Friday, 15 May 2026

Shoe blankets?

 One of the heads in my department has shoe shape protectors and shoe blankets. Wtf?  I imagine he got rinsed with a massive upsell at Jones the Boot Makers.  That will go down well at the annual dinner with Jones senior management.  Someone actually bought a set!!!



Driverless car

 I'm in London today and have just spotted my first driverless car.  It's very weird. 

Office move

 As part of our merger, my department has had a small office move.  We now have two buildings, but we're staying in Plantation Place.  Our desks have been moved round the corner, and I now look out onto the Lloyd's building.


Thursday, 14 May 2026

New game

 After a mammoth 2 years+ of playing d&d we're taking a break and going to take it easy for a while by playing Basic Fantasy Role Play.  We've played it before a few times and is very similar to the original 1st addition dungeons and dragons. I thought i'd buy myself a copy.


Hail

 We had hail in Tonbridge yesterday


Much better today




Wednesday, 13 May 2026

Excitement on our street

There was a fire in one of the old people flats opposite our house this morning.  3 fire engines and an ambulance were called and they had to use a cherry picker attachment on one of the engines to stretcher an old lady out through her smashed window.





Tarasque killers

 We fought two tarasques last night in a one off battle with our level 20 characters!  We beat them!






Tiamat fully painted

 We handed over a fully painted Tiamat to our GM last night and he was chuffed to bits.  Sarah did a great job in painting it.  It's absolutely massive!







Tuesday, 12 May 2026

Sunday roast

 We met one of the other rugby families out for a roast on Sunday.  The Rock Inn, Chiddingstone.  It was great fun.

A whole chicken, 3 ribs of beef and a shoulder of lamb




Hook the ring on the bulls nose game




Saturday cooking

 I made roasted chicken breast with dauphinoise potatoes (used the new mandoline) on Saturday.  Not a bad attempt.