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Title: Hello from Middlesbrough
Post by: Gandalf on 21 October 2010, 11:06:24 PM
Hi
I've recently joined Dave and Leon to do some casting and other bits and pieces at Pendraken.
I do a fair bit of gaming at the local club where Blitzkrieg Commander is popular.  I also play 15mm ancients and have been working on a few other projects while expanding my collection of 10mm World War II stuff.
No doubt I'll be forced to wear the helmet at some point...
Title: Re: Hello from Middlesbrough
Post by: Sandinista on 21 October 2010, 11:22:02 PM
Quote from: Gandalf on 21 October 2010, 11:06:24 PM
Hi
I've recently joined Dave and Leon to do some casting and other bits and pieces at Pendraken.
I do a fair bit of gaming at the local club where Blitzkrieg Commander is popular.  I also play 15mm ancients and have been working on a few other projects while expanding my collection of 10mm World War II stuff.
No doubt I'll be forced to wear the helmet at some point...
welcome to the forum, where in Boro are you from? I grew up in the shadow of Ayresome Park...
Title: Re: Hello from Middlesbrough
Post by: Leon on 22 October 2010, 12:09:40 AM
Hi Gandalf, welcome to the Forum!   :D
Title: Re: Hello from Middlesbrough
Post by: Gandalf on 22 October 2010, 01:14:30 AM
Quote from: Sandinista on 21 October 2010, 11:22:02 PM
welcome to the forum, where in Boro are you from? I grew up in the shadow of Ayresome Park...
I live just off Parliament Road near Ayresome School
Title: Re: Hello from Middlesbrough
Post by: Gandalf on 22 October 2010, 01:27:49 AM
Quote from: Leon on 22 October 2010, 12:09:40 AM
Hi Gandalf, welcome to the Forum!   :D
Thanks for that Leon
Title: Re: Hello from Middlesbrough
Post by: capthugeca on 22 October 2010, 08:24:02 AM
Welcome Gandalf

Good to have you on board.

Title: Re: Hello from Middlesbrough
Post by: goat major on 22 October 2010, 08:43:22 AM
Hi Gandalf - i'm a Boro exile myself..... but i moved to Lincolnshire  for a more exciting life  :-\
Title: Re: Hello from Middlesbrough
Post by: Gandalf on 22 October 2010, 12:58:47 PM
I was part of the Teesside diaspora in the 1980s myself.  I moved down south for something a bit different but ended up moving home again in the early 90s.
Title: Re: Hello from Middlesbrough
Post by: Sandinista on 22 October 2010, 03:57:50 PM
"I live just off Parliament Road near Ayresome School"
My old school, my mum still lives off Gresham Road
Title: Re: Hello from Middlesbrough
Post by: Gandalf on 22 October 2010, 05:26:55 PM
Good stuff.  Do you get back up here much these days?
Title: Re: Hello from Middlesbrough
Post by: Sandinista on 22 October 2010, 06:18:20 PM
I visit about once a year these days. Seems a bit nastier in town now than when I was growing up, I was 21 when I left home and family to get a job - thanks Maggie >:(
Title: Re: Hello from Middlesbrough
Post by: Leon on 22 October 2010, 07:03:08 PM
Quote from: Sandinista on 22 October 2010, 06:18:20 PM
I visit about once a year these days. Seems a bit nastier in town now than when I was growing up, I was 21 when I left home and family to get a job - thanks Maggie >:(

It's got a lot rougher since I was going out on the town 10 years ago.
Title: Re: Hello from Middlesbrough
Post by: Gandalf on 22 October 2010, 09:18:36 PM
That's a difficult one to quantify as things have changed a lot.  Visually the place looks a lot better and there are less boarded up shops now than in the recession during the 90s but if the economic situation has really been sorted out by our friends in Westminster, I'll show my a**e in Binns window.
I also think the town is like the wild west on a Friday and Saturday night.  There are certainly places I wouldn't go because they're full of nutters which never used to be the case.  Perhaps I just didn't notice it when I was younger or the large amounts of Tetley's Imperial I used to consume put a softer glow on it  ;D

Enough of that jolly stuff.  Give us a shout the next time you're up if you fancy a game of BKC
Title: Re: Hello from Middlesbrough
Post by: goat major on 22 October 2010, 09:46:35 PM
Quote from: Gandalf on 22 October 2010, 09:18:36 PM
but if the economic situation has really been sorted out by our friends in Westminister,

Better chance of it being sorted out by our friends in The Westminster