Calligraphy 3

 Greetings

Here is an 'Ave Maria' that I have recently added to my Breviary.

Until next time

Adieu

Discworld, Worldcon & Chaos 3

 Greetings

So, we have arrived at Glasgow, Chaos is set up and i have hung my pictures and sculpture plaques in the Art Show.

Chaos is situated in its cage , beyond the Art Show, at the rear of the Dealers Room.

We registered as volunteers and , thus, qualified for payment in groats. These could be exchanged for food from fast-food trucks, or goods from the Dealers.

We have found that, increasingly, the trend has been to put all information and program on-line. Now , I am dyslexic and find it difficult to navigate large amounts of text on-line and Teddy also finds it difficult.

We therefore asked for a printed programme, which was provided. It did not, however, include a dayly grid, showing which items were on at the same time. However, after providing some help to Ops, a friendly person printed one up for us. We could now plan which items we might like to go to.

In the event, however, we didn't get to go to much, as we were kept pretty busy in Chaos.

I did however find that, after a certain number of hours worked, I could get a priority entry to any programme item. I was, therefore able to get a good seat for the masquarade.

This is only the second occasion that I have been in the audience, as I have previously been more likely to be a participant. Teddy could not join me, however, as he was one of the workmanship judges.

It was a good masquarade with a high number of novice and rookie entrants, who all did very well.

I was particularly impressed by their presentation. There were no over-long entries. I may post more later on this.

When it came to the day before the end of the convention, I had a text from the chap from the Discworld convention, who had said he's arrange to take all the cloth, fixing and braid from Chaos for making new kit for his LARP group. He said he was now doing something else on the last day of the convention and wanted to make arrangements to pick up the things later.

I had always said I wouldn't drive the stuff hither and yon after the con and sent back that it was a shame it hadn't worked out. We prepared, reluctantly, to put it all in a skip. We hung cloth enticingly on the cage to see if people wanted to take things

Then, out of the blue, another convention member said she was also in a LARP group and would take whatever was left. We happily passed it over and left her ringing round the members of her group to get folk to help her cart it away. 

So, a better result in the end and Chaos is officially over. The car was much emptier and easier to pack on the way home.

Despite not getting to programme items, I enjoyed the convention. The only major downside was the shere numbers of people seemed to amplify my hypoglycaemia and negated my usual warning signs, which meant I went hypo several times

On the other hand, I sold this cartoon in the Art Show.

AND

I won the "John and Robbie's choice" Award for my painting "Sword of the Angel"

So, now I am an International Award Winning Artist, as well as an International Award Winning Costumer.

We stopped off at another travelodge on the way home- somewhere just north of Birmingham, I think.

The journey went well , we gor home and began the slow process of recovering.

Until Next time

Adieu

Judge Declan 16

 Greetings

Here is our last view of Judge Declan ( any further any it'd have to be in The Garden of Dubious Delights..)

Until next time

Adieu

Discworld, Worldcon & Chaos 2

 Greetings

Having had a good time at the Discworld convention in Birmingham, we packed up Chaos Costuming and pack it, our costumes and clothes and my pictures for the Artshow and set off on part one of our journey to Worldcon in Glasgow.

Discworld was a three day conention. We stayed the Monday night and left on the Tuesday morning. Worldcon, however, did not start until the Wednesday

Teddy had arranged for a room at a Travelodge near Carlisle, which is roughly halfway between Birmingham and Glasgow. 

We had been recommended an independent Services en-route and stopped there for lunch, encountering our friends Steve and Julia in the process. We spent an little time there and then set off north again.

Soon the Sat Nav told us we were getting close to the Travelodge and -surely it had to be that services we have just driven past??? Then the Sat Nav directed us off at the next juction -and on again going south.

Teddy had failed to note that the Travelodge was only accessible on the southbound carriageway.

We stayed the night and had to drive south one junction before resuming our journey.

We crossed the boarder and passed through a lot of most excellent scenery

As lunchtime was again approaching we looked for services and found, to our surprise it was the same independent chain as the previously recommended one. There seem to be three of them in the UK.

Eventually, we reached Glasgow and headed to the SEC to unload Chaos and my paintings.WE obtained our special parking permit for the SEC carpark and got our con badges and set-up access wrist bands.

Here is a picture of SEC theatre we call The Armadillo

Once this had been  achieved, we went in search of our hotel and-couldn't find it. We stopped at an antique shop for directions and , in driving the other way, realised why we had' t found it the first time.

It's name was only prominently displayed at the top of it's tower.

We found a carpark , parked and went to check in. This is when we discovered that the check in desk was  the bar, which was also the dining room.

We dumped out stuff and went back to get the car- reluctantly paying £6 for having parked for about ten minutes- and drove back to the SEC, parked up and went to help with Chaos set up and hang my show in the Art  Show.

Here is my space in the Art Show. As you can see, I am now a master at getting as many pictures in as possible.

When all that was done, we staggered back to the hotel to collapse.

I will post more anon.

until next time

Adieu

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