Blogger Award

So, I'm guessing anyone who reads this will know there's this "Stylish Blogger [s]chain letter[/s] Award" making the rounds. I have mixed feelings on it. I don't care for chain letters, which this bears a striking resemblance to. The way it's set up it seems hardly a blog will go un-awarded. On the other hand, it seems it is helping some people find blogs they hadn't come across before. On the other hand (wait, that's three hands now?), I'm not sure I can find any blogs to nominate that haven't already received it so maybe it's best to just let things stand. Basically, every blog you can find in my recently updated blogs list could be a candidate.

Two bloggers whose blogs I enjoy have nominated this little blog for this and I appreciate their noticing my stuff, slow as things have been lately. They are as follows:

Conrad Kinch's
Joy and Forgetfulness
Always a delight to read about his wargaming projects, and other happenings

Alan's
Tradgardland
Always full of enthusiasm and ideas for new projects and more

Thank you both (more for your blogs than for the silly "award")!

Greetings from Ballyfoole

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Ballyfoole is preparing another expedition to further explore the wilds of Afrodesia. In the meantime I'll leave you all with a bit of poetry.


From G.K. Chesterton's The Ballad of the White Horse (Chesterton was also the author of the Father Brown mysteries in the first half of the 20th century.)
"For the Great Gaels of Ireland
Are the men that God made mad.
For all their wars are merry,
And all their songs are sad."

Or, as Arthur Guiterman wrote in The Young Celtic Poets:
"For the Young Gaels of Ireland
Are the lads that drive me mad;
For half their words need footnotes,
And half their rhymes are bad."

New Blog

I have started a new blog to catalog my collection of fantasy minis. This will mostly be pictures of the many existing fantasy minis I have painted over the years, although I will also occasionally add a new mini or 2.

See http://talesofmirth.blogspot.com/