So, what to do with my first day in Dublin? Based on my wanderings last night, it looks like the hotel was being entirely honest when they said that the City Centre was walking distance away, so that’ll help. I’m…

It’s like a Train To Malta in some respects, .., I didn’t sleep well last night, probably due to concern about getting to my train on time. On the positive side, that did give me the opportunity to watch a…

rather than just blasting out the whole email, which was … long … , here are the highlights Gen Con Attributes Record-Breaking 2014 Numbers to Growing Partnership between Gamers and Indianapolis Community INDIANAPOLIS (August 19, 2014) Gen Con 2014, completed…

I slept in today, and it was awesome. The one thing I ‘needed’ to get done today was picking up my train tickets for the trip to Dublin & back. Promptly got onto the wrong DLR train, so ended up…

John Wyndham – The Invisible Man Of Science Fiction This was a documentary on John Wyndham, who was spectacularly closed-mouthed about himself & his past, and seems to have been quite an odd man. This gave Wyndham & his works…

The Martians & Us – The End Of The World As We Know It This was a screening of a documentary on end-of-the-world literature, and it did a pretty good job of looking at what was happening in the UK…

Remembering the Terran Trade Authority For those who don’t know; TTA I have a very second-hand copy of one of these, bought out of nostalgia, and I’d definitely pick up a couple of the others were they to become available.…

Having just worked out that I can do a cut & paste from the nifty con schedule app, I’m going to do the programme items first. Fallen London – Recreating London in Games They’re taking a very wide stance on…

My con schedule is stored on my phone, thanks to a handy little app, so doing a summary will involve a bit of back-and-forth. Let’s see how it goes, shall we? Climate Catastrophes This was done by Jonathan Cowie, who…

Woke up earlier than I’d like, sadly, and thus Wednesday changed from being an afternoon of tourist stuff into being a day where I picked up my badge & con books, then sort of chillaxed for the rest of the…