This site was created to provide identity verification for the Mastodon Social Network. Initially, it was a single hand coded page showing my Mastodon account header image with an explanation of what you see in it.
Now it is a small site that is being used both as a test bed on which to develop and support a theme for the WonderCMS platform and as somewhere to post various sundry items longer than the 500 characters allowed in a Mastodon "toot". You'll also find a slowly growing repository of articles on board and table games which, as you'll read below is just one of my interests.
The content of the original one page site follows, updated in places to reflect a house move and other developments:
I'm English and was born in 1948. These days I live in the county of Norfolk with Diana, my wife. Norfolk is famous for a number of things. Like Cornwall, you never pass through Norfolk, It's always your destination or, at least, a deliberate diversion. Also like Cornwall, there are no motorways so it pays to "slow yew dun bor" (to attempt to write in dialect)!
Let's explain a little bit about the things you see in my Mastodon account header image that you see above. Each item is there as it is one of the things that I'm most likely to be posting about. We'll work from left to right...
- Board Games
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In the top left you see just part of my collection of board games. I didn't intend this site to be any more than a way of verifying my Mastodon account. However, I found myself adding a section on Board and Table games to provide some background to my first Mastodon toot. This section may yet grow.
I've been buying and playing board games since I was about nine years old with varying levels of intensity. These days Diana and family members will buy them as presents. Back in the late 1970s I briefly published a games fanzine. Others had exotic names like "Perfidious Albion" or "White Dwarf". Mine was called "Games by Post". In the 1980s I wrote a few articles for "The Gamer", a mainstream magazine you could even buy in the likes of W.H.