Jane

This is awesome!! Great work, respect. Helpful tip - store it near any woollen clothes you have, or vice versa. Clothes moths hate the smell of cedar.

I'm going to try and book mine today, but I expect it'll be Jan when I get it - Woofie's got his a few days before Christmas, so we're hoping that he won't be too badly affected to enjoy the days off! 2nd dose was less bad than 1st, so fingers crossed.

What a year. Big hugs to you.

I like that your PSN name is just, like, your username, but a Switch ID sounds like you're a mild-mannered robot from a mysterious future... My robot name is SW-2221-5938-9798

Very belated update.. I LOVE it. Makes me feel like being a kid again. It's so cute, story is adorable and the artwork is incredible - contemporary but with enough shades of old-fashioned fantasy to really amp up the nostalgia for 80s kids. I'd buy some more volumes but at this point I'm hoping to get a couple for Christmas. Also... I may have caved and started buying the collector's edition volumes of Maison Ikkoku. I just love it so much. And tbh it seems like you have to just go for it with these things these days, or the short print run will mean that if you change your mind in a few years' time you'll be looking at stupid money for some or all of the volumes.

I'm so sorry to hear about your grandmother, Tassi. Hope you're all doing ok in the circumstances...and I'm sure she was always really proud of you, especially inheriting her baking skills. (Those cookies sound amazing!)

Sending you both love, Galeigh and Deszae. There aren't any words that are enough, but I hope you all have time to take good care of yourselves, and that you find the pup for her husband. I'm sure it'll be a comfort to him, even if the pup does take a while to find.

Really sorry to hear that, Galeigh. Sending all good thoughts to your mum, hope she makes a swift and full recovery.

If it's good, when I next visit you I'll see if I can fit the first volume in my bag so you can read it.

Anyone here read Witch Hat Atelier? After meaning to look into reading it for a while, I found that volume 1 in English was sold out EVERYWHERE (there were a few to be found on US/Aus eBay, but the postage...). I think it was only published in 2019, so they must have underestimated how well it would sell. One site said it was being reprinted, but no estimate as to when it'd be available again. I've checked a couple of times since then, and yesterday I finally found a copy for about RRP on book depository, hooray! I really do prefer reading longer-form comics and manga in a book to on a screen if possible, so I'm pretty pleased. I have to confess not looking into what it's actually about much - the combination of the amazing artwork, the aesthetic and seemingly wholesome fantasy vibe is enough for me (I get the feeling if I googled it more I'd run into plot spoilers, rule 34 or both ). But I'm looking forward to reading it.

HOORAY FOR JULY BIRTHDAYS Many happy returns and I hope you both had a really lovely day and weekend.

Thank youuuu! we got a bit of the nice weather (thought it might rain) without it being quite as hot as it was. Had a relaxing few days with good food. Attaching the same pics I shared on discord as I like looking at them We had our own little aperitivo picnic in our garden yesterday (we try not to eat too much meat but the speck ham and piel de sapo melon was sooo good ), and an ourdoor table at our local pizza place a couple of days before (the red dish is smoked aubergine/eggplant with tomato, and I had pizza with an egg and some other stuff). Yesterday evening made a delicious sundae with Ben and Jerry's birthday cake ice cream, lemon madeleine cake, raspberry coulis, sprinkles and white chocolate stars (oh yeah, and we did a smoothie with the leftover melon along with pear, mango, turmeric, ginger and mint, so I have had some vitamins... But that was tasty too )

Soooo, on the latest Center Zoom there was talk of possibly getting together to play some kind of DnD/TTRPG - the subject came up as I'm interested in trying to play, but am totally new to it and have no idea what I'm doing, so a simple short game with some of you folks who have played it sounds really fun. I don't know who would GM, and we'd have to figure out a time, but I wonder if we could make something work?

Aw yeah! As Tassi says, it's looking like it might start in September - and there might be a space open (depending on how busy things are for P666S around then). (Also, YAY for passing the module! Congrats! ) Ah yeah, I remembered you mentioning someone but couldn't recall who.

Do you happen to have a saved list of these picrews? Sounds like a good idea for a thread in ye olde Creative Works forum... (I do picrews and then immediately forget where the source is, lol) I'll give the HeroForge thingy a go if I can but picrew is probably more my jam anyway. ...So stoked that it looks like we can do this! I feel like finding a time will be difficult but we'll get there somehow. I suppose we should see when Lee can reasonably do and work from there.

Awww, Lee! Our hero!

It's going to Rome, it's going to Rome..... Wow, well my concerns about an annoying large minority of England fans was justified I really feel for the players. I'm glad that they do all seem so close knit, so many of them are young and I hope it doesn't affect them badly. On the plus side for them, they're a young team and should have a lot of time left, even if Italy deserved the win today. I hope enough people are disgusted by the racism towards the players that it bolsters the cause they've been campaigning for... I've also seen kids' letters to some of the players on Twitter and it's just so touching.

Oh, man. As mentioned before I was feeling more sympathetic to England than usual (nice lads, and no-one is immune to Gareth Southgate)... but jeez if the pundits and fans haven't tested me. As well as keeping on booing other countries' anthems, an England fan shone a laser in the Danish goalie's face during the penalty. And the penalty was one that really probably should have been cancelled anyway, but the pundits were playing up the "this is amazing, we all love England don't weeee" stuff so much that they barely questioned it (if it'd been Italy they would have instantly brought up the rep the Italian team's always had for diving and playing dramatics for penalties). I don't begrudge a bit of extra enthusiasm but the ITV commentary really was woeful... I wish they'd had a non-English co-commentator at least. Seeing the Tory govt playing up the nationalism, and the effect a win would have on folks' senses with covid restrictions being relaxed too early (a week or so before my birthday ) doesn't help either. tl;dr I like the current England team but despite not being the most jingoistic Scot out there I still can't bring myself to actually want them to win. If they do at least the players are giving a lot of money to NHS charities, so I'd take some joy from that.

I wasn't paying attention but apparently Belgium vs Italy was good. Woofie has lower expectations for today's. (ENG-UR-LUNDDDD. Though tbh the team seem like a decent bunch of lads so I might be a little more spiritually generous to ENG than usual.)

I'm not into football really but end up watching some when it's a tournament (because Woofie, lol). How about the 8-goal Croatia-Spain match and the and Sweden-Ukraine one where the guy scored a goal in literally the last minute of extra time the other night?? Those were pretty good/interesting even to me.

It being MT's Big Birthday actually made me remember to come back here so I could comment on the birthday thread... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ERIKA!! Have a great day!

I've not played but would be willing to give it a go!

This is like some sort of weird confession, but...

11/10 edit: Just seen the revised one. 14/10

I would attempt this but I don't want to risk it - chances are any song (as in actual mainstream chart single) I would think of as being from the last 10 years would actually turn out to be from 2005 or something, and I can't handle that right now.