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Hi Gavin, sorry to hear of the problems. Most troubling are the robberies. Hopefully you and your lady can do something to lessen those risks!

Well, it is good to have you back. stop by the Pony often to share a "drink" with the locals!

Gavin,
Sorry to hear all of the bad news. I hope that things go much better for you this year. Welcome back.

Well, thank you. Part of the problem is that a lot of stuff was stored in the in-laws barn, all locked up safe and sound. The barn, however, had started to...shift a little, on its foundations. It sort of made things drift sidewards and had somehow made the door hinges loose. Turns out if you pushed the door just so, it would open.

The second bike, fortunately, has this REALLY big scary lock on it. It's just that, unbeknownst to me, the front wheel had an automatic release lever, so someone just wandered by and pulled it off. However, on the day that I discovered this, in perhaps one of the weirdest coincidences ever, I went to tea with a friend, then walked to her her friend's house...and said friend announced they had a basement full of bike wheels. No, really. Saved me forty bucks on a new wheel.

Anyway, certainly a year of getting bigger and scarier locks. The odd thing is that Montreal was sort of a place you could leave your bike sort of sitting there and no one would care. The in-law's home town was the sort of place that no one locked their doors.

Of course, being from Dublin, where everything is locked, it was a sort of swirly mental condition. "What, nothing's locked"  -- "we're locking everything!"

It's all good. I am well. No one was hurt.

As for the realm of battle board, for my birthday last year, all my friends pitched in to replace it. Even friends I hadn't seen in years. Even friends who consider the collection of little metal things to be some sort of extreme deviance. It does help that I tend to go out of my way to be nice to everyone, all the time.

Of course, I have been so busy with university work that all I do is occasionally look at the thing and go: well, one day I'll play with it. One day :p

welcome back Gavin!

well it is a pity and very sad news you describe here I really hope you can manage to get back at least some of what you've lost

Thank you Ori. I believe I painted your plastic namesake the other day

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It was reasonable. Not my best job, but reasonable.  Also, when it comes to GW figures, despite all their fanfare about high quality plastics, plastic figures still have rubbish detail.

I've been cursed, since about 2010, with living places where the light's a bit off. I've also run through good brushes and so on.

So, right now, I am trying to get good brushes, the right sort of paint palette, and then work out the best way to illuminate figures. It's surprisingly tricky!  I made a hames of the plastic Balin yesterday, so I'll have to try and fix him this evening.

I should take a series of pics of the Goblin Town goblins, so we may all join together in mutual loathing of the things

Sorry, only just come across this strand while I was sweeping in the corners. That's a sod of a year you've had. I hope things will turn round for you soon. All my sympathy in the meantime.