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Instagram Import

2 July 2026

I've imported 651 posts from instagram. The process of looking through them was as much the point as the result.

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BG Stats 2025 stats graphic showing 267 plays of 172 games

2025 in Board Games

14 January 2026

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2025 in Books

2025 in Books

2 January 2026

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Coffeeneuring 2025

24 November 2025

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Collage featuring the board game box covers featured in this post including Civolution, Black Forest, Cooper Island and Sanctuary.

Civolution & Sanctuary

23 November 2025

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Collage featuring the board game box covers featured in this post including Emberleaf; Tea Garden; Moon Colony Bloodbath;

Emberleaf & Tea Garden

7 October 2025

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Collage featuring the board game box covers featured in this post including Let's Go! To Japan; SETI Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence; Calico; Critter Kitchen;

New Games from ACNW (Mostly)

19 August 2025

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BG Stats 3 x 3. Life of the Amazonia; Peaks; Unfair; The Fox Experiment; Panda Spin; FUSE; Wandering Towers; Hot Streak;Barbecubes.

Amazonia and Peaks

1 August 2025

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Amerigo to Silver & Gold

23 July 2025

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BG Stats 3 x 3. Play count: 1: Power Grid; 1: Mille Fiori; 1: Zooloretto; 1: River Valley Glassworks; 1: Vicious Gardens; 1: Pandemic: Hot Zone – North America; 1: X nimmt!; 1: Flip 7; 1: Photograph.

River Valley Glassworks beats Flip 7

25 June 2025

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BG Stats 3 x 3. Burano; DroPolter; Encyclopedia; Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre; Nucleum; Nusfjord; Parade; Town 77; Unconscious Mind.

Burano to Unconcious Mind

2 May 2025

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BG Stats 3 x 3. Mycelia; Northern Pacific; Odin; Southern Rails; STAKD; Through the Desert; Time Bomb; Unlock! Escape Adventures; Vinhos Deluxe Edition.

Mycelia to Vinhos

15 April 2025

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3 Good Things for 29 July 2026

💡Having located the spare bulb supply in the shed the house is brighter in the evening again. (Nights must be drawing in.)

🌊 Booked a holiday!

🚙 Solved the problem with the car bike rack (so we can take bikes on holiday too).

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a quilt with a red centre gradually fading to cream as it moves away from the centre. on top are tangled chains of words saying things like - democracy relies on mutual trust and a foundation of shared truth or it is under threat - stoking prejudice and division benefits a small and closed elite - and many other phrasesFestival of Quilts 2026 (Jul 2026)

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