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A photo of nine tupperware containers, each with half rice and half tomato-based chicken curry with beans and carrots on it.

Well, I think that's going to keep me going for a while.

Posted on 1 May 2022, 17:47

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying in his dog bed that has blankets on top of it and has the back of it against the wall. The bed is a rectangular one with raised up sides, and instead of lying in the middle of it along the longest axis, he's lying dead straight along the short axis, right at the far right-hand side with his nose jammed against the wall.

Beanie is the weirdest dog. Look at this sleeping position he settled on when he got into bed.

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Posted on 26 April 2022, 23:41

A photo of the board of a Warhammer Underworlds game. The board has hexagonal tiles printed on it with a blue murky-depths kind of feel of artwork, at the front are three heavily-armoured warriors in gold and dark blue armour (Ironsoul's Condemnors), and at the back are four lithe and elegant aelves (Myari's Purifiers).

Got our Warhammer Underworlds on again tonight! Kristina went back to the aelves and I played Ironsoul's Condemnors. The final score was 10-7 to Kristina, but it was not remotely as close as it sounds, I REALLY need to go in and tweak the Condemnors deck. Lotta suck in it that needs removing.

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Posted on 25 April 2022, 22:20

A photo of a Breville "the Bambino Plus" espresso machine and a Eureka Mignon Specialita grinder alongside a stainless steel container for holding coffee beans. The espresso machine is very handsome, it's all black and shiny chrome, and the grinder is all black and looks very retro 1950s.

Yasssss, birthday haul. 🎉 I still need to tweak the grind fineness—and the single dose attachment I'm getting from my parents on Sunday will help with reducing the amount of beans I end up wasting because I ground too much—but man, even with that it's a night and day difference between the old machine and the new. I had no idea espresso could be so thick and rich!

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Posted on 20 April 2022, 10:25

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 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 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