Yes, hello I'm back...

Hi,

Sorry for the prolonged absence, I've been, erm, well, doing stuff. Anyway, I'm back again and here is a little something that I've started on. I've agreed to paint a Skaven Doomwheel for a friend at work. I'm really hoping to get it done today, along with a whole load of other, non-painting related tasks.

Back to the Fungus

Firstly I must apologise for the crap photos. I took them with the little camera in my room without any checking of the settings at all. The flash was off, so that the lighting is bad and I didn’t even check that they were sharp before going to the next step. Using the little camera is so easy, but you still actually have to at least try and take a good photo…

So, above is the before photo. I’ve not touch the beard for four weeks and this is what I got. Thankfully you can’t really see the vast amount of grey that has taken over the chin, but I must confess that it is there. And there with vengeance. It is probably there to set off the flecks that I have in the sides at the front. You can just about see some in this shot. A little above the ears. See it? Well, I don’t mind that. That adds to the distinguished look, but the beard, well that doesn’t look distinguished at all. I don’t think that I’ll even have a beard for long. It’s just too much hassle.

Then the first bit to go was the chin. I’m not doing anything here that is going to last, so I can try anything. Well that is the way I look at it. So, here I have trimmed my chin and nothing else. The hair on the lower lip is still there, but from the crease of the chin down, all the way under the chin is gone. I wasn’t that impressed with this look and so I swiftly moved on to the next style. I was hoping to try the full Fu Manchu but it appears that I really don’t have the patience to grow enough of a beard for that. Sorry.

This was an interesting stage. I was a little happier with it that the photo probably suggests. Yes, smiling whilst taking the photos wasn’t one of my strong points again. But this style, shows a basic sort of acceptability in my eyes. I didn’t feel the urge to keep it and I didn’t quite know how to turn it into anything better, but there was a hint of improvement from some of the other styles.

Removing the hair from the lower lip was a bad move I think. Me and just a moustache is bad. I’ve always known this and I have proved it true yet again. This style was quick to go…

And then it was time for the Silly Shot. Just because I could really and also, I guess, to prove that even if I can’t smile whilst having my photo taken, I can at least pull a silly face.

It would also appear that during my two week holiday, I’ve put on a few kilos. This is not a shock at all as the next three weeks will be an attempt to be beck to what I was…

After that, who knows…

My new addiction

This stuff is just wonderful. Better than any cola (even better than Cherry Coke, I have to confess) and might be cause for me to start on the fizzy drinks again. This can only be bad since my guts don't react well to fizz it has to be said. I have no idea how many cans of this stuff I have drunk since I've been back but I think that we can all agree that the answer falls nicely into the Too Many category.

I'm even adding this to my official, motivational list of things that I will be glad to be back in the UK for. There aren't really that many things on the list yet, it has to be said. I've loved living in Holland for the last eight years (OK, technically one of them was in Luxembourg, but I returned to Holland for many of the weekends, so it kinda counts).

There are still several cans of this stuff in the larder at the moment, but I'm thinking that by the time that we leave this evening, that will no longer be the case...

Yum...