How are we getting through it?

[Techno II]

Awwwwww.....  How did that happen ?

Like everybody else, I hope there wasn't too much damage. !

Cheers - Phil

[Last Hussar]

I moved the shelves around a bit earlier in the year, and they are a bit tight, so you have to take the bottom RUB at the same time as the top one. I didn't realise it was more than half out when I removed the top one, and not being metal I didn't spot the shift in weight.

Luckily very little damage - they are the Little Wooden Men, so paint didn't chip, and my theory on the dedicated LWM thread seems to be correct; they are so light the don't hurt other bases. Broke one gun, but the crew stayed, and a few other singleton/double figures  came off, but easily glueable. Only 1 or 2 flags as well, so that was good.  A couple of the skirmisher muskets are broken, but hanging on in a shoot round corners way, and one general appears to be 'Nearly Headless Nick'. You all know how wood doesn't snap cleanly, and the thin slither is keeping bits together.  Because they are semi-flats, they didn't tangle.

The oddest bit was the single figure that was part of a strip - it was the STRIP that broke, not the legs, despite it being glued down! Not sure how that happened.

The most relief was finding I hadn't lost 1 lance on the 36 Uhlans!

However - do you know how to tell the difference between French and Austrian Hussars at 1:200?  No, neither do I!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Some good news peps - Astra Zenica vaccine has been approved - 100m doses ordered - end of the begining not begining of the end ?

[Techno II]

There's a little more light at the end of the tunnel, now. 

Cheers - Phil

[chrishanley]

It is indeed good news about the Astra-Zeneca vaccine and it is probably the only way out of the restrictions we find ourselves. However I am wondering when normality will return and more importantly, when can we play a game again...
Taking the UK as an example and assuming a double dose, the vaccine needs to be injected into two million arms a week to achieve this in a year.

[Orcs]

It is indeed good news about the Astra-Zeneca vaccine and it is probably the only way out of the restrictions we find ourselves. However I am wondering when normality will return and more importantly, when can we play a game again...
Taking the UK as an example and assuming a double dose, the vaccine needs to be injected into two million arms a week to achieve this in a year.

Yep, its a long term prospect. Hope the vaccine works for longer than a year.

in the meantime keep on painting so you can have mega games when its over.   

[Steve J]

Mojo sadly lacking at present, despite two game ideas ready to put on the table . Ditto painting. I think in the main this is caused by the current uncertainty on school closures (my wife's a teaching assistant), with half the staff wanting them open, the other half not, alongside the distinct possibility of another full lockdown. Also no idea whether our daughter will be able to fly back to Edinburgh and Uni in just over a week or so. Not being able to plan anything more than a day in advance is very frustrating!!!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

There's a little more light at the end of the tunnel, now. 
Cheers - Phil

Yeah - it's a 6 car Merseyrail train doing 100km hr 

[FierceKitty]

I find myself looking at another fortnight of holiday, possibly more. Just as well I'm not the primary earner here.

[fsn]

Yeah - it's a 6 car Merseyrail train doing 100km hr 

Don't be silly! 100km/hr! Pah!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Catch one to Chester sometime - every other one on the 15 min Time Table runs through Capenhurst - so 100 km/hr more than possible !

[Raider4]

So, our (i.e. England's) 3 tier system has now reached level 5 . . .

One wonders when they'll dial it up to 11.

Catch one to Chester sometime - every other one on the 15 min Time Table runs through Capenhurst - so 100 km/hr more than possible !

As long as they don't get up to ludicrous speed.

[Steve J]

Well back to isolating/shielding* as a family due to our son being on the clinically extremely vulnerable list. At least we know what's happening until the February half-term, when hopefully at least our son and myself should have had our first vaccine jab.

* To be honest we've been doing pretty much this since the March lockdown just to be safe.

[paulr]

Best wishes to all, stay as safe as you can

[fred.]

Best wishes to all, stay as safe as you can

Am quite jealous of NZ now - my sister lives out there and calls over Christmas with blue skies were bad enough, but now with extra CV restrictions, even more so.

Well back to isolating/shielding* as a family due to our son being on the clinically extremely vulnerable list. At least we know what's happening until the February half-term, when hopefully at least our son and myself should have had our first vaccine jab.

* To be honest we've been doing pretty much this since the March lockdown just to be safe.

My wife is on the CEV list too, so we have been doing limited excursions from the house, the main change will be for my daughters, who will be back to remote school. The biggest impact will be on my eldest daughter who is in A level year, and really into her sport, she had just got back to training on a track in Nov and Dec, and now will be back to much more improvised stuff. She is also going to have the challenge of choosing a university without having visited them. Younger daughter will be much less bothered - she seems more annoyed that they are having school by video call, rather than just being set the work remotely as they were in April to July.

Personally, I think these changes make it easier for me to exercise outside. As we were in Tier 3, but on the border of T4. So where I could cycle to was limited due to the sea to the West, T4 to the East and North. But now with everywhere being in T5, I can go back into Lancashire again. A small silver lining.

[Ithoriel]

Covid is turning out to be "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose."

I've left the house nine times since lockdown started last year.

Two visits to Tesco while I got home deliveries set up, four visits to the local pharmacy to collect repeat prescription meds, one visit to the podiiatrist, one visit to the doctor and one visit to a centre to get a flu jab.

Lots of reading, online lectures, films, TV, computer games.

Not enough tabletop gaming and next to no painting. Not enough games to motivate me to paint. Hasn't stopped me adding to the lead mountain though!

Truly, I am in the land of the Lotus-eaters

[paulr]

Am quite jealous of NZ now - my sister lives out there and calls over Christmas with blue skies were bad enough, but now with extra CV restrictions, even more so.

I'm very aware of how fortunate we are here in NZ and have deliberately limited my comments on it

So, our (i.e. England's) 3 tier system has now reached level 5 . . .

Well if it was good enough for Douglas Adams

[Techno II]

I'm hoping that Wales doesn't come out of lock-down before the rest of the UK........Otherwise we'll get the folk that think the rules that don't apply to them*, trundling over for a day out......Or go to the pub, 'cos ours are open and theirs aren't.

In theory..We could be out of our lock-down in a few days.......But I'm absolutely sure it'll get extended for another 3 weeks...and probably for another 3 weeks after that.

I check on the number of new cases in Pembrokeshire every morning...and it's been slightly disheartening to see the totals going up, after we'd been doing really quite well up until a few weeks ago.

* Wonkers ! (sic)

Cheers - Phil (I'm sitting in a bunker...here behind my wall.)

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Hang in there Phil, we will keep picking on you to keep you on your feet 

[fred.]

I'm very aware of how fortunate we are here in NZ and have deliberately limited my comments on it

Don't worry about it, it gives us some hope that normality will be possible again!