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A photo of a bottle of Kraken spiced roast coffee rum, a Boss "Blues Driver" guitar pedal, a box of 300 miniature skulls for decorating my various Games Workshop miniature bases, and a black t-shirt with a dark on the front that looks like Darth Vader but he's made up of the Death Star and Storm Troopers and TIE Fighters.

Christmas loot!

Posted on 25 December 2023, 12:15

A photo of a birthday cake in the shape of an electric guitar. The body of the guitar is a rich turquoise colour with a white pick guard, and the pickup, neck, and headstock are chocolate icing that's been totally darkened with black food colouring. The volume and tone knobs are yellow M&Ms, the frets are just regular chocolate icing laid across the neck, it's also got six pegs that the strings would go around made out of the same icing, as well as three tuners on each side of the headstock that are made out of marshmallows attached to toothpicks. There's also four strings on it, just made from cotton.

Growing up in Australia in the 80s and 90s, nearly everyone's parents had a copy of the Women's Weekly's "Children's Birthday Cake" recipe book: https://www.womensweeklyfood.com.au/australian-womens-weekly-childrens-birthday-cakes-29679 I had multiple cakes made from it, but the most distinct one that sticks out was actually one my sister had for one of her early birthdays, it was a swimming pool that was filled with jelly and had little figures swimming in it (#18 in the link above). Mum used my Lego figures for it and I remember being very annoyed about them being dunked in jelly, so mum made that same cake for me for my 30th: https://www.flickr.com/photos/virtualwolf/8668152138/ I figured for my 40th I should have another cake from the birthday cake book, and they actually have a guitar as one of them! It's an acoustic though, which I have absolutely no interest in, so I asked mum if she could make it an electric one instead, and boy did she deliver! 😂

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Posted on 30 April 2023, 19:07

A photo of the boxes of two Warhammer 40,000 miniatures, both are freaky-looking human/alien hybrids (one looks like a gunslinger and the other is standing there looking menacing). Underneath those are three plastic things: a little bellow, a funnel-looking thing, and a small weight.

Birthday haul part 2! The multi-part plastic thing is a single dose attachment for the coffee grinder.

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Posted on 24 April 2022, 12:27

A photo of the boxes of three warbands from Warhammer Underworlds: Khagra's Ravagers (Chaos warriors), Rippa's Snarlfangs (goblins on wolfback), and the Starblood Stalkers (Aztec-feeling lizards).

And that's birthday haul part two!

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Posted on 2 May 2021, 12:22

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying underneath a dining table and chairs.

We're currently at my parents' place on the Northern Beaches because there was an SES flood evacuation warning late last night that said we might need to evacuate before 3am. We figured we'd get ahead and just leave and get a decent-ish sleep rather than waiting and worrying. Unsurprisingly Beanie has taken this turn of events in stride and is currently resting under their dining table. I doubt we're in any danger of the house being flooded, didn't want to be potentially cut off with no power though!

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Posted on 22 March 2021, 10:17

A photo of our dining room table with a bunch of crummy polystyrene terrain on it but also an enormous landing pad made out of cardboard, and lots of miniatures. My mum, a tall white woman with a very mid-90s short but poofy hairdo, is standing gesticulating at the table with a tape measure.

Another photo of our dining table with terrain on it, but this time I'm sitting beside it looking like I'm demonstrating something while mum watches what I'm doing.

A photo of me, a just-thirteen year-old white boy with short brown hair and a red (!) t-shirt on, looking extremely serious and with my hand in the position that indicates I've probably just rolled some dice.

I've been taking proper photos of my Games Workshop miniatures and posting them to Flickr, mum saw them and emailed to say she was very impressed and that I hadn't lost my touch. She ALSO mentioned that she had photos of me when I was much younger having a Warhammer 40,000 battle with her on the dining room table! She brought them over and I scanned them in and cleaned them up, and oh boy, check out the youth and the serious expression. 😂 There was a date on the back of July 1996, so I was 13! I'm playing my Eldar, but I think I must have borrowed a friend's what looks like Orks because those miniatures at the far end of the table are definitely not mine!

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Posted on 21 February 2021, 11:24