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November 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A trip to Mars this morning.

Art installation at the cathedral.
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Test print of this year's Dragonmeet booklet. Cover by @marksmylie.bsky.social, interior art by @katrindirim.bsky.social and Agathe Pitié.

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November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Just ordered a test print. The test print lets me read through look for typos and formatting errors.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Beautiful French supplement.
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October 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
As a special addition to the RuneQuest Adventure Tokens, @katrindirim.bsky.social has kindly drawn a Moon Cat! Feel free to use this feline in your games.

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September 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
A piece of WW2 anti-fascist folk art.
My grandfather brought this back after serving in North Africa and the Levant. I assume it was made by one of his comrades from a bit of spare wood.
September 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Draft by @marksmylie.bsky.social

In the reed beds near Rhigos, a giant crane surprises a group of newtlings gathering papyrus.

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September 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I've been studying the Oxford Cognitive Screen (OCS) tests I did on Thursday. I am obviously very lucky as I only made one or two small errors. The tests are a disturbing, fascinating, and frightening insight into what a stroke can damage.
September 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
It is a mark of our time, when Disney and Star Wars become the guardians of truth.

The monsters are here.

They are massing under a cloak of patriotism here, and already in power elsewhere.
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September 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
That's my Covid vacinnation booked. Next week, a trip by bus and train to.... Colchester. Convenient in a way, as I still won't be allowed to drive, so it will be a day out.
September 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
It's been a long weird week.

This time last week I was wondering what was happening.

Today: legs almost normal; left arm still heavy and hand stiff. Odd having a pain in the hand when there's nothing physically wrong with it. I feel a little 'odd' in myself.

All things considered I've been lucky.
September 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Esrolian village by Simon Bray.

The village sits on a mound; the site has been occupied for at least a thousand years. It is protected by a ditch and thorn hedge, and the houses form a protective wall. This is a small village, with maybe 200 inhabitants who work the surrounding fields.

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September 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I realised that was the wrong title, so Mark has kindly reworked the lettering. It's not a story about the storyteller, but mostly consists of myths and legends he tells.

Believe I have a good excuse for being befuddled this week.

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September 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
As some of you know, I have had a medical adventure this week. I hope to create the booklet towards the end of the month but will have to carefully work out how many copies I can bring to Dragonmeet.

Here is the finished cover by Mark Smylie.

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September 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Very tired, and oddly emotionally distanced. May be the tablets or the effects of this week.
Typing is still difficult so I won't be writing long replies. My left leg is 95% there but my left arm is at 80% and my hand still feels as though it isn't mine, and I am very left handed.
September 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
An update: I'm home. About 80% functionality restored in my arm and leg - stroke deep in the brain. I've been lucky - no apparent speech, memory, or personality damage. I was the only one walking up and down the Ward corridor - exercise is a way of rewiring the brain to restore control of a limb.
September 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Magnificent draft arrives from @marksmylie.bsky.social . This will be the cover of my charity booklet this year.

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August 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Court picture of the Queen of Rhigos by Agathe Pitié, depicted as the Goddess-on-Earth, holding a tambourine, maze, poppy, and serpent.

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August 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Updated Esrolian ballgame by @marksmylie.bsky.social . The safer seats are in an upper tier....

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August 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A draft by @marksmylie.bsky.social - captures the atmosphere and culture of this Esrolian city. It really pleases me to a ridiculous degree that I can point to this place on the map and identify many of the people. I intend to use this as the cover of this year's Dragonmeet booklet.
August 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Orana and her husbands by @katrindirim.bsky.social . Again her husbands are smaller. I would have liked there to be more husbands (Orana has many many husbands in my Rhigos) but my art budget has flown far far away!
August 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It's too hot to do much, so I am playing at the positioning of some of @katrindirim.bsky.social pieces in the Myths booklet. For fun I decided to make the husbands smaller than the Earth Goddesses. So, Ernalda.....
August 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A friend won a lot of Angus McBride paintings and didn't want the books. Obviously a publisher's marked-up set.
August 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM