Triple HOTT
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After a long break I played HOTT with Geoff last night. Initially I wasn't
sure what armies to take, but then I had a shower-thought and thought of a
tri...
Captain's Log SMS Emden 1914 Part I
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After months of dormancy, I've decided to give this blogging thing a go
again.
*Overview*
This Summer and Fall I took part in an PBEM Naval Campaign run...
Two Warriors of Athena!
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I am continuing to paint figures for the *Warriors of Athena* game I am
going to run at GengisCon in February, and here are the first two Heroes!
The f...
Creating Cardolan soldiers
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This is a suprise project I've jumped on after watching a YouTube piece
about the war in Arnor against the Witch king.
I was quite taken with the doomed ...
How Did You Become Aware of the 2025 Survey?
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For *Wargames, Soldiers, and Strategy's* Great Wargaming Survey (GWS) in 2024
and 2025, the drop-off in responses was significant. When asked what have
...
Battleground 2026 - a grand day out
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I managed to get myself to the Battleground show in Middlesbrough on
Saturday. It is literally five minutes from home so no excuse permitted. It
was only...
Off-Track Betting - Finally Furnished!
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Back in August, I finished the building itself for an Off-Track Betting
location for my modern urban tables, but I was waiting on some 3D printed
furnish...
Battle of Hoth
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Jessica happily agreed to give my new Battle of Hoth game a test drive a
few weeks back. This is basically a re-skin of Memoir '44 with a few sci-fi
flou...
Falkenhelle, the Sixth!
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The Fenwickian volleys fly, with devastating effect! One Bachscuttel
regiment is left teetering on the brink of collapse, though, obviously, no
Fenwickia...
Russian Line Infantry - Perry 28mm
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A dozen Russian line units painted, from the Perry miniatures kits. Any
Napoleonic army needs a good number of line. I actually got these 10 years
ago f...
The Grand Old Duke Of Norfolk's Backlog?
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I'm still carrying on with a backlog army in the form of the Yorkist
Duke Of Norfolk for the War of the Roses. As I am painting them I am really
getting...
Gaming - Ardennes , Race for a bridge
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Today saw a regular meet up and James and I did another Ardennes game .
This one is based on KG Pieper and a race to capture a bridge .
Played along th...
Building a Dwarf Army Pt.5
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It’s been almost a month since I last posted about my dwarf army progress…
and in that post I said that I’d pretty much got everything done except my
ban...
TaKtiCon 2025
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We had a great time (and a few sales) a couple of weekends ago at TaKtiCon
in Kansass City (see what they did there with the K and C in the title?).
Whi...
Images - crazy situation
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Hi Folks
Just discovered that all my blog pictures for the past five years are no
longer available to readers in the UK. As a result of recent legislat...
Projects and stuff
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Just a simple post, mostly to get me back into the swing of things with
this site...Here is a brief view of my projects:Lots of the same from
before, but ...
Mechs are Back
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While I am still working on weird west rules and have setup for test games,
THIS time the distraction was my son's fault - he found some random Alpha
Str...
German Vehicles in 1/72
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I have had my resin printer busy recently filling in some gaps for my WWII
German vehicle collection. I have a Mar 3 Pro and am using water washable
AB...
FREE TTRPG games!
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Every one of my D12-based TTRPG releases are now Pay What You Want over at
DrivethruRPG - from space to horror to post-apocalypse to fantasy to
mystery t...
War of Spanish Succession scenarios.
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Recently I came across this scenario book. Battles of the War of Spanish
Succession.
It has been writen with Volley & Bayonet rules in mind but cou...
BLACK POWDER V2 HOUSE RULES - AUGUST 2025
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BLACK POWDER V2 HOUSE RULES
*BLACK POWDER HOUSE RULES BP2 – August 2025 version 4*
As you will see from the reports in the blog I am an enthusiast for...
Future Wars Update 012 - Additional Buildings 3
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Following my last update quite sometime ago on the Additional Buildings for
my Future Wars Project, I have recently been getting some progress on these
...
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*Image from East Leeds Militaria facebook page - used without permission*
The East Leeds Militaria Society Wargames Club has been playing some
Warband Fa...
Still still alive!
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Hey folks,
Despite my previous good intentions, blogging got away from me again.
That's not to say I haven't been busy with various things, just rather l...
Salute 2025
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OK, it's two days late but here is my photo round-up of Salute 2025. You
can also take it as proof of life, given that I haven't posted here since
last ...
¡Viva la muerte! Playtest
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I have a decent collection of 28mm Spanish Civil War figures (and terrain)
and have been wanting to get them to the table more. Unfortunately, I
haven't...
Colonel Claude Runciman and Josefina Lacosta
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I was suffering with "the Lurgy" this week but had a quick change from 6mm
to 28mm.
So I pulled out a couple of figures in the 28mm Napoleonic backlog t...
Beer and Pretzels
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It's been 18 months since I last posted, this is not a proper return to
the bloggersphere, yet.
Lots has happened in that time, mainly I have taken ear...
WSS in Spain forces completed
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It isn't Napoleonics, but at least it is horse and musket!
A couple of months ago I repossessed my old Spanish Succession armies and
decided to finish t...
Bounding Fire Tournament 2023 Prizes
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This year the organisers of the ASL Tournament Bounding Fire have decided
to broaden the prize table and so went for smaller dioramas with the theme
bein...
Flames of War Projects for August
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August was a great month for me and the hobby. I painted lots of stuff
and managed to get in a few games as well. August saw a return to Flames
of War...
Vallejo Guides Broken
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It has recently come to my attention that the LINKS on my vallejo paint
guide pages are not currently working as expected and readers are not able
to vie...
The Cynical Seven - Desperados Gang
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*"The liquor's all gone boys..."*
Finished up my Desperados gang for Dead Man's Hand. Just a few pics to
share as I didn't get too many to turn out that ...
Kebugaran Mengubah Wajah Tur PGA
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Lalu apakah Glumory akan menghasilkan Ketergantungan & menimbulkan efek
samping glumory beauty drink ? sama sekali Tidak, dikarenakan Glumory
terbuat hanya...
Crimean War toy soldiers
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Finally got round to unboxing my toy soldier collection after almost 6
years in boxes and searching through my late fathers collection to for
figures of...
Witcher 3 "Geralt" painted up
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And the second miniature from the SAGA collectibles from Stronghold
Miniatures is painted up.
Pretty happy with them both, I was thinking how to use them in...
Airplane stands for my Aeronefs
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I've been working on different ideas for my aeronef stands - and finally
got a solution I'm happy with.
For the Aeronef and Imperial Skies rules, hexago...
Ghost of Christmas Past.......
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The New Year has finally shuffled in with plans of new armies and periods
in which to dabble, but I found myself thinking back to a Christmas a long
time a...
Nostalgia Thursday - Chaos Wars (1987)
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Thirty-two years ago, the super-simple four-page Rules According to Ral
which were designed for Medieval combat were expanded into the thirty-page
(approx)...
Red Dawn (Calumet, Colorado 1984)
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The Wolverines, a group of guerrilla resistant fighters, ambush and attack
the Soviet forces headquarters at Calumet, Colorado. Spring 1984.
...
Dreadnought: Great War at Sea
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This is my prototype box, with the Battle of Coronel tucked away inside!
Hi all, big news today!
As you've no doubt been aware, I've been furiously making...
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Hello Everyone (if anyone is still linked to this blogger account)
I haven't posted in a very long time. I have been active doing alot of
stuff but ive bee...
NOVEDADES / NEWS
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*VOLVEMOS* con nuevas actualizaciones: Estamos haciendo una
re-estructuación interna, pero lo que de verdad os interesará es que ya
tenemos copias del *Mus...
Raid on Lancaster, MA King Phillip's War
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Dave Soucy hosted a game day at his home in Londonderry, NH a few weeks
back. I attended a partook in a game featuring a raid by Narragansett,
Wampanoag a...
Saga AoM Great Kingdoms
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Saga Age of Magic is taking off in the Twin Cities and I just finished my
1st fantasy warband, the Great Kingdoms. I'll be taking them on the road
next wee...
A Tale of Two Battles - Part the First
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The Italian infantry brigade.
The only unit to come out of this with their heads held high.
This is the first of two battle reports featuring my French ...
Re-PAINT
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I decided to "Re-Paint" the BRMDI painted earlier in the week. I can hear
you already screaming at me (And with some justification). I am Happier
now. I s...
Freshly Plowed Fields
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Open spaces, while essential to maneuver warfare, aren’t very visually
appealing. Freshly plowed fields are a great addition to most gaming
terrain collect...
2019 Goals
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It's been forever since I've posted, and the only gaming I've gotten in is
a Warmaster matchup between Undead and Dwarves. I'm playing against my
son, but...
(New) Col. Bills Blog Just Launched!
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There is now a new blog for Colonel Bills Wargames Depot, which you can
find here:-
https://colonelbills.blogspot.com/
""Tales From The Depot; The goings ...
Please Update Your Link!
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If you're seeing this, it means your link to the Greyhawk Grognard blog is
out of date.
Please update your link to www.greyhawkgrognard.com (RSS feed is
h...
Kicking it with the Homies
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The feared El Taco Cartel homies are kicking it Southside, plotting and
scheming on ways to get product across or under the border. Figures are
28mm S...
The Song of the Dodo
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Yes, nice to see you too. Where have I been? Nowhere really, but I've been
reading and ruminating and the like. Been cautious about what to get
involved w...
Blucher Revisited
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Hi Team
It's been a few months since I played a game of BLUCHER so Rowan and I
decided to have another game.
We settled on 250 points each and Rowan comman...
CoC: Revisiting the Flanking Scenario
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Last time I played CoC, we had my Americans attacking Fritz's Germans in
the Flanking Scenario, and it proved extraordinarily difficult for the
attacker. A...
Hitting the Social Media with new logo
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So as I start down the road to my new full time commission painting I have
set up a FaceBook page
FaceBook cover picture. I have also set up an Instagram a...
The Skinwalker Tribes for Dracula's America
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Just a quick post as I managed to get around to digging out my *Dead Man's
Hand* figs so I could add them to my North Star figs and so take a pic of
my ...
Custom Space Marine Chapter: The Swordbreakers
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Greetings fellow gamers! It has been a long, long hiatus and I finally have
something I feel like posting about!
With the new edition of 40k, I decided to...
The Marches and I
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The Wrekin (left distance) and its hinterland at Dawn. Even some miles
away, you can just about make out the rise of the ramparts of the hill fort
on the ...
Hougoumont at 1:3 scale - a late report
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*West Country Hougoumont*
There were such a lot of photos on this game that it took me over 18 months
to get round to doing a proper report on my blog. Ja...
Team Yankee: Scimitars and Scorpions
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The first sections of my Recce company are finally done. These guys have
been sitting in front of me for what feels like months now primed and
begging f...
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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I know this blog has not been very active, but my time and interest hasn't
been in fow lately too much either.
Thanks to the way BF put the new version, pr...
Congo: Sultanate of Zanzibar Expedition
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This is the finished 'Sultanate of Zanzibar' expedition box set from
Foundry for Congo. They have a very Arabian feel to them, and the figures
would not ...
Blue Bear had some challenges
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Hello readers, this is Murdock writing from Jeff's desktop.
Jeff has encountered more than the usual Gout and had complications from
the treatments of the ...
Zvezda SU152
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SU152
The Box The Zvezda SU152 is one of two new Soviet assault gun kits to be
released recently, the other being the SU100. Originally entering service
...
I wrote a thing.
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This time last year, I had just started BABEL. While I had written many
things in the past, finishing a novel still eluded me. Several months
later, BABEL ...
Year Five: A Reading Renaissance
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I've heard it said that birthdays become less important when you get older
and it looks like it was true of my blog's birthday this year - I totally
forgot...
F@#k (or Eff) Fifty!
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It's a matter of record that I was born in July in the year of our lord
nineteen hundred and sixty six. While math is hardly my strong suit by my
quick cal...
Interview: Ash Baker of Guerrilla Wargaming
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Here’s another in the Interview series. I talked with one of, IMHO, the
best wargaming Youtuber out there. Ash has a great Youtube channel which
present ho...
Gone Painting
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Once again I have decided to join in the madness that is The Analogue
Hobbies Painting Challenge, which has become the biggest online painting
event of the...
There is a new lizard wizard in town!
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The city was almost silent,only the dripping of melting ice and the
occasional foot fall shuffling thru snow could be heard. Hashtis the wizard
motioned hi...
A quick guide to easily making hedges
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Having recently decided to give my terrain collection a bit of an overhaul
and splashing out on some new buildings, I've found myself in "need" of a
few o...
New Irish now available
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We've just release the Brian Boru and Ulf the Quarrelsome packs on the
website. New releases will be something Saxon I suspect :)
Mary's Visit Part II
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One of my mountain guide friends (I know most of them pretty well since
they have to speak English for their job) had offered at the wedding to
take Mary ...
Sacket's Harbor reprised at Huzzah!
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Steve Keyer and I reprised the Sacket's Harbor scenario using Carnage and
Glory II computer aided war gaming rules at the Huzzah Conference in
Portland, Ma...
Battle in a box UPDATE
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After another long hiatus I've finally got my act together to post
something! The pictures above are of some factory - industrial building
terrain ba...
Still clearing up '83
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Ok, this blog update is dedicated to Kevin Davies (no not that one), Shaun
Watson, Steve Clark and the two or three Frothers that commented, without
whom I...
New Location In Manchester NH
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Look for us at 260 Mammoth road Manchester Behind Aarons next door to Rite
aid,this will be our new home starting June 30th 2015 more info on
facebook and...
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Gormenghast and Vulgaria faced off in a forest with Vulgaria outscouting
Gormenghast. Vulgaria having opted to defend, deployed in several lines
with a gra...
Celtic Medieval Designs
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All of these images came from the Dover clip art book Medieval Ornament.
The first two are Mediveval Celtic designs and the one below is the only
banne...
West German AFV's from the Mid 80's
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Spahpanzer Luchs Marder IFV Jagdpanzer Jaguar M113 Command APC ASSEMBLE!
Coming soon: Leopard I's and II's and Flakpanzer Gepards.
Final Tally
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All the monies from the auction have now been collected, and arrangements
made for the safe transfer of lots.
And so, this is the end.
I'm not going to na...
Easy Hills
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Hey everyone, I haven't had much time for lengthy blog articles, so I have
a feeling that most of my posts will now be made through the iPhone blogger
app....
Arrrgggghhhh!
-
Everyone has a favourite gaming area.... I like pirates, aarrrggghh!
Buccaneer was the first pirate board game I played, at the tender age of
around 10 or...
Panzer IV F1
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I am still around and I am still painting. I may have to 'reboot' this
blog as I know bunch of pictures arent showing up.
Any way here is what I was wo...
I am moving to a new blog
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Hi guys. I have to announce you that I will not post anymore in this blog.
I am moving to a new one. I have been having some problems with it and it
has ga...
Wargames Paper craft Part III
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In the third and forth part of my series on Papercraft for RPG & Waregames
I'm going to look at Miniatures figures for you.
Id like to start by tha...
Flames of War skirmish report
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After both sides occupying high ground over a ruined town,
German reinforcements engaged American Paratroopers in fields.
The Germans inflicted light c...
Huzzah 2013 Day 1
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Yes, it’s that time of year again, Huzzah is upon us, starting today. I
haven’t been blogging much and so didn’t have any lead up posts, but will
try to at...
The Helpers
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Social media, television channels, radio broadcasts & cell phone
conversations... everyone is buzzing in hushed, shocked tones about what
happened yest...
Too Busy Writing To Write?
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Greetings Dear and Faithful Reader,
Well, it's been a while. Months have come and gone since my last post.
I'm sure many of you even noticed. I have bee...
Moving Locations
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Well, the title says it all. I've decided to revamp my websites and as part
of this "Across the Table" is on the move. To visit my revised site please
vis...
Magic: The Gathering futures
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The *Return to Ravnica* set has brought many casual (and not so casual)
players back to Magic: The Gathering. Many of you have been questioning me
on the a...
Outlaws...I mean Inlaws
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August brought both sets of parents across the pond for a visit as well as
Lico and Stephanie. First Meek's parents came for just shy of week. It
was a c...
Lamb Two Ways
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Lamb’s one of my favorite meats, and (life often being unfair), it’s also
one of the most expensive. I managed to get a good deal on a 3 lb leg of
lamb, an...
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