What did you get for Christmas 2015?

[Steve J]

Some Mike Embree bboks, a book voucher and some cash. So a happy bunny

[d_Guy]

A stroll around Urbino, followed by tagliatelle with wild boar sauce, excellent roast rabbit with truffles, chicory and potato salad, and a rather good semifreddo. In addition to having to finish the better half's duck, since she constantly fails to anticipate the size of Italian servings.

Nice! Really Nice!

I got a bunch of pre-painted TYW figures (Pendraken as it happens) from my wife (I think because I've kept my wargaming stuff off our dining room table) AND three very quiet days with our family.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Just spent sone Xmas money on An Imperial class Star Destroer for Star Wars armada; WOW , it puts out a LOT of attack dice!

[Heedless Horseman]

Whisky and a walk in the wet with a muddy puddle loving hairy Alsatian. These little joys...      

[Roy]

Whisky and a walk in the wet with a muddy puddle loving hairy Alsatian. These little joys...      

Daft dog we walk (a Saint Bernard) dodges puddles as he doesn't like getting his feet wet, but then he'll wade out into deep streams till only his back and head are above the surface. It must make sense to him 

[fsn]

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

[Subedai]

A new coat and shoes from Ma Subs ready for Poland next month, the obligatory bottle of wine, chocs, a starmap with the constellations marked on it, more chocs, smellies and associated 'stuff', a copy of Stormbird, Iggulden's War of the Roses book  and a copy for Genghis Khan and the Mongol War Machine by Chris Peers.

[Shedman]

A platoon of 15mm Neo-Chinese Infantry painted by Nathan (ToxicPixie) http://www.brigademodels.co.uk/15mmSF/CDSU.html

Several sets of painted Khurasan Miniatures sets including Walking Dead survivors and zombies, Hellboy, ET, Ghostbusters and American Werewolf in London to name but a few

[Tawa]

Eldest daughter's birthday today, we went to the panto, then yummy tea at the in-laws!

Happy Birthday "Eldest Mini Lemmey"

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Thank you

[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