UK PonyCon is the largest MLP convention in Britain, and this year it's on 13-14 October in Nottingham. One thing cons always need is help, and that goes beyond just the committee. Volunteers are always welcome -- in fact, without sufficient volunteers, some events simply can't happen. Even if you can only spare a few hours, that's still valuable! You'll generally need to be 18 or over and to have bought a convention ticket. (For the benefit of overseas

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Marmite Glimmer!

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I'll post these first on my Louder Yay blog, so that's the place to look if you want to read them as soon as I publish them. But I thought I'd copy the blogs over here for the benefit of anyone who's interested but prefers to stick to Fimfiction. Expect a lag of between a few hours and a couple of days before they appear here. If you've already read this on Louder Yay, it's exactly the same here; no need to read twice!

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Yes, I'm off to Nottingham tomorrow. Sadly for a variety of reasons, not least the continuing financial fallout of that car accident in June, I can only attend the Saturday daytime (until about 6pm) portion of the convention this year -- but that's much better than nothing! This year's guests of honour are Kelly Sheridan and Elley-Ray Hennessy, and while matching last year (Actual Fluttershy, Andrea Libman herself) would be impossible, that's not a bad duo! A train strike means my evening

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Edit 6 June: Weekend and Saturday ticket sales are on hold pending a review of venue capacity, due to high sales. However, Sunday and stallholder tickets are still available. An Adult Sunday ticket is £21 for Standard tier or £31 for Supporter-tier. It’s possible some of the other ticket types may have a few more released once the capacity review is complete, but no guarantees. Source: the

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I'll be absent from Fimfiction for a few days now, as I'm going to be at this year's UK PonyCon in Nottingham. It's possible I might look in on this site occasionally, but don't count on it. I'll be back on Monday, but it might be another day or two before I get my, er, unconventional bearings back.

Got home a couple of hours ago. Had a fantastic time. Proof that a great convention doesn't have to have a huge attendance or big-name guests. This was my sixth. It was also the best. Proper report coming in due course.

This has been coming, I think, but it's now official: UK PonyCon 2020 is no more. The October convention has a new date: 8th/9th May 2021. Yes, May! It's going to be an interesting experience. Read the official press release here. Of course we can't be sure what the situation will be in a year's time either, but naturally we all hope the 2021 event will be able to go ahead. And if it does, I

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Original Aire Date: 03/31/1997

No lie! This really premiered 25 years ago! Hell there was even a series 1 episode that aired on my day of birth (I looked it up)!

(U.S. theme song)

I have no/very little memory, but apparently from the time I was a baby til I was about 4, I was obsessed with Teletubbies and Barney and Friends.

UK PonyCon was glorious. I am so happy to have been there. Now I'm going to sleep for about 300 hours.

No, not this weekend. Next weekend. I'll be off at UK PonyCon for the sixth year running, and I hope I'll see one or two of you there! As we surely all know by now the official broadcast of the very last FiM episodes will be on Saturday 12th October. That's the first day of the con. It's going to be quite something, and nothing like anything I've experienced before. I mean, UKPC 2015 coincided with "Crusaders of the Lost Mark", and UKPC 2017 coincided with the UK wide

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Even though it was a shorter affair for me this year than usual, it was still great to get to Nottingham for UK PonyCon. As ever, a big part of this was catching up with friends I hadn't seen for a long time, especially at the pre-meet at the Roebuck on Friday night. The two names that people on here are most likely to know are Ghost Mike and hawthornbunny, but there were quite a few more -- including folks going for their first ever convention. One of us, one of us, etc.

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And here's the official site to prove it! It's going to be over the weekend of 22-23 October at the Royal Armouries Museum -- not a bad venue considering the "Heroes and Villains" theme! Leeds is not really the ideal location for me as it's rather a long way and so quite expensive on the train, and central Leeds doesn't have the cheapest hotels in the world, but I'll certainly go if I can. I do feel for southerners, who haven't had a pony con of any kind

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