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Oxonmoot - a lovely weekend
Oct. 2nd, 2010 11:36 amOxonmoot is always one of the high-lights of my year - the chance to spend the weekend with so many wonderful people, doing interesting Tolkien-y things.
This year I was determined to have Friday off work, as I didn't last year and it really seemed to cut into the weekend. I packed in the morning, and had a lift, getting there at around 3pm, in time to start getting in the way of the people doing the work of setting up. :-) I did managed to say hello to a fairly large group from Unquendor, the Dutch Tolkien Society, who were going out for tea, as dinner was not until 8pm.
I continued hang about greeting friends and occasionally being useful until 6pm or so, when I retired to the bar with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
parrot_knight and DTE Kate. We chatted about this and that, but when I went to buy the next round I met a very nice young man from the Netherlands, who currently works at the EU commission in Brussels. All of us had an interesting discussion on the nature of hung parliaments and coalition governments - apparently neither the Netherlands nor Belgium has had a proper government for months, because of the coalition negotiations. Puts our week or so before Brown's resignation into perspective...
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This year I was determined to have Friday off work, as I didn't last year and it really seemed to cut into the weekend. I packed in the morning, and had a lift, getting there at around 3pm, in time to start getting in the way of the people doing the work of setting up. :-) I did managed to say hello to a fairly large group from Unquendor, the Dutch Tolkien Society, who were going out for tea, as dinner was not until 8pm.
I continued hang about greeting friends and occasionally being useful until 6pm or so, when I retired to the bar with
parrot_knight and DTE Kate. We chatted about this and that, but when I went to buy the next round I met a very nice young man from the Netherlands, who currently works at the EU commission in Brussels. All of us had an interesting discussion on the nature of hung parliaments and coalition governments - apparently neither the Netherlands nor Belgium has had a proper government for months, because of the coalition negotiations. Puts our week or so before Brown's resignation into perspective...( Read more... )
