Lytteltonwitch and Cathietay came round last night, and over a few pizzas we assembled the convention goody bags. Lytteltonwitch was in charge of putting the logos on the calico bags we made a month or so ago, using iron-on transfers she’d printed from her computer (isn’t technology wonderful?), while Cathietay, rarsberry and I made up…
These are the books that ended up in the goody bags (some of which were re-released over the course of the weekend): Alex by Tessa Duder The Worst Day of My Life, So Far by MA Harper The Two Pound Tram by William Newton Death is Relative by Edward O Phillips The Crazy World of…
Despite the late night the night before, none of us could really sleep, so we were all up pretty early Friday morning. After a leisurely breakfast of hot cross buns, and some juggling of the shower rota (we quickly discovered that our hot water cylinder only contains enough hot water for two and a half…
We packed our bags of books and the huge box of goody bags into lyttletonwitch’s car, and headed off to the Dux de Lux. When we got there, we discovered that they’d given us one long table instead of the several smaller tables we’d asked for (long tables make it very difficult to talk to…
Rarsberry, Skyring, and Mrs Skyring arrived last night. The Skyrings are staying at a motel, but we invited them to have dinner at our place last night, and we had a really fun evening (We even got to try some of the new chilli-flavoured Tim Tams! (They were… um… interesting. I didn’t think they really…
This week seems to be dragging interminably already, and it’s only just started (of course, when I remember the deadline I’ve got on Thursday for a Historical Linguistics assignment which I’ve only half-finished, it seems to be racing past!) It is getting very exciting, though. Every day envelopes are arriving in my letterbox with registration…
Well, the plan for this weekend was to go into town yesterday morning and do some last minute convention shopping, then to meet lytteltonwitch for lunch to discuss a few last minute details, and then the rest of the weekend was to be devoted to getting the house cleaned up for the various visitors arriving…
Another contribution to the convention arrived today: a box of books from Sherlockfan in Wellington. She wanted to come to the convention, but couldn’t make it, so she sent some books to be released on her behalf instead. It was an interesting mix of books she sent: A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters…
Ok, so it’s technically still 8 days until the *official* start of the NZBC convention, but it feels like it’s started, because I just met the first delegate to arrive, Mundoo. She’s come over from Australia a week early to do a bit of exploring of New Zealand before the actual convention, and she asked…
This weekend was dedicated to getting as much ready for the convention as possible (because next weekend will probably be dedicated to getting the house into a fit state for visitors). Number one major task was to finally get round to registering the rest of the books lytteltonwitch gave me ages ago, and properly labelling…