Category Archives: events

From Easter to Volcano Days

2010-04-27 – 22:56:05

I don’t get round to these things quickly, but this is, at least in part, a report on my family’s visit to Eastercon. This year the British National Science Fiction Convention was practically on our doorstep, just the other side of London, at Heathrow. As with two years ago, my son wanted to come. And […]

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Easter Time is Here Again

2010-04-02 – 00:06:33

Easter rolls around on its mad-god-inspired schedule, and so too does Eastercon, the British National Science-Fiction Convention. This year, as it was two years ago, it’s in the Radisson Edwardian Hotel, near Heathrow. Not the most pleasant or interesting of locations, but it does have the large advantage for me of being relatively close to […]

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Decade’s End

2009-12-31 – 23:42:39

This is how we end the first decade of the twenty-first century, then: with Jools on the telly, and a netbook on my lap. A fitting conclusion, I suppose, as the start of it was similarly low-key (I had a small kid at the time, and have two much bigger ones now); and I’ve spent [...]

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A Deadline Crash, and a Reading

2007-02-03 – 03:40:58

Over the last few weeks I’ve been trying to write a Doctor Who short story. It was for a competition that Big Finish, publisher of DW books and CDs, were running. Alas, the closing date was the 31st of January, which is now past, and I didn’t finish it (does that make it a Small [...]

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Burning Silver Discs for Gold

2006-10-05 – 23:56:31

In which I make a CD compilation, and blow whatever vestiges of my credibility remained I’ve been a bit invisible on here for a while. First I had two weeks camping in France, during which (among much else) I managed to grow a beard (not that I was particularly trying to: it just kind of [...]

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Pachyderm prestidigitation

2006-05-11 – 13:30:11

Like much of the rest of the London Blogosphere, I went with the family to see The Sultan’s Elephant on Sunday. I had had a quick look at it on the way home from work on Friday, when it was just standing still at the end of Pall Mall. Then, it was clearly impressive; but […]

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