And back again!
Apr. 9th, 2007 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bookzombieWe returned from EasterCon at about 7pm after a really smooth journey. It was a thoroughly enjoyable con. and especially impressive given the time the committee had to put it together. Well done all!
It was great to catch up with some people we haven't seen for a while (e.g![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fjm, gummitch, ianmcdonald, tamaranth) and to make new friends (or in some cases put names to faces) like coalescent, andrewducker, purplecthulhu, purpletigron & owlfish.
We did our share of mixing with the great and good, including going out for a meal with Jon Courtenay Grimwood (which is a little ironic given that he only lives a few miles away!).pennski invested a large sum of money for a stunning dress from mevennen which should hopefully arrive in time to take to WisCon in May. And I bought myself a fedora from the hat shop in Cheshire. I've always wanted one, and this was the most 'Indiana Jones'ish I could find! There may be pictures later...
We didn't actually end up buying many books (for us!): less than twenty. It wasn't a huge dealers' room and I just couldn't see that many things I was interested in.
I moderated a panel looking at the results of the BSFA Awards, which went very much better than I expected! I was dreading either a non-existent or hostile audience (I did have a couple of comments from people that they thought it was a rather rude thing to do) but in the end I had three excellent panelists who had different viewpoints, which is always good, and disagreed in an amiable manner, which is good for my nerves!
Alas, there was a 'Buffy: Once More with Feeling' sing-along scheduled for the early evening today but we had to head home before it started. But that was the only real disappointment of an excellent weekend!
It was great to catch up with some people we haven't seen for a while (e.g
fjm, gummitch, ianmcdonald, tamaranth) and to make new friends (or in some cases put names to faces) like coalescent, andrewducker, purplecthulhu, purpletigron & owlfish.We did our share of mixing with the great and good, including going out for a meal with Jon Courtenay Grimwood (which is a little ironic given that he only lives a few miles away!).
pennski invested a large sum of money for a stunning dress from mevennen which should hopefully arrive in time to take to WisCon in May. And I bought myself a fedora from the hat shop in Cheshire. I've always wanted one, and this was the most 'Indiana Jones'ish I could find! There may be pictures later...We didn't actually end up buying many books (for us!): less than twenty. It wasn't a huge dealers' room and I just couldn't see that many things I was interested in.
I moderated a panel looking at the results of the BSFA Awards, which went very much better than I expected! I was dreading either a non-existent or hostile audience (I did have a couple of comments from people that they thought it was a rather rude thing to do) but in the end I had three excellent panelists who had different viewpoints, which is always good, and disagreed in an amiable manner, which is good for my nerves!
Alas, there was a 'Buffy: Once More with Feeling' sing-along scheduled for the early evening today but we had to head home before it started. But that was the only real disappointment of an excellent weekend!
