Not the most successful day of airsofting yesterday at Ultimate Wargames' Limpsfield site.
If I'd been sensible, I'd have headed down to mrmrsmith's on Friday night but I'd not been to Beer & Blake's 7 for a while. Surprisingly well attended but I think that may have had something to do with multiclassgeek inviting a bunch of Potter fans along. Nice to see tlanti there too
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It has been brought to my attention that today is the 30th anniversary of the first airing of Blake's 7. In my defence about not realising for myself, I wasn't actually in this country back then!
This weekend's network gaming plans expanded into an extremely enjoyable fully fledged Terra Nostra gathering. Meant we didn't get any PC gaming done though! Highlights included:
A group watching of The Web, Couch Potato-style, with much irreverent commentary at the likes of "What is it?" "It's rubbing against the hull and it's getting thicker",
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Finally brought myself to order Blake's 7 season 4. Fond as I am of the series as a whole, let's face it, season 4 was a bit shit, apart from Blake. However, Amazon had it at £17.97 and I had those vouchers so I figured that was as cheap as it was ever going to get. I suppose £2.97 for one decent episode and a box isn't too bad...
Short version: enormous fun, seriously intense geekout weekend. Kicking myself for taking this long to get to a Redemption event, signed up for 2009 already.
Very enjoyable Beer and B7 meetup on Friday evening. Weird and enjoyable eclectic range of discussions including the likes of telecoms regulation as well as climate taxes as the more standard debates about Torchwood etc. Also discovered that pretty much all bar two of us were going to Redemption!
Speaking for cons, have also registered for
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Friday night: went with Kate to see Paul Simmonds playing at The Hive (Brentford football club). He was mainly playing new material but with a few The Men They Couldn't Hang tracks too, all acoustic
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