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Milder Weather
This is the second day in a row with no frost, particularly welcome after a week of very hard frosts and pretty cold weather, I even had to scrape ice off the car at 9am on Wednesday morning even thought the sun had been up for a couple of hours. Weather forecast for the next few days is to remain mild with temperatures not quite hitting the teens.
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Pink Potting Shed?
My potting shed has gone an amazing shade of pink! Not quite what I expected when I started to paint it with the spray on "Maple Red" from Tesco. I hope that it darkens a fair bit as it dries out, and that it comes off the windows too. All in all it was a good way to paint the shed though, the spraying took about fifteen minutes all up to paint the entire potting shed, it took me almost twice as long to do the bits round the windows and then to wash the windows clean of the stuff. Pruning & Planting Earlier on in the garden I also managed to do a very late pruning of the two apple trees and some pretty rough cutting back of the other plants around the left1) hand apple tree. The buds…
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More Dad Stuff
More Dad Stuff: Shedloads More Ideas for Dads by Steve Caplin My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is an absolutely fabulous resource for those that have small kids or come into contact with small kids and want to wow them (or even just entertain them a bit to keep them from harrassing you). Lots of interesting facts, suggestions for things to do, games to play, kitchen science and challenges for the kids. Covers all sorts of situations, like waiting in restaurants, car and train journeys, parks, sleepovers, parties etc. I got it when Alexander was very small (under a year) but it is coming into its own now that he is at primary school, and the ideas should certainly last all the way to secondary (and beyond, some of it I've tried with groups of adults). View all my…
Charlie Company, Peter Cochrane
This is a history of C Company 2nd Bn Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in the western desert, Sudan & Eritrea, Keren and then in Italy. They were part of 4th Indian Division. The author was an officer who did all his active service with the same infantry company and this covers his experiences and those of his company. Synopsis Of the many books about the last war, some offer the general's view of an entire battlefield, others have been individual experiences or divisional histories. "Charlie Company" is something original, the story of a rifle company of the Cameron Highlanders whose record of service in the Western Desert, Eritrea, and throughout the Italian campaign fully deserves this tribute to their courage and endurance. Peter Cochrane joined the company as a young platoon commander in 1940. He won an MC in their first action in Libya, and followed this with a DSO for…
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CLWG Games Weekend 2007 Reports
Siege of Yendor Tryout Jim put on a session to try out the mechanisms for the upcoming megagame. We spent some time trying to bring down a section of wall, and also seeing whether or not it was possible to directly assault the wall without first undermining or demolishing it. Jim's Breeding Idea This was a design session rather than a game, but we gave it a good go none the less. Jim had come away from the Light of the Trees megagame with an idea that it ought to be possible to do a sub-component of a game about breeding heroes using some real genetics theory. The main aim was that, like in real life, the players managing the breeding programme wouldn't actually know what the actual genetic make up of their characters were. Over time those players that were keeping an eye on things…