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Weekly Waffle #361 – Retrospective
Weekly Waffle #361 – Retrospective 4th January 2025 For this week’s Weekly Waffle I’m starting by having a bit of a look back on last year. Then I’ll lay out what I have planned for the rest of the year. I’m going to start by summing up last year as a hobby success. Now I will clarify that a little bit by saying that I’m not defining that success on quantity or quality. But rather on consistency. I managed to bring you a newly painted mini for every update. That doesn’t quite mean every week because I had a few trips where I deliberately didn’t do a post on the…
Weekly Waffle #332 – Technology in the shadows
Weekly Waffle #331 - Technology in the shadows
Weekly Waffle #327 – The Captive Unleashed
Weekly Waffle #327 – The Captive Unleashed 6th April 2024 This week’s Weekly Waffle feels a bit of a come down after the last couple of weeks. As I mentioned last week I’ve come back with lots of new projects and I’m hoping some new skills. So it’s time to start making some use of those skills. I’ve not started any of my new purchases yet because I wanted to carry on working through some of my existing backlog that I had planned before going to Addepticon. But don’t worry the new stuff won’t stay on the shelf for long I just need to clear away a couple of these…
Weekly Waffle #326 – That’s a Wrap for another year.
Weekly Waffle #326 – That’s a Wrap for another year. 30th March 2024 Well that has been a very full on few days. I’m going to start with a bit of an apology for not doing more updates whilst I was away. But I’m my defence I was enjoying myself and just didn’t sit down to write up an update each day. Then once I had missed a few days it was just too much of a job to catch up. So with that out of the way what do I have for you today. Well for a starter I have a lot of pictures. I have done something of…
Adepticon Update #3
Adepticon Update #3 I now have my first full day under my belt and I have to say I’m really enjoying the whole experience. When we were here just after Covid everything felt a little subdued but this year feels like it is back to normal. I had a full on day of seminars yesterday and feel like I have learned a lot but I will have to actually put that into practice once I get home. It’s easy to sit through a class up it’s a whole other thing to put it into practice. In the evening we had a few beers before going to the Trapped Under Plastic…
Adepticon Update #2
Adepticon Update #2 Ok then so this one is only going to b e a short update because it’s only covering arriving at the venue and spending a lot of time in queues of one form or another. The thing I like the least about the whole Adepticon experience is the queueing to get your ticket. It has to be done so for me it is better to get it out of the way as soon as possible. Which meant on Wednesday evening before the games workshop preview event. It took about an hour and half all told to work our way through the queue and pick up our badge,…
Adepticon update #1
Adepticon update #1
Weekly Waffle #320 – No one expects the Inquisition
Weekly Waffle #320 10th February 2024 I’m back with another weekly waffle again this week after my planned break last weekend. And what a weekend it was. I know it’s not hobby related but this is also a waffle so I think a quick update is fitting. After all life should have a bit of variety if you can get it. What a fantastic weekend it was. I have never been to Rome before and taking in a six nations game at the same time has just been the icing on the cake. It has been an absolutely full on three days with a visit to the Vatican museum first…
Weekly Waffle #294
Weekly Waffle #294 23rd April 2022 It was Easter weekend last week and for those of us in the UK that meant a four day weekend. I would like to say that it was spend being really productive and getting in loads of hobby time, but the reality was that both me and the misses were full of a cold again and spent most of the time in the house feeling sorry for ourselves. I was feeling that bad that I even managed to burn a pizza I had mad on Saturday. All in all it was just one of those weeks where nothing seemed to go as you would…
Weekly Waffle #293
9th April 2022 Well once again I have missed a couple of updates but I’m putting them both down to Adepticon. The first was the Saturday of Adepticon and I had been doing daily updates so I don’t feel to bad about that one. Last weeks was missing because I came back with the conference lurgy and just didn’t have the energy to do an update. I’m still not that well this week but I’m not missing another update so I’m going to fight my way through and give you an update this week. I haven’t really done much in the way of hobby since I’v e been back, because…
