Tolkien Society AGM Weekend
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sally_mariaI promised an entry about it when I was less tired, and I think I've probably achieved that. :-)
Last year![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
apademek and gurthaew tried to organise the AGM, but unfortunately it fell through. They were determined not to let the chance pass us by, however, and this year they were able to make it happen.
The venue was Baskerville Hall Hotel, near Hay on Wye.
Allegedly Arthur Conan Doyle was a frequent visitor to the home of his friends the Baskervilles and their many hunting hounds, but moved the house to Devon to put tourists off the scent... who knows whether it's true or not.
It's certainly set in beautiful countryside,
and is close to the famous book town of Hay-on-Wye. Book collecting, and reading in general, being a very common interest in the TS, it was bound to attract a large number of attendees, and the time of the meeting was put back accordingly.
As I'd booked later than some (a whole month before the event) I had to have a premium room as the only one available. It wasn't as big as some, though big enough, but I did have my first ever four-poster bed, and the first time I've ever had to climb steps to get in.
I bought 5 books, which I thought was very restrained of me, but had a very nice trip around the bookshops with TS friends old and new, includingkizzia, at her first TS event. (I don't think we scared her off. :-D) Other highlights of the weekend included causing trouble at the AGM by too much talking with ExMemSec and John Garth's interesting after-dinner talk on Tolkien's time as an undergraduate at Exeter College.
One of the downsides of no longer volunteering is that I don't see people as often... It was lovely to catch up with old friends and make new ones, and I'm already looking forward to next year's meeting in Arundel.
Last year
apademek and gurthaew tried to organise the AGM, but unfortunately it fell through. They were determined not to let the chance pass us by, however, and this year they were able to make it happen.The venue was Baskerville Hall Hotel, near Hay on Wye.
Allegedly Arthur Conan Doyle was a frequent visitor to the home of his friends the Baskervilles and their many hunting hounds, but moved the house to Devon to put tourists off the scent... who knows whether it's true or not.
It's certainly set in beautiful countryside,
and is close to the famous book town of Hay-on-Wye. Book collecting, and reading in general, being a very common interest in the TS, it was bound to attract a large number of attendees, and the time of the meeting was put back accordingly.
As I'd booked later than some (a whole month before the event) I had to have a premium room as the only one available. It wasn't as big as some, though big enough, but I did have my first ever four-poster bed, and the first time I've ever had to climb steps to get in.
I bought 5 books, which I thought was very restrained of me, but had a very nice trip around the bookshops with TS friends old and new, including
kizzia, at her first TS event. (I don't think we scared her off. :-D) Other highlights of the weekend included causing trouble at the AGM by too much talking with ExMemSec and John Garth's interesting after-dinner talk on Tolkien's time as an undergraduate at Exeter College.One of the downsides of no longer volunteering is that I don't see people as often... It was lovely to catch up with old friends and make new ones, and I'm already looking forward to next year's meeting in Arundel.
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Date: 2014-04-18 07:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-04-18 08:04 pm (UTC)Hugo Dyson I expect, he was one of the group of Tolkien's friends when he was lecturing in Oxford. I didn't know his papers were in York, so thank you.