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A photo of the front of our house. The front door is at the left next to a big bay window, and in front of the window is a small garden with a bunch of plants in pots as well as too small trees, also in pots. The mulch in the garden is freshly laid rich red wood chips and the lawn in front of the garden is nice and neat and tidy.

Phew, that was a productive morning! Remulched the front garden and rearranged the plants, and laid weed mat under the trees to the right as well as adding mulch there too. And did the mowing too.

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Posted on 18 April 2022, 13:54

A photo of beef Pad See Ew on a plate. It looks (and was) delicious!

A photo of dessert which was billed as "banana with sticky rice and ice cream". The banana seemed like it'd been smushed and shaped around a core of bean paste. Not very appetising-looking but was really tasty.

Kristina had a sudden hankering for Thai tonight so we went to our local Thai restaurant and it was excellent as always.

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Posted on 16 April 2022, 20:02

A photo of my miniature painting table. It's a piece of wood 900mm by 600mm, raised up at the front and back so there's a gap underneath it, and towards the front of it is a rectangular wooden arch that's covered in LED strip lighting so the table itself is really brightly lit. At the back are all the paint pots spread over two levels.

Made a few more modifications to my painting table this morning! I attached an extra piece of wood to the front of the top of the arch and moved the LED strips that had been pointing directly out at me—or were at the very back and not really contributing much—to underneath the new piece so they're pointing straight down towards what I'm painting. The entire arch was also moved forwards so I get more of the light, and it's now significantly more rigid as well.

I hadn't taken any photos of it previously, but after I'd added the second level to store paints on at the end of last year, I also put a set of strip lights underneath that too to light up the bottom level a little more.

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Posted on 15 April 2022, 12:57

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying upside down basically on my foot. I'm standing at my standing desk and the photo is taken looking directly down, with my leg and foot visible towards the left of frame.

The same small scruffy blonde dog, but this time he's kind of rolled over on his side but is still on my foot.

Beanie's decided that my foot is the right place to lie this morning.

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Posted on 14 April 2022, 11:38

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team board with home-made desert and ramshackle junkyard-style terrain on it.

A photo of nine six-sided dice, three of them are sixes, two are fives, and there's two twos and two threes.

We played another (partial) game of Kill Team tonight! And for the first time EVER, everything was fully painted. 😮 We only got a turn and a half in thanks to us taking a while to set everything up, but we're definitely getting the hang of it.

I was playing Death Guard, and they have a rule called "Disgustingly Resilient" where if they would lose a wound, you roll a D6 and on a roll of 5+ the wound is not lost. It doesn't matter how many wounds, just ANY wound. One of them was attacked and was going to be dealt 9 wounds (out of a total of 12), but my Disguisingly Resilient roll was amazing and I was able to reduce it down to 4. 😂

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Posted on 13 April 2022, 22:44

A photo of an Astra Militarum Scion from Warhammer 40,000, basically a regular human trooper except I've replaced the regular male head with a third-party female one that has a military cap on. She's got her mouth open like she's yelling, and is wielding a chainsword and laspistol. The base is all done and looks like snow and it's got a couple of little winter shrubs on it as well.

Okay I lied, I COULD be bothered breaking out the airbrush for one single miniature. She's all finished now! Next stop, the other thirteen members of the squad. 😅

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Posted on 11 April 2022, 21:29

I've finished off the test model for my new Scion squad, and I am absolutely STOKED at how well she came out, in particular her face and eyes! She's not FULLY finished yet, I still need to apply varnish and then put the snow sprinkles and winter bushes on the base (oops, and also paint the lens on the thing beside her head which I didn't notice I hadn't painted until I was looking at it just now), but I can't be bothered pulling out the airbrush and setting it up and cleaning it out again for just one single miniature.

I'd signed up to Duncan Rhodes' Painting Academy a couple of months ago, the videos are fantastic and clear and extremely well-produced, and I used his technique and colours for the face in particular. It's all of £4/month and there's a ton of videos and more added weekly.

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Posted on 10 April 2022, 21:56

A photo of a three-player game of Warhammer Underworlds, a hex-based board game with miniatures and cards. Lady Harrow's Mournflight (four flowing spirits) are at the left, The Crimson Court (four elegant vampires in silver and bronze armour with red cloaks) are at the right, and across the other side of the board are Hrothgorn's Mantrappers (a huge ogre with a crossbow/bear trap launcher, a sabretooth tiger, and four goblins).

A photo of a beef burger and chips in a low rectangular basket.

We had Ben over again today for a Beanie visit and some Warhammer Underworlds. The Beanie visit went very well, we didn't even give Beanie any of his medicine and he'd pretty well calmed down inside of ten minutes! Warhammer Underworlds ended up being extremely close, Ben and I tied for the win on 10 glory, and Kristina got 9!

And then we went to a pub near us for dinner and I had a burger and it was excellent. 👌🏻

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Posted on 9 April 2022, 20:50

A photo of the head of a small scruffy blonde dog, he's lying in my lap resting his head on my stomach and looking up at me while the rest of his body is hidden underneath my desk.

Current Beanie status.

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Posted on 6 April 2022, 16:18

A photo of a pork schnitzel on top of chips, with some sort of pickled cabbage (it didn't taste like sauerkraut) and pickled beetroot things with a pasta salad thing as well.

Well, the food was actually delicious, but I'm pretty sure they had exactly one person in the kitchen and one fryer to make the food with because it took over an hour for it to arrive. Definitely not bothering with that place again.

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Posted on 1 April 2022, 20:47