Mostly this Blog will cover my current war game activities along with some reenacting items as time goes by.
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Four Brigs for Arofan
Arofan has most generous to me providing a great number of ships form his 3D printer "Shipyard." So when some Frigates I picked up come with some additional Brigs I saw an opportunity to if not quite repay my debt to at least provide a down payment.
I did two of the ships as American Ships. One has the Black and White of the US Navy the other could be a Warship, Privateer or Armed Merchant.
The Two Royal Navy ships are near twins. I used damaged sales for one to make it easier to tell them apart and you could even use one as a damaged version of the other if you wanted too.
Pawn Shop Progress, Continued
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I've gotten a good amount of work done on the MDF pawn shop I posted about last
time since Friday, and have probably one or two more sessions to go to
f...
The Gentleman's Gentlemen
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So with the unit of Whelps I posted the other day I have completed a four
unit regiment for Turnip 28; enough to play a decent game.
Here's the whole re...
From Barks: Another one bites the dust
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The Challenge end came around quickly yet again! I was doing quite a bit of
travelling this year, and sometimes was able to carefully select some minis
a...
Rebased Royalists
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New commander planned out and awaiting some paint. All these troopers are
from Dixon.
Here they are in all their dashing glory.
Here is the next unit r...
Vahringblancks, the Second!
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Now that he has what might pass, at a distance and with the most cursory of
looks, as some artillery support, Rumpfler redeploys his forces. (Below)
Vahr...
The Russian Patriotic War 1812, vol 3
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*The Russian Patriotic War of 1812 Volume 3: The Russian Official History *is
the concluding instalment of Major General Modest Ivanovich Bogdanovich's
s...
Vox Populi
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*"Carthago Delenda Est!*
An early version of a Flash Mob perhaps? All of these figures are 1/30
scale (~60mm) metal figures made by a company called King ...
Galactica 1980 motorcycles
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If you're old enough to have been devastated by the cancellation of
Battlestar Galactica and disappointed by its subsequent resurrection as
Galactica 198...
Austrian Line - Victrix 28mm
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Week 6 of Friday backlog posting. Here we have four units of Austrian Line
with the earlier helmet rather than Shako. These are Victrix figures which
are m...
Give 'em a Bloody Nose!
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Peter (*Grid based wargaming*) and I joined up on Wednesday (Thursday for
Peter in New Zealand) to exercise the latest iteration of my WotR rules.
The r...
Midgard- Britons vs Romans
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This past Saturday myself and PY got together for a game of Midgard, our
second. In this game PY played the Britons while I played the Romans. We
used ...
The Archer, the Skeleton, and the Mystic Basin!
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A few more pieces for my dungeon crawler. The skeleton and the kneeling
archer are both Reaper figures while the basin is from one of the Mantic
terrain...
Trench Crusade - Musings
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I'm allowed myself one new system this year, and I've gone for the obvious
choice -* Trench Crusade*.
It seems primed for success. It's got the fluff - ...
Gaming - Ardennes ‘44 - first game
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The collection had a proper run out today . I used the 12x6 set up to
maximise playing area and see how the terrain created for the 8x4 set up
needs add...
More Sons Of Horus Terminators
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I'm on a bit of a roll with this project* and while I'm getting things
moving I thought it was worth getting the last 5 infantry done and off my
list. T...
¡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...
Chocolate Box Wars Campaign Game #1
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Saturday I played the first of what should be a series of five games in Ed
M's Chocolate Box Wars Tournament. I'm looking at the tournament more as a
way...
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Love me some 10mm Imagi-Nations, but I was trying to find a way to use them
with Fistful of Lead: Bigger Battles. I designed these wooden slot bases ...
Battle of Mantinea - To the Strongest in 28mm
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Afternoon All, Monday night saw the return of some ancient Greek warfare to
the Shed, although this time we used To The Strongest rather than Hail
Caesar...
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...
Turnip 28 - The Pastinaca 233rd Regiment of Foote
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Some time ago I put together a first go at a Turnip 28 (T28) army. I wasn’t
really happy with the result and in any case, my wargaming companions
didn’t...
Dulcop - Napoleonic French Infantry - 54 mm
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I was happy I could buy these two figures in another bunch of old figures.
I love the Dulcop figures and I like to paint them now and then. these two
wer...
Happy Boxing Day
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I didn’t get a Christmas Day post up, so I’ll go a day late. Had a busy
day yesterday but looking forward to getting the brushes working today.
Still alive!
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Hey folks,
I'm not sure I've ever left it so long between updates, but I looked today
and realised it's been four months since my last post. Which is pre...
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...
Again with the delays...
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Welp, still here although hard to tell that recently!Seems to be one
problem after another and sometimes compounded - work getting worse with
personnel sh...
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...
OPERATION CHROMITE - INCHON KOREA 1950
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On Saturday 15th I joined the Gothenburg Gamers and friends for a special
big game – Operation Chromite - the 1950 UN landings at Inchon during the
Korean ...
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...
Merry Christmas from the Duke of Tradgardland
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Father Christmas has enlisted some help in delivering the presents this
year in the Duchy. I do hope these fellows can be relied upon..
Merry Christmas to y...
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...
Capture the women.
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Recently we played a game set in the Dark ages.
Rival claimants to the local throne met in battle with their followers
beside them. The battle, to a large ...
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!
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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...
More lovely ships Adam. There is a fair algal bloom on the ocean, haha!!
ReplyDeleteRegards, James