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Saturday - a drive in the country
...or rather, a day marshalling at the Rally of the Midlands.
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Maelstrom event 2
Back on April 26th I posted http://oldnick.livejournal.com/206717.html a brief and slightly cryptic report on the first event on the year, fully expecting that today I would be posting a more complete report, now that everything had crept out of the woodwork. Well, the woodwork is fully ( Read more... ) -
GEF Weekend - organised chaos.
Last Monday at work, walking up stairs, I put my foot down a little awkwardly and strained a calf muscle. I had a day-long meeting to attend, so I limped around as little as possible, sat down most of the dya, and tried to ignore it. This, of course, didn't work. Neither, by Tuesday, did my leg, so Tuesday was pent largely at home, apart for brief ( Read more... ) -
Home, Maelstrom recovery time.
Back from Maelstrom, after an excellent event ( Read more... ) -
It's a small world.
I'm short of sleep at the moment. I sleep well - it's not insomnia, no, it's a self inflicted lack of sleep caused by curiosity at one of those 'small world' coincidences that crop up in genealogy.
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Resplendence
Wilderhope Manor - aka the Cardini House in the New World ( Read more... ) -
WIDatW
One odd little nugget I picked up from a local history course a few years ago was a tale from someone who had been working int he city centre during the 'Coventry Blitz' - the first major bombing raid on Coventry, that killed upward of 600 people on 14th November 1940, 70 years ago yesterday. He spoke of walking home in the early morning, and ( Read more... ) -
an excursion to London - or WIDbeforeTW (2 weekends ago)
A few weeks back, following one of those nights of raiding on World of Warcraft were it is clear that people are working to two separate agendas, an email arrived letting me know about a pubmeet for the guild down in London, last Thursday. I looked at my diary, considered the impact of missing my regular Thursday evening, and decided that attending ( Read more... ) -
Maelstrom - after the storm.
An odd weekend at Maelstrom ( Read more... ) -
Grand Tribunal 2010
An Ars Magica mini-convention in Cheltenham ( Read more... )