Here they are:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41398207@N05/sets/72157621925459411/

Sorry to those I missed (especially in the first couple of days of the program)!

     I've finally gotten down to organizing my photos, and have the set for Harmuni 4, held two weekends ago, up on flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41398207@N05/sets/72157621917710897/

     Now, time to go through my Worldcon filk photos...

     Oops!!  I forgot to mention the Saturday concert sets between the instafilks and the cabaret!  Philip Allcock, another pillar of British filkdom, in good voice and guitar, performing well written songs (his and others); and our filk GOH, Sib Machat, a talented and quirky German singer, guitarist and songwriter who performed her much-requested "Evil Eyeball" song, her quickie Lord of the Rings skit, a no-spoiler Harry Potter song consisting mostly of the word "beep" wherever a spoiler might occur,  her "Dismissal Song" about profession-specific terms for being removed from employment, a song about German translations of Star Trek episode titles, and others. 

As for Sunday,

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     This report will be, as a number of con reports are, about the writer's (me, in this case) own experience at the con, most of which was at the Harmuni 4 con, which was the filk portion of Constitution (and the one I primarily came for).  The other  "cons within a con" at Constitution were Unicon (literary), BRSCON (role-playing and gaming) and the Ars Magica Grand Council (fantasy rp).  I did make a few of the Unicon panels, so I'll have something to say about them as well.
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     I arrived in Montreal last night, after a bit of a scare at Heathrow:  They had overbooked my flight and put me on standby.  However, I made it on the flight.  (One of the other fans on the flight, coming from Constitution to Worldcon as I was, said that all the solo reservations like mine got put on standby.  If that`s the case, then I would hope that only a few, if any, actually got bumped.)  After nearly three quarter of an hour`s wait getting through customs, I picked up my baggage and got a shuttle to the hotel, flopping in my bed as my body was on British time still (about 3 AM, although I suppose that`s about the normal time that I would leave a late-night filk circle anyway).
     Constitution, as well as its Harmuni filk track, went very well, I thought, as did the similar combined convention held in Cambridge two years ago (Recombination).  I hope to give a con report later on, but an initial round of applause right here to Chris O`Shea and Valerie Housden for putting a great filk program together in just a couple of weeks time!

     I'm settled into my room now at Murray Edwards College of Cambridge University, where the Constitution convention is starting up.  I spent the prior two days in London, seeing the Tower of London and the British Museum.  Since the Tower cost 17 pounds to get in, I spent several hours there seeing most of what was available.  On the other hand, the British Museum is free (though it's worth the relatively small 3 to 5-pound donation they ask for, and which I gave) -- and vast -- so I plan on being back there on future visits.  (I basically made it through the ground floor exhibits, which include, among many other things, the Rosetta Stone and the Elgin Marbles.)

     Programming for Constitution (and Harmuni, its filk track) begins tonight.  I'm looking forward to it (though I've still got a little prep to do before my concert set -- I seem to be warding off a cold; next I need to ward off Frank Hayes Disease ;-)).

     Tomorrow morning I'm flying to London.  After a couple of days in London, I'm headed for Cambridge and the Constitution convention, a combination of four linked cons:  Unicon, primarily for literary sf; BRSCON, for role playing; the Ars Magica Grand Council, for fantasy & role playing; and Harmuni for filk music (which is what's bringing me there, especially now that they've got me doing a concert set on Saturday afternoon!).  After Constitution, I'm flying to Montreal for Anticipation/the WorldCon (and seeing some of Montreal).  Hoping to take pictures, too (and if I can master my digital camera and get the photos on and off my hard drive, I might even be able to post some)!

[Hmm...can't find the mood icon.  I'll just say I'm jumping up and down like I'm waiting for Santa Claus. :-)]
[Oops!  There it is!]