Hey Ho, Let’s TGO
… or, as in my case, not.
The early results for the draw are in and Twitter is full of delight and disappointment from those who either have or have not made it into the 2012 TGO Challenge hike. Congratulations to all who made the cut and fingers firmly crossed for those of you on the waiting list.
I didn’t submit an application for 2012 – sparing the time each year is difficult for me and not at all fair on The Lovely Emma, who doesn’t join me on longer hikes – but 2013 or 14 will be duly pencilled-in. In the meantime, 2012 might see a holiday with Em and, of course, the UK Games Expo in May. We had planned to attend the Expo together, a fine plan sadly scuppered by the convention clashing with the Eurovision Song Contest: The Lovely Emma has clear priorities.
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Blogroll
- Ever Decreasing Girdle The Lovely Emma. Sadly not updated for a long time.
Cycling
- Copenhagenize Because life’s better by bike.
- Pashley Cycles Makers of my previous bike, aka “The Vicar”
- Revolve MCR First-rate mobile bicycle repairs in Manchester.
Gaming & Fiction
- Flying Buffalo Inc. Home of my first great gaming love, Tunnels & Trolls
- Forgotten Futures Marcus L. Rowland’s game of scientific romances and futuristic speculation, with a wealth of period articles and stories.
- Grey Ghost Press Home of the Fudge RPG, which is always available for free on the Internet.
- Nick Marsh Author, Gamer, Bon Viveur
- TĂ©kumel The endlessly enthralling world of the Petal Throne
- The Grognard Files Blog and associated podcast looking at the wonderful RPGs of our youth.
- The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast Wise and witty discussion of classic weird fiction. I appear now and then reading excerpts from the story under discussion.
- Tri Tac Games Publishers of Fringeworthy, Stalking the Night Fantastic, Incursion, FTL:2448 and many other RPGs and boardgames.
- Whartson Hall Actual Play Audio The new location for recordings of middle-aged gamers waffling, role-playing and making tedious knob jokes
- Yog-Sothoth Venerable repository of lore pertaining to the author H.P. Lovecraft, his stories and the games based upon them. I’m an occasional guest host.
Mental Health
- Black Dog Tribe Growing resource and network for sufferers of depression.
- Mind Website for the major mental health charity.
Music
- Ape Andy Partridge’s Ape music label
- Eagle Music Shop A rather splendid place to buy a ukulele.
- Professor Elemental Brighton’s foremost Victorian steampunk hip hop MC
- The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra
- Ukulele Hunt Excellent ukulele website with lots of tips and tunes.
Outdoorsy
- A Blog on the Landscape
- JJ's Stuff Beware this man…
- Locomountaineer
- M&G Go For A Walk The delightful Mick & Gayle™ and their perpetual peregrinations
- Minimal Gear
- Must Be This Way Andy Howell’s engaging walking blog
- SectionHiker This is what a real outdoors blog looks like.
- Shed Dweller's Moments
- Summit and Valley
Uneasily Fitting the Other Categories
- Fez-o-Rama Far and away the finest, funkiest fezzes around.
To be fair we were all set to go together, but because the Expo is a week early next year in order not to clash with Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee there’s the unfortunate overlap with the Eurovision, which would normally not happen. Em loves having friends over for a Eurovision party and I love being in a different part of the country when that happens… so she’s staying at home and I’m Expoing 🙂