Alice "Huskyteer" Dryden's Blog

On Friday (the thirteenth!) I headed to the Cinema Museum in Kennington, a former chapel crammed with film memorabilia, for, in the immortal words of Richard O’Brien, a science fiction double feature picture show.

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Saturday saw me at the BFI, meeting my friend Hannah for a screening of the newly-restored Fifth Doctor story Warriors of the Deep.

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The weekend before last was ScotiaCon, Scotland's furry convention held in Glasgow. In contrast to last year's epic road trip via south Wales, this time I flew from Gatwick.

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There's a new stage play of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. I went with a friend on Saturday, having booked for January on the grounds that we'd need something to look forward to.

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On Wednesday, my day off coincided with 1) the only good weather of the week and 2) a bike club ride 3) with a start point less than a minute from my home. Rude not to.

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I meant to go for a swim yesterday morning but I woke up, thought 'nah', made myself a coffee and put the electric blanket on and got back into bed and the next thing I knew it was 11. These things happen.

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On Thursday I did something I'd been meaning to do for ages, and went to the monthly improv class run by a colleague who very generously does it for no reward other than her love of it. It takes place after work in one of the ground floor meeting-rooms.

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It was a nice Christmas; one in which nothing much was planned or scheduled except what I was going to eat.

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A couple of years ago, a kind friend gave me a taster scuba session as a birthday present. (He's very into diving and his partner's not interested, so he may have had an ulterior motive.) I enjoyed it and thought it might be nice to get a diving qualification when I had the time and the money.

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I have a book out! It's a speculative fiction collection, with some stories leaning more towards sci-fi and some more fantasy. Some are more serious, most are humorous or at least whimsical. All of them have an animal in.

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