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2024's Electromagnetic Field festival, hereafter EMF, was one of the highlights of my year, as I wrote about at length at the time.

Electromagnetic Field, a camping festival with a focus towards makers and hackers, was the highlight of my summer 2024, as previously described at length.

You may recall that my late husband, Emerson Milford Dickson, was a judge for the first children's and YA prize at the Polari Prize awards, which are UK literary prizes for LGBTQ+ literature, in 2022; I mentioned that he took joy and pride in having been…

Yesterday and today saw the eleventh and, alas, final Now Play This games festival at Somerset House in London.

Tonight I went to a R&D/workshop performance of Terraforming Mars by the Ludens Theatre Company.

...I say cuchi-cuchi too!

From Thursday 30th May up until early Monday 3rd June, I did something quite out of character for me: for the first time, I attended Electromagnetic Field (hereafter EMF) held at Eastnor Deer Park, about half-way between Hereford and Cheltenham in the Wes…

If you were to line up all the 47-year-olds in the world by order of how important music is to them, so you might have people who make a living for it and search it out constantly at one end, and perhaps who are genuinely completely neutral about it at the

Emerson Milford Dickson's UK memorial service did indeed take place as planned on the afternoon of Saturday 18th March 2023 at Forest School.

I have the very sad duty to announce that my beloved husband Emerson Milford Dickson passed away at some point between midnight and 9am of Sunday 15th January.

My father has passed away.

Here is a simple, free-to-enter game to celebrate the recent turn of the decade.

Insomnia last night inspired this game idea; maybe there's something to it, maybe there isn't.

The first meme to have really caught my imagination for a few years popped up on Twitter the other day.

Between 2005 and 2010, I made a habit of making one post each year about chess.

Meg and I are in Wales this weekend!

I'd say that I was getting myself onto night shift mode, but I just have a headache and cannot sleep.

I've mentioned Dan in the past, haven't I?

I have recently taken on a new Project.

OK, I started writing this literally months ago, and got stuck quite early on through the piece.

1) A couple of weeks ago, meggitymeg and I went down to London and stayed overnight, with the focus of the trip being to attend the fourth month of Puzzled Pint in London.

Registration has recently opened for the sixth annual DASH puzzle hunt, which is being run in cities across the United States and also in London on Saturday 26th April.

Meg's sister Sarah has been staying with us for the winter, since just before Thanksgiving.

This weekend, xorsyst, Nick as mentioned in my birthday weekend write-up and Martin who I've known from board game cons for, ooh, a good fifteen years all came to join Meg, Sarah and me.

Earlier on today, I was idly wondering whether the increased tensions between China and Japan would be likely to cause World War III.