I just got back from the Collectormania event in Milton Keynes - the city of roundabouts - another packed weekend of activity which is great fun but also ultimately tiring - even though there were no official duties. There was quite a sureal moment when - on the Saturday, I shared a lift with the tall, unfeasibly bespectacled veteran director George Romero as I headed to the bar and a few minutes later had Helen Slater (Supergirl) walk past looking as striking as she ever did back in her 'S' days....

So. The Vancouver trip went well... then it was on to Denver by way of LAX... good job I like flying (or at least getting to new places eventually).Denver was warmer than I thought it would be in October and though not quite as hot as LA it was in the late 70s most of the three days I was there (It seems I bring good weather with me whenever I go somewhere, so ya boo sucks to the naysayers ;) )Holly picked me up from the airport late on the Wednesday and we went to her new house which, like a tardis,...

Well, in the way that trips often do, time has flown and I'm only a few hours away from leaving Vancouver. This past weekend I was eMCeeing the HLWW8 event here. Eighteen months of planning and much like Christmas it's ages of anticpation and then it's all over again so quickly.Being the eMCee is something of both a fun and thankless task. Fun in the sense that you get a completely unique insight into the event both before and after and thankless because... well, really the same reason - you aren't...

I never knew it was so hard sending things throughthe post. To save suitcase space I decided to send some clothes back to the UK -being greener than the Hulk on environmental issues, I decided to use the same box that John Bierly had sent me some stuff from Indiana in the day before.But noooooooo.Seems while the industrial tape he secured it with was okay from Indiana, the LA post office didn't like it one bit. So had to get a whole new box and send this morning. Except.... they didn't like where I'd put my return adddress, so had to write it out again. And fill inanew form. All this to send...

Yes, I'm off again. I'm on one of those jaunts that leads the uninitiated to muse 'If he gets paid so little, how can he afford all these trips???' I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. Fair to say that it's totally legitimate, that I earn my keep and the closest I get to espionage is to watch a special sneak preview of the upcoming series of 'Spooks'. In all seriousness, I don't know how I do it either. I think having a very small, but wonderful set of friends who I can pay back in...