To summarise:
So! MillCon 3 will be happening!!! Here are the details:
Friday to Sunday 23rd-25th August 2024. That's the Bank Holiday weekend, obviously.
We intend to do stuff through into Sunday evening, and have ourselves the Monday for other things.
If you would like to come (or watch online) please fill out this form.
The Mill House, 1379 Lincoln Road, Werrington, Peterborough PE4 6LT
Please come round to the back door (down Sharma Leas and across the back of the house and let yourselves in: odds are we won't hear the front doorbell.
We have three 'function' rooms available:
Sadly, not very. The Mill House dates from 1860-odd, has very steep stairs, low doorways and no two rooms are quite on the same level.
Yes. With better bandwidth and more IP addresses than most hotels!
We have threefive cats and several Amazon Echos. We apologise if you are allergic to the
former: we will keep the Studio cat-free but cannot guarantee the rest of the house.
The house dates from the 1860s - as such no two adjacent rooms are quite on the same level, and a number of the connecting doorways are lower than tall people's heads.
There will be no spare beds at the Mill House, sadly: we're using up all the available for either event space or hiding stuff away. There are some local fen who may be able to offer bed space, but if not...
The Premier Inn, Peterborough North, is just over a mile away - 5 mins drive or 20-25 mins walk. Currently their prices are surprisingly reasonable (about £190 refundable up to 3 days before for a double for the whole weekend): their group booking deal turns out to be worse than this, for some bizarre reason. The hotel is disability-friendly and has free parking. We hope that folks will be able to arrange car-pooling to and from the hotel, and will run an (electric) shuttle in the event that doesn't work out for anyone.
Both the Mill House and the hotel are on the number 1 bus route from the station. Note that on a northbound bus you either have to get off by the church and walk half a mile, or stay on for another 10 mins and go round the loop and back down Lincoln Road (as a southbound bus) to get to us. The southbound stop (Werrington Mill) is literally outside our front door.
You're on your own :D
We'll lay on snacks, bread, cheese, other fillings, tea, coffee, soft drinks etc during the day for folks to graze on as and when.
Plans will depend on numbers: we may do the worlds' largest spag bol in carnivorous and vegetarian versions, or we may scare the living daylights out of an Uber Eats or Deliveroo driver or two, but watch this space.
We would appreciate a donation of £5 for Saturday, £5 for Sunday (pay us on the day), purely to cover shopping for food, drinks etc. Our rough estimate is we can probably host 30-40 people without creaking at the seams.
If you are displaying symptoms of anything flu-, cold- or COVID-like, we would ask you not to attend.
No parking on the Mill House 'car park' down Sharma Leas - please park on Lincoln Road or Salisbury Road.