The MUG RISC OS Xmas Market - Saturday 9th December 2023 11:30-4pm

This coming Saturday, 9th December 2023, sees the the MUG RISC OS Xmas Market taking place.

Doors to the event are open 11:30am – 4pm and the event is being held at Dodderhill Parish Community Hall, School Road, Wychbold, Droitwich, Worcestershire, WR9 7PU.

Entry to the event is free.

For more information visit the show website

Exhibitors to the event including RISCOSBits, RISC OS Open Ltd, Rcomp, RISC OS Developments, Soft Rock Software, RISCOSitory, Elesar Ltd, Chris Hall, Wi-Fi Sheep, Drag N Drop, AMCog Games, N1 Communications/Organizer and 3rd Event Technologies/ACMS.

There will also be prize draw at the event, tickets £1 on the day, with the first prize a ePhobe Cool R system from RISCOSBits and second prize of a RiscPiC case and Soft Rock software collection from Soft Rock Software.

All proceeds to Tools with a Mission

Dodderhill Parish Community Hall in Wychbold is approximately
0.5 miles from Junction 5 of the M5 motorway, in Worcestershire, between Droitwich Spa and Bromsgrove.

There is onsite public parking next to the hall.

Wychbold is served by two railway stations, Droitwich and Bromsgrove with also bus links to the village via the 145 and 144 services.

As there is industrial action on the train services on the day, it is advised that you should check travel arrangements prior to commencing your journey.

The area is served by 5 hotels, three of which are within 2 miles of the event.

In addition it has 7 pubs/eateries of all within a 3 mile radius.

There are also a number of local places of interest including Webbs of Wychbold Garden Centre, Aztec Adventure , The Christopher Cadbury Wetland reserve and of course the Droitwich Transmitting station that mean you should be able to find the event really easily!

Visit the groups website f you want to know more about MUG

We look forward to welcoming new and existing members at our meetings.

The MUG Events team

Are there some reasonably high power electric car chargers near the venue?

Here’s what I found:

Droitwich Spa has 3 different sites offering DC charging (Lidl, BP and “Castle Droitwich”).
Other chargers in the vicinity have restrictions of one form or another.

Worcestershire Parkway (off junction 7 of the M5) has 22 AC chargers (22kW, i.e. max 11kW per socket). Typical recharge time: 3-4 hours.

Motorway service stations – with one exception – have DC charging. The closest are M5 Strensham (northbound services only), M5 Frankley and M42 Hopwood Park. Note that Strensham southbound has no EV chargers whatsoever.

Please forgive me as I’m cheating, but I thought it was a good question to ask in this day and age.

I’m not planning on coming, but if I were, it would be about a 200 mile round trip, which puts it comfortably within the range of one charge for me. But I’d probably stop somewhere for refreshments and a charge, if only a partial one.

Sorry some more, this is now in Aldershot territory!

RISC OS Developments will be attending the MUG Show and will have free codes for access to the Iris browser beta available at the show, as well as copies of RISC OS Direct and more.

Just drop by the RISC OS Developments table, and grab an Iris coupon/leaflet to join the beta. :)

As usual, we’re happy to talk about our projects and plans, so why not have a chat whilst your there?

AMCOG Games will be releasing our new game “TIMERUN”:

MUG would like to say a big thank you to all the exhibitors who provided their time and presence at todays MUG RISC OS Xmas market 23 event

In todays difficult times it was good to see so many make a commitment to the event.

Also to those attendees who braved the rain plus train strikes/disruption and came to our event , thanks for helping make it such an enjoyable show.

There is a report and some pictures at https://www.iconbar.com/articles/MUG_Xmas_Fair_report_2023/index1993.html

Damn…

Come on guys, smile for the camera! The closest we got was the woman behind the RK3399 monitor. Everybody else looked like they had just finished reading another of Sveinung’s messages…

It’s because you did not show up Rick ;-) We were all sad….

Ah, so the new stealth tracker add-on for RiscOSM was judged to be faulty when it displayed France as Ricks location, instead of en-route from Aldershot?

Thanks to all the MUG folks for organising this – I think a fun day was had by all :) Also nice to see a few new faces.

And Mark – a super speedy write up… don’t know how you find the time!

Andrew, the Doctor is not the only one with a TimeMachine….

But do you have beef with homicidal pepper pots?