Happiness squared.

Started by fsn, 28 May 2013, 04:58:00 PM

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fsn

Ice cream scoops. Cadbury's Twirl. Totty's best bits. What do they all have in common? They all give great joy as a twosome.

Today, I have found something that gives even greater pleasure than all of these. I came home today to find one of those little red Post Office cards, so hied me off to the sorting office. There I collected not one but two packages from Pendraken!

Two orders at once! My purchasing is usually geared to ensure that excitement overload does not result from the delivery of Pendraken goodliness. Man is not capable of dealing with so much muchness in one go.

So I sit with the two packages on the corner of my just-cleaned painting table, head in hand. Contemplating the plain brown temptation that sits before me. A tear runs down my cheek as I realise that this is probably a turning point in my life. Never before have I experienced so much concentrated expectation delivered in one go, in two unremarkable, commonplace objects.

And yet, however my inner child wishes to plunge in and tear apart these obstinate enigmas, I hesitate. To rip carelessly into the inner treasure would seem somehow a defilement, a casting aside of the ancient ritual and ceremony attendant with their preparation. Can I catch a whiff of smoke from the rude rush torches that give meager light to the stygian cave where the gnomish casters toil, all the while mumbling incantations to beg favour from the dark gods of liquid metal? Was the gnarled hand that made the crude characters that mark out my name more used to daubing sygils and runic wards in blood, held in a bowl made from a scraped skull? I place my hand on the box, and feel a strange warmth, as if some residual magic lurks inside, ready to be freed when I open the seals. Nervously, I separate the packages as far as possible, for some subconscious primitive fear that two Pendraken packages, placed together may bring together some mystic forces that may overturn reality as we know it, and replace it with some strange otherworld in which 10mm  is the scale of choice, in which wargaming is very attractive to 18-25 year old females, and in which Warhammer 40K never made it off the drawing board. Tempting.

It is with reverence that I resist. I feel the urge to undergo some ceremony of cleansing before I am worthy to open two gifts from the lesser gods. I am torn between anticipation and caution.

These two featureless shapes bring to my mind dark and wonderful thoughts. They will remain on the table until I have settled my mind to be able to carefully and gently open them.   

Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

sebigboss79



Duke Speedy of Leighton

You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
2016 Pendraken Painting Competion Participation Prize  (Lucky Dip Catagory) Winner

fred.

Have you shaken them to guess what is in each one?

2011 Painting Competition - 1 x Winner!
2012 Painting Competition - 2 x Runner-Up
2016 Painting Competition - 1 x Runner-Up!
2017 Paint-Off - 3 x Winner!

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Leon

www.pendraken.co.uk - Now home to over 10,000 products, including nearly 5000 items for 10mm wargaming, plus MDF bases, Battlescale buildings, I-94 decals, Litko Gaming Aids, Militia Miniatures, Raiden Miniatures 1/285th aircraft, Red Vectors MDF products, Vallejo paints, Tiny Tin Troops flags and much, much more!

fsn

Quote from: fred    12df on 28 May 2013, 05:52:54 PM
Have you shaken them to guess what is in each one?



No, no, no! To shake, to press, to prod would be to invite damage. Who would spit into the face of the Leon-Beast?
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Nosher

In the words of Jack Sparrow....

You need a girl mate ;)


;D ;D ;D
I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

Frank Carson

Techno


OldenBUA

The simple act of lifting each packet carefully to gauge it's weight will tell you which one has Keira in it, and which one the twenty Centurions.

See Nosher, he did get a girl. I hope.


:D
Water is indeed the essential ingredient of life, because without water you can't make coffee!

Aander lu bin óók lu.

fred.

What if it isn't two orders - it just one order split between two packets?

Not wanting to upset you or anything?

You must have opened them by now, or does the straitjacket make it difficult?
2011 Painting Competition - 1 x Winner!
2012 Painting Competition - 2 x Runner-Up
2016 Painting Competition - 1 x Runner-Up!
2017 Paint-Off - 3 x Winner!

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fsn

28 May 2013, 10:00:13 PM #11 Last Edit: 28 May 2013, 10:04:23 PM by fsn
It was two orders. I have opened them and bathed in the silver gleam of Pendraken perfection. I have examined each perfect little beauty, awed at their microcosmic magnificence - fingers twitching over a serried rank of paint brushes, each straining to do their part to transform these new additions into members of the FSN family.

But, with great reluctance, I forgo the comforting ritual of washing, the beginning of the transformative process. I press the little gems to my chest and whisper thanks to those that provide.

In the back of my mind is that little sadness, the tiny fingers of emptiness that pinch my bliss. Indeed, I may have joy unbridled at these new releases, but I still lack. There are no Centurions. I love all my children, but I pine for those as yet undelivered.


Quote from: Nosher on 28 May 2013, 06:53:03 PM
In the words of Jack Sparrow....

You need a girl mate ;)


Think you may be right.
Lord Oik of Runcorn (You may refer to me as Milord Oik)

Oik of the Year 2013, 2014; Prize for originality and 'having a go, bless him', 2015
3 votes in the 2016 Painting Competition!; 2017-2019 The Wilderness years
Oik of the Year 2020; 7 votes in the 2021 Painting Competition
11 votes in the 2022 Painting Competition (Double figures!)
2023 - the year of Gerald:
2024 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

Techno

Our resident bard waxes lyrical again ! :-bd
Love it.....Wonderful stuff. :)
Cheers - Phil.

Duke Speedy of Leighton

You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
2016 Pendraken Painting Competion Participation Prize  (Lucky Dip Catagory) Winner

kev1964

 ;D nice one, it's nice to get a box of  new shinny stuff but even better to get two,  :D. Got my LoA cav last friday and  painted them up yesterday , i must say they put a smile on my face, just need to base them now. Will be putting another order in this week as it's fast approaching my birthday.  :D

kev
2013 Painting Competition - Winner!
2014 Painting Competition - 2 x Winner!
2014 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!