Workshop Booze Up VII - New Year, Same Plague, Same Booze Up, Deja Vu

[Glaurung]

Here's some unexpected news from the Royal Albert Hall, posted a week ago.

[Jubal]

That's one of the better ones I've seen from this year

[Pentagathus]

Oh good, they might make a black hole just large enough to suck up london before it disappears. And yes that's how physics works.

[Jubal]

What's so wrong with London?

[Pentagathus]

It's really full of people and it's too damn big.

[Jubal]

That is a fair point, tbh.

[comrade_general]

All cities are. Destroy them all.

[Jubal]

Are you *sure* you're not a White Walker, CG?

[comrade_general]

Well, it did snow in Ohio last night.

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[Jubal]

Selfie game is strong

[Silver Wolf]

Hello people!

How are you doing?

[Glaurung]

I'm well, thanks, and enjoying the start of spring in the UK. I'm spending a lot of my time at the moment walking around Cambridge, pushing leaflets into letterboxes for the Liberal Democrat Party. Hopefully this will encourage people to vote accordingly in the local council elections in early May.

How are things with you?

[Jubal]

Well, I had an interesting evening out today - met up with four of the other Byzantinists, got a (very good) Greek takeaway, and then went to an Orthodox hymn concert at Birmingham's Orthodox cathedral. The concert was... interesting, there was a lot of very Greek vocal wibbling and I didn't understand more than occasional words for obvious reasons (ancient Greek looks more similar to modern Greek than its pronunciation is, especially the vowels - in modern Greek most vowels have mutated to a short "i" or "ee" sound, and when I say most they even pronounce "u" as "ee"). It was very impressive stuff nonetheless, and at least got me properly out the house for the first time in a week

[comrade_general]

At first I was like "Hodor", but then I was like "Hodor".

[Glaurung]

Much leaflet... many ink... so LibDem... Wow!