*F* Lancaster meet thanks and report
Martyn Clapham
Firstly thanks to all the people at IMT who made my first visit to a
signing/meet so enjoyable, and for showing me that proper Indian food is
not extreamly spicy[1].
Claire Speed is going to post a proper report but as I have probably got
home first I thought I'd post a summary of what happened to me[2].
I arrived at about 5.15pm to find a large queue outside the shop, in the
rain and hail etc.
Got inside, bought a copy of Maskerade and got it signed, then tried to
find the other afpers.
The Bellman saw me looking round and asked what I was looking for, when
I told him he introduced himself and the others.
Again thanks to all, Pterry and ppint especially, and no longer being a
meet newbie I hope to meet more afpers at the London signing.
MartynC
[1] I get an allergic reaction/upset stomach after eating very spicy
food :-(
[2] Given the nature of Usenet this will of course appear after Claires
post!
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Martyn Clapham <mar...@mclapham.demon.co.uk> wrote
[snip]
> I arrived at about 5.15pm to find a large queue outside the shop, in the
> rain and hail etc.
You arrived about five minutes after me then, didn't see you in the queue
tho'
> Got inside,
about an hour later IIRC
> The Bellman saw me looking round and asked what I was looking for, when
> I told him he introduced himself and the others.
ISTR my first words was "Martyn?" I recognised you from the ad picture
(much to dark) on you web page.
It was my first ever afpmeet too though I have been to a couple of signings
before, I've only had a modem at home since summer.
> Again thanks to all, Pterry and ppint especially, and no longer
I managed to get one of the last copies of Hogfather <BG>
Did you know it's dedicated to ppint? If I'd read it before we went for a
curry I'd've got ppint to sign it as well. If you are listening/reading
noble sir/madam would you be so kind the next time I'm passing through the
Interstellar wossname?
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ppint.
- hi. in afparticle, <01bbd0d4$81fe6e40$0100007f@default>,
j...@burnis01.airtime.co.uk "The Bellman of Ankh" tingled:
> Martyn Clapham <mar...@mclapham.demon.co.uk> wrote
>[snip]
>
>> I arrived at about 5.15pm to find a large queue outside the shop, in the
>> rain and hail etc.
>
>You arrived about five minutes after me then, didn't see you in the queue
>tho'
the flats above the shop; the very suggestion was, where it regist-
ered at all, received with the kind of regard normally reserved for
the worst kind of propositions heretical...
>
>> Got inside,
>
>about an hour later IIRC
- it may well have *felt* like that, but i *think* you were in by
six o'clock...
>
>> The Bellman saw me looking round and asked what I was looking for, when
>> I told him he introduced himself and the others.
>
>ISTR my first words was "Martyn?" I recognised you from the ad picture
>(much to dark) on you web page.
>
>It was my first ever afpmeet too though I have been to a couple of signings
>before, I've only had a modem at home since summer.
- <slight boggle> - how did you discover afp ?
>
>> Again thanks to all, Pterry and ppint especially, and no longer
>
>I managed to get one of the last copies of Hogfather <BG>
- that *must* have been around six p.m. - thanks to cassell (who
own gollancz), whose rep had promised to deliver/see delivered
100 copies on full sale-or-return terms, refusing with five days
notice to supply me with _any_, i had only the sixty-six copies
i'd ordered from my wholesaler as "insurance"... pterry very
kindly signed some sixty-nine more copies on friday, which vickie,
vickie's dad and vickie (again) got up to lancaster more speedily,
and more certainly undamaged, than would have a commercial carrier
(hi, vickie: thanks again, and i owe you a meal, once you've re-
covered from your birthday today (22/11/96; 11/22/96 for merkind),
in addition to that _The Best of Kuttner 1_, and another to-be-
chosen book...<g>), which copies are being variously posted out/
collected/delivered over the passed three days, and the coming
three. (signed other titles for collection, and for mail-order
customers await the end of the signing tour this saturday - to-
morrow - pterry's rest and recuperation thereafter, arrangements
for me to drive down to the south-west to see friends and drop off
en-route - and, of some importance to me, pterry's forgiving me my
share of the responsibility for his not realising these books were
in boxes in the back of i.m.t.... - i'd quite like there to be sig-
nificant chances of my surviving the re-encounter...)
>
>Did you know it's dedicated to ppint?
- <giggle<g>>: yup...
>If I'd read it before we went for a curry I'd've got ppint to sign it as
>well.
- the curry was *that* bad ?
>If you are listening/reading noble sir/madam would you be so kind the next
>time I'm passing through the Interstellar wossname?
>
>(the bellman of ankh)
>
- i'm not sure i'll be _so_ kind, if you're only "passing through"
( :-) ) - but of course i'll inscribe therein the squiggle ppintish,
if you really would like me to - but it's not as though it was a
collaboration, you know; there was just something in my feetnotes
piece, "Say Arrrrgggghhhh!", that pterry couldn't forget/get out
of his sub-conscious/whatever, and eventually metamorphosed into
just one of the threads of _Hogfather_... *after* he'd recalled it
must have been me, that'd written the light fillicle [1], *and*
after asking me if he might take the idea and run it a ways...
- love, ppint.
[1] - bloody typical afper; reads the whole fz, and then, *years*
after, responds not to any of the "heavyweight" work, nor
aught of the account of my vegetablisation, and its aftermath,
oh, no - what bothered _his_ mind was a little fillicle, done
purely for light relief - in fz terms, a throwaway remark...
<hmph>... (...<giggle>...)
--
"the life of a vegetable is of absolutely no interest whatsoever -
including to the vegetable in question. i speak from experience."
- ppint. at interstellar master traders
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- andrew bell, the bookworm,
morecambe, c.1974
The Bellman of Ankh
"ppint." <pp...@i-m-t.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<848688...@i-m-t.demon.co.uk>...
> - hi. in afparticle, <01bbd0d4$81fe6e40$0100007f@default>,
> j...@burnis01.airtime.co.uk "The Bellman of Ankh" tingled:
> > Martyn Clapham <mar...@mclapham.demon.co.uk> wrote
> >[snip]
> >
> >> I arrived at about 5.15pm
> >
> >> Got inside,
> >
> >about an hour later IIRC
>
> - it may well have *felt* like that, but i *think* you were in by
> six o'clock...
By my watch ten past five to six o'clock _is_ about an hour <g>
> >before, I've only had a modem at home since summer.
>
> - <slight boggle> - how did you discover afp ?
afp was one of the reasons I _bought_ a modem. I had read about it in
internet type magazines for ages before actually getting access to it. We
have a machine at work connected to the internet for quite some time, but
_they_ tend to sack people who read things like alt. newsgroups instead of
doing work related stuff.
> >I managed to get one of the last copies of Hogfather <BG>
> - that *must* have been around six p.m.
> >Did you know it's dedicated to ppint?
> - <giggle<g>>: yup...
> >If I'd read it before we went for a curry I'd've got ppint to sign it as
> >well.
> - the curry was *that* bad ?
The curry was excellent, although the most memorable part of the meal was
my first ever taste of "lassy" <sp?>. Absolutely wonderful drink, have been
looking for it far and wide ever since. Will have to bring some friends for
a meal in Lancaster just to let them taste the stuff.
However, the reason that _before_ is relevant is because I didn't think it
was a good idea to bring brand new signed copies of Pterry's books into a
Klatchian restaurant; especially considering the mess I usually make when
eating this kind of food.
P.S. The car is still very poorly: cracked a piston lining. Would've
required a new set (ba*ds only sell them in sets of four, complete with
pistons, for 700 quid) so I bought a second-hand engine. It doesn't work
properly, although the old one is completely knackered now so what choice
do I have. Nov 6th was a very expensive evening, 70 quid on books, 10 quid
on the meal, 600 quid on the car. Anybody got some spare cash they can give
me?
Mike Knell
In article <01bbd8d8$488175c0$0100007f@default>,
The Bellman of Ankh <j...@burnis01.airtime.co.uk> wrote:
>
>afp was one of the reasons I _bought_ a modem. I had read about it in
>internet type magazines for ages before actually getting access to it. We
>have a machine at work connected to the internet for quite some time, but
>_they_ tend to sack people who read things like alt. newsgroups instead of
>doing work related stuff.
Change your job. That's what I did.
What sort of things do people write about us [1] in internet-type
mags, anyway? I'm getting extremely worried here. These are the sort
of magazines that talk about "surfing", use the term "information
superhighway" without irony, and think that Netscape is a newsreader,
aren't they? Eek..
>The curry was excellent, although the most memorable part of the meal was
>my first ever taste of "lassy" <sp?>.
Lassi. Nice stuff.
Mike "Point your web browser to the alt.fan.pratchett bulletin board!" K.
[1] AFP, that is.
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