Category: Observations

  • Rogue Urges

    Oooo… Oooo… Ooooooo… Looks like the second part of the Warhammer 40K RPG trilogy is on the near horizon, in the form of the ‘Rogue Trader’ game – see here. Page is coming soon, apparently. When the Black Library originally launched Dark Heresy, it was backed by the promise of two further games centred on…

  • Define Fantasy

    I read a lot of fantasy literature. Now, to me… that means I read books with swords, sorcery and Orcs. I read about empires overthrown by the power of dragons and unbridled Chaos. Elves and trolls. You know the score. Anyway. If I told someone else I read fantasy books, would they think the same…

  • Brain Drain

    Concentration slipping. Can’t listen long. Can’t read more than a sentence. Good article. Not seen before. Intranet rots your… Um… What was I saying?

  • The Path Least Travelled

    How do people make significant career changes? I don’t seem to have enough of an idea how to do it and I think it might well be holding me back. To my mind, change from one career to a completely different one must mean taking a hit on pay or working conditions. Taking one role…

  • Over-Competitive Mentor

    I have spent the last few months progressing with the paintwork on a Necron army (for Warhammer 40K). The army is my sons; but, I have been painting miniatures for a looooong time, so I wanted to take the opportunity to pass on some knowledge. So, I had set him to filing and gluing duties…

  • Storm Front: The Dresden Files

    Sometimes I manage to finish reading a book (rather than meandering off on to something else half way through), and I should finish ‘Storm Front‘, the first of the Dresden Files, in the next day (exhaustion permitting). I like Jim Butcher’s writing and I allowed my imagination to connect names with faces from the TV…

  • Chicken Done?

    Watched “Hugh’s Chicken Run” last night (the first of three programmes about organically reared poultry versus the intensively farmed variety) and I fear I may never eat supermarket chicken again. I know when I eat meat I eat something that lived and breathed not too long ago, but how that animal lived and died matter…

  • Quiet Night In

    I spent the night in with my family, eating good food and playing board games. I did not become uncomfortably hot, claustrophobic, or drunk. I did not get stepped on, spilled on, or jabbed in the ribs. I did not hanker after a kebab or find myself pissing against a wall in a shop doorway.…

  • Nigella On Top

    Nigella Lawson seems to have a lot to answer for. Aside from being a kitchen tease and a bit of a MILF, she has set the country a-racing to try something different with a bit of gammon. There can’t possibly be any other good reason why I found myself wandering past the jam section of…