Hard pass. Rather confirms my impression that Compass is one of the iffiest historical game publishers out there. Perhaps it’s just hard for Americans to take anything Irish seriously.

Reposting this for the #navalwargaming crowd.

“Snorkers! Good oh!”

More artwork up in the new house. I’m a big fan of @tjgodden.bsky.social and I love these three prints.

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you. A silent and fast moving CP Rail coal car on a dark night at Revelstoke BC.

Today’s Epiphany homily with a nod to yesterday’s news. ⚓️ #narthex madpadre.blogspot.com/2026/01/trav...

This feels like a good song for today. youtu.be/Vkfpi2H8tOE?...

No, it’s not a used bookstore find, it’s the first instalment of a history of a large WW1 naval game that I ran for 11 players between June and November last year. Terrific fun. madpadrewargames.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-... #navalwargaming #greatwaratsea #wargaming

Going into 2026 in style.

Beautiful and mysterious. youtu.be/Ngxp6a64y9I?...

DIY projects in the new house fill me with anxiety and dread. I lie awake at night listening for the crash as the bastard things tear out of the wall.

The Lost Patrol. The movers handed me these as they finished packing the old house. Must have rolled off and behind my painting desk. If I can only find the box with the rest of them, and my paints and brushes, I might get them finished by February.

Naval and Military Press Christmas Sale purchases arrived today, material for a writing project and a gaming project. #navalwargaming

Was in Australia when the Breeders were on tour, couldn’t get tickets. My wife was sure she passed Kim Deal on the street in Melbourne while I was in a pub.

If only Saruman had gotten this kind of warning.

From Russia With Duty Free

First art up in the new house is my sister’s painting of the Vinny Ridge monument.

Wrote my Advent 3 homily during a boiled water advisory that has since been lifted so of course I was thinking about Isaiah’s promise of good water. ⚓️ madpadre.blogspot.com/2025/12/wate...

Rolled a 20.

With a scarf I never think “manly” or “unmanly”. 🙄🙄 I think, how much of my skin can this scarf protect from a biting Canadian winter?

I have one of these folks in my family. Sweet kooky man who has become insufferable because AI has validated amd written most of his 82 page “Theory of Everything” which is now all he can talk about. I’ve been sent countless iterations and have given up talking to him about it.

i wonder if this guys going to sign the release of the epstein files

In Medicine Hat, Alberta, it was Chicken Man, dude with a pet chicken who lived in a milk crate on the back of his bicycle. Barrie, Ontario had Pony Guy, who wandered around the lakefront with his pet miniature horse. God bless all glorious, harmless weirdos.

How it started. How it’s going. #BTPosse #TerrierTuesday

Thank you Blue Jays it was a great run.

Victorian pre-dreadnoughts have their own kind of coolness. Here are HMS Majestic and Royal Sovereign, cheap and cheerful STL files printed at 1.2400 scale and available from @4ppress.bsky.social is Wargame Vault. #navalwargaming

Davis Schneider could go down in history.

Putting Fisher in is doing nothing for my mental health.

Drop an old person you’re gonna turn into in the future ( and the future is almost here, Rowan’s only got 12 years on me).

Reposting this thread from Collingwood, Ontario!

In 1985 I listened to Tom and Jerry call every game of the #BlueJays vs Royals #ALCS. There are ghosts to be avenged tonight.

Who’s solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only.

For fans of WW1 naval history and #navalwargaming, in our PBEM campaign the Emden is still out there wreaking havoc and staging variety shows. Our latest in game newspaper has some great contributions from the players themselves. madpadrewargames.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Thrift store finds today. I read Collingham when it first came out and thought it was an excellent and valuable social history. Buttar I’ve only heard good things about.

I took a chance on ordering some 1/2400 models from Panzerschiffe and thought I’d show some examples of their models, which are basic but ok. Three German Type 1934 destroyers and two light cruisers (Koln and Karlsruhe) for an early war Atlantic campaign I’m considering. #navalwargaming

So are we at a Horst Wessel moment or a Reichstag Fire moment?

I bled for my country today, and got a slice of pizza for my troubles! #blooddonor #CanadasLifeline #CanadianBloodServices

So I guess this means that the US could blow up a civilian boat in Canadian waters and say “because fentanyl”. What’s scary is that my last sentence doesn’t seem crazy.

We had to make our own dice!

My hot take for the day is that unless the AoC is a consequential thinker and theologian like Rowan Williams, they are irrelevant to non-British Anglicans in the rest of the Communion.

For #TerrierTuesday, this is us, Brodie and Beatrix, waiting for our hoozits to quit chatting with the neighbours and take us to the bark park like they promised they would. #TravellingInStyle #BTPosse

Quote with your red art.

I still get yelled at a lot, but I do worry about it less now. I am a bear.

With great moustache comes great responsibility. #ShaneBieber #DaveStieb #TorontoBlueJays

Famous last words.

Some recently completed 1/2400 model ships for First World War #NavalWargaming. First, a flotilla of Royal Navy M class destroyers by GHQ.

#navalwargaming Mad respect.

What GIF pops up when you type your name?

This is Brodie at about six months, being still with mum for a few brief seconds. #TerrierTuesday #BackInTime. He’s now a healthy stocky lad of almost four. #BTPosse

Mystic crashes CPAC.