Bloody Soaked Script

I've been cooking up another Dungeons and Dragons style cowboy campaign for a group of friends, yesterday I announced that it was basically ready to play and we should get a date in the calendar. Everyone said today worked for them which gave me precious little time to add the finishing touches to it all. I even had to make a little prop for it - a big element of the story is our heroes get mistaken for a pair of actors (the original pair have been shot in a ditch by outlaws). The dead pair have their script pages on them which I hand-wrote and added a little bullet hole and blood splatter for good measure. The extra effort was appreciated by my group though! We sat in the park in the sun rolling dice and laughing at the funny scenarios we wound up in. The weather was so good too, days like this it feels great to be unemployed.

Roast Speedrun

We had a fair bit to do this morning before Rebecca's parents came to visit. Pity then that we both overslept massively til 10am! It was a bit of a rush to do a supermarket shop and a whole house tidy but we somehow got it all done and dusted. I cooked up a mega roast for everyone, including homemade Yorkshire puds and Rebecca topped it off with an apple crumble. I'm STILL full from lunch though, doubt I'll be hungry now til the end of the week, but it was a great way to send off the long Easter Weekend.

Happy Easter 2026

 I'm going to bed with a very full belly after a day of eating delicious meals. Hot cross bun breakfast, lamb roast lunch and picky bits dinner (mostly leftovers). I ate modestly too but everything was so tasty I just had to sample a little bit of it all.

Highlights of this Easter was going on a short walk through Newbury and going down a rabbit hole of listening to Eurovision entries, including a bunch from this coming year which got me hyped for the big day... If we don't boycott in some capacity that is. 

Customary Curry

Nearly Easter so eggs were on the breakfast menu. Creme fraiche is an underrated ingredient in scramble, whenever we have some on hand over the weekend it's guaranteed to go in my pan. Rebecca took some convincing (despite the fact I've done it multiple times before) but she was converted quickly. 

We drove to Newbury for the holiday weekend AND to wish my Dad a happy birthday. Louis had to do an emergency trip out to get some beers after the batch he ordered with plenty of time didn't arrive. But Dad got his gifts a-ok and we all headed out for a customary curry in town.  

Good Friday 2026

Mostly hung out with Rebecca this Good Friday. She's still a little jet lagged by her own admission so I had most of the morning to myself before we headed out for coffee. We headed up the road for board games too for an extended session where we had plenty of time to chat with the owner and debrief about our various holidays. Tomorrow we head out Newbury, first real visit there for me since Christmas, very much looking forward to it.

Cat MOT

Been a little while but I was free to take the cat up to the vets today. I always remember she hates going in that caged cat carrier, and to the surprise of no one she still does... And she lets us know this with some very distinct and sad sounding meows that could melt frozen butter. The vet appointment was just for her annual checkup (or cat MOT as I like to call it) and she got a clean bill of health. 

Since it was such a nice day I also took a walk into town, wearing my sunglasses for the first time this year. It's already looking like beer garden weather in Bristol and I suspect I'll be sat around many a bench nursing a pint this Summer - can't wait. 

Strategizing the Stag

I really unwound myself today, with nothing in my schedule at all I committed myself to finishing a game I got recently and then some pottering about. I did do a little bit of planning for Mark's Stag as well, he's taken it upon himself to organize the key beats (which is how he wanted it so I'll respect that). We're basically doing a souped-up canal boat weekend near Oxford so I plotted our stops and researched some nearby pubs. Unless we beach the boat, we're gonna have a blast.