Hourly Comics Day 2015

February 1st is Hourly Comic Day.  Across the world, people taking part in this have to draw at least one comic panel for every hour of the day they are awake, combining them all at the end to create thir comic.  They've been posted online in this clunky old forum since 2006, but have recently moved out onto Tumblr and social media, and we all see what everyone else has been doing and drawing.

This is my 4th time doing it, and since it happened to be on a training day, most of it was about roller derby!  Comic continues under the cut...

Big Boss Flamingo: How To Be Head NSO

Sexy flamingo costume!  Yeah!

This won’t be a definitive post, because this only happened to me before Christmas.  Plus although I know all the positions and have experience in all but the Scoreboard, there weren’t really any other nominees for the job!   So just the basics, but very good basics nonetheless :)

As usual I found myself chucked in the deep end when DRR entered the 2015 British Championships, and also decided to have a two-game event made of a UKRDA sanctioned game against Bedfordshire Rebellion and then a crazy Hunger Games themed charity game where the audience paid to help or hinder a team (making them skate the jam backwards, having a race between the jammers to get extra points, freeing penalised skaters from the box early etc.)  It was a fantastic event and we raised £225 from the charity game.

And my first public event as HNSO? ...

Today I Am One!

I just had my derby birthday!  I joined the Dolly Rockit Rollers at the end of February 2014, barely able to stand on skates, but now it’s 365 days on and we just had a Minimum Skills test.

I’ve missed a few in the past due to my broken toe, then being on holiday, then an NSO fixture, and it didn’t really bother me because I knew I would never have passed everything anyway.  This time I was ready.  I was there, and I felt confident.

I passed everything

…except for two things.