Uncle Acid and the Dead Beats - The Night Creeper. Stonking album. Not a bad track on it.
I was surrounded by beloved stone tools that are countless thousands of years old, though. So it wasn't all bad...
I'm in Archaeology. I'm a Yorkshire lad, and I've lived up in Durham for years, so I should be inured to the cold by now. I think it's just the very sudden shift from sunny days to grey and bleak. That and I spent last week in a basement museum store in Oxford and barely saw daylight...
It's fookin' cold up here in Durham and it's induction week. Pretty sure I've a case of the pre-term blues with looming grant writing deadlines, teaching and papers to write. Boardgames this evening though...
Absolutely fantastic stuff! Really captures the protoplasm and the horror 👌
Well that's academic publishing just as fucked as everything else then. Jesus wept, the Trough of Disillusionment really is going to wait until something really awful happens at scale, isn't it?
I have the exact same setup, though mine is full 😬
Very sorry to hear this, Dave. Proper shit - balls to cancer. My best to you and all your family. And, yes, the NHS deserves all its praise.
Thirsty Meeple now that The Games Keeper has closed down. Also, Hoyles of Oxford has started stocking RPGs. Lighter on the big names, but stocking a lot of indie titles.
On me way back from a research trip to Oxford (where tangentially many a game purchase was made). Currently stuck in Birmingham New Street due to a delayed train arrive two minutes after my connection…