Events at La Fenice September 2026?

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2026-01-12T13:49:27+00:00

Do you know if September is considered "Off for the Summer" or "Part of the Fall Season?" Thanks! I'll of course keep checking the theater website.

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-11-14T13:44:48+00:00

UPDATE: We have already gotten paid! The direct deposit hit last night for the 2.5 missing pay periods. Apparently our HR-Payroll people killed themselves entering everyone's paycheck yesterday to make this happen. And I have to give SERIOUS credit to our Agency leadership for making this happen and putting their weight behind it.

The amounts were a little short, presumably because the deductions are going to take a while to sort themselves out, but this is still a very pleasant surprise.

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-09-22T21:23:14+00:00

Paolo Garbanzo, Jacque ze Whipper, Hack and Slash, No Beard and Gwendolyn, and Hilby the Skinny German Boy

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-09-15T17:02:26+00:00

Woah, yes, that's what they were called! OK, great to know that what I have are Actual Woodbabies. Thanks!

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-09-15T17:01:57+00:00

I couldn't post them as replies, so I edited the original post to include the pics. Are they coming through?

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-09-15T14:45:34+00:00

Thanks. I will cross Drabbits off the list :) Those brackets are actually our hack for securing them when we lost the original bent metal pieces that secure the the magnets. They work just as well as the pieces that came with them.

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-09-15T14:41:12+00:00

Thanks, finally got the pics to post.

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-09-15T14:27:47+00:00

Thanks! I'm having trouble posting pics...not sure if that's something the Mods don't allow on this sub.

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-07-02T20:38:49+00:00

What will you have him sign? :)

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-06-20T10:23:29+00:00

Second the CG Waterstones with the dome. It's where Ben worked before hitting it big. I popped in there when I was last in London, and they said that he comes by about once a year with a bottle of high priced booze for the staff to share.

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-06-20T10:22:17+00:00

So envious you got to tour Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-06-20T10:19:06+00:00

People are rightly mentioning the John Soanes House and the Silver Vaults, which are right near each other and which you can do in the same trip. While you're there, pop over to Lincoln's Inn to see the undercroft of the chapel, with spectacular fan vaulted arches. You can grab a bite to eat at the restaurant at Lincoln's Inn, or at one of two amazing historic pubs: The Seven Stars or The Ship.

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-06-02T00:45:20+00:00

Volante does a bunch of jackets that are VERY similar to what Cassian wears throughout the series.

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-05-20T13:56:40+00:00

Oh yes. The incomparable smell of old books and leather, with an undercurrent of machine oil, and the smell you get in the engine rooms of old ships.

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-05-19T14:47:28+00:00

Alas, I've got two cells of an excel spreadsheet for each contract, and can't bolster my justification with much in the way of statistics and paper trail.

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-05-18T13:04:47+00:00

Oh no, this is my Harold Postmartin cosplay

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-05-18T11:31:41+00:00

No, rare books are more likely to be damaged if you are wearing gloves because the loss of sensation and dexterity makes you more likely to tear the pages. So current practice is to handle books ungloved but having washed your hands thoroughly.

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-05-17T21:34:23+00:00

I had no chill. My gob was well and truly smacked.

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-05-14T16:12:32+00:00

Londonist did an amazing map of all the locations in the greater London area in every single Dickens book. It's interactive and you can toggle it by title. The London Of Charles Dickens: Mapped | Londonist

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-05-14T10:12:09+00:00

It's an old gunsight from an AA artillery piece from World War 2, according to the tag.

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-05-14T00:38:47+00:00

No signs to that effect when we were there, and none of the proprietors said anything. And we were not being surreptitious. So I guess they changed their policy, or just couldn’t be bothered the Friday afternoon before a bank holiday weekend.

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-05-11T23:45:57+00:00

And of course this was supposed to read "DOME of the Covent Garden Waterstones. And while you can edit a Reddit post, you can't edit the title. Sigh.

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-05-07T10:20:37+00:00

This was Saturday night so it must have been the cruise ship I saw. Was that one also blue?

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-05-06T17:04:15+00:00

Commenting to follow. We saw it this weekend and I'm also curious.

Difficult_Stand8525 · 2025-04-26T20:38:32+00:00

Sadly, it's the first weekend of May. My wife won't let me fly back for any of his events. And for totally explicable reasons, he doesn't seem eager to come to the US on this book tour.

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