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Friday, 30 June 2017

Conference concert


Conference concert in the Rudolphinium. And guess who got to sit dead centre in the third row from the front ? Me, that's who. I win, bitches.

And with that I withdraw once more for one final day of non-stop astronomy...

[I found out later that this was entirely down to luck, as the seats were given out completely at random]
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