Money, it's a gas

Oct. 11th, 2025 01:19 pm
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This was the week when I needed to do the car's MOT. The repairs for that came up to no change out of £900. Then there was the insurance for said car, which was a large increase from last year.

And then my fridge died. Waiting for the fridge repair man to come this afternoon. I have been told by many people that I'm better off just buying one, but let's see what repair man says first -although he of course is not impartial...

An expensive week.

Introducing Solo_Knight

Oct. 8th, 2025 10:32 pm
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I’ve not had the best, err, months.

The not-so-great adventures of green_knight )

I've handed in my last mss, which was a mess, slept myself out, ordered a new phone, and found a few brain cells; I'll be ok and I try to do better: read DW more often, finish all the half-written entries or dump them completely and free up my stack.

One thing I want to do more of is play RPGs, but again I haven't had the spoons to actually look for a group. So I started to look into SoloRPGs to just broaden my horizons a bit.

I love DnD. I want to play DnD properly again, but even with two people, scheduling is a problem.

So I've started to play solo, and read a lot of materials, and watched a lot of YouTube, ad poked at numerous systems and came to the conclusion that if I want to get anywhere with this hobby, I need to be more systematic about it.

To avoid cluttering up this journal and make it the SoloRPG ALL THE TIME channel, I've created [personal profile] solo_knight, and to avoid that feeling of emptiness I've waited until I had several entries polished and a format that I think will work.

It's a mixture of play reports and reviews, with the odd deeper delve into mechanics. Right now, my goal is to explore the space as a whole, so I am willing to play a certain amount of games that I would not have picked voluntarily – I mean, science fiction horror survival? Does not sound like fun. (Wasn't fun. Was an experience I wouldn't want to have missed.)

And I'm writing down my experiences so they don't fall out of my brain immediately, I have a modest goal of two games a month, and a stretch goal of processing all of my Indie games by this time next year. (A lot of them are one-page or close to; things I'm going to play once for a couple of hours if at all, but I also have a number of long form games, and on top of that, I have numerous proper RPG systems I'm curious about that can be played with a GM emulator, but in order to do that, I need to be comfortable with emulators first so this will keep me occupied for a while.

So there you go. [personal profile] solo_knight briefly turns up, bangs on his shield, and vanishes again.

And for a bonus task when my to-do list is shorter, I'll have to see how to link the two accounts so I can switch more easily between them.

Self-drafted Half-Circle skirt

Oct. 8th, 2025 01:00 pm
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I'm back to self-drafting skirts again. I haven't been completely satisfied with the instructions given in the Sew What Skirts book, so I did a bunch of research around the internet and came up with my own process that works for my brain.


Details )

Front view of a purple twill knee-length half-circle skirt, with a self-fabric elasticated waistband, hanging from a black hanger against a white wardrobe.

Finished, front
Photo by [personal profile] chebe

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