckland
At the end of August, John’s parents along with his brother and sister-in-law came up for little mini-vacation. They rented a place in Durham and touristed for a couple of days and then on Friday night we headed over, it…
Glasgow (But not Worldcon!)
But sort of still Worldcon really. After the convention was over, we had planned for an extra few days to explore Glasgow. Meg kindly offered to put us up and show us around a bit, so on Tuesday morning we…
I WENT TO WORLDCON AND ALL I GOT WAS THESE EXCELLENT FRIENDS – PART FOUR (finally)
And then it was Monday, the last day of the convention. We had belatedly decided to stay one more night, but the Village was asking for a bizarrely high price so we booked at the Crowne Plaza instead. Since the…