Covid-19

[sultanbev]

Saturday morning in Burnley - was in town at 8.30am to get odd ingredients.

Aldi - very busy
Asda - insane! Seemed like all of Burnley was in there.
Sainsburys - quiet, and the actually had sugar
M&S, B&M Bargains - about normal activity, one person whering mask but only over his mouth....
Home Bargains - one panic buyer filling basket with toothpaste (!)

I did get everything I went out for except plain flour and paracetomol. Everyone must be making headache cookies...

Mark

[Last Hussar]

Just seen a headline - "WHO: Young people are not invincible."

That's not what they said in "My Generation".

[Techno]

I prefer "Won't get fooled again." 

Cheers - Phil

[sultanbev]

An interesting side effect of the lockdowns is reported on Wargames Atlantic website -
https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/updates-on-pre-orders-and-shipping

Air freight has now quadrupled in price and also become rarer, so surface shipping is back in the game.
At the moment at Lurkio we're still sending overseas packages with no price change, wonder how long that will last?

Mark

[John Cook]

The German are panic buying sausages and cheese, but it's only for a wurst käse scenario.

[Techno]

You're barred. 

Now....Go and get your coat. 

Cheers - Phil

[FierceKitty]

The German are panic buying sausages and cheese, but it's only for a wurst käse scenario.

OUCH!

[mollinary]

The German are panic buying sausages and cheese, but it's only for a wurst käse scenario.

Bravo John, absolutely the best one on the thread so far, even if I did hear it yesterday first!

[Scorpio_Rocks]

My worries about starving to death (I am disabled - getting to a supermarket is impossible and my "weekly" delivery isn't available for 2 weeks...) and other "irrelevancies" were alleviated by a smashing little box of Pendraken 10mm loveliness being delivered today!

After failing at solo gaming (my opponent cheated!) am attempting to organise a PBEM campaign of the 1690 Williamite war in Ireland - any suggestions for rules?

[toxicpixie]

Twilight of the Sun King, great set for lace wars!

I'd be up for a role in that if you have a space

[hammurabi70]

My worries about starving to death (I am disabled - getting to a supermarket is impossible and my "weekly" delivery isn't available for 2 weeks...) and other "irrelevancies" were alleviated by a smashing little box of Pendraken 10mm loveliness being delivered today!

After failing at solo gaming (my opponent cheated!) am attempting to organise a PBEM campaign of the 1690 Williamite war in Ireland - any suggestions for rules?

Try:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/64142/lilliburlero-battle-boyne-july-1690

[Scorpio_Rocks]

The battles, sieges and skirmishes / raids I think we have sorted - it's more the overall campaign framework (by email) I was hoping for help with.

I'd be up for a role in that if you have a space

Will let you know Toxic, I think we have 4 or 5 players currently so may have room for another Jacobite commander

[toxicpixie]

Splendid! I really enjoyed Sandinista's PBEM Alt-Lace Wars game last year, even without live pushing of lead

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Count me in chaps

[paulr]

Splendid! I really enjoyed Sandinista's PBEM Alt-Lace Wars game last year, even without live pushing of lead

Seconded

[Sandinista]

After failing at solo gaming (my opponent cheated!) am attempting to organise a PBEM campaign of the 1690 Williamite war in Ireland - any suggestions for rules?

I would be interested to play this

Cheers
Ian

[Sandinista]

Splendid! I really enjoyed Sandinista's PBEM Alt-Lace Wars game last year, even without live pushing of lead

Cheers, it was fun to play the battles that developed from it.

Ian

[John Cook]

Bravo John, absolutely the best one on the thread so far, even if I did hear it yesterday first!

I heard it yesterday too, from No1 son in Australia.  Amazing how the jokes get around - faster than Corona Virus. 

Perhaps a 'COVID 19' humour thread is needed to lighten the mood.

[Norm]

On the BBC news, the Chinese have been getting back into their parks after being cooped up for 3 months as they have 3 consecutive days of no further internal person to person infections - there is light at the end of the tunnel.

In other news, I am hopefully getting a game to the table this afternoon to compare two different sets and styles of rules. Having a whole Sunday in and it having that 'slow please yourself pace' is very reminiscent of my younger years, when everywhere was closed on a Sunday and it put an emphasis on family unity, something I doubt we properly appreciated or properly understood what we had until we lost it.  A difference at the moment is that we can't have the family around.

The mental health of those frazzled by long hours of unrelenting work could only  be helped by having a day in the week for us to just stand still and be immune to the demands of bosses and targets.

I met my daughter and one of my grand daughters on a car park yesterday, we spaced the cars and had a chat and left a gift in her boot that will obviously have to be sanitised before handling and she left her Mother's Day gift for us. I have one of those mini fold out chair supports which I placed between the cars, so we could all speak without twisting and had a lot of fun telling the granddaughter 'Oh no it isn't' - Oh yes it is. It was an unusual meet-up, but certainly good for the spirits.

I then went to my son's works, he put the Mother's Day gift in the boot and we left him a small bag of goodies from Mark's .... which included a four pack of loo roll - strange times!

Happy Mother's Day to all mum's who are having to do this in a different way this year.

[Techno]

On the BBC news, the Chinese have been getting back into their parks after being cooped up for 3 months as they have 3 consecutive days of no further internal person to person infections - there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Yes.....The news from China IS encouraging Though there's obviously a long way to go for a number of countries at the moment. ...Including ourselves, I suppose.

Happy Mother's Day to all mum's who are having to do this in a different way this year.

I'll second that ! 

Cheers - Phil