So good to meet you! Diacon was my first HP con, and it was so much fun that I fear it may have spoiled me for future ones. I really liked the fact that it was small enough not to have competing sessions.
It was great to meet you too - and you make one stunning Minerva!
Diacon was my second con, and as much as I loved Sectus (and it'll always have a very special place in my heart for all sorts of reasons), this was more relaxed and manageable. And I was a bit less scaredycatish this time round ;).
You may like to know that your weekly bus ticket (for which much thanks!) was used to death, dining out, and running around Norwich to churches.
St Mary the Virgin at Fordwych - "the smallest town in England": too true, it's a small village just beside Sturry, and apparently one of the original Cinque Ports as Canterbury's port - was worth the visit, and Fordwych Town Hall - 16th C? in angled brick, right by the river Stour - was lovely.
Fordwich is where I studied English with an extraordinary lady called Lorna Villeneuve. Yes, all you heard is true. Fordwich and Sturry used to be the harbour of Canterbury, because the sea reached that far; it was, indeed, why Canterbury was the capital of East Kent. The arm of the sea, or mouth of the Stour, however you want to look at it, was called the Wantsum; and the fact that the Stour, even today, follows the path of that silted-up water and reaches the sea by two separate mouths, is why the land between is still called the Isle of Thanet. It was indeed an island long ago. There is a rather amusing story about it: when St.Augustine of Canterbury first came to Kent, King Aethelberht ordered him to stay in Thanet - with clear water between him and his capital - and insisted on meeting him under the open sky. He was afraid that if he met him in a building, especially a consecrated building (a church), and without the barrier of an open stretch of water, the strange priest from Rome would be able to put a spell on him
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You may be interested to know that only your second comment reached me! Coming to kh's journal to respond, I found this first response too. Thanks very much for both: interesting, and enlightening.
I had known Rye was a centre of piracy (and smuggling) into the 18th C and probably beyond; I hadn't realsied it was the result of privilege for all the ports.
Many Australians probably remember that their former long-term PM, Sir Robert Menzies, was also Warden of the Cinque Ports, after he left office. (I've seen his kit for this in a museum somewhere at home, and very impressive it is.)
It was *very* good to see you again! I just hope someone will get around to doing another con in a few years because it'd be awfully sad if this had been the last one.
I more or less, by implication, asked the organizers to think of having another, because this one has been such a success, but I doubt whether they will consider it.
So sorry to have missed meeting you in person at the con; now I don't know what you look like. Well, you got a good look at me during the OLSB and f/f panels - were you dressed up in a way that I might remember at the ball?
And sorry for the belated reply. First day LJ is fully functional over here.
I'm really sorry too - I somehow managed not to run into either you or Tetley, and I really would have liked to. Don't think you'd remember me from the ball - I wore my wand over my shoulder, but that's all ;).
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Diacon was my second con, and as much as I loved Sectus (and it'll always have a very special place in my heart for all sorts of reasons), this was more relaxed and manageable. And I was a bit less scaredycatish this time round ;).
I'm very happy to hear you enjoyed it too!
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St Mary the Virgin at Fordwych - "the smallest town in England": too true, it's a small village just beside Sturry, and apparently one of the original Cinque Ports as Canterbury's port - was worth the visit, and Fordwych Town Hall - 16th C? in angled brick, right by the river Stour - was lovely.
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I had known Rye was a centre of piracy (and smuggling) into the 18th C and probably beyond; I hadn't realsied it was the result of privilege for all the ports.
Many Australians probably remember that their former long-term PM, Sir Robert Menzies, was also Warden of the Cinque Ports, after he left office. (I've seen his kit for this in a museum somewhere at home, and very impressive it is.)
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And sorry for the belated reply. First day LJ is fully functional over here.
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I am so, so happy with how it went :DDD
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