Each year Bryony and I celebrate 'Golf Course Day' as an anniversary of us getting together and rampaging across a golf course, then watching the sunset. Because nothing is as romantic as being somewhere you are not supposed to be ( Read more... )

New tattoo on arm at last! I have wanted this one done for a couple of years now; at the first Odyssey event Steve Cooke drew a relief of Anubis on my arm, which I really liked. It kept playing on my mind that I'd have been happy to have it there permanently. Then Bryony drew it again last event and the feeling has been nagging at me ever since ( Read more... )

Better Strangers Opera Company appears to have, for want of a better phrase, become even better.

( Note: contains dangerously low levels of technical musical knowledge )

About thirty years ago my parents made friends with a travelling couple called Tommy and Lovey Day (one of the best named people ever- if ever there was a person who seemed like a bright summer afternoon it was her). They ran a travelling fair and came here to 'winter' every year, with Tommy working as a driver and welder while the fair wasn't ( Read more... )

I've finally got around to starting Frances Hardinge's latest novel, Twilight Robbery, and am rather addicted. However, the reason for this port is that one particular passage has completely changed my mental image of one of the main characters ( Read more... )

Last week had some mixed news. I heard some awful news about a friend, but it did prompt me to get in touch with him again. We discovered that Malselene had never been clubbing, so took her to The Calling and discovered that she is a shockingly good dancer ( Read more... )

My latest attempt to create a helmet for Odyssey is looming dangerously close to becoming successful. However, I am now in uncharted waters as I try out techniques that are completely new to me.

( Work in Progress )

Science, I love you. Because according to the BBC, chocolate might be helping keep me thin. Now pass the Fruit and Nut!

There was an Ornithocracy! There were feathers and dreamers and nightmares and famous psychoanalysts and Alistair Crowley. It was rather damn good ( Read more... )

Ornithocracy this weekend. Bryony and I crewed the play test last year, so in one sense this is the first 'proper' game, even though the playtest was basically canon and a full game ( Read more... )