Saturday, 31 January 2026
Le problème avec McAuslan
Sunday, 18 August 2024
La St-Ambroise...
Friday, 16 August 2024
L'étiquette de la St-Ambroise
Saturday, 5 August 2023
Une gargouille
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Majestic Griffin
Monstrum has released today a video on the ancient, mythical, majestic, magnificent creature that is the griffin. I have nothing more to say, enjoy, it's really fascinating:
Monday, 3 May 2021
Anybody read Beast Quest?
I bought this book second handed a couple of weeks ago. Not sure why. It was only £2.00. I guess that is why. I never read Beast Quest and Wolfie is still too young for it. I guess for two quids, it's in my price range. And it will remind of the time when I used to read gamebooks. I might be in for a treat, or I might feel stupid at every page and feel like I wasted my time and my money. All the same, I am curious. That's the kind of book I wish I had known when I was younger, it could have inspired me for our D&Dr games. Still, if nothing else, it has a cool cover, with what appears to be a nasty griffin, striking a young looking hero. Anyway, if anyone of you read Beast Quest books, please ell me in the comments.
Sunday, 31 December 2017
La Griffon rousse
Parlons (ou plutôt bloguons) boissons, parce qu'il me reste encore un peu de temps avant de retourner à une vie sobre et ennuyeuse de l'autre côté de l'Atlantique. À chaque retour au Québec, je ne manque pas de boire des produits de microbrasseries locales, tant que mon foie me le permet. L'un des incontournables est la Griffon rousse de McAuslan. Ces vacances-ci n'ont pas fait exception. Je ne sais pas trop pourquoi la Griffon rousse est ma préférée: j'ai bu des rousses plus capiteuses, mais celle-ci c'est l'une de mes premières rousses et elle goûte mon chez-soi.
Wednesday, 31 December 2014
Wassail, Wasail!
Wednesday, 3 September 2014
Les 25 ans de McAuslan
Friday, 9 May 2014
Griffon, my poison
Sunday, 9 February 2014
Lead figures and sharing memories
Here is another episode of my last time in Québec, I hope nobody minds. During the time of my stay in my parents' house in Chicoutimi, my godson and his family came see us for a Sunday roast. As the roast beef was cooking (for it was what we were having), his sister went to my bedroom's desk do her homework and my godson asked for some colour crayons to colour a drawing he had made. We couldn't find crayons, but looking everywhere we found some old toys and games in a cupboard, including these lead figures of Dungeons & Dragons stock characters and The Lord of the Rings. Back during my geeky teenage, we were using them as... Well, as nothing really. We just had them on display during the games, or on the mantelpiece, for fun. I had started buying them to my bros as Christmas presents, first trying to find figures resembling their characters, then more stuff to expand the collection. They really got into it. It served no purpose but to look nice, like some visual aid to build some kind of atmosphere.And when I found them, in a box above an old, old, old puzzle box my parents must have given me when I was four, my godson got fascinated by them. He found them "super cool". Which is his expression for lots of things he gets into: Viking mythology, Harrods' figures of British guards, a book on whales he sees on the shelves, etc. But those figures, they were coolness made lead. He asked me one by one what they were, we took them all out of their box and placed them on the puzzle's box and I had to explain what each one was: this is a wizard, this is a ranger, this is a priest, this is a druid, this is a knight with a morningstar as a weapon, this is an ogre mage, this is a blue dragon (which blows lightnings, as any D&Dr gamer knows), this is a lich, this is a griffon, and so on. Of course, I also had to explain what the character or the monster could do and find the owner of every limb and weapon that had been broken. When it was all done, he asked if we should move everything back in the box. I said I would do it later, because I wanted to take a picture of the improvised display. His father told me that my godson is hyperactive, but when he gets his mind into something he remains quiet and focused. It is very true, as I could witness it then. I wonder if he will one day follow his geeky godfather and one day play Dungeons & Dragons. In any case, I am very glad he finds lead figures so darn cool.






