I was at the well attended London WordPress 10th Anniversary Party held in the evening of 27 May 2013 at the Penderal’s Oak in Holborn.

A grand time was had by all, fueled by plenty of drinks along with the additional bonus of food courtesy of WPUK.

Tickets are now on sale for WordCamp Lancaster UK 2013.

This is the latest in the series of the UK’s only annual WordPress weekend, and will be held on 13-14 July 2013 at Lancaster University.

The weekend is the follow up to WordCamp Edinburgh UK 2012, and once again features multi-track sessions catering to all levels of WordPress users, designers and developers.

Tickets are at the early bird price of £25 until midday on Saturday 23 June 2013, after which the standard price of £35 will apply.

Sponsorship of the event range from Microsponsor, for individuals and small enterprises, to four levels for companies and organisations.

The event is organised by WPUK (disclosure – I’m the WPUK Co-ordinator).

The WordCamp Lancaster UK 2013 logo is by Jonathan Harris.

I attended MailCamp 2013 held at the National Audit Office in Victoria on 9 May 2013.

It was once again a fascinating look at the use of email, an often overlooked element in communication strategy.

Reports of proceedings can be found on the event Storify.

This was the third MailCamp, and the last to be run by Steph.

Many thanks for Steph in organising this and the previous MailCamps – let’s hope someone steps forward and organises MailCamp 2014.

Thanks are also due NAO for the use of their basement conference room and the event sponsors.

The very well attended Ubuntu 13.04 London Release Party on 25 April 2013, at The Old Thameside Inn, gave an excellent view across the river of what appears to be an ongoing competition to build the most ridiculously shaped building in the City.

The Television Centre BBC Club bar closed its doors for the last time on Thursday 28 March 2013.

The next day I thought I’d do a bit of research on the history of the bar.

Amazingly, a quick visit to Google revealed there was no text on the history of the bar (there isn’t even a Wikipedia page!) and only one historical picture I could find (the one above, which is from bbc.co.uk!)

I’m therefore in the process of pulling together a short history of the TC Club bar.

This will not be five volume book set (!), but a (probably fairly long) post on this site.

If anyone has any pictures, facts, stories, memories, etc relating to the history of the TC Club bar, I’d be grateful if you could drop me a line with the subject line ‘A short history of the TC Club bar’.

At the moment there’s also a lively discussion on this subject on Facebook, if you’re that way inclined.

I was passing through the Television Centre BBC Club bar on the evening of Saturday 23 March 2013 (as you do), and the next thing I knew, I was ‘accidentally’ attending the last TV News party at TC (at least as far as I know).

Quite a number of those at the do I had first met at Lime Grove Studios in the 1980s, when it was first the Topical Production Centre, and afterwards the Current Affairs Production Centre.

The party was formally being held because of a number of staff leaving Television News, but it turned into a opportunity to meet up with colleagues from the past and present.

A great night, and thanks to the organisers for making it happen!

I was at the last Friday night at the Television Centre BBC Club bar on 22 March 2013.

The bar was full to a level I’ve rarely seen in recent years. The evening was great fun but was obviously mixed with an element of sadness.

During the evening I also caught the excellent Madness performing on the last live transmission from Television Centre.

A great time was had by all at the Television Centre Staff Event on Thursday 21 March 2013!