A box containing six small canisters of compressed gas, of the sort that one would use with a soda siphon to make sparkling water. The canisters are labelled as containing the radioactive gas radon.
Radon soda siphon bulbs, so the bubbles in your fizzy water can be radioactive.
I am convinced that our children will end up fighting over who gets the Dualit toaster we received as a wedding present 23 years ago. The thing is built like a tank. A lovely tank that makes toast.
I feel that the designer of Mongooseβs deckplans could do with looking at some real ship/aircraft plans.
How do they manage to produce such ugly plans? Itβs not as if Illustrator is so very difficult!
You must admit that itβs extremely on-brand for a bunch of unscrupulous bastards.
I can hear the 1541 moving its head outward by 40 tracks to calibrate before it starts to seek.
Eurosource was *much* better, and I think that the comparison is partly why Iβm so down on the UK sourcebook.
Alas, Shadowrun never really clicked with me, so I havenβt read most of the sourcebooks.
Itβs famously and embarrassingly bad. Perhaps not quite as bad as the UK sourcebook for Twilight: 2000, but still excruciatingly cringeworthy to most Brits.
βMY houseβ
ITYM βHIS houseβ - youβre just the staff.
(itβs wonderful to be under the paw, isnβt it?)
Thought you already knew about it, tbh. DGPβs Manhunt:
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
Well, given that someone was able to recover the source for a lost Traveller book from an Apple 2 diskβ¦
If I look through my exercise books from early secondary school (say, 1985ish) Iβm sure that Iβll be able to find my draft of an Anne McCaffrey Pern RPG. The only thing that I can recall about it is that it used a d30 (because I had a d30, and it was cool).
Mad Gav, from Mark Harrisonβs comic The Travellers, as seen in White Dwarf in the 1980s. Mad Gav is sporting a suit of battle dress and entirely too many guns, and is singing a song about killing aliens. https://www.2000ad.org/markus/travellers/image.php?page=21
The Traveller in question:
* optional since 1987.
It seemsβ¦unlikely.
Pretty shabby behaviour - and I thought that things couldnβt get much worse after the story broke about Wattβs alleged behaviour.
βthe players went all Travellerβ
Words to strike fear into a GMβs heart.
Wait, what? @monkeyking.bsky.social wrote a B7 RPG?
It is right that our local Labour MPβs first priority is as she says.
However, I would hope that behind the scenes sheβs also questioning why our government is allowing the US to use UK bases to make preemptive strikes on targets in Iran.
From where Iβm sitting, itβs the current Labour leadership that looks pretty extreme. Itβs certainly not the party that I had supported for thirty years.
A plate containing a Welsh breakfast (because itβs St Davidβs Day). At the top, streaky smoked bacon cooked until crispy. To the right, laverbread in its usual (tasty) formless glop state. At the bottom, steamed clams (for fresh cockles were not available). To the left, cakes made with laverbread and oatmeal. In the middle, a frilly fried egg.
Dydd GΕ΅yl Dewi Hapus!
Introduced the family to laverbread at breakfast.
The verdict: better made into cakes with oatmeal than by itself, and better when made from fresh laver than the dried laver I bought from a local Chinese supermarket a few years ago.
Also, clams rather than cockles alas.
imo, haggis is one of the easiest, cheapest and most satisfying offal dishes.
Also makes a great taco filling, and haggis lasagna is a thing of beauty.
Nice to see Southampton mentioned in that story - our geothermal district energy scheme was the first in the UK.
Oh crumbs. It was one of the first things I spotted when my copy arrived - Iβd assumed that youβd already noticed!
Why even open the book? Just look at the spine.
(sorry, I know, too soon..)
My much-stained books by Diana Kennedy, Lourdes Nichols and Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz have been invaluable, but getting hold of certain fresh ingredients is still a problem.
We in the UK didnβt know what good Mexican food (not Tex-Mex) was until quite recently - this side of the millennium. The stuff in the 80s/90s was *dreadful*.
A determined home cook with a few good recipe books can still outdo most βMexicanβ restaurants in the UK in both variety and quality.
The main difficulty is getting *fresh* regional ingredients. Dried chiles (of MX varieties), masa harina, etc are easy to get in the UK nowadays.
Things like fresh chiles poblanos, flores de calabaza, nopales, chayotes, tomatillos, jicama, huitlacoche, epazote - not so much.
I just wish that GRRM would release the short films that he produced based on short stories by Howard Waldrop: Night of the Cooters, Mary Margaret Road Grader and (obviously) The Ugly Chickens.
