Many thanks to all of you who attended DJ17 over the weekend of 3/4/5th May. I was there on the Saturday and enjoyed myself immensely. I am only sorry that the tail end of the signing session was a little rushed.

My next convention attendance will be on Saturday 27th July (and possibly the Sunday). I shall be at Weston-super-Mare’s Helicopter Museum for the “Stars of Time” show. Very much looking forward to this one as I will hopefully have a chance to look at some of the exhibits!

Thereafter I am very much looking forward to attending COLLECTORMANIA Cardiff over the weekend of 31st August/ 1st September 2013 and Nor-Con IV on Sunday 8th September 2013!

Craig, Danny, Robert and I enjoyed a superb night at the Approach in Nottingham in early May- who knows, maybe we will be visiting other towns and cities in the future for similar such occasions.

The onset of Spring (at last!) has brought a flurry of corporate jobs. They say variety is the spice of life and that is certainly the case here. By the early summer I will have encountered audiences from the post and parcel industry, virtualisation and cloud specialists, the Royal Navy, and a group of Sheffield Councillors. I can’t complain!

Chris Barrie