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by **Sjoerd3000** » Sun May 29, 2011 7:37 pm

Jan is flying home tomorrow

by **Tonyblack** » Sun May 29, 2011 8:26 pm

Glad you had a great time.

by **author3** » Mon May 30, 2011 2:29 pm

I really want to see the pics

by **Penfold** » Mon May 30, 2011 2:30 pm

Glad you enjoyed it, and I can't wait to see the pics!

by **Sjoerd3000** » Mon May 30, 2011 3:05 pm

Im afraid my pics didn't turn out that great

So we'll have to wait till Jan returns, I know she took a lot of pictures

What did we do on the Con:

Saturday I was dressed as Death and the costume had some disadvantages. It was quite hot to wear and my vision was a bit limited because of the mask. We played a few games of Werewolf. First game I was one of the two villagers left standing

Second game I was killed by the werewolves.

There was a presentation about the Ankh-Morpork boardgame awe could also play the game and it's fun

We watched Going Postal had a nice diner and the suprise of the evening was Rob reading us from Snuff over Skype

Sunday the translator arrived and I was the first to sign up for a KaffeKlatsch with him. He's a very interesting guy and he also read from the Dutch translation of Wee Free Men. There was also a very interesting talk about Orangutans and a Panel with extras from Going Postal.

The day ended with a Maskerade and a sort of play of Going Postal in which I had to play mr. Pump :wink:

The plan was to make an adaptation of Going Postal of now more than 20 minutes. For my role as mr. Pump I recieved 4 Dutch Discworld books and Good Omens in Dutch

by **Tonyblack** » Mon May 30, 2011 3:12 pm

Sounds like great fun!

by **author3** » Mon May 30, 2011 3:23 pm

What 4 books were they

by **meerkat** » Mon May 30, 2011 5:06 pm

I'm jealous, jealous! :lol:

by **michelanCello** » Mon May 30, 2011 6:13 pm

meerkat wrote:I'm jealous, jealous!

So am I

Sjoerd, you know where to find me if you now have some, khm, books twice...you don't have that much space, I'm sure :wink:

by **Jan Van Quirm** » Mon May 30, 2011 8:30 pm

I'm back and absolutely knackered so I won't put the pics up tonight but there are loads of Sjoerd as Mr Pump...

What was that other famous award ceremony? Oh I remember now - the Razzies! :lol:

He'll be up for one for sure - Best Actor in full face mask possibly. I have tons of photos :twisted:

The Snuff bits were great and lots of goss from Mr. Wilkins - apparently Good Omens is shaping up really well and they're looking at 36 - 36!!!!!!! episodes of a Watch series for TV, but is v. early days. They're apparently looking at having to do a purpose-built set for certain parts of AM instead of keeping on going out to Budapest. :shock:

Sjoerd, thank you for not mentioning my wardrobe malfunction... :shock:

More on that tomorrow, but we had our pictures taken a lot after the opening ceremony

by **Sjoerd3000** » Tue May 31, 2011 8:02 am

author3 wrote:What 4 books were they

Well 2 are a present for mC :wink:

Beause I already have them. And the other 2 are Unseen Academicals and Making Money

by **Penfold** » Tue May 31, 2011 11:11 am

Soooo glad both of you had a good time. I can't wait to see the pics Jan.

by **Jan Van Quirm** » Tue May 31, 2011 12:28 pm

This is going to take a while to organise so will be a 2-parter

Ysabell and her Daddy - don't we look cute? :roll:

OK - look at my wig 1st

Not a brilliant fit but pretty good considering this was the 1st time I'd had it on in earnest and when I'd got everything ready up in my room I was about to fix the elastication when the fastener just disintegrated and I ended up having to tie a knot in it instead so it was a tad tight on Madam's head! :shock:

Anyway - it held up long enough for a quick photocall and so that was OK and somebody got us photoed for posterior etc. Now look at my stomach - the dress honestly fitted me really well - tons of room and not tight at all, especially as I wasn't going to be moving around too much or doing strenuous things in it like sitting down and getting up.... the shiny satin central panel had very skimpy seams that I thought I'd restitched and strengthened at home already - NOT SO!!!! :evil:

After that piccy I was walking down the hall to the next event and felt a little cool around the waist - sat down to watch a demo of Ankh-Morpork the Game and discovered that the seam stitching on both sides of the central panel had finally given up the ghost and was starting to gape rather embarassingly... :oops:

'Luckily' I had to go and meet someone in reception, so I made my excuses and left rapidly (well as rapidly as I was capable of doing as function room transit was a tad hazardous for my dodgy knees :cry:

)to do an unscheduled costume change back into something that wouldn't cause offence to public decency.... :oops:

OK - some pics of other cosplay highlights

The Assassin and the Wizard - Jolanda and Nick (Djelibeybi) - Nick won and the Maskerade for the English and Jolanda with her co-Assassin mate (whose name I've forgotten but you'll see her in the next post) won the prize for the Dutch :oops:

Jolanda over-balancing with the weight of her blade arsenal... :lol:

and from the Maskerade Mister Otto Chriek - he was at Birmingham too and his camera is utterly brilliant!

Back in here later with action shots of the first and last production of the Very Much Reduced Disc Theatre Company of Going Postal ~ Second Class Delivery :twisted:

Sorry about picture quality - the camera's new to me and I've never used one of these new-fangled digital jobs where you don't have to do the viewfinder/focus thing to your eye. Plus the flash didn't always go off so I've had to tinker drastically with some of these.... :oops:

by **poohcarrot** » Tue May 31, 2011 12:44 pm

by **Tonyblack** » Tue May 31, 2011 1:22 pm

Why did you go to the con dressed as Dotsie? :lol:

Great pics, Jan. :wink:

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