Flippin heck today was warm. I was having to do some DIY in the conservatory and it was 30°C in there. Outside wasn’t much better.

I am so not used to heat now. I am hoping for a cold snap when I go down to Claymore.

Well after going like the clappers on Wednesday and Thursday last week I am now not wanting to do anything. I did have a mooch at my STL mountain to see if anything there would jump start the creativeness, nope, not a sausage, not even a selection of new busts made me get interested.

I even looked through some printed stuff, but as they weren’t painted then I wasn’t holding our much hope there either.

It would seem that my Mojo has well and truly buggered off. I will see if I can find it tomorrow.

Well along with painting and occasionally playing with miniatures  I do like a good game on the old console or PC. My daughter and I loved playing Ark Survival Evolved. We would go split screen on the PS4. Sadly since the new Ascended the older one has become a little unreliable.

We would get so far and then it would crash meaning our hard work would be lost. It would crash more split screen. Luckily the saveworld ‘command’ helped a bit. But it still put us off playing. I therefore decided to see about renting a server. It was a whole lot cheaper than I thought it would be. About £10.50 a month, we are going to give that a go.

It is rather nice to be able to play with the settings on what I want the game to be like. I bumped xp to 2.5x and taming speed to 3x so it isn’t an instant tame. Next I am off to track down a snowy owl, last two attempts failed as my tranquillisers on the weapon I was using had an 8% chance of death…

I did manage to tame my daughter a high level Argentavis for when she gets on.

I know I am sad, but it stops me running around the house when it is raining outside 🙂

Well we had our four players game of Lion Rampant today and I Need to say a big thank you to Mike for organising it. We managed a  couple of games. As overall commander in both of them I won one and just lost one.

Game on we had to take the bridge and were pipped at the post by some foot sergeants holding it for long enough.

Game two was a bit more worrying, me versus three and I had to hold another bridge.  I managed to totally wipe out one of the players directly opposite me, but lost both my mounted and foot men at arms, oh and my general too. Luckily one of the opposite number was actually a turncoat and helped out by destroying a lot of my opposition on the left…phew!

A couple of fun games over the day.

Well my weekend office arrived and I spent a couple of hours in a digger trying to flatten the track out. I will need another run at it tomorrow as I did miss some bits, well technically I didn’t miss them as I wanted everything to settle before having another go tomorrow.

Whilst hunting for my work gloves I came upon a box of Maltesers that one of the children gave me as a leaving present. They didn’t rattle much when I picked them up… I now have chocolate modern art…

I did manage a smidge of painting on the druid Loreil… I really, really couldn’t be bothered, but I forced myself to do one small bit.

I went for a pale green for her top, well I thought it befitted a druid. A couple of things are going through my head as I look at this… autumn or summer for the leaves and the original art has the butterfly as some kind of a glowing ethereal creature… not sure if I am up to object source lighting yet, especially not at this scale… something to ponder down the road.

So 7th July was my birthday and I have been on this planet 58 years and 6 days. I got some very cool presents from everyone including a  DNA test thing… I am hoping for Hungarian or somewhere like that. Bound to have Scandinavian in there as most of the North of the UK do. I also got a lovely piece of Trench Art from 1916.

Some shell casing for the blade, bullet for the handle with a tunic  button on the side for decoration. It also has a smaller button as a finial.  Very cool.

I wonder what happened to the maker, did he make it home? Is this his legacy, bought for a stranger in an antique shop?

Hopefully it really meant something to someone and was their pride and joy. For me, I love it.

Well, my Polymyalgia decided to give me a bit of a kicking today. All I did was take the dog for a walk this morning and then moved a hen run and dug a 30cm wide by 50cm deep hole. I actually needed to go and lie down.