My Motley Meanderings

This weekend I went to the Year of the Teledu convention in Leicester.

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Just getting ready to head down to Year of the Teledu, where I'm running three items. Extreme busyness over the past few weeks means:

I haven't finished planning The Race to Orbit, but I have collected quite a bit of random junk to use in it and I've designed the prizes.
I've only re-watched and made notes on the first five episodes of Torchwood.
I haven't built the walls for The Hole in the Wall Game, but I have obtained the materials and a delightfully tacky prize (actually, I cleaned the garage floor this morning and laid the poles out ready to start assembling them, then I realised that if I made them into walls they wouldn't fit in the car unless they were resting on top of my head).

But I have got Fenchurch ready in time to drive to Teledu, which sort of makes up for running behind on everything else.

I'm going to unplug the computer now and pack it up with everything else... See some of you in a few hours.

tregenza asks what are you looking forward to at Year of the Teledu?

Well, apart from the items I'm running and generally having fun with friends old and new, I'm looking forward to both Inconsequential - When We Were Young, about one of the very first FunCons, and Something Wiki This Way Comes, about Teledu and its experimental idea of organising the con in an Open Source manner via a public Wiki (a Bazaar of fans vs the Cathedral model of traditional committee-run cons).

It's not too late to join, but you'd better be quick because the hotel is very close to running out of bedrooms.

ConFounding Tales! was small but cunningly formed. It had two programme streams, the typical attendance at each item was between about twenty and forty people, and they were structured in such a way as to encourage everybody to join in, even somebody like me who usually goes to lots of serious panel type programme items and sits through them without saying a word. The items I went to at ConFounding Tales! were mostly silly games, but I heard vague rumours of some slightly more serious things going on elsewhere.

( What I did at ConFounding Tales! (had lots of fun) )

In related news, the Great God Telethulu persuaded me to join Year of the Teledu, which is being held at the Stage Hotel in Leicester on the 20th-22nd July.