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Worldcon
Here's a time-lapse of the set up of the Fan Village: YouTube.
At Loncon, I did the newsletter, with help from my wonderful minions. I also ran around a lot on the first few days, answering random queries. In retrospect, I should have had a radio, at least at first, because as I passed people they kept saying "I don't know, but Flick might" to the person they were speaking to, which usually resulted in another errand to run or person to pass a message to: thanks to the Ops team for all the radio calls they put out for me.
On the plus side, at least I waited until I got home to have my voice vanish.
I had a lovely time, though, and towards the end of the con things even calmed down enough that I had time to stop and have actual conversations with people. And no terribly major crises! Thank you to everyone who helped out.
We got home to find a very happy Jodie, and even the boys came over for snuggles. The ducks seem to be much more socialised than they were: I suspect that the sitter spent a lot of time in the front garden playing with Jo, because they're now much more likely to follow us around. The sitter was even kind enough to drive half-way to London to meet me when I realised I'd left all of my evening clothes at home.
The only down side was the boys' beds. I was a little unhappy with them the last time, but this time I am really annoyed. They had both gone from a nice thick bed covering most of the stable to a thin metre-wide strip at the back, and even that (in Baby's case) was full of poo and (in GB's case) had a wet patch in it. GB's stable *stank*, and had an actual puddle of wee on the floor. After I'd cleaned up what was there, we put two new bags of bedding into the Baby's stable and three into GB's, and it looked like the sitter had put at least one into each while we were away as well: they normally get through a bag a week, so he has both left them sleeping on what is little better than bare, wet concrete *and* been incredibly wasteful with the bedding.
We only had the one sitter this time, as his wife was on another job, and I think she must have been in charge of the mucking out previously. I've just sent an email off to the agency to complain.
(New LJ iPhone app is apparently unusable even by the standards of LJ apps. So you're spared the photos of GB's stable, at least.)
At Loncon, I did the newsletter, with help from my wonderful minions. I also ran around a lot on the first few days, answering random queries. In retrospect, I should have had a radio, at least at first, because as I passed people they kept saying "I don't know, but Flick might" to the person they were speaking to, which usually resulted in another errand to run or person to pass a message to: thanks to the Ops team for all the radio calls they put out for me.
On the plus side, at least I waited until I got home to have my voice vanish.
I had a lovely time, though, and towards the end of the con things even calmed down enough that I had time to stop and have actual conversations with people. And no terribly major crises! Thank you to everyone who helped out.
We got home to find a very happy Jodie, and even the boys came over for snuggles. The ducks seem to be much more socialised than they were: I suspect that the sitter spent a lot of time in the front garden playing with Jo, because they're now much more likely to follow us around. The sitter was even kind enough to drive half-way to London to meet me when I realised I'd left all of my evening clothes at home.
The only down side was the boys' beds. I was a little unhappy with them the last time, but this time I am really annoyed. They had both gone from a nice thick bed covering most of the stable to a thin metre-wide strip at the back, and even that (in Baby's case) was full of poo and (in GB's case) had a wet patch in it. GB's stable *stank*, and had an actual puddle of wee on the floor. After I'd cleaned up what was there, we put two new bags of bedding into the Baby's stable and three into GB's, and it looked like the sitter had put at least one into each while we were away as well: they normally get through a bag a week, so he has both left them sleeping on what is little better than bare, wet concrete *and* been incredibly wasteful with the bedding.
We only had the one sitter this time, as his wife was on another job, and I think she must have been in charge of the mucking out previously. I've just sent an email off to the agency to complain.
(New LJ iPhone app is apparently unusable even by the standards of LJ apps. So you're spared the photos of GB's stable, at least.)