Month: March 2006

Can anybody give me a clue of roughly how long it would take a horse-and-carriage, early 19th century, to travel from London to Hythe (61 miles/98 km)?

The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England doesn’t feature anything so useful as travel times. If I need to know the hiring rates of domestic servants, I’m totally covered….but nothing on how long it would take to get from point A to point B.

Any help would be welcome.

was at the GAMA Trade Show last week, doing interviews with various folks for his podcast, Have Games Will Travel.

The intro and the first interview (Matt Forbeck) are now up, and the other interviews (including one with a certain PDF publisher of your acquaintance) will be appearing over the next week or two.

Check ’em out…it’s like getting in on all the gossip and news from the show, without the hangovers and con-crud.

I probably should’ve expected it.

After 3 18-hour-plus days, with not enough food and too much alcohol, followed by a 35-hour marathon which included being bottled up in the recycled air of a 737, my immune system finally gave up, and I now am suffering from the Con-Crud. Raw throat, sinuses packed, sniffles, chills and a slight fever. Joy beyond imagining.

Today is the first day of Spring. Naturally, Lawrence is under a Winter Storm Warning. We’re expected to see sleet, then ice, then 6 inches or more of snow before tomorrow morning.

The Goddess has a wicked sense of humor.