Things have been crazy here the last couple of months. Not least with the fact that I have been diagnosed with bowel cancer and have already started treatment. I now have a stoma bag and am becoming far more intimate with shit and pain than i would have chosen. But you get what you’re given in life, there’s no unkind fate and no natural justice, just random mutations in your genes that sometimes result in nasty tumours.

However there are some good things in the world. One of them is right here. One of the first miniatures I ever bought was the Earth Elemental. Something about this great slab of lead really grabbed me. I wanted more miniatures for playing HeroQuest, and maybe the dungeon nature of the game made an earth elemental seem obvious (its underground innit). However it came to me, it came to me before I had discovered Citadel paints, and it was painted in brown enamels. This EE was sold with all my other miniatures back in the early 00s when my mum moved house and wanted her attic cleared. I wonder what happened to it, I hope it has been repainted and its new owner is proud of it. This one was bought on ebay more than a decade ago and has finally been painted. I am pleased with the job. Quick and simple, but very effective. Turns out I need the others too!