If your future self could send you one sentence, what do you hope it would say?
The winning lottery ticket numbers are….
Yes I know money doesn’t buy happiness but it is comfier to cry in a limousine than on a bicycle.
Can you tell I am having one of those days in work!
In reality I would say something along the lines of.
Be kind to yourself. Shouting at a flower won’t make it grow.
I popped over to see my mate Mike earlier and along with some very nice soup and wargaming chat I came back with a supply package as he is trying to downsize…
He has handed over his French and Indian wars collection. Which was very kind of him. As he said, the only person he will play against is me.
This evening I decided to get on with the Florentine forces.
Skeleton Brown Dipping inks is the base layer as shown below…
Tomorrow I will hopefully get the patchy planes shoved onto the bases, then flagged and varnished…
Speaking of varnish… Earlier I went to put a second layer of mat varnish on something and somehow managed to pick up a can of black, shook it for ages and somehow missed anything important. The grass looks a bit burnt, but that can be flocked over.
Onto the Militia soon!
I hope!
What’s a thing you wish schools actually taught?
I come from this after thirty-four years in education. Primarily in primary but with forays into secondary. Last Ten were in senior management.
The one absolute is:
CRITICAL THINKING
Ye gods it would certainly assist in the amount of stupidity you see flying around.
In the old days you would see it from the man in the pub or papers like the Daily Heil in the UK. Now we have Social Media and outlets like Fox News, GB News… Other outlets are available.
Now we have generative AI with political parties using it to forward their aims.
Discovery channel with their made up documentary shows. Sorry there are other channels too but I just woke up.
I remember watching their Shark week one on the Meg.I mean it should have had the tagline: This is a true story. Only the facts have been changed to protect the innocent!
Ended up in a discussion with a few kids after that one about how it was all made up… On the upside we ended up doing a project on Ancient Life… So I took the win 🤗
Watched something the other day where a guy was arguing that 88% of Muslim women couldn’t speak English. When statistics show that it is 88% can speak it very well,
And let’s not get into politics…
I now need to get going so I will end here with a final thought.
In the words of the great Aretha Franklin…”THINK!”
Share a photo of your pet and tell us one thing that makes them uniquely them.
For some reason this failed to upload on the required day…your task is to get my pet…
Her name is Spoog, well actually her name is Maggie, but for some reason she has become, Boog, Poog, The Spoog.. Drop It, what have you stolen. Stop it, Get Off… And ow when using tender parts of ones body as a launch pad!
She didn’t have the best start in life, but she seems way more settled now. Getting better with power tools but absolutely detests hard hats and high Vis.
Yes here she is….
Yes, I have worked on the Florentine forces this evening…
Red feathers, bases and flags left to do.
There are a few bits and pieces I need to sort out… On some of the upright pikes I obviously forgot to remove some of the supports from the pikes…
I will get these cut off tomorrow. The other thing I need to do is to reduce the length of the pikes to primarily match the rest (they are too long to fit in my box).
I will get these finished tomorrow and sort out the Militia…. Aaaaargggghhhhh!
Well after a day of running adult and child protection training I was a bit pooped. I did want to get something done so I made some pretty guns and got everything done apart from the feathers (and the bases)!
I might have to take a little break from these as it has suddenly dawned on me that the show I am entering another skull into is on Wednesday… I basically have to get the whole thing done by Tuesday night…. Emmmmmm I haven’t even started! Trying for a smilodon skull this time.
The following was my foam deer skull from last year.
What’s something you used to worry about but don’t anymore?
This is honestly not safe for work… apologies to anyone who gets offended… There is a radio version where all the naughty words are bleeped out.
https://open.spotify.com/track/0R4EcD2e5m9wsMmWVVbBOc?si=RaY0J9N3Rx63PrsapzAheg&utm_source=copy-link
I can’t really think of anything, but I remember, as a kid of about eight or nine, trying to work out how old I would be in the year 2000… What…How ancient?
Yeah 34! Ancient and over the hill.
I used to have a really huge dislike of seaweed… I think Jaws has something to do with that, similar fear of dark water.
I have gone sea kayaking in the dark which funnily enough meant I had to deal with the both of them… Sadly I cannot find the photos….
What’s a quote that perfectly describes your outlook on life?
As I bumble along through life I suppose my inspirational life quote would probably be..
“Eh, What?”
Followed by…
“Oh Really?…ok.”
Yes indeed, look at me go…
Basically all that is left are the three guns at the back as well as the weapons and feathers.
Sorry John I forgot the silver paint again. I did bring gold though (I don’t know why either) I can only think I looked at the silver and picked up the ‘Glittering Loot’…
I have now added it to the box with the miniatures…no excuse tomorrow
Hopefully I will get these finished then move onto the Militia soon.
Bogenwald 