Yesterday morning, while sewing pies, I was watching David Attenborough's Life of Birds, which I found on some obscure channel. (It's amazing how often I can go through several hundred channels and fail to find a single thing that I'm willing to watch while sewing.) Honey liked it, too. Then, at the end of the third one I'd watched, he told us that ( Read more... )

The last few days have been spent adventuring in Westeros. Food wise, I had good intentions that crumbled shamefully quickly in the face of lemon cakes and beef and bacon pies. Game wise, I had good intentions that shamefully crumbled in the face of too many 1s. However, we did manage to use most of the various sails and figureheads that I spent ( Read more... )

( What I've been up to for the last week - probably incomprehensible to most )

This weekend, a doughty band of heroic adventurers set off to rid the eastern Westerosi coast of pirates and slavers. Departure was delayed for a while since, to paraphrase Spinal Tap, no-one knew who they were or what they were doing, but eventually everyone managed to find themselves in a vat of Lego men. The ensuing epic voyage was one that ( Read more... )

Sorry for post overload, but here are some pics of strange goings-on over the last week. Image heavy post alert!

( Pics )

After eight days in which Internet access has consisted of snatched moments on the ten inch screen of the teeny tiny laptop, my desktop monitor seems so scary big that I want to sit at the far end of the room and type with bread-sticks ( Read more... )

Well, three solid days of A Game of Thrones role-playing is over. The fridge is full of cheese. The kitchen is full of brownie and empty bottles. The living room is scattered with Lego. The cats are beginning to emerge from their hiding places. ( Weekend )

Well, we're back from a long weekend of Traveller role-playing, chez bunn and Polo. It was great fun, though I now have a worrying urge to eat healthy food and go for a long bracing walk on a hillside, somewhere a very long way away from cakes, crisps or alcohol. And to sleep.

( Traveller weekend )

1. One pun about chips is one pun too many ( Read more... )

This weekend I have mostly been reading… "A treatise on the majik of destruction," by Regius of House Flambeau, "Dominating the weak of mind," by Cygnar of House Tytalus,…. oh, and "Memories of ice" by Steven Erikson, far more so than I ever intended.

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