2026 Reading Challenge 1 The One Hand & The Six Fingers
I’m back. A new reading challenge, I’m being softer on myself this time, just 26 books in 2026, so one every two weeks and maybe a review. Oh plus audiobooks...
Grogmeet 2026
A new Grogmeet and the first at the Brickhouse Social. I’d missed 2025, adjusting to the new Jan slot, post Christmas, winter weather, but put in the...
The King of Sante Fe Session Five
The party is travelling south, a 100-mile trip from Steaming Rock to Silver City, to pick up a corpse and belongings. But first, they have to navigate the...
2025 TTRPG: The Road Travelled
Welcome to 2026. I hope the holidays have treated you well. So, on to a look back at my gaming in 2025. Dicing in 2025 Firstly, most of my Gaming took place...
The King of Santa Fe Session Four
Last session saw Winston gunned down in the street, but he survived, and the New Mexico Mercantile Cooperative (NMMC) retreated for now. So what next for the...
The King of Sante Fe Session Three
Please note SPOILERS will follow Founder’s Day was supposed to be a day of celebration, Steaming Rock’s premier family day out, but Howard Ross, of the New...
The King of Santa Fe Session Two
The card game at the Homestead Inn had come crashing to a halt, as Diego Carter, under the prompting of Francisco Castellanos, a rival to Homestead’s owner...
The King of Santa Fe Session One
So, we worked through sessions zero and two, but now we are stepping into 1873 New Mexico to take on the King of Santa Fe. Tales of the Old West RPG This is...
Groglaw 2025
Heading off to the ancient Chancery Lane, a place where the Knights Templar created the lane to connect their ‘old Temple’ in Holborn with their new property...
2025 Reading Challenge 39 Milkman
I picked up Milkman, laughably because I thought it was a science fiction book, and I thought, ‘That’s interesting, a sci-fi novel that is also a Booker...
2025 Reading Challenge 38 Jhereg
Here we go, a fantasy book - hopefully a lighter read after the challenging ones. I believe I picked Jhereg after a recommendation for the best...
2025 Reading Challenge 37 Nutshell
I wanted something very different to Black Easter, so I swapped around a few books to settle on Ian McEwan. I last read his book On Chesil Beach, and I could...
2025 Reading Challenge 36 Black Easter
It’s only a hundred or so pages, and I gave myself an extra week to read this after holiday time allowed me to get ahead. Black Easter by James Blish This is...
2025 Reading Challenge 35 Revenger
Some heavy stuff in recent reads, so I was happy to pick up some Space Opera fiction and return to Alastair Reynolds. I am not the most avid reader of his...
2025 Reading Challenge 34 The Outsider
Thanks to Matthew Broome for recommending a starting point for Camus. The Outsider, or The Stranger. The difference seems to stem from the translation of the...
2025 Reading Challenge 33 Great-Uncle Harry
The full title is Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire. Another Michael Palin tour de force, where he delves deep and wide to find out the background...
2025 Reading Challenge 32 The Loney
I bought The Loney in 2016, read a few chapters, got bored, put it away, felt guilty after a few months, started it again, got more bored and decided Andrew...
The Electric State, Into the Dust Bonus
The Nantz Diaries These diaries were written after each session by Alex Marchant, who played Nantz in the game. With Alex’s permission, I’m reposting them...
2025 Reading Challenge 31 The Satsuma Complex
A man goes for a drink with an acquaintance in a pub and also meets the woman of his dreams and wishes, but she disappears. He is determined to find her....
The Electric State, Into the Dust 3 of 3
We’ve now completed Into the Dust, having travelled through the three Stops that shaped our Journey. Some characters reached their destination, chasing...
