This is going to be a bit of a rambling stream of consciousness kind of a post.

As you know, if you follow my blog, that I paint little toy men and goblins (among others). If you just popped by, then hello and thank you.

So this said hobby of mine can get a little expensive, add in a printer and after the initial outlay then it can become a bit cheaper. Paints, flock glue etc bumps the price a bit too.

I opened my Geek club in school where the kids paint models that I print for them. I support them by using the tools and resin. There are six of them and each one of them wrote to a company to see if they would help us out in any small way they could. Would you like to guess how many bothered to reply?

Zero,

We only chose companies that I have spent hundreds of pounds with. Not one even bothered to reply.

Now, I know that my little school with its little website isn’t going to make any companies their millions, but it is half a dozen 10 year olds who are getting into the hobby . One is moving onto pastures new and bless her on Friday she was making a list of the companies I got my stuff from.

I have written to the company we get our paints from. I did send a bit of a begging letter to see if they could send us some paint so we can get her a good start keeping up her hobby that she loves. My little club has spent nearly £200 getting paints etc. from them. Sadly I am not holding my breath.

Every other YouTube channel I watch has these companies firing out free stuff to people. One guy I watched was up to his third 3D printer.

Now this may seem that it is sour grapes and to some extent it is, not for me, but for a little group if six kids who wrote letters instead of painting miniatures. I did advise them that people might not be able to help, but to not answer in my books is pretty shitty.

Here endeth the rambling B.S. for today

Well if you remember I wrote a couple of days ago that I am in constant aches. Removing the old washing machine from the house and putting a new one in certainly didn’t help with this. We checked the weight on the new one… 75kg.

The old one went out the front door (which because I am in a croft house is narrow), the new one wouldn’t come in the same way so we had to take it right the way through the conservatory in one direction and right the way back through the house in another.

I now cannot move and luckily Esther and Sam are doing the horse as I am stuck in the car groaning.

Hopefully it will have eased off by tomorrow.

This evening I was still aching. Waiting on the results of another blood test. Worst case scenario is that I have fibromyalgia. Which is a pain, no pun intended .

This has been grumbling on like this for eighteen months to two years. Last time I went to the doctors I was told it was just my age. At least this one actually listened and came up with a couple of possible causes. One being poly myalgic rheumatism and the other was mentioned above.

So the aches and pains continue for a while.

Well according to WordPress I hit a milestone. Yes today I passed 50,000 views. which frankly I find a bit bonkers really.

So if you are one of the people that popped by, even just to leave wondering what this crackpot is on about, then thank you. I really do appreciate it.

It has been a beautiful day up here and when I got back at 20.00 it was still nice. Skylarks were out, blackbirds were singing and the Oyster Catchers were in full voice too.