Shoulder update

 It's been 5 weeks and a day since I had my shoulder operation and think my recovery is going fine.  I think I slept awkwardly on it last night so it's a little akey, but I managed to go on the cross trainer this morning and think it's going okay.  I had another physio session last week and he's got me doing lifts with 1kg and 2kg loads.  Not what i'm used to but little by little will be a better then lots and the repair failing.

I had a look at the claim from for the operation last week too and it was over £5.5k!  Ouch!  Ouch indeed.  The total cost so far is probably over £8k.  With a number of consultations, a pain injection, an MRI, a separate bill from the anaesthetist and multiple trips to the physio.  

New D20

 My new d20 made out of bone arrived yesterday.  Back to the game's cafe tonight so will put it straight into action.

Pizza and rugby

 What's not to like?  We had 3 rugby coaching families over on Saturday including their kids.  We made pizzas for everyone before watching the rugby.

My attempt at a calzone

The best pizza

Arwen helping

Rugby training

 We had good numbers on Sunday for our rugby training.  Here's Arthur outrunning one of the other boys.

Doh!

 I went to a rugby training course on Monday night and only realised i'd brought the wrong boot bag when I got there.

Back to work

 I'm finally back to work after 4 weeks and a day off.  Not much has happened really.  Only two weeks to go before I use the last of my holiday and have another 2 weeks off!

Big weekend

The weekend was fun, we did loads and I was tired at the start of the week.  Luckily I wasn't allowed to start back at work till Tuesday.

Thursday:  April went to a gig

Friday: Under 6s coaches curry night followed by April singing karaoke in the Chequers. 

Saturday:  April in London to see Harlequins ladies play at the stoop.  8:30 train to London followed by bottomless brunch (prosecco) with the ladies rugby team.  I watched the first rugby game of the day with my mate and his kids round ours.  After that we headed to the rugby club to watch the England game then onto a 50th birthday party.

Sunday: Edenbridge Festival or at least for 15 mins.  Flo was sick in the morning but still wanted to go to the rugby festival so I took her.  Once there she was clearly not well, so I took her home after about 20 mins.  I missed the u6 training session but it went well.  I then went to the rugby club as April was playing that afternoon.  I needed to look after the kids whist she played. How things have changed!

A spot of sunbathing

 It's lovely in Tonbridge at the minute and Josie is making the most of it.

World book day

 It's world book day today so April made Arthur a Timmy the dog outfit from the Famous Five, and adjusted an adult dress for Flo.  Can't remember who she's supposed to be.  The book's called something about a clockwork something or other.  She does make a real effort with all this stuff.

Back to D&D

 After a month off due to the operation, GM holidays and not wanting to spend £40+ on baby sitting for a one shot in a system I can't be bothered to play, I had my first d&d session in a month on Tuesday.  We're level 18 now so only actually did 2 things.  The first was a bit of investigation which my character is useless at, the second was a fight which takes fucking ages.  

With all the powers and abilities characters have in 5.5 at level 18 you really do need a tablet or phone with a d&d app installed to speed things up.  Unfortunately we have one old school guy that played the original when it first came out and it can sometimes take him minutes going through the rule book each round to work out what spell he can cast.  He's a good chap so I don't bust his balls but it was painful at times.  In other news.  I did a quivering strike on the main bad guy and got a nat 20.  The GM tried to block it by making me have disadvantage, so I rolled again and got another 20! That's 20d12+8 damage.  Oops.  The for my other 4 attacks!  I nearly one shotted him!

This is a 3d printed Tarrasque that our GM's nephew printed for him.  I have a sneaky feeling we may be meeting it soon.  Where did I put that scroll of the comet?