“With blazing eyes and a luminous muzzle the hound appeared from the mist”. The Head of Security comes over all Baskerville.

The head of security tracks for spoor.

Chips and lager. The diet of kings.

Beware of Sidneys bearing gifts.

The day just got better. Carlsberg. Undoubtedly the finest cooking lager in the world.

It’s a lovely day for cricket. A day off from my editorial duties.

The sky god awakes.

0530. The mornings are getting darker. Had to put my jungle greens on today as it’s chilly.

And another one turns up! This could be a threesome to remember!

Love is in the air, Everywhere I look around. Love is in the air, Every sight and every sound. And it’s not surprising. The beauty perfected just turned up at my table. Be still my beating heart…

I walk into a boozer to be told that a gent has left a couple of books for me. I love British pubs.

I had a day off today. Not really a day off as I worked, but more of a day off than I can remember having for a long time. Books. Maps. Pimm’s. I should do it more often.

I’ve come over all Trust House Forte!

Lard Island parakeets. As well as our own microclimate we have species of flora and fauna unique to the island. And a short bloke in a white suit who shouts “Ze plane, ze plane” with alarming regularity.

My grandfather worked for a ship builder all his working life until they shut down in 1965. As a child he and I walked through the derelict offices and found a box of unused company folders which, for some unknown reason, we salvaged. I still use them today, such as this “new” one holding my…1/2

Sunny day. Good book. Pint of Pimms.

In the German watching the test. Ideal.

Getting ten miles in before it gets hot. A beautiful morning.

It’s a long time since I’ve slept under a tree in the park, but suitably refreshed after a ten mile tab, I’m now in what Stormzy tells me is the oldest pub in Britain. Or the world. Built by Boudicca it was a regular haunt of Julius Caesar, Henry VIII, The Platagenets and other historical geezers.

There’s no nicer spot to rest awhile than in the shade, by a cricket pitch on a hot day.

Bonzaaaaaaaaai BONKERS!

One man and his dog. Me and the head of security take in the Norfolk vista.

Dinner in Norfolk overlooking the coast. Leaving the world behind for the weekend.

The upper slopes of the Roundwood Estate are the most peaceful and, to my eye, beautiful. The only noise, birdsong.

No better way to spend an early summer morning than walking out and enjoying our green and pleasant land. Maybe a cider with Rosie later, to complete the literary allusion…

Not where I was meant to be this morning. Ho hum

“Instructions for planning tasks and war games within the platoon and company” Kriegsspiel can be at any level, as this rather intriguing manual from the 1930s proves.

Having barely exercised in months this is starting to hurt. Third walk in three days this will bring me up to 20 miles in total but my muscles are really hurting.

There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow…. A month of eating shit just to keep me working and no exercise takes some counter measures to offset.

Prepping for Tuesday’s filming session. Looking forward to being back in the studio.

Under the watchful eye of the Irish Guards tanks, the Devons advance through the inundated Dutch countryside.

Vegan nut roast. Linda would be proud of me.

Another day, another pile of envelopes m. But first, it’s a lovely morning.

An after work snifter in the Pie & Pint. Hard yards this week and next week will be similar. The kind comments from those receiving their bundles makes it worthwhile.

Today I am channelling my inner Ronnie Biggs.

See you at Partizan tomorrow!

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A big announcement from Lard Island today. A new community area is born with loads of new content coming up.

In the midst of a duel, a dirty old man gives me a pound. Suitably surreal.

It’s the King of France. Sidney name drops mercilessly.

Flashing Blades tonight with Sidney Navratilova.

Out early before the heat. This week is going to be a busy one on Lard Island so chilling a bit this morning. Filming this afternoon.

Having the afternoon off in the Lard Island outside gaming area bar. Aperol Spritz and Panzer Lehr. Wots not to like?

Meanwhile the game table/map table on Lard Island has been set aside as a packing facility. The post room is now full of envelopes. Orders placed thus far have been sorted into piles, ready for packing. Planning and organising logistics is key to this going smoothly and me retaining my sanity.

Sorting out the storage unit before the arrival of CoC2 next week. Lots of postage boxes stacked before being transferred to the post room. There are 110 boxes of rules in this photo, stacked three or four deep. The 340 boxes of CoC arriving will dwarf this. And take some shifting!

1900 tonight on Lard TV. Rich will be taking your questions live and answering any that you care to post here. Tune in and get those questions answered.

En avant! Ou est le car park? The fight gets messy.

Flashing Blades tonight. The streets of Paris ring with the sound of steel on steel.

And we're off! The all the new Chain of Command2 bundles are now available at toofatlardies.co.uk We launched around 0830 today and its already the biggest seller we have ever had on Day 1. Get them while they're hot!

Packing bundles and heading down memory lane. My first car was a 3.5L V8 Rover. They really did wallow like that around corners. The world before speed cameras was too much fun.