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Dr Who Miniatures

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 I had a good friend, Stuart, with whom I played the Doctor Who Miniatures wargame.  We both collected various Dr Who figures and pitted them against each other across various Alien landscapes.  Sadly he died of Cancer.  I inherited his figures and I have integrated them into my collection.  We both had a lot of figures by a company called Black Tree Design.  So in his honour I have decided to collect their entire Doctor Who range. Between us we had a lot of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Doctor miniatures.  So I began buying 1st and 2nd Doctor minis to fill in the gaps and work forwards until I collected the set. I am storing the figures in A4 Decopatch boxes held in by foam. Box 1 The first box contains most of the 1st Doctor's Figures. Box 2 The second box contains the last few figures of the first Doctor, all the figures for the second Doctor and starts with the first few figures for the third Doctor. Box 3 The third box contains the last of the Third Doctor...

Meat Free options for Meat Free Mondays

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 OK, So I am trying out Meat Free Monday to help save the planet.  Basically I do not eat meat on a Monday.  This will cut my meat intake by 1/7th, or 14.2%.  If we all did this then this would help reduce the carbon emissions from the meat industry. There are a lot of options out there for meat free or meat replacement meals.  Here are some I have tried. TESCO Stonebaked Thin Mixed Vegetable Pizza Taste:  Excellent.  Enough variety for you not to notice there is no meat.   Texture: Just like a Pizza. Rating: ***** Like Meat Like Schnitzel Taste:  Like fried something, but no real flavour.  Not unpleasant. Texture:  Bread crumbed meat of some sort, but not Chicken. Rating: *** BirdsEye Green Cuisine Meat Free Sausage Rolls Taste: Nice, almost the same as Greggs Vegan Sausage Roll Texture:  Just like a Sausage Roll Rating: ***** Like Meat Like Smoked Sausage Taste:  Half a second of Smoked something, then mushy Peas Te...