Just looking at some old posts and looking at the "Pendraken Birthday Bash" realised that next year will be Pendrakens Silver Jubilee.
Just wondering if Dave and Leon had any plans for celebrating this.
Half-price meso-American range?
Stop the process more likely. NO AZTECS.
IanS
A proper holiday?
What about a few Welsh Aztecs? With luck, that'll send Ian right around the twist.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 22 September 2016, 06:54:59 AM
What about a few Welsh Aztecs? With luck, that'll send Ian right around the twist.
Thought they had those in Patagonia
Quote from: FierceKitty on 22 September 2016, 06:45:42 AM
Half-price meso-American range?
In your dreams, Pal. :P
They should be double the normal price.
Quote from: fsn on 22 September 2016, 06:49:34 AM
A proper holiday?
I second that. You all should take a well earned break. IF either Leon or Dave actually knows what the words "Break" or "Holiday" or even "weekend" mean.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 22 September 2016, 06:45:42 AM
Half-price meso-American range?
I am sure that Leon would consider knocking a tenner off your order provided you bought enough packs that the weight of the order equalled your own bodyweight ;D
I was actually thinking something along the lines of a 10mm Wargaming weekend. So Dave and Leon actually got to play with some of their products and some members of the Forum who woud organise the said games.
Or just a Forum Members get together - You know all turn up at the "Ferret and Pidgeon" public house with a picture of a dice on your lapel. So you could recognise each other.
Surely the obvious way for Pendraken to celebrate the Silver Jubilee would be for all that year's castings to be made of silver?
Prehapes at trip to Historicon AND then take a two week vacation?
We do have some rough ideas pencilled in, but we need to work out the best way of doing them. The first question is whether to hold any potential show/birthday event up here in the North-East like last time, or whether to head down to the Midlands somewhere to make things easier for everyone to get to.
:-\
=D> =D> =D>
Wasn't the 20th anniversary only last year?
Congratulations - As part of the celebrations how about buying back my unpainted Pendraken lead mountain (it's almost a Munro) - at a discount of course!!!
:d
Alan
I think Milton Keynes counts as "The Midlands"
Great for me! 10 minutes drive! ;D
I thought saying Aylesbury was in "The Midlands" might be pushing it a bit :)
Make sure that wherever it is it's reachable by rail.
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 22 September 2016, 10:23:31 PM
I thought saying Aylesbury was in "The Midlands" might be pushing it a bit :)
It is, South Midlands, technically...
There's me thinking Aylesbury was Home Counties.
Quote from: Leman on 23 September 2016, 02:06:50 PM
There's me thinking Aylesbury was Home Counties.
Na - just sufferen
IanS
Sounds like a fantastic plan I.e meet up somewhere for some games or a bit of mini show
I'm sure I'll be able to convince our crew (staffs and district) to pitch up and put a game on
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Quote from: ianrs54 on 24 September 2016, 06:09:10 AM
Na - just sufferen IanS
Get well soon, then. :D
Cheers - Phil
Milton Keynes is hardly central!
Birmingham, around the NEC, is good. Road, rail and for those travelling from afar, air connections. One of the reasons the NEC was built where it was. I've been to conferences at the National Motorcycle Museum over the road from the NEC in the past, good venue. No idea what it costs though!
A 'Silvermoot' sounds like a great idea.
Phil - pronounce that in Estarrry egnlsh
IanS
Would that not be suvvern then?
I'd have thought so. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: ianrs54 on 24 September 2016, 06:09:10 AM
Na - just sufferen
IanS
Sounds more West Country to me.
I would like to point out that Milton Keynes is very central....for me. Good road and rail links ;)
I like the suggestion of Aylesbury, hire the upstairs room in the Kings Head, good beer and walking distance :d :D
Besides anywhere where the two-legged population outnumbers the 4-legged will be another planet for Techno!
Course the centre of the country is somewhere near Warrington, and I can get a big space for free within 20 miles.
IanS
Wikipedia entry on the centre points of GB, UK, etc. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_points_of_the_United_Kingdom)
So, Whalley, Lancashire for a meet? Maybe not :)
Sheffield is central and has a good rail connection to Edinburgh as I discovered when visiting for Joy of Six, so presumably possible to get to from other places too! Until then I'd come to believe it impossible to get a train to or from Edinburgh to anywhere that hosted a wargames show at the weekend!
Whalley, my family originates from there, and you think Denham gets misspelled/mispronounced!
For the middle of everywhere for GB and N.Ireland and all the other off shore bits the closest point of land is Morecambe
......OK let's not choose there
If you want really large scale, then considering the universe as a whole, the centre would surely be somewhere in Yorkshire.
Quote from: Fenton on 25 September 2016, 03:15:23 PM
For the middle of everywhere for GB and N.Ireland and all the other off shore bits the closest point of land is Morecambe
......OK let's not choose there
Lancaster has a very strong 10mm community led by DanJ, and I've got great friends there, so I'm okay with that!
Leon, hire an aircraft carrier!!
I suggest (in order of preference)
1) Birmingham
2) Middlesborough
3) Techno's house
If it was at Technos house would we need to supply our own doilies and white lightning ?
Plenty of room in the big barn to set up
loads of tables. :D
Getting here, and parking, might be a bit of a problem. ;D ;D
Quote from: Fenton on 25 September 2016, 06:22:17 PM
If it was at Technos house would we need to supply our own doilies and white lightning ?
No....Just bring wellies and rubber gloves, so you can help with the mucking out.
We'll supply the wheelbarrows and the giant pooper scoopers. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 25 September 2016, 06:46:35 PM
Plenty of room in the big barn to set up loads of tables. :D
Getting here, and parking, might be a bit of a problem. ;D ;D
No....Just bring wellies and rubber gloves, so you can help with the mucking out.
We'll supply the wheelbarrows and the giant pooper scoopers. ;)
Cheers - Phil
You've got that lovely big field opposite - just have to pick a time of year when it hasn't been raining too much! :-\
Oh, yeah... #-o
;)
Cheers!
Meirion
Quote from: Nick the Lemming on 25 September 2016, 05:19:53 PM
If you want really large scale, then considering the universe as a whole, the centre would surely be somewhere in Yorkshire.
It is called the Lion Inn at Blakey Ridge 😊
Cheers
Ian
If at Techno's house - will fly over - will bring absolutely killer white lightning ( But that will involve bribing TSA so need heads up on this.)
'Ere......
Did we ever congratulate you on becoming a Colonel, Guy ?....Or reaching 1,000 posts ?
Not sure if we did or not. :-\
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 26 September 2016, 06:43:21 PM
'Ere......
Did we ever congratulate you on becoming a Colonel, Guy ?....Or reaching 1,000 posts ?
Not sure if we did or not. :-\
Cheers - Phil
Thanks Techno! :)
Considering fsn in last year's holiday message group projected me to reach Major General by end of 2016 - making colonel is falling way short of my prophizied performance - sorry fsn :D
Of course still have three months :P
Quote from: d_Guy on 26 September 2016, 07:42:38 PM
Thanks Techno! :)
Considering fsn in last year's holiday message group projected me to reach Major General by end of 2016 - making colonel is falling way short of my prophizied performance - sorry fsn :D
Of course still have three months :P
TYPE FASTERIanS
Techno's place is a bit far for me :D :D :D :D but I will suffer the 40 minute drive
It's at least 20miles, according to Techno! :D
:P
@IanS ;D.
I'll Try!
Yuse very trying
We could all go to Techno's every year.
Meet people we don't know, play excellent and not so excellent games, wade around in the mud and annoy the neighbours.
It could be like a wargaming Glastonbury.
What...One field used as a car park.....One used as a campsite ?
We could certainly do the mud, if the weather behaves as normal.
Easy access to tractors, to help drag the cars out.
Cheers - Phil
I'm up for it, any good bands?
Think we can paint some up.
Would there be sheep?
Quote from: d_Guy on 28 September 2016, 02:24:13 PM
Would there be sheep?
In Wales ????? - there are more than people, and most speak more intelligently.
IanS
We're outnumbered almost 3:1, if official figures are to be believed.
Techno Towers..... with 3 people and 8 sheep.....must be about average. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 28 September 2016, 06:03:50 PM
We're outnumbered almost 3:1, if official figures are to be believed.
Techno Towers..... with 3 people and 8 sheep.....must be about average. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Well in a perfectly balanced world you should have one person move to a new location*, taking two sheep, OR simply add another sheep - mean regression and all that. :D
If you add another sheep please name it Nobby.
*
of course if the new location is still in Wales that person would need to add a third sheep - if that is the case please name it Kitty or maybe Westie.
The ratio in NZ has dropped to about 6 sheep per person, down from a high of about 20:1
First Aussie: Hiya, Mate. Whya got tweo sheeep there? Gonna sheare 'em?
Second Aussie: Nah, gonna shag 'em both. Get yer own!
Quote from: paulr on 29 September 2016, 02:49:13 AM
The ratio in NZ has dropped to about 6 sheep per person, down from a high of about 20:1
More people or fewer sheep?
Quote from: fsn on 29 September 2016, 08:27:21 AM
More people or fewer sheep?
Likely more people developing a taste for mutton.
Quote from: fsn on 29 September 2016, 08:27:21 AM
More people or fewer sheep?
Both, 4.7 million people now, up from about 2.5 in the 1960s, about 30 million sheep down from 60 million
Less sheep as both meat & wool less profitable than dairy (until very recently, although that appears to be improving again)
Quote from: fsn on 25 September 2016, 06:17:08 PM
I suggest (in order of preference)
1) Birmingham
2) Middlesborough
3) Techno's house
How dare he spell Middlesbrough wrong #-o
Dave
Sorry.
"Middle Borough".
Didna think anyone in middlesbrou' could SPELL. After all they hang monkeys there.
IanS
That's Hartlepool not Middlesbrough ;D ;D ;D
It's same place in't it, foreign - Scotland