The Man with No Time

Last Saturday I travelled down to Milton Keynes for my third Warmachine tournament of the year. Like the last one I went to ( in Northampton ) this was organised by the Guardians of Tyr, and was a 35pt standard steamroller event. This time around though there was no Divide and Conquer in play, so no need to play each list, and the event was a little bigger - 24 players rather than 16 thanks to the extra space in the Milton Keynes branch of Wargames Workshop. After my bad form in the last two tournaments I attended, where my record was 0-7, I was really hoping that I'd at least get one win in. But in some ways that was a secondary goal - my main aim was to have fun, be a good sport, and try to give my opponents an enjoyable experience playing me. WARNING: Like most of my tournament reports this is going to be a really long post!

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that fade to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, and Age long past, a wind rose in the great forest called Braem Wood. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a  beginning. It's taken me a while to finish book five of the Wheel of Time. That's not because it was a drag, far from it. But I've been very busy recently, and have been catching up on some other reading that's got in the way a little. Nonetheless, I still hooked on the story, and just about on course with my goal to finish by the end of the year.  The revelations continue to pile up, and this book has some truly shocking events in it, including the death of one of a major character. It's hard to talk about the book without discussing these, so ...

From the very first time that I saw a trailer for the LEGO movie I knew that I wanted to see it. I had to see it. The trailer was very, very funny, and the film was clearly going to make the adaptability and creativity inherent in LEGO a central part of the story. I was sold. Sadly, in a familiar story, I missed it at the cinema. My old fallback, the Student Cinema, looked like it would come to the rescue once again, but I ended up being busy on the night that they showed it, so it looked as though I would miss out. Then I decided I wanted to see a film over the bank holiday weekend, and to my surprise saw that the Odeon had a couple of showing in the morning. So off I went. Even the poster is awesome. (Credit: en.wikipedia.org)