Ramblings of the Easily Distracted

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, ...

Yes, its another opinion on Hyperspace. No Wait! Come Back! Undoubtably one of the biggest changes to X-Wing 2.0 was the formalisation of...

Hello, and welcome back to another blog on "Conversations I have with The Teenager in the Car". It's a thing now, clearly. Th...

Well hello again. It turns out a bunch of you read my last blog so dammit, I just have to do another one. We went to our first tournament ...

* Blows Dust off The Thing*  Hello?  So reading around the X-Wing Community, there are a lot of fun, thoughtful and helpful b...

Gosh it has been a while since I got anything down here, but life, as they say, barrels onwards towards the existential horror of the He...

One of the continuing entertainments of our house is the gaming shelf, which continues to provide entertainment for the long, wet aftern...

So, our attempt to own and play all the Boardgames in the world continues. It has been, and remains, a main source of family entertainmen...

Right, onwards with the review of the year. For all we watch about a movie a week, and for all I've managed to read quite a bit, this...

Over the past year, a regular feature of our week has been sitting down, myself, Zoe and Ewan, to play a scenario from the Pathfinder Ad...

I have often joked that my secret agenda for parenthood is simply to grow my own gaming group. It's actually going pretty well, too -...

Its been a long time since I reviewed the X-Wing Miniatures Game, and since then we've played it quite a bit. Actually, a lot. We...

What we've started to do, as Ewan has got older, and (though he often pretends otherwise) increasingly interested in same array of g...

Gosh, it must be "games week" here on the Rambling blog, but its probably a fair enough representation of out time at the momen...

I think its fair to say that the Web Series " Tabletop " has cost me a lot of money. Its a pretty fun series hosted by Wil Whea...

We seem to live in an era of pop-culture determined to eat itself. Most of the biggest movies and TV at the moment - at least in terms o...

One of the problems of getting older and having kids is that your free time gets heavily eroded. You get less, and what you do have ...

One of the nice things about having kids is that as they get old you can attempt to inflict your interests on them, and sometimes they st...