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A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The board looks like the metal of the inside of an ancient steampunk starship, and the terrain is a bunch of walls all connected together in the same steampunk style to form number of interconnecting rooms. Left of frame are the six hulking and putrid Plague Marines in large sci-fi-looking dull green amour with all sorts of tentacles and demon faces coming out of the armour. At the right are the extremely ramshackle-looking green Orks of the Wrecka Krew, all with mismatched armour plating on various parts of their bodies and holding all sorts of ridiculously oversized weapons.

In the office for Kill Team tonight, my Plague Marines versus the Ork Wrecka Krew, and despite a decent start it ended up completely falling over in a heap and we called it at the start of turn 3 when the score was 7-3 to the Orks and I was going to be completely unable to score anything more. 😞 I think I need to go back to my Angels of Death, I just cannot for the life of me keep everything they can do in my head and I'm constantly forgetting their rules. The Angels of Death are more self-contained, where each individual operative doesn't need to interact too much with the others.

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Posted on 7 July 2025, 17:53

A photo of a rainbow lorikeet sitting in amongst the leaves and branches of a big tree.

I am unreasonably excited to have spotted a rainbow lorikeet hanging out in the big tree in our backyard! They're such lovely birds and we don't see them around here. It was chirping away another one that I couldn't see.

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Posted on 23 June 2025, 13:38

A photo of our dining table with a Warhammer Quest game set up on it. There's lots of cards and dice everywhere, and in middle are a bunch of variously-shaped tiles connected together that look like the inside of a set of buildings. There's four hero miniatures at the right (one heavily-armoured warrior woman with a sword, a vampire hunter with a long leather coat and a big hat, a steampunk dwarf, and a priest with a rich red robe and a big staff) plus two groups of hostile miniatures: two lithe vampires and three shambling zombies.

A photo of our four hero miniatures standing next to and being positively LOOMED over by the Vargskyr, which is a massive hunched over demon/bat hybrid thing twice the height of the heroes, with red skin and brown fur down its arms. It has blood around its mouth and dripping from its claws and there's a pile of skulls on its base. In the distance across several board sections there are a group of rat swarms and another group of bat swarms ready to overwhelm us.

We had @[email protected] over today to finally continue our Warhammer Quest adventure! This time it was the first half of the next Kill The Big Bad journey, it was pretty smooth sailing compared to some of our previous efforts and we managed to stay ahead of the suffocating gravetide without too much issue. Plus we even took down the mighty Vargskyr before got a chance to attack us when it showed up!

All four heroes are inspired and ready for the second half next time, which I expect is going to be quite nasty: the target is Gorslav the Gravekeeper and he'll be accompanied by all ten of the zombie miniatures that come in the Cursed City box, plus a batch of corpse rats and a batch of bat swarms. Gorslav has a number of nasty abilities and can bring zombies back after you've killed them, so it's going to be hectic.

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Posted on 21 June 2025, 21:01

A photo of two round golden brown loaves of bread covered in flour, sitting on a cooling rack. There's a magnificent split along the top of both of them and I can confirm they taste as good as they look.

Yissss.

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Posted on 8 June 2025, 16:26

A view looking down a path between a good six or seven blocks of four- and five-storey units on either side, plus another one in the distance at the end. The sky is completely blue, and there's at least a bit of greenery along the sides of the path.

A photo looking across into the middle of a sports field where there is a cricket pitch set up and a number of players conferring in the middle. Beyond them is the sports field building which presumably has the toilets and I guess some sort of canteen in it, and just peeking out over the top of that building are the tops of the roofs of the houses beyond.

We went for a big walk this afternoon, you couldn't have asked for better weather. We went up towards the new areas they're building closer to the train station, there are SO MANY unit blocks going up, this all used to be farmland. At least there are a decent amount of trees, and we also stumbled across a big sports field nestled away where there was a very intense game of cricket going on!

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Posted on 1 June 2025, 15:28

A very wide angle panorama photo of a bunch of people sitting around a table in a pub, smiling at the camera.

Most excellent fedimeet! It was great to see @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], and @[email protected] again, and to meet @[email protected] (who won't actually see this toot because I have mastodon.social blocked on this instance, haha).

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Posted on 28 May 2025, 20:58

A photo of a bowl of porridge with a dollop of butter on top, and brown sugar sprinkled on it.

Aw yiss, first porridge of the season.

(The timing in terms of suitable weather was a bit poor here because today is the first gloriously sunny day we've had after like a week of grey and rain.)

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Posted on 24 May 2025, 9:42

A selfie of me, a white man with a short red beard and short brown hair—although both are getting a bit scruffy—smiling at the camera. I'm holding a guitar and standing in front of my standing desk, which has an Arturia MiniLab 3 MIDI keyboard in black sitting on the desk. On the main computer display is Logic Pro with Arturia's Analog Lab plugin window open, and on my laptop's internal display to the left there is Toontrack's Superior Drummer 3 plugin window showing half of a frankly absurd number of cymbals and toms, partially covered by the window for Neural DSP's Archetype PliniX guitar amp software showing a cool-looking black amp with a red glow coming from inside it.

Current status: feeling inspired. 😎

(Of course, it's probably going to end up being another couple of months before I actually finish this thing. 😅)

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Posted on 18 May 2025, 20:47

A photo of a mostly-assembled single bedframe. Main components of it are thick black metal U-beams that make up the four sides of the frame, with another one running down the middle. There are wooden panels on the outer sides that attach to the metal to hide the frame itself (the panels themselves are solid wood too and quite hefty), and four panels of wood that the mattress sits on which have holes drilled in them to allow the mattress to breathe. These panels get screwed into the U-beams of the frame itself, and the whole bed is raised on four solid round wooden legs, with an extra leg right in the middle of the centre U-beam to provide even MORE support. The whole thing would have to weigh like 90kg, it's ridiculous.

And then this evening I put together the world's most overengineered bedframe, which weighs more than I do.

(We got this one specifically because a) we're sick of having to replace cheap bedframes because the slats either warp or the whole thing starts creaking, and b) all the other ones were too low to fit our storage boxes under them.)

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Posted on 10 May 2025, 18:36

A wide-angle photo taken looking down a long table of a bunch of people sitting and talking at a pub. There are empty plates scattered over the table, and a big window on the left looking out into some greenery.

A photo of the box of Lhykhis, a Warhammer 40,000 miniature. She's wearing sleek black armour and is partially crouched in mid-jump with a bunch of what looks like lightning underneath her in a partial globe shape like she's just finished teleporting from somewhere else. She has one hand out behind her, the other holding a big sword, two additional mechanical arms coming out from her back and pointing forwards above her shoulders, and ANOTHER two coming out underneath her real arms, and the whole effect very much brings to mind a spider.

I had a (belated) birthday lunch at our local pub today! Great to see friends, the food was delicious as always, and @[email protected] bought me a present, the new Warp Spider Phoenix Lord miniature for Warhammer 40,000!

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Posted on 10 May 2025, 16:19