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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.
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