When I was at university I was studied for an MChem degree in Chemistry because its a subject I love, the way the material universe works and how everything fits together, and as the song says, how the elements are almost like a paint set, with them standing on their own or combining to make all the colours of the rainbow.
My specialism were food chemistry and nuclear chemistry, which were really fascinating subjects, I was lucky to have a visit from Lord Krebs whilst I was there, at the time he was the chair of the Food Standards Agency, and once everyone had stopped Stanning over his dad, his lecture mostly focused on potatoes, and how if they were brought to market today, they would be banned, because when they go off, they become extremely toxic, poisonous in face.
So any song which does chemistry will always grab my attention, and I really love this song, its so easy to sing along to!
I am really looking forward to Christmas, but then I always do, I am even wearing a Christmas jumper, albeit a Warhammer themed one!
Over the next few days, we are seeing Lindsay’s family, specifically Jane and her boys and George, we are having Mary and Paul over for Christmas dinner, Megan comes home so we get our Nintendo Switch and I go to the Durham Raiders long gaming day.
I did see Star Wars on Thursday morning, a 6am showing, with nachos and popcorn for breakfast, I enjoyed it, a lot, and I have thoughts on it, but to avoid spoilers I will talk about them next month, but I will say if you can, watch The Mandalorian Episode 7 first.
I got this months Conquest delivery early, so I built the Haemotrope Reactor and the Plague Marine Champion.
My painting queue currently looks like this, the Death Korps stuff has had to move back a little, I need a pot of Rakkarth Flesh and I am not getting anywhere near a Games Workshop until at least Boxing Day.Blood Ravens
Blood Ravens Primaris Lieutenants
Foetid Bloat-Drones
Death Korps of Krieg Commissars, Quatermaster, Officio Prefectus Commissar and Severina Raine
Mollog’s Mob
Death Korps of Krieg Infantry Squad
Legio Custodes Contemptor-Galatus Dreadnought
Ylthari’s Guardians
Death Korps of Krieg Infantry Squad
Plagueburst Crawler
Blood Reavens Supressors
What I Am Reading
I am really bad and haven’t read at all this week, but I did listen to Broken Saints which was really good, I love this character and the acting in this was phenomenal.
What I Am Playing
I had a few hours playing Fallout 4, but nowt beyond that sadly.
What I Am Backing
My Munchkin Pathfinder 3 stuff arrived from the US, hopefully Steve Jackson Games will start offering rewards outside the US, I know I could have waited and gotten these at retail, but I really wanted the to be made and hit the stretch goals.
I actually cooked, well it was kinda basic, I did some sausages in the oven, then added them to some microwave egg fried rice and some mushrooms, not gourmet but was filling.
I am currently roasting the meat for Christmas, but this is pre-prepared ready to roast stuff so not very taxing.
What I am Spending
I topped up my paints, although I still need a couple more and I treat myself to a new paint brush.
I also bought a £15 card for the Nintendo online store, which I will be using to get Catan when we set up our Switch.
