Friday, went shopping after the job interview and picked up some GZG starship minis for half price from the Orcs Nest bargain bin (there were some more left - FSE, NAC and some NSL, I got the ESU - mostly capital ships). So far, so good; but then I weakened and bought some Rebel Storm boosters. More on those in a bit

Running total is now £257.77.

With luck the stuff I’m selling on eBay (look - Daleks, Princess Leia wearing next to nothing, Gloranthan stuff!) will offset the total a little…

One of the ideas we have for the wedding (I’ll leave it to you to decide which half of ‘we’ actually came up with this idea) is to name all the tables at the reception after famous spaceships from TV and film. Here’s a partial list:

• Enterprise (from Star Trek)
• Defiant (Star Trek Deep Space Nine)
• Voyager (Star Trek Voyager)
• Serenity (Firefly)
• Liberator (Blake’s 7)
• Scorpio (Blake’s 7)
• Moya (Farscape)
• Lexx (Lexx)
• Andromeda Ascendent (Andromeda)
• White Star (Babylon 5)
• Excalibur (Crusade)
• TARDIS (Doctor Who)
• Discovery (2001)
• Leonov (2010)
• Galactica (Battlestar Galactica)
• Millennium Falcon (Star Wars)
• Heart of Gold (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)
• Valley Forge (Silent Running)
• Saratoga (Space: Above and Beyond)
• Prometheus (Stargate SG1)
• Roger Young (Starship Troopers)
• Nostromo (Alien)
• Narcissus (Alien)
• Sulaco (Aliens - yes, all the ship names in the Aliens films are Conrad references)

Some of these are great names but not really suitable for a wedding, some of these are really terrible names. We won’t know how many we’ll need until we work out the seating plan. Anyone got any other suggestions? I’m sure I’ve missed loads.

It would be fun to come up with wedding themed names along the lines of those used by ships from Iain Banks’ Culture.