Then she had the experience of getting up in the night for the bathroom, asking if I was aleady in it, which I was (and replied so), turning round to see and touch me (my ankle, apparently, to check I was real) still in the bed, then making it to the bathroom door in time to bump into me coming out of the bathroom. The other me wasn't in the bed when I got there.

Highlights included Man Of Iron, of course, and various panels- though I suspect that holding both railway ghost and Sapphire And Steel panels in a former railway hotel may have been tempting fate as some of us had some spooky experiences thereafter. (seriously, that hotel has three floors, and yesterday morning went up four of them). Though, apart from moment, it may have had something to do with mixing cassis with rye bourbon.

I think at some point when introducing ourselves in an LGBT panel I did say “I’m Dave and I’m bisexual” which didn’t bother me at that moment  cos I’ve been open about it for five or six years and so everybody knows that anyway, but later it felt weird to think about having said that in front of a group of people, like it was some sort of Bisexuals Anonymous group. And feeling weird about it was weird too...

Sue Griffiths, Tlanti, did us a lovely dialed-back programme, Fiona Moore was a great guest, Sarah Brider ran Ops smoothly, and so on - and it was wonderful get to ctach up with Tyrone and so many others. We didn't do any SCA stuff this year - been there done that previously, but Yannick from that circle did a sterling job on Tech too.