Every year I make my own mince pies for Christmas; I am a big fan, but don't like shop bought ones. This year I'd been so busy early in December that I didn't have the chance to do so until today. I made five trays of pies today - 60 in total, but I've already eaten three or four. They should last until after Christmas (I'll take them with me to my ( Read more... )

OK, my birthday was yesterday, but yesterday I was late home from work and rushed out to a game... today I treated myself to something nice:


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Seen on three of my friends already...

Take a picture of yourself right now.

Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.

Post that picture with NO editing. (Except maybe to get the image size down to something reasonable.)

Post these instructions with your picture.


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Had a fun time at GenCon UK this weekend. Didn't get enough sleep. Didn't have such a fun day back at work today. Very tired. Proper report to follow. Going to sleep now.

Failed my driving test again, in part due to the little girl who decided to cross the road behind me while I was doing the reverse round the corner. It's the fourth time I've taken my test, and the fourth time I've had this examiner, which was pretty disheartening... I've booked another test, but it's not for five weeks, so no driving to GenConUK ( Read more... )

I got my new car over the weekend! I had arranged to collect it early on Saturday, but got a call from the dealership saying the finance company had a problem with me only having a provisional license. Several hours, a new finance company and a lot of paperwork later I was able to drive away at about 5pm Saturday, hurray!

This is my car:


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Yesterday I had another BLT sandwich for lunch, and this time both the lettuce and tomato were from my own garden :-)

It's been a while since I've updated, so here's a bunch of them together. I started running a game of GURPS Dungeon Fantasy last night. Our brave heroes, a knight, swashbuckler, cleric and pyromaniac wizard followed the trail of a band of goblins to an abandoned and ruined watch tower, and after a lot of clambering about (and a quick encounter with ( Read more... )

I'm sitting down to a BLT sandwich for lunch ... and the salad is all out of my own garden.

I've just been out in the garden with a torch and gardening gloves hunting slugs and snails and throwing them over the back fence into the common (where if there's any justice they will get eaten by birds). There were dozens of the things... probably getting on for 60 to 100. Many of them made anguished sounding squeaks on being picked up. I think ( Read more... )