| Author | Message | ||
     Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.157.30.167 |
...but our own dashing and talented Simon Strantzas is now officially off the market. I'm happy to report that he and his lovely mate Fran were married yesterday in Toronto. Although highway construction, THEN road closures, then MORE road construction downtown led to my wife and I being late for the actual ceremony, Simon looked dapper and Fran looked lovely. We chatted with them in between photos/videos being shot for posterity by our own Adriana and Donald. Then it was off to a fantastic reception where the company was great (Mike Kelly and his wife Carolyn, Ian Rogers and his wife Katherine, Donald and Adriana, and of course the Guests of Honour). The food was out of this world and Simon's Thank-You speech included a reference to lunging tentacles. It's doesn't get much better than that. Congratulations to Simon and Fran! Long life to the Strantzases-es-es-es... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.180.45.136 |
Congratulations indeed - I only found out about the date a week ago after Simon posted a comment on Facebook, although Fran's been listed as "engaged" on there for some time now.... | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182 |
Congrats to both the happy couple! Good health, long life and lots of babies- assuming they want some, of course, and that they're born without tentacles...  | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.131.37.65 |
Congratulations to the happy couple | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 93.96.181.75 |
Oh how lovely! Congratulations Simon and Fran! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Congratulations Mr & Mrs Strantzas! Very best wishes to you both from Probert Towers! | ||
| Skunsworth (Skunsworth) Username: Skunsworth Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 92.28.161.58 |
And from the Lancaster contingent also! S | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Congratulations to Simon and Fran! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
It's should have been me... He will be mine in the end, but in the meantime I wish the happy couple nothing but luck and happiness. And tentacles. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Aw, that's lovely. Congratulations Simon and Fran. May you have many, many happy years ahead.  | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
Congratulations, lovely news. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
It should have been me...  | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.196.12 |
Congratulations, Simon, and all best wishes for the future! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.198.192 |
Congrats Simon and Fran.... | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.187.161 |
Congratulations. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.209.11.186 |
Congrats to Mr and Mrs Strantzas (or is that old fashioned?) | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.156.38.102 |
AAll the best! gcw & Soozy..! | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 216.208.154.222 |
Thank you all for you congratulations and well wishes. Had I a heart, surely it'd be moved by the showing here. Oh, and I'm sure my new wife thanks you as well. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.71 |
Simon - congratulations to you both, mate. Here's to a long and healthy, fun-filled life, with or without the tentacles. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Belated congratulations, Simon! And I was saying to Ray Russell at Fantasycon that your Tartarus book leads me to think you've inherited the mantle of Robert Aickman in terms of subtle and enigmatic disquiet. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 81.153.249.0 |
Hear! Hear! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.95.168 |
Don't encourage him. He can't get his fat swollen head out of the apartment as it stands. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.227.90.149 |
Many thanks to Frank and especially to Ramsey (for obvious reasons). | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.147 |
And I was saying to Ray Russell at Fantasycon that your Tartarus book leads me to think you've inherited the mantle of Robert Aickman in terms of subtle and enigmatic disquiet. But how much does he know about England's waterways????? | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.70 |
Congrats, Captain Awesome. My commiserations to ... Aw, I couldn't do it... Congrats to Fran as well. (Great thread choice for Ramsey to mention you've subtle disquiet about you!) | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.227.90.149 |
But how much does he know about England's waterways????? You guys have water in England? Huh. Who knew? Thanks, Mark. I know how difficult it was for you to be that nice to me for that long. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.176.225 |
Simon, that is high praise indeed. I have Cold to the Touch on order (should arrive any day now) and if it's half as good as Beneath the Surface it should be very special indeed. Having a book published by Tartarus must be a nice feeling. I think their books are among the very best being produced today. | ||
| Michael_kelly (Michael_kelly) Username: Michael_kelly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 192.206.151.130 |
Huw, In my opinion, Cold to the Touch is a fantastic book. Simon is the real deal. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.163.6.13 |
I didn't see this- Congrats Simon! And I really enjoyed 'Beneath The Surface'. And thanks for personalising it for me with the cool scribbles- Awesome. :-) | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.227.90.149 |
Huw, it certainly IS nice to have a book in the Tartarus wrappers. There's something about a sewn-in ribbon that sets my heart a-flutter. I hope when the book arrives it lives up to Mike's and Ramsey's comments. Karim: Many thanks! |