It's LARP season again: Curious Pastimes have 4 big events in May, June, July, and August, and I went to the May event ("Into the West") a few weeks ago. It went well, and I think I'm starting to get the hang of combat now, as well as settling into my new character.

By the way, there's now a Lions Faction trailer on YouTube, filmed at Renewal last ( Read more... )

Previously in my blog...
In part 1, I travelled to Lapland for the Winter Swimming World Championships. Now it was time for the races to begin!

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"You have so many clocks! Maybe you could just have one in each room?"
(Aouda to Phileas Fogg, "Around the World in Eighty Days" - paraphrased from memory)Last night, the UK switched over from GMT to BST. Hopefully you all remembered to change your clocks, and didn't oversleep for anything important. When I was young, I remember that our vicar once ( Read more... )

There's a new Snickers advert out, which should appeal to all children of the 80s:

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There's a higher quality version here ( Read more... )

Well, it's been quite a busy week since my last post (aside from my normal commitments), so here's a quick round-up before bedtime.

On Tuesday I went up to Rugby (the city) for a training day on leadership techniques. This was run by Straight Talking, and it was a freebie taster day, so we (people from various organisations) were able to try out a ( Read more... )