We've even had a couple of days without rain, whih has made a difference! The garden is still rather damp, though. I tried to make some progress with the series of beds between the levels, but the clay in the soil made that hard work. Then A pointed out that the back gutter had been dripping horribly all last week while the rain fell, so I turned ( Read more... )

On Friday evening I headed over to Gravesend. After quite a bit of chatting, Lissa brought out Red Empire, and we played two games. The first lasted only a few rounds. The second ended with Lissa holding a faction of ten or eleven, while Phil and I had three or four each ( Read more... )

I've been over to Gravesend for gaming on both the Fridays since my last post. Jackie has also been there both times. I don't recall what (if anything) we played on the first occasion, but this last Friday we played "Cytosis", a worker-placement game based on cell bio-chemistry. Jackie won, but then it was a game she'd brought, and the rest of us ( Read more... )

The drive to Bielefeld on Tuesday was uneventful. We stopped for lunch along the way, and got to our destination mid-afternoon. I dropped Deborah at Rika's and then went on to Senne. Dinner was pizza, wine and ice cream ( Read more... )

Friday and Saturday were, I think, mostly quiet days. They were a bit cooler than earlier in the week, but with a correspondingly higher relative humidity. It even felt a bit like it might rain, but in the end we only had a few spots ( Read more... )