Dizzojay's Dean Dreams

 Wow, how has it been almost a month since I posted?

Well, since I plummeted off the face of the LJ planet, I have attended Crossroads convention in Birmingham, and a great time was had by all, all being amberdreams, sasha_dragon, chellexxx, heavenli24, edina_clouds128, Natalie and Chris.

There were a great range of guests, including Jard, Misha, LIsa Berry, Osric Chau, Julian Ritchings, Sam Smith, Mark Sheppard, Ruth Connell, and a really interesting addition was Matt Frewer, aka Pestilence.

I'll post pics of my photos when I've got around to scanning them, but until then, here are my autographs for the weekend:





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 This weekend I was up at the NEC in Birmingham with edina_clouds128, sasha_dragon, chellexxx and our friends Chris and Natalie for Crossroads convention.

It was a great weekend, and the guests were wonderful.  For several of them it was their first convention since the pandemic, and there was real energy about the event.




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So, after 18 months of frustrations, postponements and altered arrangements, I finaly got to go to one of the conventions I had booked back in 2019.  It was the Crossroads convention in Birmingham, England, and it was a fabulous weekend of fun, catching up with friends and happy tears.

Birmingham is about two and a half hours drive from my home, so I set off after rush hour and arrived at the Hilton around 1pm, and arriving at the hotel, and seeing the fans milling around outside chatting, and laughing, really made me feel like I'd come home.  It was an emotional moment!

Once I'd met up with sasha_dragon and chellexxx, and we'd registered for the con, we settled in for a nice meal and a chat.  We had a lot of catching up to do!



The convention was a lovely event, with a great lineup of guests, even Baby turned up for the occasion.  Unlike the good/bad old days of Rogue conventions, Starfury events are so much better organised, and the queueing, although a signiicant part of the day, is nothing like the neverending bunfights we used to endure.  It was all really quite civilised!

The organiser of the convention had made it clear that he wasn't going to go ahead if there was any possibility of needing screens between fans and guests, so as a great compromise, a 'no-touch' rule was put in place.  That meant lots of new ideas for photo poses.  I had a lot of fun trying new poses (there were a couple of pictures where we just didn't have time to get too imaginative!) and the guests were really up for it as well :)

Here are the mugshots...



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So that was Crossroads. sasha_dragon and I booked it almost a year ago, as soon as we knew the British Men of Letters were going to be there.  And they were accompanied by convention stalwarts such as Mark Sheppard, Ruth Connell and the gorgeous Kim Rhodes.  There were also a few much smaller guests, such as Erica Cerra who plays Duma the angel and Magda Apanowicz, who was only in one episode of Supernatural, but has the enviable title of being the only woman to attempt tentacle sex with a tied-up Jensen (well, that we know of, anyway!)

I arrived at the Hilton around 2pm on Friday after a two and a half hour drive.  I met sasha_dragon in the bar, and while she very kindly went and got the drinks in, I availed myself of the little girls room.

As I was walking back from said room, I heard a man's voice say 'Hi Jane'.  When I looked up, it was Adam Fergus sittng at a table with David Haydn-Jones and Kim Rhodes having a drink and a spot of lunch!

I had a brief friendly exchange, then I left them alone to have their lunch in peace.

Shortly afterward, we were joined by chellexxx and then the fun began.

There was nothing going on until the opening ceremony at 7.30pm, so we checked into the room and grabbed some dinner.  This gave us a great opportunity to catch up, and the conversation mainly revolved around life in general, Supernatural (well, duh), and ideas for fangirl verse stories.


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It's only 2 days before sasha_dragon, chellexxx and I meet up at Birmingham for Crossroads Con, my final Spn con of the year.

An of course, that means preparations are afoot.

Here are my signing sheets for autos ...


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( For David Haydn-Jones and Adam Fergus )

I can't wait to catch up with my Girls again - it's going to be awesome!!!