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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
Delaina by @katrindirim.bsky.social

𝐷𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑥𝑡ℎ 𝑑𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑤𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑛 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝑈𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑑, 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐴𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟, 𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑟ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑠 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐹𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑒.
August 6, 2025 at 7:48 AM