Last Stand at Fornovo
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The group of five players from Game #4 (see *Still Fornovocating*) returned
to the table in Game #6 for a rematch. Doug and Stephen switched sides
while ...
First time using To the Strongest
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Afternoon All
On a beautiful spring day I thought I'd share the latest from the Shed.
Over the last couple of weeks we have been trialling for the first...
from RayR - AHPC14 - Challenge Wrap up
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My last post from the Challenge, originally posted on the AHPC blog on the
23rd March.
Well that went quick, didn't it?
Can't believe the Challenge is ...
The Semova Sisters
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Another throwback in the miniatures collection, and a couple of my
favourites. These are the Semova sisters, who were sculpted to accompany *Second
Ch...
A Bygone Age………
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I came across these on t’interwebby. Perhaps not very ‘woke’ or PC but it’s
history and quite an innocent portrayal. To be honest, and based only on my
o...
Skyfire takes to the air!
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well after a dry spell of losing my creative mojo, I finally got back in
the seat and finished some bits. One of these was the Alt mode for Skyfire.
This...
Britains French Foreign Legion Trumpeter
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And not a copy this time but the real stuff. Okay he needed some new help
to stand up but now he is as good as new. Painted him in the same colors as
the...
May the Fourth Celebration.
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We finally had a a May the Fourth fall on a Saturday. Time to celebrate
the unofficial Star Wars Day with a day of games hosted by the Hutts!
We starte...
Iconic ACW Photo Comes to Life in Miniature
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*Speira Miniatures Vignette in 1/32 scale (54mm)*
*The colorized version of the original photograph that most of us have
seen.*
*CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENL...
15mm Eleven Archers
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I've been thinking about expanding some 15mm fantasy/medieval armies that I
have. Most of my figures are from the old Battlelore game, which includes
hu...
Serafimovich Redux-Game 2
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A week ago myself and Dan got together to play our next game in our Battle
of the Sunflowers campaign set in August of 1942 during the German Fall
Bla...
Lure Of The Chaos Gods - Combat Patrol
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While the details of this year's 40k campaign, once the Fratribusia
cuffuffle has been sorted, aren't important for this post, the nature of it
is. The ...
Miniatures Painted This Year (April)
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It’s time for the monthly update on all the mini’s I’m getting done this
year… starting with some more Mantic undead from their Dungeon Saga board
game:
...
AVBCW (OPR) Battle of Barlow 2nd June 1939
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The morning of 2nd June 1939 at Barlow Village broke in relative calm after
the action of the 1st June. The Black Horse in Barlow had done a roaring
tra...
Finished: Limbered 40mm Bofors
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Hi folks,
I've gotten myself into that odd situation (for me at least) where I have
multiple units being painted together. This has led to a break in thi...
Game Design #105: Suppression, Pinning, AoE
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Q: What does *Generation Kill*, *Green Zone* and *Battle for Los Angeles*
have in common?
A: They are all movies I have watched recently with my wife, a...
Displacement Activity
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What I'm Supposed To Be Doing: Packing for our trip to the UK
What I'm Actually Doing:
I decided I needed some more hexaremes and have started work on a...
Gaming ACW - Pea Ridge
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Our normal last Sunday of the month meet up saw myself and Roy playing the
small battle of Pea Ridge with Roy’s first outing taking a side command .
He ...
Friekorps und Spartacist
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Last weekend I paid a visit to my friend Lenin and we played a number of
games. Unfortunately, I stupidly forgot to take photos of some of them but
I did ...
In Celebration of Challenge XIV
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'We few, we happy few....'
Here we are at the end of the fourteenth edition of the Painting Challenge.
The library has turned off its lights, votes have...
Wavre Refight 28mm
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Here's a report on the refight of Wavre at Christchurch Wargaming club here
in New Zealand yesterday, together with some thoughts on the scenario and
rules...
The Guns of Naverhon, the Final!
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Alas for the Zentan cause, the janissaries continue to treat the battle
like a long weekend away. Having done some additional sightseeing to the
rear of th...
Ben the Cleric and Molly from the Town Militia
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Just a couple new additions for the fantasy collection.
Today we have Ben the Cleric along with Molly from the Town Militia.
Both of these models are fr...
Switching to Instagram!
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I've recently realized that I'm woefully behind in updating this blog. The
main reason is I've been posting my content on my Instagram page (
https://ww...
Majestic 13: Operation Trailer Trash
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I've been feeling a lot of stress lately with the upcoming move and all,
and my wife encouraged me to get the table cleared of and set up for a
game. Gi...
Bataljon Jagers No. 27
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I have been cracking on with a larger unit of Dutch-Belgian infantry for
the Hundred Days collection.
The 27th Light Battalion was part of van Bylandt's...
Working on some terrain
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Something a bit different - 28mm terrain:Assorted conifers from Bachman,
tree bases from Charlie Foxtrot, foreground ruins, runestone, and stela
from Fenr...
THE SCANIAN WAR 1675-79 NEW BOOK
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My latest purchase from Helion - CHARLES XI's WAR The Scanian War between
Sweden and Denmark 1675-1679. I first read about the Scanian War 55 years
ago...
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...
New Games Room and a Christening Battle
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Saturday I went over to Matt's for another Blood in the Sand Battle. It
was a great battle and I took rubbish photos but Matt's report can be found
here...
March Madness
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To some extent, I am feeling like we are in middle of the long decline of
the personal blog, but that might be just because I am having trouble
getting ...
28mm PBR for Vietnam War
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HI all,
Long time no blog. Sorry about that but I have been posting "mini blogs"
over on Twitter. So what has been going on? Well quiet a bit actual...
3d Print Project Middle Earth Cities
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I started a new project in January. It was just going to be at first two
pieces of terrain. It quickly turned into something crazy and overwhelming
b...
Victrix Gauls
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Saga Age of Hannibal gave me a reason to finally paint naked Gauls in
28mm...bucket list item checked! Seriously, these Victrix plastics are
quite lovely...
Ancient / Medieval village church
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The finished small village church/chapel, made from poly board with the
outer covering of card mostly removed and the exposed foam scribed with
lines to ...
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 ...
A few more Prussians to be going on with.
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Well, as anyone reading this will have probably noticed, I'm behind
schedule again. Lots of real world things going on to cause distractions
like hav...
Beginnings of Necromunda Gang
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Nancy was furious, the muscles before brains were stalking her sisters and
had harassed Becky last week. This was something that had happened too many
ti...
Battle of the Falklands - a Full Thrust scenario
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Battle of the Falklands
A Full Thrust Scenario by Phil Broeders
*Authors notes*
This scenario is based on the The Battle of the Falkland Islands, ...
Battle of Hastings - Caldbec Hill 1066
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This is my 3rd refight on Caldbec hill, rather than Senlac hill. The
terrain in my opinion fits the descriptions of the battle better from the
books I've r...
Oosterbeek 1944
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The other day the lads got together for a small Chain of Command game. We
took the scenario from Wargames Soldiers and Strategy 107.
An SS German force was...
Aerosan OSGA 6
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More stuff for Whiteout, this time 2 Aerosans from Baker Company.
In Whiteout you can have Sno-Cats as equipment or find them as
terrain-encounters. My ta...
GENERAL D'ARMEE on CYL TV
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Hi Team
Here are the videos I've created thus for covering some General D'Armee
games:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8VX1GJ37NUyDgdO1lmE6rAzo87zT...
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...
Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Tips for Designing Games
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Ok, ok, ok... I know Kurt Vonnegut never designed games (to the best of my
knowledge, anyway). But he was an exceptional author who knew how to craft
an en...
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)...
A Tale of Two Battles - Part the Second
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After the battle recorded in the previous post, I felt I had unfinished
business with Paul and his Russians, so I challenged him to a game the
followin...
Another big (well small)gun
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I continue with my alien 15mm army of Snakemen (Astragar). Just a few
figures painted. The are of course 15mm CRITICAL MASS Games. Yes I do have
some more...
Trenches (part three)
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Adding bunkers and other improved fighting positions to your trenches can
greatly improve the look of them! A plain trench is great for infantry, but
you c...
Game Testing a Simple 40k Ruleset for Epic
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I've got a nice little set of Epic sized space marines. They're basically
painted up as Space Wolves and Emperor's Children. Since my last post on
the to...
On the Road to Rimini
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The road to Rimini is dotted with small hilltop towns bristling with German
machine gun nests. Elements from the American 5th Army need to secure the
...
(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...
Death In The Dark
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Hello patient friends and people who have stumbled onto my page for the
first time by accident or from some link I posted somewhere!
It has been a long tim...
Working on my Photography set up
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Been taking a few test shots, need to up the light a bit but as a first
try on my new set up I am happy. My targets today were some Modern 28mm
Figures an...
Back At It
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After a year or so hiatus, I’m back to writing. I had a baby, and well, to
use a worn out phrase, the struggle is real. She’s great, but I’m having a
hard ...
Another Custom Dice Bag from Saddle Goose Designs
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I have a bit of a thing about dice. I've got quite a few. Few
hundred...that is. Maybe even several hundred. I know...I need help. But
with so many dice ...
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 ...
All Quiet on the Hobby Front
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Another big gap between posts but I do have somethings in the works moving
forward.
First up my shipment of Chieftan MBTs came in and this week I've been...
Growing Up
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*"You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop
laughing". — George Bernard Shaw*
I feel like the issue of acting "like a grownup" ...
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 ...
Farewell, strike the tent
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A final entry here for Saxe-Bearstein.
On October 2, 2016 the originator of this blog, Bluebear Jeff Hudelson,
started on his journey to the Summerlands....
Zvezda SU100
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SU100
The Zvezda SU100 is one of two new Soviet assault gun kits to be released
recently, the other being the SU152
The SU100 was based on the T34 chass...
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...
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...
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A 1/700 Flyhawk Derfflinger i had to finish up.The nets were a nightmare to
align and glue without making a mesh of everything.I am surprised they ca...
Battle of Mt. St-Jean 1794
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I thought I would start of 2016 with a bang and run the Battle of Mt
St-Jean 1794 using Carnage and Glory II computer aided rules. The battle
was fought o...
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...
Outbreak in Gotham
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Image from Warner Bros. Dark Knight
So what will I do with all these Batman figures? Play the Batman miniatures
game? Maybe. What I will do with all thes...
Is it that time of year already?
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I have been thinking of a wish list for what I would like Saint Nicholas to
bring me.... since I am a scratch builder I am liking things like wooden
crafti...
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I know you've been waiting for them! This little lot are finally available
on the website :)
All painted by the very talented Charles Baynon.
http://footso...
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...
Challenger and IT Terrain.
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Odd how things coalesced, and one day can define years to come...
Occasionally in this Life in Miniature, I 'be been around successful
protects, at GW lat...
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...
SBG Variant?
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One of the things I've never liked about SBG was the way they handled
wizards like Gandalf they were reduced to a couple of special rules. I
hated that....
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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...
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 yeste...
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