My now favorite bit of playing card related stuff. Had these for quite a while but waited till I moved house to frame them. The wallpaper is not my choice by the way! It was the old folks who had the house before me. I just haven't re-decorated that room yet! 

London is similar. I lived there for a couple of years and my one bed flat in zone 2 (20 mins to centre on subway) was £1000 pcm. That was before council tax and bills. All told it was around £1350 just to have a small roof over our head. That was 5 years ago so it will have gone up. If you live in zone 1 rent for 1 bed apartments ranges from £1500pcm to £3000 per week depending on where you are. Obviously the latter price is in very exclusive areas like Mayfair.

We moved out because we felt you couldn't even leave your door without spending money.

The main advantage London has is being accessible by 90% of the UK in under 2 hours. It means you can still go to the city for day trips which is awesome.

Shockingly it looks like Conservative could get a majority  20 left to go and they're 10 seats below an outright. Labour got destroyed, especially in Scotland where the nationalists took all seats apart from 3, the Lib Dems (previous third party) have pretty much disappeared and the nazis UKIP have done very well on votes but poorly on seats. One of the flaws of the FPTP system.

One of the interesting thing is that if the leaders all keep their "I'll resign if (X) happens" promises then we'll end up with a full reform and new leadership of 3 of the 4 major parties except the current PM.

Sorry for clogging up the forum with foreign politics

So it's election day here in the UK, any other brits here like to make a guess as to the outcome? Or indeed anyone else that may have been keeping up with the campaigns for whatever reason?

I'll make the controversial estimate of a hung parliament resulting in Conservative with a supply and demand agreement with UKIP. Or, a remote possibility of a minority conservative government with a swift change of leadership to Boris Johnson. If Labour get in then a third of the country should be charged with treason!

EDIT: FYI if you don't know what the hell I'm on about, There are 3 major parties who discuss their policies here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE5HFj-qCdg

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is earmarked as a potential successor to the current conservative PM, David Cameron. He's a bit daft, very British (in a fawlty towers kind of way) and extremely popular.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXy__5whR5c

Then there's UKIP, our resident Nazi party who are gaining momentum. They want us out of the EU and don't like foreigners. Their leader, Nigel Farage, is a joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGI_kRNvI0k

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There are other parties but no one takes them seriously because they're either making ludicrous promises that they can't keep, or they're Scottish.

Lorenzo defiantly has an established 'style' now. Although tackling different designs each time his work is recognizable, melancholy and, most importantly, beautiful. I can't wait to see more of this.

Really enjoyed learning about the Bowl-a-Rama deck Randy, thanks for sharing the story!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/makeplayingcards/impressions-foil-playing-cards/?ref=kicktraq

Next deck using impressions technology from MPC. This time with foiled backs. I just wish they'd do a nice tuckbox than giant MPC lettering they have been using.

Yeah they've not held back on who they've booked for this one!

oh and congrats on funding!

Skallops are much cooler! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1803756771/skallops-build-big

Looking for these for someone at work. All three princess bride decks: As you wish, Stormin da castle and The Brute Squad. Will offer $65 posted to UK.

Thanks

Tom

Photoshop used to be expensive but creative cloud has made it very affordable.

The Calaveras Deck is being released in a re-colour with a tuck swap called 'Midnight Calaveras'. It's not coming to kickstarter but you can pre-order it now through the Arcana backerkit - which also means you can grab some arcana if you missed it.

https://arcana-playing-cards.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders