They'll let almost anyone in these days.

For Fantasycon this year, I was mostly moving things from point (a) to point (b). It was jolly good fun, modulo Nottingham managing to have the most startlingly awful one-way system in creation. The big sign on the outskirts giving details of the four different radio stations which might emit 'traffic' 'news' (beep-beep yeah, etc) should have been a warning. The last time I saw something like that, we were out on the edge of Illinois where they have Weather of a rather more biblical nature.

The Notts uni campus is huge and pastoral and I could see why one might want to study there. It's also miles from bloody nowhere, which is a bit of a bind if you fancied sloping off for something that was not hotel or East Midlands Conference Centre grub. And if you did slope off and end up Somewhere, you'd have to fight The Traffic to get there.

The rest of the volunteering types were lovely, mind. I also accidentally a huge pile of books.

Next year, it's in Scarborough. Won't that be jolly if it's temporally (as well as obviously spatially) handy for Whitby.