White Crimbo and other bits of Flotsam

Well a white Christmas is on the cards- it may even snaa on Der Tag . I discovered a blog the other day called Wargaming for Grown-ups Hmmm. aye well see his point as its about how the hobby fits into everyday life but then it IS my everyday life and therefore by thre "terms of the Act " so to speak I want to fit some everyday life into my wargaming or to be precise into other peoples wargaming since I don't get to do much of my own. Its a bane of my life that its dammed hard to carry a project through. Now part of this is definitely my fault. Where History is concerned I do have a butterfly mind flittering hither and sometimes even thither amongst the flowers (perhaps even the Flowers of the Forest -cue bagpipes !! ) Being a somewhat voracious reader I tend to move about a bit historically speaking . But having said that I can't take all the blame- being in the wargaming biz full time means that you don't tend to get a lot of personal stuff done and finished- not that any of my personal projects are ever truly finished but even if they were its often a case of "I must paint up a new display unit of that new range or if not me then somebody must paint up etc etc ".- Currently Jim the Painter is doing his 15mm FIW using Bluemoon - which doubtless I'll photograph and my mate John is painting some Bluemoon Marlburians up for me. As for me I'm trying to finish the aforementioned first of the 40mm FIW.
Now despite trying to have a few days off I still have work to do. Heads need to go on the masters of the first packs of Brooks Miniatures 25mm Afghan National Army . I've a couple of new 15mm - thats 1/100th - the CORRECT scale Aircraft to check before they go off to the mouldmakers and some more jacdaw 30mm Austrians to sort out- oh and don't forget the Jacdaw charging Black Watch set either so maybe I'll get a bit of real ife in the gaps.
A slice or two of Yuletide pork and a good bit of Cracklin' and as foro the stuffing... Wassail - Drink Ale...To a Hearty Yultideand the return of the sun...
Sorry Got a bit pagan there it must be my Viking ancestors ...
Andy

lonely little blog.

By Gum its been a few weeks since I even looked at my blog let alone posted on it. What with the snow causing havoc to the post office and my courier service its been interesting trying to get as many orders as possible out on time. Trudging the half mile or so to our local post office laden down like a coolie but looking like Nauks understudy was - well ... intersting and sometimes downright dangerous- bloody 4 x4 drivers are largely assholes- zebra crossings mean nothing to 'em . Nevertheless most things got at least as far as the post office after that its in the hands of the Gods. Now I'm looking forward to a couple of weeks off and trying to deal with some personal projects - like my 40mm FIW which is finally underway with about 30 or so infantry waiting to be based up - I can see these regulars also starring in Charge type games as they are all individually based or will be as soon as I finish the joband of course take a pic or two..
Ice and snaa (local pronunciation) mean that a game before Crimbo is exceedingly unlikely but with luck next year should see more game reports appearing here. 10mm 7YW and French Revoltion are both pencilled in for the New Year.
Heres hoping you all have a great Christmas. and as the Late Great Dave Allen would say- May your God go with you.