Learning to paint toy soldiers
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My little boy has been asking me to teach him how to paint. So, I gave it
some thought and decided to start him on some larger plastic figures.
We took it...
Duel Update
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Just a quick note to let folks know that I've resurrected the Paint Duels
page for this years actions. You can see the page by clicking the button
at th...
The Duke Of Norfolk Arrives
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I'm all over the place at the moment with my projects* but I had a two
and a bit hour drive for work and for some reason my brain decided it
wanted to s...
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Each year we gather round the old Snowbrawl tree for another Snowbrawl
tournament. What's Snowbrawl you say?
It's a snowball fight mixed with dodgeba...
The War of the Rohirrim - No Spoiler Review
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I went to see *The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim*. I was the
only person in a 200 seat IMAX theatre…
Being a hard-core Tolkien nerd, I’ve k...
Perilous Tales: Wolves in the Streets
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I'd left my set-up from last night's game in place on the table, and was
able to have a second game of Perilous Tales tonight. I removed the ponds
and a...
Eques
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I got my gladiators out the other day (for what I think is the first time
this year) so that I could try some ideas I had for running the Eques type
in '...
Challenge XV's Theme: Dante's 'Divine Comedy'
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Hi All,
For this years theme we'll be following Dante's journeys through The Abyss
and Paradise.
Our resident mapmaker Sidney Roundwood is currently l...
Season's Greetings
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Before holiday festivities divert and interrupt our normal hobby
activities, I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
With space in t...
Lemax Scrooge
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These figures comes of a series made by Lemax for the well known story "A
Christmas Carol". Pity enough I could only find two of the figures that
were ma...
Dungeon cave tiles
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About year or so ago, I bought a bunch of old heroscape tiles, spray
painted them green, and hoped to use them as modular hills for gaming..
They didn't ...
Fife and Drum Web Store is back on line
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*General von **Zeiten hands his Christmas list to one of his aides.*
The Fife and Drum Miniatures web site has been repaired and works again.
Previousl...
Retreat From Moscow - A New Project!
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Well well well, here we go again, another new project..............The
Retreat From Moscow. But this time I'm doing it as a joint project with
BigLee,...
Schwimwehr, the Second!
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On the other side of the field of battle, Furst Augustus Saxe-Peste,
Generalissimo of the Landgravate of Hesse-Rotenburg, surveys the Vulgarian
deployment ...
SAGA Grand Melee
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This past Saturday, I attended the SAGA Grand Melee which was put together
by David. He has done a great job in the past year with a monthly SAGA
Night...
Miniatures Painted This Year (November Update)
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I'm actually on time with this post for a change... so let's see what I
painted and purchased in November :)
So... painting-wise... the first things I sp...
The Battle of Cape St Quendon
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As has seemingly become an annual event, I travelled up to the Herts
Volunteers to put on a large Sails of Glory game. This year’s game was
loosely base...
Game Design #109: Cinematic Moments
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I bought the *Titanicus *rules out of interest (though I'll never afford
the minis!) and when experimenting with them I found myself thinking "this
is re...
Prussian reinforcements (1)
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Fresh from the inspiration of last weeks game I've been working on some
more Prussians for the 6mm Napoleonic collection. All the miniatures are
from ...
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...
Carisbrooke Castle
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One of the best sites we went to in the UK was Carisbrooke Castle on the
Isle of Wight, a place known to anyone who has ever played Kingmaker. The
full ...
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...
Battle of Chaeronea (338BC) - A 28mm Wargame
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Afternoon All
Following my last post which focussed on my completed Macedonian/Successor
army (HERE) , it was about time that this force saw some action...
Napoleonic Naval - 1st June 1794
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Wtih models and rules provided by local naval enthusiast Andrew Taylor, a
group of us got together on the 230th anniversary of The Glorious First of
June 1...
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...
Nice work on the brig! I like the water on the gunboat base. It looks Caribbean
ReplyDeleteCheers, Vol