It's November, which means it's time for anther month of semi-coherent ramblings!

Ironically, despite the current Covid insanity today was much like this time last year: a surprise games evening. Except because of Covid it was online (via the excellent Board Game Arena site) instead of in-person.

Myself, elemnar and a mutual friend played two games this ( Read more... )

Yes, it's that time of year where I try to create an entire month's worth of random ramblings!

Today ended with a surprise games evening, courtesy of a friend from housegroup with too much pizza and unexpected cancellations! So four of us in total met up and went through a couple of games. First up was Apples to Apples, which was as hilariously ( Read more... )

Well, another year, another November of trying to think of some random insanity to post every day. This year was less successful that past ones, in that I completely forgot about an update on the 8th and then again on the 22nd. But on the other hand, this will be post 31 of a 30-day month so I have averaged slightly more than 1 post per day, albeit ( Read more... )

Fail!

I'm not sure why - I sat down in front of my computer yesterday evening planning to make a post and all, and then a post didn't happen. I blame being distracted by internets.

It's somewhat ironic - I had so many plans of varying degrees of cunningness for NaBloPoMo, and in the end hardly used any of them. Disregarding the traditional filler posts (Guy Fawkes, Remembrance Day, the LJ Comments Meme, and the obligatory poll) I only made two Zelda blogs, scanned one film, and didn't dissect a single Magic deck. Admittedly ( Read more... )

November is fast approaching, and that means NaBloPoMo time!

Yes, this means that I will attempt to post every day for an entire month (in lieu of NaNoWriMo - not that I'm convinced NaBloPoMo is actually any easier than trying to write a novel in a month...). So batten down your friends page and prepare for even more rambling than usual!

Brrrr. It's quite literally freezing out there - when I left Sussex University (after visiting SWARM) the roof of the Alfa was all sparkly with frost and the temperature gauge read -4°C. Which reminds me, I need to make up a stronger screenwash mix - it froze on contact with the windscreen and I had to scrape a thin layer of ice off ( Read more... )

Random film time! Today's mystery film is... Blue 1626! Another one from late in my university days. One evening pleaseremove was round, and we (along with most of the house) spontaneously decided to drive to Beachy Head to watch the sunset. I posted a couple of digital photos back in 2007, but I also took the Nikon F-301 with me ( Read more... )

Okay, so it's just partly-homemade garlic bread, which for some reason we decided to call SCIENCE BREAD. Today's experiment was a tiger bread baton from Tesco's, with a mix of garlic paste, grated cheese, and a little parsley as a filling. I then dampened the crust a little and we stuck it in the oven until it started smoking. Verdict... definite ( Read more... )

Today there was more thanksgiving - it was Joshua's thanksgiving/dedication service at London Road Methodist ( Read more... )