is a newborn GUFF newsletter edited and published by
Paul Kincaid
60 Bournemouth Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 5AZ, UK
guff@appomattox.demon.co.uk
August 1999
The first issue of GUFFaw was a joint production by myself, Steve Davies and Julian Headlong, the three candidates in the 1999 Europe-Australia GUFF race. I decided to keep the title on for my GUFF newsletter, in part because I wanted to make the newsletter into a full blown fanzine featuring both British and Australian writing.
And GUFF news, of course. Except that at the moment there isn't any (unless you count the fact that I won, but you all read that in Joseph's last newsletter, didn't you.) As I write this it is less than two weeks until I depart on my GUFF trip. The itinerary is fairly straightforward since I can only manage three weeks off work (and that is pushing it a bit). We leave Britain on the evening of August 24, and arrive in Adelaide on the morning of August 26 – I'm still not sure I can get my head around that sort of timescale. We will be in Adelaide, staying with Yvonne Rousseau and John Foyster, until September 1 (with lots of fannish activity planned along the way), then we fly to Melbourne for Aussiecon 3. After the convention, we're staying on in Melbourne with Lucy Sussex and Julian Warner until the afternoon of September 13 when, alas, we have to fly home (arriving on the morning of September 14 – ah the joys of time zones). I wish we had more time to see more of Australia on this trip, but it seemed best to concentrate on a couple of areas for a start. Maybe we'll get to see other places next time – and if Eve Harvey is to be believed, there will certainly be a next time.
The full text of this issue, a substantial genzine with non-newsletter contributions by six other fans, can be read at Fanac.org.