Fantasycon 2006 - UK

[Brian G Turner]

Hey, nice to see you on board, Jen.

Really enjoyed it myself - my big aim was to have a few words with Neil Gaiman which I managed which was nice, and had some good discussions with Raymond E Fiest - will probably have to read some of his later wrok now.

Overall, these cons seem to be getting better.

Also, nice to see ScalemX there (and sorry if I didn't always seem very sociable - always running around trying to say hello to different people!).

Anyone else from chronicles go?

 

[Parmenion]

I was there, i saw you counting people in the free bar queue but was too involved with speaking with some other book sellers, was a really good day on Sat my first Fan con and i really enjoyed it.
Mr Fiest is a very very interesting man!

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

That was the best F/Con I have been to in a few years,I like R.Fiest but for me N.Gaimen was the best, good Indian resturants and pubs on the doorstep if you wanted to pop outside for a bit of air.

I will quite happy to go back to Nottingham next year just hope that half as many new people come back and enjoy it again.

 

[scalem X]

yeah it was great. Totally worth the problems I'm now in because I missed university days and need to fill in stuff others have had the info on .

Some things made me wonder though: what about Chronicles T-shirts. They would come in very handy for a con.

 

[Wolfeborn]

bah how daft am I forgot this was on and I live in notts doh, + my m8 came up from london and got a book signed by feist when he was in waterstones oh well

 

[Troo]

I missed this one due to, er, unforseen fiscal problems.

I, er... transferred too much money out of my account and forgot I needed cash for this

Next year, Gadget, next year!

 

[Lacedaemonian]

I totaly missed the boat on this one and could have went too as I was off work.

Also cool name Parmenion, let's hope you do not suffer a similar fate to your namesake.

Hey, WS, I might not be able to make FantasyCon, but I am coming to Newcastle later in the year (beginning of December) - fancy meeting up for a beer? Who's round was it anyway?

Just let me know nearer the date Mark, I will buy you boys a few rounds of brown dog.

 

[Mark Robson]

I totaly missed the boat on this one and could have went too as I was off work.

Also cool name Parmenion, let's hope you do not suffer a similar fate to your namesake.



Just let me know nearer the date Mark, I will you boys a few rounds of brown dog.

Sounds good to me. I guess we'll have to get a little Chronicles corner in one of the local drinking holes ... after the compulsory curry, of course! Rod Glenn, Winters Sorrow, you and I could put the world to rights.

 

[Lacedaemonian]

There are no locals anymore in Newcastle. The place is a haven for easy women and liver related illness.

 

[Winters_Sorrow]

There are no locals anymore in Newcastle. The place is a haven for easy women and liver related illness.

Ah, your pessimism always manages to cheer me up Lace. Not saying you're wrong though. I'm sure there's an unspoilt bar or two left however

 

[Lacedaemonian]

Everytime i go there for a meal or a drink the bar or resturant appears to have reinvented itself under some homo appealing name. Not that I have issue with the homo. I used to drink in the Frog and Firkin, I thinks it was called, but it has had several name changes since and appears to attract a different sort of alcoholic. The more i think about it the more I thinks it was called something other than The Frog and Firkin. I thinks that was a bar on Newgate/Haymarket Street. The bar I am referring to was just off the Quayside and had a big balcony area in which you could drink.

I forgets how hammered I was virtually every waking moment back in those dark days.

 

[Winters_Sorrow]

That one was the Pitcher & Piano. Suitable for posers only,

The Crown Posada - now there's a pub!

(boy has this thread gone way off topic. Ah what the hell - Fantasycon 06 is finished anyway)

 

[Lacedaemonian]

Nah man. It was up on the hill and had a large balcony. Just off the Quayside near the court house.

 

[Mark Robson]

Guys! Guys! Never mind which pub is which - so long as the one you choose serves beer ... and you're paying, I'll find you.

 

[Ian Whates]

Oh gosh that was great! (Not that I'm biased!) But despite being a headless chicken all weekend, thought it went rather well... Far too knackered to come up with anything too coherent to say about it...

All feedback (both positive and negative) will be most welcome... and thanks to everyone that could make it - you made the event!!

Hi Jen, congratulations on a great con. Really enjoyed myself. Was also nice to meet you (however briefly). My sympathies to all who were unable to make it... Roll on Fantasycon 2007!

 

[Lacedaemonian]

It upsets me though Mark. I forgets so much. The wines addled my brains.