Despite the terrible oppressive heat I've managed to run sessions of three sagas with 12 different players in 3 days. 7 of the players were not to the best of my knowledge Ars Magica players at this time last year. I regard this as a fair success, given I have other commitments too 
My scheme I launched after Grand Tribunal last year to try and carry the enthusiasm of the annual con through to the next one and actively pick up more players seems to be working, though we still need and can handle more folks for Grand Tribunal UK on August 17th-18th in Cheltenham. grandtribunal.org
It will be our seventh Grand Tribunal, and I'm going to pull out all the stops (and probably bankrupt myself) to try and make it as special as I can. If you are hesitating about coming, please just write to me!
Finally I have recorded another episode of Arcane Connection and have some special guests lined up for the next few, if I can ever get Skype to work, but still need more. Unfortunately I have not had time to edit it yet so for now we only have the ten episodes online, but if you have not had a listen do go look at arcaneconnection.podomatic.com/
I'm trying to get a job with more hours right now so I don't know how much longer i can handle all this, but hey I try.
Hope to see some of you in August
CJ x