Paul
@spookshow71.bsky.social
Books/boardgames/RPG GM
Level 14 dad / Ex(?)-goth
Digital scribbler / no AI in my work
No DMs here, sorry.
See my art here:
https://www.instagram.com/paul_scribbles/
Support your local hardware shop 👍
Midlands, UK
Level 14 dad / Ex(?)-goth
Digital scribbler / no AI in my work
No DMs here, sorry.
See my art here:
https://www.instagram.com/paul_scribbles/
Support your local hardware shop 👍
Midlands, UK
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Paul
@spookshow71.bsky.social
· Nov 9
Running a tiny hardware shop in this day and age is always going to be a tale of ups and downs - but today...
Older chap and small lad looking in the window. 'This,' says the chap with something approaching joy and reverence, 'this is the magic shop.'
I am officially a wizard 🙂
Older chap and small lad looking in the window. 'This,' says the chap with something approaching joy and reverence, 'this is the magic shop.'
I am officially a wizard 🙂
January 6, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Scruffy scruffy scribblings this morning, and I love them for it 🙂
January 6, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Scruffy scruffy scribblings this morning, and I love them for it 🙂
January 6, 2026 at 1:26 PM
January 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM
January 6, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Friends? Anyone know someone?
Does anybody in the #boardgame #ttrpg community have any recommendations for places to get boardgame components and boxes produced?
I'm UK based, and would prefer to avoid crazy postage/customs/tariff charges if possible.
I'm UK based, and would prefer to avoid crazy postage/customs/tariff charges if possible.
January 5, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Friends? Anyone know someone?
Finished up running the third case in our Cthulhu by Gaslight game tonight. I have dubbed them thus:
The Case of the Murderous Maiden
The Return of the Witch
The Affair of the Black Opal
So far, so good 🙂
The Case of the Murderous Maiden
The Return of the Witch
The Affair of the Black Opal
So far, so good 🙂
January 5, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Finished up running the third case in our Cthulhu by Gaslight game tonight. I have dubbed them thus:
The Case of the Murderous Maiden
The Return of the Witch
The Affair of the Black Opal
So far, so good 🙂
The Case of the Murderous Maiden
The Return of the Witch
The Affair of the Black Opal
So far, so good 🙂
Early dentist appointment is the best kind of dentist appointment.
January 5, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Early dentist appointment is the best kind of dentist appointment.
January 3, 2026 at 2:43 PM
First night in weeks that I actually slept well...is also the first morning that I need to be up and about.
*shakes fist at universe*
*shakes fist at universe*
January 3, 2026 at 9:22 AM
First night in weeks that I actually slept well...is also the first morning that I need to be up and about.
*shakes fist at universe*
*shakes fist at universe*
Reposted by Paul
In this Year of Reading, a gentle reminder:
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.
January 2, 2026 at 7:23 PM
In this Year of Reading, a gentle reminder:
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.
Six years this weekend. Blimey. My dad didn't drink (aside from that one holiday in Austria, apparently) but I will cheerfully raise a glass of my favourite beer in his memory today.
To my dad 🍻
To my dad 🍻
January 2, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Six years this weekend. Blimey. My dad didn't drink (aside from that one holiday in Austria, apparently) but I will cheerfully raise a glass of my favourite beer in his memory today.
To my dad 🍻
To my dad 🍻
Vaguely concerned that I'm going to spend the first 26 days of January just bouncing off books because I'm just waiting for the last Laundry novel on the 27th.
January 2, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Vaguely concerned that I'm going to spend the first 26 days of January just bouncing off books because I'm just waiting for the last Laundry novel on the 27th.
January 2, 2026 at 9:06 AM
that doesn’t bode terribly well
January 2, 2026 at 8:07 AM
that doesn’t bode terribly well
Four episodes into Pluribus.
Really quite enjoying it.
Really quite enjoying it.
January 2, 2026 at 7:12 AM
Four episodes into Pluribus.
Really quite enjoying it.
Really quite enjoying it.
Reposted by Paul
It's the national year of reading in the uk in 2026. Instead of asking "why don't kids read any more", ask "how can I help them find the stories (and non fic) they will fall in love with". Less "get off my lawn whippersnappers" and more "come, sit on the lawn, here's a comic".
January 1, 2026 at 9:47 AM
It's the national year of reading in the uk in 2026. Instead of asking "why don't kids read any more", ask "how can I help them find the stories (and non fic) they will fall in love with". Less "get off my lawn whippersnappers" and more "come, sit on the lawn, here's a comic".
Got up, watched the last Stranger Things with my family.
We rather liked it.
We rather liked it.
January 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Got up, watched the last Stranger Things with my family.
We rather liked it.
We rather liked it.
I like to have stuff like this on when I’m working, so why not get your 2026 off to a wonderfully eldritch start?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3eu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3eu...
Tristwch y Fenywod (Wales) - S/T (Album 2024)
YouTube video by Rites of Pestilence
www.youtube.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:16 PM
I like to have stuff like this on when I’m working, so why not get your 2026 off to a wonderfully eldritch start?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3eu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3eu...
Happy new year folks!
Walked home from our friends (it's dropping a bit cool out there), now home. Kettle on.
Hope you all have a marvellous 2026 🙂
Walked home from our friends (it's dropping a bit cool out there), now home. Kettle on.
Hope you all have a marvellous 2026 🙂
January 1, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Happy new year folks!
Walked home from our friends (it's dropping a bit cool out there), now home. Kettle on.
Hope you all have a marvellous 2026 🙂
Walked home from our friends (it's dropping a bit cool out there), now home. Kettle on.
Hope you all have a marvellous 2026 🙂
Second play of Beer Pioneers. Brewing beer in Germany circa 1850.
Lots going on, but it's super smooth in play. A table-filler euro, but lighter than its BGG rating we think. Love it! 😀
Lots going on, but it's super smooth in play. A table-filler euro, but lighter than its BGG rating we think. Love it! 😀
December 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Second play of Beer Pioneers. Brewing beer in Germany circa 1850.
Lots going on, but it's super smooth in play. A table-filler euro, but lighter than its BGG rating we think. Love it! 😀
Lots going on, but it's super smooth in play. A table-filler euro, but lighter than its BGG rating we think. Love it! 😀
First play today! I've upgraded my brewery a bit, got some starkbier and weizen on the go 🙂
December 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
First play today! I've upgraded my brewery a bit, got some starkbier and weizen on the go 🙂
Reposted by Paul
