Growing old is mandatory - growing up is entirely optional!

[Hertsblue]

Congratulations, Andrew. You'll never regret it. 

[Techno]

Enjoy it, that man !!
Cheers - Phil.

[DaveL]

Got NO sympathy with Mollinary.  It's 5 years 1 week and 1 day til I retire!  Not that I'm counting of course!!!!!!!

DaveL

[mollinary]

Got NO sympathy with Mollinary.  It's 5 years 1 week and 1 day til I retire!  Not that I'm counting of course!!!!!!!

DaveL

Dave,

Only one thousand eight hundred and thirty four days to go then!     Many thanks for the lack of sympathy - the actual retirement makes up for all the ailments.  Oh, did I say that you only have 1,834 days to go to experience the same joy?  .  Oh yes, I actually did. - memory, eh! ]   


Mollinary

[fsn]

Despite being aged and fatigued by long years of labour, I cannot see the time when I can retire. I shall probably have to keep working until I reach the ever increasing pension age, and then probably have to work for years beyond that. I shall not bore you all with the sad story of how my selfless nobility left me in solitude and penury at a time when most men were looking to ease in the arms of their family.

I can however, eke out a few pennies to devote to Pendraken every now and again, as long as I forgo holidays and entertaining, food and new clothes.    As I say, the only comfort I have in my advanced, empty years, is the small packages from Pendraken that occasionally plop onto my carpet, along with adverts for foreign trips I can't afford, increases in utility bills and bloody PPI flyers.

This is a very dark time for me, cut off from what used to be my family, due to no fault of my own, and too embarrassed to show my face out of my own front door. I dream of little things, small joys that would mean so much to me. Little tiny metal things that would light up my wretched existence. Centurion shaped comforts that would alleviate my daily, enduring misery. 

[Techno]

We'll keep your spirits up fsn !
You're certainly capable of lifting ours !
Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

Thank you.

I try to keep going.

[DaveL]

Thanks Mollinary.  If it wasn't for Pendraken figures and wargaming, I'd probably have slit my wrists after your "helpful" reply !!!!!!! 

DaveL

[mollinary]

Dave,

It's all an illusion actually,  I was back at work yesterday on a temporary part time contract! 

Mollinary

[nikharwood]

A belated welcome, Ithoriel 

[Dave Fielder]

What a bunch of kids! Just grow up ...

[Hertsblue]

No, shan't! 

[Orcs]

I can however, eke out a few pennies to devote to Pendraken every now and again, as long as I forgo holidays and entertaining, food and new clothes. 

FSN

I do think you are exagerating here - Your a wargamer - why do you need new clothes ?  A 1960's cardi and a pair of Courdroy trousers and your all set 

Welcolme I

[Orcs]

I grew up once. Didn't like it so jacked it in as a bad job. 

I got a card two years ago from my two step daughters saying "Happy 5th Birthday"  So I obviously have not grown up, and have no intention of doing so.

[fsn]

I do think you are exagerating here - Your a wargamer - why do you need new clothes ?  A 1960's cardi and a pair of Courdroy trousers and your all set 

The only new clothes I get are the Batman t-shirts my daughter buys me.

[sixsideddice]

Reading Techno's 1200+ post I realised I'd dived right in to the Forum without saying hi, so I thought I'd rectify that.

I'm a few days off my 60th birthday and played my first wargame (as opposed to battle games with matchstick cannon and marbles) in 1965 using Airfix 1:600 ships in my back garden with the Fletcher Pratt rules from Don Featherstone's "Naval Wargames". I have graduated from solely naval to covering land, sea, air and space!

Bizarrely, as my eyesight and hand-eye coordination deteriorate I find myself drawn to smaller and smaller figures with 10mm now being the largest figures I do.

These days I do more board gaming than figure gaming (six of us on a Tuesday and  four on a Friday most weeks) but I'm planning on getting back in to more tabletop stuff too. First up, WW2 Germans and Russians from Pendraken for use with BKC II.

As to the avatar ... well I do tend to rabbit  Embarrassed  

OMG, FINALLY..... its happened, I`m not the oldest one here any more (does the happy dance). A warm Welcome to the madhouse , sir.  


By the way, what board games do you play?

[Hertsblue]

You're nowhere near the oldest here, Six, at least, physically (mentally, I'm not so sure) 

[sixsideddice]

You're nowhere near the oldest here, Six, at least, physically (mentally, I'm not so sure)  Undecided

    *dribbles onto my bib*