Lee Carnell

@alwayspushtheroll.com

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Grognard, horror, and scifi fan. Created and maintains The Dhole's House (now owned by Chaosium), the on-line tool-kit for the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG. All views my own. He/him Will try to keep posts to TTRPGs and gaming - honest.

Petunias in a hanging basket in my back garden. The ones in the foreground have the darkest of darkest purple flowers, almost black. There are a couple of other flowers pictured (also Petunias) that are a s deep pink and white (striped).
A Coles fountain pen, silver metal with black barrel and cap that has a holographic like pattern to it. Next to the pen is a dried out ink cartridge.
The water lilly in my pond and the ripples caused by the air stones in the pond
A small water lilly just opening its petals, they're a lovely deep pink colour.
Blueberry cheesecake cooling in the fridge.
The Atlas of Pern Soft cover book, a complete guide to Anne McCaffrey's wonderful world of dragons and dragonriders.
An old spindle apple tree, with some apples. In the branches is an old wooden bird house.
Its the 'Khan' meme, but instead Kirk is screaming ASIMOV!!
Plum stones, all gnawed by little rodent teeth at the bottom of a tool bag.
Half the 'root ball' of a bamboo.
Hookland Fragments volume 1 The cover depicts a bear juggling bones from a human skeleton. Depicted as a lino cut.
Golden Retriever, laying on a lounger.
An empty glass. Used to contain a gin and tonic.
Sunlight through the fabric of the parasol on the deck.
Arriving today, Hookland Fragments.
Golden Retriever, on his side, totally pissed off with the heat.
The Homer Simpson 'mmmmm' meme Homer has his mouth wide open and is salivating. The caption reads 'Chemically created vanilla'
A young Robin taking an interest in the mint* i had chopped back this morning. *Water mint, from the pond. It grows very vigorously.
Play Unsafe and half a glass of Hobgoblin gold beer..
Police helicopter overhead.
My son's Golden Retriever sitting on the deck furniture.
A couple of cocktails served in a wooden box that's filled with flowers. There's two macarons as well.
Early 1960s Lambretta in red and white. On the rear carrier is a rolled up windbreak
Blue plaque World Famous Subbuteo Football Game Created and Made Here 1947-1969
Play Unsafe, 20th Anniversary Edition. Five dice (d6s) piled one atop the other. Subheading is: Work less. Play harder. Tell stories.
Me standing on a set of scales embedded in the floor of the American Museum of Natural History. The display reads 2.762 and below the display is engraved "TRILLION POUNDS". The title reads "your weight on a Neutron Star".
World cup themed cheesecake (with a liquid mango centre). The top has a chocolate disc that's decorated as a world cup football and the whole thing in on a bed of (coconut dyed green) grass.
The Hoba meteorite .. A flattish chunk of meteoric iron, concentric stone rings, like an amphitheater have been built around it.
Widmanstätten pattern lines on a metallic meteorite. Photo from Astro Aficion A section of a nickel-iron meteorite the surface shows the crystalline structure that can form in the slow cooling that can happen in space.
Two tories shitting their pants.
A homemade strawberry cheesecake, cooling in the fridge. Perfect
A bottle of Portofino gin and a couple of glasses on the kitchen table
Last page of instructions for fitting a kitchen sink mixer tap. There's a small dude, looking elated and holding a checkered flag aloft.
Me,wearing a navy blue tshirt Thwo At-at walkers march across a snowy ground in front of a mountain range. Underneath three lines it reads 1980
Tesco finest Chocolate Spoon Stirrers Three wooden spoons, each fused to a fairly large chunk/slab of Chocolate. Three different flavours: salted caramel, black forest, and mocha.
Message from the firewall, which states: The domain castingshadowsblog.com is blocked because it's associated with the Games category. Bastards!
Floofy Golden Retriever asleep on a laminate floor.
My 2nd pint of Red Kite ale.
X-Wing starfighter t-shirt.
Front cover of 'Computer Active' ChatGPT logo with a no entry sign over it. The headline is "STOP USING ChatGPT" Underneath it then reads "Switch to AI chat bots that do all your favourite tasks better"
Inside Book Publishing, 3rd edition by Giles Clark
A collection of eight postcards featuring designs inspired by the tv series 'Detectorists' in the style of Penguin, Peacock, Puffin and Pelican Book Covers. Top left: A penguin book cover featuring two men (the titular Detectorists) walking away from the viewer towards a church, the figures carry metal detectors and spades. In the foreground is long grass and poppies, a large yellow sun hangs in the sky. Top Middle: A Pelican books cover, the title is 'Common Buttons of North West Essex'* A blue cover with a of buttons, the buttons are all different sizes and arranged as if dropped. Top right: A puffin book cover - a sepia toned view of a small wood or copse, in the style of an engraving or picture seen in a victorian newspaper. One tree sits in the centre, I think it's an oak tree. Middle left: A Peacosk books cover - crows, a murder of crows flying in all directions (white silhouettes) in front the silhouette of a stylized white tree. Middle middle: there is no postcard here. Middle right: Puffin book cover featuring a dove frying in front of a tree. Bottom left: A Puffin book cover - various artifacts laid out as if on a table. Coins at the bottom then keys and key hole covers, door knobs shoe and belt buckles. Bottom middle: a Penguin Modern Classics cover. stylized depiction of the countryside, in a mosaic fractured pattern, muted colours. Bottom right: a Penguin modern classics cover - a scene from the countryside, fields and trees, fluffy clouds in a blue sky. a figure sits beneath a large tree (again I think an oak). The scene is reminiscent of vintage railway posters. *The book featured in the series - written by the president of the Danebury Metal Detecting Club.
The Barad-Dur lego kit. The lower level has mostly been completed - which sits beside the box.
Moose the golden retriever, doing what he does best - laying down in the hallway.
Image of the cover to book one of the epic Call of Cthulhu campaign Masks of Nyarlathotep (7th edition version) A gigantic monstrosity atop a pyramid under an ominous purple sky.
"Sandwich kits" from Tesco. Three pictured, didn't by side: On the left - Salt Beef brisket and Emmental. In the middle - Wiltshire cured ham and Barber's mature cheddar. On the right - Chicken and bacon caesar
Victorian lady, with added googly eyes.
Fizzy Gummy sweet - I guess it's cherries, right?
The skeletal face of one of the aliens ftom the film They Live. Underneath, in block capitals, is the word COSUME.
A screen grab from the The British Lawn Mower Racing site.
A metal miniature. A male figure with a flat cap, waistcoat, and large boots. Even though he's never done an honest days work in his life he's seen here holding his sledgehammer 'Tommy*'. *very small head** ** made at the Yaxley steelworks.
A collection of metal, townspeople, miniatures, assorted stickers, a toffee, and a note, from Fenris.
View from my office window. Baby blue sky and white fluffy clouds, quite sunny too.
I'm holding a freshly opened tin of Brixton Brewery Reliance Pale Ale.
My back garden. View of the pond, deck and blooming flowers.
A shop front. A glowing Necronomicon sigil has been placed onto the window.
A large torch (or flash light if you will). It's yellow and back, reminiscent of the JCB branding. The sticker on the side purports that this torch has 5 million candle power.
It's that reanimated taxidermy nightmare Hartley Hare from Pipkins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipkins