Thursday 30 May 2024

Table's back

 Finally

It's been away for nearly a month in order to get rid of the bobble.  The guy that fixed it had to make an entire metal brace for it.  Another £400 down the drain...  At least it's fixed now with no wobble at all.  The guy's good though he fixed the wobble on the bench after I broke it whilst sitting down!




Wednesday 29 May 2024

Camping for 2 weeks

The tent has been there for a couple of weeks now.  It's in a strange position, it's about 25 / 30 mins walk from the centre of Tonbridge but it's also on a fairly well used path by dog walkers on the edge of a farmers field.   Not sure what's going on but hope they're okay.  





Fallout


We played the Fallout rpg last night at the games club.  It went fairly well, if a little clunky.  My character was the Super Mutant with the sledgehammer.  Back to our d&d campaign next week.

 

Monday 27 May 2024

The garden needed a trim

95% of the plants survived the winter and are more than flourishing.  The cat enjoyed the catnip.





Balsamic bbq

 Beef marinated in balsamic vinegar and honey, plus some waitrose pulled pork







Bank holiday Monday fun

 We went to the King Henry the VIII for lunch (I play touch rugby there on Wednesdays) then went to Hever Castle next door.  Good fun!









Misspelt Tonbridge graffiti

I'm shouldn't be the one to correct peoples spelling but,  




Saturday 25 May 2024

Next weeks rpg

 One of our players is off next week and seeing as we're about to hit a big part of the campaign we're going to miss a session and do a one shot game of Fallout.  I managed to route out an old pdf I had so one of the group is going to make us some pre-generated characters and run a session.

Should be fun.  The pdf I found was from June 2011!

I also found my notes


I also found some notes from a session I was going to run.  But as with most things with the dweebs getting them actually motivated for more than 5 minutes was always a struggle.


Deep fried hotdog coated in chips?

 Tonbridge Food and Drinks Festival this weekend




Arthur's birthday breakfast

 In case you may not have noticed Arthur really likes eggs!  He only managed 3.5 though.  Must try harder.




Fried toast and egg

 Made this this morning.  The bread could have done with more oil for better friedness.







Thursday 23 May 2024

Pizza time

 April bough somet supermarket pizzas for the kids.  I spiced them up.

Arthur: Added mushroom and sweetcorn

Flo: Added Ham, tomato and honey.

Yum!



Kiss the pig

We got Flo to do this a few years ago.  This time was Arthur.  Tonbridge School is one of the most expensive private schools in the country.  The fact that we're even considering it seems insane to me.  Let's hope he gets the grades to go to one of the great local grammars. 




Tick tock

 My character in our latest game found a silver egg, turns out it was a silver dragon egg.  I've bought one in from ebay so we're ready.




Dog walk

 Our friends needed us to walk their dog this afternoon so I took both dogs out.  This time Bella won 3-0 on the poo front.






Wednesday 22 May 2024

Winner

 We test drove one of Arthur's new games this afternoon. I kicked April's ass. Snail sprint.



Lunch time walk

 I took Arwen out for a long walk this afternoon.  Saw some lovely sights. 







Only one encounter

 We only had one encounter last night as the DM was keen to play with his new toy (Deck of Many Things) again.  The players that didn't draw any last week took their turn.  It was back at the pub as our table is still not available.  



Helping out the club

 My friends at the rugby club needed help running a rugby festival for the surround schools so I said I could help out.  I still had half a day's holiday to use up this month so thought why not.  90 kids (yr 6) from around 10 local schools played tag rugby all afternoon in the rain.  What's not to enjoy?




Birthday boy!

 Arthur turned 4 yesterday, I think he was very pleased with his haul.










Never in doubt

 I won the Tonbridge Massive Fantasy football trophy (again) this year.  That's the third time.  £120 too.  Although i've got to take the others out for beers at the start of the season.




Monday morning's dog walk

 Wow, Tonbridge is nice when the sun comes out.  A lovely start to the day, then I had to go into town for two interviews.  Urgh.







Sunday bbq

 Steak and Sausages.  Plus some random veg that was in the fridge.  Yum.



First game for the Badgers

I played in a charity game for the Badgers on Saturday.  No real injuries other than my boots falling apart in the second half.  Quite surprising really as my opposite man was an Aussie who played for Tunbridge Wells first team.  We lost but only by 10 pints or so. What a view though.  Chiddingston.




Never again

 Flo was in a musical on Saturday.  She's been going to Stagecoach each Saturday for quite a while now and Saturday was their big performance.  The show lasted over an hour and a half and Flo was in it for 4 minutes at most!  The worst part was Ffo seemed to be fuming all throughout it.  It turns out one of the other girl sung through her part in the younger kids song in rehearsal.  She did the same in the main show!





Splinter removal

 Florence was not impressed






Indian tasting menu

 A bunch of us went to the new Indian restaurant in Tunbridge Wells on Friday night.  It was Wayne's birthday.  £888 between us.  It was very good.  I was stuffed in the end.

Essence

https://essencerestaurants.co.uk/