This year is the tenth anniversary of Douglas's death. Towel Day is the event that two weeks after the date of his death celebrates his life and work. Cambridge ZZ9ers, well, me and Jim, will be running a tour of Cambridge that evening, Wednesday 25th May, starting around 18:30/18:45 from Cambridge Station. We will be waiting for the 17:45 from ( Read more... )

A reminder that there is a pre-Towel Day event in London tomorrow - http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=144848692255122

I brought a bunch of Iain (M) Banks firsts at a book auction and it got me thinking. I got the twelve books for sixty pounds, plus a 22% buyer's premium, and with travelling into London to get them takes the "cost" to just under one hundred pounds ( Read more... )

An event I am helping run ( Read more... )

My review is in the ZZ9 LJ

So here is an idea for the thirty-third anniversary of the first broadcast of the first episode of the first radio series of Hitchhiker's ( Read more... )

Meeting up at 13:00 outside East Croydon station.
The journey from Cambridge looks a little convoluted but I should make it.

Slouching in Leicester this Saturday. Meet at the station at 13:00. My current plan is to get the 11:00 from Cambridge that is timetabled to arrive in Leicester at 12:47.

So I went to Thailand last week for work. ( Not particularly profound thoughts on the experience - but hey it is my LJ )

Just posted a reminder to ZZ9 bit thought others might be interested. This Saturday is the ZZ9 Cambridge Slouch. Meet at the station at 13:00. We will probably drop in at the Mill Road Winter Fair, see http://www.millroadwinterfair.org/Read more... )