Assorted Ramblings Under the Crossbones podcast ep 110 Nick Tyler aka Captain Pigheart 29 Sep 201726 Sep 2017 A couple of weeks ago I received a lovely email, quite out of the blue, from one Phil Johnson, comedian and pirate-lover (no, not like that, well - not with…
Assorted Ramblings A Whistle-Stop Tour of Worldcon75, Helsinki Day Three 5 Sep 2017 Day Three - Aug 10: Immerse Penny and I developed our morning routine: I'd get up, Penny would roll around on the air mattress making terrible sounds of woe, like…
Flash Pulp… Lego Blog: Illustrating Flash Pulp episode FP0022 20 Dec 201628 Jun 2017 If you go down to the woods today... I've had the pictures for this build for a while now, but failed to find the time to crop and select them.…
Flash Pulp… Lego Blog: Illustrating Flash Pulp episode FP0015 24 May 201623 May 2016 Spaceship, spaceship, spaceship! Knowing that there is a science fiction thread hidden away in the Flash Pulp universe has been tweaking my Lego gland for a while. Actually, there are several…
Flash Pulp… Lego Blog: Illustrating Flash Pulp episode FP0014 28 Apr 201627 Apr 2016 Delays, Delays and Lazing I've had a tiny bit of a Lego brain drought since finishing this build off, and I think it's because I hadn't properly finished it off by doing…
Flash Pulp… Lego Blog: Illustrating Flash Pulp episode FP007-12 23 Feb 201622 Feb 2016 Making Progress I've finally reached a new thread in the massive Flash Pulp universe! And he's one of my favourites too - Thomas Blackhall: frontiersman, occult magician, all round mid-nineteenth…
Lego Lego Blog: Witch Doctor’s Hut 4 Feb 20164 Feb 2016 Nice House, I'd Like To Build It I have been admiring, envying and been generally desirous of many of the Lego AFOL community's cool building skills. In particular I love…
Flash Pulp… Lego Blog: Illustrating Flash Pulp episode FP006 2 Feb 20161 Feb 2016 So Far Behind I'm finally up to episode 6, of a mere 446 podcast episodes (excluding special episodes and a bunch of other cool things), which is slightly daunting. I…
Flash Pulp… Lego Blog: Illustrating Flash Pulp episode FP005 14 Dec 201514 Dec 2015 Time Waits For No Brick I have been delayed, so horribly delayed in this build. A few months ago I was reading FP005 and trying to figure out a way…
Assorted Ramblings… Meta-NaNoWriMo 2015 Day 9 9 Nov 20159 Nov 2015 28,091 Words So Far That's quite a lot. It has snuck up on me. It should be obvious, but by writing a bit more every day I end up with…
Assorted Ramblings… Meta-NaNoWriMo 2015 Day 5 5 Nov 20159 Nov 2015 Keep It Going I don't think I've tried to do anything continuously for five days before. I've even given up working for five days a week. But I'm feeling pretty…
Assorted Ramblings… Meta-NaNoWriMo 2015 Day 3 3 Nov 20159 Nov 2015 It's dea three of Naooorimooo And it's making me hyper... But, good progress so far - I hit 10,120 words today which is past the 10% mark, because I can't…
Blogging… Lego Blog: Hex Tower 27 Oct 201527 Oct 2015 Towering Inferno I like towers; I like building them. There's a lot of appeal to their height and for me, the way they go straight up is really helpful since…
Lego Lego Blog: Microships 20 Oct 201519 Oct 2015 What Are These Bricks For? Sometimes I dearly want to play with Lego but my brain is just not working in a useful construction-conducive way. At that point I usually…
Lego Lego Blog: Space Cube 6 Oct 20155 Oct 2015 In Space No One Can Hear Geometry Unless you're the Borg of course. I'm not the Borg though, so everyone is perfectly safe - I have zero wish to assimilate anyone…
Lego Lego Blog: Ruins 1 Oct 201530 Sep 2015 Digging Into Flickr There are some great solutions to life out there - like auto-upload to Flickr. I can then promptly forget about what I've built and photographed. I don't…
Flash Pulp… Lego Blog: Illustrating Flash Pulp episode FP004 22 Sep 201521 Sep 2015 Getting Carried Away I really enjoy making birthday cards for friends and family. Ya gotta have rules for who gets 'em, otherwise I'd never stop making them. Anyway, I almost always…
Flash Pulp… Lego Blog: Illustrating Flash Pulp episode FP003 11 Sep 201511 Sep 2015 On With Flash Bricks La la la, building building building. When I was little I almost exclusively built spaceships. Now that I'm old I just want to make buildings. I don't…
Flash Pulp… Lego Blog: Illustrating Flash Pulp episode FP002 2 Sep 20151 Sep 2015 On With Flash Bricks No one, least of all me is surprised by how late this post is. Needless to say I did this quite a while ago, but I enjoyed…
Flash Pulp… Lego Blog: Illustrating Flash Pulp episode FP001 2 Jul 201530 Jun 2015 Where Are All My Ideas? I don't need them, I've got Skinner Co's instead! It's been simply ages since I've babbled uncontrollably about my love of Lego, and of Flash…
Assorted Ramblings… This Week, Monday 8th June 2015 9 Jun 20158 Jun 2015 The Brain, Its Eye Peels I feel as if my mind is slowly reawakening. Normal things are being normal again, I'm laughing at funny things and am sad about sad…
Lego Lego Blog: Ice Bucket Challenge 11 Sep 2014 Get Wet With Ice Um, no. A couple of weeks ago I was challenged to undergo the ice bucket challenge (it feels like at least one of those challenges is…
Assorted Ramblings… This Week, Monday 8th September 2014 8 Sep 20148 Sep 2014 S'autumn isn't it? I so very nearly dated this January; I am uncertain of time. When I spoke to my doctor a couple of weeks ago she asked how I'd…
Lego Lego Blog: Mini Office Block 19 Aug 201419 Aug 2014 Tile Your Kangaroo Down Sport I just adore the shiny little things. This love is in ironic opposition to our actual bathroom tiles, who I despise and am in a…
Assorted Ramblings… This Week, Monday 18th August 2014 18 Aug 201417 Aug 2014 I Have Aged Well I had an entirely delightful week off for my birthday (thank you, you're too kind - I do look ten years younger than I did before).…
Lego Lego Blog: Shelob Carriage 5 Aug 20144 Aug 2014 Spiders: Horrible, Horrible Things I've never entirely overcome my childhood fear and loathing of spiders. There's just nothing I like about them and everything that I find creepy and disturbing -…
Assorted Ramblings… This Week, Monday 4th August 2014 4 Aug 20144 Aug 2014 It's My Birthday, Pity Me Yay! I'm on leave for a whole week. Sure that may not sound like a lot, but when you slice it into hundreds of frantic…
Blogging… Lego Blog: Day Trip to the Lego Shop 23 Jul 2014 The Bricks Make Me Happy Some of my best days are those when we go to the Lego Shop. It's a relatively small thing I know, but I've been finding…
Assorted Ramblings… This Week, Monday 21st July 2014 22 Jul 201421 Jul 2014 As Time Goes By Not the TV show, just that general sense of time flowing past like hair in the wind. Or something. I skipped a week. It is a…
Lego Lego Blog: The Mixels – Cragstertastic 9 Jul 20147 Jul 2014 A Friday Night Treat We've been acquiring Lego's Mixels as part of our weekly shopping expeditions. At £3 each they feel like good value for money, especially on a Friday…
Assorted Ramblings Lines To Live By 8 Jul 20148 Jul 2014 Sometimes It Sounds Just Right There are wonderful moments when rooting around in the minds of others (which is what reading really is), moments when the writer's notions pierce our…
Assorted Ramblings… This Week, Monday 16th June 2014 16 Jun 201415 Jun 2014 Hoo HA. Another busy week at work and stuff, but I did get round to taking some pictures of the ever so cool Lego Skulls by CrazyBricks. That was satisfying.…
Blogging… Lego Blog: CrazyBricks Skulltron 13 Jun 20145 Oct 2015 Custom Lego Awesome I got my skulls in the post a couple of weeks ago. Cruelly I've been too busy to take proper pleasure in 'em. It's another Kickstarter reward…
