<plokta.con 2.0> June
2002 Basingstoke |
Early on Arriving at the con, setting
up registration, buying beer... |
John Meaney The Guest of Honour demonstrates how to do the splits and
cut off Chris O'Shea's head with a single blow. |
The Programme Alison auctions
everything in sight that isn't nailed down. Also the mandatory Buffy
panel. |
School Sports Having
divided the membership of the convention into 4 houses (Spectrum, Wombles,
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and X-Men), we obviously had to hold an
inter-house sports competition |
Outdoors The weather was great. Lots of people just sat outside.
|
Bollywood Night On Saturday night we held a festival of Bollywood musicals,
dressing up strongly encouraged. |
Tattoos As part of the Bollywood
night, we provided henna and stick-on tattoos. Dave Hicks proceeded to decorate
several young ladies in the style of D. West |
Corset Workshop We held a workshop creating corsets out of bin-liners and gaffer
tape. It really works! |
Plokta the Musical An Ian
Sorensen rock opera in the style of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer musical
episode (only with Alison instead of Buffy...) |
Cult of LiveJournal You will be
assimilated. |
Closing Ceremony In which John gets his first tankard, Tobes phones up in the
middle and the cabal heave a sigh of relief. |
People Egoscan
time. |
Alison Gets a Ducking As part of the Jubilee celebrations, the hotel laid on a ducking
stool. Alison was foolish enough to volunteer. |
Clothes Mostly pictures of Yvonne
Rowse, for some reason. |
Miscellaneous Just
interesting shots from around the convention |