What did you get for Christmas 2015?

[d_Guy]

I've lost my glasses. Sorting out my lead mountain and can't see what I'm looking at. 

Sorry about your glasses. The bright side is that orcs painted as 1809 French sappers will be a treat to see.

[Leon]

Mainly bits and bobs for me this year, Game of Thrones Monopoly, couple of Xbox games, loads of sweets and the obligatory socks and smellies.

[DanJ]

Nice new fleece jacket and shirt were the main pressies, nothing specifically gaming related but a couple of books and maps on Ancient Egypt as I hope to visit in October.

On a damper note, Santa's little elves at the council did organise several very special deliveries of sandbags to our street (the A6) on Boxing day to help keep the new river (the A6) from running down peoples drives and flooding their houses.  While one should never look a gift raindeer in the mouth, especially when they've half a dozen pallets of sandbags on the sleigh, we would generally have preferred if the elves had previously turned up with gully cleaners and removed several decades of silt from the drains. 

Apparently drain cleaning is the job of another elf, who eventually turned up the day after Boxing day with some mates and THREE big yellow drain clearing machines, then, as if by magic, the torrent that had been the A6 went back where it belongs.

I've now got about 60 sandbags, which are MUCH heavier when wet, sitting in my front garden waiting for re-deployment in the face of Storm Frank due this evening.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Glad you weren't too badly hit Dan, mates down the road were paddling rather!

[Roy]

I hope you survive 'Frank' unscathed, DanJ

[Techno]

Good luck, Dan !

Cheers - Phil.

[DanJ]

Thanks, we had neighbours flooded and about 6" under the floor in the crawl space but nothing in the house itself.

I'm hoping that now the drains can c actually drain the road Storm Frank won't be too bad but I'd have liked there to have ben a few more days of dry weather to give the land time to drain a bit.  The fear is that the land is so saturated the water table will just keep rising and come up through the floor. 

[Techno]

Same here, in Pembrokeshire as far as saturated ground is concerned, Dan

It SHOULD just run off our fields this evening, and turn our little road into a river, like it's done in the past.
The road drains, aren't actually blocked...But they just can't cope with the volume sometimes......So we get 'white water' running down the track almost opposite us.

I'm so, so teed off with this weather...here ..And I haven't been flooded, blasted by a tornado, had to watch out for bush fires, or been snowed in with the power cut off.
The weather seems have gone totally mad this last couple of months !

Cheers - Phil

[Steve J]

A pleasure to have had two sunny days in a row here in Bristol. For months we've just seemed to have had overcast, dull and wet weather. Not seasonal at all.

Snowdrops now out, daffs started growing in October and tulips etc already growing by end of November. Everything topsy turvy at present...

[Ace of Spades]

I got nothing at all...
Although; Santa Leon did give me a very nice discount!

Cheers,
Rob

[O Dinas Powys]

Hmm, a few CDs, the Mongrels DVD box-set and a mug that FierceKitty might appreciate:




Gaming stuff: more assault rats and security robots AND the most recent Escenografia Epsilon Eastern Front building.  However, when I decided it was time to check them out next to the other resin buildings, International Rescue decided to become involved...



I believe the objective was to deliver corn - from TB2 - to the windmill, whilst a coach party of tourists visited the church on the other hill.

There was also a certain amount of seismic activity to be alleviated as my boys kept finding new boxes and books to put under the terrain mat...

Following a trip to The Entertainer yesterday, TB1 has now joined the rescue effort  
Interestingly, the Thunderbirds models actually look like a reasonable fit for 10mm...  

Cheers!

Meirion

[paulr]

Interestingly, the Thunderbirds models actually look like a reasonable fit for 10mm...  

And so another project is born... 

[Tawa]

A pleasure to have had two sunny days in a row here in Bristol.

I don't believe you! 

[Le Manchou]

I got expansion 2 and 3 for Commands and Colors Ancients. If i want to expand the wargaming community in Changchun, I have to start with easy games, Battlecry seems to be popular among the colleagues I played with.

LM