Happy New Year

[Leon]

Happy New Year everyone!

[barbarian]

Bonne année à tous.

[jambo1]

Happy new year to all, first time I have surfaced since a very drunken hogmanay!!

[Roy]

Bit late but, Happy New Year Pendraken Forum 

[Leman]

Happy New Year folks!

[Ace of Spades]

Now this year did not start very well...
My library got partly flooded yesterday evening (and I don't even live in the North of GB!) by a leaking sink one floor above... the USAAF collection is as good as destroyed and major damage was done to the US Navy and USMC book shelves.... I fear more than 100 books are total losses and another 50 damaged. Looks like my own Pearl Harbor....
Don't get me wrong; it can not be compared to people who lost everything lately in floods, storms, war or whatever but I'm pretty sad about my share of bad luck

Let's see what the insurance says and if most can be replaced....

Cheers,
Rob

[Techno]

Really sorry to hear about that, Rob.....
Also suffering here, with water 'from above' rather than actual flooding.....Though the ridiculous amount of rain here, has almost turned out paddocks into paddy fields....

Discovered over the weekend that the gales had broken a tile on the roof and b*ggered a small patch of roofing felt, so we've now also go a leak.....Though relatively small, it's still causing water to dribble down the wall into our bedroom, when it really chucks it down.....Which seems to the norm, at the moment.

Got a bucket sitting in a roasting dish in the attic, which, hopefully, is catching 99%+ of the water, now.
Over the next day or so I'll do a patch job on the felt...Then we'll have to ask one of our farmer friends if he'll bring his 'cherry picker' to Techno Towers, and replace the tile.
(Fortunately a previous owner left oodles of spare tiles, so that's not a problem......But it's something I'd rather not be having to deal with.)

Like you say....Nothing remotely to compare with the folk who have had rivers running through their properties !

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

Spades, I sincerely appreciate what a colossal pain in fundament that would be.

I have some books that have been with me for over 40 years. If they got destroyed I would be devastated.

My ex-wife once casually suggested that I loved my books more than I loved her. Well, strewth, it took me years to get those books!



Wonder if that's another reason she's my ex?  

[Ithoriel]

Now this year did not start very well...
My library got partly flooded yesterday evening

Well, that sucks!

Hope your year gets better and that the losses can be replaced.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Hope it picks up from here Rob!

[d_Guy]

Sorry to hear this news AofS, hope insurance will cover replacements and they will be available. Water damaged books are a tough salvage, I know.

[paulr]

Bugger Rob, I hope you can locate replacements

Hope the weather improves soon Techno, sunny and 19 here, hopefully I'll get the Germans varnished once the basing touch ups dry

Actually I'm hoping the trenches will arrive today and they will get top priority, tomorrow or Thursday is more realistic

[Matt J]

Sorry to hear that rob 

Struggling a tad with the weather here. Cellar under 3 inches of water. Bailed out over 1000 litres yesterday. Looks like I ll have to do it agin at the weekend  . Please stop raining

[Womble67]

Happy new year everyone

Take care

Andy

[Orcs]

Happy New Year  to al who are a part of the asylum that its the Pendraken Forum


Hope you get things sorted Ace.

Phill - careful on that Cherry picker - We know what your like.  we would hate to loose you , unless Mrs T or the MIL can sculpt of course - then we would get over it  . 
Seriously its a long way down from the roof.  One of stepdaughters freinds lost her Dad when he fell off a ladder.

My Predictions for 2016

I will try not to buy more figures until my painting pile is reduced to the size of Ben Nevis - and will fail miserably
Last Hussar's attendance at club nights will reach double figures
FSN will be arrested and make the National News for "committing an unnatural act of a sexual nature" with a Centurion tank at Bovingdon.
BKC rules will be released and on the inside cover will be a picture of Leon playing on the Xbox!
THe Pendraken painting competition will again contain pictures of 28mm figures that have been shrunk to 10mm ( thats the only way they can painnt to that detail) and yes I am amazed/jealous

[Orcs]

Spades, I sincerely appreciate what a colossal pain in fundament that would be.

I have some books that have been with me for over 40 years. If they got destroyed I would be devastated.

My ex-wife once casually suggested that I loved my books more than I loved her. Well, strewth, it took me years to get those books!

Wonder if that's another reason she's my ex?  

Yes I have books like that too!

Yes I probably did love my books more than my Ex. Definitely more exciting .

[Bodvoc]

That is a bummer. Hope you are able to recue some of your books.

[Roy]

Ace of Spades: Sorry to hear that. It sounds terrible 
All those precious books 

Techno: Yep, I've water dripping from my bedroom ceiling as well. Water always finds a way in! (though having a missing tile on your roof won't help, I'll admit).

Matt of Munslow: Think on it this way. Some people pay a fortune on gym membership to do that level of cardio exercise. Could you be missing out on a opportunity here? Is there anybody local to you who you could charge a couple of quid to do the work? - tell them it is cheaper than gym membership after all!
Seriously though, I hope thinks get back to normal for you asap.

[Techno]

Phill - careful on that Cherry picker - We know what your like.  we would hate to loose you , unless Mrs T or the MIL can sculpt of course - then we would get over it  . 
Seriously its a long way down from the roof.  One of stepdaughters freinds lost her Dad when he fell off a ladder.

No worry about me going up in the cherry picker, Mark...(I'll leave that to the experts)...And there's NO way I'd go onto the roof.....WAY too steep.
That side of Techno Towers is a long drop down to the drive.
(The other side's not so bad.....An 8 foot drop to a flat roof.)

Cheers - Phil

[ronan]

(...)
BKC rules will be released and on the inside cover will be a picture of Leon playing on the Xbox!

I once read here he was playing nude ! 


I'm sorry for you Ace of Spades.. Good luck.