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VSauce

Some footage that I shot at the World Gurning Championship got used in an episode of (popular YouTube series) VSauce this week… …albeit originally without any kind of credit (naughty!!). After some gentle prompting, VSauce back-linked to my original YouTube … Continue reading →

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Newcastle Gamers – 29th September

A short-ish report this time, as I only managed to play two games (excellent though they were) at this meeting, and I’m pretty sure I’ve written about both of them previously. However, since I’ve managed to keep my Newcastle Gamers … Continue reading →

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Corbridge Gamers, 22nd September

It’s a five-weekend month this month… which means there’s an unusually-long 3-week gap between Newcastle Gamers meetings. Fortunately we had family staying with us this weekend — and my niece and nephews are always keen to do a bit of … Continue reading →

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The World Black Pudding Throwing Championship

We’ve visited quite a few odd events over recent weeks (most of which are still to be downloaded and documented!). This is one of the quirkiest — the World Black Pudding Throwing Championship at Ramsbottom… We bought a couple of … Continue reading →

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Newcastle Gamers – 8th September 2012

It was Newcastle Gamers’ second all-day session of the summer this weekend. (Or — if you define your seasons the same way as Mrs Shep does — possibly the first all-day session of the autumn). Due to an adverse early-morning … Continue reading →

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