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.

Well my warlock print came out fine, so another bust to add to the queue.

I was perusing a particular social media platform beginning with ‘F’ and came across a real life Mizzy!

Well I eventually bit the bullet and decided to go for Heroquest. I had this game when it first came out and absolutely loved it. I even took it to Wales with me when I worked there as a summer job. It was so popular in the Hostel that I ended up making two new characters one was definitely a thief, I know for definite as I found rhe card I made. I think the other was a druid. I must admit this was a nostalgic journey, really helped by the cheap price I managed to get it for.

I haven’t really watched any YouTube discussions or unboxing videos so I was going in a bit blind and was honestly a little worried that it was going to be something similar to what GW did to Necromunda (I just hope they keep their mitts off Mordheim).

I shouldn’t have worried, apart from the miniatures it looks really, really similar.

The one major difference is in the furniture and doors is that they are all plastic rather than the card and plastic of the original.

The miniatures have some total differences. The Fimir have gone and are replaced by Abominations… basically fishmen.

There are four heroes and thirty one monster miniatures.

• 8 orcs – there seem to be 4 male and 4 females.
• 6 goblins
• 3 abominations
• 4 dread warriors
• 1 Dread sorcerer
• 1 gargoyle
• 4 skeletons
• 2 zombies
• 2 mummies

I am really tempted to paint everything 🙂

The miniatures are made of a soft plastic, not like the original hard plastic of the original.

Hopefully the kids will enjoy it as much as I did.

Well my daughter came back home today at dinner time and seems as fit as a flea. MRI scan is being  booked for her.

Well I have just hit new year andxam on day one of year three.

Rita, remember her has progressed a bit more now…

Combat: 3  no change
Construction: 0  no change
Cooking: 6  now 7
Crafting: 4  now 5
Farming: 6  now 7
Healing: 2  no change
Intellect: 4  no change
Physical: 2  now 3

So she has improved a bit in what she is good at. She is becoming less useful on expeditions that require her to scavenge things. Her physical attributes mean she can’t collect stuff.  She is still useful on just exploring new places though as she has found a load of useful plants.

So I thought I would explain about some of the nasty things I have found nearby. So we have the Shrieker. So named because of the terrible noise it makes.  By all accounts it is a nasty insect that transforms its food into sharp spikes that grow on its tail. These spikes are the flung at its foes. Oh yeah it can bite and rend too! Sadly more and more nests are being spotted around my base. Once I get armour made then I am going to have to go Shrieker hunting!

I decided to play the game on easy and chose peaceful, this means my base won’t get attacked. However the nests mean I can’t go gallivanting without the potential of meeting some of these. As an example there is a nice bit of wreckage in between two nests… too dangerous to try and salvage it.

Oh and Rita did well and tamed one of the feral dogs this yesr. In year two she also tamed a couple of Ulfen (the huge cows). These have since had a calf.

My base has grown again. I now have nine wind turbines, four solar panels and a diesel generator.

As I have worked on Mizzy I have found that I am really enjoying the pace of things. I have been perusing other busts and wonder if that is where my printing should go.

I have this lot printed…

And a couple that are still to go…

I have been looking at my knights etc and was thinking ‘Snap city’ if I drop them then how much will break off.