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Newcastle Gamers – 8th December

Another Newcastle Gamers session… and another occurrence of the (now-familiar) minor panic when everybody arrives at the venue and we discover we’re locked out for one reason or another. Fortunately, the circus school were using the building next door, and … Continue reading

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Back in the balmy days of May…

I’ve been catching up on my video editing backlog for calendarcustoms.com (some of which go all the way back to May… gulp!). I’m particularly pleased with the editing on this one — Helston Furry Day — it was very crowded, … Continue reading

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Newcastle Gamers – 24th November

Arrived this week to discover most of the members of the club gathered in a huddle outside the front door; it transpired that a circus school trapeze class was still in full swing (Ha! “full swing”! Did you see what … Continue reading

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Corbridge Gamers – 14th November

No Newcastle Gamers for me this week, due to the aforementioned explosions. However — leveraging the evening’s fireworks theme — I did manage to get a few family members to join me for a couple of games of Hanabi on … Continue reading

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Thing of the week: explosives

This week, we held our annual bonfire-night gathering… in which most of my wife’s side of the family gather for eating, playing games, burning things and setting off fireworks. As usual, I was in charge of the fireworks. I like … Continue reading

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