I've never been to Sunderland before, although I did write a story involving the place (being blown to atoms) in a previous blog entry. It was nothing personal. The memory demonstration today went really well - just me and James Paterson at this one, but we enthralled and illuminated the audience very nicely, I think.
The guy in charge of this one didn't have a silly name or a connection with obscure comics, but he did come from the Cardiff area, and knows Penarth, where James comes from, very well. Which you wouldn't really expect from a uni up in Sunderland, but then even more funnily, it turned out that another guy there is from Lincolnshire, and even had relatives living in Clinton Park, where I went to primary school! Small world.
Also, getting there was no end of fun. All the trains were cancelled, for no adequately explained reason, and we had to go by a very circuitous route. But never mind, that gave us plenty of time for epic Tetris contests on James's DSs. I'm almost tempted to get one of the things myself...
The annoying thing is that the only train I wanted to be delayed was the one to Belper, a 10 minute delay was all that I needed to meet up nicely with it, but no, it ran perfectly to schedule so I have only just got back! .....Yes, get a DS!
ReplyDeleteDS's are brilliant! My mum's got one! Do you know you can get a Scooby Doo game for that thing?! Fantastic!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely get a DS then get all the retro games for it - most of the old NES games can be bought for it for next to nothing. Not to mention the new Zelda game...
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