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Or a few of them, if you want.
It's on the 4th/5th of February at Pontin's, Camber Sands, former home of the painfully-hip All Tomorrow's Parties. (Although I had to look this up to learn it wasn't actually originally the title of a William Gibson novel. I am not painfully hip.)
I've just won 4 tickets from Forbidden Planet - to whom my thanks!
Free entry; sadly, accommodation is not included, but it's fairly cheap, in self-catering chalets. There are bars and restaurants onsite, but they don't mind you bringing your own and the alcohol allowance is ridiculously generous, as I recall.
I am hoping to go along with four or five friends, but all but one of us have won four tickets each now, so we have just a few spares!
Last year's was an absolute hoot. I don't go to the paid signings and that side of things myself, but Tom Baker's talk was great, Gerry Anderson's was jolly interesting, and there were good readings and talks by Peter F Hamilton and John Meaney among others - plus films, a quiz, two live bands (one a personal favourite of mine, as it happens), a disco and more. Not your typical con but a lot of fun and a pretty cheap weekend away all in - it cost a lot less than half a typical hotel-based con.
Details here.
Yes, yes - a holiday camp in February. I know. Spare me the sallies. Last time, we didn't spend much time outside except scuttling from chalet to chalet or, in my case, from venue to chalet to top-up the booze supplies... I think there's even a pool. Very kid-friendly, too; huge games room, arcade machines, a comics room with consoles, stuff like that.
Please feel free to pass this message, or links to it, around, too, to anyone who might be interested.
Also, please vote for me for TAFF! :¬)
It's on the 4th/5th of February at Pontin's, Camber Sands, former home of the painfully-hip All Tomorrow's Parties. (Although I had to look this up to learn it wasn't actually originally the title of a William Gibson novel. I am not painfully hip.)
I've just won 4 tickets from Forbidden Planet - to whom my thanks!
Free entry; sadly, accommodation is not included, but it's fairly cheap, in self-catering chalets. There are bars and restaurants onsite, but they don't mind you bringing your own and the alcohol allowance is ridiculously generous, as I recall.
I am hoping to go along with four or five friends, but all but one of us have won four tickets each now, so we have just a few spares!
Last year's was an absolute hoot. I don't go to the paid signings and that side of things myself, but Tom Baker's talk was great, Gerry Anderson's was jolly interesting, and there were good readings and talks by Peter F Hamilton and John Meaney among others - plus films, a quiz, two live bands (one a personal favourite of mine, as it happens), a disco and more. Not your typical con but a lot of fun and a pretty cheap weekend away all in - it cost a lot less than half a typical hotel-based con.
Details here.
Yes, yes - a holiday camp in February. I know. Spare me the sallies. Last time, we didn't spend much time outside except scuttling from chalet to chalet or, in my case, from venue to chalet to top-up the booze supplies... I think there's even a pool. Very kid-friendly, too; huge games room, arcade machines, a comics room with consoles, stuff like that.
Please feel free to pass this message, or links to it, around, too, to anyone who might be interested.
Also, please vote for me for TAFF! :¬)
