The only cheerful thing in this newsletter (that you can sign up to if you are a psychopath) is @simplebits.com (an ever-cheerful and more worthy newsletter) recommendation of www.modernillustration.org as a Mid-Century illustration resource. Chef's kiss.

Basketcase #cat #unstablemabel

Last push for my print store before Christmas. Spaceships, robots, tentacled islands, lovecraftian lighthouses… #ArtPrints #Christmas #MadeByHumans www.inprnt.com/gallery/this...

Kitten 1 (Magpie) is sleeping around my neck. I do not care for cats but I am saving on heating. Also she's quite cute like this.

@pook?

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@craftbeerchannel.bsky.social Listening to the poddo - love Brad’s Tokyo tour - and making chilli beef for dinner. Lovely drop thanks chaps.

And it continues… #theresafuckingdogonmybed

It has begun. #theresafuckingcatonmydesk

And mightily good it is too!

Finally got Arcs to the table and now my brain hurts.

Stormtrooper

Did I tell you about the time when I met Ian Brown in Tenerife and got very… No JE, bore off. #camberwellcarrot

Gonna be geeky but this makes me happy: `.about-section:has(.grid-full) .grid-full`

Boudicca has decided she’s a cat. Need a name for the tabby. Any ideas?

Kitty and kitten

Sports Killerstrated covers. One of the best oldhammerish things I've done. Blood Bowl is so fun to draw.

😂 You are dead of horse punch

Afternoon fellow Elves and Goblins. In The Wood Pile's newsletter #8 we continue to group and ungroup things in Figma, while waiting for the AI bubble to burst like a pustulent buboe. Also Aliens, cats and new shiny things from Steam. pook.design/the-wood-pil...

Unauthorised pet purchase. #missmarple

TV crime shows as published by Penguin Books. 🧵 1/ #Bookish

Bleep bloop. 😍

Pooky business…

Went to Mordor with my best bud. Saw a bit of a jolly good punk band. Got confused and ate some junk. Came home to the Shire.

Hate doing this, because everyone is skint, but Oz is the only important thing in my life and I'm too broke to cover his additional surgery. If you'd like to help, please use OZVET20 at checkout on fenrisgames.com/shop for a nice discount or ko-fi.com/fenrisgames if you don't need toys. Thankyou 💔

Follow the sound of the Bell…

Ooh thanks. I will pick up a copy for Pook.

Children are expensive part 2

Children are expensive part 1

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And then in the late 30s they ended up in Watford running the One Crown (top M.R. James name btw) until 1943 I believe when Georgina Elliman (née Limonde) died. Gramps then became a postman. He always took me in there for half a shandy after we went swimming in Watford Baths.

I know that @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social thinks I am posh, but to prove I am an anomaly in my family's history, I finally found a photograph of my old family pub in Liverpool. My Gramps, Cyril Limonde Elliman (hence Ellimondo), was born there in 1913. Looks… er, nice?

Pew pew pew!

I’ve been boiling horse chestnuts in the woods. Who’s up for a pint? More news from the woodpile…

It’s that Adobe renewal chatbot email nonsense time of year.

RIP Pops. The best of hamsters 🐹. She was 4 years 2 months old. A ripe old age.

Love it RT

Al and I met a baby slowworm on the way home from lunch

I spotted a whopper of a Bay Boletus in the Shire

More mushrooms from the Shire.

Many mushrooms out there. Watch out for Pook.

Hello humans. It has been a week of making and mulling for newsletter #4. We’ve been shaping a new visual language for a client, tinkering with physics engines, while welcoming the return of physical buttons. #design pook.design/the-wood-pil...

I am not normally a fan of darker beers but this is lovely. Coffee bitter brownie #beerskyb

A game of Schotten Totten with the girl and a glass of Medieval Game from Baron Brewing. Hazy Pale soft as you like with welcome slight bitter finish.

Malty and bitter Westie. This Baron chap can make beer. #bskybeer

Bloop bloop 📻 🤯 radiohead.com

I meant to post this earlier in the school holidays but haven't had time cos I've been spending time with my kids

Warhammer 40K Rogue Trader Squat Power Boarder

More hazy than westy. #beerskyb

Night night.