As a follow-up to Desert Island Discs, the team at work have been doing our top ten films, and this week was my turn. The only condition was that one of the ten had to be set in London. Once again, I’ll be buggered if I’m writing all this lot up and not turning it into a blog post.
( My Top Ten Films... )
Posts Tagged ‘star wars’
2009 Books
Posted on in Books, Doctor Who, My Life.Yesterday, I tweeted "According to my LibraryThing records I’ve read 141 books this year: 26 novels, 7 non-fiction, 102 graphic novels and 6 ‘other’."
Then I went out and bought another two graphic novels… But it must be said that most of the comics I’ve read this year came from West Norwood library, and now that I’ve exhausted most of their good ones, and some of their bad ones, I think 2010 may be slightly less weighted towards graphic novels.
How many of my 2009 books have you read?
Available as a poll over on Live Journal (you don’t need an LJ account to vote, just an OpenID account which means an account from WordPress.com, Google, Yahoo, Blogger, etc.)
Counting the Cost of War(games) – October ‘09
Posted on in Miniatures.Star Wars CMG miniatures via Forbidden Planet, @ £11.99 (Damn! I haven’t indulged that particular vice since March.)
(BTW, SELWG purchases come out of the annual fund)
Total: £11.99
Counting the Cost of War(games) – March ‘09
Posted on in Miniatures, RPGs.Well I found this year’s Salute a bit underwhelming. There seemed to be a lot of big empty spaces in the middle of the hall, which made the scrums around many of the stalls even more annoying than usual. Some cool games but little that really grabbed me. Hence I only spent a few hours there before heading into town, where I ended up doing a bit of shopping.
So, whilst the Salute purchases (a mammoth mammoth, some chaps and some geezers) go onto the annual fund the rest of the day’s shopping is:
Classic Traveller Alien Modules 5-8 from Orc’s Nest, @ £19.99
2 packs of Imperial Entanglements Star Wars CMG miniatures from Forbidden Planet, @ £9.99 each
Total: £39.97
Pass the hydrospanner Chewie
Posted on in Films.Earlier today, for reasons best known to herself, ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
pink_weasel linked to the Wikipedia page on Allen Keys. In the sidebar they have diagrams of various shapes of screw head. One of them is the Bristol head:
Remind you of anything? How about The Empire (from Star Wars for the culturally ignorant…):
Very True Mood: 
curious
curiousCounting the Cost of War(games) – November ‘08
Posted on in Games, Miniatures.I pack of Star Wars Clone Wars miniatures, @ £9.99
Phoenix Command Civilian Weapon Data Supplement, via eBay @ £11.85
Renegade Legion The Fire Eagles, via eBay @ £7.99
Total £29.83
Counting the Cost of War(games) – September ‘08
Posted on in Dinosaurs, Miniatures, RPGs.1 rare, large Star Wars miniature via eBay, @ £9.70
1 OOP painted HLBS Dinosaur miniature via eBay, @ £13.10
2 packs of Knights of the Old Republic Star Wars CMG miniatures via Orcs Nest, @ £8.99 each
A Magical Society: Ecology & Culture, RPG supplement via sale at Forbidden Planet, @ £0.99 Bargain! 
Total: £41.77
Total for the quarter: £34.05 + £52.63 + £41.77 = £128.45. Well over budget. 
Counting the Cost of War(games) – August ‘08
Posted on in Doctor Who, Magazines, Miniatures.3 x packs of Doctor Who CMG figures from Woolies, @ £8.00 ea
1 pack of Star Wars CMG figures from Forbidden Planet, @ £14.99
4 Rare Star Wars CMG figures via eBay, £9.94
1 issue of Miniature Wargames, @ £3.70
Total: £52.63
Counting the Cost of War(games) – July ‘08
Posted on in Miniatures, RPGs.Broncosaurus Rex RPG from eBay, @ £8.58
Renegade Legion Interceptor from eBay, @ £5.49
2 packs of Star Wars Legacy of the Force collectible miniatures from Forbidden Planet, @ £9.99 each
Total: £34.05
Counting the Cost of War(games) – June ‘08
Posted on in Books, Dinosaurs, Magazines, Miniatures.1 pack of Star Wars Legacy of the Force collectible miniatures from Forbidden Planet, @ £9.99
I issue of Wargames Soldiers and Strategy, @ £3.95
1 issue of Miniature Wargames, @ £3.70
1 T.rex and 1 pack of Syntarsus from Jeff Valent Studios , @ $38.90 (£20.74)
[Update] – The order from Jeff Valent never turned up.
Total: £38.38
Total for the quarter: £37.74 + £26.94 + £38.38 = £103.06 (a smidgen over the £100 budget).