Sundays with Sarah

Local boys playing night hockey on a neighbour's home-poured ice-rink.

Good Morning!

Most of Canada is under a Polar Vortex for the next few days. As I write this on Saturday evening the current temp in Regina, Sk is -30C with windchill -38C, and overnight lows of -39C with windchill -44C.  Yikes!

But, we endure ...  the Campbell Household is stocked up on groceries, media/entertainment and are in our coziest clothes and will really try not to leave the house too much.

Currently, I am reading and thoroughly enjoying "The Cloisters" by Katy Hays - a story of Renaissance magic, tarot cards, academic obsessions, pursuits of power and the search for personal truth.

Huckleberry "demands" that his photo is included

There are some great posts for your Sunday perusals ... Napoleonic Highlanders, vintage Talisman figures, more Dwarves from Rhys, Space Marines, and checking off some more levels of the Abyss

Enjoy and everybody stay warm (or cool if you are in those parts)!

- Sarah

AHPC XV Skull Duel Canto II

A death or funerary mask can be made by applying wax to the recently deceased. This can then be copied in plaster. In Florence, you can see Dante's death mask- but recent scholars contend it is a fake. Renowned author Dan Brown features the theft of the mask in his 2013 novel Inferno.

Next time, we will find out what became of Dante's skull.

Skull tally

• Curt 49
• MikeW 39
• QuinnM 12
• PeteF 11
• DavidB 7
• GregB 7
• PeterB 3
• BruceR 3
• TeemuL 1

Notable skullz

We've got a few people waving their skullz proudly:

SanderS

SteveA

AndrewB

Some people accessorise with skullz:

GeoffT 

Thunder Warriors, from Curt

We've got some classic skellie units.

MartinC

MikeW

There are many other flavours of skull:

I'm confident we haven't tallied skull boats before. JamieM

MikeW gives skullz the reverence they deserve

The most valuable prize- skullz. AdamW

PeterB's mighty mammoth waves skullz to make it more intimidating

Another sküll from Cürt

Skull(z) of the week

Servoskullz from DallasE

To enter, tag your post with 'Skull Duel' and state in the post both how many skullz you have painted, and what your running total is. Feel free to enter the duel at any time in the Challenge.