Tuesday, 12 May 2026

Sunday roast

 We met one of the other rugby families out for a roast on Sunday.  The Rock Inn, Chiddingstone.  It was great fun.

A whole chicken, 3 ribs of beef and a shoulder of lamb




Hook the ring on the bulls nose game




Saturday cooking

 I made roasted chicken breast with dauphinoise potatoes (used the new mandoline) on Saturday.  Not a bad attempt.



I wasn't a bad rugby player

 When clearing out the shed I showed the kids all the trophies i'd won when I was a kid (including one of Steve's that I have for some reason).  Player of the year, clubman of the year, players player and a 2nd team player of the year.  Not bad.



We cleared the shed out on Saturday

 Quite hard work lifting all the heavy stuff down from the garden and out the front.  A few people asked to take some bits but the rest was taken away this morning by a removal firm.  The idea is to referb the shed, insulate it, new floors, windows and patio doors.  We can then use the garden more.








Thursday, 7 May 2026

Had to show ID to get a mandoline

 FFS!  How many mandoline attacks are in the latest knife crime statistics?





Ducklings!

 Spotted a bunch of ducklings on my dog walk yesterday






Wednesday, 6 May 2026

Tiamat

 As a thank you to our GM I organised getting this 3D printed Tiamat, one of our players has kindly put it together and painted it.  It will be ready for our last session next week where we'll finally put down our characters who we've had since level 1 (although mine died at level 16).  We're going to fight a tarrasque.  The one we left on an island when we were around level 7.  Should be fun.



We beat Vecna

 We finished off the Vecna campaign last night.  We brought along a portable short throw projector for the game mat too.  It was a great campaign.  Although slow at times (lvl 20), it was fun and we had lots of laughs along the way.

One of the many highlights was actually last night, Our cleric casting Wish on our traitorous Sorcerer, who back stabbed us in the last session.  It didn't kill him, but brought him down to 0 hp. 

Another highlight was the return of my wizard who i'd brought up from level 1 to 16 only for him to getting disintegrated by a death tyrant.  Unfortunately he was on Vecna's side.






Arwen's haircut

 Arwen got her Summer haircut yesterday and I think she looks very smart.






Tuesday, 5 May 2026

Shadow puppets

 The sun shines through the blinds in the front room so we had some fun with shadow puppetry.