Great, I get four days off at Christmas and come down with flu/asthma on Christmas eve, bummer. However it means that I get left alone to amuse myself (meals pushed under door) and I turned this up; scroll to bottom of page and play video, Turco marches, great stuff.
http://www.carltonhobbs.net/paintings/les-tirailleurs-algeriens/2014/08/04/
Later ... cough ... seem to remember a conversation re Turco battalion flags earlier, here they are, if you copy to paint and reduce to 10% they are quite useable, prob slightly over scale for 10mm but I've found further reduction makes them illegible. - http://www.warflag.com/flags/fp/fpf1corptbc.shtml
Good finds sir.
Get well soon old bean.
Wheeze
Hope you get better soon.
I often used to complain, when I was still working, that as soon as I had a holiday my body got rid of the accumulated stress from work by pouring it out of my eyes and nose :)
"I'm sick and tired of feeling sick and tired!"
Retirement is proving to be a wonderful thing.
Those marches are almost jaunty compared to some French Line marches of the period! :)
Hope you feel better soon, Cam !
Cheers - Phil.
Sorry to hear you are under the weather, hope you come through it soon. I think the topic you were referring to was actually about Zouave fanions, and our collective wisdom failed to come up with an answer, although lack of specific evidence in excellent sources implied that the Zouave ones were standard line ones. The ones you have here are the Turco regiments, and appeared in various guises in the previous thread.
Mollinary
Get well soon. Have you come across Dr Patrick Marder's work on the mitrailleuse. Although it mentions the Montigny he does go on to say that Reffye championed the adoption of the mitrailleuse in France and was responsible for its production, but unfortunately he does not say whether Napoleon had already purchased any of the Montigny models of the gun. He does analyse the use of mitrailleuses in the battles of the Imperial phase and notes that even by Borny the gunners were beginning to use the weapon in a much more effective way. Nevertheless the Empire was still defeated within a month.
As long as its not Yellar Fever (Arrr!) :ar! Seriously, at least you won't have the stress of forcing yourself to go to work. Take it easy.
Quote from: Dour Puritan on 28 December 2014, 01:52:25 PM
Get well soon. Have you come across Dr Patrick Marder's work on the mitrailleuse. Although it mentions the Montigny he does go on to say that Reffye championed the adoption of the mitrailleuse in France and was responsible for its production, but unfortunately he does not say whether Napoleon had already purchased any of the Montigny models of the gun. He does analyse the use of mitrailleuses in the battles of the Imperial phase and notes that even by Borny the gunners were beginning to use the weapon in a much more effective way. Nevertheless the Empire was still defeated within a month.
Yes I know Patrick to correspond with; his De bellum site was amazing, lots of tech stuff about muzzle velocity and the like, right up my street.
Mollinary
Yes you're quite right it was Zouave fanions ... wheeze (this is what happens when you give up smoking >:( )
How like a vet to be feeling a little hoarse.
Get well soon, I hear hot toddies are available in your neck of the woods.
Get well soon. Trying to fight off a cold, but said cold getting the better of me at present :(.
Two pairs of flannel pyjamas, one towelling dressing gown, electric blanket on max, take lemsip and go to bed; keep taking oral hydration and remember to change pyjamas regularly (you'll sweat like someone with malaria); the delirious dreams are no fun but you should burn the virus off in about 48hrs, after that its just recuperation. Enjoy 8)
I came down with a nasty chesty cough on Xmas day I cant seem to shift, going to the doctors if it doesn't clear up soon
Cold 1 : Me 0 :(
Now have classic thick head and nasty cough. Being a bronchial asthmatic have to be careful it doesn't develop into a chest infection. I hate colds, they're so boring!!!
Keep your nasty germs to yourselves !
Seriously...Hope you all feel better soon !
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Steve J on 31 December 2014, 12:27:49 PM
Cold 1 : Me 0 :(
Now have classic thick head and nasty cough. Being a bronchial asthmatic have to be careful it doesn't develop into a chest infection. I hate colds, they're so boring!!!
See above.
Hugs to all.
No, no, no, no, Will !
Keep your distance from these people.
Cheers - Dr Techno. ;)
Thanks for the support chaps :). Had planned a game of Dux Bellorum for New Years Day, after my annual early morning stroll followed by the New Years Day concert from Vienna. Only the latter likely to happen now, and doubt I'll hear it very well as ears are blocked :(.
There are some compensations to being ill; spent all day in bed on the 1st listening to the excellent BBC 'War and Peace' marathon (all ten glorious hours of it) on Radio 4; must say it was one of the best pieces of radio drama I've ever hears - apart from Dennisov's excrable cod Scottish accent.
You feeling any better sir?
Cold developed into bronchitis :(. Now on antibiotics which fingers crossed are working.
Ouch.
As I have bronchial asthma not the best thing to have. Feeling a lot better than two days ago though, so hopefully on the mend...
Last time I had bronchitis was about 12 years ago.....Took three lots of different anti-b's to get rid of it, 'cos I left it so long before I went to the quack's.
I just loved reading the possible side effects of the final 'kill or cure' pills.
One of the side effects......Death.
Nearly didn't take them ! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 03 January 2015, 01:17:48 PM
I just loved reading the possible side effects of the final 'kill or cure' pills.
One of the side effects......Death.
Of course, as one doctor said when I joked about that particular side effect of something I was about to take, Death is often an even more likely possible side effect of not taking them too. :o
Quote from: Steve J on 03 January 2015, 12:24:14 PM
As I have bronchial asthma not the best thing to have. Feeling a lot better than two days ago though, so hopefully on the mend...
I feel your pain. Back in 91 I had what the local 'horse vet' called a 'chest infection' for about six nasty weeks before it was finally diagnosed as full blown Bronchial Pneumonia. The pain from coughing was excruciating because of over exerted chest muscles but the illness made you want to cough. Fecking nightmare. I spent three days in what was then Dudley Road Hospital in Brum on a drip with additional oral antibiotics to shift it. Off work for four weeks and had to have a chest x-ray before I was given the all clear. Mind you, in one way it was the best ailment I ever had because I have not smoked a cigarette since August 11th, 1991, 2:30 in the afternoon.
Get better soon.
This is the fourth time I've had it and being a bronchial asthmatic know to get any chest infections checked out straight away. It seems I've caught it in time for once...
Glad to hear it. My internal medical memory goes into overdrive if I start to develop a chesty cough, I'm straight to the vets, just in case.
Hi Cameronian, I thought that War and Peace is much better in the original Russian. What do you think?
Quote from: holdfast on 06 January 2015, 01:17:11 PM
Hi Cameronian, I thought that War and Peace is much better in the original Russian. What do you think?
Even better in Xhosa.
Bless you !
Still haven't shifted the germs yet then, Cam.
(I'll get my own coat.) :D
Cheers - Phil
No, no, no. "War and Peace" was originally written in French. Tolstoy did his first draft in French then translated it as a final, Russian version. It was an experiment he tried on some short stories in the late 1860's, feeling that French would release his creativity, and that thinking in a second language would make him more thoughtful about his language. It may have been fun for a short story, but he found writing "War and Peace" in French exhausting, and there is some thought that he gave up quite early on (possibly as early as the end of book 1) and reverted to writing in Russian only. Writer and critic Nikolai Akhsharumov thought that he could detect the change in language, though most translations into English aren't nuanced enough to be be noticeable.