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This special “No Room For A Colophon” issue was edited by Mike Scott assisted by Jan van’t Ent and Steve Davies
Issue 2: Saturday Afternoon
Green Room
Could programme participants
please come to the Green Room
before their programme item so
that we can keep the gophers
well fed get drinks for them.
Besides, we get lonely.
— The Green Room Team
Snack Meals
Profuse apologies for the
confusion about snack meals.
The demand for later snacks, as
opposed to the carvery 2-for-1
deal, was higher than expected.
New arrangements are:
Snack Meals
Sat: 1pm — 7pm (last orders
6:45pm)
Sun: 1pm — 7:30pm
Mon: 12 noon — 4pm
Carvery
The carvery evening deal will
still be available from 6:30-
9:30pm in the restaurant, but
the carvery lunch has been
withdrawn to meet resource
demands for snack meals.
Once again, the committee
apologise for any inconvenience
and confusion on Friday
evening.
— Cuddles
Lost Property #1
To the person who removed my
brand-new leather tankard of
ale from the shelf where I left it:
I am back now, and you can
return it to me. Thanks for
looking after it.
— Colin Fine
Electrical Eggs
Could the following Electrical
Eggs members please collect
new alert badges from room 103:
q Steve Davies
q Miche Kiessling
q Andrew Kirkland
q Pauline McKendrick
q James O’Dell
q Stephen Rushe
Lost Property #2
Urgent request from the hotel.
Can they have their trolley back
please? It was borrowed
yesterday and was not returned.
Leather Fetish
Fandom expects every leather
fetishist to do their duty.
There is a leather shop closing
today, virtually beneath the
hotel (go out of the train station
via escalator, the shop is under
the railway bridge on Argyle
Street).
Leather skirts, coats,
waistcoats, dresses, trousers —
nothing over £50, and perhaps
even lower prices this afternoon.
— Gail Courtney
For a Few Hobbits
More
Once upon a time in the Shire,
the evil lord Sauron (or Soren in
the local dialect) begat a son,
who contrived an unparalleled
rip-off of Morricone, Lucas, and
Tolkien.
Frodo disappeared by getting
his hand toasted (had the
toaster been PAT tested?).
Gandalf the Grey (and later Off-
White) was taken down in Moria
by a balrog not falling for odd-
numbered parlour tricks. But
the Ent was really nice (so I
have some interest there, all
right?) And in the end the
audience got to play the part of
the most expensive prop of all: a
flapping, screeching, fire-
breathing Nazgul of immense
proportion.
— Jan van’t Ent
Programme Update
Update
A time was left off the Saturday
programme update. Behind the
Scenes at Time Team and If I
Ran The Zoo Con 2 are at 18:00,
not 17:00
Film Extra
The Resurrection Works, a ten
minute promo for an original,
fan produced independent film,
will be showing prior to the film
programme items in Arran at
approx. 2:45pm today and
3:45pm Sunday. Anyone
interested in independent film
making and in helping to make
a film may want to attend.
— Mark Slater
Restaurant Guide
Thai Royale, Argyle St (close to
the Carrick Hotel) has a three
course set menu at £10.95 pp
with a good selection of dishes
from 5:30pm-7pm.
Food was delicious, and a treat
for the eyes. I highly recommend
the grilled pork ribs as a starter
and the chicken satay as a main
course. Dessert was a lovely
vanilla ice cream. Recommended!
— Cristina Pulido Ulvang
Under the hotel is a tapas bar
called Havana, with a
restaurant attached. The
restaurant has been closed for
refurbishment for ages, but just
reopened yesterday. So nobody
knows it’s open and it was
empty. Food jolly nice, though. 3
tapas (from a short but
reasonably interesting range)
are £8.50; 12 tapas, some flat
bread and olives fed four of us
and a child comfortably. It’s
open tonight (Saturday) but will
be closed tomorrow and Monday.
— Alison Scott
Blatant Plug #1
Come along and enter the
Lexicon “Oxford and Angels”
quiz — see the Lexicon desk in
the bar for details. Grand
prizes, including lots of books by
our GoH Philip Pullman.
Also come along and collect PR1
and room booking forms — and
join the convention! 18-20
August 2000, Exeter College,
Oxford. £28.
— Lexicon
