It’s easy enough when it’s a dead author to distance yourself from them whilst still enjoying their works. But what do you do when they’re still alive and creating? In J K Rowling’s case it’s been pretty easy not to engage with her continuing content, the Robert Galbraith stuff is just crap and the whole … Read More
I keep hearing about people who thought they were Native American doing 23&Me type tests and discovering they’re Asian or European but not native – some of these people have been involved in all kinds of native culture. On the face of it it’s blatantly white people in the seventies (and in every era really … Read More
It has been years since I have been in love with Blue Eyes, I forget if it was thirteen or seventeen years that I worked out was how long I fell in love for, but it was one of the two. Isn’t it strange though that for over twenty years I’ve been writing in this … Read More
Trains did not come and go when expected to, so given the wait I decided to head to the Jack the Ripper Museum and take the walking tour included. The Museum was more or less what I expected (the Sherlock Holmes museum is better…) but it was fun especially given where I’ve been staying – … Read More
Well, I managed to run Evil Bilbo’s Game at The Smoke. It was ok, it needs de-gendering a bit more, hadn’t noticed quite how gendered the names on the family tree were until right at the end when my lovely experienced players had to go with it. Got almost all possible endings out of the … Read More
Had dinner out for my birthday, pizza because BBF could get a gluten free option easily. Before that though I played two games, both very gamey which leaves me a little worried for tomorrow. So this morning The Pirate and I were in the same game which was really nice. He hasn’t played Space 1889 … Read More
So, this is my birthday treat, a LARP um… festival? Convention? No idea what to call it. In any case this first night is all a bit of a party and hang out. My hotel is wonderfully close, met up with BBF for sushi beforehand and discovered to my cash rich horror that too much … Read More
So I did not do well at keeping them last year but I rather think that’s because my mental health was in the absolute toilet. Today’s tarot reading rather confirms that and re-emphasises that I work best with rhythms to my days.
Today we all had skiing lessons before the final festive meal in the evening. The Bonsai Kaiju and Britney go each week to the Dry Slope near them so they were well away and The Smol Dragon relished having his own teacher so he was well away too. In fact given he’s only had a … Read More
We got up late and sledged and The Princess made more ice baubles because she’s always wanted to and it’s never been cold enough. Though overnight it snowed so we found out that that thing they say about snow being insulating is genuinely true – the ice baubles under the snow didn’t freeze overnight because … Read More
