Other News...
My finger is still improving. It'll take until the end of the month for near-full operation to be regained, it's still sore in places and there is a definite kink in it now, but every day or so I notice an improvement.
Was over in Salisbury earlier in the month, visiting the Terry Pratchett exhibition in the Museum there. It was busy, a queue out the door, across the museum courtyard and out into the Cathedral Square, good thing we booked in advance.
It was a good exhibition, seen a lot in there already but the recreation of Terry's office was good (noticed the Brewer's Millennium Edition on his desk (Terry did the preface, I have an autographed copy). The section on his illness was, as expected, quite hard to read without a lump coming to the throat. A few words in the text were highlighted by being in outline, if you joined them together they spelled "embuggerance", a nice touch.
It seemed that all the people in there were people we knew, t-shirts, hats, scarves, general geekery. We didn't of course, but they were the sort of people we might have known. It was very easy to start chatting with them, often mistook someone for someone we knew (as did others towards us). Afterwards we headed down to Wincanton, stayed over in the Travel Lodge, met up with a load of friends at the newly refurbished (but not overly so) Bear Inn. A good little break all in all.
PS- Oh yes, I got my Star Frontiers hardback rules reprints today, they are GORGEOUS.
Was over in Salisbury earlier in the month, visiting the Terry Pratchett exhibition in the Museum there. It was busy, a queue out the door, across the museum courtyard and out into the Cathedral Square, good thing we booked in advance.
It was a good exhibition, seen a lot in there already but the recreation of Terry's office was good (noticed the Brewer's Millennium Edition on his desk (Terry did the preface, I have an autographed copy). The section on his illness was, as expected, quite hard to read without a lump coming to the throat. A few words in the text were highlighted by being in outline, if you joined them together they spelled "embuggerance", a nice touch.
It seemed that all the people in there were people we knew, t-shirts, hats, scarves, general geekery. We didn't of course, but they were the sort of people we might have known. It was very easy to start chatting with them, often mistook someone for someone we knew (as did others towards us). Afterwards we headed down to Wincanton, stayed over in the Travel Lodge, met up with a load of friends at the newly refurbished (but not overly so) Bear Inn. A good little break all in all.
PS- Oh yes, I got my Star Frontiers hardback rules reprints today, they are GORGEOUS.