Last Wednesday we went to join a small group on an outdoor outing to visit three productive gardens over in Stroud. The first was a herb garden, and was pretty wild as, by this time of the year, many of the plants are going to seed. The second was a small co-operative vegetable-growing enterprise with several poly-tunnels and a fair bit more of ( Read more... )

It'll come as no surprise that music sometimes gets to places other things can't reach, and there were many songs at FilkContinental that helped, one way and another. A few particularly memorable ones were ( Read more... )

Sunday morning's programme included the second half of the harmony workshop, and we managed to get the chosen piece into a reasonable performance. After lunch there was the traditional courtyard gathering for a photo, and then a short break before the afternoon sets. First up was Scott, with a hour-long concert that only needed a bit of front-of- ( Read more... )

Friday morning was relatively relaxed, apart from a bit of kit shifting. The main set-up happened on Friday afternoon, as usual. I caused a minor complication by turning the small digital stage-end box over without similarly arranging my notion of the numbering order. It took a while to find that microphones 1 to 8 were in fact numbered 8 to 1. ( Read more... )

The Tuesday before FilkContinental was a long one, involving a little local activity (mainly re-locating radio club stuff) and a long round-trip to Cambridge via Gants Hill to collect instruments, tech, and Deborah. We got bach back quite late ( Read more... )

The conkers are falling, and the leaves will soon follow. There's plenty of tidying-up to be done in the garden. While some has been done, I've been otherwise busy ( Read more... )

FridayThe opening ceremony was short and amusing. The evening's sets were enjoyable, and, there being no time pressure, they were also fairly relaxed to do tech for. The main evening's circle was a poker-chip one with a Star Trek theme. I stayed in it for quite a while, just listening, but then moved to the rather smaller circle next door for a ( Read more... )

Friday morning was relatively quiet. We went out as a group to lunch, which made up for the previous evening's meal being short of a few of the con-com and guests. There's an Italian place within an easy walk of the hostel. On the way back we took a route through the woods. Once back at the hostel it was time to get stuck into set-up. We were done ( Read more... )

It's a long day's travelling with an early start to get to FilkContinental. rinioth stayed Thursday night at my place, and my mother gave us a lift to Orpington Station at too-early o'clock. The through train we had planned to catch was cancelled, so we caught the next available one and changed at London Bridge, and still got to Waterloo with time to ( Read more... )