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Every day in December we will be featuring a different programme item from FunCon 1, to remember the fun we had and give you an idea of the sort of silliness you can expect at FunCon 2.  If you were there, feel free to share your photos and memories in the comments!  

🎄Day 11 - Stage & Other Combat

Workshop participants learned about the art of mangling without mangling, including stage combat, re-enactment, LARP, and real life history with swords, lightsabers and gratuitous Princess Bride riffs.

Every day in December we will be featuring a different programme item from FunCon 1, to remember the fun we had and give you an idea of the sort of silliness you can expect at FunCon 2.  If you were there, feel free to share your photos and memories in the comments!  

🎄Day 10 - Correlation = Causation?

Every day in December we will be featuring a different programme item from FunCon 1, to remember the fun we had and give you an idea of the sort of silliness you can expect at FunCon 2.  If you were there, feel free to share your photos and memories in the comments!  

🎄Day 9 - Ukulele Workshop

Our chair, Heidi (@heidi42heidi), gathered experienced ukulele players and beginners alike to teach them a few leopard-themed songs (or at least a few chords), with mixed success!  

Every day in December we will be featuring a different programme item from FunCon 1, to remember the fun we had and give you an idea of the sort of silliness you can expect at FunCon 2.  If you were there, feel free to share your photos and memories in the comments!  

🎄Day 8 - Assemble an Alien

Participants assembled their own alien using our carefully curated* selection of teddy bears and soft toys.  Limbs and heads were chopped off and reassembled to design and build personalised and unique alien pals...

*found in a charity shop

Every day in December we will be featuring a different programme item from FunCon 1, to remember the fun we had and give you an idea of the sort of silliness you can expect at FunCon 2.  If you were there, feel free to share your photos and memories in the comments!  

🎄Day 5 - Comedic Confessions of a Science Communicator

Every day in December we will be featuring a different programme item from FunCon 1, to remember the fun we had and give you an idea of the sort of silliness you can expect at FunCon 2.  If you were there, feel free to share your photos and memories in the comments!  

🎄Day 4 - PanGalactic Desert Cocktail Workshop

Every day in December we will be featuring a different programme item from FunCon 1, to remember the fun we had and give you an idea of the sort of silliness you can expect at FunCon 2.  If you were there, feel free to share your photos and memories in the comments!  

🎄Day 3 - Party Games

Every day in December we will be featuring a different programme item from FunCon 1, to remember the fun we had and give you an idea of the sort of silliness you can expect at FunCon 2.  If you were there, feel free to share your photos and memories in the comments!  

🎄Day 2 - Leopard Lego

We invited convention members to build something leopard related out of LEGO.  Somewhat surprisingly no-one opted to build a leopard tank, but there were some very creative inerpretations of what a Space Leopard might look like.

Every day in December we will be featuring a different programme item from FunCon 1, to remember the fun we had and give you an idea of the sort of silliness you can expect at FunCon Two.  If you were there, feel free to share your photos and memories in the comments!  

We begin with:
🎄Day 1 - the FunCon 1 Opening Ceremony!