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Anthony Boydell
United Kingdom
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Lore lummy its been a rum few days and no mistake.
General life issues - you know: work, family, biology etc - have conspired to make my waking hours one long bloomin' panic attack. It's certainly not pleasant to be breaking out in cold anxiety sweats at 5.30 every morning. Sometimes it's work-related, other times its work-related BUT MASQUERADING AS family-feeding worries in my BOITEAJEUX Agricola games (must be playing TOO MUCH of this!).
My early Monday journey (this morning) to London was interrupted, albeit temporarily, by my little VW Polo going into an unannounced spin whilst traversing a roundabout. Front wheels locked, big muddy trench scraped into the wet grass. The car seems ok and a patch of soggy, longer flora seems to have been the slippery culprit. Must've just caught it with the front wheel while in the long curve. I paused to refuel, imbibe an energy drink and procure some sausage-based breakfast. I recently purchased a replacement car stereo (the other one burnt out), so at least I was able to enjoy the usual podcasts whilst travelling.
The Surprised Stare Games Ltd preparations for Essen Spiel'11 continue with purpose, only I keep misunderstanding policy emails and announcing the wrong prices, availability etc (much to the annoyance of the others). So, I asked 'em for the definitive and absolutely correct pricing info and here it is:
Essen Spiel Price List:
On The Cards = €10
Paperclip Railways: Express Edition = 30 euros
Paperclip Railways: Express Edition Upgrade: 5 euros
Paperclip Railways: Freight Expansion: Free with PCR purchases at Essen
Other Paperclip Railways promos: Free with PCR purchases at Essen
Totemo (only 100 or so remaining): 25 euros
Coppertwaddle = 5 euros
Fzzzt! (Tin Box) = 10 euros (includes the 5-6 player expansion)
NOT at Essen Prices (mailing is extra)
On The Cards = £12 (pounds)
Paperclip Railways: Express Edition = £30 (pounds)
Paperclip Railways: Express Edition Upgrade: £5 (pounds)
Doctor Who was funny at the weekend but there's only one episode left in the season and there's SO MUCH to resolve - worried that it'll be an overly-busy, techno-babbled, daftly-complex last 50 minutes. Not a bad series at all, this time round, though.
Made a bit of a verbal faux pas at a dinner/dance on Saturday - meant to suggest it would be interesting to see what a MAN in charge of our children's primary school would do following long years of WOMEN head-teachers. Came out all wrong and now I must seem like a sexist twat. A bloody hate polite conversation - it's just a morass of traps waiting to be sprung! And the quiche was stodgy. And I wasn't able to have a drink while everyone else around me was getting totally wazzocked.
Friday wasn't SOOOOO bad, I 'spose. Youngest boy (Arthur) and mi'sen took a trip to the Quayside in Gloucester (Great Britainshire) and enjoyed a light lunch and boat watching. We dropped in on a rather lovely 'light ship' permanently moored there but it, disappointly, accommodates a 'healing centre' - you know the kind of rubbish: crystal therapy, nettle smear treatments, psychic yodelling, astral masturbation - all that bollocks. Deep in the bowels of the pillar-box red craft held yoga studios and a Cathartic Shouting Suite (probably). Still, we found a foam rocket shooter for Arthur in the nearby 'retail outlet' and seven back-issues of 2000AD (50p each, of the eight that I need to complete the set) for myself.
I played some boardgames on Friday night but, as you may have noted, couldn't be arsed to write it up properly.
Lord in His Heaven, but I really could do with an change.
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