Thoughts of a Depressive Diplomatist

By my counting it's been week short of a year since I last made a Paint Table Saturday post.  I didn't realise that it's be...

As I'd had a bad end to the week (more difficulties with the Post Office, which have swallowed up a week's profit) I decided at shor...

This blog seems to have dried up somewhat over the last few months.  It's been a case of "If you have to make and effort to find so...

Bad Squiddo Games has just announce a couple of new releases sculpted by Paul Muller that scream out"Pulp!".  And I'm a sucker...

I've went a bit vintage with my reading last week. Spurred on by the repeat of the TV series featuring Rowan Atkinson as a rather ...

Day 5 (Tuesday) was another washout as far as painting went - I just proved too busy doing RL things. As part compensation, today I offer ...

Would you believe that the last Terrain Tuesday was in Dec 2016 ?   Yes, you probably would. That's why I don't begrudge spendi...

Today was one of my bad days and I couldn't face painting. This isn't a disaster - I get days like this and was prepared for them....

Today, I painted in the morning to take advantage of the summer light on my table.  Sadly, I started too late, and ended up chasing the suns...

Something a bit different for me today.  I went to the opening of The Games Table , a new gaming venue in Norwich.  As one of the launch fe...

Day 1 and if can be said that I've 'cheated' in two respects. First, I've done three figures rather than one.  Well, that...

OK, I'm committed to having a bash at  the challenge . This evening I've been looking a my painting table and lead pile to see wha...

Viscount Eric over at the excellent Gaming with the Gnomies has brought my attention to the #30Day30Miniatures Challenge (originally the id...

The volcano in the Lost World is now unlost...

The reason that this blog has been so deathly quiet of late is that I just haven't done anything hobbywise worth writing about.  Howe...

For longer that I care to look into I've been promising to restart this blog.  And for most of that time, I seem to have been promising ...

This blog has lost it's direction.  I don't know where to go with it.  But I'm not ready to give up on it yet The real old gua...

David Gunn,  Sailor in the Desert: The Adventures of Phillip Gunn, DSM, RN in the Mesopotamia Campaign, 1915 , Pen & Sword (2013).  ...