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GUFF Results.
Candidate Shields Spencer Hold Over Funds No Pref Total
No. of votes 53 37 0 10100 James Shields is selected as the GUFF delegate for 2010 and will attend Aussiecon4 in Melbourne, 2-6th September ( Read more... ) -
Generally Fannish links
More Balls 5 is available to download. I can print and bring copies to Eastercon (from Thursday which is the putative printer delivery date).
More Balls 5(Balls 1-4 are all linked from http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~lister/balls/Read more... ) -
I leetle tiny motivational post.
I decided this morning to try and think of ten bad habits to break and ten good habits to develop. Then I decided I might go for a list of three each instead and aim to strike one off each month and add a new one, meaning ten over a year. So to start me off...
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GUFF nomination deadline
If you are planning to stand for GUFF then nominations are due to close at midnight (GMT) on Friday 13th November. The candidates are due to be announced at some point during Sunday 15th November ( Read more... ) -
I thought these days were behind me.
I got a headache, yesterday. One of those ones that laughs in the face of OTC painkillers. I woke up with it (which really should have warned me) but I was thirsty so put it down to dehydration and carried on. By 2.30 yesterday I was laying down in the dark in my office hoping that it would subside long enough for me to not be sick ( Read more... ) -
How depressing.
Today I was going to update my allotment diary with the news that the season, for me, was officially over [1] and from now on it was tidying up and looking after the winter crops. Unfortunately we got to the plot to find the main gate had it's lock cut off and as we rounded the corner we could see the smoking ruins of our neighbour's sheds. The ( Read more... ) -
OH. DRAMA.
Poll I mean, seriously, WTF?I've been to Octocon. I was lucky to get there in 2006 and meet Frank Darcy who I'd only really known online before then. It was an interesting experience and one that I'd like to repeat, but possibly not right at this moment ( Read more... ) -
Never really thought about it before
Poll Out of step.
Poll brought to you by general musing over Lift Allowance and if we count working as when we walk into the building as opposed to when we turn up in the office. For example, I'll quite often be at work for 10-15 minutes before I get to my desk due to random queries in the corridor. At which point general thoughts on transport came into the -
GUFF nominations open.
GUFF is the Going Under (or Get Up and Over) Fan Fund and transports Fans from Europe to Australasia (and vice versa). Nominations are now open for the Southbound race to transport an European fan (or fans) to Aussiecon 4 the 68th World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne, Australia ( Read more... ) -
Aussiecon4 (Worldcon 2010)
If you are considering Aussiecon next year and haven't yet got a membership there is a rate rise on 1st September. GB attending will move from £100 to £140.
Details here:
http://www.aussiecon4.org/index.php?page=27
I have just joined. Well, a girl can dream.