News Archives: March 2009

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Lure Coursing

Today, we took the dogs lure coursing. This is a form of racing where two dogs chase after a smelly rag attached to a long string and reeled in by a motor. In this case, this all happened in a hillside field, overlooking some gorgeous Fife countryside. The youngsters had great fun. Tara especially wanted to join in every race, bouncing around and trying to pull away from me. The dogs also turned out to be pretty good at coursing. The competition was organised as a knockout - the winner of each race going into the next round. Zak lost his second race, but he was only narrowly beaten by the eventual winner of the non-deerhound group. Tara got as far as the final of the deerhound group before being soundly beaten. We're very proud of both of them, and will return to the chase another time. (Alfie slept through much of this, though he did get a lot of fusses, and seemed quite happy.) Needless to say, all the dogs are now sleeping soundly...

Posted by graham @ 06:59 pm

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Continuum Redux

My passing comment about Continuum seems to have caused a little more of a stir than I'd planned. The first thing to keep in mind - when I feel like shit, I'm a bit of a pessimist. My understanding is that there needs to be new blood on the committee to run the Continuum after next, and given who's been asked I'm pretty sure they're scraping the barrel to find that new blood. However, it now seems that even if the whole of the rest of the committee quits without finding replacements (and I've no reason to think that's likely) Darran will just run the con all on his own. Lord knows he's more than capable of doing that, so that's okay after all...

Posted by graham @ 05:50 pm

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Stereotypical

I've been feeling pretty rough for the last couple of weeks. Not specifically ill, but headachey and stuffed up, and not sleeping well. Add in a couple of bad dreams and some petty annoyances, and I've been grumpy, anti-social, and uncreative. All quite annoying. If I was properly ill, I wouldn't feel so guilty about achieving so little.

In the midst of all this, there's been one fairly major annoyance. I've found out that Tentacles doesn't have a room for Claire and I, so we aren't going after all. At least I hadn't booked flights yet... It rather feels a bit like the end of an era. My connection to the Glorantha community has been shrinking since the start of the legal bullshit. Cons were about all that was left. Tentacles is now history, and there's likely to only be one more Continuum. I have no idea what will replace them - in my own life, or for the community. For now, I'm just sad at the passing.

Posted by graham @ 08:34 pm

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Reuse beats Recycle

I have two spare CD cabinets, each roughly 2 feet wide, 3 feet high, and 8 inches deep. They hold about 200 CDs in 4 fold out "drawers". Beech effect, in reasonable condition, though a couple of the drawers are getting a little loose at the hinge. Free to a good home. Anyone interested?

There's also two old chests of drawers, both in need of some minor repairs, and both around three foot high&wide. One's a pale wood effect, the other painted off-white. Again, free to anyone interested.

Posted by graham @ 07:13 pm

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