Like Facebook without the adverts, or Twitter without the character limits, this thread is for any random musings which wander by during the course of your day!
I suppose the question is... how long can it stay out of the gutter...?!
:D
Driving back to Bristol from Norfolk today I was amazed at how many cars had their headlights on in broad daylight, followed by the amount of drivers cutting in just after overtaking you! Why?
Well rather a normal sunday morning in Hungary,will have been here for four years on tuesday, just finished basing a good sized 6mm brit peninsular army and about 11.30 just had one of those mmm i could just have a dinner time session on the beer, if only there was a decent pub and good beer here but sadly no, well there is an irish bar in the city about 30 mins away that sells guinness at an extortionate price but thats all you can say that is vaugely irish, Luckily got a few beer kits when i was last back in the uk so thats what i decided to do :D.
Im coming back over on the 9th of april to do the real dinner time session but is there any wargame shows on between the 9th and 16th of may .
cheers,
kev
Quote from: kev1964 on 24 February 2013, 06:02:51 PM
Im coming back over on the 9th of april to do the real dinner time session but is there any wargame shows on between the 9th and 16th of may .
There's a couple, depending how north/south you'll be (Pendraken will be at Falkirk):
Carronade (Falkirk) - 11th May
Campaign (Milton Keynes) - 11th – 12th May
A shame you're not here for another few days:
Triples (Sheffield) - 18th – 19th May
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It,s compulsary here to have your lights on whatever time you drive, makes no differance though, even though they see you they still drive like idiots.
The bigger the beamer or merc the bigger the idiot.Well here anyway.
Cheers Leon, well it,s not set in stone for my return so maybe a possibility. Milton keynes a defo, have a mate there so could be a good one.
Volvo's always have their lights on, it's the standard setting.
The ones who get me are those who've got a light out, so decide to put main beam on to compensate?! >:(
I help run Milton Keynes, do pop bye and say hello.
My thought for the day, borrowed from Peter Kay: Mothers, you can't live with them, you can't kill em!
Visited us for three days and caused a major row!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 24 February 2013, 06:35:32 PM
My thought for the day, borrowed from Peter Kay: Mothers, you can't live with them, you can't kill em!
Visited us for three days and caused a major row!
Isn't that a mothers job? :P
QuoteThe ones who get me are those who've got a light out, so decide to put main beam on to compensate?!
Yep, had one of these follow me for about 30 miles on very bad Fen roads making it nigh on impossible to see the road at times >:(.
Quote from: petercooman on 24 February 2013, 06:39:21 PM
Isn't that a mothers job? :P
The silver haired Mother in law, who lives in the annexe attached to the house, had an interesting job.
She was a test pilot in a broom factory. :D (The old ones are the best.)
Cheers - Phil.
Why did I put my South American Pacific War Chilean army on the painting stand, on the cooker, ready to paint?
Got the kids in bed, wife with her aunt tonight, walked towards the army and suddenly, inexplicably, my legs veered slightly to the left and I found myself in the fridge, reaching for beer.
I reckon those Volvo lights in my rearview mirror made me swerve.
No painting tonight then...don't want to get caught drunk in charge of a paintbrush ;) :D
Been busy painting my entries, just have to base 2 stands of unioin infantry now and i can start the tedious task of taking pictures tomorrow. I have done 6 stands of acw troops, and a bunch of my normandy 44 british for the painting comp this month.
Huzzah for competition driven effort :P :P
And now I can't decide what to watch:
- Blandings
- Strike Back - Vengeance
- Sucker Punch
- Get Shorty / Be Cool / Jackie Brown / Out of Sight (I'm on an Elmore Leonard reading buzz)
- Firefly / Serenity
Thoughts?
The LAst Leg is brilliant! ;)
I vote for sucker punch, to keep your mind on the totty ;)
Quote from: petercooman on 24 February 2013, 10:34:02 PM
I vote for sucker punch, to keep your mind on the totty ;)
Yep - good skills Peter 8) :d 8)
I'm going with MOTD2, followed by some Blue Bloods while I do some computer work...
Quote from: nikharwood on 24 February 2013, 09:54:59 PM
Why did I put my South American Pacific War Chilean army on the painting stand, on the cooker, ready to paint...
I was getting quite worried with that first sentence, imagining a rather less upright army, as they'd started melting on the hob...! :D
Quote from: mad lemmey on 24 February 2013, 06:35:32 PM
I help run Milton Keynes, do pop bye and say hello.
Mothers, you can't live with them, you can't kill em!
Chorus of protest from Norman Bates, Nero, Lizzie Borden....
Wife's away next weekend on a "yoga break" (how the bog can you do yoga for an entire weekend, for pete's sake?) so a mate and I can get away to a convention purely as punters. Looks like Abingdon's going to be the nearest. Took the new game to Cavalier inTonbridge yesterday. Couldn't find anything to buy. How sick is that? The guys on the Early War Miniatures stand tell me that their "Open Road" latex roads system, currently for 20mm, will be available for 10mm later in the year. Looks good, detail moulded in, and "flops" over terrain. Yes, please! :)
We used to enjoy the Cavalier show, but it was just that bit too far for us, so two days away from home and a lot of petrol!
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Quote from: Leon on 24 February 2013, 11:23:25 PM
I was getting quite worried with that first sentence, imagining a rather less upright army, as they'd started melting on the hob...! :D
;D :o ;D
So,
if 17 Year Olds are no longer to be treated as adults in the eyes of the law does that mean that they will all be stopped from driving scooters and causing my insurance premium to keep rising by being irresponsible which means I can get cheaper insurance
Hmmm..
Good point Si.
Cheers - Phil.
They should limit the size of engine you're allowed for your first year of driving, similar to the restrictions on motorbikes/scooters when you've only got a provisional. Too many kids racing around in 2.0L cars their parents are insuring for them, and then they wonder why they crash them.
It's really simple that one, make your kids pay for their own car.
I bought my first car second hand, a 10 year old corsa. It wasn't much but it got me there, and i drove it with care as i paid for every last cent to get it.
If you haven't worked for it, you take it for granted and are reckless. At least that's my humble opinion.
What Leon says is entirely true though, they don't need a BMW with an exhaust that sounds like a jumbojet, they need something normal and decent to learn how to drive. We all have to admit, even when you get your permit, you are still learning for a considerable while afterwards!
I had a 1.6L Montego for my first car, which was given to me to be fair, but that was about as big as any 17 year old should have. I pranged it within 10 days, and had to repair it out of my own pocket. I've bought all of my own cars since, and have never had another bump.
See, you learned :P
Quote from: Leon on 26 February 2013, 11:37:38 PM
I had a 1.6L Montego for my first car, which was given to me to be fair, but that was about as big as any 17 year old should have. I pranged it within 10 days, and had to repair it out of my own pocket. I've bought all of my own cars since, and have never had another bump.
You got a car at 17? I bought my my first car, an Astra 1300, at 32 out of my redundancy money. (That sounds terribly hard-done-by, doesn't it? It wasn't!) :D
Quote from: Hertsblue on 27 February 2013, 10:03:53 AM
You got a car at 17?
It was my great-grandfather's, he couldn't drive anymore so the car was going spare. It was in great condition for a Montego as well, those things were generally only held together by the rust. :D
We've just had a new Frankie & Benny's open up near us, so went for a sample tonight. Pretty damn good it has to be said, might go there more often!
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Excuse my ignorance, but whats a FRankie and Benny's? :-\
New York style Italian restaurants: http://www.frankieandbennys.com/ (http://www.frankieandbennys.com/)
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Some of the pubs around here have really got their acts together food-wise. Chilli king-prawn linguini at the Robin Hood - mm, mm! 8->
Quote from: Leon on 03 March 2013, 12:28:11 AM
New York style Italian restaurants: http://www.frankieandbennys.com/ (http://www.frankieandbennys.com/)
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Ok i need this next to my door NOW!
:-w
My favourite is a proper sit down Chinese restaurant just down the road in Stokesley, none of that all-you-can-eat-from-a-plastic-container buffet style nonsense! They do a fantastic chicken in black pepper, and an equally awesome Szechaun chicken as well.
=P~ =P~ =P~
Niow i'm hungry :'(
been to Burger King after coming home from the office today.. :o
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Coo !.....David Seaman's put on a few pounds.
Looks good for his age though ! :D
Cheers - Phil.
Nice one, Phil. He's not doing his famous "spectacles" guesture though. :D
True, Ray.
I think if the picture wasn't cropped so much at the bottom, we'd see that he's trying to show how big the latest fish he caught was. :)
It obviously put up one hell of a fight from the expression on Mr Seaman's face
Cheers - Phil.
70,000th post coming up, who's going to grab it?!
:o
Too late Dammit !! ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil.
70,000 posts! Now that's what I call blather, waffle and poppycock! :P
Who got it?
Think it was at 70.002 when I posted the above Will....
Scroll back down the most recent posts ?
I'll go and have a look-see. ;) ;)
Cheers - Phil.
It looks like it was 'Grumpy' to me....Well done that man !!
I've just worked out that I've done 78 hours so far this week, and we're up at 5am for the Retford show tomorrow morning as well!
:o (:|
Might treat myself to a day off on Tuesday! :D I-)
Now that's dedication! Hope the snow is not going to affect you too much on the shows front.
We're under severe winter storm advisory here in Ohio from 3pm today. Time to stock up on supplies and hunker down with some nice wargaming stuff. :)
For those who do have to brave the snow, here or in the UK, stay safe.
No snow in Middlesbrough at all, we didn't see any today until we got south of Leeds really. Apparently it's pretty bad around Derby way, and across the centre of the country. Ironclad Miniatures didn't make it over to the show from south Wales, so they must have it bad.
Nothing in the way of the dreaded white stuff in the South West corner of Wales , but I gather there's quite a lot of it in the North of the country.... apart from the very West....Maybe through the Midlands it's very iffy and they didn't fancy taking the risk ?? :-\
Cheers - Phil.
Here in Belgium we are okay!
Was some snow tonight but most of it has dissapeared. Only one i can see is on top of my car =)
Yes, but Peter...Over here, we're still waiting for last year's Summer to turn up.
Cheers - Phil.
I can predict a heatwave for trhe second week in May - because I'm going to Dubai, where it will probably be raining! Jonah, moi? =)
Quote from: Techno on 24 March 2013, 09:53:29 PM
Yes, but Peter...Over here, we're still waiting for last year's Summer to turn up.
Cheers - Phil.
We had summer? Must have been asleep as i didn't notice :-\
Thats because your close to England peter, three weeks sun if your lucky and 2 of them are spent abroard ;D . We normally have a warmish march in Hungary but had at least 9 inches of snow today today and it,s still going strong, had to clear my paths twice today and we dont get sued here if anyone slips over when we have done it , unlike England :-\
Undertaker, 21-0 at Wrestlemania. :o
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As you were.
Nope, that one whistled over me at 60,000 feet and climbing. Is this some sort of alternative career you're enjoying, Leon? :-\
Been a bit of a crap week as some ****hole managed to clone/get hold of my debit card details, luckily santander are excellent with their security monitoring especially with us being in Europe most of the time. It appears they tried to buy sports gear in France and music stuff in Holland , why they wouldn,t think i wanted sports gear at my age i dont know ;D. Praise and thanks to them as they didn,t allow the transactions.
I am religious at checking ATMs when getting cash out and mostly use the one in our bank, all my other purchase are done with paypal, i have heard of paypal accounts being tapped into but no cash was taken from mine, i only leave a couple of hundred in so perhaps they didn,t bother as they would get far more from using the card.
Luckily my wife,s on a jolly to the uk so able to get new cards or this could of been a very expensive week for me, anybody else had problems with this ?.
kev
Yes, my wife had hers cloned - we think - at a local restaurant and they took it to New York and spent a couple of grand there (because there's no chip and pin there). The bank reimbursed her, but now she will never use an ATM, preferring to get "cash-back" at the local supermarkets.
After reading that Herts i feel very lucky, pleased you got the money back, it will make me more careful in the future,
kev
I got a phone call one Saturday morning from my Card Company. They said "Have you just checked out of a hotel in Bankok?"
I said "As you got me out of bed at home, its unlikely"
They said "That's what we thought..."
Maybe you sleep-alked? :P :P
Rather strangely, the number of posts over the past four days have been:
15th Apr - 88
16th Apr - 77
17th Apr - 66
18th Apr - 55
:-/ @-)
If we get 44 posts today, I'll know there's something spooky going on...
:-\
a countdown :-\
what for :o
the end of all things?
my latest order :'(
Now, if they'd all come up on the Lotto you'd be a wealthy man now. :d
You only have to start worrying if the post tally is 666 :d :d
Ah well, we hit 59 posts on Friday, so all is good in the world once more.
:D
That's a relief! ;)
Quote from: Hertsblue on 14 April 2013, 08:48:20 AM
Yes, my wife had hers cloned - we think - at a local restaurant and they took it to New York and spent a couple of grand there (because there's no chip and pin there). The bank reimbursed her, but now she will never use an ATM, preferring to get "cash-back" at the local supermarkets.
Our last trip abroad we used a Travelex pre-loaded cash card - dead handy, as it works the same a a debit card, and keeps a lid on your spending :) And you can't get cloned etc
I put the washing on this morning, and just hanging it out in the sun I thought, "These shorts feel heavy. What have I left in the pocket?"
It was my mobile phone, which was left switched on. :'(
It is now dismantled and lying in the sun. Fingers crossed but not much hope I don't think.
Luckily it's a cheapy one.
Lynne (my wife) said "Don't ever moan at me again for leaving stuff in MY pockets." Fair comment. :-[
Albie....
Whether this is true, I'm not sure.... :-\
But I've seen forensic scientists on the telly using uncooked rice to help absorb moisture from mobiles that have been immersed in water.
I'm guessing that it is a bona fide method.....Might be worth trying as a last resort !!
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 09 July 2013, 09:06:39 AM
Albie....
Whether this is true, I'm not sure.... :-\
But I've seen forensic scientists on the telly using uncooked rice to help absorb moisture from mobiles that have been immersed in water.
I'm guessing that it is a bona fide method.....Might be worth trying as a last resort !!
Cheers - Phil
What sort of rice?
And this wasn't on CSI was it...Its not real you know!
That's it....Destroy all my illusions ! ;) ;D
(I thought if Abby said something was true....It must be. ;D ;D)
Just had a quick Google....and folk do use rice as an anti desiccant in electrical equipment....But it's not 100% effective.
Cheers - Phil (Self confessed NCIS addict.....Who in the States is going to get me a region 2 DVD copy of season 10 when it comes out over there ? :))
I'll try anything. Cheers. :)
Ow!
Any silica gell sachets living around anyone?
Friend was bathing new baby some years ago and his mobile slid out of his shirt pocket into the bath water.
So he put it in the microwave to dry it out. :o
Not sure which event trashed his phone but I'm pretty sure which one did for his microwave ;D
Quote from: Ithoriel on 09 July 2013, 10:16:54 AM
So he put it in the microwave to dry it out. :o
Not sure which event trashed his phone but I'm pretty sure which one did for his microwave ;D
#-o :-q
Phil
Now if Ziva had said it! Well nuff said. :P
Chad
Incredible. It works !! :o :D :]]
Thanks for the suggestions.
I had a phone before, from another manufacturer, which got wet in the rain and it never worked again so I wasn't hopeful.
Quote from: Albie Bach on 09 July 2013, 01:53:55 PM
Incredible. It works !! :o :D :]]
Thanks for the suggestions.
I had a phone before, from another manufacturer, which got wet in the rain and it never worked again so I wasn't hopeful.
Hi Albie.
I think there's a hope that it'll be OK.....As long as every last 'droplet' of water was removed....Otherwise bits will probably corrode
slowly, and it'll end up having to be binned.
Fingers crossed though !!
Quote from: Chad on 09 July 2013, 01:32:37 PM
Now if Ziva had said it! Well nuff said. :P
Nah Chad !!!.....Can't see Ziva even suggesting that !.....She'd have thrown it up in the air and shot it.
Gibbs would have just chucked it in the bin. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil.
Phil
Gibbs could do what he likes with it. just as Ziva could do what she likes with me!! :d :d
Chad
Steady Chad ! ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Red squirrel in the garden. The joys of living in Formby.
I've heard of red sky at night, but not that !
(I'm really rather envious....never seen a red squirrel apart from on the tele.) ;)
Cheers - Phil.
Red squirrel Techno - he knows it's a Red squirrel because it wakes him up at night singing "The Internationale" :)
We went red squirrel hunting at the Trossachs last year but didn't manage to see any. :(
You should stop off this year on your way to Skelp Leon, Camperdown park (in Dundee) is full of them.
Quote from: GordonY on 11 July 2013, 02:45:56 PM
You should stop off this year on your way to Skelp Leon, Camperdown park (in Dundee) is full of them.
Ahh, we stay near there at the Premier Inn.
I have one or two familygroups of red squirrels living in the forrest thats bordering the garden, often much entertainment can be had watching the furry tails. :)
Once saw a black squirrel in Austria. So tame that he sat in the middle of the path as if expecting to be fed. When we walked past him you could almost hear the cry of "cheapskates!". :)
Just to share before I go outside and help the better half with the outdoor animals.....
I mentioned weeks ago about the plague of horse flies, bot flies, midges etc that have been causing havoc over this summer in the wilds of SW Wales.
Mrs Techno and I decided that it would be a good idea to get something to help 'kill/remove' the various little b*ggers that upset the horses, especially.
"Oh...why don't you try an electric fly swat ?" suggested our farrier.
It arrived today !!
Bloomin' heck !.....This things got some 'Ooomph'......Not far short of a tazer I reckon.....I'm certainly not going to test on my hand.
Boy, does it work....You don't have to 'swat' the little sods....Just touch them.
CRACK !!....Dead (fried) Bot fly.......I'm well impressed.
(Note to self....Do not bring this into contact with a horse itself, unless you fancy being kicked into next week.) ;D
And NO.....I didn't spend all afternoon chasing flies....I was a good boy and carried on pushing putty.....(But NOW..... :d :d :d :d :d :d)
Cheers - Phil.
Which type is it? We've had a couple of the 'tennis racket' style ones, and they're great fun! The unit is full of flies at the moment, literally hundreds of the little sods. If you leave a coffee mug on the side for more than 10 minutes, it gets attacked.
>:(
It's called "The Executioner."......I'll come up and help you. ;)
Typical......Just about every bloomin' fly has disappeared here now......They must know what's in store if they hang around.
Hope there's more about tomorrow !
Cheers - Phil ;)
My Dad has one and the smell when it fries a fly...
Anything like bacon ?
ianS
Sadly not Ian. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Haunch of bluebottle - doesn't quite have the ring to it. :D
We bought one of the tennis racket type for my brother in law. Gave it to him at a family BBQ in the garden, after the consumption of a fair amount of beer. He had the bright idea of "What happens if I touch it to my tongue?" :-/
We had all had enough to drink to be too slow to stop him (or else just let him do it!) ^#(^ :'( :'(
How we laughed! :d =O =O =O
I bet you did ! (He must have been a bit 'peed')
I wouldn't dream of touching the 'strings' even with my finger, when it's on....
Cheers - Phil
Shhhh*te!
Try urinating on the only electric on Salisbury Plain.
IanS :D
P.S. It weren't me.....
Even more hair-raising is watching the town drunk peeing on the track at Tottenham Court Road tube station, inches from the live rail. What made it doubly horrendous was the knowledge that we were waiting for the last train and it was a fifteen mile walk home.... :o
:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
(I'm going to be sitting with my legs firmly crossed all day now...........EEEEEEEK !!)
Cheers - Phil.
"Most of us learn from our own mistakes, wise men learn from the mistakes of others ... but some men just keep peeing on the electric fence" - anon
We were plagued with flies in Afghanistan. As a NCO, I often had duty as Sergeant of the Guard (SOG) at the Entry Control Point (ECP). We'd put up a fly strip at the beginning of a shift and eight hours later, the damn thing would be black with the damnable things.
Boy.....Did I get suckered this morning.
Over the weekend, Mrs Techno made some comment about not doing her shop today, as the farrier was due to deal with some of the horses, later this fair morn.
"Oh...well......you don't want to do the shopping tomorrow....It's Christmas Eve, dear"....Said I before I'd engaged Mr Brain....."I'll go in really, really early and do your Mum's shopping and what we need as well."
MUPPET, Phil.
Such fun !! (In truth it could have been a lot worse !).....But doing one trip around the supermarket (for the silver haired Mother in Law).....cursing all the other folk that had been daft enough to get up early and block all the aisles.....going and putting that back in the car...THEN going back in and doing our own shopping.....and being back home before 9....is not the perfect start to the day, considering the weather out here at the moment.......VILE !!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
By the time I got back....Mrs T had only just woken....And the farrier was still at least half an hour away from arriving.
I'm 'pooped !. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil.
When you said you got "suckered", I thought this was going to be a story with a happy ending.
I spent this morning taking my mother to the hospital to have her eyes tested in prep for cataract removal. The appointment was at 8:30 and to be fair, it was only an hour all in, but as I pointed out to Ma, I have a mixed squadron of A9's, 10s and 13's to finish, and that maybe she should examine her priorities. :P
Merry Christmas and a big thank you to anyone who works in these public services, not only for this time of year but throughout the year.
Well said fsn.....
I also hope those on duty in the public services, especially on Christmas day......Have a really quiet day.
Cheers - Phil.
Was supposed to be driving down to Cornwall today. However nephew Carl, an officer in the D & C Constabulary, has just rung to say they have four trees down blocking various roads in their area. Think we'll put it off 'til tomorrow. :o
My family take similar measures to avoid visitors.
;D ;D ;D ;D
;D ;D ;D
Quote from: fsn on 23 December 2013, 12:09:39 PM
My family take similar measures to avoid visitors.
Any visitor? Or just you?
Sorry couldn't resist that one :P :P :P
It's been a bit windy here the past few days, but not especially cold yet. Annoyingly though, the battery in Adele's car died overnight, so I had to stand there with the jump leads in the rain trying to get it going again. Didn't work either, so we're going to have to pop some charge in it overnight and see if that works. Then we might have to ask Santa for a new battery...
Quote from: Leon on 23 December 2013, 09:49:44 PM
It's been a bit windy here the past few days, but not especially cold yet. Annoyingly though, the battery in Adele's car died overnight, so I had to stand there with the jump leads in the rain trying to get it going again. Didn't work either, so we're going to have to pop some charge in it overnight and see if that works. Then we might have to ask Santa for a new battery...
thats a bugger - It never happens on a nice dry day
If your feeling suicidal
1 You could suggest she has two legs and walk :)
2 Actually get her a battery for the car as her "Christmas Present" :d :d
Quote from: Techno on 23 December 2013, 10:35:28 AM
Boy.....Did I get suckered this morning.
Over the weekend, Mrs Techno made some comment about not doing her shop today, as the farrier was due to deal with some of the horses, later this fair morn.
"Oh...well......you don't want to do the shopping tomorrow....It's Christmas Eve, dear"....Said I before I'd engaged Mr Brain....."I'll go in really, really early and do your Mum's shopping and what we need as well."
MUPPET, Phil.
Such fun !! (In truth it could have been a lot worse !).....But doing one trip around the supermarket (for the silver haired Mother in Law).....cursing all the other folk that had been daft enough to get up early and block all the aisles.....going and putting that back in the car...THEN going back in and doing our own shopping.....and being back home before 9....is not the perfect start to the day, considering the weather out here at the moment.......VILE !!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
By the time I got back....Mrs T had only just woken....And the farrier was still at least half an hour away from arriving.
I'm 'pooped !. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil.
Yep You really walked into that one. Perhaps the farrier was booked on purpose :-\
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 24 December 2013, 09:14:49 AM
Yep You really walked into that one. Perhaps the farrier was booked on purpose :-\
Ho Yus !! ;D ;D ;D
Actually, time wise, he would probably have been due on Christmas day or Boxing day....So it was a case of "Which day can you fit the gee-gees in this week."
Bad luck me. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 24 December 2013, 09:12:33 AM
If your feeling suicidal
1 You could suggest she has two legs and walk :)
Not sure if that would go down too well, as she was with both the kids and our niece as well, so she was already tearing her hair out!
;D
Went to bed last night at 8:30 feeling rough.
Spent most of the night tossing and turning, woke up at five feeling like I'd been kicked in the nuts and I'd been gargling sandpaper!
Oh, and the upstairs toilet dripping through to the kitchen!
Not the best morning ever,blòóðý kids xmas cold! -:)
Hope your feeling a bit better
We got up for showers and couldnt turn the water off so its been running for about 5 hours...plumber is off to get a new bit for it that has broken
Why do 'things' seem to break down, or go wrong, when it's harder to get hold of folk to help get them sorted ?
Sods' Law ?
Hope you feel better soon Will !
Cheers - Phil
About 10 years ago our emersion heater blew up on Christmas Eve...Oh what fun that was
Fenton: yowch! Nasty.
Feeling better now, shivers and aches mainly gone, but there is a house full of nice food and it hurts to swallow! :'(
Even a european one! ;D
;D ;D
Yeah sitting here feeling yuk as well...thought I had a migraine coming on but it seems to have gone
I just feel pooped.....You can both keep any nasty 'lurgi type things' to yourselves. ;) ;D ;D
Cheers - Mr Sympathetic. ;)
So far, for the first time in 4 years, my annual bug seems to have held off. I did go down with something a few weeks back, so maybe that was it coming early.
And to update on the car battery, I got it out, connected it up to the charger, flicked the plug on, and.... the charger's broke.
>:(
Oh no! That really is bad!
Oh dear. :(
Can you borrow a charger from a neighbour or friend.
Then at least you could tell if the old battery's completely dead.
Cheers - Phil
I'll take the battery down to work with me tomorrow and ask the garage next door to check it for us.
Quote from: Leon on 29 December 2013, 06:09:15 PM
I'll take the battery down to work with me tomorrow and ask the garage next door to check it for us.
Watch how you go riding down to work with a battery balanced on your handlebars. :o
About to sit down with my lunch and watch the latest Hobbit movie...could be fun
Well....I'm working.....You jammy oiks. ;)
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Techno on 31 December 2013, 02:18:26 PM
Well....I'm working.....You jammy oiks. ;)
Cheers - Phil.
I wish I was to
Quote from: Hertsblue on 31 December 2013, 09:47:37 AM
Watch how you go riding down to work with a battery balanced on your handlebars. :o
Battery was OK, managed to get it charged up, popped it back in and... nothing. Still wouldn't start. So we had to resort to the AA instead, who came out and got it going in 30 seconds. Turns out some fancy bit of electronics decided it was cold outside, and put too much fuel through when we shifted the car off the drive originally, resulting in a flooded engine. If we'd let it run for a couple of minutes, all this excess fuel would have been burnt off, but as we were only moving the car 10 yards, the unburnt fuel just sat there causing the problem.
A new one on me, never had that happen before, but it's all fixed now, and we can go out for our planned New Years Eve meal!
Hope everyone has a good night, and Happy New Year to you all!
8)
And you Leon !! <:-P <:-P
Cheers - Phil.
Happened to the father-in-law a couple of weeks ago.
Happy New YEAR!
Yep, my old car gave up in the middle of a roundabout when the electronics passed out. LIke Leon, the AA sorted it in minutes.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL.
The missus made a lovely salad the other day - lettuce, red onion, red pepper, walnuts, feta cheese and crispy bacon with a lemon dressing.
Why is it whenever I eat salad, I wonder why I don't eat salad more?
Good point !!
Mrs T and I go through phases where we seem to eat salads almost all of the time.....But then get fed up with them.....'Cos we've eaten so many !! ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil.....(Up into the attic again later to have another go at the roof where the ridge tile blew off.....and see if I can do a better job, before someone can actually come round and put a new tile back on !.....What fun !!)
Quote from: fateeore on 19 January 2014, 12:17:10 AM
The missus made a lovely salad the other day - lettuce, red onion, red pepper, walnuts, feta cheese and crispy bacon with a lemon dressing.
Why is it whenever I eat salad, I wonder why I don't eat salad more?
In our house it's stir-frys. We've tried them with prawns, salmon, diced chicken - you name it. Stick in soy sauce, hoisin sauce, white wine vinegar and lemon juice and serve with rice or noodles. :-bd :-bd :-bd
I became a born again salad eater last summer when I realised I could make a great salad without using letuce or cucumber, two of the most worthless food stuffs ever, but with chillis, rocket and balsamic vinegar - I like my salads to bite back.
Tom Kerridge had a recipe on the telly a few weeks ago for a sald dressing using warm dripping, presumably you have to eat it before it sets :o
You can have some Techno blood for flavour...If you want it !
Just now......
"I'll just go and use the log splitter dear,"....Sez I.
"I can't watch you."....Sez Mrs T.
"Can't you trust me to do even THAT..... I'll be fine !".....
OOOPS !....Log splits...Flies backwards, JUST hitting my forehead.
Blood spurt...murder....(I'll keep my gob shut until I've cleared the trail up.)
Amazing how much of a mess it makes with just the most miniscule of cuts on the forehead...... ;)
Cheers - Phil
Ouch!
Hope there's no visual impairment or brain damage that makes your hand shake?
Quote from: fsn on 30 January 2014, 05:40:17 PM
Ouch! Hope there's no visual impairment or brain damage that makes your hand shake?
Nope... :P....I just find it extraordinary how much blood you can leave in a trail of (about) 20 yards/meters when you've got a tiny 'snick' just around the hairline....the 'cut' (HAH) being about 1/4 of an inch (what's that ?....about 6mm) long.
Mrs T knows....I've owned up.......In case she finds any blood in the kitchen......She'd have noticed ! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil :-[
Ow! Hope your okay mate. :o
Sh...t that could have been nasty.
You could have got a splinter or something! X_X
Will. :)
It was like being given the slightest 'poke' (steady boys ;)) with a finger !
It was only when I felt something 'dribbling' down my face .....and the fact that I'd got a red tint all over my glasses...(What the F's that then ?) That I thought I might have done something a bit silly.
I'm absolutely fine......Nothing more than a 'nick'.....But.....It was just SO impressive leaving SUCH a trail of blood from the pole barn back into the kitchen...While trying to hide the fact from the other half. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil :-[
How many more times, Phil - hit the log with the axe, not the other way round...
In my case Ray, it's misusing a hydraulic splitter.....So things fly off......Sometimes backwards ! :-[
Cheers - Phil
That's even worse! Technology even! :o :o :o
But still probably a lot safer than yours truly wielding the long handled axe ! ;) ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Phill - I wouldn't let you lose with any sharp object.....
IanS ;)
Quote from: Techno on 31 January 2014, 09:21:18 AM
But still probably a lot safer than yours truly wielding the long handled axe ! ;) ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Yeah, I don't see you as a huscarl in a shield-wall, Phil. You'd keep reaching for the Bren gun.... :-\
Quote from: ianrs54 on 01 February 2014, 08:27:32 AM
Phill - I wouldn't let you lose with any sharp object.....IanS ;)
Gimme a break ;).......I only cut myself with a scalpel (properly) about once a year.....If that...
I'm probably overdue 'one of those moments'..... when I sneak downstairs to get some plasters...Hoping Mrs T doesn't spot me.
I don't half get into trouble when I leave a blood trail through the house. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Mr Clumsy (But only when I rush!) :P
My son has just had a conditional offer from University of South Wales for their Computer Games Design course. Last year the first two weeks were spent playing board games, and discussing why 'This' is a good game and 'That' isn't.
Good work fella!
Quote from: Last Hussar on 06 March 2014, 10:55:02 PM
My son has just had a conditional offer from University of South Wales for their Computer Games Design course. Last year the first two weeks were spent playing board games, and discussing why 'This' is a good game and 'That' isn't.
Good for him. Can't help feeling "discussing why 'This' is a good game and 'That' isn't" doesn't feature highly enough in game design!
Sounds good to me 8)
Excellent.
Hope he enjoys the rain ! ;)
Cheers - Phil
Did I win? - yes: good game. no: bad game.
Well that was easy enough.
I think they should eschew board games and dive in to a good old fashioned 10mm brney. You could suggest it to the tutor. Just think how proud your son would be when you rock up explaining the difference between Republican and Imperial Romans, and insisting that the measurement is taken from the middle of the unit. Such fun to be had! :d :d
Quote from: fsn on 07 March 2014, 12:34:24 PM
Did I win? - yes: good game. no: bad game.
Yes, that's my problem with many modern games (computer and board based) in a nutshell. A good game is not one I win, it's one I still enjoy if I lose. A bad game is not a game I lose it's one I don't enjoy even if I win.
For me, a good game is easy to learn, hard to master, has enough of a skill element that I win because I was clever and enough luck that if I lose it was because I was unlucky :)
EDIT: Team play can also be useful - my team wins because of my brilliance or loses due to the incompetence of my allies!
Quote from: Last Hussar on 06 March 2014, 10:55:02 PM
My son has just had a conditional offer from University of South Wales for their Computer Games Design course. Last year the first two weeks were spent playing board games, and discussing why 'This' is a good game and 'That' isn't.
Nice work if you can get it!
Quote from: ianrs54 on 01 February 2014, 08:27:32 AM
Phill - I wouldn't let you lose with any sharp object.....
IanS ;)
And I wouldn't let you win with one.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 07 March 2014, 12:40:13 PM
Yes, that's my problem with many modern games (computer and board based) in a nutshell. A good game is not one I win, it's one I still enjoy if I lose. A bad game is not a game I lose it's one I don't enjoy even if I win.
I'm a solo wargamer by choice. For me, the game is the thing, not the result. I have before now played a scenario, then played it again because I enjoyed it so much. For me it is the
game and not the
rules. I can't be fashed with panicking about whether I have 7 figures on a 20mm wide base, whether that unit on my left flank is unwashed or just short of Lynx Africa, or if my general can see over that house that represents Cologne.
I get great pleasure out of a unit that holds when it should have fled; a lucky shot that disables a Tiger tank, or a sudden downpour that renders those pesky flintlocks unusable just as my cavalry charge is launched.
In some ways, I've been driven to solo gaming by the rule-lawyers that I have encountered, more concerned with Page 16 para 4 rather than having a bit of fun.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 07 March 2014, 12:40:13 PM
Yes, that's my problem with many modern games (computer and board based) in a nutshell. A good game is not one I win, it's one I still enjoy if I lose. A bad game is not a game I lose it's one I don't enjoy even if I win.
For me, a good game is easy to learn, hard to master, has enough of a skill element that I win because I was clever and enough luck that if I lose it was because I was unlucky :)
EDIT: Team play can also be useful - my team wins because of my brilliance or loses due to the incompetence of my allies!
Quote from: fsn on 07 March 2014, 04:34:34 PM
I'm a solo wargamer by choice. For me, the game is the thing, not the result. I have before now played a scenario, then played it again because I enjoyed it so much. For me it is the game and not the rules. I can't be fashed with panicking about whether I have 7 figures on a 20mm wide base, whether that unit on my left flank is unwashed or just short of Lynx Africa, or if my general can see over that house that represents Cologne.
I get great pleasure out of a unit that holds when it should have fled; a lucky shot that disables a Tiger tank, or a sudden downpour that renders those pesky flintlocks unusable just as my cavalry charge is launched.
In some ways, I've been driven to solo gaming by the rule-lawyers that I have encountered, more concerned with Page 16 para 4 rather than having a bit of fun.
Very well said those men =D> =D> =D>
I have been very very fortunate in my gaming life to have met almost exclusively like minded individuals who focus on the
challenge and the
fun"a lucky shot that disables a Tiger tank" - I still remember a Marmon Herington armoured car getting behind a Pz IV and killing it, much to the shock of all involved :) :D
:o I'm agreeing with FSN again, does this mean I might need the blue pills? ;D
Quote from: paulr on 07 March 2014, 05:22:13 PM
I'm agreeing with FSN again, does this mean I might need the blue pills? ;D
Start with the pink ones Paul.....They're safer. (I think ;))
Cheers - Phil
I am usually quite lucky as well
I killled a Tiger once with a Humber
I also shot down a flight of Apache helicoptors with a stupid little anti aircraft gun
Shot of the season for us was the eighty-eight that violently disassembled a Curtis Tomahawk on a low-level strafing run. I can't begin to calculate the odds against that. :o
Awwwwww.......Pants !
Looks like I'll have to replace one of my most useful pieces of kit, this morning.
I think my dear old Dremmel has given up the ghost.
And it 'bit' me last night when I forgot to unplug it when it was in pieces !
Managed to cobble it back together to work in a fashion (of sorts) by removing a couple of wee bits that were badly worn.....But it'll be a pain to change the drills and burrs from now on.....So Argos, here we come. :'(
Can't really complain....I must have been using this particular one for around twenty years.....and have only had to replace the brushes a couple of times.....But it's definitely been going a bit 'strange' on me for two or three weeks.
Anyone else ever mourned or really missed a favourite bit of kit that you've used for a long time ?
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 29 April 2014, 06:29:27 AM
Anyone else ever mourned or really missed a favourite bit of kit that you've used for a long time ?
Not mourned but left feeling 'lighter financially' when some thieving bar-steward stole a pair of binos that were in 'my custody'. As they're a *starred* item there was a Regimental Board of Enquiry and I was lucky to escape with a fine. Thankfully I got to keep my rank...
Actually it looks like I might need to start looking for a new X-acto knife since the ring that tightens the holder is beginning to break up...
Can't really omplain either for I've used it for about 20 years or more. Then again; when I buy a new one i'll probably just use the new ring so the 'feel' of the old knife remains. Silly really... ;)
Chees,
Rob
Today's safety tip from Techno.
When rushing to play (safely) with the electrics outside.....DON'T try and force the screwdriver set back in the 'useful' drawer in the kitchen, when you've finished....Just in case there's a rusty Stanley knife blade set in a scraper, in said drawer.....Just waiting for your fingers...Whoops !
Blood, spurt, murder !
I didn't want to finish off those Romans off today, anyway. Expletive deleted. !! >:( >:( >:( >:(
Cheers - A Twerp.
Quote from: Fenton on 07 March 2014, 07:19:59 PM
I killled a Tiger once with a Humber.
I've never killed a tiger, but I've stroked a few; much more satisfying and just as alarming.
Quote from: Techno on 09 May 2014, 04:57:14 PM
Blood, spurt, murder !
You're not safe let out - or indeed left in.
Phil is not safe to let out !!!!!!!
Pots and Kettles ?
IanS :D :)
If I fall and break my elbow, it's a personal problem. If anything bad happens to Phil, then Gentlemen of the Forum, I suggest we are all Royally screwed.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 10 May 2014, 07:15:12 AM
Phil is not safe to let out !!!!!!!IanS :D :)
:-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
Sadly...I would have to admit to being rather accident prone.....Usually when I'm rushing about, and my brain goes even
more awol than usual.
Having said that...The deepest cut has sealed nicely and I'm not leaving blood on the keyboard as I type.....Huzzah !
I'm tempting fate, I know, but when I do do something that I perceive as being totally blanking stupid, after the event......I can always look back and think...."That could have been 100 times worse."
Quote from: fsn on 10 May 2014, 08:37:25 AM
If I fall and break my elbow, it's a personal problem. If anything bad happens to Phil, then Gentlemen of the Forum, I suggest we are all Royally screwed.
Nah !! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil. ( And I promise I'll try not to electrocute myself this afto' when I go and play with the outdoors' electrics again......Remind me.....The BIG switch on the box of gubbins outside goes DOWN to cut the power.....doesn't it ?)
Blood on the keyboard - that's way your box wont work proper....
IanS
I found a safety film Techno made a while ago ...
:D
Na - says electricity, the don't 'ave dat in wvales.....
Like Runcorn, but for different reasons.
IanS
Huzzah !.....
I managed not to get myself fried.....and managed to repair 'the fault'.
Mrs T was MOST impressed.
Re the safety film.....I'm sure I saw that when it first was aired...... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Techno on 10 May 2014, 10:11:02 AM
...Remind me.....The BIG switch on the box of gubbins outside goes DOWN to cut the power.....doesn't it ?)
When we had our new cooker installed it was recommended we got a qualified electrician to connect it - so we did (...about 40 quid for the equivalent of connecting a plug).
He got started and after a few seconds of handling the bare wires I said to him "Aren't you going to check the electricity is switched off?" I knew it was, of course, but the "qualified electician" hadn't bothered to check. Nor did he check the fusing on the supply.
That, and other recent dealings with professionals, has left me thinking if you can do it yourself then do.
Like the plumbers who installed a new hot water tank and immersion heater, with the circuit live ?
IanS
Regarding Albie's comment.
I HAD to call an electrician out to do one job, which I initially thought I could do myself.......But unfortunately the wiring on the back of the new bit of gubbins wasn't anything like the one it was replacing.......and there was no instruction leaflet...plus when I found it on the net, it made no sense at all.....Might just have well been written in Chinese.
Anyway.
Nice chap comes out to do the job....."I'll knock the power out then, shall I ?"..(Says I)....."Nah...don't bother"..(Says he)....So he got 'bitten' a couple of times !!"
What really made me laugh, was that HE couldn't make sense of the wiring either.....and just kept guessing and swapping wires around until he got it to work !!
Hey Ho !
Cheers - Phil
With all this talk about electricity
What appeared above peoples heads when they had a good idea before the invention of the lightbulb?
As we say in South Africa, What did they use in Zimbabwe before candles? Answer: Electricity.
(poor, neglected, thread...)
Just discovered a great late-night snack: unashamedly mass-produced white bread, Heinz Salad Cream (on both pieces of bread), Walkers Taste Sensation Thai Sweet Chilli Crisps...fold together, enjoy.
Add more wine 8)
Quote from: nikharwood on 27 August 2014, 12:21:29 AM
(poor, neglected, thread...)
Just discovered a great late-night snack: unashamedly mass-produced white bread, Heinz Salad Cream (on both pieces of bread), Walkers Taste Sensation Thai Sweet Chilli Crisps...fold together, enjoy.
Add more wine 8)
Been there Nik - though I prefer Prawn or Bacon crisps.
Is it just my weird veggie brain or is it odd that the only flavour of crisp regularly not suitable for vegetarians is Cheese & Onion?? I've got a multipack in the cupboard and can happily eat the prawn, bacon, beef, BBQ and even the haggis ones but not the C&O!
We need to arrange emergency famine relief for some of you, judging by what you're reduced to eating!
That's reminded me of mayo' and red currant jelly sarnies !............Mmmmmmmm.
Never tried adding crisps to that combination though....I wonder ?
Cheers - Phil
PASS THE SICK BAG.....to late
IanS
Kenny Everett was very,very funny and it was all done in the best possible taste, ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
You do know that crisps are the worst thing of all for your teeth, don't you? Worse even than sugar. Not a lot of people know that....
I watch Qi too, Ray. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Hertsblue on 27 August 2014, 10:57:55 AM
You do know that crisps are the worst thing of all for your teeth, don't you? Worse even than sugar. Not a lot of people know that....
I thought that it was making a smutty comment to Tony Soprano's daughter ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvukRkRxmmY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvukRkRxmmY)
[too much swearing (and violence) to include on this family forum]
With a name like "Soprano" you'd think he was missing some items from lower down...
Quote from: Hertsblue on 28 August 2014, 07:52:36 AM
With a name like "Soprano" you'd think he was missing some items from lower down...
OHHHH Nasty !!!
IanS
I thought that only applied to a castrato. Hang on! we're not back on that medical thread are we?
once saw a tv doc' with a fellow who was sick of being so virile, so he fixed the problem by the use of a pair of bolt cutters. sans gonads later ... :o
Quote from: FierceKitty on 27 August 2014, 02:13:02 AM
We need to arrange emergency famine relief for some of you, judging by what you're reduced to eating!
OH NO !. Here we go again .
It will be another............ My Lovely wife is cooking me a Stir fry of king pawns, with Larks tongues and Blackbirds testicles in ginger . This will be followed by a gastronomic delight of a chocolate and orange cake.
He did this last time I mentioned I had cheese and pickle sandwiches for lunch...... left me feeling starved and drooling.
:)
Quote from: Dour Puritan on 28 August 2014, 08:06:45 AM
I thought that only applied to a castrato.
Now, now, Ithoriel's had a rough time. Be kind.
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 28 August 2014, 11:48:51 AM
...cheese and pickle sandwiches for lunch...... left me feeling starved and drooling.
Ooh, that reminds me, I must go get some lunch...
King Pawns, shouldn't that read King porns?
Quote from: Dour Puritan on 28 August 2014, 01:53:40 PM
King Pawns, shouldn't that read King porns?
SSSHHHHHH!! don't let my seret life out of the bag ;D
Sounds like the pawn made it to the opponent's base-line. ;)
Hello queen!
Who's queen! B) B) B)
'Ere....
Anyone going to buy that part works 'U-Boat' magazine ?
Stroll on.....I can't read on the TV, whether it's £5.99 or SIX ninety nine for a hundred and fifty issues.....
Er....I make that either £893.01 or £1042.01 in total......If that's wrong...I'm working it out too quickly. ;)
I shan't be bothering with 'The Mallard' at £7-99 for 130 issues, either.
That'll be £1,031.21 then, please.....Ker-ching !
Might buy the first issue of each, if the 'bit of brass' looks useful for anything though....Don't mind 50p for something that might come in handy....One day !! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Be cheaper to hire Mallard for the day!
Used to regularly pass her at the Bowes Park depot on the train to work in London.
It's only £5.99. The thought it might be £6.99. The biggest scam with them is they are often pulled half way through when subscribers drop too low.
The MDF u-boat looks quite fun - but not at part work prices. It must be a really strange business model, sell loads of copies of the first two because they are cheap, then get a handful of people eaking it out to the end. And if they cancel it when you have 10 un-connected parts that must be even worse.
The mallard from etched brass looks a nightmare to build.
Last part works I started buying was about 15 (?) plus years ago.....Astronomy mag with a Cd-Rom every issue.....It was really quite good....But they pulled that after about half a dozen issues.
Anyone spot the 'Creepy Crawlies' part work that's just come out as well....Convinced that's the same one that was on sale since we've been out here.
Cheers - Phil.
I started the Time-Life books on the ACW. Nice books, not for the frother, but lots of nice details. Stopped half way through.
Do you think anyone would do a dishwasher? Mine has just died... :(
Sure, but it will take 150 weeks...
B&Q do a slimline one (45cm rather than 60cm wide) for 1334 Pendraken figures.
Do you think I can get a discount if they're painted?
I think you'll find dishwashers only come in white.
No, our present one is silver!
Quote from: Last Hussar on 30 August 2014, 06:24:17 PM
I think you'll find dishwashers only come in white.
Son: Dad, why do brides wear white :-/
Dad: Son, all domestic appliances come in white ;)
I'll get my coat
I'll go and find it.....as long as you've got your ticket. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: mad lemmey on 30 August 2014, 07:18:52 PM
No, our present one is silver!
Ah, there's your problem then. You've bought a fish-tank by mistake.....
school holidays have now finished, thank **** for that #:-S
Not til Woden's day here...
What are school holidays? :d
They're the days when you can drive to the station in seven minutes rather than twenty-seven and pass a primary school without some crazed pensioner in a hi-vis leaping out brandishing a big wooden lollipop. <:-P <:-P <:-P
I am sorry but a silver dishwasher is a sink.
I can sympathise with Hertsblue. I also enjoy the traffic jam easing system the government enforces, without penalties, by allowing schools to go on holiday.
My point being I am a retired teacher so school holidays make no odds any more.
Just ticked over midnight, time to try and get some zzzz but my head is buzzing!
First 'proper' day in my new school tomorrow, inset and training day, new staff to meet, with a new head who has spent less time there than I have. Nervous about meeting new staff. No idea what this year is going to bring.
This could be 'interesting'.
My eldest daughter starts middle school tomorrow too. Growing up fast! She's so excited and ready for it.
My wife moves from teaching reception class to teaching a year 1 class this year, big change for her after 8 years.
Youngest returns to play group on Friday in a new room as she is older, at 2 1/2!
We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control!
Enough blabber. Night all (or happy lunchtime to the Kiwis)!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 02 September 2014, 11:11:43 PM
Just ticked over midnight, ...
Night all (or happy lunchtime to the Kiwis)!
Thanks for thinking of us ML ;)
Hope your 'interesting' day goes well :-h
Give it your best shot Lemmy. All the best for the new year.
Yeah !
All the best, Will.
Cheers - Phil
Have you checked all your equipment, Will? Cattle-prod, horse-whip, pepper spray, riot shield.... St Trinians? Bunch of cissies! :D
Thanks guys.
Kids in tomorrow, mantraps and razor wire set up.
.50 cal?
....and the grenade to chuck in as you leave the room.
Quote from: Dour Puritan on 03 September 2014, 07:30:01 PM
....and the grenade to chuck in as you leave the room.
Before you enter is the standard tactic! wellplaced stungrenade would make an impression on the students I guess? :d
Islamist kitchen appliances.
http://usvsth3m.com/post/96690335023/is-your-oven-attempting-to-establish-a-caliphate-in-the (http://usvsth3m.com/post/96690335023/is-your-oven-attempting-to-establish-a-caliphate-in-the)
My computer won't let me see the aforementioned kitchen appliances. Is there a block on IS associated websites?
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwsRX6lCYAANGeD.jpg)
X_X ..... Oh dear.....Should have seen that coming ! ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
It had moved on by the time I worked it out - slow this morning.
Right then, a bit like the upside down calculator. :D
I've never seen a dishwasher with a setting for Rotisserie before. :D
Cheers - Phil
It doubles as a steam-iron too....
Quote from: Techno on 06 September 2014, 09:50:37 AM
I've never seen a dishwasher with a setting for Rotisserie before. :D
Cheers - Phil
Really? Not shopping in the right places then.
Yesterday was working out to be a great day, everything was just falling in place, capped off with the news that the packs of figures in my first major order from Pendraken HQ would be delivered today. :D
But then 'She who must be obeyed' launched the broadside that managed to deflate all my enthusiasm for life. Sitting in her armchair she quite coolly looked around the room and then uttered those dreaded words "The ceiling just doesn't look white anymore". Argh, broadsided full blast, I looked pityfuly up at the ceiling and couldn't argue with her. The problem then was that I know what is coming next, and sure enough as we went to bed she started talking about what colour she would prefer the bedroom to be.
It seems that apart from a few thousand miniature figures needing painting I am also going to be holding 1/4", 1", 2" brushes and paint rollers over the next few weeks! Of course I will get no sympathy from our ungracious offspring (all girls) as last time I tried that they just shrugged and made comments such as "but Dad, you like painting" and "It will be a change for you from painting with those stupid little brushes". Don't they realise that decorating is NOT painting!
Ah well, at least now I have been warned, one day over the next two or so weeks I can expect suddunly to see tins of 5 litres of emulsion to appear and dust sheets brought out the airing cupboard, and for a few days my life will be simple. Until at the end when I am sitting there and look around and start thinking 'did I miss that spot'. (Of course I wouldn't have, because if I had 'She who must be obeyed' would have already pointed it out to me.)
I'm not going to be so ungallant as to suggest that it's important to her because she spends so much time looking at it?
Oh. I just have - FSN
There used to be a cartoon series along those lines.
1:1 scale painting, yurck
Tell them they're all going to be helping. That will a) get it done more quickly (hopefully), and b) stop the smug comments.
Get the whole house done at the same time. Hold a decorating party, you supply the paint, brushes etc and give groups of people a room each to do. At the end, when it's all done have the party with the booze you bought. Job done. Might be a tad more expensive than doing it yourself but the whole gaff gets done double-quick time.
Quote from: Subedai on 27 January 2015, 02:57:34 PM
Get the whole house done at the same time. Hold a decorating party, you supply the paint, brushes etc and give groups of people a room each to do. At the end, when it's all done have the party with the booze you bought. Job done. Might be a tad more expensive than doing it yourself but the whole gaff gets done double-quick time.
For pity's sake don't let them near the booze before or during the painting.
Will there be a forum outing to the new 50 Shades of Grey movie ... :'( :d
(http://cdn.tasteofawesome.com/2013/1/26/tasteofawesome.com_314012_1360263603.jpg)
HAVE any forum members actually read it ?
I think the nearest we got, was 'someone' saying they'd picked it up in WHS and flicked through a couple of pages, before putting it back on the shelf in complete despair at its (lack of) literary content.
Cheers - Phil
Nope, I've not.
Though I do check out a lot of charity shops for books and the amount of paperback copies floating around is astounding - one shop had about five of them just on one shelf.
Maybe a copy of the book could be a prize in the painting competition ;D
I read a paragraph in an online article about the book and was surprised at how bad the writing was. It's almost like high school Mills & Boon with some S&M thrown in for good measure.
Quote from: Techno on 12 February 2015, 02:42:51 PM
HAVE any forum members actually read it ?
I think the nearest we got, was 'someone' saying they'd picked it up in WHS and flicked through a couple of pages, before putting it back on the shelf in complete despair at its (lack of) literary content.
Cheers - Phil
Bought it for the good lady and so had a scan...
Utterly dreadful; really badly written.
Quote from: Leon on 12 February 2015, 04:28:08 PM
I read a paragraph in an online article about the book and was surprised at how bad the writing was. It's almost like high school Mills & Boon with some S&M thrown in for good measure.
How do you know this? :-\
Quote from: fsn on 12 February 2015, 06:44:05 PM
How do you know this? :-\
Maybe he reads Mills and Boon naked :D
On second thoughts... :-& :-& :-&
You just HAD to say that, didn't you Gareth ? X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X
Cheers - Phil.
Mills & Boon isn't just romance nonsense nowadays, I'll tell you.
The publishers have expanded to cover a range of genres, one of which is erotica (which is pretty hardcore, considering you can buy it from WHSmiths). In comparison with the likes of the old erotica publishers of Nexus and Black Lace (that could also be bought from public display) Mills & Boon's erotica selection provide a more story-oriented and plot-driven novel.
As I said earlier, I check out a lot of charity bookshops and try to keep abreast of literary things.
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 12 February 2015, 08:20:44 PM
Mills & Boon isn't just romance nonsense nowadays, I'll tell you.
The publishers have expanded to cover a range of genres, one of which is erotica (which is pretty hardcore, considering you can buy it from WHSmiths). In comparison with the likes of the old erotica publishers of Nexus and Black Lace (that could also be bought from public display) Mills & Boon's erotica selection provide a more story-oriented and plot-driven novel.
As I said earlier, I check out a lot of charity bookshops and try to keep abreast of literary things.
Is that what the grubby gaberdine mack is for? :D
Nah. Easiest way is to hide in plain sight.
If you're going to go purchasing smut, do it in high-viz workman's wear and no-one will bat an eyelid.
Quote from: Hertsblue on 13 February 2015, 11:03:11 AM
Is that what the grubby gaberdine mack is for? :D
Oh, sir, just one more thing...
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 13 February 2015, 11:23:28 AM
Nah. Easiest way is to hide in plain sight.
If you're going to go purchasing smut, do it in high-viz workman's wear and no-one will bat an eyelid.
Roy I would like to complain about your Blog.... sadly you have not answered your own question.....I still do not know how big a gnome is in 10mm.... Good blog otherwise :):):)
Quote from: Maenoferren on 13 February 2015, 02:00:30 PM
Roy I would like to complain about your Blog.... sadly you have not answered your own question.....I still do not know how big a gnome is in 10mm.... Good blog otherwise :):):)
I haven't got that far yet... Those zombies seem to have taken over.
The mongols are still in the packets Leon handed to me at York and the next figure order is shaping up to be about more zombies and survivors.
The zombie project was meant to be just a one-purchase deal and then complete.
Maybe I should rename it to 'So just how big is a zombie apocalypse in 10mm'
Thanks for the kind words.
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 13 February 2015, 03:07:00 PM
Maybe I should rename it to 'So just how big is a zombie apocalypse in 10mm'
Thanks for the kind words.
:D
Read the first volume of 50 and got halfwauy through the second, then decided I'd had enough. If she uttered another "Oh my!" she'd have got a good slap.........oh, wait a minute.
I got halfway through before I gave up. Didn't even get to any of the rude bits. Who the hell writes in first person present?
You just did?
;D =O ;D
;D
Quote from: Last Hussar on 15 February 2015, 04:59:50 AM
I got halfway through before I gave up. Didn't even get to any of the rude bits. Who the hell writes in first person present?
On reading this, Roy decided that the novel wouldn't be for him, as he couldn't abide novels written in the first person.
Realising he still needed to paint some figures, Roy stopped writing this post and ...
Meanwhile in Belfast......
(http://i625.photobucket.com/albums/tt334/SteveW_04/10942613_616834511782233_1729357569814905835_n.jpg) (http://s625.photobucket.com/user/SteveW_04/media/10942613_616834511782233_1729357569814905835_n.jpg.html)
Affraid all I seem to think of whenever I read the title 'Shades of Grey' are classics such as:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8
I must be getting REALLY OLD or of course my taste has just matured and knowing the book wouldn't contain anything new! ;)
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 15 February 2015, 11:32:14 AM
On reading this, Roy decided that the novel wouldn't be for him, as he couldn't abide novels written in the first person.
Realising he still needed to paint some figures, Roy stopped writing this post and ...
;D
In Getagrip's opinion, this doesn't quite work really. Getagrip thinks the forum might become even more silly were everyone to do it.
"That's cos you're pirates! And ever since pirates – begins – pirates only speaks in the present tense, does pirates! First man on this ship as uses the past or pluperfect tense dies where he stands!"
- Pirate Training Day sketch from The Million Pound Radio Show
Quote from: Ithoriel on 15 February 2015, 12:01:49 PM
"That's cos you're pirates! And ever since pirates – begins – pirates only speaks in the present tense, does pirates! First man on this ship as uses the past or pluperfect tense dies where he stands!"
- Pirate Training Day sketch from The Million Pound Radio Show
Show
Well Getagrip stands 'ere corrected and no mistake :D
;D =D> ;D
Good stuff.
... except .... er ..... Last Hussar didn't write in the first person present ... but good fun nevertheless! I know, I am a party pooper. :P
(I got am halfway through before and I gave am giving up. Didn't I am not even get to at any of the rude bits. Who the hell writes in first person present?)
I am :D
You needs a training day you does!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKv5ulewTO4
... and a creche :)
;D =D>
(.... Mrs W too!)
Although I notices the Cap'n saying 'buried' and 'dragged' - there bees double standards, methinks.
Westmarcher, such pedantry is unappreciated!
:P
Quote from: fsn on 15 February 2015, 02:30:53 PM
Westmarcher, such pedantry is unappreciated!
:P
Since when? Was that when we became a serious forum? :-\
Quote from: fsn on 15 February 2015, 02:30:53 PM
Westmarcher, such pedantry is unappreciated!
:P
Begs yer pardon, Your Semenship. And thankee (seriously*). Coz I knows I deserves a buccaneer
fool full.
Are (bloody auto-correct) Arrhh!
* because this is a serious forum.
Quote from: Westmarcher on 15 February 2015, 02:54:42 PM
Begs yer pardon, Your Semenship. And thankee (seriously*). Coz I knows I deserves a buccaneer fool full. Are (bloody auto-correct) Arrhh!
* because this is a serious forum.
"Semenship"... :o
On this forum... :o
Seriously??? :o :o :o
Begs yer pardons, me hearties (a bad boy did it and ran away). Seamanship. That's what I means to say.
:-[
:^o
Btw. How many pirates does it take to change a light bulb?
Four. One to change the light bulb, and two to resuscitate the fourth pirate who got his hook caught in the socket. :)
I googled semenship...
and the first thing it came back with was this -
[from] showpig-auctions.com
(http://www.showpig-auctions.com/AuctionPhotos/bigaffair082014/small/1.JPG)
Quote... FEES will be charged to the winning bidder on the semen ship date!
Stupid google! I wrote semenship. Not semen ship.
Still, it would be something to look forward to receiving ... better than getting a parcel from Pendraken through the post
I googled Welsh Semen Ship and it came up with this:
(http://www3.telus.net/public/collinm/Flashy%20Welsh%20Mountain%20Pony%20Stallion%20At%20Stud.jpg)
Not what I expected :D
The one on the left looks as if he enjoys his job.
No wonder the sheep in wales carry rocket launchers around with them, not only jave they to watch out for the daamn shepherds but now the Welsh ponies as well! ;D
Quote from: Fig.ht on 15 February 2015, 06:29:58 PM
No wonder the sheep in wales carry rocket launchers around with them, not only jave they to watch out for the daamn shepherds but now the Welsh ponies as well! ;D
On second thought , let's not go to Wales. 'Tis a silly place.
Sheep ..... and ponies ....., eh? Can't live with them, can't live without them.
Major food source at Tesco.
And the sheep...
We (my family that is) ate horse in Spain. The hotel served it up. Everyone ate it (the Brit holidaymakers that is), liked it, we asked what it was - told horse - and it didn't bother me or my family. Don't know about anyone else. ...or was it Yugoslavia :-\
It wasn't Cardiff. We only ate breakfast there. I had one of those Kelloggs small box cereals.
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 16 February 2015, 04:55:37 PM
We (my family that is) ate horse in Spain. The hotel served it up. Everyone ate it (the Brit holidaymakers that is), liked it, we asked what it was - told horse - and it didn't bother me or my family. Don't know about anyone else. ...or was it Yugoslavia :-\
I always try keeping off eating countries, a bit too earthy for my tastes! :)
Except Turkey's!
Leaving that apostrophe there to annoy F'K!
And Chile
Or in times of hardship, Wales
I normally just go to Iceland
I would rather stay Hungary! :-& :-&
Here we go again.
Coats all round?
No, don't give the coats back, it's Balti'c in here :D
;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Fenton on 16 February 2015, 07:13:38 PM
I normally just go to Iceland
hmmm - ate puffin in Iceland once (note I state once!!)
It was a foul fowl - like fish flavoured chicken that had gone off.........
Quote from: Vamboozle on 16 February 2015, 08:58:24 PM
hmmm - ate puffin in Iceland once (note I state once!!)
It was a foul fowl - like fish flavoured chicken that had gone off.........
Woo hoo; he's going to fit right in :D
Foul, fowl, fish and chicken all in one hit =D>
Quote from: Fig.ht on 16 February 2015, 06:20:41 PM
I always try keeping off eating countries, a bit too earthy for my tastes! :)
I couldn't stomach Greece. I once read somewhere that it was a very popular classic, nowadays though it isn't too rich so is unappealing to the German tastes.
Come on, I'm on 297 post count ... I want to reach 300 and see if I get promoted to captain!
Hurry up then....You've only got one to go, now ! ;)
Cheers - Phil.
Did he get promoted then?
yeah. it was a post stating that maybe my last post was possibly racist/sexist/bigoted and that i wish i could delete or modify.
really, didn't think it was that bad.
I only looked at it quickly and wondered what Batman was doing with a camel
Next to so much on this forum, it was harmless. I'd show it to my Pakistani colleague without worry that she'd be hurt.
Congratulations on your promotion Roy !
You can always ask Leon to delete/modify a post.
(Apparently I could do it for you.....If you really wanted me to.)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 17 February 2015, 11:34:36 AM
Congratulations on your promotion Roy !
You can always ask Leon to delete/modify a post.
(Apparently I could do it for you.....If you really wanted me to.)
Cheers - Phil
Can you delete all of FSN's...just for a laugh :D :D
no worries.
it was my comment - about her being muzzled - that made me think twice. just a normal bit of humour to me, but then I thought it could be taken differently by others.
best not delete it - the loss of the post may see me demoted to lieutenant again ;)
How many times have you been demoted to lieutenant already?
Quote from: FierceKitty on 17 February 2015, 12:10:40 PM
How many times have you been demoted to lieutenant already?
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 17 February 2015, 12:09:01 PM
no worries.
it was my comment - about her being muzzled - that made me think twice. just a normal bit of humour to me, but then I thought it could be taken differently by others.
best not delete it - the loss of the post may see me demoted to lieutenant again
fixed ;)
I thought you were pushing a few boundaries there. I believe von Ziethen was broken to the ranks once or twice, wasn't he?
I haven't met that forum user yet. nor Corporal Kelly
Quote from: getagrip on 17 February 2015, 11:39:35 AM
Can you delete all of FSN's...just for a laugh :D :D
It's OK. I have them all backed up, and could add them again very quickly. :D
Wouldn't want to deprive you all of my wit and wisdom.
Was it a camel toe comment Roy?
Quote from: Leman on 17 February 2015, 01:58:56 PM
Was it a camel toe comment Roy?
better than a moose knuckle :-t
(https://iamsocruel.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/moose.jpeg?w=529)
Oh good grief!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 17 February 2015, 12:21:02 PM
I thought you were pushing a few boundaries there. I believe von Ziethen was broken to the ranks once or twice, wasn't he?
He was certainly cashiered once. He was also very quick-tempered and fought over 70 duels.
I've heard of Camel Toe but I'd never heard Moose Knuckles before, made me chuckle. Almost as good as Budgie Smugglers.
Quote from: Hertsblue on 18 February 2015, 08:27:04 PM
He was certainly cashiered once. He was also very quick-tempered and fought over 70 duels.
He'd have made a good wargamer.
Yeah, a very good SOLO wargamer.
probably featured before...
(http://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic2287458_md.jpg)
Yoda's advice to Luke Skywalker after a new edition of a rules book was released...
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/b8/b8/bd/b8b8bd95496d84316f267641a523cc8f.jpg)
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 21 February 2015, 01:14:37 PM
probably featured before...
(http://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic2287458_md.jpg)
Spot on ;D
A larger version of that is stuck to my wargames room door. :-bd
UKIP want to get rid of Doctor Who - Farage says the Beeb shouldn't do Entertainment.
Most nights, they don't.
True !
Thank goodness for the DVD player.
Speaking of which.....Anyone else watched 'The Battle of the Five Armies', recently ?
Have to admit I found it somewhat tedious. (Though I'll probably watch it again in a few months, and think it was brilliant.)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Last Hussar on 03 May 2015, 05:14:48 PM
UKIP want to get rid of Doctor Who - Farage says the Beeb shouldn't do Entertainment.
That will be the end of UKIP party election broadcasts as well then
Quote from: fsn on 03 May 2015, 05:18:25 PM
Most nights, they don't.
You are confusing 'entertaining' with 'of interest to you'. Do you really want to be stuck with ITV?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3q2iZuU5WM
Point taken.
I am a great supporter of BBC Radio, and there are a number of excellent programs on the TV channels - "Only Connect", "Sherlock", "The Musketeers" - and the factual programs are always good - Sunday morning has the triple whammy of Marr, "Big Questions" and "Sunday Politics" which just calls for a relaxed breakfast.
However, there is a fair amount of dross on. Look at BBC1 today: 2 lots of Match of the Day, Bargain Hunt, Escape to the Country, Songs of Praise, repeat of Pointless Celebrities, Countryfile, Antiques Roadshow, touching drama about cancer then two more football programs. Only thing worth watching there is the C word which has the ever watchable Sheridan Smith, but I won't because I'd just cry.
If they'd just give up showing any sport and spent the money on proper programs then I'd be happy.
There are lots of people who think the BBC should show more football! Unfortunately there are a lot of people who like the filler, and they need it because making high quality drama is very expensive.
Did you see The Game on Thursday? Proper 'Smillie' territory: it looked like it was taking place in the same organisation at the Gary Oldman film? I might rewatch the first episode, just to see what I missed, or maybe watch it all week on week and then binge it again at the end, to see what links where!
Quote from: Techno on 03 May 2015, 05:26:18 PM
True !
Thank goodness for the DVD player.
Speaking of which.....Anyone else watched 'The Battle of the Five Armies', recently ?
Have to admit I found it somewhat tedious. (Though I'll probably watch it again in a few months, and think it was brilliant.)
Cheers - Phil
Yes, I thought it was about half an hour too long. The actual battle scenes were well realised, if a little mechanical (no armies were ever
that well drilled), but the single combat at the end could have been pared back significantly. And the old device of "the villain's down and out and we can relax, oh, no, here he comes again!" is so predictable we were all waiting for it.
Nevertheless, Phil, when it comes down to a reasonable price no doubt I will add it to our collection.
Battle of Five Armies is a perfect example of cinema's tendency to create films where "the names remain the same but the plot has been changed to protect the innocent" out of books with well-described, perfectly filmable action! :(
Quote from: Ithoriel on 04 May 2015, 10:11:07 AM
Battle of Five Armies is a perfect example of cinema's tendency to create films where "the names remain the same but the plot has been changed to protect the innocent" out of books with well-described, perfectly filmable action! :(
This is particuarly true of the Hobbit Triology. They have very little to do with the orriginal book for most of the fiim. Mainly because it would have only made a single film if he had followed the book.
To stop myself being anmnoyed by the inaccuracies I treat them as " films set in the fantasy world created by JRR Tolkien"
The Lord of the Rings Triology was a better set of films as far as the orrigina book was concerned.
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 04 May 2015, 10:18:21 AM
The Lord of the Rings Triology was a better set of films as far as the original book was concerned.
But even they took some liberties.
Somehow didn't mind those, Ray....Though I felt I should have done, sometimes ! ;D ;D ;D
Anyway....I'm going to dive into the bath, now
I stink of agricultural herbicide....Poo ! (Well...This is Blather, Waffle and Poppycock.)
Cheers - Phil, the Sycamore Seedling Slayer. (THOUSANDS of the leetle deevils.)
Quote from: Techno on 04 May 2015, 07:38:16 PM
I stink of agricultural herbicide....Poo ! (Well...This is Blather, Waffle and Poppycock.)
I recommend mints, or stick to vodka if I were you.
I could certainly almost 'taste' the stuff. :-&
(You weren't expecting me to use a face mask, surely ? ;))
Cheers - Phil
Well, a nice yoghurt and cucumber balm might work wonders, Phil. :D
Go away ! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
I cannot wait until tomorrow morning ! :)
I'd been avoiding going to the optician for quite a while now.....As my last pair of specs cost me the Princely sum of almost £500 !!
(Overpriced frames......Complex lenses...made from glass, rather than plastic...Then drastically thinned down. Otherwise they'd be SO bloomin' thick !)
For the past few months though, I've been finding I've been pushing the Optivisor further and further down my nose, so I could really focus on the wee men.
Doing things like teeth on the sleke's, has seemed to be getting harder and harder. X_X
Soooo....A couple of weeks ago I thought.....Don't care...I've just GOT to have some new glasses.
Should have gone to Specsavers (Sooner)
Couldn't believe how much my eyes have changed (For the better !)
No longer need complex lenses.....Each eye has 'improved' by two diopters, and when the optician said......
"This is the prescription you should be using......(Then pressed a button on the computer).....and this is what are using".......I simply couldn't believe the difference.
(As much as anything, it'll be nice to see the computer screen properly ! :P)
Three pairs of glasses.....Two long vision, one for reading.....For less than half the price I paid those rip-off merchants for one pair a few years ago.
(Fair enough...I'm going for thinned plastic, rather than glass this time...which DOES make a fair old difference, price wise.)
With luck I'll be able to do fillings in the teeth now ! ;)
Cheers - Phil.
PS......When did 'they' stop using those trays of lenses which they slid into the wire frames ?.....It was so much easier to tell if 'A' was better than 'B' by the lass pressing a button on the computer, this time, as the difference was so instant...I was impressed !!
(http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/35000/Eye-Glasses-of-Marty-Feldman--35196.jpg)
Very dapper Mr T. Very dapper. Sets off your eyes. Let's see the reading ones ...
(http://www.theage.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1059244555427_2003/07/28/goggles,0.jpg)
How do your eyes get better?
I am imagining Phil as Welsh Professor Branestawm
Quote from: fsn on 10 May 2015, 08:01:36 AM
How do your eyes get better?
Age, Nobby. :'(
For me, anyway, because I'm so short sighted.
The 'long sighted' problem I have now, because I'm so ancient, has AT LAST started to mean that I'm not quite so short sighted as I have been in the past.
My eyes are
'sort of' correcting themselves....HAH !!
I actually wonder how many of our older colleagues should be getting checked for 'long sightedness'.... and perhaps get them selves a pair of reading glasses to use in conjunction with the the dear old Optivisor.
Cheers - Phil
Glass lenses, Phil? That's about as comfortable as nylon shirts. Those goggles must have weighed a ton. :o
They were/are a bit heavy, Ray ! ;D ;D ;D
I've had to use a 'sports' headband to stop them falling off for quite a few years, now.
But....Got the new specs today !
Going to have to have a 'play' to see which work best with the Optivisor, for making the wee men.
The reading specs are a total revelation.....I can see the PC screen, without double vision, now !.....Huzzah !!(I've even shrunk the text down to what it was before.)
I could almost sculpt without the Optivisor at all.....I think they would just be too far away to do fine detail.
Mind you.....When I look out of the window with these on....Everything's a complete blur outside !! ;D ;D ;D
What I'm looking forward to the most, is being able to read in the evening.
I won't have to shut one eye, and hold the book right up to my face and read one word at a time ! (Bit of an exaggeration.....But not a lot. ;))
Bet I'll have a headache by the end of the day, while I get used to the new bins ! ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
So in summary, you can now WORK FASTER ;) ;D ;D
Quote from: Techno on 11 May 2015, 10:00:09 AM
They were/are a bit heavy, Ray ! ;D ;D ;D
I've had to use a 'sports' headband to stop them falling off for quite a few years, now.
But....Got the new specs today !
Going to have to have a 'play' to see which work best with the Optivisor, for making the wee men.
The reading specs are a total revelation.....I can see the PC screen, without double vision, now !.....Huzzah !!(I've even shrunk the text down to what it was before.)
I could almost sculpt without the Optivisor at all.....I think they would just be too far away to do fine detail.
Mind you.....When I look out of the window with these on....Everything's a complete blur outside !! ;D ;D ;D
What I'm looking forward to the most, is being able to read in the evening.
I won't have to shut one eye, and hold the book right up to my face and read one word at a time ! (Bit of an exaggeration.....But not a lot. ;))
Bet I'll have a headache by the end of the day, while I get used to the new bins ! ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Crikey Phil, how long ago did you last go to the Opticians!!!
Quote from: paulr on 11 May 2015, 08:15:32 PM
So in summary, you can now WORK FASTER ;) ;D ;D
Thanks - Gove's only been Minister for 2 days and already I'm seeing this...
Quote from: paulr on 11 May 2015, 08:15:32 PM
So in summary, you can now WORK FASTER ;) ;D ;D
STOP STEALING MY LINES....
IanS ;)
Quote from: fred 12df on 11 May 2015, 08:29:24 PM
Crikey Phil, how long ago did you last go to the Opticians!!!
5 + years ago, Forbes ? :-\..(didn't really believe my eyes would change quite so drastically at my time of life. ;))
Cheers - Phil. (Who
may be able to WORK FASTER, once he's got used to the new prescription. :-*)
Quote from: Techno on 12 May 2015, 07:49:33 AM
5 + years ago, Forbes ? :-\..(didn't really believe my eyes would change quite so drastically at my time of life. ;))
Cheers - Phil. (Who may be able to WORK FASTER, once he's got used to the new prescription. :-*)
Don't you believe it, Phil. Within the last two to three years I've had to go back to distance glasses for driving and watching the box. I think mother nature's still got a trick or two up her sleeve, even this near stumps.
Cheer me up :(....Why don't you, Ray ? ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 11 May 2015, 10:00:09 AM
When I look out of the window with these on.... Everything's a complete blur outside !! [/i] ;D ;D ;D
On a cheery note, might not be the specs, Phil. If it's anything like where I live, that'll be the rain streaming down the window. :)
For a change.....Not today ! ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
The one day in a millennium ?
IanS
It'll probably be on the news, this evening ! :D
Cheers - Phil
I suspect we got all Phil's rain here today :(
Back to normal, for Wales today ! :'( :'( :'(.....i.e.....WET !)
I'm glad I 'napalmed' yet more weeds (sycamore seedlings) last night, while it was still 'nice'.
Cheers - Phil
Bet it gets to N. Wales for about 16.00,so that I can see if DW fleet really does float..
IanS
It's been raining here since ten thirty.
Is that the year, or the time?
Yes.
I'm not that old, for pete's sake.... I only look medieval.
I high-fived a vicar.
Cool! 8)
Mrs Techno heard a vicar say the 'f' word, when he put diesel in his petrol car.
(Or was it the other way round ?)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 18 May 2015, 07:00:09 AM
Mrs Techno heard a vicar say the 'f' word, when he put diesel in his petrol car.
(Or was it the other way round ?)
Cheers - Phil
The vicar heard Mrs T use the f word?
You've got to have your head pretty firmly up your a**e to do that - there's a big plate saying "diesel" on the nozzle. Doing it the other way (putting petrol in a diesel car) is very difficult because the diesel orifice is narrower than the petrol nozzle.
Quote from: Fenton on 18 May 2015, 07:45:13 AM
The vicar heard Mrs T use the f word?
Certainly NOT.....She covered her ears !
Quote from: Hertsblue on 18 May 2015, 09:17:17 AM
You've got to have your head pretty firmly up your a**e to do that - there's a big plate saying "diesel" on the nozzle. Doing it the other way (putting petrol in a diesel car) is very difficult because the diesel orifice is narrower than the petrol nozzle.
It was the day said vicar was moving into 'the parish' and his new home, in the village just a couple of miles down the road from where we used to live, so I don't think he was concentrating very well, that day ! ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 18 May 2015, 10:35:05 AM
Certainly NOT.....She covered her ears !
I am confused now... Are you saying Mrs T is the new vicar?
X_X
If it's easier for you to understand, Steve.......She can be the new vicar.
(She really ought to be made a Saint, for putting up with me, for nigh on 40 years. ;)....Hmmmm :-\....Thinking about it, she already has ! :P)...Does this mean I'll have to buy her a ruby ring next year ? X_X :-SS)
Cheers - Phil
"She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her." - Proverbs 3:15
Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 May 2015, 12:54:11 PM
"She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her." - Proverbs 3:15
I'm certainly not telling her
THAT ! ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Maybe this is the reason your eyesight is getting better . Mrs T has the power of The Holy See!
Your coat, Sir ! :P ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Last Hussar on 17 May 2015, 07:50:00 PM
I high-fived a vicar.
I went to the new Bishop of Gloucester's 50th birthday party.
Did you high-five him though?
Quote from: Last Hussar on 18 May 2015, 05:52:35 PM
Did you high-five him though?
No I did not high five her.
LOTS of people have been to a bishop's bash.
My Dad 's cousin is the bishop of Colchester, does that count?
No, it don't read or write neither...
But money talks.
That makes the Bishop of Colchester your first cousin once removed.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 19 May 2015, 06:03:37 AM
My Dad 's cousin is the bishop of Colchester, does that count?
Does he have it tattooed on the back of his neck?
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 18 May 2015, 05:14:59 PM
I went to the new Bishop of Gloucester's 50th birthday party.
Were you invited?
Quote from: Last Hussar on 19 May 2015, 06:59:23 PM
But money talks.
That makes the Bishop of Colchester your first cousin once removed.
Hadn't realised he had retired: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Morgan_(bishop)
Quote from: mad lemmey on 19 May 2015, 07:43:06 PM
Hadn't realised he had retired: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Morgan_(bishop)
I do like the middle name. Is it a traditional Lemmy family name?
Only in cadet branches! ;)
Us Denhams are all have Stuart as a middle name, apart from my daughters, who don't!
Quote from: Fenton on 19 May 2015, 07:31:56 PM
Were you invited?
Strangely I was, ( She obviously does not read this forum ) She is an old School freind of Mrs Orcs. who has been invited to her Consecration at Canterbury Catherderal . I didn't get an invite to that - perhaps she has read the forum after all :D
By 'invited' do you mean 'hired with a broom'.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 20 May 2015, 07:27:07 PM
By 'invited' do you mean 'hired with a broom'.
No she has an official invitation.
I meant you!
ARGHHHHHH !!!!!
Photography wise, I've actually got to use my brain again. (Something that's particularly difficult at my age. :'( :'( :'()
Although I like to think that I had a damn good idea of all the variables, when we still used 'film' and the dear old style SLRs....I've got so used to sticking either of the digital cameras on 'P' (i.e lazy git) mode......Then using auto focus, and (where necessary) macro, or super macro...That I've never bothered to learn how to use the digital SLR properly.
Now I've got to..... X_X.....So I can take nice pics of Mrs T's latest creations, so there's no shadow in the photo at all......(And give it 'sparkly effects ' where appropriate.)
Soooooooo.....A ring flash (wait for the smutty comments) was purchased, which I've now got to remember how to use,...plus various special effects filters.
Ohhhh...This is going to take me a while to work out !
(Takes nice pictures of wee men though.....So that's a plus !)
Cheers - Mr Headache.
Cracked open the laptop tonight - bit nerve wracking, but it seems to have worked. I won't put the full story here, but for those who's tech goes past fire-hardened pointy stick, full story here
https://lasthussar.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/i-wonder-if-new-surgeons-feel-like-this/ (https://lasthussar.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/i-wonder-if-new-surgeons-feel-like-this/)
So Put a round on my Mess Tab, malts all round!
I've done similar a few times LH and it's never fun, though I reckon it's easier than it used to be.
Recently replaced the screen on my phone - I think my hands are too big and my eyesight too feeble to be doing this sort of thing much longer :(
Well done, LH. :-bd
I'll have a 'go' at repairing certain electrical appliances....But if there's ever a problem with either the PC or Mrs T's lapdog (sic) it's off to a 'shop'.
Cheers - Phil
Out of warranty, and possibly cheaper to buy a new one for the cost of labour on some things.
THAT !.....To me is the sad thing 'nowadays.'
Though it's been like that for a long, long time now.
Cheaper to throw the old item away, and buy a new one, rather than bother to repair it. :(
Cheers - Phil
Since I'm now retired labour costs are zero on DIY fixes.
The Chinese factories that make so many of the components seem happy to sell individual parts to oiks like me for a reasonable price and to ship it at a more than reasonable postage charge.
Al that plus the chance to give yourself the odd electric shock ... what's not to like? :)
Mmmmmmm.........Electric shock =P~ =P~ =P~
Cheers - Homer
Quote from tonight.
"I had no interest in the ACW, no figures and no terrain, and now I've got loads because I was forced to give Leon my card details"
Quote from: Last Hussar on 16 June 2015, 11:35:37 PM
Quote from tonight.
"I had no interest in the ACW, no figures and no terrain, and now I've got loads because I was forced to give Leon my card details"
:D
Someone else with a standing order to Leon then?
Apparently its my fault for buying "They couldn't hit an elephant", and having 10mm already.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 16 June 2015, 11:35:37 PM
Quote from tonight.
"I had no interest in the ACW, no figures and no terrain, and now I've got loads because I was forced to give Leon my card details"
I actually said "YOU forced me to give Leon my card details"! - admittedly it was by introducing me to They Couldn't Hit an Elephant and already having ACW 10mm figures.
You know that conversation at the start of the evening with Broni, where it was obviously all your fault for doing something you didn't actually do? Yeah...
Wargamers logic "You own X. I therefore must absolutely buy X because of you know, reasons." I've got £100 worth of plastic Wars of the Roses. I'm not entirely sure why...
Quote from: Techno on 05 June 2015, 06:44:03 PM
Mmmmmmm.........Electric shock =P~ =P~ =P~
Cheers - Homer
...ohhh...have mercy, mistress....
Here's an interesting fact. Well, in passing.
If you have the Citroen roofbars that have the pentagonal allen key you can't get a replacement if you lose it. The guys at the Citroen garage have assured me of this. Absolutely no way what so ever. Impossible.
Which is odd, because I bought one off ebay from a part supplier.
Completely knackered after 6 hours spent in the garden this afternoon. There's an 8ft square spot at the bottom where a previous owner had hard standing with a shed we think. When someone took the shed down, they just decided to cover over all the bricks/rocks/rubble with soil and leave it. I'm sure I've pulled out enough bricks and junk today to rebuild the whole bloody thing.
Plus they've had a half dozen trees in at some point, but in a similar act of laziness, when they took the trees down they only cut the stumps to groundlevel or thereabouts. So the lawnmower hits them every time we cut the grass... >:( We've got three stumps out, three more to go tomorrow.
Once that's all done, I can finally level off the ground, re-soil it and plant some new grass.
And all of this is in a rented house, it's not even our garden!
It sounds like its time for Pendraken to hire another intern and to 'engage in any other duties as required'
Blimey!
SIX Hours !!!
Mrs T and I wandered around 3 of the fields looking for, and pulling/digging out any odd bits of ragwort we found. (A yearly chore that's pretty much under control,)
We were only out there for an hour and a half, at most....but were both cream crackered by the time we'd finished.
No wonder you were shattered, Leon. (Mind you...You do have the energy of youth.) :D
Cheers - Phil
Why are you digging up ragwort? :-\
(http://www.ulaar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/getafix_brewing.jpg)
(https://conzervative.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/getafix-getting-fixed.jpg)
(http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/10/dremel-200-100057583-orig.jpg)
(http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l575/PendrakenMiniatures/Masters%20Pics/WWII%20French%20foot_zpssbu0txpi.jpg)
;D ;D =O =O =O :-bd
Quote from: fsn on 05 July 2015, 10:10:43 AM
Why are you digging up ragwort? :-\
'Cos it's a very nasty cumulative poison to the gee-gees, if they eat it.
They eventually die of liver failure.
Having said that....If they've got grass to chomp on, they won't touch the 'fresh' stuff at all.
Trouble is...If it's in hay (and dried) they won't notice it...But the poison's still potent.
Mrs Techno goes ape-poo if she finds any in any hay we buy in.
Regarding the illustrations.....They would be more appropriate for the 'magic mushrooms' that pop up in the fields in Autumn. X_X
Cheers - Phil
Garlic has the same effect on cats, by the way. It attacks their livers, and they have no way of purging it from their little systems, so it accumulates. You are not doing your kitty a favour if you give him a slice of roast lamb which has been flavoured the way the Good Lord intended. Even cutting a piece from the joint before spiking it with the divine bulb is a very bad idea if the same knife has been used for the flavouring first.
(Listen, you bloody computer, I said "flavour" and I meant it!)
That....I did not know.
(Though now, I haven't got any felines to worry about.)
Cheers - Phil.
How then, do you protect cats against vampires?
Quote from: fsn on 05 July 2015, 05:29:35 PM
How then, do you protect cats against vampires?
They're blood suckers already.....So they don't need protecting. ;)
(I've had blood poisoning from cats on three occasions, so I speak from experience. :P)
Cheers - Phil.
I vant to suck your bloood!
(http://orig10.deviantart.net/52bb/f/2008/341/d/a/vampire_cat_by_slonik_chan.jpg)
Nice selfie Nobby.
IanS
Anyone know why CD's from Japan are SO pricey ?
I looked up a not particularly desperate 'want' on Amazon.
Only available as a Japanese import for £66.
Certainly wasn't remotely interested at that price.....Somewhere around £10 I'd have gone for.
"I know," thought I.....I'll look it up on Amazon Japan, and use some contacts to get it for me over there.
"Aha .......Found it !".......Now what does 8,000 Yen equate to ?.....About £42 apparently.......Still WAY, WAY too pricey.
My question is why such inflated prices over there ?.......Are they "better quality".....Or was it expensive, because there's unlikely to be much demand for it ?
Cheers - Puzzled of Wales.
I think in general everything in Japan is expensive
Just sent you an email with an idea or two
Orcs
I've bought CDs in Japan; they were very reasonably priced. They must be paying a lot to cross frontiers.
Thanks, chaps.
This particular album just seems very pricey, even in Japan.
Looking around the Amazon Japan site......Not ALL CD's are daft prices.
This one must just be a bit obscure, with little demand.
'Knowing' how the music industry works, for some of the stuff I like, it'll probably be released on a budget label at some time, anyway.
Cheers - Phil
Btw, Japan's not as pricey as people think. I've been twice, and fully intend to go again, maybe taking my women with me.
How did you handle the language barrier?
I've lived in many countries. You learn to improvise, and take advantage of the widespread use of English. Lee had the worse time, since the Japanese would look at my red-bearded Celtic face, then at her east Asian face, and proceed to speak to her at great length, ignoring her protestations that she was Thai and spoke less Japanese than I do, and also ignoring her face, which doesn't look remotely Japanese (she's of Chinese stock).
Curiously, I think the place where I've felt most alien while speaking English was actually New York!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 15 July 2015, 10:05:53 AM
I've lived in many countries. You learn to improvise, and take advantage of the widespread use of English. Lee had the worse time, since the Japanese would look at my red-bearded Celtic face, then at her east Asian face, and proceed to speak to her at great length, ignoring her protestations that she was Thai and spoke less Japanese than I do, and also ignoring her face, which doesn't look remotely Japanese (she's of Chinese stock).
Curiously, I think the place where I've felt most alien while speaking English was actually New York!
That's classic! ;D
Mind you, how many Americans are there in NY? :D
Seven hours twitting (sic) about yesterday because the M-I-L managed to fall over in the garden. ~X( ~X( ~X(
Cheers - Phil
Just worked out what MIL was. Initially, I thought you'd just left off a letter, then I contemplated rural structures ("Mare Inducing Ledge", "Minor Incineration Lodge", perhaps "Marmalade Investment Lattice") ... then it struck me that you must have brought down a Russian helicopter with the Bren (for which, "Kudos" by the way).
In the wee small hours, I realised that you meant the Mother In Law. I do hope she did not sustain too much injury, but since you were "twitting" about, I imagine it may have been somewhat serious.
I do hope that all is well.
Hope she is okay mate.
Hope is is ok and that you aren't in too much trouble ;)
On the Isle of Wights, we're in Ryde for the day, anyone know where the curry house the Beatles frequented is?
You know, the one they wrote a song about...
"Tikka in Ryde!"
Coat please...
Quote from: Techno on 19 August 2015, 06:06:35 AM
Seven hours twitting (sic) about yesterday because the M-I-L managed to fall over in the garden. ~X( ~X( ~X(
Cheers - Phil
Hope she is all ok mate.
I had a horrid M-I-L. Managed to dispose of her when I got rid of the W.I.F.E. (2 for the very expensive price of 1 ) :-bd :-bd
Current Mother-out-of-Law is fine. Drives my other half nuts, but no issues from me.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 19 August 2015, 10:26:20 AM
On the Isle of Wights, we're in Ryde for the day, anyone know where the curry house the Beatles frequented is?
You know, the one they wrote a song about...
"Tikka in Ryde!"
Coat please...
I looked for a Curry house in Ryde only to be told there were NAAN there!!
Any way I did not agree with the bloke who told me this so we had a bit of an Argy Bhajee.
His wife was reall abusive too, so I had to Tikka off!
A policeman came aolng and said " Aloo, aloo, aloo , what a Korai on"
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 19 August 2015, 12:21:54 PM
I looked for a Curry house in Ryde only to be told there were NAAN there!!
Well, that's Korma for you!
Pulao the other one!
Wheres ther cloakroom attendent went you need him - PHIL PHIL
IanS
Quote from: fsn on 19 August 2015, 08:02:58 AM
I do hope that all is well.
Thanks, Nobby et al.
Yes....She's fine.....Though she managed to make a
complete mess of her knees and the area surrounding them...(Blood everywhere)......And she's now got a couple of nice black eyes developing where she dented the lawn with her face.
She wanted us (Me...Mrs Techno, and a neighbour) to move her....But then went into panic mode if we tried......So we had to wait for an ambliance (sic).....Then go into the local hospital to sandblast all the dirt out of wounds.
Cheers - Phil.
Just saw on msn news that the original Batgirl - Yvonne Craig - has passed on.
There goes many a young nerds first TV crush I imagine..... :(
Quote from: ianrs54 on 19 August 2015, 03:27:02 PM
Wheres ther cloakroom attendent went you need him - PHIL PHIL
IanS
Ooops.....Sorry....Here you are, sir.
Quote from: Tawa on 19 August 2015, 06:09:19 PM
Just saw on msn news that the original Batgirl - Yvonne Craig - has passed on.
There goes many a young nerds first TV crush I imagine..... :(
Nope :-\.....Don't remember her at all....Though having had a 'Google'...the Star Trek character she played looks vaguely familiar.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 19 August 2015, 06:25:40 PM
Nope :-\.....Don't remember her at all....Though having had a 'Google'...the Star Trek character she played looks vaguely familiar.
Cheers - Phil
Don't remember Batgirl!
That should be "Cheers - Phil-istine" (see what I did there?)
No, Nobby..... :-\
I can 'see' Batman, Robin, The Joker, The Riddler, Cat Woman, The Penguin, Alfred and Commissioner Gordon from the original series.....But Batgirl......Don't remember her at all. :(
Cheers - Phil (E. Stine.) :P ;)
Yep Looking her up on Google I remeber her, but at about 5 or 6 I was too young to realise her true potential
Quote from: Techno on 20 August 2015, 09:32:46 AMCommissioner Gordon
His daughter, the librarian :D
Nope...Still none the wiser. :(
(Anyway....The only librarian worth talking about is an orangutan. :D)
Cheers - Phil
(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03412/YvonneCraig_3412063b.jpg)
(https://saboteur365.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/yvonne-craig-bikini.jpg?w=584)
Memory jogger for Techno - not for the Top Totty thread.
Now I know you're all having a laugh.
It was in black & white when I watched it, in my 'yoof'. ;)
None of this high tech, modern, colour stuff.
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Techno on 20 August 2015, 06:14:14 PM
Now I know you're all having a laugh.
It was in black & white when I watched it, in my 'yoof'. ;)
Cheers - Phil.
Now your having a laugh - We
know in your "Yoof" it was first the Wax Phonograph Cylinder followed by that new fangled wireless ;D ;D
Rats !
I've been rumbled. :-$
Cheers - Phil
It's a well known fact that the entire world was black and white until Mr Eastman, of Kodak fame invented colour in the 1920s. He didn't know what to do with the new fangled invention, but it became a fashionable gimmick at high class parties. The British establishment wasn't impressed, and so whilst the USA largely converted to colour after the war (except some southern states that still resisted colour until the 1960s) and it quickly found popularity in the far east, Britain remained largely colour free until it was introduced by the Heath government in 1970. I remember the lessons at school, singing "red and yellow and pink and blue" rather than "grey and grey and lighter grey and medium grey" and the infamous Colour Compensation Boards when people who found that their dress sense in black & white was impeccable, with the introduction of colour they looked ridiculous applied for adjustments or took the financial settlement, accepted that they would never colour co-ordinate and became golfers.
Of course, the introduction of colour began in the big cities. Birmingham was chosen as the test bed, and the results, as can be seen to this day, looked washed out and rather dull. There were claims that British "colour" cost more to implement US "color" because of the extra letter, but proper spelling prevailed, and the later international colour standard ICS 7465/1982 is basically a triumph of the British BS 29652.12 over the US "ColorMe" system.
However, even in Britain the roll out of colour did not go smoothly. The Highlands of Scotland have been given an intensity of colour that was due to the previous night's consumption at a wedding of one of the colour-layer's daughters, and parts of Presbyterian Wales thought colour sinful and the work of the Devil and so fought it's introduction. Indeed, one hold-out area refused colour until it was also forced to drop it's Sunday drinking ban in 1996.
This then, is why Techno saw the Batman TV series, as we all did, in B&W in the 1960's. It's because colour hadn't been introduced to UK.
Simples.
By the way, if you're going to tell me that you remember the 1960s as being in colour it is either a) the good work of the Memory Colour Specialists or b) the work of the strange substances regularly partaken during that decade.
Well done
Finally a sensible explanation of why we have tartan
Quote from: Techno on 19 August 2015, 04:18:04 PM
Thanks, Nobby et al.
Yes....She's fine.....Though she managed to make a complete mess of her knees and the area surrounding them...(Blood everywhere)......And she's now got a couple of nice black eyes developing where she dented the lawn with her face.
Thats good Phil.
BUT
When horses make a complete mess of thier legs you shoot them. Can you do the same for Mother-in-laws? :-\
I think we'd be on dubious legal ground there, Mark. ;)
She was lucky she didn't cut her femoral artery.....She fell on an open pair of secateurs !
If anything, this has been a real wake-up call for her.
For ages.....Mrs T and I have been trying to get her to ditch her walking stick (She's SO, SO unsteady on her feet)...and use the 'wheely zimmer' we got her MONTHS ago.
After this latest episode, we've taken her walking stick away, so she has to use the zimmer. ("Oh, I don't need that.")
Blow me down.....She now thinks the zimmer is wonderful. X_X....Supports her both sides, so she doesn't look like she's about to fall over the whole time.
Mrs T's just taken her down to see the nurse at the surgery to have the dressings changed for the second time.
Cheers - Phil
fsn, Rosyth was definitely in colour in the 1950's.
Was this a result of secret trials held at the naval base there?
The public have a right to know! ;)
Does this mean all those Dulux are are based on true stories that have been made public after being top secret for many years?
Quote from: Techno on 21 August 2015, 10:09:50 AM
I think we'd be on dubious legal ground there, Mark. ;)
Oh well, bang goes another good Idea :D
Quote from: Techno on 21 August 2015, 10:09:50 AM
She was lucky she didn't cut her femoral artery.....She fell on an open pair of secateurs !
If anything, this has been a real wake-up call for her.
For ages.....Mrs T and I have been trying to get her to ditch her walking stick (She's SO, SO unsteady on her feet)...and use the 'wheely zimmer' we got her MONTHS ago.
After this latest episode, we've taken her walking stick away, so she has to use the zimmer. ("Oh, I don't need that.")
Blow me down.....She now thinks the zimmer is wonderful. X_X....Supports her both sides, so she doesn't look like she's about to fall over the whole time.
Mrs T's just taken her down to see the nurse at the surgery to have the dressings changed for the second time.
Cheers - Phil
At least some good came of it.
My Dad did a similar thing - Ran a charity riting up to 100 letters a week on a mannual typewriter. We spent months saying he needed a computer and printer as 90% of the content of each letter was the same. Eventually we gave him an old one and showed him how to use it - again it sat there for months. Then one day his grandson showed him how to use it again ...... And blow me he was over the moon.!
When I went round the next time i got "Martin is a wonderful lad, showed me ho to use the computer, Why did you not tell me about it before, noboby showed me how to use it"(memory loss ??). It will save me loads of time !! " >:( >:( >:(
OLD PEOPLE - AAARRGGGGHHHHH (can't wait to be one and cause havoc) :)
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 21 August 2015, 11:54:51 AM
Oh well, bang goes another good Idea :D
OLD PEOPLE - AAARRGGGGHHHHH (can't wait to be one and cause havoc) :)
Ummmmmmmm
just to be clear Techno, she fell
after you took the stick away?
It is a worry. My mother went through a phase of falling over, but hasn't been so bad since she had her eyes done.
It was either that, or I stopped polishing the soles of her shoes, one or the other.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 21 August 2015, 11:24:30 AM
fsn, Rosyth was definitely in colour in the 1950's.
It was, but the experiment was abandoned after they found that all the grey ships were, when colourised, grey.
Quote from: fsn on 21 August 2015, 12:20:28 PM
just to be clear Techno, she fell after you took the stick away?
Um....No, Nobby. X_X
After she went up some steps in the garden.....WITH that wretched stick.
She seemed to have forgotten that the last time she went up the same steps, she fell over backwards.....
That time not doing any serious damage to herself.
Cheers - Harassed of Wales.
Garden + Steps + Old person = fraught situation.
Even if you replace the steps with a slope, the snow and ice turns it into an OAP Cresta Run.
I suggest a Bosun's Chair arrangement.
She did the snow and ice 'splat' about 5 (?) years ago on a Christmas Eve, when she broke her hip ! X_X....That was on the drive though, not on the steps.
Cheers - Phil
I worry about Mrs Techno's hearing......
Me.....
"I think I might make a compilation album for the car this afternoon......Something with Lynyrd Skynyrd, on it."
Mrs T.....
"Didn't know you liked him."
Me....
"Eh ?.....What's wrong with 'Sweet home Alabama'.....Er......What do you mean by 'him' ?"
Mrs T.....
"Oh.....I thought you said Leonard Cohen."
Cheers - X_X
(http://enews.storman.com/media/images/funny_earhorns.jpg)
I put "Sweet Home Alabama Leonard Cohen" in search bar in YouTube ...
on the off chance ...
you never know ...
Broke YouTube.
By the way the photo is of two horns using a human head as a contraceptive.
They must have fixed it:
http://youtu.be/b-bJPmasXKs
Quote from: Techno on 21 August 2015, 05:13:01 PM
She did the snow and ice 'splat' about 5 (?) years ago on a Christmas Eve, when she broke her hip ! X_X....That was on the drive though, not on the steps.
Cheers - Phil
Seems to me that the problem is visiting you Phil. Perhaps you should suggests she stays away :-bd
(If Mrs T sees this I might be in trouble :-S )
I do like the slightly optimistic 'might' there... ;D
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 23 August 2015, 08:08:56 AM
Seems to me that the problem is visiting you Phil.
Visiting ?She lives in the annexe attached to the house. X_X
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 23 August 2015, 10:36:41 AM
She lives in the annexe attached to the house. X_X
Cheers - Phil
In the Stables ?
No....You Muppet !
It's the old 'cow shed'. (True).... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Lol
Quote from: Techno on 23 August 2015, 12:48:34 PM
No....You Muppet !
It's the old 'cow shed'. (True).... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
I wasn't brave enough to make that suggestion
Watching "Walk the Line".
Wife:"You'd never think that was the same guy as in Skyfall"
She's right. I've never thought Joaquin Phoenix was Javier Bardem.
;D ;D ;D ;D
(Though I'm afraid I wouldn't recognise either of them.)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 23 August 2015, 10:36:41 AMShe lives in the annexe attached to the house.
Why did I read that in time to the SpongeBob song.....? ???
I don't know.
I'm not familiar with that particular piece of 'music'.
Is it something obscure by Pink Floyd, from their early days ?
Cheers - Phil
Boom! Ordered my tickets for Star Wars last night. :D
QuoteBoom! Ordered my tickets for Star Wars last night. :D
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It was a dark day when he stopped being The Doctor.
I'm looking forward to the new Star Wars film(s), there again I didn't think the three prequels were as bad as many made out so make what you will of my anticipation :)
I prefer Capaldi's "Rock God" Doctor to Tennant's "Wibbily Wobbly Timey Wimey" Doctor. Would love to see a Clara and Ashildr spin-off series too.
I've learned to enjoy watching the latest one, but I think Tennant remains the one I'd invite to bed.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 12 December 2015, 03:33:40 AM
I've learned to enjoy watching the latest one, but I think Tennant remains the one I'd invite to bed.
Oh god, he flaunting his decidedly Non-wargamer sex life in our faces again.
Can't you just be miserable like the rest of us?
Give me a break. I've got to put up with that exhausting flight to Italy in a couple of days....
Quote from: FierceKitty on 12 December 2015, 11:16:00 AM
Give me a break. I've got to put up with that exhausting flight to Italy in a couple of days....
You poor love! ;D
One for the record books !
Mrs T has leaked more red stuff than me, today.
I only stuck the very point of a 10A blade in my thumb. (I like to leave my DNA on a master, every so often. :P)
Mrs T got a faceful of 'foot' from one of the horses, when she tried to pick one of its hooves out...... X_X (Unheard of for that particular horse.)
Slight split lip.....But nothing serious, fortunately.
On another note......I think Frank's just announcing his presence.....Deep joy. =)
Cheers - Phil
Hope Mrs T is unharmed and recovers quickly. Ouch
Apart from a fat lip. and a slightly sore cheek, she seems to be fine, thanks, Will.
She said one of her hands got in the way, and took some of the force out of the kick......(So that hand's a bit sore, too.)
She was far more concerned where her glasses had flown off to.....Lucky those didn't get smashed on the concrete floor. #:-S
Cheers - Phil. (Frank's winding up a bit more now.....But nothing too dire.....as yet.)
Good to hear Mrs T wasn't badly hurt
I'm guessing Frank is a storm and not one of the Labradors
Ouch!
Get well soon, Mrs T!
Mrs T's lip is going down already....Huzzah ! (Thanks, chaps)
Yes, Paul....Frank is the latest storm to hit the UK. X_X
The very worst seems to be missing SW Wales, at the mo'.....Sounds like the worst of it is tracking up the Irish sea, and giving N.Ireland some grief by knocking a lot of power lines out.....
Then its headed for N.England and Scotland.
Good luck to those of you there !
Cheers - Phil
Don't know if its Frank outside. But its dark, wet -ish and the winds picking up.
Sorry to hear about the equine accident, and, as a spectacle wearer, that the glasses survived.
It's fairly persisting down here at the minute.....
Just about gone here, now.
It lashed it down for a while after my earlier post....turning our road into a 'river' for an hour or so, and sending a torrent down the track opposite us.
Cheers - Phil
Wow... :o That's quite an accident Phil, your wife has had her share of luck!
Good thing this year is almost over; I'd stay in till next year and she get's a new batch of luck!
Cheers,
Rob
Sorry to read about your wife's accident, Phil. :o
Hope she's well on the road to recovery now.
Just as well it didn't happen on the same day you cut your tongue.
Your attempts to converse with each other would have been quite interethting ... ;D
Yeth, it would ! ;) ;D ;D ;D
The swelling on her lip has gone right back down now....Huzzah !!
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 30 December 2015, 10:37:29 AM
Sorry to hear about the equine accident, and, as a spectacle wearer, that the glasses survived.
Just realised that the above doesn't make sense. Doh! You all know what I meant.
Is it too early to start the I-Can't-Be-Bothered-With-Celebrating-New-Years blather, waffle and poppycock?
Bah, humbug!
I just read "lashed down" and "quite an accident" and conjured up an image I really didn't want... :'(
Quote from: Pendraken Forum News BulletinWe'll be working on the BKC rules over the coming months with a reprint due towards the end of the year.
Its nearly midnight, so not long to wait for these to come out... Will the official unveiling be at 23:59hrs?
:d humorous devil!
Can I buy BKC now?
Probably shouldn't be posting this on this forum? (please let this slide, admins)
But I'm trying all of the forums I'm on in hope of finding some, so I thought I'd try my luck here... [I'm thinking a paintball participation game using those ruins I've built and NE shows*]
[This is a legitimate enquiry.]
Hello all,
Does anybody have a set of the Ebob Miniatures paintballers that they wish to sell?
I'd prefer unpainted, if possible.
Please contact me through a Personal Message with any details.
Thank you,
Roy
[*If I can find help to man such a game, as I'd struggle on my own. Yes, the running games at shows bug has bit! I was thinking of using a very simple modification to the very simple Some Corner of a Foreign Field set of rules. Paintballing games being more public friendly than modern army versus insurgent clashes when gaming at a show. Well, that's my thoughts at least.]
A really interesting idea 8)
I think I may have secured some paintballer figures, from a chap over in Germany. Though its dependant upon (hopefully) seeing a photo of them, and payment agreement.
Yes, its another one of my 'public friendly' gaming ideas for participation gaming. The other being the Three Musketeers, those rules used being happily tongue-in-cheek and slap-stick humour based. Quick, easy and fun games being my idea. Something that all ages, and genders, can play. Hopefully.
Is anyone else suffering from a deluge of cold calls, at the moment ?
(It's probably my turn ?)
The really, really irritating thing......Is that they're mostly silent 'hang-ups' from 'international' or 'unavailable' numbers.......(About three a day for the past fortnight, now.)
I want to either really p*ss them about by keeping them yakking, to waste their money.....But being silent, calls I can't even tell them to Eff Off. (Which usually seems to help.)
And I can't report a number if I don't have a specific one to report.
Anyone know if BT will block international calls...and if so...how much ?
I tried investigating that with BT, but gave up....It was taking SO bloody long to speak to a real person.
Cheers - Mr Angry of Wales.
If anyone wants to join in the fun, PM me and I'll give you Techno's phone number.
At the moment, you might just as well. X_X
Then I can post your number.....Your image......And delete anything I don't like on the forum. :P ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
I've already got it thanks FSN! ;)
I don't have Techno's phone number ... I just wait to be summoned to the presence ;)
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Dearie me! These mishaps and 'accidents' have fair taken their toll on Phil! :o
Best cold call I ever heard was when an Indian chap rang up a neighbour, he began to give him the usual spiel, but my neighbour just put the phone down and ended the call.
Twenty seconds later... The phone rings.
My neighbour answers it ... It's the Indian chap again, and he's not very happy.
"You put the phone down on me!" He berates my neighbour.
To which my neighbour replies, "Correct. And I'm going to do it again."
And he did.
- Or solution is to just not answer the phone. We ring 1471 afterwards to make sure it wasn't someone we know. But 90% of the calls to our house are call centres or automated calls about government grants. We don't make or receive many calls though at our house, so our solution probably won't work for most. We're just anti-social ;D
Quote from: Westmarcher on 23 January 2016, 01:31:58 PM
Dearie me! These mishaps and 'accidents' have fair taken their toll on Phil! :o
'SCUSE ME !I do have a
bit lot more hair than that...thank you SO much.......Though facially that's not too bad. :P
I can get
your number Westie.....NO problem.....
Then who shall I be ?.....Rodney Wilkinson from Melbourne ?......Or 93 year old Doris Scrote from Neasden.
You have been warned. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 23 January 2016, 04:25:49 PM
'SCUSE ME !
...Or 93 year old Doris Scrote from Neasden.
You have been warned. ;)
Cheers - Phil
I doubt you have the knees to be a Doris...I could see you being a Mavis though
Thank you, Steve. ;D
Cheers - Phil
Phill
BT sell a number of "Blocking Phones" that are quite clever.
Block Nuisance Calls
With the BT 6500 you can choose the type of calls you want to block. For example International and Withheld numbers can be blocked, which account for a large proportion of unwanted sales calls. Calls still go through to the answer machine, so if it's someone you want to hear from they can still leave a message. Alternatively if you there are specific numbers you want to block, you can block up to 10 numbers from getting through
DO NOT PURCHASE FROM BT - YOU CAN GET THEM CHEAPER ELSWHERE. (Even with a staff discount BT is more expensive than elsewhere on most things)
You could register for the TPS which is free
http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/mobile/index.html
Thanks chaps.
In fact I'm already signed up to TPS (and ex-dir), but these b*stard automatic dialing machines don't take any notice of that....especially from abroad.
I've got caller display on the phones too, Mark...So I can see whether it's an international/unavailable or withheld number.
I could ignore them....But at the mo' I just want to be extremely abusive to these *****.
While I'm here....That picture that Mike posted......I'm sure it's not the same one that was there to start with. :-\
Cheers - Phil
You have to update TPS every so often as it only applies to dialling packages that already exsist . if a new package is created then TPS won't block until you've updated
Quote from: Techno on 23 January 2016, 10:22:18 PM
While I'm here....That picture that Mike posted......I'm sure it's not the same one that was there to start with. :-\
You're right, it's not!
It was this one, I'm the one on my knees on the left :D
Wife confused me and our son on the phone today.
"Did Granddad phone?"
"My granddad is dead."
Quote from: Techno on 23 January 2016, 10:22:18 PM
While I'm here....That picture that Mike posted......I'm sure it's not the same one that was there to start with. :-\
Yeh. I was wondering too. How did he do that? :-\
Quote from: Last Hussar on 24 January 2016, 01:37:02 AM
Wife confused me and our son on the phone today.
"Did Granddad phone?"
"My granddad is dead."
In our house, we have a saying when that happens - "Get her name down."*
*
for the Old Folks Home.
Quote from: Westmarcher on 24 January 2016, 02:33:42 AM
Yeh. I was wondering too. How did he do that? :-\
Think this had happened before. :-\
If you link to a piccy on a site......And then the site changes the pic you've linked to....The image you originally 'chose' is replaced by the new one.
Cheers - Phil
My technique with "we have an error on your computer" I to ask which computer, as I have 2 lap tops, a Kindle Fire and 2 smart phones. Then, before they answer - which operating system, Windows 8, 10 or Andriod, then model.....
Result - they ring off.
If its a survey - demand to know what they are selling.
IanS ;)
When I get one of those calls, the first time I ask them to remove my records from their computer; if that doesn't work and they ring again I will say hang on a minute, then go and make a cup of tea or something similar; check back every five mins or so to see if they have got bored and under those circumstances they will get bored before I do.
You could put the phone next t the radio as well....
Whatever accent they speak in I answer in the same accent then hang up.
My east Asian accent is much closer to welsh
IanS
Goodness gracious, there's lovely then.
X_X ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Fenton on 23 January 2016, 07:46:04 PM
You could register for the TPS which is free
http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/mobile/index.html
Lots of the "foriegn" based callers will not be stopped by this as :-
1 They do not follow the code of practice and cannot be made to
2 The auto diallers just dial numbers sequentially. - We get them on unlisted numbers that have never been in the public domain here at work. If they call on a long an boring night shift we do have some fun.
One night we had a call from an Indian gentleman requesting us to transfer to the line to them (bearing in mind this is an Unlisted, unpublished number that is not subject to billing). We asked them all about the packages and what one was best for us. We then agreed to transfer giving the following details
Mr Michael Mousee (both E's with an accent so pronounced Moo Sey)
Magic Kingdom Road
Deeland
UK
They took all the details including how to spell the names , then the call dropped out and we thought they had sussed us out. But no the phone rang again and they apologised for the call dropping out and continued to take details
We asked that our "wife" be put on the bill as well - Mrs Minerver Mousee. At this point we were all laughing so much he asked if something was wrong. We said we were just laughing at our dog "Pluto"
At this point he must have realised we were taking the P*ss, but we had had him on the phone for about 45 mins.
Well done that man =D>
Superb, Mark !! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
We had one of them at work - straight to an DD extension. My collegue didn't have time for the full wind up, but had fun with a energy supplier. Yes, the address does belong to an old person... it is Her Majesty's Prison after all.
And you could use - depending on your accent :-
Pakistani High Commission
US Consulate
Yellow
Turkish Legation.
IanS
Quote from: ianrs54 on 24 January 2016, 02:07:00 PMMy east Asian accent is much closer to welsh
"Oh dear. How sad. Never mind."
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Feck me!... I'm fifty!
Happy Birthday, Steve. <:-P <:-P <:-P <:-P <:-P
You Kiddy.
Cheers - Phil
Thanks Phil
Still came as a bit of a shock though
Hippy bidet!
Fifty? I remember being fifty ... dimly :)
Happy Birthday, you young whipper-snapper!
<:-P <:-P ... a mere stripling Fenton old boy.
That one sneaked in under the radar. Still makes you a decade my junior, though.
Hoppy Bidet anyway.
See what I mean!
Happy Birthday.
You lot are all really old :P
Yes, but we're retired and get to play war-games any time of day we want.
Are you really all older than me or are you just saying that so I will continue to do all the heavy lifting in the bar?
Not old ... vintage :)
... like fine wine ...
... aged, mature .... and regularly drunk :)
Keep lifting young 'un!
Happy birthday Fenton, wait a while & you'll get over being 50 ;)
70 on Monday, February 1st. Sure don't feel it.
I'll be 17 for the 3rd time in March ;)
Cheers
Ian
Think you have miss-typed the numbers there should be 71...
IanS
Damned if I know my correct age. Gave up remembering as soon as I tuned eighteen. I'm either 33, 34 or 35. Must be 34, as this is 2016 - the math being easy.
Don't ask me what today's date is though! That went out the window as soon as I stopped having to write the date, at the top of my work, on leaving Secondary School. :-[
Quote from: Leman on 28 January 2016, 10:18:03 PM
Yes, but we're retired and get to play war-games any time of day we want.
True, so true.
Quote from: Fenton on 28 January 2016, 09:34:09 PM
Feck me!... I'm fifty!
Fifty now?
Definitely fecked! :P
I'm over 60 .... what does that make me?
As fecked as I am ! :P (Are Moderators allowed to write that sort of thing ?)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 29 January 2016, 04:08:46 PM
As fecked as I am ! :P (Are Moderators allowed to write that sort of thing ?)
Cheers - Phil
No
IanS
I'll report myself then. :-[
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 29 January 2016, 07:13:06 PM
I'll report myself then. :-[
Cheers - Phil
Will Pendraken be looking for a new milk monitor in the near future then ?
Quote from: Sandinista on 29 January 2016, 06:06:14 AM
I'll be 17 for the 3rd time in March ;)
Cheers
Ian
so 19 then?
Upside down?
Quote from: Fenton on 29 January 2016, 07:28:04 PM
Will Pendraken be looking for a new milk monitor in the near future then ?
Well I already know I'm top of the list. :P
Top of the "Dear lord, not him!" list......
Watching a video on YouTube, and the Athena Tennis Girl was described as "a nice historical piece of art".
My youth is shredded!
... get me a new one!
(Better add that before anyone else does.)
I think we should start a thread where the whole point is to hi-jack and morph the thread from subject A to subject B.
Subject A and B should be (seemingly) as wildly different as possible.
Each post must bear some sort of relevance to the post before....and then see how many posts it takes to get to the second subject.
Suggestions for the two topics team ?
Cheers - Phil
Mornington Crescent and The Corn Laws?
That's the idea, Will. (I like your thinking with Mornington Crescent.)
We'll just let a few more folk have a read to get the idea....Then start it off.
Knowing the way folk on the forum can change subjects, at the drop of a hat, I reckon it can be done in far fewer than a dozen......Fewer than half a dozen ?
Cheers - Phil
Have to set up a new id then - Mrs Trellis of Rhyl perhaps...
IanS :d
I thought the appuye mentioned in one of the FPW threads was sufficiently removed from Bovril, yet as appuye refers to fortifying an area and we are in the midst of WWI commemorations ............
Mornington Crescent is a game played on I'm Sorry I haven't a clue, particularly well by Graeme Market Garden was the Allied push into Holland by airborne forces and XXX Corps including the 1st RTR who post-war was equipped with Centurion tanks.
The Corn Laws were introduced by the Incorporation Act 1815 was the year of the Battle of Waterloo, and Wellington's Army included the 16th Light Dragoons, which later merged with the 5th as the 16th/5th Lancers who were issued with Centurions when they served in Aden in 1963.
Well that was easy.
Quote from: Techno on 13 February 2016, 07:26:10 AM
I think we should start a thread where the whole point is to hi-jack and morph the thread from subject A to subject B.
How would this be different from any other of our carefully controlled and considered conversations?
My pigeon loft has collapsed. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Nobby !!
We haven't started yet ! ;)
(And it wasn't supposed to be all done in one post......Tsk ! =) ;))
Cheers - Phil
Could you please assist my postillion with the luggage.
Sorry Techno.
:(
I just knew you'd do that, anyway..... ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Leman on 13 February 2016, 11:27:38 AM
My pigeon loft has collapsed.
Some kind of euphemism. *nods to self* Yes, that must be it....
Lady Hussar is reading an article on world wide euphemisms for women's periods.
Surely Denmark wins with "there are communists in the fun house."
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
:-&
Quote from: Last Hussar on 02 March 2016, 01:19:00 AM
Lady Hussar is reading an article on world wide euphemisms for women's periods.
In guess she must be reading the forum over your shoulder - You don't normlly refer to her as "Lady" ;D
Quote from: Last Hussar on 02 March 2016, 01:19:00 AM
Lady Hussar is reading an article on world wide euphemisms for women's periods.
Surely Denmark wins with "there are communists in the fun house."
BAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!! ;D
The amazing Mrs Lemmey has had her OFSTED inspection extended. No game for me tonight!
There are Communists in the School?
Thankfully it's all over and she got out unscathed!
Physically, but probably mentally scarred for life.
So my young, blond, female manager said to me today
"Apart from buggery, what did you want me for?"
Hard to know what to reply to that, without incurring a verbal warning for sexism...
Quote from: mad lemmey on 14 March 2016, 08:19:43 PM
Hard to know what to reply to that, without incurring a verbal warning for sexism...
Surely she was offering. :d I think the correct answer was Yes please
I sent her a link to this page. She replied 'Out of context that looks really bad.'
I pointed out that's why I didn't include any context.
Can we have her email, please?
For what purpose?
Perhaps better off without FK, you know what they say:
Sexy, Single, Sane - Pick Two :)
No offence intended to the lady in question you understand ... there are exceptions to every rule!
"I aim to misbehave" - Mal Reynolds
She walked into the office asking 'What's FK', and which two do I consider her.
I pointed out she wasn't single, and she claimed to be sane. I refused to comment on the 3rd either way, as there isn't a right answer.
I say, chaps! at 5022 posts, have I been promoted? I'm a Lt Gen now.
Bring on the extra discount! Bring on the jumping the queue! Bring on the brandy and Babychams!
None of the above old fruitfly!
Quote from: fsn on 22 March 2016, 05:51:47 PM
I say, chaps! at 5022 posts, have I been promoted? I'm a Lt Gen now.
Bring on the extra discount! Bring on the jumping the queue! Bring on the brandy and Babychams!
Sorry, Nobby....I missed that......I think that would have happened at 5,000
A belated "Hearty Congratulations".
Cheers - Phil
How many Field Marshals do we actually need? :-\
Dunno ... how many fields do we actually have? ;)
I've got eight.....plus two areas of 'bog'. :D
Cheers - Phil
Lucky man! I've only got one bog and it's upstairs. Jealous of my sister who has three, including one in the fresh air.
Congrats, Nobby!
Well done, sir.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 16 March 2016, 01:38:44 AM
Perhaps better off without FK, you know what they say:
Sexy, Single, Sane - Pick Two :)
Sexy and Sane will do me.
"If you must have a relationship with a married woman - Make sure they are married to someone else"
Ummm...she?
Congratulations Nobby
I'll have a Pint of Ale please.
At what rank do you get your own orderly?
Quote from: FierceKitty on 23 March 2016, 11:43:48 AM
Ummm...she?
I used the term "they" as you may have more than one married woman you are having a relationship with. (depending on how lucky you are) :d
So, more Bossette foot in mouth.
"Do you have a thick one?"
Oh sir! Do you sir! Oh!
Quote from: Last Hussar on 23 March 2016, 06:37:07 PM
So, more Bossette foot in mouth.
"Do you have a thick one?"
=O =O =O
And the answer to that is........... "would you like to try it for size and then you can make your own mind up"
Well....
I can see FK dancing around his home in delight, because of the rumour that Axl Rose is going to step in as vocalist, for the last 10 dates of AC/DC's current tour !
(That could be 'interesting' IF it's true.) :-\
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 23 March 2016, 11:49:04 AM
I used the term "they" as you may have more than one married woman you are having a relationship with. (depending on how lucky you are) :d
For a modest fee, I will teach you the plural of
woman.
Quote from: Techno on 24 March 2016, 10:43:46 AM
I can see FK dancing around his home in delight, because of the rumour that Axl Rose is going to step in as vocalist, for the last 10 dates of AC/DC's current tour !
I felt a great disturbance. As if millions of AC/DC fans cried out in dismay and were suddenly drowned out by the sound of refunds being issued................
He might have to work on his punctuality!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 24 March 2016, 12:09:25 PM
For a modest fee, I will teach you the plural of woman.
Wimmin innit. There you go, for free.
Counting women goes like this: One, Trouble
So very true.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 24 March 2016, 06:08:52 PM
Counting women goes like this: One, Trouble
iI thought it went ..... Trouble , More trouble
Membership applications for Pendraken Gay Pride Association are now being accepted. Please inclose links to three women-hating posts of your own authorship.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 26 March 2016, 01:31:59 AM
Membership applications for Pendraken Gay Pride Association are now being accepted. Please inclose links to three women-hating posts of your own authorship.
I suspect it's more confusion than hate ??? :-\ ;D
Doing without for a while might clarify some issues, don't you think?
He's lost me again :-/
Have you checked in the bunk labelled 'Dour Puritan', you might be in there.
Down the back of the sofa ?
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 28 March 2016, 03:57:21 PM
Down the back of the sofa ?
Just the once. Then she sprayed me with water and rubbed my nose in it. :(
You're definitely heading for a Knighthood. X_X
Cheers - Phil
So, The Manager and I have agreed.
Tomorrow we will act completely professional. No double entrendres, or single ones. No joking, no unprofessional behaviour.
First one to crack buys the first drink on Friday.
Quote from: Techno on 30 March 2016, 04:04:43 PM
You're definitely heading for a Knighthood. X_X
Cheers - Phil
Who, me? ;D
House is full of the sound of Lady Hussar practising to sing with G4 in a few weeks.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 30 March 2016, 06:24:32 PM
First one to crack buys the first drink on Friday.
Is that a deterrent where you live? :P
We called a draw, and decided to never do it again.
It was so, so hard.
I also need to apologise to Sunjester for letting him down on Saturday morning. I emailed him during my second pint suggesting we meet for breakfast in a local restaurant that does eggs benedict, then forgot I emailed him, missed the reply and slept in till 10.
To be fair when I say 'first pint' I had had 5 cocktails before that.
You wanted to eat Bennedicts Eggs - that's not very nice, that's stealing
Just given a lift to my son and 3 of his mates 3 of Joe's mates. I actually wanted to beat the 4 of them up and take their dinner money.
And I'm a wargamer...
If they are school kids then they are all Jon Snows and know nothing - give the blighters the benefit of the doubt.
They are 18 and 19
Quote from: Last Hussar on 07 April 2016, 10:55:00 PM
They are 18 and 19.
Good age to think one knows everything.
Yep - they know nothing, lucky blighters.
Nah- they are more of your nerd culture. Friday night is D&D over Skype night.
Oh dear. :(
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years." - Mark Twain
Quote from: Last Hussar on 03 April 2016, 12:26:35 PM
It was so, so hard.
That's why I've never given up Innuendo's......
'Ere.......
My PC has had another of its random......"Lets change the time by an hour" hiccoughs. (An hour forward)
No one else has had this when I've asked this before......Anyone had the same glitch today, by any chance ?.
When DID the clocks change ?...Not exactly a month ago, was it ?
(I just looked it up....Yes, exactly 4 weeks ago.....How strange.)
Cheers - Puzzled of Wales.
Maybe it's time for a new computer? Are you spending a lot on Tekkie-Techno support?
Or maybe even an iPad type thing? I have an HP thing that acts as an iPad, but I can slip on a keyboard for full laptop capability.
Depends on how much you use it and what you use it for.
It's only about 18 months old, Nobby...Don't think it needs replacing yet. ;)
I'm sure it does something waffy every time the clocks change.
It either changes the time a month early, or a month late.......Having also changed on at the right date.
Who knows ?...A little foible that I can cope with. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
After all the marked candles are fairly accurate, and don't burn the house down too often.
Phil - sounds like your PC has a good dose of flu, I'd de-infect asap. Also make sure your AV software is up to date. (IT-Welsh dictionaries available on Wikipedia)
IanS :)
Norton keeps telling me that everything's fine, Ian...I'll see if anything turns up on the next scan.
Cheers - Phil
Perhaps you are metaphysically crossing a time zone and your pc picking up the time change.
Were you thinking about some place else when it happened? :o
Check where your PC thinks you are in the world Phil.
Today (25th) is the day times change in places like Abu Dabi, Fiji, Paraguay to name but a few.
Might explain it ... or not :)
Maybe that's why it takes so long for Phil's stuff to get to HQ, postage from Paraguay must be a nightmare!
Phil - try CCleaner as well. Usually free for the basic. (But don't seem to run on Win10).
IanS
Quote from: oldblindjohn on 25 April 2016, 05:24:22 PM
Perhaps you are metaphysically crossing a time zone and your pc picking up the time change.
Were you thinking about some place else when it happened? :o
Not really. I was wondering what the forum had been up to while I was asleep, John ;)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 25 April 2016, 05:35:06 PM
Check where your PC thinks you are in the world Phil.
It thinks I'm on a different planet, Mike. :D (Nope.....definitely the right time zone on dispaly.)
Quote from: mad lemmey on 25 April 2016, 05:40:03 PM
Maybe that's why it takes so long for Phil's stuff to get to HQ, postage from Paraguay must be a nightmare!
That's 'cos the carrier pigeon keeps getting lost. ;)
Quote from: ianrs54 on 25 April 2016, 06:02:31 PM
Phil - try CCleaner as well. Usually free for the basic. (But don't seem to run on Win10). IanS
Got that on the PC already, Ian....But ta !
I think there's just some tiny glitch in the calendar/clock programme.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 25 April 2016, 08:28:40 PM
I think there's just some tiny glitch in the calendar/clock programme.
Cheers - Phil
Yes a big wooden horse shaped one.
IanS
Manager said "I'll just do your end of year assessment, and you can sign it whenever, ok?" – ie a standard "Acceptable performance, no thought required.
I explained I wanted to go for a 'Exceed'. She pointed out I'd only been in the Unit 4 months. I pointed out that it was unfair; that being forcibly transferred shouldn't be something that should held against me, and I would expect my contribution to 'O' section to be taken into account. She asked if I could evidence it. I pointed out a lot of it wasn't the sort of thing that produced recordable evidence- I was on top of my work (some days I went and asked colleagues if they needed help), plus I had picked up work for my previous boss, I did this as part of my normal duties, I did that- stuff my previous managers knew about.
I also pointed out the 4 or 5 systems of work I'd re-engineered since moving in January, including something that was borderline illegal until I went 'Hold on a moment...'
She agreed to talk to my former manager, and former manager's manager 'F' (who is a really good manager, appreciated my contribution and fought to keep me, and is not someone you want to upset). She said if 'F' agreed it would go a long way to getting me 'exceed'.
I then pointed out I was also the driving force behind what we are doing on Friday.
"I'm not sure organising a cocktail evening is going to be allowed as evidence," even though she thought it should be.
No, I explained, I meant the fact that I pushed for, and proposed a date for, a big filing reorganisation to take control of all the paperwork that has been allowed to drift for years.
THAT'S why I get on so well with my new manager- her first thought was drinking!
Great ending! Wondered where that was going!!! ;D ;D ;D
Just see a 'Things you didn't know about Osama Bin Laden' post. Apparently he was an Arsenal fan. That explains a lot - after 90 minutes at "The Library" he said "Do you know what, sitting in a cave in the arse end of nowhere would be better than this."
Today from my office window I can see Liverpool's famed Albert Dock - rigged sailing ship, steam train, canal barge. Yesterday on the way home I saw two steam powered traction engines heading for the centre of town.
Nice to know Liverpool is finally getting into the 19th Century.
Quote from: fsn on 06 May 2016, 02:43:14 PM
Today from my office window I can see Liverpool's famed Albert Dock - rigged sailing ship, steam train, canal barge. Yesterday on the way home I saw two steam powered traction engines heading for the centre of town.
Nice to know Liverpool is finally getting into the 19th Century.
You will be getting electric light next
I think I may be the next Techno. No, my sculpting skills are still only good for ... for ... nothing really, but I have managed to damage myself twice with a Dremel today.
Managed to skin a knuckle on the spinning barrel, and I sliced off a chunk of skin with a rotating blade.
I'm going with Techno's mantra that every project needs a blood sacrifice.
Ouch :o
OUCH :o :o :o
Double OUCH ! 8)
You have done well, my young apprentice....But you still have more to learn.
Hope your fingers aren't too sore , Nobby.
If you're talking about the little metal 'circular saw'......That's why I won't even use those.....They always look as though they'd be so likely to slip.
I only use the carborunderumderumderum (sic) discs. Those 'only' burn, if you just catch yourself.
Cheers - Phil
Yes, I was using the circular saw. :D
It didn't slip - I was just a little careless about where I waved it about.
Have you been on holiday, Techno? You've been very quiet. Is it that nasty Leon working you too hard? Has Mrs T been experimenting with armour and you've been hoisting her aboard the horses a la Lawrence Olivier in Henry V? Has it stopped raining and you and the locals have been searching for an Englishman to introduce to a wicker sheep?
Has someone written something on the Forum that upset you? Have you been bullied? Show me on the doll where you were bullied. Show me. SHOW ME NOW!
I've just been so horrifically busy, Nobby......Oodles of work, 'chores',.....now, the MIL feeling 'frail', and trying to keep half an eye on the 'stray' that seems to have decided we're her new owners.
And I still haven't quite recovered from losing a whole night's sleep last week.
I'll try and give you a call, Matey.
Cheers - Phil
Oooh! I've missed your cheery optimism on the forum. Hope everything's OK.
So, the stray. Is it
a)(http://cf.ltkcdn.net/cats/images/std/159706-357x421-kitten.jpg) b)(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcStpHnrb9lSKIckX41fgNyj2eP1IIyEVSNsiDmR36G_jrnBByXy) or c)?(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1563261682/schoolgirl.jpg)
[It's not c). It's never c).]
Awwwwwwwwww....
Now ooo is usin excessive dots ...............
It's c), for collie, Nobby.
Cheers - Phil.
A giraffe licked our car today!
We once had a Llama outside our tent. Your point is?
Quote from: Techno on 30 May 2016, 02:53:33 PM
It's c), for collie, Nobby.
Cheers - Phil.
I love collies. Especially in a cheese sauce.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 30 May 2016, 05:16:28 PM
A giraffe licked our car today!
Oh hang on! That's my activation code!
Just not something that happens to you every day in rural Bedfordshire!
Teach you not to turn left, when there's a giraffe on a bicycle there.
Road hog ! ;)
Cheers - Phil
(http://thumb7.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/66941/339804851/stock-photo-fun-giraffe-339804851.jpg)
In my effort to become Techno II, I am hobbling around on a bad ankle. I was the last one in the office, and needed to visit the little FSN's room before I went home. This meant passing through a door that is swipe card controlled. As I passed through this door, I realised that I'd left my swipe card on my desk. I turned to stop the door from closing and *crack*, there went the ankle. I hurpled back to the car and drove home desperately trying not to use the brake.
This morning, as I limped past the cats who were sprawled on the couch, I sensed that I was being scrutinised. My feline companions were eyeing me much as a lioness eyes a struggling wildebeest.
If I stop posting send the RSPCA with nets and dart guns to rescue my ravaged body from two feral cats who have tasted human flesh.
Oh, Matey ! X_X
Do you mean the door slammed on your ankle, or did you twist over on it ?
If the latter, you might well have broken or sprained sommat......Methinks a trip to casualty is in order !
Hope it feels better soon.
Cheers - Phil
Get well soon mate
Quote from: Techno on 04 June 2016, 03:12:42 PM
Do you mean the door slammed on your ankle, or did you twist over on it ?
I pirouetted gracefully as a pygmy hippo. Well, my body did, but my foot stayed planted. I've had it up all day and it's definitely better.
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/82/b6/ce/82b6ce88363a69f95d14abde7d4dcf5d.jpg)
Quote from: fsn on 04 June 2016, 04:55:45 PM
I've had it up all day and it's definitely better.
Fnarr, fnarr. And we're back to Carry on Pendraken Forum ;)
Quote from: nikharwood on 04 June 2016, 05:35:04 PM
Fnarr, fnarr. And we're back to Carry on Pendraken Forum ;)
X_X
;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Every time I watch Trooping the Colour I have an urge to do Napoleonics.
Really? I would have thought the Crimea.
Having spent an inordinate amount of time 'in the loo' last night, with the most appalling 'squits'....I won't be around much today.
Trying to catch up on some sleep.
Cheers - Phil
TOOOOOO MUCH info Phil.
IanS
:-& :-& :-& :-&
[Heh! I was eating my breakfast there!]
Hope it's nothing too serious.
Make sure you drink plenty of liquids. No while asleep, obviously. That would be silly.
Well chaps, how are we going to make best use of the House Conscience being away for the day?
Quote from: fsn on 12 June 2016, 08:11:30 AM
Well chaps, how are we going to make best use of the House Conscience being away for the day?
CALM DOWN, CALM DOWN
Pee! Po! Belly! Bum! Drawers!
;D :d
So I rang Techno to see how he was and he didn't sound well. Very groggy. This worried me, so I've rang him again. Same thing. I've rung him several times and I think he's getting worse. He's not only reeling with fatigue, but seems to very crotchety and bad tempered.
Wouldn't even enter into a discussion about the differences between the various marks of Centurion - which is very off.
I'm worried about him.
And I think he's run out of paper essentials, and Wales is closed on a Sunday, so he's had to resort to dock leaves which Mrs T has had to collect - in the rain.
I better give him a ring.
X_X ;D X_X
Hope you feel better soon, Phil.
[Although, come to think of it, he's probably not fit enough to read this ....... :-\ ....... which means I can earnestly say ....
Quote from: fsn on 12 June 2016, 08:49:29 AM
Pee! Po! Belly! Bum! Drawers!
;D :d
... also!] ;D
Quote from: Leman on 11 June 2016, 08:35:00 PM
Really? I would have thought the Crimea.
No - not really into Crimea.
Watching football
Commentator ".. passes to Schär."
Lady H - "Cher? I would have thought she was a bit old to be playing"
Me - "Maybe she turned back time."
Dad Jokes at their finest.
I didn't know Mrs T. spent her leave at the docks. I wonder what she does there....
I'm back.
I trust everyone has been behaving. Though that seems unlikely. =)
Thanks for the wishes.....Feel a lot better now.
Did what you said, Nobby. Drank oodles of water.
Cheers - Phil
(Blimey.....I'll have to catch up with all the posts I missed, one by one.)
I refuse to believe that, this is what you and Mart were up to, political agitation!!
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/8D5C6AB7-8A91-416E-AAAB-B97143D3DB86_zpstiapqbz9.jpg) (http://s214.photobucket.com/user/madlemmey/media/8D5C6AB7-8A91-416E-AAAB-B97143D3DB86_zpstiapqbz9.jpg.html)
Why are we charged going in, when we let the buggers out for free? Its all adding to the bill for Daddy's Little Stalinist to study in Cardiff
On the dining room table tonight (recently moved into the conservatory for the summer) I had:
Two 40mm deep boxes containing my Later Romans
4 sheets A4 paper (background for photographs)
Digital camera
Camera lead
Laptop (to process and post photos)
Monitor (the laptop overheats, and the graphics card for the screen stops working, so after 3/4 of an hour you need a monitor)
An iPhone (playing 6Music)
An iPad ( so I can look at faceache while the laptop cools down)
A pair of scissors (cutting magna base)
A pack of eight crayons (daughters)
An anglepoise lamp with 100 watt bulb (the lighting in the conservatory is pants otherwise)
A cup of milk (still not really drinking beer)
Is that enough detritus?
Plenty to be going on with, Will. ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil.
That was the count as I tided up! It's empty now.
Quote from: fsn on 12 June 2016, 08:11:30 AM
Make sure you drink plenty of liquids. No while asleep, obviously. That would be silly.
If you can drink any solids, I'll be impressed.
Post curry conversation:
After the curry, 4 of us went on to a local pub that opens late. The bit we sat in had a table of teen boys (a dozen or so) next to us. After them blaming me for bring us to a creche, and all feeling old, some one noticed that one of the kids looked like a teen version of someone at work. Then another one, and another one. Within 5 minutes we had spotted 6 or so who looked like teen versions of various colleagues.
The conversation then went like this.
"Maybe the entire pub is a TARDIS, and we've gone back to the 80's, and we will wake up tomorrow with Simon Mayo on Radio 1, playing Wham's latest hit."
"Oh no. No smartphones. No all day opening!"
"Maybe we could stop 9/11"
"Sod that, we could make a killing at the bookies."
Plunge into Microsoft with every penny you can raise.
What got me was my boss went from 'No smartphones' to NO ALL DAY OPENING!, and she was born in the mid-80s so doesn't remember 3pm closing, and blokes wandering the streets looking for a way round it for 4 hours.
8)
A new experience today. X_X
Mr Neck has been whingeing, on and off, for a while.
Nothing painful at all....Just pins and needles from the neck and into the shoulder from time to time.
"I know", thought I.....I'll slap the TENS machine on my neck, while I watch the tele.
(Pulls out instruction booklet.....checks where electrodes need to be stuck on.....Aha !......One pair here, and the other pair there..)
Switch machine on......Squeak loudly at a very low power......(About an eighth of the power, I'll use on my back, when I need it.)
Try and switch machine off with right hand.....Can't....Right arm has gone into complete spasm and is effectively paralysed.
Panic....Before remembering that I do have another hand, and use that to switch the power down to virtually nothing.
Does seem to have done some good though. :)
Cheers - Mr Muppet.
You're not safe let out!
Or left in!
Quote from: Techno on 09 July 2016, 07:18:34 PM
A new experience today. X_X
Mr Neck has been whingeing, on and off, for a while.
Nothing painful at all....Just pins and needles from the neck and into the shoulder from time to time.
"I know", thought I.....I'll slap the TENS machine on my neck, while I watch the tele.
(Pulls out instruction booklet.....checks where electrodes need to be stuck on.....Aha !......One pair here, and the other pair there..)
Switch machine on......Squeak loudly at a very low power......(About an eighth of the power, I'll use on my back, when I need it.)
Try and switch machine off with right hand.....Can't....Right arm has gone into complete spasm and is effectively paralysed.
Panic....Before remembering that I do have another hand, and use that to switch the power down to virtually nothing.
Does seem to have done some good though. :)
Cheers - Mr Muppet.
;D ;D ;D
:-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
I hope you are feeling better
Yikes!
Quote from: paulr on 09 July 2016, 08:52:02 PM
I hope you are feeling better
So far, so good. :)....The TENS machine does seemed to have helped...Thanks, Paul.
I must have slapped one of the electrodes right on top of the nerve that controls the impulses to the arm....The muscles there (Well...the few that I've got) were having a
right old spasm.
I damaged a disc at the top of my neck YEARS ago. (Shifting...or try to shift, far too much horse poo onto a trailer with a long pitch fork.)
At the time I thought I'd done some really serious damage, 'cos both my arms went completely white, my hands were completely 'locked', and went into paralysed 'claws'.
Mrs T and I sat there for about half an hour watching as the blood and feeling slowly returned to both arms.
Most peculiar sensation.
As I found out later, one of the discs at the base of my neck is 'degenerating/degenerated'...(Though it doesn't seem to have got any worse over the years).....So I can only assume, on that particular day it pressed on a nerve, but it 'slipped back' after a very short while.
Quote from: fsn on 09 July 2016, 07:29:03 PM
You're not safe let out !
Or left in!
:-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
Well...That was just typical for me, wasn't it, Nobby ? ;)
Quote from: mad lemmey on 09 July 2016, 10:13:00 PM
Yikes!
Yikes mode over, Will. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
So, I researched your situation with memes.
(http://images.agoramedia.com/ugcphotoservice/100/2014/10/24/55241862/f1528813-a902-4187-8910-5d7072a84262.jpg)
Wow, Techno! You must have so little weakness left!
(http://img.memecdn.com/pain-is-gain_o_2121429.jpg)
I think this means you should now be able to push putty with your feet.
(https://cdn.meme.am/instances/54552504.jpg)
There is much wisdom in memes.
As my Faith Healer told me, "Pain is just your body's way of letting you know that something hurts."
Gentlemen of the Forum.
My eyes have been assulted by something that cannot be unseen. My mind is filled with such horror as cannot be described in front of children, women or delicate horses. What I have seen would send priests to theuir prayer mats, stong men to the whisky bottle and weaker men to their service revolver. I am sure though, thet the constitution of Forum members is strong enough to bearmy story, but I suggest that all adopt a sitting posture, preferrably close to the whisky, and that all firearms be entrusted to your eldest son, or should you not have an eldest son, your least delicate horse. Are we ready? Then I shall begin my tale.
I was walking into work this morning. On reflection if I had not taken Monday off to attend to some personal matters then I would not have parked in the Blundell St car park, but the King car park, and so my route would have been different and so this tale would never have needed to be told, for it would not have happened. "Ah!" I hear you cry "why does taking Monday off mean that you parked in Blundell St and not the King car park, and what were these personal matters of which you speak?" It is a pecliarity of Liverpool car park economics that the Blundell St Car park costs £3.50 per day, and the King £4 per day. However, the King car park allows for a 5 day charge of £16. The Blundell St offers no such discount, so my best option for a full week is to park in the King car park (saving £1.50 per week over the Blundell St Car park), but for less than a full working week, the Blundell St Car park saves £0.50 per day as compared to the King. The two car parks are closely situated, but the best route to work is along the Strand from the King, and by the Scandinavian Church from Blundell St. I hope this is clear, but it is not, however reflective of the horror of my tale.
As to the personal matters, thy must remain personal, but rest assured they do not involve unnatural practices. This time.
As I have said, before you forced me into a digression about the vagaries of vehicle storage in Merseyside, was that I was walking to work from the Blundell St car park. As I proceeded it was just coming on to rain I remember and I was considering whether to put up my umbrella or not. The winds along the Strand can wreak havoc with an inexpertly handled bumbershoot, but the route past the Scandinavian Church is largely free from cross winds and sudden eddys, so the umbrella users is largely free from peril, except for the stand of trees which sometimes impede progress. As the trees are quite sheltering, it is advisable just to lower one's umbrella when passing, which one can do with no diminution of shelter experienced.
I had not yet reached those trees, and thought that the rain was light enough for me to bear at present, but was strengthening. My best course of action was to strike out for the trees, and there pause to raise my umbrella and so continue in perfect contentment.
As I have said, before you gentlemen again distracted me from my story of horror, I had not reached the stand of trees, which are before the Scandinavian Church, which I am told offers in a small cafe around the back a select menu of Scaninavian delights. Since it is well known that people in those climes eat only cold fish, it is to be wondered at the content of this menu, but I have determined that I would lunch there one day, if only for the experience. And meat balls, they eat meat balls too. But the Scandinavian Church is a bit far to comfortably wander for lunch, so mayhap I must go there for tea. Though I'm not sure if they stay open that late.
But I hadn't even gotten to the Scandinavian Church, I was approaching the student flats, and coming toards me in the other direction was a person. Gentlemen, I try not to be offensive about a person's appearance, for we are all made in some Mad God's image, and yet I do think that there are some people who perhaps could try a bit more. This person was female. She was short, but made up for it in being wide. She wore black, all black, from the neck to the above-the-knee skirt, but her naked pale gray legs matched the pavement so completely, that at first I thought I was being approached by a giant full stop. ("Period" to our less enlightened bretheren.)
Stay your hands from that decanter, there is worse to follow. As I neared the creature, I noticed that on the inside of each multi-dimpled knee was a tattoo. As a person who is interested in these things, I assiduously read everything emblazoned upon chests fo example, I tried to make out amongst the nature of these devices. This job was made more difficult by the constant motion of the chubby joints, but as I neared I saw ... to my horror, and gentlemen, now is the time for that fortifying spirit ... that upon each knee she had a tattoo of a hand, in an instructional mode as if to say "push here".
The consequences of anyone of character placing themselves into such a position and the awful consequences do, I confess gentlemen, bring a cold sweat to my brow, a chill to my spine and surprisingly, a warmth to my ankles. It is not just the contemplation of the young creature that horrifies, but the thought that as she ages, those hand wil lbe forever parting her knees. Don't get me wrong, if ever there comes time for the creature to give birth, and the midwife is very inexperienced, such tattoes may be of some use, but imagine the 3 year old little creature fitting his hands wonderingly into those gruesome cartoons, or indeed the pensioner creature trying to persuade young men (or women) in the bus queue to "give 'em a go."
Gentlemen, I feel better having shared my experience, and I hope that none of you have gone hysterically blind, or indeed wrestled the service revolver from your oldest son (or least delicate horse). For you, the ordeal can now end, but for me, there are anotrher two days of walking from the Blundell St Car Park.
I bid you "good day".
Well......
What can one say ?
It sounds like you've been scarred for life, Nobby. :o
Cheers - Phil
I am scarred.
I may need to forgo the pleasures and small savings afforded by the Blundell St car park, and make every day a King Parking day. :(
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Sounds like a very attractive lady, not unlike the Flat slags from Viz
;D ;D ;D ;D
I've been the token male in an otherwise females-only car pool. I'd rather like some of those here present to hear what women say about husbands and boyfriends in their absence. It might deflate a few priapically tumescent egos.
For any literate readers, should the plural of ego be nos?
He claims to speak English. Don't think there are many Georgians are still around.
I make no claims to even a semblance of attractiveness. I do not think that anyone's attractiveness is enhanced by tattoed hands on the knees, though it does make a statement.
Rather like the young lady who had "Hi, my name is Jodie" tattoed on her back by way of introduction to her amorous suitors.
Lawks
Crikey, that broadened your life experience (if not your life expectancy!). :D
The trouble with reading of FSN's experiences is that the way my mind works is that I will probably remember this post at the most inappropriate time possible, (probably in a bedroom) snigger out loud and then have to explain myself to whoever I am with at the time. :d
I have two questions
Why if the lady ( I use this term loosely you understand) was really so unattractive to FSN why was he looking so closely?
Secondly I did not think that FSN was that fussy :D :D
I have an enquiring mind!
Quote from: fsn on 13 July 2016, 07:43:43 PM
I have a mind!
2nd and 3rd opinions please
IanS
Gentlemen,
I can see that my predicament of yesterday has raised you to new heights of apathy. I think it behooves me to inform the virtually assembled membership that today I used the Blundell St Car Park (well 50p is ten shillings, and better in my pocket than King Parking), and hazarded the walk past the Scandinavian Church. Fortunately, I did not encounter the tattoeed lady of yesterday, however, I did observe something that could be of equal or even greater horror. Or possibly less. It depends largely on your definition of 'horror', and indeed what horrifies you. I had an Aunt who would, wthout qualm, butcher a sheep, yet would hide behind the door rather than be presented with Bruce Forsythe on the television. She was the same about Jimmy Hill, so mayhap it was a fear of chins.
To me though, this latest horror, and horror I believe it to be to all right thinking people, assailed me from a public advertisment. Gentlemen, I give you ... the first Christmas advert of 2016.
(http://www.swindon24.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Oasis-Merry-Xmas-advert_-DSC_0375.jpg)
It is, needless to point out, July! I have delibertately obscured the name of the product, as I do not belive these scoundrels should benefit from their presumpton. Suffice to say, in my nerved state, this abhorrence came as quite a shock.
X_X
(It's not that 'they've' taken an advert out of that case...and left last year's Christmas ad in there, is it Nobby ?......What am I saying ? Of course it isn't. =))
Cheers - Phil
Surely it be almost Easter ?
IanS
Haven't seen any fireworks in the supermarket yet. :-\
Cheers - Phil.
Phil - thought you were bared from using fireworks, even with a responsible adult. Letting you lose with explosives would be far too dangerous.
IanS ;)
Quote from: ianrs54 on 15 July 2016, 02:37:21 PM
Phil - thought you were bared from using fireworks...
They've blown his garment off?
It does blow a 'hoolie' in the Preselis, an awful lot of the time......So it's not beyond the realms of possibility ! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
(It'd take a hurricane to divest me of all the layers, I wear......Though I have been down to just a t-shirt 'oop top' ONCE this 'Summer'. (Summer ?.....PAH !!!!)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: fsn on 13 July 2016, 12:17:06 PM
Rather like the young lady who had "Hi, my name is Jodie" tattoed on her back by way of introduction to her amorous suitors.
That's rather useful, at least you can get a reminder of her name as she gets out of bed the following morning.
Its not for the next morning... ;)
I saw a photo of one the right way up across the shoulders, and upside-down across the lower back. Think about it...
(http://heavyeditorial.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/1266340870_my-name-is-kelly.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&w=780)
Well, we know the websites FSN visits when he's not posting here...
FK's collection.
So your name is Kelly?
Quote from: Last Hussar on 17 July 2016, 09:59:51 AM
Well, we know the websites FSN visits when he's not posting here...
Quote from: Last Hussar on 16 July 2016, 05:00:38 PM
I saw a photo of one the right way up across the shoulders, and upside-down across the lower back. Think about it...
Kettle calling the pot, black ..... ? :P ;)
[although, to be fair, fsn's photo is upside down across the shoulders and the right way up across the lower back]
I saw it on demotivational with a caption
Tim Minchin has reworked 'Groundhog day' as a musical.
So far I've posted a link to the BBC story 6 times in 90 minutes Facebook
Tim Minchin is a genius 8)
The girls in my last class all knew Matilda off by heart, made the end of year production easy! :)
Struck me today you could choose sides in an ECW game by flipping a coin with Donald Trump on one side, and his erstwhile opponent Ted Cruz on the other, and go with whether you got the self important narcissist, or the bastard who thought God told him to do it.
Groundhog Day: The Musical .... do they just sing one song over and over? ;)
Don't you have to go back each day, and watch it again ?
Never seen GHD....Is it any good ?
Cheers - Phil
Hasn't this news item been on this thread before?
X_X
;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Redheads. No comment.
http://www.newslinq.com/redhead-humans/ (http://www.newslinq.com/redhead-humans/)
I was SO looking forward to a quiet afternoon.....and falling asleep in front of a DVD.
Mrs T playing with the Gee-gees...then going out see someone else's new Gee-gee.
Now the whole afternoon is going to be taken up with taking down a bit of fencing.....Having a hole dug by someone with a mini digger......and then putting back the frigging fencing.
A job that's got to be done....But I really , really didn't want to do it today. X_X
Cheers - Fed up of Wales.
Quote from: Techno on 14 August 2016, 11:23:22 AM
...taking down a bit of fencing.....
I took
up fencing as an undergraduate. How does one take it
down?
A while ago when he was registered unemployed he got a phone call from the employment exchange:
"We've got you an interview with Haydock fencing"
Son "Why?"
"Well you've got a fencing qualification"
Son "Have you seen 'Die Another Day'?"
""Why"
Son " It's that sort of fencing"
The fact that on his CV it was between an archery qualification and a zip wire one might have been a clue.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 14 August 2016, 02:12:45 PM
I took up fencing as an undergraduate. How does one take it down?
By using a claw hammer, a chainsaw, (to cut one of the rails,) and a mini-digger, used as a hoist, to remove a post. =)
The mini-digger was
exceptionally useful, in digging the 3' deep trench to find the end of the septic tank's outlet pipe. (Then scraping all the soil and rocks back in the trench when we
finally found the end of the pipe.....Thank goodness !)
It was almost like 'Time Team'.....Though sadly, we didn't find anything interesting or valuable. Apart from a couple of golden torcs.....I WISH !...The number of times I thought we'd found the end of the pipe.....Only to find it was yet another joint. (No !.....Not that sort.)
Though I
really didn't want to do this yesterday, in the end I was chuffed to bits with what we'd achieved.
(When I say 'WE', my friend Richard did
at least 90% of the work ! I just seemed to stand in the trench marking where the pipe was, and getting in the way of the bucket...Very occasionally shoveling soil out of the trench.)
It's such fun on 'the farm'. =)....Surpisingly, my back isn't moaning this morning.....Huzzah !...I can get on with the werewolves and a new or revamped 'tigger' for the samurai apes.
Cheers - Phil
You - loose with a mini digger ?????
IanS
A Mini Digger :) , at last I know where to come when I strangle my lazy stepdaughter. Your friend Richard can dig a nice deep trench 5' 4" long by the septic tank , A suitable place to bury her! :-bd :-bd
Quote from: JeffNNN on 14 August 2016, 05:48:35 PM
"Well you've got a fencing qualification"
Son "Have you seen 'Die Another Day'?"
""Why"
Son " It's that sort of fencing"
Sergeant (standing by piano),"Do any of you 'orrible lot know what to do with one of these?"
Two or three sheepish admissions of the "well, I play a little" type later.
Sergeant,"Right, you three, move this one to the Officer's Mess!"
:)
Quoth the Sergeant. " Gather round you horrible lot. In a few minutes the officer is going to give you a lecture on Keats. Now most of you won't even know what a Keat is but try to look interested." 8😎
Quote from: Ithoriel on 15 August 2016, 11:49:23 AM
Sergeant (standing by piano),"Do any of you 'orrible lot know what to do with one of these?"
Two or three sheepish admissions of the "well, I play a little" type later.
Sergeant,"Right, you three, move this one to the Officer's Mess!"
:)
Something similar happened to my dad in WW2 ,He had volunteered for bomb disposal.
Seargent : Can anyone play the piano?
Dad: Yes
Seargent : Right come with me your going to learn to drive.
He then got about an hour with the sergeant being taught how to drive the Tilly.
The next day he had to drive it with an Officer sitting next to him with a live 25Kg bomb in his lap that they had been unable to remove the fuse from due to damage to the bomb casing. Trying desperately not to do "kangaroo hops" in case it set it off.
They took it to the bomb cemetery and blew it up.
Blimey! :o
He ended up being the section driver having to drive whatever vehicle was required. On leaving the army he was given a "chit" saying "this man can drive".
This was exchanged many years later (late 50's early 60's) for a full British driving licence, so he never actually took his driving test. Managed 50 years without an accident that was his fault. I suppose driving with live bombs makes you careful. :)
A thread on Facebook has just finished with my brother posting this
QuoteLike the guy who drank so much when he was sick it started to come out of his.nose. At which point it was realised he had eaten spaghetti for tea. From that point on He was known as Zoidberg.
Can't decide which animals are the biggest pains in the backside....Sheep or chickens. (Or dogs)
All we had to do last night was a quick 'skip out' on the horses, and then pop down to the local Chinese restaurant and pick up a takeaway, courtesy of the MIL.
Interrupted while doing the horses, by the frantic sound of a chicken being savaged by the collie......Rescue chicken from bramble undergrowth......Catch chicken, and put it back in the pen.
Wash blood off hands from all the scratches from the brambles.
Finish off horses.....Go and check sheep that had had fly strike....She's managed to get stuck on her side and been lying in the rain for ? long and was cold, shivery and exceeding wobbly on her feet.
Try and entice sheep in to the barn, with a bucket of feed.
No...She can't move well, at all.
Go and get wheelbarrow......Pick up sheep, and put in wheelbarrow.....Hold sheep down in wheelbarrow, while Mrs T steers the barrow.
Put sheep in stable....Go back and get another sheep as company for the poorly one. (It's peeing down with rain, all this time.....PAH !)
Mrs T 'towels off' poorly sheep......Get feed for them.
Order takeaway.
Eat late !
Whether the sheep survives ? Who knows ?.....But she's hanging in there this morning.
Cheers - Phil.
The joys of living in the country ;)
PAH ! (Sometimes). ;)
At least the poorly sheep seems to be getting better.
Cheers - Phil
That's good
You could try whispering "mint sauce" in her ear to encourage her to get better - the sheep not the MIL
On a completely different topic........
If he was still alive.....Freddie Mercury would have been 70 today. :o
(Apparently, he's now got an asteroid named after him.)
Where does the time go. X_X
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 05 September 2016, 08:42:37 AM
On a completely different topic........
If he was still alive.....Freddie Mercury would have been 70 today. :o
(Apparently, he's now got an asteroid named after him.)
Where does the time go. X_X
Cheers - Phil
I thought he had a PLANET named after him, God knows why.
A planet called Freddiemercury ?
You learn something new every day. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Asteroids ??- very painful, you can get a cream for that :)
Aren't they caused by riding horses, in which case Phil must suffer something rotten.
IanS
I haven't sat a horse for about eight years ! (And have no intention of ever trying again.)
Last time I did, I got mighty close to breaking my neck. X_X
Served me right for sitting on it bare back, and with no reins of any description.
I got bucked off !.....It hurt.
Cheers - Roy Rogers (Not)
Quote from: Techno on 05 September 2016, 11:53:23 AM
Roy Rogers (Not)
That not a reference to your singing by any chance. Think the quote is "Too Loud, Too Often, and FLAT" courtesy of Flanders and Swann.
IanS
Quote from: Techno on 05 September 2016, 11:53:23 AM
Served me right for sitting on it bare back, and with no reins of any description.
I got bucked off !.....It hurt.
I bet it did! If a horse did that to me, I'd be bucked off too. >:(
I believe you should always wear protection and never ride "bareback", especially if its a beast you have never ridden before.
X_X
Cheers - Phil
Finished off another contingent of my Stephen/Matilda forces (64 inf and 16 cav) and also the medieval baggage train (8 carts attended by defrocked monks).
Now thoroughly fed up with irregulars.
Torn between painting some interwar Middle east Brits to take on the Foreign Legion (look it's my game ... and if d_Guy can do it, I can) or perhaps starting some WWII Pacific.
Or WWII Poles.
Or Napoleonics.
Or some 1:600 aircraft - perhaps some WWII Pacific a/c.
Or finish the Dark Age fort ...
Or something else.
But not irregulars.
I feel your pain on Irregular troops.
Its so much easier to paint chaps in uniforms.
Middle East Brits vs FFL sounds good.
I would go desert!
They do slow one down by about 50%, I find.
Quote from: fsn on 11 September 2016, 08:12:58 PM
(8 carts attended by defrocked monks)
Defrocked monks would actually seem to me very uniform - lots of pink and buff...and given the diet of seeds and berries, rather regular also.
Some people can be so literal! >:( :P
The're (mostly) the walking pose from the monks pack. I've painated them in a variety of colours so they can walk alongside the bagge carts.
They're defrocked - not sky-clad!
WW2 Poles or would you count the three colour camouflage -irregular?
Hmmm ... same problem with Japanese tanks.
May have to be the 1920 Brits in the desert.
I did decide that the colour of their knees would define their status.
White knees - raw recruit
Red knees - been there a while
Brown knees - veteran.
Quote from: fsn on 12 September 2016, 11:54:09 AM
White knees - raw recruit
Red knees - been there a while
Brown knees - veteran.
(Picks up shattered kneecaps, replaces lug in lughole, and exits through little hole in centre of record)
Quote from: fsn on 12 September 2016, 11:54:09 AM
White knees - raw recruit
Red knees - been there a while
Brown knees - veteran.
:D I like this idea, may steal it for my crusaders
Cheers
Ian
Talk about being right behind the times. X_X =)
I hadn't realised that British coins are coated steel, and therefore 'stickable' to magnetic material/ magnets.....Or they have been for a long, long time.
Don't know if this might be of the remotest interest for those of you that transport your figures......holding them in place with magnetic strip ?
Not sure if this will really have any practical implications for any of you....But I thought I'd mention it, as it might just be useful.
Cheers - Phil
(I also have a new tip for getting the crud out of a saucepan, after it's boiled dry. This one doesn't involve making your kitchen smell like a 'chippy'.) :D
Quote from: Techno on 19 September 2016, 07:58:02 AM
Talk about being right behind the times. X_X =)
I hadn't realised that British coins are coated steel, and therefore 'stickable' to magnetic material/ magnets.....Or they have been for a long, long time.
Don't know if this might be of the remotest interest for those of you that transport your figures......holding them in place with magnetic strip ?
I looked this up and its been since 1992, but I guess as coins last so long its taken a while to replace most of those in the system.
Its no surprise you have not notice because:-
a: Your still using "Groats"
b Mrs T has all the money for Gee Gees. :D
I have known for some time about this as I used to get my youngest to sort the magnetic "copper" coins out of my change, with the "bribe" that all copper ones she could keep. This was when she was about 5 - she will be 18 at the end of the year!
Quote from: Techno on 19 September 2016, 07:58:02 AM
(I also have a new tip for getting the crud out of a saucepan, after it's boiled dry. This one doesn't involve making your kitchen smell like a 'chippy'.) :D
Been cooking again Phiil ?
Magnetic 2p pieces are my standard Warmaster hero/ mage base.
It's about the only thing 2p pieces are useful for these days!
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 19 September 2016, 08:09:29 AM
Been cooking again Phiil ?
Nah, Mark.....
It was from a roundabout conversation with the chap that's going to replace the MIL's shower unit.
We were discussing how to get the green algae stain, from the exterior paint on the house.
"I use chemical 'X'," said I.... (Vile stuff.)
"You want to try 'Y' " said Bob......He then went on to tell me that he'd used the same household product by simmering it (watered down) to get rid of the carbonised crud, in a saucepan he'd b*ggred......... before his better half spotted the damage.
He then reasoned that the solution would probably work well to clear the algae.....He was absolutely right !
Took a long time, going
up and down the ladder.....(Spray on......Scrub with a soft brush.....Go down ladder....Get hose....Wait for Mrs T to switch hose on....Wash it off.....Go down ladder, and repeat ad nauseam.)....But job done.
I ache in places, that I didn't know I had places, this morning. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
I don't want to know how he sodomised a saucepan. But it sounds painful.
Quote from: Techno on 19 September 2016, 11:25:18 AM
We were discussing how to get the green algae stain, from the exterior paint on the house.
"I use chemical 'X'," said I.... (Vile stuff.)
"You want to try 'Y' " said Bob......He then went on to tell me that he'd used the same household product by simmering it (watered down) to get rid of the carbonised crud, in a saucepan he'd b*ggred......... before his better half spotted the damage.
He then reasoned that the solution would probably work well to clear the algae.....He was absolutely right !
It's like living in an advert!
Quote from: Techno on 19 September 2016, 11:25:18 AM
I ache in places, that I didn't know I had places, this morning. ;D ;D ;D
Ache's muscles? Tired bones? You want to try new Rubitout? Long ago, Mongol tribesmen used to return from a long day riding, and disemboweling and generally causing mayhem. The Mongol women knew the answer for aging husbands - they poisoned them and took up with a younger lover.
Meanwhile, on the shores of Goa, young women learned from their mothers the secret to easing aching muscles. They took herbs and seaweed and the icky bit of a goat's eye and made it into a salve. This they rubbed into their supple young bodies - sometimes their own, sometimes with friends - and brought back the tingling warmth of a healthy body. Sometimes, there was no ache, and they did it for fun.
Recently Portugese scientists have sold the secret to a big American conglomorate, who have analysed the s**t out of it, identified the active ingredient and made new Rubitout. Now, not just for sleek Goan maidens, but for crinkly old Welshmen like you! Runitout! Just £9.99 from your local pharmicist!
Quote from: Techno on 19 September 2016, 11:25:18 AM
"You want to try 'Y' " said Bob......He then went on to tell me that he'd used the same household product by simmering it (watered down) to get rid of the carbonised crud, in a saucepan he'd b*ggred......... before his better half spotted the damage.
does Y= white vinegar?
No, Mark.... ;)
Mind you,..... that IS what I've used a couple of times to clean a saucepan.
(Though I used what I'd call 'ordinary' vinegar on those occasions.....Dun't 'arf make a stink !)
Cheers - Phil
Anyway, this weekend I undercoated some British infantry.
Then, for some readson, painted a squadron of Egyptian MiG 21s
Sewage? Sorry, Suez?
1973.
Got some Phantoms and Skyhawks to go up against them.
And Il28's, SU7's, MiG17's and a Badger to support them.
Forgot how much I hate really tiny decals. >:(
Use a paintbrush to slide them.
Yes, but they're still very, very fiddly.
It's not so bad on good British Roundels, but those damned Yankee stars need to point a particular way!
Be glad it's not the naval stars and bars of the 42 Pacific campaign! ;)
That's coming up! Just had a delivery from Tumbling Dice. :D
;D
Well I had a lovely day yesterday at the excellent RAF Museum at Cosford.
There I met with a lovely, lovely Centurion tank called Ann ... there were also some aeroplanes.
Ann was wearing deep bronze green - the one that's a semi gloss and shows off her curves nicely.
Most impressive were the V bombers.
Ann was sporting the badges of the 17/21 Lancers.
Most interesting were the Japanese Dinah and the German Me410.
Thoroughly recommended as long as you're not coming cross country - for there are no road signs anywhere on the smaller routes.
That's coz us Salopians want to keep the good stuff secret! ;) :P
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/s480x480/14484584_1827026624184013_6976941011441870951_n.jpg?oh=de2820cb243332f90e556f464cc456ac&oe=586EE1AB)
A maths problem for you.
Nobby has 11 bookcases downstairs. Each one has 7 shelves, each one is 80cm wide.
Nobby spends two days tidying said bookcases.
Nobby takes about 2m of books to the charity shop.
How is it that Nobby still doesn't have enough book space?
You previously had lots of books hidden under the bed...There wasn't enough room for them on the bookshelves before ?
Cheers - Phil
No. Though that reminds me I've got another half dozen by the bed. :)
Just passing through - but don't forget the two or three dozen squirrled away at work for the slack times.
Aw! Snap! :(
Didn't you know - Books breed faster than rabbits ?
InaS
Certainly do in my house.
When I revamped my bookshelves, I found at least 10 books I've never seen before. :-\
Was one, How to improve your memory and the detrimental effects of licking walls ?
Quote from: fsn on 08 October 2016, 08:08:30 AM
When I revamped my bookshelves, I found at least 10 books I've never seen before. :-\
I have a similar problem with CD's and DVD's X_X
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Westmarcher on 08 October 2016, 09:14:20 AM
Was one, How to improve your memory and the detrimental effects of licking walls ?
Strangely ... no.
That is ... I don't think so. :-\
easy, there are too many boxes of figures on the shelves already! :)
They stand upright, they don't lie flat.
Could that be your problem? ;)
I have a suggestion for the next painting competition, which should even up the field.
Rather than the old, passe "let's sit in a warm room with good lighting and paint beautifully", let's go for some Extreme Painting. I suggest that the entrant has to have been painted in some extremly trying condition for example, whilst hanging off a cliff, during a parachute descent, after 16 pints of Old Foot Rotter, in a rainstorm, or in the back of a Transit Van being driven up the M6 by a p***k who usually drives a BMW.
This, I believe would add a bit of spice to the competition. It would also have a very small deleterious effect upon my painting, so I would have more of a chance of winning.
Seconds?
Do they all have to be at the same time?
Speed Painting Competition. Has to be Speed, other narcotics aren't allowed.
Judging has to be done while officials are stoned from dropping acid, mind.
I bet seeing all those little men wouldn't half produce some interesting results!
Perhaps a number of categories?
* In heroic situations (up a tree, in a row boat on a tidal bore etc)
* Attributes impaired (after having a very spicy meal, one hand tied behind the back, with one of Techno's wellie socks tied across your nose)
* Whilst being mildly electrocuted
fsn (who, quite surprisingly, hails from Georgia) demonstrates speed painting:
I had one of those rather irritating moments yesterday when an item went missing.
First thing in the morning......Preparing a wee shield for one of the Aztecs.....Just about to 'green stuff' it into position on the figure, and the s*dding thing completely disappeared.
Made out of bright red putty...Couldn't see it on the cutting mat (green).....Or the carpet (Dark blue).....Or the front of the drawer, below the cutting mat.
Checked the sleeves of my sweatshirt....My jeans. No sign at all.
Gave up after a few minutes, and finished off another shield. (I've got loads half prepared, so I wasn't going to spend/waste a lot of time looking for the missing one.)
Forgot about it completely, until I found it after I'd finished work for the day.........Stuck to my wedding ring, on the palm side of my hand !!
Couldn't believe I hadn't spotted it at some stage, during the day. :-[
Cheers - Phil
=O =O =O =D>
It wasn't funny, Will. :)
(In truth...It wasn't a big deal, as I had others prepared....So it wasn't like losing something I'd spent a long time on.)
To make sure I didn't lose something I HAD spent a fair amount of time on.....This morning, I made sure I replaced the head of one of the Aztecs (before I lost THAT) straight away.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 12 October 2016, 11:50:13 AM
It wasn't funny, Will. :)
It's fate - you'll never finish the useless things - so start on the modern infantry now, and abandon the native yanks.
IanS
I look forward to an installment of "The Saga of Techno" as much as the Sunday episode of "Prince Valiant" - which is quit a bit.
"Native Yanks" =) ;D
Oh dear! I'm sure there's something about Pendraken products that makes them able to teleport. Perhaps it's that littrle bit of Techno blood in every one?
Quote from: Techno on 12 October 2016, 05:54:25 AM
Preparing a wee shield for one of the Aztecs
They're all incontinent?
Quote from: ianrs54 on 12 October 2016, 12:06:22 PM
It's fate - you'll never finish the useless things - so start on the modern infantry now, and abandon the native yanks. IanS
The figures......They're annoyingly close to finishing, now.....Though I won't be able to do some of the 'banners' as green stuff one offs. (That'll delay things, sadly.....Have to do
real roughs and get Leon to cast me some up and send those back to work on, as metals, at some stage.)
Quote from: fsn on 12 October 2016, 04:59:04 PM
Oh dear! I'm sure there's something about Pendraken products that makes them able to teleport. Perhaps it's that littrle bit of Techno blood in every one?
I don't think I've mixed
much blood with green stuff, since the Mongols, Nobby :-\
Did have blood on my jeans yesterday.....But that belonged to the old poorly sheep that had to be shot. (Not by yours truly.)
Shame....We thought we were winning for a while. :(
Now we appear to have a poorly pony. =)........And the rescue Collie bitch is in season, so we're having to keep her and the 'labs' WELL apart.....It never rains....
I suppose at least it means that she's not going to drop a load of pups on us...Which has been a bit of a worry.
(There you go, Guy.....That's the latest installment. X_X)
Cheers - Phil
What about trying to paint figures whilst the rest of the family are watching Strictly Come Dancing; all that glitter and noise is most off putting.
Can't you paint more quietly? Must ruin the family's enjoyment if they can't hear Len say "Seven".
Or Craig say "Daaaaahling !"
EVERY bl**dy year, I swear to myself I'm NOT going to watch it......Then I walk into the living room while Mrs T IS watching, and get 'drawn in'. :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( X_X X_X X_X X_X
Don't watch the Sunday prog......I look up the results before they transmit the 'live' ( =O =O =O) show......and then I ask Mrs T if she wants to know the results. (She usually does.)
Cheers - Phil
The recent failure, in a long line of failures, of the Mars probe has been put down to a number of possible reasons. The Daily Mail (taking over it's journalistic integrity from the Sunday Sport) has the real reason.
Martian anti-aircraft artillery!
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/07/1412673103771_wps_7_The_Mars_Rover_image_whic.jpg)
Time to crack out those "All Quiet on the Martian Front" rules!
Having got the result back from a blood test from a couple of days ago....
Much to my surprise, my kidneys are functioning normally....(Huzzah !) So I could start taking pretty pills to help bring my blood pressure down. (It's way too high)
I wouldn't let them test for anything else.... I simply don't want to know.....Can't stand going to the 'quacks'......Been down there more in the last two weeks for tests, than I have in the previous 8 years.
YUK !!
Cheers - Mr Stressed.
Hugs
Oooh! What colour pills? Got any swapsies?
On a more serious note, hope your get your humours in balance.
Think you need to look at your black bile levels. :-\
Stay healthy.
You've got Koreans to make.
Quote from: fsn on 22 October 2016, 12:03:02 PM
The recent failure, in a long line of failures, of the Mars probe has been put down to a number of possible reasons. The Daily Mail (taking over it's journalistic integrity from the Sunday Sport) has the real reason.
Martian anti-aircraft artillery!
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/10/07/1412673103771_wps_7_The_Mars_Rover_image_whic.jpg)
Time to crack out those "All Quiet on the Martian Front" rules!
I've cleaned up the picture ;)
Definitely an AA Gun!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Look after yourself Phil >:<
We need you to keep pushing the putty ;)
Quote from: fsn on 04 November 2016, 05:14:29 PM
Oooh! What colour pills? Got any swapsies?
Stay healthy.
You've got Koreans to make.
Orange & white, Nobby......No. (They didn't half knock my BP down last night ....one extreme to the other...and they're about the
lowest strength you can get.)
Ta for the wishes. :)
Cheers - Phil
So much for those pills working !
First day they did something...since then my BP seems to be getting higher and higher.
Doesn't help when the internet keeps playing silly b's when I really need it to be working properly.
Thought there was something wrong with the Forum this morning.....But it was the network connection....So goodness knows what I've missed, now. >:( >:( >:(
Cheers - Phil
Oh dear!
Back to the people in the white coats for you, Sir. Got to take care of you, you're a national institution.
Quote from: Techno on 07 November 2016, 07:04:57 AM
Thought there was something wrong with the Forum this morning..
There's something wrong with the Forum every morning. The forum is only right if it's wrong. If it was right, that would be wrong.
Quote from: fsn on 07 November 2016, 09:45:36 AM
Oh dear!
Back to the people in the white coats for you, Sir. Got to take care of you, you're a national institution.
I've got to go back twice
next week, Nobby......Once to see nursie for another blood test....and once to see the Doc, once the results are back.
On a brighter note, just had a phone call, which, with a bit of luck might bring my B/P down, as it was promising news.
Cheers - Phil
Happy words on Saturday: "Nothing wrong with your teeth, sir. Go home."
"We'll just pop them back in the box and you can take them home."
:D
There have been times when I've wished that were the case!
What do you think of this?
It' a peace monument in Lebanon. I spotted Charioteer, Sherman, T55, Saladin and more.
http://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/08/hope-for-peace-monument-in-yarze-lebanon.html (http://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/08/hope-for-peace-monument-in-yarze-lebanon.html)
(http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jDFMfVEVHuA/Vch4CIomWvI/AAAAAAABFPw/wnD5F9ZOjjc/hope-for-peace-arman-1%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=1600)
Give Mart 20 minutes, he will have it in the post to Leon!
Wandering through my blog I found this from a few years back - Not sure I posted it here, but I did promo Pendraken
Wargamers Rhapsody - With apologies to Freddie Mercury...
Is this Renaissance?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a leadslide,
My escape from reality
Put out my figures, but your army's bigger, oh crap,
I'm just a poor bloke, I need more miniatures,
Because I'm easy meat, and paint too slow, don't roll high, always low,
Any way the dice fall doesn't really matter to me,
to me
Oh-no, I just killed a man,
Charged him on too far ahead, rolled my dice, now he's dead
Dammit, the game had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Oh-no, oo-ooh, Didn't mean to make them die,
I've got to play this game again tomorrow,
With no men, with no men, coz nothing now can save me
Too late, my reserves are gone,
I've got Artillery on my ranks, and his cavalry on my flanks.
Goodbye, ev'rybody, I've got to flee,
Gotta leave you all behind and quit the field
Oh hell, oo-ooh, I don't want to lose,
I sometimes wish I'd never played these rules at all
Coz nothing now can save me...
I see a little silhouette of a man,
Minus 2, minus 2, on your combat roll
Agincourt and Crecy, very, very messy
(buy more lead) buy more lead (buy more lead) buy more lead, buy more lead At a show, ow, ow, ow.
I'm just a poor Colonel, everybody beats me
I'm just a poor gamer with a lone sentry,
Spare me my figures from your huge army
Hard to paint, easy lose, will you take a draw
Surrender! We will not let you draw
(Let him draw!) Surrender! We will not let you draw
(Let him draw!) Surrender! We will not let you draw
(Let me draw) Will not let you draw
(Let me draw) Will not let you draw (Let me draw) Ah
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
(Oh Phil Barker, Phil Barker) 5th edition lets me win
Pendraken has an army put aside for me, for me, for me...
So you think you can flank me and use that old ruse
So you think you can charge me and leave me to lose
Oh, damn it, no matter how much I plan it,
Just gotta pack up, just gotta pack up my men now
Nothing ever works, Anything I try,
Nothing ever works,
Nothing ever works, for me
(Any way the smoke blows)
:) :) ;D ;D
Quote from: Last Hussar on 09 November 2016, 03:17:05 AM
Wandering through my blog I found this from a few years back - Not sure I posted it here, but I did promo Pendraken
Wargamers Rhapsody - With apologies to Freddie Mercury...
Is this Renaissance?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a leadslide,
My escape from reality
Put out my figures, but your army's bigger, oh crap,
I'm just a poor bloke, I need more miniatures,
Because I'm easy meat, and paint too slow, don't roll high, always low,
Any way the dice fall doesn't really matter to me,
to me
Oh-no, I just killed a man,
Charged him on too far ahead, rolled my dice, now he's dead
Dammit, the game had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Oh-no, oo-ooh, Didn't mean to make them die,
I've got to play this game again tomorrow,
With no men, with no men, coz nothing now can save me
Too late, my reserves are gone,
I've got Artillery on my ranks, and his cavalry on my flanks.
Goodbye, ev'rybody, I've got to flee,
Gotta leave you all behind and quit the field
Oh hell, oo-ooh, I don't want to lose,
I sometimes wish I'd never played these rules at all
Coz nothing now can save me...
I see a little silhouette of a man,
Minus 2, minus 2, on your combat roll
Agincourt and Crecy, very, very messy
(buy more lead) buy more lead (buy more lead) buy more lead, buy more lead At a show, ow, ow, ow.
I'm just a poor Colonel, everybody beats me
I'm just a poor gamer with a lone sentry,
Spare me my figures from your huge army
Hard to paint, easy lose, will you take a draw
Surrender! We will not let you draw
(Let him draw!) Surrender! We will not let you draw
(Let him draw!) Surrender! We will not let you draw
(Let me draw) Will not let you draw
(Let me draw) Will not let you draw (Let me draw) Ah
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
(Oh Phil Barker, Phil Barker) 5th edition lets me win
Pendraken has an army put aside for me, for me, for me...
So you think you can flank me and use that old ruse
So you think you can charge me and leave me to lose
Oh, damn it, no matter how much I plan it,
Just gotta pack up, just gotta pack up my men now
Nothing ever works, Anything I try,
Nothing ever works,
Nothing ever works, for me
(Any way the smoke blows)
Absolutely top notch, LH !! =D> =D>
Cheers - Phil
=D> =D> =D> =D> =D>
On a side note: Looks like "Orange is the New Black" will have a surprise guest star next season.
Quote from: fsn on 09 November 2016, 07:44:31 AM
On a side note: Looks like "Orange is the New Black" will have a surprise guest star next season.
First, Brexit. Now, Trump. Amazing. :o
All.
Can we just be a teeny bit careful starting a discussion regarding the result of the American Election.
I don't want to see a row starting between our good friends, on the forum.
I could see a right royal argument starting, if we're not careful.
I'm sure everyone would like to put their 'two pees worth' into a debate.....But I fear it could easily degenerate into a vitriolic slagging match.
What Westie's put down is absolutely fine, but let's not go down the road of personal abuse, which I could easily see happening.
Cheers - Phil :)
Quote from: Westmarcher on 09 November 2016, 08:36:44 AM
First, Brexit. Now, Trump. Amazing. :o
The year of idiotic voting.
On the plus side TPP is dead in the water
Cheers
Ian
;D ;D ;D :-bd :-bd =D> =D>
As Phil has already said, let's try and steer clear of the political stuff if possible folks, we'll all have a variety of opinions on what's happened recently but it's something that can get very heated, very quickly. There's definitely some interesting days ahead for all us, so let's keep to painting our little men and chucking dice at them.
Well said Phil & Leon
But please roll in open space rather than "chucking dice at" figures ;)
That's why Leon sells so many figures, replacements for all the dice casualties!
Can I talk about business instead?
The house advantage in a casino is 2-3%, depending on game. This means that for every 100 brought in by players, only 97-98 leaves. Other costs are easy - you have the property and the staff. You don't need to hold stock, or have a supply chain. People come in, they play for a few hours, they leave a little poorer. Its a licence to print your own money.
Trump once went bankrupt running a casino.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 09 November 2016, 07:17:36 PM
The house advantage in a casino is 2-3%, depending on game.
If we were running Pendraken at a 2-3% margin we'd go bankrupt as well...even with just premises and staff. That's a lousy profit level, I'm surprised if that's an accurate margin.
Depends on the game and the exact rules being played.
0.3% to 30% is probably closer.
https://wizardofodds.com/gambling/house-edge/
They have a much higher turn over.
Take Roulette.
All the odds are based on 36 numbers 50/50 red black etc.
Put £10 on Red and win, you get evens - £20 back Stake plus £10. Bet on one number you get x36 back. At the end of the night you should be even.
However wheels have Green 0. This tilts the odds slightly 1 in 37 spins will not be red/black. So I bet a total of 370 - 10 on black each time. I receive back 360.
Slots are obviously the biggies - I think they pay 20-30% depending on setting (yes, they can be set, they are not truly random).
Remember that while 1000 sounds a lot to play with, on average the punter will spend 30 for an evening's fun. But all those add up.
Even with a higher turnover, a 3% margin would be difficult to run on. If we take £100k per week / £5 million per year going into the machines/tables, that's only £150,000 profit coming out of it. That's not a lot to cover the premises, running costs and staff. Even scaling those numbers up still looks difficult to me. I'd imagine them to be closer to 10% margin on the gambing side, plus some higher margin sales streams to go with it, drinks, food and such.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 09 November 2016, 08:00:29 PM
Slots are obviously the biggies - I think they pay 20-30% depending on setting (yes, they can be set, they are not truly random).
We used to have ours set to 78% payout which most folks seemed happy with. I noticed that some of the later night venues had theirs at 72% or thereabouts, but I'm sure there was a minimum/maximum payout level set by the licensing people, so you couldn't rip people off. It used to be interesting watching some of the regular gamblers and picking up a few tips. Some of the staff used to race to some of the machines if they'd watched them get filled up by customers all night long...!
I have an idea to boost Pendraken sales.
"Pendraken Pets" - lovely ladies in compromising and amusing positions. Now, before you all go SJW on me, hear me out.
These Pets would be sculpted by Techno. They would be the most beautful, most elegant. most realsitic 10mm figures ever created. We could even get some of our better painters to produce pre-painted versions to add to the allure - all at hideously infated prices, of course.
All the 17 year old lads attracted to the website by Warband will naturally gravitate to this range and be ordering Pebdraken Pets as fast as their part-time jobs can pay for them.
Pendraken makes a fortune - but thiis where the extra value kicks in.
All the Pendraken Pets will be barefoot or wearing some totally impractically heeled shoe. We all know that Techno, being brought up in a different age, is nervous of the female ankle, and can't make a strong one to save his life. :P After just a few days of - shall we call it - play, the ankle will break, leaving our 17 years old bereft. He will obviously have to order replacements and end up on a perpetual cycle of purchasing.
For added incentive, some limited editions (at doubly inflated prices) could be offered.
The money will roll in to Pendraken. All it will cost in Leon's self respect and Techno's eyesight.
You complete and utter OIK ! , Nobby. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Phil - JUST GET ON WITH THEESE PTES - NOW
Quote from: fsn on 10 November 2016, 08:05:22 AM
The money will roll in to Pendraken. All it will cost in Leon's self respect and Techno's eyesight.
Leon - self respect ?? He plays Xbox Naked :-&
It will cost Techno more than his eyesight if Mrs T finds out he I running his hands over the "Pendraken Pets". Also he will probably go "all of a quiver" as he moulds some of the lovely ladies "features" and end up spilling more blood :D
To quote the Muppets, "You are all weirdoes."
When I was a sales engineer for a filtration distributer we were told we had to aim for a minimum overall margin of 30% :ar! :ar!
Quote from: ianrs54 on 10 November 2016, 10:53:42 AM
Phil - JUST GET ON WITH THEESE PTES - NOW
Sorry, Ian......What are PTES's ?
You know I don't have a clue.......Something to do with the Korean war dudes ?
Cheers - Phil (Who just had problems with EE playing silly B's....(I've got them sussed now)....So I've missed a load of stuff.......AGAIN !!)
PETS - you numpty (and my appalling typing)
Sorry, Ian.....Still means nothing.
(Apart from the mutts.)
Anyone ??
Cheers - Phil
I think he means these ones...
Quote from: fsn on 10 November 2016, 08:05:22 AM
"Pendraken Pets" - lovely ladies in compromising and amusing positions. Now, before you all go SJW on me, hear me out.
:-\
You know I'll do 'em, Leon.
(As long as they're not as smutty as some of porno' stuff I've been offered in the past...(NOT BY LEON !!!!)...I'd have made a fortune doing those.)
Cheers - Phil.
Um ... just been re-reading over the thread, and it seems I may have inadvertently started off the political comments.
Awfully sorry - but I'd heard that Angelina Jolie was going to be in "Orange is the New Black". Not confirmed, but I'm terribly excited.
Sorry for any confusion.
Hi
Can we now call the USA, Trumpton.
Jim
X_X
Another coat for Nobby to chew, methinks. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Jim Ando on 11 November 2016, 08:24:03 AM
Hi
Can we now call the USA, Trumpton.
Jim
No Trumpton was managed by sensible people who were scarily wooden,. while the US is normally managed by daft/stupid people who are scarily real
Quote from: Jim Ando on 11 November 2016, 08:24:03 AM
Hi
Can we now call the USA, Trumpton.
Jim
;D ;D
If so, here's the new National Anthem -
... and lets not forget that he's already visited Trumptonshire :-B
:D
Hi
I can remember Trumpton from when I was just a small boy and was totally in awe of the puppets now the puppets are in total awe of Trumpton.
Jim
I have a Dremmel and seem to be having small accidents regularly.
Techno is on a number of tablets and seems to be losing the plot.
I think we're slowly exchanging personalities.
The real sign will be when he starts drooling over Anne Hathaway. :x
I can't wait to get his sculpting skills!
Cheers - FSN
Oh no, the transmogrification device has broken! Quick, Ithorial, the sub-atomic-decombobuliser! Westie, the flux-capacitor!
We have the technology, we can fix them...
Erm... where does this bit go?
Yuck! :-& :-& X_X
Quote from: mad lemmey on 18 November 2016, 06:17:34 PM
Oh no, the transmogrification device has broken! Quick, Ithorial, the sub-atomic-decombobuliser! Westie, the flux-capacitor!
We have the technology, we can fix them...
Erm... where does this bit go?
Yuck! :-& :-& X_X
Take your pick from:-
Dammit Will, I'm a doctor not a .... erm .... vet? ;)
Wiffle lever to full Captain but ya cannae change the laws of physics!
:) :) :)
Quote from: fsn on 18 November 2016, 06:13:52 PM
Techno is on a number of tablets and seems to be losing the plot.
I think we're slowly exchanging personalities.
I can't wait to get his sculpting skills!
Cheers - FSN
I can
still sculpt on complete auto pilot, Nobby.....Though I don't like doing that, at all.
(Though I wish I hadn't taken those different pills together, tonight.)
Mr Back's fine....Mr Brain's
almost off with the fairies.....Don't worry.....I'll be fine in the morning......ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.)
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 November 2016, 06:40:09 PM
Take your pick from:-
Dammit Will, I'm a doctor not a .... erm .... vet? ;)
Wiffle lever to full Captain but ya cannae change the laws of physics!
:) :) :)
=O =O =O =O
Quote from: Techno on 18 November 2016, 07:08:31 PM
I can still sculpt on complete auto pilot, Nobby.....Though I don't like doing that, at all.
That explains much
IanS :)
Don't.
After a lovely hot bath, last night.......I fell asleep, sitting on the bathroom floor.
I'm glad the better half woke me.....She thought I'd already gone to bed, but fortunately spotted the light was still on in the bathroom.
Pills definitely not to be taken together during work hours......Until I've got used to them. =)
Cheers - Dozy.
Quote from: Techno on 19 November 2016, 11:26:57 AM
After a lovely hot bath, last night.......I fell asleep, sitting on the bathroom floor.
Dude! Some things can't be unpictured in one's mind AND I ain't had breakfast yet! :o :)
I bet you've seen autopsy scenes in programs like CSI and NCIS.....
No worse than that. :P
(Sorry....Thinking about it, it WOULD be worse than that.)
Cheers - Judge Death's body double.
Good Monday, everybody. :(
Here's a conundrum. Is it worse to be a wage slave who has to drag their backsides out of bed to face a Monday morning, or someoone who say, works from home, who is probably unaware of what day it is anyway? (That's because all days seem the same, not diminishing congitive facilities.)
:(
Today I will be undertaking the first day of a Coaching qualification, which is good, punctuated by an interview by some hard line auditors, which is bad.
What's everybody else up to?
Guess.
(Are you sure it's Monday, Nobby ?......I don't remember a weekend.)
Cheers - Phil
As a retiree, I struggle to remember which day of the week it is on a regular basis which makes it little different from the latter part of my working life when I was mainly working from home ... of course these days both income and stress levels are much reduced. The latter more than balances out the former!
May you all have the best possible day, whatever it holds for you!
Quote from: fsn on 21 November 2016, 08:03:07 AM
Today I will be undertaking the first day of a Coaching qualification...
My hats off to you, brother. Handling a four-in-hand is heady stuff. I remember seeing on ESPN a few years back Prince Charles hard charging through a river ford on a cross country.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 21 November 2016, 11:17:15 AM
As a retiree, I struggle to remember which day of the week it is on a regular basis which makes it little different from the latter part of my working life when I was mainly working from home ... of course these days both income and stress levels are much reduced. The latter more than balances out the former!
May you all have the best possible day, whatever it holds for you!
Well said! Could not improve on this. :-bd
Quote from: fsn on 21 November 2016, 08:03:07 AM
What's everybody else up to?
Hope it went well, Nobby.
Me? Got up early to take wife and daughter No.1 to Ayrshire for some 'jolly' at the Lochgreen Hotel in Troon (2 hour round trip). On way back, got call from daughter No.2 who wanted picked up as her car had to go into the garage. Watched two episodes of
Versailles (great costumes - when they've got them on!), fell asleep afterwards, took daughter No.2 back garage to get her car and then picked wife up at railway station.
On the coaching, I bumped into 4 BMWs reverse parking, so that was a plus.
The audit went very well. I redirected most of the questions to other managers. :D
Very bad journey home - rain, rain, rain. Lots of blue lights and people still driving too fast in poor weather. >:(
Quote from: fsn on 21 November 2016, 06:53:34 PM
On the coaching, I bumped into 4 BMWs reverse parking, so that was a plus.
:o ... really?
No.
I was doing coaching as in "a bit like, but not mentoring".
On each day we have to "coach" each other through a problem. I've been partnered with a girl whose first issue was that she gets too emotionally involved with clients.
I'm working on a scenario that will have her in tears on day 4. :d
X_X :P
So no horses then? :(
Well, I had a Tesco sandwich ... so possibly.
Why the long face?
Probably because he's been talking all day long and feels a little horse.
He'd better not try feeling our little horse.
She'd probably kick him into next week. :D
Cheers - Phil
True enough. He'd be a foal if he did.
He's neighbody's foal.
X_X :P
[you realise don't you that, this is all Lemmey's fault]
Quote from: fsn on 21 November 2016, 07:01:41 PM
I was doing coaching as in "a bit like, but not mentoring".
On each day we have to "coach" each other through a problem. I've been partnered with a girl whose first issue was that she gets too emotionally involved with clients.
I'm working on a scenario that will have her in tears on day 4. :d
Coaching - as in constantly asking questions, and never providing answers? I went on a coaching course, and it was quite odd, in that the coach claims to be able to coach anyone in anything as it's all about finding what's blocking them.
Personally I'm more used to a coach in the sporting sense of actually knowing stuff and being able to spot what you are doing wrong at a technical level and get it right.
Coaching - the art of persuading someone that the problem, far from being the underfunding, understaffing, under resourcing and undermining of a project by managers, is in fact the person themselves!
"Don't tell me what it's all about
'Cause I've been there and I'm glad, I'm out
Out of those chains, those chains that bind you
That is why I'm here to remind you ..."
:)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 22 November 2016, 01:00:19 AM
Coaching - the art of persuading someone that the problem, far from being the underfunding, understaffing, under resourcing and undermining of a project by managers, is in fact the person themselves!
"Don't tell me what it's all about
'Cause I've been there and I'm glad, I'm out
Out of those chains, those chains that bind you
That is why I'm here to remind you ..."
:)
We grow old, Master Shallow...
I say chaps!
At what point does one become a Lt General (that's pronounced "Left-tenant")?
If it's 6,000, then Babycham and cherry brandies all round!
If not ... that I shall just have to step up my posting until I achieve rank!
Dude, put down the crackpipe - you ARE a Loo-tenant General!
Congratulations! I'll have an IC light.
Not sure how we missed it!
Babycham (which autocorrect insists is baby ham) is my new word for the day.
Time to push on to full general.
Quote from: fsn on 21 November 2016, 07:01:41 PM
I was doing coaching as in "a bit like, but not mentoring".
On each day we have to "coach" each other through a problem. I've been partnered with a girl whose first issue was that she gets too emotionally involved with clients.
I'm working on a scenario that will have her in tears on day 4. :d
I thought you would be working on a scenario that meant she lost her underwear on day 4 :d
No Orcs, that's just you.
Well, at least we now know what a Ranker FSN is.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 03 December 2016, 11:57:06 AM
No Orcs, that's just you.
I can't help it if that's my forte.
Which is your fort?
Quote from: d_Guy on 04 December 2016, 04:46:18 AM
Which is your fort?
Its Forte ( e should have an accent above it) it means :-
1. a thing at which someone excels.
But as you mention Forts I am keep looking for an old Airfix Fort Sahara that is complete and not costing an arm and a leg.
This is a little Ironic as my cousin has leased the Fort below for 25 years from the Ghanaian Government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Metal_Cross
Oh! - for-tay! :)
Gack! Just priced one on eBay- see what you mean - wish I had hung on to mine.
Quote from: Orcs on 04 December 2016, 07:57:58 PM
This is a little Ironic as my cousin has leased the Fort below for 25 years from the Ghanaian Government.
:o Lynette Nusbacher, Techno's a book plate and now Orcs could sweet talk his cos and play Beau Geste in 1:1!
Is there some conspiracy to rob poor FSN of what few wits he has?
What next! Fenton was once Prime Minister of Albania? Ithoriel is
actually a wood elf (well, 1/4 on his mother's side) or maybe D_Guy actually sketched the plan for Operation Desert Storm on a napkin whilst dining with Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf in a Hooters in Atlanta?
Tell us more Orcs. How does one get to rent a fort in Ghana?
Quote from: fsn on 04 December 2016, 08:46:37 PM
Tell us more Orcs. How does one get to rent a fort in Ghana?
No sure. He does a lot of church related charity work in Ghana. when he is there he projects Children's films onto the walls of the castle on Saturday night for the locals kids to watch.
He is a bit of a colourful characters and has a reputation for being un-orthodox. He was the farmer who built his house behind hay bales and was all over the news. Its now demolished.
http://www.surreymirror.co.uk/fidler-told-t-castle/story-28799892-detail/story.html
I went there for his Mums funeral. To my delight his yard is full of REAL ARMOURED VEHICLES. Lots of FV432's a T55 and a FV432 converted to look like a Stug lll. One of the companies that rents a barn converts and restores them. Unfortunately I was in a suit and was unable to clamber around. :(
I'm fairly sure a suit wouldn't have stopped me clambering about ;)
I did have a good look, but they were absolutely filthy, some were I works in progress so had some nasty looking edges, and there was no one to ask permission of. I think they had taken the day off as he had the wake at his place.
No one there :d :d :d ... permission :-/ :-/
You probably did the right thing O:-)
Maybe I should have known better, but I've had a long week, and this time of year always unsettles me.
I went shopping after work, and came home, arms laden. Of course, the cats were there to welcome me, lying in front of my feet and impeding my progress. At this point, I began channeling my late grandfather who was a crofter, and I started giving the cats sheep-dog instructions.
"Go up by."
"Come on in."
"Up, up".
"Get up and lie down."
These instructions did not clear the cats from my path, but on the upside, I know know the sound of cats laughing.
;D
I think the "Get up and lie down" command must have flummoxed them.
A bit like the Glasgow Clippie (Bus Conductress, d-guy) shouting at the drunk who's stepping onto the bus, "C'moan, g'aff!" (come on, get off). :)
;D
Cats! Can't live with them can't live without them.
I don't know if flummoxed is the word - more like "why would I want to do that since I will be mightily inconvenienced"
As always thanks for the translation. Oh course I first read it as "Glasgow Chippie" and further confusion ensued.
I think these needs a reprise (language warning):
Ah! So this is how Leon does it! :-\
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Lords-Handbook-Paul-Dale-ebook/dp/B00756ZO4Y/ref=pd_ys_ir_all_24 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Lords-Handbook-Paul-Dale-ebook/dp/B00756ZO4Y/ref=pd_ys_ir_all_24)
"To become a Dark Lord is no easy thing. The simple ambition to hold dominion over the world and bend all to your will sounds straightforward but it's not. There are armies to raise, fortresses to build, heroes to defeat, battles to be fought, hours of endless soliloquy in front of the mirror–it's a never-ending job. Not to mention deciding what to wear. (After hours, days, even weeks of consideration, it will be black.)"
Good find, Nobby !
Cheers - Phil
:D Indeed! Thanks for highlighting this.
Spotted this one on the same page. Review makes it out to be as good as Douglas Adams. :-\
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Carpet-Diem-Save-World-Accident-ebook/dp/B00X9VF7IC/ref=pd_cp_351_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=3VYJBQFRYHP1AXRMZZEY (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Carpet-Diem-Save-World-Accident-ebook/dp/B00X9VF7IC/ref=pd_cp_351_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=3VYJBQFRYHP1AXRMZZEY)
Carpet Diem: Or...How to Save the World by Accident
Fifteen years after losing most of his family to a devastating, pudding-related tragedy, Simon Debovar has settled into a life of self-imposed exile from the stinking, selfish morass of humanity. Content that his daily highlights will include hazelnut coffee, a long bath and the occasional jar of olives, his life is completely upturned by the discovery that his ornate living room carpet is the deciding factor in a bet between God and Satan.
When mysteriously well-timed carpet thieves deprive him of the crucial heirloom, Simon is forced to leave his hermit's existence behind for a world of angels, demons, witches and immortals.
And then it gets complicated.
If you are on Facebook, may I recommend the Friends of the Tank Museum?
Some great photos and videos.
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15781394_1875423719344303_6919784664060689591_n.jpg?oh=7030b611b41aa6cbbd5d04418d0d53d6&oe=58DCFA6C)(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/15726596_1874718216081520_8980207765565599522_n.jpg?oh=fedc2a108ee00ecf46849720c38ea02d&oe=59243AC1)
https://www.facebook.com/TheFriendsofTheTankMuseum/videos/1638049656415045 (https://www.facebook.com/TheFriendsofTheTankMuseum/videos/1638049656415045)
If you're not on Facebook ...
Here's a picture I drew of a tank.
(https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/tank-war-battle-child-drawing-childs-45061658.jpg)
Evil overlord list has been on the net for years
http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
Oh, brilliant. =) =) =) =) =) =)
I'll have to be really careful about not cutting myself for a while now.
Just been diagnosed with probable/possible DVT.....(I was blaming my hefferlump sized left leg on the Blood pressure pills I've been taking)......Got to have something called a Doppler scan at the hospital tomorrow.....and hope they can see a/some clots....which will then mean I'll be on some new 'warfarin' type pills for months.
I'm SO happy !!
Cheers - Phil.
Oh, not good! Hope they sort it out quickly.
Doppler scan ... that the one where they strap you to the front of a train and listen to the change in your screams as you approach and recede? ;)
Look after yourself.
Yes, Phil, by all means take care of yourself and best wishes.
My wife dealt with this once - blood thinner and support stockings - bit of a pain - but it has all worked out.
Make sure that you are SECURELY strapped to that engine! :)
Bill
Based on the scan they did on me when they suspected a DVT a few months ago it is a straightforward ultrasound scan
The Doppler bit is where they measure blood flow by pressing and then releasing on the blood vessels with the ultrasound 'head'
Of course they have to press most on the most sensitive areas of your leg
I hope you get it sorted soon
Hope all is okay
Good luck, Phil!
Oh dear!
Look after yourself, old chap.
Thanks, chaps.
The test itself doesn't bother me in the slightest....apart from the fact that it'll mean half a day's work, or more, down the pan. X_X
I WANT them to find some clots, or inconsistencies in the veins.....Then I know it can be controlled/cured with pills, rather than it being something 'sinister' which will need further investigating.
Cheers - Phil
If you want them to find some clots - pint them to the Forum :)
Seriously I hope all goes well and the successfully diagnose what the problem is without having to bugger about with you too much.
Hope you get a very attractive nurse to distract your attention.
Mark
Thanks, Mark !! :)
Cheers - Phil.
All the best Phil
Thanks to you, as well, Matt. :)
Cheers - Phil.
I thought you got DVTs from sitting on planes. It seems to me, friend Techno, that your life isn't sedentary enough to have got one that way.
My mother was a nurse in the 1950and learnt the following:
Thrombosis - blood clot.
Marital thrombosis - being married to a bloody clot.
She has frequently talked of people being afflicted by Marital Thrombosis.
Apparently I HAVEN'T got any clots in my leg......So that'll probably mean yet MORE tests. X_X
I'm convinced it's the B/P pills that have caused this. (It's all happened since I went onto a second B/P pill....Too much of a coincidence ?)
Cheers - Phil
Oh, okay...
Oh......FFS.......
Now they're referring me for a CT Scan.....Why don't we try the simple things first....Change my B/P medication....Give me some 'water pills'...so I pee the excess fluid from my body !
I SO wish I'd never given in and let them do a blood pressure test on me a couple of months ago....I've always had high blood pressure....Maybe that's my personal default setting.....(I'm not normal...you all know that ! ;D ;D ;D)
Hey Ho !
Cheers - Slightly peed off, of Wales. ;)
Although when the pills take effect, you'll be even more peed!
NCIS - Gibbs' Rule 39.
There is no such thing as a coincidence.
Why go looking for complicated solutions, without discarding (or trying) the simple answers/solutions first.
Another trip over to Haverford West hospital once the letter from the hospital turns up. X_X X_X
I'm fed up - Phil.
No wonder the NHS keeps saying it has no money. They send you for another scan goodness knows what that costs instead of changing your BP pills which will probably cost a few shillings!
I hope things go ok.
Aside from this was the nurse attractive ?? :P
I didn't notice, Mark.
But she had a very pleasant personality.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 10 January 2017, 07:18:45 PM
I didn't notice, Mark.
But she had a very pleasant personality.
Cheers - Phil
Oh phil! and we wanted photos in uniform for the Totty page :(
Hah !
I just had the absolute poop scared out of me, until I read the (affects 1 in 10 people) side effects of the anti-coagulant pills that I stopped taking today, because I haven't got a clot in my calf muscle.
You don't want to know......
Cheers - Phil.
I've been browsing the ever popular Oxbridge English Dictionary and found the following:
Military - 1/1000th of a Tary
Musketeer - traditional cry of the flintlock seller
Pikeman - specialist angler
Cuirassier - odd appearance of the buttocks caused by to much riding horse in heavy armour.
Churchill - the low temperature endured as the vicar delivers his sermon
Archer - more like an arch
Terrorist - the Yorkshireman who made a mistake (thank you Barry Cryer)
Panzer - Cornish waiter suggesting a pizza base to a gentleman.
Hoplite - a rabbit on a diet
Sherman - what Sean Connery listens to in church
Centurion - best damned tank ever produced and don't you forget it!
S-tank - the smell in a Swedish AFV
Arquebus - "I hear the coach arriving!"
:-t :-bd =D> =O
Very good. ;D ;D
;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
More for the Uxbridge English Dictionary :)
Infantry - an affair with a toy boy
Gunner - hit the accelerator
T'gallant - Yorkshire lothario
Centurion - pushed Yuri forward (used of an entirely expendable resource)
Minefield - property of a German farmer
Cannon - in an unopened tin
Barrage - age limit in a French pub
Tankie - what a Yorkshireman blows his nose with
Engineer - expression of surprise when opening the boot of a Kubelwagen
;D ;D ;D to both!
Quote from: Ithoriel on 12 January 2017, 04:05:48 PM
More for the Uxbridge English Dictionary :)
Infantry - an affair with a toy boy
Gunner - hit the accelerator
T'gallant - Yorkshire lothario
Centurion - pushed Yuri forward (used of an entirely expendable resource)
Minefield - property of a German farmer
Cannon - in an unopened tin
Barrage - age limit in a French pub
Tankie - what a Yorkshireman blows his nose with
Engineer - expression of surprise when opening the boot of a Kubelwagen
=D> =D> =D> =D> =D>
Chieftain - Primary sun lotion
Barbary Pirate - Buccaneer who's a bit like a barber
Tartar - One pirate asking if his comrade would like to visit a prostitute, and his comrade assenting
Ballista - a blister on a gentleman's what-not.
Scutum - mis-aligned belly
Gladiator - pleased I pleased my lady
Galleon - The Dark Lord's twin sister
Cossack - Because of the bag
Gambeson - Male offspring of Gambe
Tricorn - attempt maize
Bicorn - purchase maize
Breastplate - platter of chicken
fsn, you and I should be on the stage ... one leaves for Deadwood at noon! :D
Cornet - maize eaten
Trumpet - Yorkshire pirate asking his Geordie girlfriend to pass him a drink
Drum - home of the Prince Bishops
Saxophone - bags full of mobiles
Gunnery - sort of like a gunner
Derange - where you practice marksmanship in the Carribean
Squadron - who's playing today, Mr Atkinson?
Sherman - certainly sir
Honey - a bit like a Hun
Cromwell - to curse like Conan
Sheridan - aperitif, Daniel?
Quote from: Ithoriel on 12 January 2017, 05:52:14 PM
Cromwell - to curse like Conan
Bravo Sir! Well played!
=D> =D> =D> =D> =D>
Vickers Gun - The way the Church of England encourages donations
Ninja - glass container for your nins.
Samurai - Drunk enquiring if his friend Samuel is all right
MTB - Hungry apian
Mongol - Frenchman's objective
Centaur - made a gift of a prostitute
Spearman - a South African substitue player
Paradiddle - to interfere with an Airborne soldier
Spitfire - 350,000 on the Scoville scale
Hurricane - cattle prod
Perspex - reading glasses
Frigate - effect temporary repair
Bondi - Yoda, the British secret agent
Bomb bay - a place where ducks are fish
Chaffee - a bit like strips of metal foil released in the air to obstruct radar detection
Garand - A London cabbie's enjoinder to pass
Lewis Gun - Techno's Bren
*heh* Cromwell!
Please stop me ... ...
All very good ! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
I now know an awful lot more about fixing Ford Focus wing mirrors and Citeron glove box catches than I did this morning!
I have also learned where not to put my thumb!
With wrist still not good enough, I've been totting up my purchases since I relaunched wargaming in 2013. I buy 10mm from Pendraken, 1:600 aircraft from Tumbling Dice and 1:600 ships from Heroics and Ros. I think I have about 7500 Pendraken figures, 600 Pendraken Vehicles, 600 aircraft and 48 ships. This excludes forces that I've started buying, but haven't finished buying (those marked SB) - as I son't start painting until I've bought everything. The bit that worries me is that only about 40% is painted and based!
In 2017 I shall be disciplined! I shall paint lots! I feel a Napoleonic enthusiasm coming on, but I need to get my technique right. I've got some Prussians on order so I'll use them as a test bed. Also got some Korean War a/c on the paint table. And some T35s. Perhaps I need to be more disciplined and finish off ranges before starting new ones.
Early Stuff
Greek, Roman, Carthaginian SB 1200
Norman, Viking, Saxon 0% 1000
Matilda and Stephen 80% 600
Bannockburn 0% 600
War of the Roses 100% 400
War of the Spanish Succession 10% 1700
Napoleonic
French SB 1200
British SB 1200
Prussian SB 1200
+Portuguese, Spanish, Saxon, Bavarian, Russian, Austrian SB
ACW 25% 400
WWII A company of infantry, plus a squadron of tanks, plus artillery, At etc
Polish 1940 SB 150
French 1940 90% 150
British 1940 100% 150
German 1940 100% 150
Russian 1941 99% 150
British 1942 100% 150
Italian 1942 10% 150
USA 1943 100% 150
German 1944 30% 150
British 1944 30% 150
WWII Airborne Forces
German 1940 0% 150
German 1944 0% 150
UK 1944 0% 150
UK Commando 1941 SB 150
USA 1944 0% 150
WWII Platoon + troop of tanks (50 +3)
Japanese 1944 SB 50
US Marines 1944 SB 50
Other Stuff
Sci Fi (zombies etc) 100% 500
1920s Desert Imagination 100% 120
1950s Desert Imagination 90% 120
Airforces (1:600)
WWI 1917 (Brit & German) 20% 120
France 1940 0% 48
Britain 1940 0% 90
German 1940 0% 72
USSR 1941 SB 72
Italy 1942 50% 44
British 1942 50% 68
British Naval SB 90
German 1942 SB 16
USA 1944 100% 48
German 1944 100% 26
British 1944 0% 56
US Naval 1941 SB 38
Japanese Naval 1941 SB 70
US Naval 1944 SB 70
Japanese Naval 1944 SB 70
Japanese Army Air Force SB 36
Korean War SB 68
1960s UK & USSR SB 74
Falklands SB 30
1973 Arab-Israeli 100% 51
1967 Vietnam SB 30
Mosquito War – WWII MTB warfare (1:600) SB 48
Impressive fsn!
You clearly have a wide ranging interest (although I sadly note that you are still avoiding the heart of the Musket & Pike era :) )
I hope that your wrists limber up soon and you can get on with your re-dedication to our beautiful obsession.
Paint well my friend.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 15 January 2017, 04:05:57 PM
I now know an awful lot more about fixing Ford Focus wing mirrors and Citeron glove box catches than I did this morning!
I have also learned where not to put my thumb!
I meant to comment before but lost the thread. I could not help thinking that like the "M-1 thumb" you have discovered a new, self-inflicted wound. :)
Quote from: d_Guy on 22 January 2017, 12:55:14 PM
You clearly have a wide ranging interest (although I sadly note that you are still avoiding the heart of the Musket & Pike era :) )
'tis true. I've never been a big fan of the 18th Century putting all my energies into 1812-1815. The early days of gunpowder are a bit too ... twinkly for my taste. I also don't have a big interest in the C19 - except for the ACW which I like for its simplicity. I am though, a butterfly. I know I could get interested in the English Civil War and I'd love to do a Chocolate Box late C19 with scarlet clad Brits, white clad Austrians and Prussians in spikey helmets.
I can also see me doing Korean War, Indo-China War, Viet Nam War, Yom Kippur, and India-Pakistan (that's a new one for me). With the lovely new Imperial Rome sculpts, I'm also looking for a suitable foe before I dive into that.
My
plan for 2017 is Napoleonics and Korean War. What will probably happen is that I will get really enthusiastic about Samurai or triremes or (and the
Tumbling Dice thread tempts me) Napoleonic sail. Or something else.
Quote from: d_Guy on 22 January 2017, 12:55:14 PM
Paint well my friend.
If only! :( But thank you.
Fsn said:
Quote...I am though, a butterfly.
Since we both re-entered the hobby at about the same time I know that characteristic well. So little time it seems to catch up on so much.
I'm thinking of moving my work space/room down to the Doc's surgery to save travel time.
Down there today for yet another blood pressure test......Huzzah ! It's now within excellent limits for someone of my age.
That's sorted then. (Though I still have to keep monitoring it.....B*gger....I was going to stop taking one of the pills so my leg goes back to its normal skinny size.....Without telling them)
Phone call later from the Doc's......"Will you come down for another blood test" ..(GROAN !! X_X )....All the 'bloods' from last time are fine......Except you're somewhat anaemic.
(I mean...what do they expect... with all the samples they keep taking out of my puny frame.......I've not got limitless blood they can keep nicking.)
So....Doc's today.....Doc's tomorrow.....Hospital on Friday for the CT scan.
I don't know how I'm getting any work done, at all, at the moment.
Cheers - Phil.
Sculpt in the car? :P
I have to admit........I've been thinking of taking some green stuff, dental tools and the optivisor down to the surgery.
Though I'd have to praise our local surgery, as they never seem to be running TOO late.
I was due to see the nurse at 10, this morning.....arrived at 5 minutes to 10.....saw 'Jen' at 10:01 and was out by ten minutes past.
Cheers - Mr Sicknote. =)
Quote from: Techno on 24 January 2017, 03:48:45 PM
Down there today for yet another blood pressure test......Huzzah ! It's now within excellent limits for someone of my age.
Didn't know they had stats for someone as old as yourself !
I sympathise though.
IanS
Quote from: ianrs54 on 24 January 2017, 04:46:06 PM
Didn't know they had stats for someone as old as yourself !
I sympathise though. IanS
Thanks, Matey....I think they're carved in rock or wax tablets. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Fortunately, Phil's early medical records have now been digitised.
Here's the first entry
(https://aos.iacpublishinglabs.com/question/aq/1400px-788px/can-clay-cuneiform-tablet-made_55e725bfcde21d6e.jpg?domain=cx.aos.ask.com)
:D :D :D :d
Spelt his name wrong on line three (File Lose), damned scribes autocorrect! ;D
You complete OIKS ! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: mad lemmey on 24 January 2017, 04:14:37 PM
Sculpt in the car? :P
I think he should focus on the road, just a thought.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 24 January 2017, 05:55:54 PM
Fortunately, Phil's early medical records have now been digitised.
Here's the first entry
:D :D :D :d
:D ;D
Quote from: Ithoriel on 24 January 2017, 05:55:54 PM
Fortunately, Phil's early medical records have now been digitised.
Here's the first entry
(https://aos.iacpublishinglabs.com/question/aq/1400px-788px/can-clay-cuneiform-tablet-made_55e725bfcde21d6e.jpg?domain=cx.aos.ask.com)
:D :D :D :d
Line four - I think you can get some suppositories for that :D
Cuneiform suppositories!
Ouch!
The secret is to insert them before the clay dries. Still complications, but fewer.
Clay induced constipation
If they arrive from that internet site under plain packaging, they aren't suppositories... :o
Oh-oh! :-[
Good job I got those sculpting tools from Leon.
Anyway, may I point the gentlemen of the forum to BBC4 tonight at 9pm? The always enjoyable Lucy Worsley talks "War of the Roses".
I put in my main order for Pendraken this month - Napoleonic Prussians mostly.
Realised I'd forgotten some witches, and some Prussian blue paint.
Ordered.
Also, apparently I ordered 2 Huey helicopters.
Anyone know why?
'Cos you're an oik ? :-\
Or did you hit the wrong button while your wrists were still not working properly ? :D
(Hope they're still improving, Nobby.)
Cheers - Phil.
They are thank you. Tried painting this weekend and lasted about 30mins.
Perhaps I really want to start Viet Nam gaming?
Gentlemen of the Forum,
As you may be aware, this forum is a place where I dump all my unwanted thougth - or rather those that won't get me arrested. I have been plagued with a series of thoughts and the only way to expunge this cavalcade of inanity is to share it with you, esteemed colleagues. In fact, it's not my fault that this chain of inconsequentiality was forged, it is due to the British Broadcasting Corporation. There is a program on the BBC's premier radio station (Radio 4) called "The Museum of Curiosity" in which three eclectic guests offer objects and concepts to the musuem.
The last episode I listened to had a etymologist offering a book of Tom Swiftys to the museum. A Tom Swifty (or Tom Swiftie) is, accoding to Wikipaedia, a phrase in which a quoted sentence is linked by a pun to the manner in which it is attributed. Examples are:
"Pass me the shellfish," said Tom crabbily.
"Can I go looking for the Grail again?" Tom requested.
Yes, gentle readers, this has set off in my mind a plethora of military related Tom Swiftys which, despite your howls of protest, I shall share:
"I like Russian tanks" she said teasingly.
"Damned Americans can't pronounce junior offices ranks properly" he complained loosely.
"I shall need the scalpel" said Techno cuttingly, "and the drill" he added pointedly. "But not", he continued scratchily, "the burr".
"I need some scarlet, crimson and magenta paint" he admitted readily.
"Gloss?" she asked brightly, "or perhaps metallic?" she continued sparkilingly.
"Matt." he responded dully. "With good coverage." he intoned opaquely.
"Are they for a British pre-1900 company"? She mused coyly.
"No!" He retorted hotly, "fire demons!"
"And demon hounds" he finished doggedly.
Dont get it... he said dimly
Quote from: mad lemmey on 03 February 2017, 08:57:00 AM
Dont get it... he said dimly
That proves your more sane than Nobby :)
Unfortunately I get quite a few of them !! :-S
Quote from: fsn on 03 February 2017, 08:22:58 AM
"Damned Americans can't pronounce junior offices ranks properly" he complained loosely.
"I think something has been left out in this one?" he said without erring.
Yeah I know, not your format, but that's what you get on this forum in this thread.
"Damned Americans can't pronounce junior offices ranks properly" he complained loosely.
"It's true, we do say 'Cap'n'" the Yank said obtusely.
;D ;D ;D
"You! Gunner! Shoot at the enemy over over that hill" he ordered parabolically.
"Can't Sir, we need Foward Obs to do that!" Replied the gunner indirectly.
Or
"Dirty airborne soldier tried to grab my bum, so I kicked him where it hurt" she asserted parabolically.
:-bd
"Oy! I've just been kicked in the ballocks!", the dirty paratrooper said girlishly.
"Clearly this requires further examination."
(he said, testily) :-[
"Attack the enemy!" yelled Epaminondas obliquely.
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T72's with cage armour in Syria.
With 1 member of the team AWOL and another serving the charity in sunnier climes, my week days tend to go get up at 6am, back from work 8pm, bath, food, cats, mother, bed. Repeat.
Not a lot of time for fun stuff, or indeed painting.
I am still vacillating over the Napoleonic Prussians, but this weekend thought I'd spend a few hours with the WWII Japanese. Every time I look at a new range from Pendraken, I am impressed by the craftmanship and artistry, and the Japanese are lovely little figures. Great mix of helmet and cap, just as you see them in newsreels.
I wanted a lighter feel to these, so I undercoated white and then gave a brown-black wash before applying (for me) a very thin base coat. And that's about it for the Japanese. Picture references show just about everything in the same colour. I ended up doing some neck flaps, slings and haversacks in almost pure white for a bit of contrast but they're done.
Don't know how to do the bases. I was thinking black volcanic sand - but then realised I'd have to do a whole set of terrain the same, so will probably opt for sand. That'll make 'em pop :(
At least with the US marines, the skin tone will contrast with the green.
Anyone else have certain things they just can't eat ? (Without 'suffering'.)
I don't mean food that you can't stand the taste of.....But certain things that 'taste nice'.....But that gets your stomach to go off on one, in a big way.
Last night...I took out what I thought was a 'spag bog' out of the fridge......"Oh b*gger, this has got crab in it.....I'm sure the last time I ate a 'crab meal', Mr Stomach threw a complete wobbly."
Anyway.....I cooked it...ate it....and thought..."That's really tasty...I enjoyed that."
Never touching that again.
I can't say that I suffer from any nasty 'allergy'.....But I wish I hadn't eaten it, from the way my stomach/gut has been behaving today.
Cheers -Phil :-& :-&
My step-dad gets blisters from pineapple, unless it's cooked/canned!
When I had my gall bladder taken out I asked the doc if there was anything I couldn't eat. The answer "you'll find out".
And I have.
Usually after I've eaten them.
I developed an allergy to shellfish. I haven't had any in about 14 years... It still looks tasty in the menu though. :'(
Fortunately I can eat almost anything with no ill effects.
Fresh white supermarket bread gives me indigestion, but not proper bread from the bakers.
Quote from: Orcs on 14 March 2017, 03:05:24 AM
Fresh white supermarket bread gives me indigestion, but not proper bread from the bakers.
Shouldn't eat cotton wool.
Tea makes me throw up.
IanS
Quote from: DFlynSqrl on 13 March 2017, 07:42:30 PM
I developed an allergy to shellfish. I haven't had any in about 14 years... It still looks tasty in the menu though. :'(
Yup - me too! Ate crab and lobster for thirty years then - bam!
Black pepper sprinkled on anything - if it is cooked into dish - not quite as bad.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 14 March 2017, 07:57:25 AM
Shouldn't eat cotton wool.
I think cotton wool is to polite a word for it
In my zeal to talk about things that make me sick (a preoccupation of old duffers such as myself) I completely missed fsn's YouTube contribution: ;D They presented a typology of stereotypes I had never considered. Nice! All of which seemed to have been employed by Kenneth Mars as Inspector Kemp in Young Frankenstein.
Quote from: d_Guy on 14 March 2017, 11:43:45 PM
.... All of which seemed to have been employed by Kenneth Mars as Inspector Kemp in Young Frankenstein.
Was on the TV the other day in the UK ..... ;D
I was recently watching an episode of Greatest Tank Battles - Korea in which one of the veterans describes how the enemy came at them like one of these Japanese Bonsai charges ......
:)
Thick they were and amongst the tiny trees.
Not sure many of them have 'twigged' yet, d_guy. ;D
X_X
Cheers - Phil
First of my three trips to two different hospitals over the next 5 days. X_X
Full (almost) MOT test......Apparently for a couple of the 'things', I'm 'Super normal'. :D
"120%" Lung capacity for someone of my age and build.....100% Oxygen saturation in my blood...ECG must have been fine, because there wasn't any comment about that. Blood Pressure was really good....Body Mass Index WAS low.....Well....There's a surprise. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
When it came down to actually discussing why I'd been called in to see him....The Doc said, that as far as he was concerned, I'd been called in WAY too early anyway.....He wants me to have another CT scan to check out this 'spot' (singular....the local surgery had said 'a couple'.).........And see if it changes (or disappears) over the next few months.....THEN he'll be interested.
Told me not to worry, as it's not actually 'a mass' and may be something as trivial as a scar/scar tissue. (That's nice to know...I was a bit bothered about this one.)
When he told Von and I to have a look at the CT scan/s.........He couldn't find the spot !
"It was there yesterday !" Said he......."Must be better resolution on the screen I was looking at yesterday."
Anyway...If I'm not around very much on Monday or Tuesday, we'll be zipping back and forth to the hospitals.
Cheers - Phil
Sounds like thing are going better, Phil!
"Enjoy" all the "doctoring" :)
That news definitely sounds promising :)
🤞 fingers crossed bud
:)
Thanks chaps. :)
As I said yesterday....This one was bothering me slightly.
Still got the potential for something else to 'be wrong'..(In the worst scenario) But that one should be able to be dealt with, with keyhole surgery...So I'd be out of action for a lot less time.
I forgot to say.....The consultant asked what I did for a living....When I explained, he said "Oh....Warhammer, sort of thing...I liked Dungeons & Dragons myself."
Cheers - Phil
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From Facebook:
The Polish PL-01 light tank was unveiled in "concept vehicle" form in 2013, and should (hopefully) enter service in 2018. It mounts either an autoloaded main gun (105 or 120mm, to be decided) in a remote turret, with all three crew in blast-protected seats in the hull. Automotively, it is based on the Swedish CV90 IFV, with a new hull and turret developed in conjunction with BAE. Interestingly, the vehicle is coated with radio and radar absorbent material and a thermal masking system to reduce observability.
When will Pendraken be bringing this out in 10mm?
Quote from: fsn on 03 April 2017, 07:00:13 PM
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From Facebook:
The Polish PL-01 light tank was unveiled in "concept vehicle" form in 2013, and should (hopefully) enter service in 2018. It mounts either an autoloaded main gun (105 or 120mm, to be decided) in a remote turret, with all three crew in blast-protected seats in the hull. Automotively, it is based on the Swedish CV90 IFV, with a new hull and turret developed in conjunction with BAE. Interestingly, the vehicle is coated with radio and radar absorbent material and a thermal masking system to reduce observability.
When will Pendraken be bringing this out in 10mm?
Shall I cancel the chieftain!!!!!! ;D
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7517/16248209651_d2fe6be7d4.jpg)
Dubbed the T-14 Armata ("Армата"), this is the tank in which Russia will roll into the 21st century. While to date, the Russian army has purchased only 12 Armatas for testing, deliveries at scale are expected to begin this year. Assuming field tests over the next two years work out, Russia plans to replace 70% of its main battle tank force with Armatas by 2020.
Cancel the Stalwart as well.
Is it just me or are tanks getting very Sci-Fi?
No worries. Taking a leaf from the book of WWII Russian experimental anti-tank warfare, I have the solution!
..... Ta raaaa ...... ! :O)
Quote from: fsn on 03 April 2017, 07:25:26 PM
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Dubbed the T-14 Armata ("Армата"), this is the tank in which Russia will roll into the 21st century. While to date, the Russian army has purchased only 12 Armatas for testing, deliveries at scale are expected to begin this year. Assuming field tests over the next two years work out, Russia plans to replace 70% of its main battle tank force with Armatas by 2020.
Ready to invade Lithuania 🇱🇹 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/03/lithuania-fears-russian-propaganda-is-prelude-to-eventual-invasion ;)
And because that was getting political https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=adWEAcywRHA
Phil,
hope everything goes ok. If you want to increase your BMI - I have some unwanted weight you can have :D
Quote from: Orcs on 04 April 2017, 10:20:40 AM
Phil,
hope everything goes ok. If you want to increase your BMI - I have some unwanted weight you can have :D
I'll pledge 15 pounds if you are starting a pledge drive.
15 pounds would put me at about the lowest weight for a 'good' BMI for my height......Wish I could take it.
Cheers - Phil.
20 pounds for the man whose shadow is fatter than he!
Quote from: fsn on 03 April 2017, 07:25:26 PM
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Dubbed the T-14 Armata ("Армата"), this is the tank in which Russia will roll into the 21st century. While to date, the Russian army has purchased only 12 Armatas for testing, deliveries at scale are expected to begin this year. Assuming field tests over the next two years work out, Russia plans to replace 70% of its main battle tank force with Armatas by 2020.
Cancel the Stalwart as well.
Is it just me or are tanks getting very Sci-Fi?
You can get over that by looking at the British tanks!!!!!
Quote from: Techno on 04 April 2017, 04:35:18 PM
15 pounds would put me at about the lowest weight for a 'good' BMI for my height......Wish I could take it.
Cheers - Phil.
When you go for a weigh in take some lead in your trouser pockets.
Quote from: Techno on 04 April 2017, 04:35:18 PM
15 pounds would put me at about the lowest weight for a 'good' BMI for my height......Wish I could take it.
Cheers - Phil.
Wish I could give it!
Having a few beers and a few malts whilst watching The Masters (that's golf, fsn) .... and getting the munchies.
But nothing in the bread bin. :(
Happy day! Using my Labrador super powers, I've found an out of date sausage roll in the fridge! =P~
Why are you watching a Volkswagen?
Sorry, <gronf, gronf> will tell you later.
Quote from: fsn on 09 April 2017, 08:57:02 PM
Why are you watching a Volkswagen?
Hey! Wait a minute! I'm risking my life eating an out of date sausage roll and all you're interested in is why I'm watching an updated version of a Kubelwagen? :Ph
Yes.
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51fIP28DPpL._SY424_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)
Now that's what I call camouflage!
I understand Nelson fell in the dining car.
When you see them in dry dock (as above) they look supringly different.
Pullman class destroyers?
Maybe it's one of the Royal Navies training ships
Tokyo Express?
Just out of curiosity I had to go look it up. Here's the wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_42 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_42). I read the first paragraph and then started getting glassy-eyed [just like my wife does when I talk about military history].
Thanks for the link. At least the original picture makes sense now
Quote from: Westmarcher on 09 April 2017, 10:18:32 PM
Hey! Wait a minute! I'm risking my life eating an out of date sausage roll and all you're interested in is why I'm watching an updated version of a Kubelwagen? :Ph
Your probably risking your life eating a sausage roll - out of date or not.
Yesterday I decided to take my US Marines out for a spin. I put together an island for them to invade. Beaches, palm trees, couple of huts, and the Leathernecks stormed ashore.
Over 8 moves, they failed to find a single Japanese.
It was one of those games where as the Marines advanced, I diced to see what happened. On 0-7 nothing happening. There was a 16.78% chance of nothing happening over 8 moves.
I have reset the battle from the Pacific to the Aleutians.
I think Wargames Illustrated once published a "wrong beach" scenario where the marines are put ashore on the beach at a tourist Riviera, and have to make their way past sunbathers, ice-cream vendors, beach bullies and 97-pound weaklings, and news crews. There is a single hostile sniper in one of the hotels.
Quote from: fsn on 23 April 2017, 07:04:25 AM
Yesterday I decided to take my US Marines out for a spin. I put together an island for them to invade. Beaches, palm trees, couple of huts, and the Leathernecks stormed ashore.
Over 8 moves, they failed to find a single Japanese.
It was one of those games where as the Marines advanced, I diced to see what happened. On 0-7 nothing happening. There was a 16.78% chance of nothing happening over 8 moves.
You should have kept throwing the dice - you would have eventually found them. :P
https://mikedashhistory.com/2015/09/15/final-straggler-the-japanese-soldier-who-outlasted-hiroo-onoda/ (https://mikedashhistory.com/2015/09/15/final-straggler-the-japanese-soldier-who-outlasted-hiroo-onoda/)
Some more interesting links on that subject ....
http://www.wanpela.com/holdouts/registry.html (http://www.wanpela.com/holdouts/registry.html)
http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/6-soldiers-who-refused-to-surrender (http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/6-soldiers-who-refused-to-surrender)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sugru-Mouldable-Glue-Black-Pack/dp/B007VXJM58/ref=pd_ys_ir_all_24 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sugru-Mouldable-Glue-Black-Pack/dp/B007VXJM58/ref=pd_ys_ir_all_24)
On another topic ... Amazon have suggested I might like some Sugru mouldable glue. Apparently it turns into rubber. Has ayone used this product for wargaming/modelling purposes? If so, for what?
(https://noveltystreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Sugru-Mouldable-Glue-Interesting-Product-to-Buy.jpg)
1996 members of the Forum!
When we reach 2000, will we go up a level?
I think we become a senate.
That doesn't bode well for Leon on the Ides.
"Et Tu, BKC?"
Who was forum member number 2000?
Rjr1066....
Ah! You mean that bit that says "latest member" is a clue?
Not yet made himself known to the assembled masses was more to the point I was getting to. :-[ Still, with a name with 1066 in it, he's bound to be a Dark Age devotee.
The bigger point is "Congratulations chaps! There are now nominally 2000 of us!"
Mrs Westie was looking at Facebook and tells me somebody went along to the ticket office to buy tickets for a biopic on Dusty Springfield's life. On being informed that the play was to be shown a year on Saturday, he had second thoughts about buying the tickets saying, "I'm just not sure what do with myself." ;D
Another guy bought tickets for the cinema online, only to find out when viewing the ticket information that the film was being shown on the other side of the world in Auckland, NZ ....... in half an hour's time! #-o
But, actually, he'd missed it because it had started some 10 and a half hours earlier! ;D
Ooops ! :-[ :-[ :-[
First time for months, I've stuck a scalpel in a finger.
Von was MOST impressed, as I was dripping blood all over the kitchen floor, through a plaster stuck on to the offending digit.
I blame the new tablets I got from the Doc, yesterday. (They're good.....Nerve blockers, instead of stronger painkillers.... :D :D)......"I have become........ comfortably numb."
Cheers - Mr Twerp.
Welcome back Techno.
Did your hands swell up like two balloons?
Welcome back
Indeed - the modeling gods now propitiated, the coming sculpts should be quite good,
Does this portend the coming of the Aztecs?
Quote from: mad lemmey on 24 May 2017, 05:30:56 PM
Did your hands swell up like two balloons?
Welcome back
Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying. ;)
I was even more out of it, for a short while, when I took the second pill, early this evening....Mr Brain went almost completely awol....It's come back a bit, now. :D
I'm not taking one tomorrow morning, before I drive the car !!
Cheers - Phil
That sounds a wise decision
Oh.......Definitely !
I'm supposed to take three of the b*ggers, per day, from now on.
If they 'start stopping' me pushing putty about properly, during the day...I'll just stick to two.
I expect they'll affect me less, as my puny frame adjusts to them. :D...But they do seem to be 'helping' Mr Back.
Cheers - Phil
The human body - even Techno's - is a wondrous thing.
It's amazing how it adapts and accommodates, and somehow keeps going.
Not affecting me at all....the first one.....yet....Flibble, flibble, wlurp...splunge.
(I'm waiting, though. X_X)
Cheers - Phil
What do the Welsh at the end of your last post mean Phil ?
Quote from: ianrs54 on 25 May 2017, 09:55:30 AM
What do the Welsh at the end of your last post mean Phil ?
I'm as high as a kite. ;)
And I've only taken one pill, so far......Fekk knows what I'll feel like after number two......I should be making Chaos 'thingys'. ;)
(No more driving for me today......Sodding heck !)
Cheers - Phil
Wow! Sound like good stuff! After you mate! 8-} 8-} <:-P
"...and so it was that mild mannered Phil The Sculptor discovered that whenever he took two tablets, he became Techno-Man; able to burble faster than a baby on champagne; capable of bleeding faster than a hot radiator when you haven't got a towel handy, and dizzier than a puppy in a centrifuge ... Techno-man writing "rongs" because he's a bit confused, pointing out the nearness to the various knuckles of Lemmey's posts, and standing up for maybe 15 minutes before he has toi take a rest. Techno-Man - a man like no other."
Seriously, Techno-Bach, take care of yourself.
We've got enough Koreans to be going on with.
I am NOT taking the second pill until just before bed time ! B*gger taking three of these a day.
I've been completely out of it since taking the first one, late this morning....(I kid you not)......Probably 'cos I hadn't eaten a damn thing this morning.
(The annoying thing is......that they really seem to help with the back, which is a real positive.)
Almost coherent again.....though trying to 'trype' just this short message has been a challenge.
Cheers - Phil
😳 😳 wow 😳 😳
Yep.......
Almost all I've done today has been finishing off a couple of '30mm' SWAT heads.
Cheers - Mr Wibble
Quote from: Techno on 25 May 2017, 03:07:48 PM
I am NOT taking the second pill until just before bed time ! B*gger taking three of these a day.
I've been completely out of it since taking the first one, late this morning....(I kid you not)......Probably 'cos I hadn't eaten a damn thing this morning.
(The annoying thing is......that they really seem to help with the back, which is a real positive.)
Almost coherent again.....though trying to 'trype' just this short message has been a challenge.
Cheers - Phil
So. Just to get it straight in my head. You're supposed to take three a day but are only taking two.
So, is the the third being passed to Nobby? Coz it would explain a lot.
A lot.
'Westie' ;)....I wouldn't pass these on to anyone.
I took the second one about half an hour ago...I'm not sure where I am at the mo'......A good sleep will (hopefully) get me back to as normal as usual.
(PAH !!)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 25 May 2017, 08:36:19 PM
'Westie' ;)....I wouldn't pass these on to anyone.
Sounds like you could sell them on the street corner and make more money than sculpting.
I now have a picture in my head of techno leaning agains't a lamp post on the corner of a street in Pembrokeshire speaking through the side of his mouth to passers by. " hey do you want a good time ! " :d :d
Quote from: Techno on 25 May 2017, 08:36:19 PM
Get me back to as normal as usual.
You have never been normal....
Quote from: Orcs on 25 May 2017, 08:58:43 PM
I now have a picture in my head of techno leaning agains't a lamp post on the corner of a street in Pembrokeshire speaking through the side of his mouth to passers by. " hey do you want a good time ! " :d :d
Yes, but I wish he wouldn't wear the fish nets. :-&
How are you this morning, Friend Techno? Hope you're feeling a bit more together.
Wibble, flurp, blarp. :D
Actually, pretty good this fair morn, Nobby.....Mr Brain appears to be back on line (though I haven't taken one of those pills, yet.... :-SS).
Just going to make sure I have something to eat before I take the first one.
I reckon, I won't need to take three.......Mr Back is 70%+ better with just the two.
Thanks for asking, Matey.
Cheers - Phil
Phil - glad your brain is back on-line and you have a significant reduction in pain. Hope this trend continues for you.
(Incidentally, Von must have the patience of a saint. :) )
Quote from: Westmarcher on 25 May 2017, 08:20:55 PM
So. Just to get it straight in my head. You're supposed to take three a day but are only taking two.
So, is the the third being passed to Nobby? Coz it would explain a lot.
A lot.
As a trans-dimensional being, I doubt even a gallon of elephant tranquilizer would have much effect on m'lord Runcore.
No, but it might put the rest out of our misery!
Quote from: d_Guy on 26 May 2017, 01:59:19 PM
As a trans-dimensional being, I doubt even a gallon of elephant tranquilizer would have much effect on m'lord Runcore.
But an Elephant gun might ;D
https://vids.onsizzle.com/jefferson-soes-story-ful-jefferson-soes-16962311.mp4 (https://vids.onsizzle.com/jefferson-soes-story-ful-jefferson-soes-16962311.mp4)
Have we seen this one before, or have I mixed up my meds again?
Nobby - stop breathing - you'll feel much better !!!
Quote from: fsn on 16 June 2017, 11:09:17 AM
Have we seen this one before, or have I mixed up my meds again?
I don't remember it.....rather fun, that one. ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
There's not much you don't remember Phil (well, apart from that Tuesday night during the last Ice Age where that shamen slipped you some dodgy 🍄 mushrooms 🍄)
I did nearly forget that I had to have a CT scan today. (Nothing serious, in the slightest, as far as I'm concerned...seems like rather over zealous checking....Mind you....They were VERY efficient at the unit.
I was finished and going home at the time I was supposed to be starting the scan.)
I'm really lucky that Von's so good at keeping track of appointments, for the whole household !!...She had to take the MIL over to the memory clinic on Wednesday.....And now we have confirmation that the MIL has both 'ordinary' dementia (brain shrinkage ?) and vascular alzheimers (blood not getting to certain parts of the brain properly ?).
Cheers - Phil
A jewel, your good lady!
Well done to Von.
Glad they're being thorough with you.
Sorry to hear about you MIL. Can't be easy all round.
Second, both
Ta chaps.
Last few days of last week were a bit of a chore, which wasn't helped by the fact I did 'another Techno'. (Left thumb, once again X_X....a beaut.. =))...My fault, as per usual. for trying to get things done on the soldiers too quickly....Brand new 10A blade.
Meant using the PC was very difficult, as I was having to mix putty with my right hand..which I loathe.
I can 'trype' fine one handed, as long as it's the right hand doing the 'tryping'...while I'm mixing putty at the same time with the left.
Missed responding to oodles of posts...sorry.....I'll have to slowly catch up.
Not sure how well the thumb is going to respond to mixing putty for the next few days, as I reckon I'll just keep opening the cut again, so I may well be a little tardy for a while yet.
Cheers - Techno of the nine fingers. 8-}
I'm just surprised that you have any fingers left at all!
I'm surprised that I've still got a left thumb ! :-[
(The number of times it's taken the consequences of my carelessness. X_X)
Cheers - Phil
+1 post to my post count.
Got to earn a promotion somehow :D
I am now regretting volunteering to go and spray a load of thistles, in one of the fields. =)
I hadn't realised how huge an area they covered. X_X
I'd better go and make a start and get it over with as soon as possible.....or I run out of the herbicide. :D
Cheers - Phil (I'm going to stink of the weedkiller after I've done it !)
.....And I've got the taste of it, in my gob now.
Face mask ?.......For wimps !
(I got ticked off for being out there so long in the sun, as well....and what it's going to have done to my back. :-SS)
Cheers - Phil.
Get rid of the herbicide, get some Eeyores. They love thistles.
Herbie Hancock's better for the environment.
Anyway, on YouGov, you can see the political opinion, age and gender of those who like particular topics. If you ask about wargaming, they are predominantly male, politically neutral and .... very, very young.
This leads me to the obvious conclusion that not many forum members are also signed up to YouGov.
Quote from: Techno on 02 July 2017, 11:52:29 AM
.....And I've got the taste of it, in my gob now.
Face mask ?.......For wimps !
(I got ticked off for being out there so long in the sun, as well....and what it's going to have done to my back. :-SS)
Cheers - Phil.
You be careful.
Quote from: fsn on 02 July 2017, 11:53:27 AM
Get rid of the herbicide, get some Eeyores. They love thistles.
Herbie Hancock's better for the environment.
Anyway, on YouGov, you can see the political opinion, age and gender of those who like particular topics. If you ask about wargaming, they are predominantly male, politically neutral and .... very, very young.
This leads me to the obvious conclusion that not many forum members are also signed up to YouGov.
Its based on the evil empire I expect
There are times I think that there may be other ways ...
I certainly don't have the skill for this ...
Impressive but what do you do with them when you have made them... :-\
Well you .. err .. you ... obviously you ... don't ... err.
Dunno.
Just what I was thinking!
Fletcher Pratt rules, 1:200 scale paper ships ... all I need now for WW2 Pacific naval games is a 2 mile square ballroom :-)
Ah! Fletcher Platt! First encountered in Donald Featherstone's Naval Wargames - my introduction to 'organised' rule playing wargames. Much to thank Don for and the local library there! :)
Seconded :)
Thirded!
Don's "Naval Wargames" was the request that finally drove the local Children's Library staff to get me access to the Adult section of the library!
Adult section: started Mills & Boon early!
just tried looking at the market place and for even recent posts I get
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Looks like I won't be going back there any more
Was that meant for the TMP thread Orcs?
Quote from: mad lemmey on 10 July 2017, 07:02:46 AM
Adult section: started Mills & Boon early!
Apparently the Children's Library didn't stock Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, books on mummification in Ancient Egypt or Jane's Fighting Ships 1942 as a regular thing and the staff got fed up trotting across the hall to the Adult section and explaining that, Yes! They were sure the child in question really would read these things! :)
Our school had a scheme where they would source Penguin books.
"So you're sure you want Aeschylus?"
Quote from: mad lemmey on 10 July 2017, 11:58:58 AM
Was that meant for the TMP thread Orcs?
Yes, posting on the quick - whoops
Quote from: Ithoriel on 10 July 2017, 03:31:02 PM
Apparently the Children's Library didn't stock Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, books on mummification in Ancient Egypt or Jane's Fighting Ships 1942 as a regular thing and the staff got fed up trotting across the hall to the Adult section and explaining that, Yes! They were sure the child in question really would read these things! :)
I had something similar being a full member of the Adult Library at about 11.
Found the authors Sven Hassel and leo Kesssler among others
I went through Sven Hassell's oeuvre as a teenager. I remember one rainy weekend, my mother was at a loss and read one of his books.
I think it was about that time she started turning grey. :D
My apologies for being AWOL for a couple of days.....Just been having SO much fun trying to sort bits and bobs out....
Work (lots of stuff).....The MIL (who seems to be getting worse, dementia wise, in leaps and bounds).....and our 'works' lapdog laptop that decided to die a few days ago.
Ohhhhhhh.....For a bit of a quiet life. X_X
Cheers - Phil
Hugs
Quote from: Techno on 15 July 2017, 08:53:14 AM
Ohhhhhhh.....For a bit of a quiet life. X_X
Cheers - Phil
May you live in interesting times
ianS
I'm certainly living in "Interesting times".
I hadn't mentioned all the fun we're having with the gee-gees.
Nine stone of Techno.....trying to control well over half a ton of horse, while Von puts yet another poultice on 'Hippy's' foot/hoof to help drain an abscess.
Thank goodness Hippy is fairly sanguine, and doesn't piddle about too much.
Thanks, Will...Appreciated. :)
Cheers - Phil
>:< >:<
And thanks to you, as well, Paul. :)
Cheers - Phil
This is my 1500th post. Do I get a reward or promotion...?
Ooh, yes! Jumped from Colonel to Brigadier :D
I now outrank Colonel Bill! ;)
Drinks on you, Brigadier.
Congrats, that man !!
Cheers - Phil
Congratulations and Thank you Brigadier, mine is an anti-freeze/brake fluid smoothie!
Welcome to the mess ... no, I don't mean The Mess ;)
Well done that man!
Congrats, General! 'Cause here (the land across the sea, a bit south and west of Ireland) we would be "Generals". I am still disappointed and many, many posts yet to go to the real deal.
Make mine a sidecar.
Yeah, One-star rank (OF-6). Equivalent to a Brigadier General in the US Army, USAF and USMC, and a Commodore in the Royal Navy, according to the below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-star_rank#United_Kingdom_one-star_ranks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-star_rank#United_Kingdom_one-star_ranks)
I shall now insist on being called a Commodore.
Pink Gins all round and hit that duke box!
Congratulations Commodore :)
Congrats Commodore!
"Duke box" ? ? ?
To put up one's fists in order to box; "duke box" for short. The overall usage is similar to "hitting the Gym" ( not to be confused with "hitting Jim", a small, bespectacled fellow who use to live in my neighborhood). It is possible that Commodore Roy becomes belligerent after several pink gins but likely it was meant in jest.
Ah. I hef zo much to lern, I zee.
You really want to be called Commode ?
Bum.
Dukebox.
Blame it on Google Chrome telling me the spelling was incorrect and needed changing, and me not thinking before clicking.
Duke box.
I prefer the Duchess brawl, myself. Especially when its Regency Night and they're all in gowns of the Empire silhouette variety.
Strange, we call them Cat Fights!
Were you referring to 'Juke Boxes'?
I hope you are not going to pull rank on The Colonel as he might interrupt the supply of the other scale goodies ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: mad lemmey on 25 July 2017, 10:33:14 AM
Were you referring to 'Juke Boxes'?
;D
Bum!
Yes, I was.
I give up. :'(
;D!
(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd490/levee36/T-26_tankov_n_.jpg)
T26's being refueled.
This comes from this facebook group. Lots of rare and interesting photos uploaded onto it.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wwiitaac/?multi_permalinks=1442309509191295¬if_t=group_highlights¬if_id=1501280694755566 (https://www.facebook.com/groups/wwiitaac/?multi_permalinks=1442309509191295¬if_t=group_highlights¬if_id=1501280694755566)
Here we go. 8 discs of one of the finest in the jazz aristocracy.
I'd sooner listen to T26s being refuelled! :)
Sorry, can't find a recording of that one.
It was my birthday last week and I did extremely well on the wargames front.
10mm Adobe fort :D
Macchi C200 in 1:144 (Sweet Aviation model). (Not sure about the packaging :o , but I'll give the kit a go)
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Qo5xQVJZL._SY450_.jpg)
"D-day through German Eyes" 8)
A book of military themed origami projects from a particularly evil friend :-\
and the Haynes Manual for the Centurion Tank. >:<
Added to the the GCHQ Puzzle Book and Professor Stewarts Mathematical Mysteries ... ???
Plus some DC Comics related stuff :-[
Been taken out for a meal three times.
Not bad for a grumpy old f**t! :D
Belated Happy Birthday, Nobby !!
I've never thought of you as a grumpy old f**t !
Cheers - Phil
Hoppy belated beer date owed fiend!!!
Happy belated birthday Grumpy old F*rt
I think Techno is on his happy "I don't know if its Tuesday of Friday" pills
Quote from: fsn on 02 August 2017, 08:00:34 AM
It was my birthday last week and I did extremely well on the wargames front.
Belated Hippo Birdy!
Mine was the week before, obviously all the
boring old farts best people have July birthdays! :)
Quote from: Orcs on 02 August 2017, 09:09:24 AM
I think Techno is on his happy "I don't know if its Tuesday of Friday" pills
I never do by the third one. X_X
Cheers - Phil
No change there then .......
:D
Who doesn't live a bit of Clare Grogan?
Quote from: fsn on 02 August 2017, 02:09:39 PM
:D
Who doesn't live a bit of Clare Grogan?
Yep, she scrubs up quite well even now
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcThT9dt__BVuFWtVzIZV1Ul1dnWKjFiCZOfCWEryu8Z0j5vVrwdAg)
(http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/actress-claire-grogan-picture-id528856782?s=594x594)
Quote from: fsn on 02 August 2017, 02:09:39 PM
Who doesn't live a bit of Clare Grogan?
Live a bit of Clare Grogan ?
You been at my nerve-blockers, Nobby ? ;)
Cheers - Phil
<:-P Ithoriel & FSN
Hail! Hail!
(http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/actress-claire-grogan-picture-id528856782?s=594x594)
Certain chaps on here will love you for posting the above image ... that's why I reposted it :d
I'll look a fool if Rosenborg win tonight ;D
%%- %%- %%- %%- %%-
Anyone else disappointed that the new file "Atomic Blonde" is not a biopic of Debbie Harry?
(https://www.elseptimoarte.net/imagenes/noticias/650/94024.jpg)
Well....
What excitement last night !
I'd just finished having a bath, (Yes, I do wash sometimes. :P) when Von comes in from the horses.
"There's a snake in the barn."
"What species ?"
"I think it's an adder."
"I'll be there, in a tick...Go back and keep an eye on it."
"I've got a bucket on top of it."......Von goes back outside.
I hurriedly dry off....Sling some clothes on....Grab a "Wildlife" book and go outside.
Slowly lift the bucket.....Definitely an adder......Very young...Anything from just 'born' to perhaps a few days old....23 to 25cm in length ?....So CUTE.
Put bucket back on top...Leave Von on guard....Go and get camera and a piece of stiff cardboard to help get adder into bucket properly.
Take lots of piccies....Take a few minutes to get the wee beastie into the bucket. ...Fetch torch...Take bucket with wee adder in the bottom, 200 yards down the track opposite, and release onto the marshy area, with the words "DON'T GET BITTEN !", ringing in my ears !
As if...... 1)...I didn't fancy a late night trip to the local A&E. (Though the adder was small, I expect it might have made me a tad ill...and better safe than sorry.)
2) ....I thought I'd never have lived that down with you lot !
Now, we'll have to keep our eyes open outside, for a while, as there could be anything up to another 20 'hatchlings' relatively close by, depending on just how old the little chap was, and how far he'd traveled.
More concerned that the dogs might come across more outside.
I'll pop some pics up later, if I can remember how to.
Cheers - Phil
Knew the rubber snake would fool you ;)
One of my sister's kitties had the endearing custom of bringing newly-caught snakes into the house as little tributes. Never an obviously venomous one, which in South Africa was fortunate, but it was always a bit of a tense event.
Quote from: fsn on 05 August 2017, 06:29:54 AM
Anyone else disappointed that the new file "Atomic Blonde" is not a biopic of Debbie Harry?
(https://www.elseptimoarte.net/imagenes/noticias/650/94024.jpg)
No, not really. However the film does include the track "Atomic" in it's soundtrack so she's in there ... sorta :)
Soon it will grow up and become a multiplier.
Quote from: Techno on 05 August 2017, 06:44:08 AM
Well....
What excitement last night !
I'd just finished having a bath, (Yes, I do wash sometimes. :P) when Von comes in from the horses.
"There's a snake in the barn."
"What species ?"
"I think it's an adder."
"I'll be there, in a tick...Go back and keep an eye on it."
"I've got a bucket on top of it."......Von goes back outside.
I hurriedly dry off....Sling some clothes on....Grab a "Wildlife" book and go outside.
Slowly lift the bucket.....Definitely an adder......Very young...Anything from just 'born' to perhaps a few days old....23 to 25cm in length ?....So CUTE.
Put bucket back on top...Leave Von on guard....Go and get camera and a piece of stiff cardboard to help get adder into bucket properly.
Take lots of piccies....Take a few minutes to get the wee beastie into the bucket. ...Fetch torch...Take bucket with wee adder in the bottom, 200 yards down the track opposite, and release onto the marshy area, with the words "DON'T GET BITTEN !", ringing in my ears !
As if...... 1)...I didn't fancy a late night trip to the local A&E. (Though the adder was small, I expect it might have made me a tad ill...and better safe than sorry.)
2) ....I thought I'd never have lived that down with you lot !
Now, we'll have to keep our eyes open outside, for a while, as there could be anything up to another 20 'hatchlings' relatively close by, depending on just how old the little chap was, and how far he'd traveled.
More concerned that the dogs might come across more outside.
I'll pop some pics up later, if I can remember how to.
Cheers - Phil
When I read this initially I somehow thought that the snake was in the bath ( the adder so stop sniggering you lot).
A very interesting encounter, I don't think I have ever seen an Adder in the wild
It's the very first live one I've ever seen, Mark.
Seen a couple of dead ones, many years back...I must load the piccies onto the PC, tomorrow.
Cheers - Phil
Sooooo cool! 8)
Right....See if I can remember how to post piccies.
Apparently not.....I'll be back.
Completely lost now.
I've got the images into my library.....and underneath the piccy(s) I've got 4 boxes underneath each image.
I THOUGHT what I did before was highlight IMG.....Right click to bring up 'copy' (then copy)....come back to the 'reply', on the forum.....Get the little image icon into the post , then paste what I'd copied from photobucket in there, which gave me a load of 'blurb' between [img] & [img].
But when I preview......There's none of that text there......Or any picture.
Any idea as to what I'm doing wrong ?...... Even if I get that done, I'm sure I'll then have to mess about trying to fathom out how to shrink the images, again.
Cheers - Phil
From the page with the different links, try copying the 'direct' link between the two IMG tags. Though when I just tried this, I only get the 'upgrade your photobucket account' picture, so maybe it will be the same for you.
Time to look for another way. :(
Put up a screen shot and we might be able to help ...
Just thought. That probably wouldn't work. 8-}
Email me a screenshot and we can have a look.
Quote from: fsn on 06 August 2017, 11:22:14 AM
Email me a screenshot and we can have a look.
Nobby, remember this is Techno - I think your taking the P*ss :D
I'll email you the pics I was trying to put up, Nobby.
I tried the Direct Link as a 'panic' and got the same as you OldenBUA....PAH !
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 06 August 2017, 06:32:29 PM
I'll email you the pics I was trying to put up, Nobby.
Good idea Phil, perhaps we should all make Nobby our "Fag", We could find lots to keep him busy
Please note in this instance the meaning of "Fag" is -"a junior pupil at a public school who does minor chores for a senior pupil." :) :)
It is not slang for a tobacco product, not is it a reference to sexual preference.
Phew! That's a relief!
Anyhoo ... here's a couple of pictures of Techno's snake ... by which I mean his ophidian visitor.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4338/35574850344_114ef713e3_h.jpg)
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4431/36410052825_e1153f8573_b.jpg)
That's beautiful Techno! Lucky man to see one of those.
WOW, that's really is something.
Thanks for posting those for me, Nobby. :)
In the lower picture (in the top left hand corner) is a 10p piece to give some sort of scale reference.
Cheers - Phil
"Scale reference" - snake ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Oh you cunning punster you!
In the lower picture you have one annoyed adder, that is a strike posture !
That's what I call the real deal. The only adder I've ever seen 'live' was a fully grown black adder (so obviously the markings were not as clear). I spotted it when I was walking in the wilds of Dumfriesshire near Bruce's Stone. I heard this rustling in the dry grass to the side of the path I was on and, not thinking about venomous snakes, was about to step off the path to investigate when the creature suddenly broke cover and scarpered. It was about 50-60 cm long. Exciting stuff! Sadly, although I've visited the same location a few times over the years, I've never had another sighting. :)
p.s. Did you use any music to charm your adder? e.g., Pink Floyd ..... Whitesnake? :P
Quote from: ianrs54 on 07 August 2017, 07:24:58 AM
In the lower picture you have one annoyed adder, that is a strike posture !
Got three or four shots where "Wilbur" was looking directly
at me in that 'pose'.
I took it as a 'strike' posture, like you say Ian. Though I'd guess the poor little sod was frightened rather than peed off and in defensive 'mode'.
I tried telling it looked really well and had handsome markings....But apparently that's not how snake charming works, Westie.
Nobby....I only realised the 'pun' after I'd written it down....But thought....What the heck. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Just received a small package of new toys from Tumbling Dice (RJW ships for those interested).
Included was three pamphlets to shows - one of which was Battleground, at Stockton, run by some company called Pendraken Miniatures.
1st pamphlet was Pudsey show, but my lift doesn't do 'Leeds' (they always struggle with the traffic)
2nd pamphlet was The Other Partizan, but I'm really ambivalent about attending tbh (nothing to do with the show, just not that fussed)
3rd pamphlet was the aforementioned Battleground, which I will go to - if only to collect the must-have plastic wristband (these things will be collectors items in years to come!)
That snake must have been an ill omen.
Since then I seem to have been rushing around in circles, with one mini disaster after another.....And keeping more than a wary eye on the MIL !
Just lots of piddly little things...but each one needs 'sorting'. which is why I've been so tardy on the forum.
Cheers - Phil.
But no!
According to WOFS.com (I don't know what WOFS stands for, but it's a web site so it must be true) meeting a snake is a good omen. I quote
"Meeting Up With A Snake is another sign of good fortune. Whether in your garden, inside the home, or out trekking, if you meet up with a snake, it means something or someone important is coming into your life. Never ever try to harm or kill a snake when confronted with one. The more poisonous the snake, the better is the good fortune. The king cobra is described as a snake of extreme good fortune. Whatever you do, never kill a snake as they are also associated with some spiritual presence. They usually slither away themselves when they sense human presence."
Having said that, WOFS says that if your left hand tingles, then money is coming to you. My physiotherapist said it was a constriction of the ulna nerve.
Spirit-animals.com, which is another web site, so must also be 100% accurate, says (amongst other things) "transmutation is the key word here. The shedding of old skin and emotions and transforming them into something bigger and better." Perhaps you're going to turn into a butterfly? Or get really bad sunburn?
Finally, and perhaps most pertinently, my grandfather (who was very old and knew many things) said "if you think you're having bad luck, break a match to break the luck." I can see the psychological trick here, though he did burn the house down twice.
And really finally, my father who was of a more practical bent than my grandfather, though not as exciting, said to me when I was having a bad patch "Stop. Focus. Prioritise." He could be quite gnomic.
Hope the enforced rushing stops, and the mini disasters cease.
Take care.
My first wife and I had a slightly disconcerting encounter with a cobra once at some ruined tombs near Hyderabad. We told a group of Indians a bit later, intending to warn them against running into it, and they all congratulated us on a good omen.
Mind you, our marriage fell to pieces a few months later, which neither of us enjoyed at all.
Nearest thing to a snake that I've ever come across was a couple of slow worms. Never having seen the species before, mind, we thought they were snakes. We were rather disappointed when told otherwise.
Years ago, as a child and when my father worked for the MOD, I was wandering around the Ranges at Battle hill, through the moorland grasses and scrub. The range warden and my father says to me, 'Mind you don't stand on an Adder,' which meant I had to ask, 'How will I know if I've stood on one?' You can all imagine the reply two grown men would give a 10 year old child. ['You'll know!']
Did anyone else have the misfortune to see Auntie's new Saturday evening quiz show, hosted by Len Goodman, last night ?
X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X
Gimme strength !
The trouble was.....It was SO bad, I just couldn't look away. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I've seen some utter tosh on the TV before....But this set a new standard. =O =O =O =O =O
Cheers - Phil
We endured it last night as my 12 year-old daughter was enjoying it. We both wanted to turn it off!
As he said about ten minutes in 'it's not Mastermind you know!'
I'll stick with Only Connect
I read the synopsis then decided I'd rather cut my toenails with a Bowie knife.
So I did that instead.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 20 August 2017, 07:10:20 AM
I'll stick with Only Connect
:-bd
Avoided it due to "Len Goodman". Heard him on the radio a few months back, sounded like a card carrying BNP member.
Quote from: fsn on 20 August 2017, 07:32:07 AM
I read the synopsis then decided I'd rather cut my toenails with a Bowie knife.
So I did that instead. :-bd
Get the BBC to film you doing that, Nobby !
I'm sure they could get a run of six shows out of that....And it'd be far more entertaining. ;)
How about calling it "How deep could you cut a digit."......I could help, by 'guesting' with a scalpel.
Move it to a commercial channel and we could get Elastoplast to sponsor it !
I see a new career beckoning !
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 20 August 2017, 07:43:57 AM
Get the BBC to film you doing that, Nobby !
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Bandaged_toes.JPG/800px-Bandaged_toes.JPG)
Didn't go to plan.
This is JUST what the public are clamouring for !
I see a huge hit, and ratings through the roof.
Cheers - Phil.
2nd series could be a problem. :(
Quote from: mad lemmey on 20 August 2017, 07:10:20 AM
I'll stick with Only Connect
And we know why
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTfMMJb3ZfNfVSNHA5ezMjXOQQhgEbmVxvncecRA2F18ElHisrPBg)
Why has she only got 3 fingers on her right hand ?
Obviously been watching my "How not to use a scalpel" video. :D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 20 August 2017, 05:59:21 PM
Why has she only got 3 fingers on her right hand ?
You noticed her fingers ????
I worry about you sometimes Phil
Mark
The Lovely Victoria used to review porn movies.
I believe she wrote and directed one.
On a completely different subject.....
I hear on the news today that a tanker and American Warship have collided and a number of sailors have been lost. (Overboard ??)This is very sad !
What I can't understand..Is that surely both ships would have known for a while (minutes ?) that there was no way of avoiding the collision.....So why isn't the crew moved as far away as possible from the point where the 'bump' was most likely to occur.
Must be some reason, or something I'm completely missing.
Any ideas, folk ?
Cheers - Phil
Bad visibility, a restricted seaway, complete idiocy.....
In these days where every ship has radar, it is a puzzle for us land lubbers. However, maybe not as clear cut as you might think, Phil. For example, the collision was reported before dawn so perhaps no time for 'action stations' to be fully effective or for the crew to be warned on the likely side of the ship to be hit. There was another collision in June and the subsequent enquiry / court martial did not turn out well for the Captain.
My brother who had spells in boh the merchant and Royal, tells of coming through the English Channel at night. He noticed that the radar screen had been switched off. Somewhat perturbed, he asked the helmsman (who hailed from Sri Lanka IIRC) why this way.
"I switch off, Boss. Screen too busy."
One does wonder how it happened though. Presumably tankers are well lit and since they're in the Malaccan Strait, one assumes the US warship was too (i.e. not going sneaky-beaky after Somali pirates). Even if the warship had its radar switched off, you'd have thunk the tanker would be maintaining radar watch, and what happened to the good old Mk1 eyeball?
Will be interested to get the details.
I missed one - Sub-Lt Phillips giving the helm orders - "Left hand down a bit"......
Some good/interesting and even frightening points, chaps.....Thanks. :)
WILL be interesting to hear the outcome of the 'investigation'.
I must admit, I had the vision of some completely automated system that went ape (like a red alert on Star Trek) if there was any hint of a problem. (Especially on a modern warship)
Cheers - Phil
According to the Indy, all American warships are to return to port! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-navy-pause-singapore-collision-worldwide-stop-operational-admiral-order-uss-john-s-mccain-a7905306.html
Just seen that on the Beeb, Will.....I knew about the other collision that Westie mentioned, but hadn't realised that this was the fourth (did I hear that correctly ?) incident involving American ships in the past few months.
Cheers - Phil.
(https://i.cbc.ca/1.4255266.1503301237!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/usa-navy-crash.jpg)
How do you do this with an oil tanker?
Because they have a keel bulge containing bow thrusters at the front, which extends forward, then a bow take above, possibly?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KpMKKygINkw
There goes the no-claims bonus!
:o
Surprised the warship survived!
I thought they sort of bumped side on side. That looks like a ramming.
I suspect that warships are still designed to be manoeuvrable with 2 compartments open to the sea.
Unfortunately it looks like some of the 'missing' have been found in the flooded areas of the ship :(
17 US Sailors have died this year in the Pacific area in accidental collisions with civilian vessels :( :( :(
I'm not setting off any conspiracy theories here, but in the photo does that look like a Harpoon has been fired?
No, the cover will have come off with the collision
Looks like, in theory at least, the American ship had right of way but the oil tanker is about three times as long so I suspect some petulance was involved. I don't believe they didn't know each other were there. Must have been a fairly low speed collision.
According to Aljazeera the flooded areas included crew berths, and it was 05:24.
An abrupt change of subject !
As I mentioned, the other day, we had to have one of the ponies 'put to sleep' a week or so ago. :(
As it was an 'out of hours' call, I was expecting THAT part to be the most costly bit of the bill. (£60)
Oh, No !
The previous time we had to 'say goodbye' to a pony, the lethal injection drug cost £14.36 (incl VAT). ...We're softies, and don't really want to have them put down with a bolt gun...less traumatic for them.....And us. :-[
I was horrified to see the drug that was used to do the deed, this time, cost a total of..........Wait for it......£100.20 (incl VAT)
Von's going to have a moan at them. >:(
That was adding insult to injury, as far as I'm concerned.
Cheers - Mr Annoyed of Wales.
Blimey!
That's a bit of a jump! A 7x increase!
Did they say why it had gone up so much? (Thinking of story from Florida this morning)
It was a different drug, Nobby. (Somulose)
Why they've gone onto this one now is beyond me......Though having done some checking this morning....this seems about an average price for this particular drug. X_X
The pony that was put down before this latest one was sedated first anyway, so I can't see why they couldn't have used the same method....and the previous drug.
Been reading some absolute horror stories about the bills other folk have got when having their horses put down.
Our total bill for this latest one will be around the £300 mark (including disposal).....I've read one where the owner was faced with a total cost of around £1,200. :o :o :o :o
From a purely mercenary point of view, we'll 'recoup' the cost of this bill over the next three months or so. He was an expensive little b*gger to keep well and happy !.....He took more drugs than I do...Had to have 'special food'......and quite a lot of extra expense on his bedding.
Hey Ho - Cheers - Phil. :(
Hugs
Thanks, Will.
Cheers - Phil.
Any chance you can get Von interested in hamsters instead?
I wish.....
She won't even let me have a pet 'taranshlia'....I would call it Oswin. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Sorry to hear about the Pony Phil
That is a lot for the drugs.
When our cat died peacefully in its sleep I thought Mros Orcs would want to have it cremated about £70, but no she wanted it buried in the garden. Took forever digging a suitable hole deep enough.
I found it and I should have quietly put ut in a bin bag in the wheelie bin and pretended it had run away. ;)
We tried the same with you.
Quote from: Orcs on 25 August 2017, 04:43:59 PM
When our cat died peacefully in its sleep .... blah, blah, blah ....... I should have quietly put ut in a bin bag in the wheelie bin and pretended it had run away. ;)
Might have worked ..... if Mrs Orcs believes in zombies. Or Saving Throws. :)
p.s. @ Phil: Oswin's a good name. :D
I found a big leech in the garden, when we used to live in the SE of England.....I kept him in a rain filled wheelbarrow. (Not for long, I stress.)
He was called Oswald. :D
Cheers - Phil
I would have called him "Archibald".
But then again, I'm a Cary Grant fan.
You OIK !! ;)
Talking of 'names'....I wish 'they'd' give storms/hurricanes 'nasty' names......The current one battering the States.....'Harvey'......Just sounds completely wrong.
Best of wishes (and luck) to any of our friends in that area....Looks more than bloody frightening !
Cheers - Phil
They used to give them womens nams which I thought appropriate, but apparently this was sexist so they now give them names of both sexes
Q: What do women and hurricanes have in common?
A:When they come, they're wet and wild, and when they leave, they take your house and car!
Quote from: Techno on 26 August 2017, 09:07:56 AM
You OIK !! ;)
Talking of 'names'....I wish 'they'd' give storms/hurricanes 'nasty' names......The current one battering the States.....'Harvey'......Just sounds completely wrong.
Best of wishes (and luck) to any of our friends in that area....Looks more than bloody frightening !
Cheers - Phil
Do we really want hurricanes called "Ming the Merciless," "Houserender," "Destroyer of Worlds" or similar?
Don't panic! Don't panic! "Landblight" is coming! Stay in your houses!
:) :) :) :)
Could be fun. Hat-stealer, The Oz Express, Old Ripper, Skirt-lifter....
;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Techno on 26 August 2017, 07:04:40 AM
I found a big leech in the garden, when we used to live in the SE of England
That proves my opinion that the da*ned suferners are leaching of the rest of us.
IanS
Whist flicking a lick of paint over a Centurion AVRE, I pondered that I have an order of preference in painting.
1) Vehicles
2) Terrain & scenice.
3) Artillery
4) Infantry
5) Cavalry
Furthermore, I get much more enjoyment out of researching and reading, painting and modelling that I do from rule sets and ... playing. Especially with other people.
Do you think I should be a railway enthusiast instead of a wargamer?
Quote from: fsn on 27 August 2017, 10:37:08 AM
Do you think I should be a railway enthusiast instead of a wargamer?
Trainspotter ;) :P :)
Be bold, be both.
Quote from: fsn on 27 August 2017, 10:37:08 AM
playing. Especially with other people.
I thought you got lots of dubious pleasure "playing" with Miss Whiplash :)
My preference in painting is is
1 Vehicles
2 Artillery
3 Terrain
4 Infantry
5 Basing
6 Licking my brush when it has "Magic Wash" on it
7 Digging my finger with a scalpel
9 Cavalry
I only paint because I have to. I'm a gamer.
In keeping with my preferences, this weekend I have assembled/painted
20' fencing
12" barbed wire entanglements
16 shell hole
16 haystacks
7 bunkers
20 sheep
10 cows
and 5 Centurion specialist vehicles (2xARV, 2xAVRE, 1 xBridgelayer.)
All in all, a good weekend.
Well done, that man =D>
Thank you. Most productive weekend I've had in ages. :D
Quote from: fsn on 28 August 2017, 08:37:58 PM
In keeping with my preferences, this weekend I have assembled/painted
7 bunkers
20 sheep
10 cows
I get laughed at at club when I put Cows and horses in the fields. Ian at club has 20mm Ducks swimming on the rivers in his scenarios.
The ducks aint armoured is they ? Bout time Phil made dem me tinks.
My livestock tend to be the objective of some raid or another.
Though I do remember a game I played in which a very hungry English army was caught unprepared by the naughty French who left lifestock to bait them. :-\
Quote from: fsn on 29 August 2017, 05:25:52 PM
My livestock tend to be the objective of some raid or another.
:) :-bd
Often the center of the fighting I set in both Scotland and Ireland. Quite partial to the "Cattle Raid of Cooley" and that sort of thing.
See you on Friday.
Playing Doctors and Nurses at the hospital, tomorrow, for a 'pre-op' check up. X_X
Cheers - Phil
May it go well, Phil.
Hope all goes well
Hope all is well.
Good luck
Quote from: Techno on 06 September 2017, 07:05:02 PM
See you on Friday.
Playing Doctors and Nurses at the hospital, tomorrow, for a 'pre-op' check up. X_X
Cheers - Phil
I hope the doctors are competent, the nurses attractive, and the needles sharp
Good Luck
Hope it all goes well.
Completely random thought.
Could you mount a shotgun on a WWII bomber as close defence?
I don't mean you ordinary 12 bore, but something more like a Petard mortar. Fairly close range, but would keep fighters out to a distance, which is after all the point of a bomber's defence.
Yes I know it sounds crazy, but have you looked at some oif the things they tried?
Flowers or Charity donation Phil ?
Quote from: fsn on 07 September 2017, 06:36:24 AM
Completely random thought.
Could you mount a shotgun on a WWII bomber as close defence?
I don't mean you ordinary 12 bore, but something more like a Petard mortar. Fairly close range, but would keep fighters out to a distance, which is after all the point of a bomber's defence.
Yes I know it sounds crazy, but have you looked at some oif the things they tried?
Here is a variation on that theme, Although not air defense.
http://militaryhistorynow.com/2015/03/04/flying-cannons-15-warplanes-equipped-with-heavy-artillery/
What about 12lb Napoleons firing case shot?
Mounted perpendicular to forward motion it might cause a bit of yaw, however
Surely a machine gun is a better choice? As it fires a steam of bullets it helps you hit the target by being able to walk the aim onto the target.
A shotgun is just a single shot, even if it covers a big area.
The Germans did have upward firing rockets on some of their night fighters - it was a bit like a big shotgun.
True, but with the shotgun you don't really need to be spot on. Close is good enough.
But the ammunition wouldn't have enough KE to,do much damage beyond peppering. Plus you have to contend with e ammo storage and the recoil. Nowadays much to have an asraam that looks for a plane and chases it! Much better range performance than any gun in air to air use.
*sigh* Crosses "shotguns on a plane" off list of things to make me rich.
Maybe this would've worked?
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z25OsqUl4eI/ULI-k_2jC4I/AAAAAAAADhk/4AO8xmsmF6s/s1600/dastardlyandmuttley_L09.jpg)
Though it does look more like an Aeronef, to be honest :)
Quote from: ianrs54 on 07 September 2017, 09:41:51 AM
Flowers or Charity donation Phil ?
A cheap taxi service will be useful after I've had the 'op', Ian.....("You won't be allowed to drive for around 4 weeks.")........Can't see why. It's not exactly going to be very invasive.
Bloody sore, for a while, probably !
Gotta wait for the results of the tests, which I should hear about in the next couple of days.
Don't really know if I want to get it over and done quickly, or keep having it delayed for a few months.
Thanks for the good wishes.
Cheers - Phil
50p a mile, min 300 miles.....
Quote from: Techno on 11 September 2017, 06:39:10 AM
A cheap taxi service will be useful after I've had the 'op', Ian.....("You won't be allowed to drive for around 4 weeks.")........Can't see why. It's not exactly going to be very invasive.
Bloody sore, for a while, probably !
Gotta wait for the results of the tests, which I should hear about in the next couple of days.
Don't really know if I want to get it over and done quickly, or keep having it delayed for a few months.
Thanks for the good wishes.
Cheers - Phil
Better sooner than later. Make the most of , its the only time you will get Von waiting on you hand and foot :)
Four us (two couples) off to Virginia today, including 3 days in the Shenandoah Valley. I'm taking my copy of Osprey's Shenandoah Valley 1862 and hoping to persuade the others to visit more than one battlefield. See you all later! :-h
p.s. Good luck with the op, Phil.
Have a great time, Westie. (I was SO close to putting your real name down there.) ;D ;D ;D ;D
Still haven't heard back anything regarding the test results (which is probably good....I was expecting to be put on yet MORE anti-biotics...but I think I'd have heard back by this point.)
Mark......Von ?......Waiting on me ?......PAH !! ;D ;D ;D :P
She'll have her Mum to deal with......That's going to drive her completely spare.
I'll fill you all in on what the problem has been, once this is over......But you'll probably be crossing your legs and going "Too much information."
I wonder what postie is going to bring me today...To go in the First Aid cupboard.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 16 September 2017, 09:35:08 AM
I wonder what postie is going to bring me today...To go in the First Aid cupboard.
Cheers - Phil
Sterile scalpes
If you have not been there before, seeing battlefields in the Shenandoah is near unavoidable! :)
Welcome to the States and have a great visit!
If you ever have a hankering to see McClelland's and Lee's original campaigns up here in the mountains, let me know.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 16 September 2017, 09:44:02 AM
Sterile scalpes
'Scalpes'....really? That would be a package from the Little Big Horn then? :o
Cheers,
Rob
Techno.
Techno!
TECHNO!
TECHNO! Oh for the sake of Miladys Creamy Yoghurts! TECH-NO!!
Just thought I'd tell you that I bought some Dremel polishing compound.
My Dremel is now nice and shiny ... but a bit slippy.
Gentlemen.
I seem to have become a General!
Drinks are on Orcs!
37 posts ago, but you never noticed! :D
Congratulations Sir!
Quote from: fsn on 28 September 2017, 11:48:47 AM
Gentlemen.
I seem to have become a General!
Drinks are on Orcs!
We'll never win
Large Cointreau, thank you.
Congrats!
Make mine an IC-lite. Twelve Pack would be good, Pony Keg would be better.
Also is it still "General Oik, Lord Runcorn" or is there a new form of address for a full general?
In Nobby's case - Oi - YOU OIK....
That's my line.....Well done, Nobby !!
Cheers - Phil
Congratulations Nobby,
I'm not buying the drinks - you only got promoted cos of all those denial posts.
Anyway you were found guilty , so that make my confession void, as I am obviously not of sound mind....... but neither is anyone else here so I am not sure that not being of sound mind counts for anything.
Can well call you Centurion Nobs instead of General?
Or Primus Oikus.
Congrats Nobby on both your promotion and proof of your 'innocence' =D> =D>
Congratulations, M'Lud Oik. Now that you are a General, hope you won't be pulling any rancour over that unfortunate incident of the plasters. If you ever feel the need to award any battlefield promotions, please remember I never voted for you .... honest ...
Mind you, I did think it was you ... :-[ .
Congrats...sir!
Well this is really annoying!
https://nottstv.com/sherwood-forest-longbow-maker-hit-targeted-theft/ (https://nottstv.com/sherwood-forest-longbow-maker-hit-targeted-theft/)
Well, some of us had to earn our promotions, Carruthers....
Quote from: FierceKitty on 02 November 2017, 11:20:43 PM
Well, some of us had to earn our promotions, Carruthers....
But not you melad....
I had left orf my promotion (which was entirely deserved by the way) and was linking to the sad story of a bowyer who had his stock stolen.
Does Mugabe originally come from Yorkshire? I was just wondering because if you spell his name backwards, it says E-BA-GUM ....
:D
GET OUT !!!!!!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
(Let him off, Ian ;).....I rather like that one !!)
He's obviously got too much time on his hands, though. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 18 November 2017, 10:43:18 AM
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
(Let him off, Ian ;).....I rather like that one !!)
Cheers - Phil
Na cana let that in go.....
Well, that's impressive.
https://blog.stirlingcastle.gov.uk/2017/12/13/jacobite-risings-come-stirling-castle/?hootPostID=f4d3d313d2f6f64c87051419985fce82
(https://blog.stirlingcastle.gov.uk/2017/12/13/jacobite-risings-come-stirling-castle/?hootPostID=f4d3d313d2f6f64c87051419985fce82)
Impressive indeed, mad but impressively so :)
Interesting indeed!
Until now I had never considered gluing wee bits of tartan on to my figures. :-\
The capercaillie looked like a Vespa from that angle. :D
Well that's good timing, I've just updated the webphotos on the 1745 range! https://pendraken.co.uk/18th-century/1745-jacobite-scots/
I was surfing the web there in my often 'random' manner and I came across this report on the BBC about the CIA releasing 13m pages of declassified documents online .... things like secret UFO research programmes, the Stargate Project involving psychic research, etc.
I particularly liked the recipes for invisible ink. Have a look. ;D ;D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38663522 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38663522)
Quote from: Westmarcher on 16 December 2017, 11:56:23 PM
I was surfing the web there in my often 'random' manner and I came across this report on the BBC about the CIA releasing 13m pages of declassified documents online .... things like secret UFO research programmes, the Stargate Project involving psychic research, etc.
I particularly liked the recipes for invisible ink. Have a look. ;D ;D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38663522 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38663522)
Heh! :o When Mrs Westie and I looked at this last night, the picture with the caption, "Recipes for invisible ink,"
was blank! :o
Boobed big time, there! Having a beer and a malt whisky whilst watching a movie (Whitehouse Down). About to top-up my beer when Mrs Westie spoke to me - replied to her then topped up my malt whisky instead of the beer! #-o
Tastes not too bad, actually. :-[
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo
Quote from: Westmarcher on 02 January 2018, 10:09:25 PM
Boobed big time, there! Having a beer and a malt whisky whilst watching a movie (Whitehouse Down). About to top-up my beer when Mrs Westie spoke to me - replied to her then topped up my malt whisky instead of the beer! #-o
Tastes not too bad, actually. :-[
Should point out the movie is "White House Down" (and not some sick movie about Mary Whitehouse).
Oooh! I've seen that one! It'a all about a new president being elected then finding the Oval Office covered is soft feathers!
IIRC :-[ ... and I don't know if it's still true, but the a certain magazine's website - too graphic to be called a gentleman's periodical - and the website of the US Prez differed only in extention (and take that any way you want.) Something like whitehouse.com was the nekkid ladies and whitehouse.gov was the self-styled leader of the free world. At least that's what 14 senators and 34 congressmen said to their wives.
Quote from: fsn on 03 January 2018, 07:42:40 AM
IIRC :-[ ... and I don't know if it's still true, but the a certain magazine's website - too graphic to be called a gentleman's periodical - and the website of the US Prez differed only in extention (and take that any way you want.) Something like whitehouse.com was the nekkid ladies and whitehouse.gov was the self-styled leader of the free world. At least that's what 14 senators and 34 congressmen said to their wives.
There used to be a rather posh restaurant in Wellington called the Whitehouse, a colleague took some customers to dinner there in a previous role. His rather large expense claim was rejected by the accounts team in Auckland. Apparently there is a Whitehouse in Auckland that claims in it's advertising to be a "gentleman's club".
Once he pointed out the different natures of the two establishments his expenses were paid #:-S
Insight into the mind of FSN.
Painting some Korean War US Panthers -1:600 from Tumbling Dice.
"Oh. I don't have the right decals for these. Must pop onto Dom's Decals and order some."
Goes onto website and selects 1 set of post war US stars.
"Hmmm, £1. That's not a very good order. Poor Dom. Not worth his while."
"Did I get the North Vietnamese insignia for later on? No. Well, I can pop those in as well. Better get some more US Stars for the Viet Nam war."
"Order now £3. That's not very good. Almost derisory."
"Hang on. I've just ordered decals for the Viet Nam war ... have I got the aircraft?"
"I remember painting Phantoms and Mig21s. Was that for Viet Nam? No, hang on, they were the Arab-Israeli - look you've got 3/4 of a set of Israeli stars here."
"Oh yes. That means I don't have any aircraft for Viet Nam. Fortunately you can get Tumbling Dice from Dom. Let's have a look."
A few minutes later
Order placed for £47.
:o X_X
;D ;D ;D
The truley amazing part is that you will shortly realize that you forgot one set you really need! This will result in another cascade of events I call self-interested civic virtue.
For a man with 50 shirts that is mere pocket change ;)
But which pocket
I'm still waiting for my decals from Dom. :( He's got an apology on his website; seems he's been ill.
Anyway, with the Korean War being on hold I've actually managed to complete a project. I think this is the first time since I joined the forum that I've actually started something ... and then finished it.
I now have a significant force of 1:600 Italian WWII aircraft.
It's based on a squadron (12) of SM79's protected by a squadron of CR42s. Then, for fun, I've added some bombers - BR20s, Z1007s, and SM82's (which are quite big!) and a half squadron of BA65s light bombers.
For a bit more protection, there are half squadrons of MC202, RE2001 and G50 fighters. In total 35 bombers and 30 fighters.
in general, they're fun to paint having several variations on a theme. I accidentally painted the Fiat G50s in the reference colours for the BA65s ... in a totally deliberate attempt to confuse the Tommies. :-[
So .. on to the French!
Fritz the Fox says "While the French air force probably spent more time painting their planes than actually flying them during World War 2 ... their few airworthy planes soon littered the French countryside like lawn darts at a family picnic. But they blended in nicely with the landscape."*
Hmmm ... doesn't sound very promising.
I have a squadron of the mighty Bloch MB200 and a couple of even mightier Farman 222 as bombers, protected by the French Bf110, the Potez 633. For fighters I have squadrons of Dewoitine D520 and Morane-Saulnier MS406 aircraft. total of 14 bombers, 6 heavy fighters and 24 fighters.
Why so many Italians vs French? I took advantage of Tumbling Dice's discount packs for the Italians. Good value ... if you want a large number of different aircraft types.
(http://www.airliners.net/photos/airliners/5/3/2/0536235.jpg)(http://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/1/3/3/1034331.jpg?v=v40)
D520 and CR42
*http://www.fritzthefox.com/french_camo_guide.html
(http://www.fritzthefox.com/french_camo_guide.html)
Pictures are meant to be of YOUR efforts ;)
Sounds an interesting project and congratulations on completing it =D> =D> =D>
Be fair, Paul.
Nobby's painted those exceptionally well ! :D
Cheers - Phil
;D ;D ;D
When I first joined the forum I was given to understand (assuming my memory is not playing up again) that fsn is an avid aviator who, when not attempting to assemble tank kits, enjoys flying the airplanes of WW2. This is the long way of saying that the pilot pictured in the D520 MAY be the man himself. A source, admittedly lacking total credibility, related that during a check ride in a Breguet 19 in the early 1970's, fsn's instructor wrote in his log, "fabuleux sans négatif". So taken was he by this rare complement, he now repeats it in his screen name.
fantastique sans nature :-\ ;)
Quote from: d_Guy on 05 February 2018, 10:36:12 PM
When I first joined the forum I was given to understand (assuming my memory is not playing up again) that fsn is an avid aviator ...
Does having a butterfly mind count? :D
I'm just waiting until I've bought all the Brunswickers I need, then I'll be all grapeshot and uhlan.
Unless I happen to see a video about the ACW ... though there was that thing about the Chinese using Pz I's which was interesting ... unless the Korean War figs appear from Pendraken ... which leads me to believe I'll next be painting triremes.
;D ;D ;D
Quote from: fsn on 06 February 2018, 07:41:57 AMg ... unless the Korean War figs appear from Pendraken ...
I'm down to the last dozen or so to do/finish off. :D
Cheers - Phil
Why is it taking so long ? >:(
I was told to slow down. :P ;)
Cheers - Phil
We need the final tweaks on the feathered ones afterall.
I'm afraid my wax 5 doesn't reach from SW Wales to Middlesbrough, Bill. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 07 February 2018, 06:18:50 AM
I'm afraid my wax 5 doesn't reach from SW Wales to Middlesbrough, Bill. ;)
Your what?
Sounds like the worst superhero team ever.
You OIK !! ;)
Cheers - Phil
It's waining then. :-\
Yes. Your wight it's waining in Liverpool. And I bet its waining in Wuncorn too.
PS I still don't know what a wax 5 is.
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Cn9DWA9mL._SX355_.jpg)
Is Techno complaining that his undoubtedly manly styling product of choice will not survive the journey Nor-East?
For a style icon like Techo, this would indeed be most upsetting.
Wax #5 sculpting tool
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lKqrmU-JfZg/TihLjS2jaiI/AAAAAAAAAkA/tmYlMXymSOE/s1600/P1010083.JPG)
Poke, poke, pokey!! ;)
Oh. How disappointing.
Thank you Ithoriel.
Quote from: fsn on 08 February 2018, 05:30:43 PM
Yes. Your wight it's waining in Liverpool. And I bet its waining in Wuncorn too
=O
Sorry you were disappointed, Nobby. :D
I think its proper name is a "wax carver no.5".
Cheers - The Style Icon. (I accidentally took a 'selfie' with my new iPod yesterday.....I'm still slightly bemused by the damn thing.....No wonder Von keeps complaining "You need a haircut"!)
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/talismans-tower/images/3/39/Cousin_itt.png/revision/latest?cb=20150423175244)
Hmmm ... maybe, Techno. Just maybe.
I an never sending you photo's of me again......you OIK !!!! ;)
Cheers - Mr Scruffy
PRIVACY BREACH! :o
MODERATOR!
Bloomin' 'eck! I've done it again! I've finished another project! This time, the French Armee de l'Air. Apologies for the quality of the photos.
The French: Bombers in green and brown, fighters in tri-colour camouflage.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4617/26448921498_bcebbf8383_z.jpg)
The Italians. 12 SM79s in green. Far too many types of fighters based on the CR42 in mottles scheme.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4622/38511810970_cdc8c6e50c_z.jpg)
What next? Well, I've just ordered the last batch of Brunswickers so perhaps I may try my first Pendraken figures for my 2nd favourite period. Alternatively, since I'm doing so well on aircraft, I've got some Pacific War (couldn't decide on 1942 or 1944 so went for both), or British bombers I picked up at Phalanx in June. Still waiting for Dom to come through with the decals for Korea, so that's on hold.
I mucked up some 1:3000 British 1940 Mediterranean ships - so they could do with a Dettol bath and a second go.
I could make a start on the WWII Poles - but I haven't bought all the cavalry - so I don't want to start until I've shelled out for them.
Oh! I know. I found the first lot of farm animals that I bought when they came out. Perhaps them?
But I have been listening to Xenophon's Anabasis whilst painting the French. I really want to do some hoplites.
Quote from: fsn on 09 February 2018, 01:29:43 PM
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/talismans-tower/images/3/39/Cousin_itt.png/revision/latest?cb=20150423175244)
Hmmm ... maybe, Techno. Just maybe.
At least his long hair improves his looks ! :)
Quote from: fsn on 08 February 2018, 07:44:21 PM
Oh. How disappointing.
Thank you Ithoriel.
Now he know what Miss Whiplash uses on him for that "special feeling"
Quote from: fsn on 17 February 2018, 06:05:23 PM
Bloomin' 'eck! I've done it again! I've finished another project! This time, the French Armee de l'Air. Apologies for the quality of the photos.
Well done FSN =D>
:-bd =D> :-bd
Nice work, Nobby !!
Cheers - Phil
.....'Ere...
Did anyone feel the earthquake yesterday ?
I didn't.....I was lying on the bed, moaning about my back (and had probably had fallen asleep... :D)
Von was sitting in the kitchen and DID notice it...Though she initially thought it was a very heavy lorry, going past in the road.
Just wondering.
Cheers - Phil
nufin 'ere
I'm afraid I haven't felt the earth move for many years.
Nice work FSN.
Several friends in Swansea and Salop felt it.
Perhaps Wales is going to fall off into the see and end up mid-Atlantic. That will please Ian.
Then a mid-Atlantic accent will be welsh!
Quote from: Orcs on 19 February 2018, 09:36:25 AM
Then a mid-Atlantic accent will be welsh!
No the idiots in Cardiff would insist that only Welsh be spoken ! :d
Bloomin' 'eck chaps.
I'm motoring! Battle of Britain Luftwaffe nearly finished - He111, Ju88, Do17, Ju87 and Bf110 squadrons complete! Just the Bf109s to do! Point to note: 60 planes of dark green with green-black splinter camouflage are rather boring to paint - but massed look very menacing.
What next? The RAF - Spitfires and Hurricanes; Battles, Hampdens and Blenheims.
Getting fed up with very small decals. :(
Having said that, Troy and the Aeneid have got my juices going for something a little more bronze age - though that does mean more tiny decals. >:(
Don't forget the Gladiators and Defiants...
YaaaaAaaahaaahaaahaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaa
No Defiants. No Gladiators.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DO4sSvAUEAAq4Xj.jpg:large)
Someone created a random photo thread, but I can't find it, so I'll just pop this here. British trucks disguised as elephants, 1940s.
See you all on Wednesday.....I'm having the damn 'pipe' taken out of my 'tum', early tomorrow morning.
I'll take some green stuff to plug the hole....Apparently they don't put a stitch in it, because it heals so quickly. :-SS :-SS :-SS
I'll believe that, when it's sealed properly......We'll see. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Excellent, Phil - do well! Don't put the green stuff in the wrong place! :-\
fsn, the progeny of the Union suggested in your photo is likely this:
(https://leadenshipsandtinmen.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/79d28119-cd4a-4dca-923a-919c7ee16de1.jpeg)
Phil, Hope it goes well and heals quickly
Quote from: Techno on 19 March 2018, 05:03:38 PM
See you all on Wednesday.....I'm having the damn 'pipe' taken out of my 'tum', early tomorrow morning.
I'll take some green stuff to plug the hole....Apparently they don't put a stitch in it, because it heals so quickly. :-SS :-SS :-SS
Superglue would be better....
Quote from: fsn on 03 March 2018, 09:11:11 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DO4sSvAUEAAq4Xj.jpg:large)
Someone created a random photo thread, but I can't find it, so I'll just pop this here. British trucks disguised as elephants, 1940s.
Not sure how that would work on Salisbury Plain....
Hope all goes well. Phil
Mark
Same here mate hope everything goes ok
Take care
Andy
Hope all is good Phil
Holding thumbs for you.
Too late to wish you good luck, Phil, but when they pull it out, for God's sake, hold on to something ...
Hope it went well. :)
Quote from: Techno on 19 March 2018, 05:03:38 PM
See you all on Wednesday.....I'm having the damn 'pipe' taken out of my 'tum', early tomorrow morning.
I'll take some green stuff to plug the hole....Apparently they don't put a stitch in it, because it heals so quickly. :-SS :-SS :-SS
I'll believe that, when it's sealed properly......We'll see. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
When they remove it you will have to remember to get up in the night to go for a wee, just like the rest of us
Don't remind me, Mark ! ;D ;D ;D
All done safely, without any problems at all. (By rights the hole should have 'knitted' already...only takes six hours for it to heal apparently.)
Seemed a little bit of a palaver, to have to go all the way over to the hospital, to have it removed, when the nurse down at the local surgery could have done it.
Got to go and see her tomorrow, to remove the dressing and check everything's OK......That's if the dressing's still in place...It seemed to be falling off almost as soon as it was put on. I think they should have used duct tape rather than the 'stickies' they actually used.
Another trip to a different hospital next week to see the consultant...which again seems a tad over the top....Then a blood test in 5 weeks, and go and see the consultant again a week after that !
I'll be SO glad when this is finally done and dusted.
Thanks for all your wishes ! :)
Cheers - Phil
Good to hear that it went without any problems and they are looking after you :)
That's worrying. That a little hole can heal up in just 6 hours. :(
Glad to hear it's going well.
Glad you're ok
Take care
Andy
Thanks again, chaps ! :)
Quote from: fsn on 21 March 2018, 07:53:30 AM
That's worrying. That a little hole can heal up in just 6 hours. :(
Glad to hear it's going well.
I found that absolutely astounding too, Nobby.....I
want to take the dressing off and see whether it's true....But I'll wait until tomorrow, and try and be a good boy, and do as I'm told.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: fsn on 21 March 2018, 07:53:30 AM
That's worrying. That a little hole can heal up in just 6 hours. :(
I'm sure my ex wife had one of those :d
I'm having some time off. Doing some "life laundry", and rearranging my painting table.
Splashed out on a Vallejo paint stand, and am quite surprised to find that I have filled it!
My question is, when did I buy fluorescent paints? :o English Uniform, Luftwaffe Cam Green, fluorescent Orange? Doesn't go.
I don't think Leon did an Ocado and substituted my Olive Green with florescent yellow. :-\
Does anyone have an examples of when one would use fluorescent paint?
Riot police v zombies :)
Even better
Riot police v atomic zombies
In other news.
I had cause to strip the paint off some Sunderland aircraft I'd painted. As recommended somewhere in the forum, I used Dettol.
A night in the tub, and the paint fell off. As an added benefit my house smells hospital clean. :D
Quote from: fsn on 24 March 2018, 10:26:40 AM
A night in the tub, and the paint fell off. As an added benefit my house smells hospital clean. :D
Then, stop slopping paint all over yourself, Nobby ! ;)
Cheers - Phil
It's worth it, just for the aroma. :D
I once dropped and broke a bottle of Angostura bitters. A sad waste, but the experience of just standing and breathing it was heavenly.
Now I'm craving a pink gin!
Finished another finished project! 1940 Battles of France/Britain in 1:600 aircraft.
Luftwaffe *Boo!* Bf109, Bf110, Do17e, Ju87, Ju88 and He111- 72 a/c
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/820/41005744741_11fc659f26_z.jpg)
British aircraft 1940 *Huzzah*- Spitfires, Hurricanes, Battles, Blenheims and Hampdens - 54 a/c
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/793/40112658655_35363140b8_z.jpg)
Yes, I know the RAF are glossy and the Luftwaffe are satin. There's a very good reason ... which I'm not feeling like sharing.
What next? Well, thanks to Minibits and i94, I can finish off my Korean war a/c (39 North Korean, 20 USAF, 20 USN) ... then I think I'll be a little done with tiny aeroplanes for a while. I've still got a 1944 British bomber stream to paint (Lancaster, Stirling and Halifaxes) and a airborne force (Dakotas, Hamilcars and Horsas) and lots of Pacific war, both 1942 and 1944. If Dom ever manages to deliver his Decals, I'll also have Viet Nam. Ohh, and I've still got some 1960s Cold War to do. I think my ability to buy outstrips my ability to paint. :( Anyway, I'm putting tiny aeroplanes aside ... oh and I've got to redo the Med 1942 forces that I painted quite badly ... but I'll be putting aside tiny aircraft for now. And some WWI aircraft ... shouldn't forget them ...
Anyway, on my painting table are some animals - sheep,cows, pigs - that I found whilst tidying up. I think I may have ordered a batch from Pendraken, and when it arrived, put it safely aside. Then forgot about it and ordered another batch ... which I laid carefully aside ... and finally a third. There is no guarantee that there may be others lying somewhere in my lead mountain.
Then ... well I've been buying quite a bit of Napoleonics, so I think it'll be Punic Wars. :D
That's a very nice collection of FJS
Nice planes, the lego works well for storage.
Quote from: fsn on 25 March 2018, 01:10:14 PM
Anyway, on my painting table are some animals - sheep,cows, pigs - that I found whilst tidying up. I think I may have ordered a batch from Pendraken, and when it arrived, put it safely aside. Then forgot about it and ordered another batch ... which I laid carefully aside ... and finally a third. There is no guarantee that there may be others lying somewhere in my lead mountain.
Well you know what happens when Mummy animal gets left alone with Daddy animal...
Really nice FSN!
Congrats on finishing the project - always good see it all lined up and ready go. I know the LEGO is for storage (and a great idea) but do you use it for game play also?
For many of us our ability to buy outstrips our ability to paint ( or what is heaven for :) ) - it help support the hobby after all.
Thanks chaps!
I'm still experimenting with the Lego in games. I put a flight on a base, and can use small piece to indicate height/speed etc.
What I'm trying to do is to put some texture n the bases to hide the Lego dots, but leave the functionality.
Quote from: fsn on 25 March 2018, 04:13:43 PM
What I'm trying to do is to put some texture n the bases to hide the Lego dots, but leave the functionality.
Yes, for in game use hiding the Lego look would be important. Wood filler will probably work well for this, put some 1 pip round pieces of lego on the pegs you want to keep, then gloop wood filler around the rest of the base, you can texture this a bit as well.
Quote from: fsn on 23 March 2018, 05:32:36 PM
My question is, when did I buy fluorescent paints? :o English Uniform, Luftwaffe Cam Green, fluorescent Orange? Doesn't go.
I don't think Leon did an Ocado and substituted my Olive Green with florescent yellow. :-
I don't think we've done any substitutions, but there's always the chance a customer at a show has put a flourescent pot in the wrong location on the paint rack and then someone's packed your order without realising? Let me know if it's an error at our end and we'll get a replacement sent out.
Congratulations on another finished project :o :-bd =D> :-bd
Got to love that Pendraken service =D> =D> =D>
To be clear I have not received fluorescent paints from pendraken. Of that I am sure.
Where the fluors came from? Not a Scooby. Could I have bought a pack from elsewhere with them in?
Anyway, my question was more to do with using them. What have others used fluorescent for?
So the score is 60 sheep, 40 cows, 10 pigs. I've left the ducks and chiickens for later. Thought I might add the dogs to command groups and the like.
Also, since I've been very productive 40 Carthaginian veterans, 8 misc repurposed as Trojan War heroes, 12 1:600 a/c (P47 & P51) to cover the bomber stream, 2 battering rams and 2 Centurion 1's from a 7th Armoured Brigade HQ.
Currently working on some more Trojan War heroes, and a chunky Hoplite phalanx.
Very productive time.
Sounds good, Nobby !! :)
Cheers - Phil
You are being
very productive, fsn, busting things out left and right.
I like the Pendraken zoo and have taken to scattering the creatures. great and small, all over the playing surface. They also make great markers for all sorts of things as well. :-
Quote from: fsn on 28 March 2018, 12:59:53 PM
Thought I might add the dogs to command groups and the like.
One dog to command a unit of ten sheep prehaps, or a unit of three cows as the heavies? You could add a pig as an intelligence officer (and I mean no disrespect as pigs are really quite bright!). You omitted cats which would make excellent recce officers (assuming they'll actually come back to report). And don't forget the bunnies - naturally born company runners!
Wait...I may have misintpreted what you intend. :-\
That's no bunny, it's a fiend incarnate! Look at those sharp pointy claws and teeth! 🐰
Oh come on! My painting isn't that bad! >:(
This is how life abuses poor Nobby.
Having painted many, many tiny aircraft, Niobby decides to abandon the "brmm brmm bang bang" era* and go for some "clip clop swish swish". Nobby is tired of the cutting and the wetting and the poking around with sharp instruments, and also of putting tiny decals on tiny aeroplanes. Nobby decides to paint some hoplites which had been stashed away for far too long. Lots of lovely bronze and spears and big shields and it looks as if they're not going to get revamped this decade. So Nobby paints the bronze and the white armour and the tunics and the nodding plumes ... then remembers that Nobby bought lots of tiny decals for the shields. :(
Poor Nobby. What a pillock. :'(
* Forward thinking military historians divide military history into only 3 eras:
- Clip clop swish swish - horses for transport, swords for weapons
- Clip clop bang bang - the introduction of gunpowder
- Brmm brmm bang bang - the introduction of the internal combustion engine
=O =O =O =O =O =O =O =O
You complete OIK. ;D ;D
I'm not doing something too dissimilar with what I'm trying to do for that nice Mr Leon, at the mo'......and if he identifies the next animal I've just done, as another frigging warthog (when I send him the photo)...I will get on a train to Middlesbrough and give him a damn good slap !
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Does that mean the Meerkat is finished?
Nope, sorry, Will...the Mk 10 is still in the drying pot...and gathering dust :-[......But in another month (or less) I reach State Pension age....So a month after that, I'll have some sort of free time because I'll be getting some free money. :) :) :) :)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: fsn on 30 March 2018, 12:23:14 PM
* Forward thinking military historians divide military history into only 3 eras:
- Clip clop swish swish - horses for transport, swords for weapons
- Clip clop bang bang - the introduction of gunpowder
- Brmm brmm bang bang - the introduction of the internal combustion engine
There is a fourth era one before those mentioned. It is defined by Mrs Orcs for the Ancient and Medieval periods (I have given up trying to explain the differences). In TV programs and films of these periods there is generally a lot of sex (of a rough nature) and fighting, and she does not think there is much difference between the two activities. So in our house it is known as :-
Are they f*ck*ng or fighting? - Bows and arrows,swords and spears
Surely the earliest era is
tramp rumble thump clang - foot or chariots for transport and a mix of throw sticks, clubs and bronze spears & axes
I'm pretty sure sex sounds much the same in every era :)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 30 March 2018, 03:48:01 PM
I'm pretty sure sex sounds much the same in every era :)
It was the rough grabbing of each other and the ensuing grunts
Quote from: Ithoriel on 30 March 2018, 03:48:01 PM
Surely the earliest era is
tramp rumble thump clang - foot or chariots for transport and a mix of throw sticks, clubs and bronze spears & axes
Does that really count as warfare? ;)
The FSN painting machine rolls on!*
40 SF troopers, plus 6 artillery pieces completed yesterday, plus the Greek hoplites (54) and a start made on 3 Carthaginian war elephants plus 30 slingers.
To be honest, a lot of what I've been doing is finishing off abandoned batches. The SF troopers required a wash and a base. The Centurion Mk1's just needed a bit of detailing.
Still, I've been very productive and quite pleased with what I've done with my 2 weeks of holiday. :D
*I know the results look like the paint has been applied with a roller, but I do actually use a brush ... well three for paint. Only one at a time, obviously.
What's an SF trooper? :-w
An aberration. A weakness. :-[
Quote from: Westmarcher on 31 March 2018, 10:02:05 AM
What's an SF trooper? :-w
An actor of long standing, from San Francisco? Or is than an SF trouper? :)
Nobby's doing some science fiction figures......Eh ? :-\
Surely not.....But I think we should be told.
Cheers - Phil
It's true.
I was the 80s. I was young, I was innocent, I didn't know what I was getting into. A friend introduced me to Traveller. Said it was just a game. Not like D&D. You could be cool and do Traveller. It had spaceships and planets and lasers and grav craft. Then came the plunge ... the Vargyr, the Aslan, the robots. I was hooked. I spent about 10 years in Traveller. It wasn't just Mega Traveller, it was Traveller 2300 and Striker and all the other systems.
Eventually, with the help of poverty and HaT industries, I was coaxed back onto the historical path. But you're never really free of Traveller. Every now and again, it come back and pulls me back in.
I could have resisted, but Pendraken did have to produce that SF range. I'm technically classed as human. I was weak. I couldn't resist.
And that's why I may have some SF troopers.
And some other bits from that range.
And the zombies.
Lots of zombies.
But essentially, I'm historical .,.
Quote from: fsn on 31 March 2018, 04:41:46 PM
But essentially, I'm historical .,.
It's spelt hysterical ;)
Fsn, international man of history.
Well.....There you go. :o :o :o :o :o
Cheers - Phil
So today's tally has been 3 elephants and 30 slingers for the Punic Wars, plus 11 merchant ships and 9 Sunderland a/c in 1:3000. (Yesm, I found some partly completed warships too.)
Tomorrow? Probably some Numidian cavalry, plus more hoplites? And the convoy escort of 2 cruisers, 6 destroyers and 6 corvettes.
And some Swordfish.
This is so cathatric - emptying the "nearly finished" boxes.
Oooh! Just found some medieval carts! Chuck them in as well. :D
Well done, that Oik =D> =D> =D>
You have been very productive :)
I'd like to thank Sunjester and Orcs for today's game with Pendraken WotR/SPear and Shield. I'd especially like to thank Sj for his sterling service of buggering about on my left flank while I caused first Orcs and then his Ally ran away due to me defeating units. That is the version MY herald is writing down.
Sj also seems to be labouring under the delusion there is such thing as a 'Spare bottle of beer'.
;D
Today's tally is 17 1:3000 warships & 12 Swordfish, and 2 gods (Athene and Hephestus.) The hoplites and Numdians started but not completed, and progress made on Aphrodite and Hera.
I got slightly sidetracked into tidying my stores. Apparently, I have
- 58 "spare" paintbrushes of various sizes.
- 56 ready use and 21 spare/duplicate Vallejo paints (including the dreaded fluorescents)
- 113 other paints (still working through duplicates)
- 2 ready use and 8 spare bottles of ink (used for washes)
- 6 washes and weathering powder
This is what comes of stashing your purchases in different places.
The sad thing is that I didn't find the gloss varnish I was looking for. :(
#-o ;D ;D
Quote17 1:3000 warships & 12 Swordfish, and 2 gods (Athene and Hephestus.)
Given that mix I'm not sure if he is painting biplanes, torpedoes or actual fish.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 01 April 2018, 10:16:19 PM
Given that mix I'm not sure if he is painting biplanes, torpedoes or actual fish.
;D ;D
No he only paints Centurions, has a vastly over officered Early Imperaial Roman Army.
IanS ;) :)
And now on Radio 4, former Home Secretary Jack Straw discusses safety in cricket, and tries out some of the new high tech defences in "Jack in the Box" ...
After the Archers, a Front Row special which reviews Tom Cruise's new film in which his super-spy Reacher goes to New York in "Jack in the Bronx"...
On Radio 5 now, Bobbie Charlton defend his brother from accusations that he was a goal hanger in "Jack in the Box?"...
In Tomorrow's Woman's Hour, 80's screen heartthrob Jacqueline Bisset discusses the time she worked as a toilet clear in a segment called "Jack in the Bogs"...
On Eastenders tonight, a stock Cockney will beg his daughter to give up her infatuation with a pugilist in "Jack in the Box-er"...
Later on Radio 4, naked magician Jenny Barnstaple discusses where she hides court cards in "Jack in the Box", and if you enjoy this episode there's still time to catch up with Jenny's first program "An Ace in the Hole" on iPlayer...
On PM, Eddie Mayer will be investigating the disappointment men feel upon receiving yet more motoring accessories as birthday presents in "Jack in the Box"...
Finally, at 11:30 there's reflections on the funeral of President John F Kennedy.
=O =O =O
the one about the naked magician really made me laugh
Quote from: Orcs on 03 April 2018, 06:42:25 PM
=O =O =O
the one about the naked magician really made me laugh
You are easily amused though.
Disaster!
Last night I thought I would give some hoplites I'd been working on a bit of a FSN patented wash - 4 parts brown ink, 1 part black, diluted x2. This morning the poor thinks look like they've been down a coal mine. :(
I'll have a look tonight, may be able to salvage with a surface wash.
Not a happy bunny.
:( :( :(
Quote from: fsn on 06 April 2018, 12:06:39 PM
Disaster!
Last night I thought I would give some hoplites I'd been working on a bit of a FSN patented wash - 4 parts brown ink, 1 part black, diluted x2. This morning the poor thinks look like they've been down a coal mine. :(
I'll have a look tonight, may be able to salvage with a surface wash.
Not a happy bunny.
I hate it when that happens.
Silver mining was a rather ugly staple of the Athenian economy.
For Nobby & Westie...
Re Radio shows.....taking the waffle from the thread that it was in.
This is really not very interesting.
When Von and I lived near Newark, I used to try and win the cost of the TV licence fee back from the BBC by entering as many competitions as I could.
I won loads of cr*p...but it was still a lot of fun. (Anyone like a Jim Davidson CD ?... ;D ;D ;D ;D)
The local radio station that I listened to a LOT of the time was BBC Radio Lincolnshire....although we lived just over the border in Notts.
I just found 'Lincolnshire' far more interesting than 'Notts'.
I used to help some of the quizzes, or come up with ideas for the quizzes. (This worked well.....I obviously couldn't enter a quiz if I'd actually set the question/questions....But I'd know how the actual quiz worked.....and then know the best time to enter.)
I'm sure I was on 'Lincs' anything up to four times a day....Which sounds a bit daft..(It became a hobby of sorts)..But there were perhaps two dozen regular callers to the station...Me being one of them.
I also kept trying to enter the Radio 2 Comps.....Which were a lot harder to get on, as there were probably thousands of folk who were phoning through at the same time, as opposed to the local station, where it was probably a dozen at most, at one time.
I was probably one of the longest serving champions on Steve Wrights 'Big Quiz'.....'Cos I lasted a fortnight.....But that was down to circumstances.....I won my first day.....The next day 9/11 happened....So, naturally, for the rest of the week they didn't do the quiz....Then Steve Wright went on holiday the next week.
I've done a couple of other comps on Radio 2.....Got the best prize I've ever won on one of those....A digital radio, in the early days of digital radio,.....Still got that !
I also used to like sending emails into Terry Wogan.....I think my record was three read out in a week.
So.....Hardly a radio celebrity.....Just a sad g*t who phoned radio stations far more times than he should.
(I did join in with a 'Children in Need' skit with one of the presenters of radio Lincolnshire, where we did our version of Monty P's 'The Argument Sketch'...recorded in the presenter's car, which was parked in the car park at MacDonalds, in Newark......That's probably my favourite memory of 'being on the radio'.)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 11 April 2018, 05:19:07 PM
This is really not very interesting.
Mrs Westie and I found it interesting, Phil. Mrs Westie used to enter lots of competitions. Got so 'good' success wise that there was some prizes she never took advantage of (e.g., 3 months membership of a gym 40 miles away etc.) and eventually (we think) got blacklisted by one of the Scottish newspapers. Won some great prizes, however - one was an appointment with a top London hairdresser, overnight stay in a 5 star London Hotel and invite to the BAFTAs (wasn't the full
bhoona - we were next door, watching on the big screen drinking free beer and got to talk to Jason Isaacs and Michael Sheen). She was wondering if the digital radio was won on Pop Master and, as one of the TOGs on Terry Wogan, what your
nom de plume was. For my part, I was wondering, you don't happen to have a recording of the Children in Need stint, do you?
P.S. btw, in the other thread, you were concerned that your enquiry about the depiction of the human form in art in Islam would cause a row. My response was, Aren't you already in trouble, Phil? I'm sure I once heard your name mentioned on the since cancelled radio show, "Fatwahs on Air." I wasn't asking about your radio career (you must have been desperate to tell us :P ) but interesting nevertheless. ;D
Hi Westie.
No I didn't win the radio on Popmaster.....Though I did have a go on that....I lost on a tie-break question...I think.
The radio came from a different 'Steve (or Stephen) Wright' on radio 2. Never heard of that chap since.
I used the nom de plume, Mad Phil from Caunton....But once the producer, Paul Walters, left owing to ill health, I didn't feel like joining in so much. :(
Yes....somewhere in the cupboard I DO have a copy of the Argument Sketch. :-[
Cheers - A sad g*t.
Sometimes I think that my little Michael-extractions of Techno aren't nearly bizarre enough. I may have intimated that he left the house to buy a Sunday paper, turned right and ended up in the band of an Italian milita, but he then trumps that with the Argument Sketch done, in a car*, mark you, not even in a building, and broadcast on Radio Lincoln.
Everyone you name, he's got a connection to
- Princess Grace of Monaco - "I once reheeled one of her shoes when she fell of a kerb in Swannage high street."
- Lead singer of Hawkwind - "snogged him"
- JRR Tolkein - "Saw some of my little men and said it made him think of a story."
- Richard Burton - "Saw him in the school play and said he was quite good."
- Benito Mussolini - "Was teaching him to play 'Leaning on a Lamppost' on the ukelele. He soon got into the swing of it."
And they are all just throw away comments, leaving you wanting the backstory - and I do not doubt for one moment that they are all true.
Life is stranger than fiction, and both of those look at the life of Techno and say "well that's a bit strange."
"Excuse me gentlemen, could you explain what you are doing in the car park of a McDonalds car park at 2 in the morning, and why the car is rocking so violently? "
"Why certainly officer, we're re-enacting the famous Monty Python Argument sketch."
"Fair enough Gentlemen. Carry on. ... Oh and if you come to do the Lumberjack song, I know all the words."
Right then, Nobby.
No....Never met Princess Grace of Monaco. (Played golf against a former British Ambassador to Portugal....That's the nearest I can get to that)
Hawkwind ?..... When they visited GW, I apparently (I don't believe this) called them 'Love' when I was taking piccies of them.
JRR Tolkien... A piccy I took of my dear old Dad was mistaken for the author. (Dad did bear some slight sort of resemblance, I have to admit.)
The last two......Nah !.......Can't get anywhere near those.
The 'Argument Sketch' was recorded at lunchtime.....not at two in the morning. :P
I'm going to have to burn you a copy...aren't I ?
Cheers - Phil
I love these "Six Degrees of Separation" type threads. It's amazing the connections people have that one would never expect.
So do I, Mike. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Decades ago I could get to the then President of the USA in just two steps. (I don't think that would have been of any significance at all, though.) ;D ;D ;D
People don't realise that they know people.....'Who know people.....who know other people.')
What do they say ?.....In six steps...you can get a connection to anyone in the World ?
(Ignoring the few remaining 'tribes' who have no contact with the 'outside World' at all.)
Cheers - Phil
Six steps to Techno?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon
But I can get to you in a single step, Will. ;D ;D ;D ;D (Or does that even count as a step, when I've got your phone number ? ;D ;D ;D)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 12 April 2018, 02:41:07 PM
Decades ago I could get to the then President of the USA in just two steps.
Were you in the Secret Service?
Not that I remember....The scars across my chest are from chicken pox.....Not bullets. :P
Cheers - Phil.
Well Gentlemen, I thnk we can all agree that falls into the category of "too much information".
Quote from: Techno on 12 April 2018, 02:41:07 PM
Decades ago I could get to the then President of the USA in just two steps.
:-\
- did you used to buy a lot of peanuts?
- did you used to drive a Mustang?
- were you the female telephonist for the Hot Line? (in your Master Spy role, of course)
- did you know Lincoln's wife/photographer/urologist ...?
- were you Washington's denture maker?
Anyway, taking this thread out and treating it the way a Greenlander treats a seal cub ...
Let's talk about me.
I have been cogitating - which although illegal in some of the Southern US states, is still presently allowed in the UK - upon my recent productivity. Granted being on holiday did allow me to devote enormous chunks of time to the hobby, but even so, I maintained my mojo for a fortnight - which is remarkable for a man my age. My ruminations led me to the conclusion that it was by mixing my projects that I was able to sustain the work rate. I mixed ancients with WWII naval, with aircraft and Traveller minaitures 1:3000, 1:600, 10mm and 25mm.
Admittedly, working of 4 projects does mean that each one will take 4 times as long; but if I'm painting 5 times as fast (OK I'm not).
Anyone else work in mixed media this way? Am I confusing the joy of being out the office with the love of the hobby?
Yes, this is a desperate effort not to think about Techno's chest.
While still enjoying our vacation travel I do need to break surface and say that while cogitation may APPEAR to be unlawful it is only because we substitute rumination (as we are more closely - although not intimately - associated with the world of creatures - much like rural Wales).
Your reference to Techno's chest - which I took to be some box of goodies - caused me to catch up on this tread - thanks - I needed those images! ( this is of course sarcasm - which my father told me never to indulge in - or, so Kitty is propitiated - in which my father told me never to indulge).
As to multitasking - yes - I have some sticks full of figures that I put a bit more color on every now and then - I don't know how many sticks - it is like counting minnows in a mill pond.
Later
Quote from: d_Guy on 12 April 2018, 08:36:42 PM
As to multitasking - yes - I have some sticks full of figures that I put a bit more color on every now and then - I don’t know how many sticks - it is like counting minnows in a mill pond.
Well it isn't really is it? :P Sticks don't move unless you choose to move them, nor are they capable of hiding in the murky depths, painting sticks (certainly my painting sticks) are twice as big as a minnow, and I can get a lot closer to them that if they were cast into a mill pond. Woudn't it be more accurate to say it's a bit like counting trout at the fishmongers?
Quote from: fsn on 13 April 2018, 06:56:32 AM
Sticks don't move unless you choose to move them, nor are they capable of hiding in the murky depths
You don't have many people come in to your house do you :)
I don't, now you come to mention it. :-\
Only when they are based, labeled, spreadsheeted and neatly stored do they rise to the level of fish at a mongers.
Like the great eye of Sauron, I have, at any moment, a laser focus on one thing, all else falls into oblivion.
What was organized becomes disorganized, what was disorganized becomes chaotic and things that should be remembered are forgotten.
No - minnows in a millpond I think. :D
Does anyone else miss the seal cub? :(
Don't carp on about it, we've haddock enough!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 13 April 2018, 01:06:01 PM
Don’t carp on about it, we’ve haddock enough!
You know what is coming -
GET OUUUUUUUUUUUT Nobby - get 'is coat !
Eel have to catch me first!
Sorry, his sprint speed is pollocks!
Don't flounder Will, get your skates on, if escape is your sole porpoise.
I'll get me rudd-y coat from it's perch, it's that big one (I'm a bit of a chub!).
For goodness hake, if you think this is the end of the fish jokes .... Bream On! :D :D :D
You did that on porpoise!
I trout it will ever end but I'm going to skate on out of here.
Good cod! Certainly trawled up a few old ones, there. ;D
Quote from: Ithoriel on 13 April 2018, 10:59:47 AM
You don't have many people come in to your house do you :)
Quote from: fsn on 13 April 2018, 12:11:52 PM
I don't, now you come to mention it. :-
That's what happens when you have Lego floors.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 13 April 2018, 03:41:14 PM
Eel have to catch me first!
Sorry, his sprint speed is pollocks!
Quote from: Ithoriel on 13 April 2018, 03:53:51 PM
Don't flounder Will, get your skates on, if escape is your sole porpoise.
I'll get me rudd-y coat from it's perch, it's that big one (I'm a bit of a chub!).
For goodness hake, if you think this is the end of the fish jokes .... Bream On! :D :D :D
Quote from: mad lemmey on 13 April 2018, 03:55:29 PM
You did that on porpoise!
Quote from: d_Guy on 13 April 2018, 03:56:17 PM
I trout it will ever end but I’m going to skate on out of here.
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH Sumat stinks piscine here !
We're all having a whale of a time!
Hang on, Hang on......Whales and porpoises aren't fish....They're mammals....Though according to some, there's no such thing as a 'fish'.
I echo Ian's comment.....What's next....Cheese based silliness (AGAIN) .......You OIKS !! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Oh no! I missed out on the fishy puns!
What a clown!
Yes, you might have found yourself in deep water there.
How about a sing-song everyone, a Christmas Coral like "Sharks! The Herring Angels sing. Gory to the newborn Ling .."?
[I know. I could have mentioned tuna, dory and angelfish .... but I didn't want to go overboard
..... I'll get my coat ...]
Quote from: fsn on 14 April 2018, 10:30:30 AM
Oh no! I missed out on the fishy puns!
What a clown!
Eggactly - please read carefully
Quote from: Techno on 14 April 2018, 09:59:42 AM
I echo Ian's comment.....What's next....Cheese based silliness (AGAIN) .......You OIKS
Cheese puns? Where would brie the sense in that?
We're above that sort of thing don'cheddar know! ;)
The conversation is Stilton in favour of cheese!
YARG! Gouda hell am i supposed to concentrate on fish puns if you lot switch the the cheese course!
I say again eggactly !
X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X
You ARE all oiks !
Cheers - I can't be bothered.
Quote from: Techno on 14 April 2018, 09:59:42 AM
Hang on, Hang on......Whales and porpoises aren't fish....They're mammals....Though according to some, there's no such thing as a 'fish'.
Cheers - Phil
Coconuts have hair and milk, so are they mammals?
Quote from: Last Hussar on 14 April 2018, 09:43:31 PM
Coconuts have hair and milk, so are they mammals?
No - but I'm a hobbit - used to smoke pipe weed, have hairy feet and love mushrooms. Course being nearly 6' does tend to negate that.
IanS
Wish me luck.....I'm playing with a gallon of diesel and matches tonight.
(BONFIRE time !!) :D
Cheers - Whooooooph !
Given the considerably higher flashpoint of diesel (compared to gasoline - uh - petrol) you may actually be safe. :)
Good luck.
What could possibly go wrong?
He'll probably lacerate himself on a match, scrape his wrist on the matchbox, and wrench his knee tripping over the diesel can.
Phil MATCHES !!!!!!!!! :d :'(
Quote from: fsn on 20 April 2018, 04:30:46 PM
What could possibly go wrong?
He'll probably lacerate himself on a match, scrape his wrist on the matchbox, and wrench his knee tripping over the diesel can.
Indeed! Possibilities I had not considered.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 20 April 2018, 04:39:37 PM
Phil MATCHES !!!!!!!!! :d :'(
AKA
Lucifer's (sic) :d
Oh, Ye of little faith. ;)
At least this time I'll know it IS diesel.....Unlike the time I managed to confuse 'old' petrol with diesel.
Cheers - Phil
We have faith, but in A&E we trust!
The worst that happened was that I stunk of smoke and diesel by the time I'd finished.
Good job 'jobbed', though !
We usually keep piling a bonfire higher and higher and then wait for a dry night in the Autumn.
I think we'll have lots of smaller bonfires in the future, now that I know the diesel will help get some of the 'greener' bits to catch.
Cheers - Phil :)
Chaps! Techno-Cam has revealed a disturbing facet to his arson about.
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Working up to spending £150 on figures. I know to many of you That's nothing, but it feels like an extravagance. First 15 packs ECW shotte
Quote from: Last Hussar on 28 April 2018, 05:32:43 PM
Working up to spending £150 on figures. I know to many of you That's nothing, but it feels like an extravagance. First 15 packs ECW shotte
I know exactly what you mean Hussar - I've been interested in Montrose's campaigns since the early 1980's and having finally found a set of rules that I really like (as well as others in our regular gaming group) we have finally committed to a fairly big spend up of 10mm goodness.
I have a limited gaming budget so spending about 200 quid in total to get everything I will ever need figure wise feels like an extravagance to me too. But as I point out to Mrs Shy its a heck of a lot less than a mid life crisis spend that a friend of mine did recently when he bought a Suzuki 650 road bike with all the options. OK he had (most of ;) ) the budget to do it but he still spent $20k all up.
I hold that thought when I think about my ECW "spend up" :)
The medical bills are also likely to be much lower than with a motorbike ;)
Remember what kids cost. No other hobby comes near it.
What rules Pierre?
Quote from: Last Hussar on 29 April 2018, 01:34:57 AM
What rules Pierre?
For King and Parliament http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,17075.0.html (http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,17075.0.html)
Quote from: pierre the shy on 28 April 2018, 10:43:19 PM
But as I point out to Mrs Shy its a heck of a lot less than a mid life crisis spend that a friend of mine did recently when he bought a Suzuki 650 road bike with all the options. OK he had (most of ;) ) the budget to do it but he still spent $20k all up.
I wish my mid life crisis only cost £20K. Mine was upwards of £180k. Best £180K I ever spent though :) :)
Quote from: Last Hussar on Today at 02:34:57 PM
What rules Pierre?
Quote from: FierceKitty on 29 April 2018, 02:33:54 AM
Probably Mrs Pierre.
100% correct there Kitty :)
Ah, well, it's much easier not to have to make any decisions.
Quote from: Orcs on 29 April 2018, 07:08:30 AM
I wish my mid life crisis only cost £20K. Mine was upwards of £180k. Best £180K I ever spent though :) :)
HIM: I thought I might get you a nice bottle of perfume for your birthday
HER: I don't want perfume!
HIM: How about a bit of jewellery?
HER: I don't want jewellery!
HIM: Well how about a new car then?
HER: I don't want a new car either!
HIM: Well what do you want then??
HER: I want. A divorce!
HIM: 'kin 'ell I wasn't planning on spending that much!!
:)
I am being very productive at the moment.
Just finished my 1:3000 Mediterranean forces, about 160 ships all told. That's it. All done. No more. Ever. (Unless I get the Pacific bug and need some Japanese flat tops.)
My new way of having 3 projects on the go seems to be keeping my enthusiasm up. On the table at the moment are recce elements of the Guards Armoured, more ancient Greeks hoplites and an empty space which I will either fill with some 1:600 Beaufighters, Wellingtons and Swordfish, or some 1:600 coastal craft, or some scenery or *gulp* I may have to start on some Napoleonics.
"In April 2018, a very large and interesting machine rolled out of a military museum in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, a town in Russia's Sverdlovsk region. It was a T-35 — one of the most bizarre tanks of the interwar period and known in particular for its five turrets, huge size and short performance on the battlefield." :o
http://warisboring.com/a-gigantic-t-35-tank-rolls-out-of-a-factory-80-years-after-production-ended/ (http://warisboring.com/a-gigantic-t-35-tank-rolls-out-of-a-factory-80-years-after-production-ended/)
Thanks for posting this. Good to see one actually moving. The T-35 is one of the few tank models I own (although neither assembled or painted). Are the red stripes and white dashed actually how they were painted? Seems unlikely but cool.
The red and white isn't authentic. Some of them had white stripes, but I don't know of any red.
From Tank Encyclopaedia
http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/soviet/soviet_T-35.php
"A T-35A before the addition of the P-40 AA mount. This scheme is from the 1936 summer maneuvers." (my emphasis)
(http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/soviet/Heavy_Tanks/T-35/T-35-2.png)
I stand corrected.
I was looking at them in 1941.
It was news to me too fsn.
Glad now that I googled it before agreeing with you!
I had a long weekend this weekend.
Very productive. Finished off a squadron of KV1s and KV2s to give the Russians something to fight with when the T35s and T28s just aren't enough.
Painted up a couple of lakes. I think it was too warm and the ripple effect disappeared, so the lakes look becalmed. :(
Varnished up some 1:600 Horsas, Hamilcars and Dakotas for aerial assault. I left off the invasion stripes and am now regretting it. :-\
I actually got a game in. Trying out my new aircraft rules, I pitted a Sunderland against a FW200. The Sunderland was tasked with keeping the Condor away from the supposed position of a convoy. Lots of jockeying for position, and very little firing. Only damage was a lucky shot to the FW200 which struck a fuel tank. This enabled the German to withdraw with honour. Oddly satisfying, like watching a hippo fight with a rhino.
Certainly a different air scenario :-\
(https://leadenshipsandtinmen.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/c69b1138-5100-4bde-b58d-94d9dcebca8a.jpeg?w=800)
Now i 'eard of flying pigs but ........
Quote from: d_Guy on 04 June 2018, 01:16:15 PM
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Quote from: Ithoriel on 12 May 2018, 04:46:30 PM
From Tank Encyclopaedia
http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/soviet/soviet_T-35.php
"A T-35A before the addition of the P-40 AA mount. This scheme is from the 1936 summer maneuvers." (my emphasis)
(http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/soviet/Heavy_Tanks/T-35/T-35-2.png)
Looks similar to WW1 warship turret markings.
I think they were designed to teh turrets could be laid on "manual" should communications fail.
Most nation's navies had the markings, but the Russians (at least their black sea fleet) went as far as grouping their predreads into groups of 3 using common fire solutions.
Result: A poor man's 12 x 12" barrage, on par with what the earlier dreadnoughts could manage.
I wonder whether the Russians envisaged their T35 squadrons working in similar fashion.
Lumbering across teh steppe in echelon, laying down a coordinated barrage form their 76s.
Heard today in Liverpool:
"Great t-shirt - Led Zepplein"
"Yeah. Apparently they were a band."
Echoes of a bus ride I took in Sheffield in the 1980s
"That Paul McCartney and Wings is good"
"Yeah. Apparently he was in another band before Wings."
Not as bad as an American student I once had; she didn't know who Satchmo or George Washington were, at the age of 22.
Come to think of it, what is a Zepplein?
Quote from: FierceKitty on 28 June 2018, 12:39:58 PM
Come to think of it, what is a Zepplein?
Presumably a Scouse airship.
I type it as he said it.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 28 June 2018, 12:39:58 PM
Come to think of it, what is a Zepplein?
It's a common alternate spelling of Zeppelin, much seen online :)
Quote from: fsn on 28 June 2018, 11:54:26 AM
Heard today in Liverpool:
"Great t-shirt - Led Zepplein"
Give me ****ing strength......
Cheers - 'James' Page.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 28 June 2018, 12:39:58 PM
Not as bad as an American student I once had; she didn't know who Satchmo or George Washington were, at the age of 22.
Come to think of it, what is a Zepplein?
A flying trapeze for Jimmy Page to take the stage.
He's a bit old to use the stairway ... (I'll get my coat)
Techno.
You know your exploding sculpts? Can I just check you weren't using some "special" putty from Leon?
(http://www.jollystoys.co.uk/user/products/large/Professor%20Pengelly%20Mermaid%20Putty%201.jpg)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
(No, Nobby.....where on Earth did you find that ?)
Cheers - Phil
WH Smiths.
They do all sorts of colours, but I thought "Mermaid Glitter Green" was probably the closest to what you use. :D
Apropos of absolutely nothing....
This morning the radio has been banging on & on about 'petrichor'....... (The smell that's in the air, when rain falls on dry and dusty ground, after a period of 'drought'.)
Supposedly, everyone thinks this is a wonderfully 'fresh' smell.
I can't stand it.....To me, it smells of something beginning to decompose....It doesn't smell 'fresh' at all....Just rotting.
I've never found anyone else that doesn't find it a lovely fresh 'bouquet'.
Anyone else find the smell a bit 'off'.
Cheers - Puzzled of Wales
Well petrichor is the smell of geosmin in the soil which is a product of dead soil bacteria.
Humans are acutely attuned to geosmin/petrichor and it is theorised that in our evolutionary past it helped us find water and fertile lands in times of drought.
You are right that it smells a tad "dead" but most people are likely to consider it as smelling fresh due to the connection to water.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 28 June 2018, 12:39:58 PM
Not as bad as an American student I once had; she didn't know who Satchmo or George Washington were, at the age of 22.
Come to think of it, what is a Zepplein?
It sounds like the market square in the Frisian town of Zep.
First attempts with the Korean war: Canadian artillery.*
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1864/30393984798_cce21cdccf_z.jpg)(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1853/29324819407_7ef4055518_z.jpg)
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e5/61/96/e561967491f5fb1d974b4a6f237696fe.jpg)
*One of the photos isn't my work
Those look great, Nobby ! 8)
Lovely work, that man. :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Superb Nobby, 8) now get them on the right board/thread! ;D
:-bd =D> :-bd
We demand a painting diary
I've ordered some badgers and foxes and deer and horses. :D
I've also ordered some lions and rhinos and hippos and giraffes. Does anyone know (or can suggest) why?
No !! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Still waiting on the meerkats....
Quote from: fsn on 26 August 2018, 01:58:02 PM
I've ordered some badgers and foxes and deer and horses. :D
I've also ordered some lions and rhinos and hippos and giraffes. Does anyone know (or can suggest) why?
Yes.
Thanks, d_Guy.
As helpful as always. :P
There many and strange things in Wuncorn !!
Quote from: fsn on 26 August 2018, 01:58:02 PM
I've ordered some badgers and foxes and deer and horses. :D
I've also ordered some lions and rhinos and hippos and giraffes. Does anyone know (or can suggest) why?
No will power?
Ooh shiny syndrome?
Too much money?
Novelty value?
Big game hunting / safari , or poachers v rangers game?
Martin
No will power? (https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/fUcAAMXQ4YtSMupQ/s-l300.jpg)
Ooh shiny syndrome?(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/fUcAAMXQ4YtSMupQ/s-l300.jpg)
Too much money?(https://clipart.info/images/ccovers/1484942365ios-emoji-negative-squared-cross-mark.png) It all goes to Pendraken anyway
Novelty value?(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/fUcAAMXQ4YtSMupQ/s-l300.jpg)
Big game hunting / safari , or poachers v rangers game?(https://clipart.info/images/ccovers/1484942365ios-emoji-negative-squared-cross-mark.png)
I think I just fancied painting some different animals.
What about WWI in Africa?
Quote from: fsn on 26 August 2018, 04:41:07 PM
Thanks, d_Guy.
As helpful as always. :P
I try. ;)
I like your Canucks, btw. I didn’t know that late ww2 system of white stars was still in use. Makes sense giving our tendency to shoot at anything that can’t be immediately identified.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 26 August 2018, 02:45:55 PM
Still waiting on the meerkats....
At last I've had yet
another go at the head, Will...(I'd completely forgotten it........ still sitting in the drying tin)..I think it resembles a meerkat a lot more than it did before.
(It looked like a cross between Roland Rat and a Skeksi, earlier) X_X
Cheers - Phil ;)
Quote from: Techno on 27 August 2018, 06:40:12 PM
It looked like a cross between Roland Rat and a Skeksi, earlier
Sounds like all your stuff. Duck Knights, and heavily armed Wombles.
If you can believe it, Ian......It was FAR worse ! X_X
(I blame my prescription opiates,) 8-} 8-} 8-}
I......have become.....Comfortably numb. :P
Cheers - Phil
I am currently discussing WW2 tank doctrine with Al Murray (yes THAT Al Murray) on Twitter!
Jealous!
It was am digression worthy of here; it was on a tweet by Prof Brian Cox about not being able to identify an insect after drinking wine. I was at a disadvantage, as I'd been drinking gin with Sunjester.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 29 August 2018, 10:49:23 PM
I am currently discussing WW2 tank doctrine with Al Murray (yes THAT Al Murray) on Twitter!
All Hail the ale.
He does a fairly funny (partly in character) - Top 5 tanks for the Tank Museum on youtube.
Pendraken have finally released a beautiful range of Korean War figures. I have a whole squadron of Centurions which have been waiting for years and now their time has come.
What have I been painting?
Extras from an episode of Daktari ... (yes, that is a 2 1/2 ton truck in the background)
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1859/44003296504_671b355079_z.jpg)
The Monarch of the Glen and his family ...
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1844/44003294044_ebd5cf5051_z.jpg)
... and figures for a grand skirmish for the Spanish-American War ... because I wanted some colour.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1857/29784685037_56fc459055_z.jpg)(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1848/42911850520_ce8c8f8150_z.jpg)
Looking good FSN
:-bd =D> :-bd
What range and rules are you using for the Spanish-American War?
Now you're asking.
BW39 Naval Brigade and SCW18/19 Andaluz Milita for Yanks and Spanish respectively.
Confederate artillery for both.
As for rule set, that's be FSN's Spanish-American War Rule Set - v1.
Yet to be finished written started.
Probably something akin to FSN's American Civil War Rule Set.
Still scared of the giraffes.
Thought I will say the hippos are fun, the lions appropriately alert and the crocodiles ... crocodilian.
Can't decide if the rhino is grazing peacefully, or getting ready to charge. :-\
Quote from: fsn on 16 September 2018, 08:41:07 PM
Can't decide if the rhino is grazing peacefully, or getting ready to charge. :-
I think he was grazing, in the piccy I used for inspiration, Nobby.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 17 September 2018, 06:16:40 AM
I think he was grazing, in the piccy I used for inspiration, Nobby.
Maybe two of them are. The third has a terrible glint in his eye.
That's probably Oswald....He kept trying to charge the other animals on the desk. :D
Cheers - Phil
Gentlemen.
I've booked myself two weeks of leave, and since the weekend I have been de-cluttering and reorganising. That's just the books! Still, I now have some free spaces on the bookcases!
Being a rational and practical type, my books are organised in by historical period. They're all on Billy bookcases, 80cm wide, and I think the analysis shows where my interests lie. The number of shelves devoted to each subject are:
1 Japan & India
2 Egypt, Greece, Rome
1 Byzantines, Saxons, Normans & Vikings
1 Scottish Wars, 100 Years War, War of the Roses
1 English Civil War, War of the Spanish Succession, Seven Years War
6 Napoleon
1 American Civil War, Spanish-American War, WWI
6 WWII
2 Korea, Viet Nam, Falklands, Gulf
1 Wargaming and modelling
2 General history
Despite what I have written elsewhere about magazines, I also have 4 shelves of magazines (mainly Military Illustrated, Ancient Warfare, Medieval Warfare), plus Art & photography 5, Religion and philosophy 1, Poetry 1, General reference 1, Business & technical 1. I'm down to 3 shelves of fiction, plus 5 DC & 2000AD Comics (not Marvel).
All the space is unnerving. I may have to buy some more books. :(
There are also some very odd books in the local charity shops. ;D ;D
If the storage of all books is considered to be a bounded system then the energy expended in reorganizing your portion is explaining why my portion is becoming more cluttered. Granted it may not be your work specifically but I find it convenient to hold you responsible.
You put General History last in your list when many would have put it first.
Prehaps you should fill the void with fiction?
I did not know what a "Billy" bookcase was but now find that I have several cheap knock-offs.
Quote from: d_Guy on 07 November 2018, 02:05:33 PM
If the storage of all books is considered to be a bounded system then the energy expended in reorganizing your portion is explaining why my portion is becoming more cluttered. Granted it may not be your work specifically but I find it convenient to hold you responsible.
I'll happily take that responsibility. :D
Quote from: d_Guy on 07 November 2018, 02:05:33 PM
You put General History last in your list when many would have put it first.
For "general history" read "non-military history".
Quote from: d_Guy on 07 November 2018, 02:05:33 PM
Perhaps you should fill the void with fiction?
Heretic! All my non-fiction nowadays in on the Kindle.
I have a new favourite: Japanese WWII Army aircraft. I have chosen to depict these Sallys and Nates in a plain (plane) green topside. This is a lot easier than some other airforces I could mention. For example, the German green on slightly lighter green. The Insignia is a simple red dot. This makes decals a joy to apply, as against stars that have to be pointed in the right direction (yes USAAF, I'm looking at you.)
Very simple, though oddly satisfying.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4833/32089555938_f97888346e_z.jpg)
In the background, 2 x Mark1 Models Wessex aircraft. These are 1:144. They look huge to me.
Good stuff, Nobby. :)
Cheers - Phil
love the (plain) planes :) not so sure on the Lego though :-
looking forward to seeing the choppers
Very nice indeed
Take care
Andy
Quote from: Matt J on 20 November 2018, 10:02:09 AM
looking forward to seeing the chopper
Not sure I would want to be suggesting that I would like to see Nobby's chopper. :d
Quote from: Matt J on 20 November 2018, 10:02:09 AM
love the (plain) planes :) not so sure on the Lego though :-
That's just a painting base. I put a bit of terrain on 'em for playing.
Just watched 12 strong on amazon which I rather enjoyed.
I now have the urge to do mounted afghans against T 62s :D
Just found one of the first song's on Techno's playlist.
Over Xmas, I've done quite a bit of painting. Some East Africa WWI, Korean War and TB Line knights. I plan on using the last for skirmish wargames. This comes from a view-changing article in the Military Modelling Annual 1 (1974)* by Charles Grant "Suggestions for a Medieval Wargame" which is why the figures are individually based. I'm planning to add the peasant archers and armed peasants to the mix, but feel the need for some professional soldiers - and flags. They're charging out of a forest of pine trees** that I found ... having ordered some time ago and then forgotten about.
Apologies for the quality of the pics. Just snapped them with my phone.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4903/46557428901_5912dd4c98_z.jpg) (https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4900/46557429821_16ecd9235e_z.jpg) (https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4815/31616789967_2858e0ed86_z.jpg)
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7908/32684167758_c215d0c631_z.jpg)
I have also completed the Zeroes and Vals for the Midway Akagi, and have the Kates on my painting table. They do look rather impressive en-masse.
Anyway, tomorrow it's back to work. This will be the view from my office window as the sun rises.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7868/46557431681_3f96943936_z.jpg)
*There's also an article about the Panhard EBR and all its variants by Christopher Foss.
** 125 I think.
:-bd =D> :-bd
Your in the office in time for sunrise :o
I've only done that a few times in my career, the worst time was when I saw 2 sunrises without having left the office
Very nice chap
Grand work, Nobby. 8)
(I don't know how I missed the post above that......You OIK !!)
Cheers - Phil
Aw! My first Oik of 2019! :D
Sunrise over Liverpool Town Hall - sweet!
As regards Mama Mia - would love to have heard that with Pan pipes and kithar (however you spell it).
Just invested in a load of tiny scale ACW railway stuff, snake fencing, buildings and rubber fields, rough ground, ponds and marshes. Another couple of weeks or so to play Fort Donelson.
I like it when you put up pictures, fsn, particularly when they dip back before the 20th century. Good looking work and the trees are a lovely find*.
I liked the last figure picture that shows Ser Zeros, Ser Vals, and Ser Kates closeup!
* Don't understand the 125 reference.
Speaking of pictures, look forward to seeing all your new stuff when you do Fort Donaldson, Leman.
When you listed "rubber fields" I suddenly thought you were going to Malaysia, but sorted out now. :)
Thanks d_Guy. :D
Quote from: d_Guy on 02 January 2019, 05:37:20 PM
* Don't understand the 125 reference.
There were 125 trees in the package. I don't know when I ordered them, or from where.
Had an interesting holiday. My Mom fell down some stairs. Enough stairs that the medics that came to get her suggested that she go to a hospital with a trauma center instead of the local one. And that she go by helicopter. Not exactly what you want to hear.
In the event, all the tests showed that she had a broken wrist and a quite large goose egg on her forehead, i.e. what we already knew and the best possible news. Her wrist broken badly enough that they had to do surgery the next day since they couldn't get it into shape for a temporary splint.
That's all done and she was a real trooper. The worst part was that, while she was admitted to the hospital, I can't be in charge of her Parkinson's meds.
We'll have to watch her very closely while her arm mends itself but it really could have been at lot worse. Now I have to work out how to get some painting done while in the house as opposed to my garage work space.
Hope she recovers from the fall quickly.
I use a Collapsible Ikea table?
Hope she recovers quickly
Thanks. She is already talking about raking up some leaves so the password is definitely "constant vigilance".
As for painting, my main issue will be to work on projects where I don't suddenly decide that I need "that other shade of purple". Also sawing through large pieces of cork bark in the living room might be frowned upon.
Plowing through some of my 10mm fantasy could be ideal but I'd have to arrange better lighting and posture. I was thinking that I don't really have any project where I've experimented with colors and am ready for production but I could do the 10mm orcs.
Sorry to hear about your mom's fall, LLC. Falls are a real danger to us older folks. Hope she recovers quickly.
Quote from: fsn on 02 January 2019, 06:14:43 PM
There were 125 trees in the package. I don't know when I ordered them, or from where.
Thanks, explains why I couldn't find a hobby establishmen called "125" :-S :)
Oh...I give up !
Bl**dy intraweb..... ~X( ~X( ~X(
Just lost me all the posts I've missed in the past umpteen hours, by 'going awol', while I was trying to catch up.
Still, having been out to the post box (which I didn't look at yesterday) I now know that 'the spot' on my lung hasn't changed a jot for the past couple of years......So I won't need another CT scan......Huzzah !!!!
Never really bothered me, as I could never see a s*dding thing in the scans.
"Have you ever had TB ?" ...Asked the consultant....."Nope, definitely not."......I reckon it was down to scarring when had the worst bronchitis, I'd ever had 15 - 20 years ago.
Took three months and three successively stronger anti - biotics to get rid of it.
The final anti-b had the side effects of 'maybe' ...Turning your teeth yellow......and killing you.
Cheers - Phil.
(I've been told off, by she who must be obeyed, because I've lost about a stone in weight, over the past 2-3 months....I'm now six feet tall with a weight of eight stone.) X_X
Huzzah, indeedy! #:-S
..... now .... away and order yerself a consignment of steak pies .... :)
Maybe some cake and Sydney puddings too old bean.
Well done.
Glad to hear the news.
Very glad.
Any sign of the Greeks?
Excellent news, Phil!
Take a leaf out of Desperate Dan's book. I think the Technomancer will be keeping you around for a few more thousand years.
Quote from: fsn on 06 January 2019, 02:26:34 PM
Any sign of the Greeks?
The whole lot will be going up to Sir, tomorrow, Nobby :)
Cheers - Phil.
(I
genuinely wasn't bothered about the 'spot', on my lung, at all...but it's still nice to hear that the 'medics' have said..."We don't need to see you again."
Especially as I used to smoke 40 ciggies a day. ;)......Idiot !!!
Good to know you have been given the all clear.
Now I could happily give you 2 or 3 stone. that would please SWMBO and my doctor :)
It'd please my own SWMBO, Mark....I'll check my Body Mass Index, after I've posted here...it'll be something horrendously low.
Cheers - Mr Skellington.
Good to hear you got the all clear :)
Now tuck into some festive fare, hopefully it will all be on special by now ;)
Techno: Given the info you've posted, your BMI is about 15.2.
That puts you somewhere between a Giacometti statue and Squidward from Spongebob Squarepants.
You'll not see a more varied cultural comparison today, I'll warrant.
Trouble is, Guys.
I continually wind myself up like a cheap alarm clock.....And when I feel like that, my appetite goes down to virtually zero.
I'm the sort of person, that if he hasn't got anything to worry about......will worry about that instead. =)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 07 January 2019, 07:40:07 AM
I continually wind myself up like a cheap alarm clock....
Have you been reading Dashiel Hammet again?
It's easy to say "eat a pie" or "stop worrying", but a lot harder to do.
Just be assured that there's a whole lot of more or less street legal "people" on this forum who wish you well.
Have one more bite for me. Then have one more for Paulr, and one for Orcs, and one for Leman and one for d_Guy ...
I'll only end up 'gagging', Nobby ! :(
Thanks for your thoughts though, Matey.
From my look at the BMI index.....I'm something just less than two stone underweight to get to the lowest 'good' BMI figure for my height.
Cheers - Phil
You may get a round of applause for gagging Nobby =D> =D> =D>
Shame we can't do body mass transfers via PayPal (or any other way for that matter) - we'd likely both benefit.
Quote from: d_Guy on 07 January 2019, 07:43:57 PM
Shame we can't do body mass transfers via PayPal (or any other way for that matter) - we'd likely both benefit.
If only, Bill !! :)
Cheers - Phil
Three orders placed with Pendraken over the Xmas hols.
Orders despatched on the same day of Pendraken's return to work. :o
I am moved to ask, what does one have to do to get a 1st in Customer Service?
Clearly the answer is have a dominating presence in magazines and specialise in 28mm figures. I wonder if WG would change a pack's contents to satisfy a single customer? =)
Quote from: Leman on 08 January 2019, 09:14:04 AM
Clearly the answer is have a dominating presence in magazines and specialise in 28mm figures. I wonder if WG would change a pack's contents to satisfy a single customer? =)
Hear him!
Who needs it, anyway? We know the truth. m/
Quote from: d_Guy on 07 January 2019, 07:43:57 PM
Shame we can't do body mass transfers via PayPal (or any other way for that matter) - we'd likely both benefit.
I would also be up for this body mass transfer, anybody want 3 stone
Take care
Andy
Quote from: Westmarcher on 08 January 2019, 09:58:27 AM
Who needs it, anyway? We know the truth. m/
Preach, Brother, preach!
I thought the extra 3 stone was obligatory in both wargaming and darts.
Quote from: Leman on 08 January 2019, 10:44:24 AM
I thought the extra 3 stone was obligatory in both wargaming and darts.
lol
Take care
Andy
Quote from: Leman on 08 January 2019, 10:44:24 AM
I thought the extra 3 stone was obligatory in both wargaming and darts.
Certainly to be a "proper" wargamer build.
Quote from: Leman on 08 January 2019, 10:44:24 AM
I thought the extra 3 stone was obligatory in both wargaming and darts.
One hundred and eighty (in kilos)
;D ;D ;D
You're all bloody lightweights compared to Jon Brower Minnoch.
1400 lbs (100 stone) at his heaviest weight !! :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
I just can't envision that...Mind you, I don't really want to !! X_X
Cheers - Phil. (If they ever make another Judge Dredd film, I'm going to audition for Judge Death....I've already got the perfect build.)
F = ma
Quote from: Ben Waterhouse on 08 January 2019, 12:30:37 PM
One hundred and eighty (in kilos)
I'm 73 kg. I need to lose a bit of weight to get back down to 66kg where I want to be.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 08 January 2019, 11:32:01 PM
I'm 73 kg. I need to lose a bit of weight to get back down to 66kg where I want to be.
You will never be a "proper" wargamer then. Where's your ambition :)
So a bit of a mixed day today.
Firstly, I've had to dispense with my favourite paint brush. It was a grand old thing, and I'd looked after it ... but sometimes, we just have to let go. It'll take me ages to break in a new one. :(
Secondly, I've found out that that mixing basing sand with "fine ballast" to give a varied texture is strangely therapeutic. :-[
Currently got some WWI limbers, TB Line knights and tiny Dauntless air craft on the table. I do like the TB Line stuff ... can't wait for the Templars so I can get some men at arms and crossbowmen.
Have to admit I've been looking at them as a useful addition to the Second Barons' War. Meanwhile 2/3mm scenery taking shape, then may well look at putting together the Grand Duchy of Camberwick and Chigley Confederation (Schleswig-Holstein army pack) for the Trumpton Wars.
Andy.
Do you realise that you only have 18 posts to become an.......er....the next wossname after a General ?
Cheers - Phil
So that's 17 then. ;)
No.....
16...Because you posted somewhere else first.... =)
I've got four hundred and something before I get MY next promotion, which is far too close to a very rude word.
Orcs (Mark).......Don't even think it.
Cheers - A Moderator
I think the next one up is Feldzeugmarschal. 8-}
Quote from: Techno on 20 January 2019, 05:41:49 PM
I've got four hundred and something before I get MY next promotion, which is far too close to a very rude word.
Orcs (Mark).......Don't even think it.
Cheers - A Moderator
That reminds me, does anyone remember the Kenny Everett character, Cupid Stunt?
It was all done in the best possible taste!
Quote from: Techno on 20 January 2019, 05:41:49 PM
No.....
16...Because you posted somewhere else first.... =)
I've got four hundred and something before I get MY next promotion, which is far too close to a very rude word.
Orcs (Mark).......Don't even think it.
Cheers - A Moderator
Certainly a very offensive word to use as an insult, but I'll be friggled if I can see why it's still considered taboo as a noun designating a body part. I may add I know quite a few women who agree.
OK, must admit never saw that coming* on a wargame forum.
*Oh damn....
X_X
I should NOT have mentioned that ! :-[
Cheers - Phil
Don't get it. After a Viscount, the next in the order of peerage is an Earl.
When Techno becomes an Earl, I think we should also confer upon him the OBE*, and then he can become an earlobe.**
*Often Bleeds Excessively
** Thank you I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, circa 1972
Quote from: fsn on 21 January 2019, 07:41:10 AM
Don't get it. After a Viscount, the next in the order of peerage is an E***.
When Techno becomes an E***, I think we should also confer upon him the OBE*, and then he can become an earlobe.**
Never thought I'd see the day when words like that could be used in a forum which children might visit! Shocking. Or, for the educated amongst us,
o tempora! o mores!
I do apologise for my bad language. It was quite unintentional, and I'm sorry for any offence caused.
At least I didn't say Belgium.
X_X :-S #:-S #:-S
Belgium - much underrated. We would have far fewer scenarios to contemplate were it not for Belgium, and no chocolate willys for Cupid Stunt.
Quote from: fsn on 21 January 2019, 12:47:35 PM
At least I didn't say Belgium.
Belgium That's German for Speed bump isn't it?
Quote from: Leman on 21 January 2019, 03:00:32 PM
Belgium - much underrated. We would have far fewer scenarios to contemplate were it not for Belgium, and no chocolate willys for Cupid Stunt.
Let's hear it for the Fusil National, that box shaped tank destroyer and dogs pulling machineguns.
Yaay Belgium.
Anyone else got Belgian dog-pulled machine guns in three scales?
Quote from: Leman on 22 January 2019, 09:14:18 PM
Anyone else got Belgian dog-pulled machine guns in three scales?
Pug, Labrador and Great Dane?
COAT !! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
;D ;D ;D I like that one!
Oh, well played, Mr Holmes! Well played!
=D> =D> =D> =D> =D>
Well....that's tomorrow a complete write off.
Very early morning do the mid week shop. (Normal)
Mid morning, go down to Doc's. (Wouldn't take too long)
Late morning/early afternoon act as 'companion' in an ambliance (sic)to take the MIL over to Haverford West Hospital for an X-Ray on her hip. Stay with MIL until it's her turn (trying not to lose my sanity.)......Then wait for the ambliance to take us home.
I may need a couple of days to recover...my brain is going to melt, being in such close proximity to 'her', for that amount of time. ~X( ~X( ~X( ~X( X_X
Cheers - Peed off of Wales. :'( :'( :'(
My sympathies.
Hope it all goes well for the both of you.
As my grandmother would say "you'll get your reward in Heaven - 'cos you certainly aren't going to get it down here."
Hugs
Chuckle. My MIL can't speak a word of any language that I can. This has its uses.
Good luck, Phil. My sympathy. I had to take my late MIL to the hospital before she went in to the home. She was deaf and so every conversation had to be at maximum volume with every other patient listening in. She also had dementia so you got the same questions over and over again - if you find yourself waiting for a long period for her turn to be X-ray'd, do as I did and just change the answers to make it more interesting! ;D
Quote from: FierceKitty on 23 January 2019, 03:42:56 PM
Chuckle. My MIL can't speak a word of any language that I can. This has its uses.
And she doesn't live with you, does she Alexander ?
What we've had to put up with over the last few days..........Huge amounts of truly revolting stuff....(Which she says "Oh it's so embarrassing"...Yeah right,
you don't have to clean it up)....and you don't bloody care.....Phil will clean it up...... Losing SO much sleep, Von and I feel like zombies.....If that sodding alarm goes off tonight......
Davy...(Westie) .....I know that's just what's going to happen tomorrow......"I'm not deaf, you know.".....I'm taking the iPod and a tiny digital radio, so I can try and ignore her....
I'm going to get the same frigging questions OVER AND OVER again.
Change the answers ?....She doesn't sodding listen.
Cheers - Mr end of his tether.
Thank Heavens, no. It's a day's hard drive to get there.
>:< >:< >:<
Good luck there Phil,
Years ago when we started looking at the ancestors my Mum got quite cross with us, "What do you want to do that for, Haven't you got anything better to do etc" This was very strange as Mum hardly ever got cross. Well research soon found out her older sister had been born out of wedlock around 1910. So as Mum had just turned 80 we left well alone, to perhaps take up when she was not around to upset.
Some years later while I was looking after them for the day (Dad was bedridden and Mum had dementia) Mum had been endless repeating things when she changed tack and suddenly I realised she was telling me all about how her Mum had got together with a man and had my Aunt. it was very disjointed, but in the course of the next few hours I managed to coax the full story from her. it proved to be a very interesting afternoon .
Yes it is amazing what comes out of the closet when parents are nearing the end. It turns out that my paternal grandfather, who was a professional soldier in the Royal Garrison artillery before, during and after WWI, ended up a very unsavoury character in later civilian life and was hastened from this life courtesy his majesty's legal system.
:o As the saying goes, you can pick your friends but you can't pick your family.
My neighbour was in his eighties when he discovered by chance that he had been adopted. For some reason, he required a full birth certificate (not the extract, many people use). The local registry office couldn't help him and so he eventually had to go to the main office in Edinburgh where he was taken into a room and handed an old envelope with a wax seal which, when opened, revealed the background story to his adoption (long story but basically young woman in domestic service). Not only did Roy originally have the same middle name as me but also the same surname. Otherwise we were not related ....... as far as I currently know!
As a footnote, Roy was adopted by a well off, middle class couple (who, at the time, "could not" have any children but later on did!), where he was fully accepted as part of the family and which probably gave him the opportunity in life he might never otherwise have had, to have a very successful professional career.
Quote from: Leman on 24 January 2019, 12:17:50 PM
It turns out that my paternal grandfather, who was a professional soldier in the Royal Garrison artillery before, during and after WWI, ended up a very unsavoury character in later civilian life and was hastened from this life courtesy his majesty’s legal system.
:o
It's funny how some families are like that. In my family tree are the man who introduced Methodism to Shetland, a man who was imprisoned for murder in Australia, and a man hanged as a pirate in the West Indies. My grandfather was in the merchant navy - torpedoed 3 times, and the other was in the Royal Navy. An uncle left the Hood just before it departed to confront the Bismark, etc, etc.
I once asked my first fiancee about the interesting members of her family. Apparently ... and this may blow your socks off gentlemen, so batten down the hatches, and strap in ... once ... are you ready for this? ... once,
a great aunt got tipsy on sherry trifle. Afterwards, I think she was expelled from the family and sent off to the colonies in disgrace.
Which is only right, really.
Indeed some of our histories make the BBC programme look quite boring. Paternal grqndfather is now known in the family as bad grandad. Maternal grandfather on the other hand is known as good grandad. He joined the merchant marine before WWI and did 2 years before the mast. In 1914, on the outbreak of war he transferred to the Royal Navy as an engineer, sunk three times in total, fought at Jutland on HMS Tiger, and after the war became an engineer for London Water. In WWII he joined Dad's Army and for part of that he was given a fire watch post......... on top of the local gas tank! :o
Quote from: fsn on 24 January 2019, 12:56:44 PM
:o
It's funny how some families are like that. In my family tree are the man who introduced Methodism to Shetland, a man who was imprisoned for murder in Australia, and a man hanged as a pirate in the West Indies. My grandfather was in the merchant navy - torpedoed 3 times, and the other was in the Royal Navy. An uncle left the Hood just before it departed to confront the Bismark, etc, etc.
I once asked my first fiancee about the interesting members of her family. Apparently ... and this may blow your socks off gentlemen, so batten down the hatches, and strap in ... once ... are you ready for this? ... once, a great aunt got tipsy on sherry trifle. Afterwards, I think she was expelled from the family and sent off to the colonies in disgrace.
Which is only right, really.
;D ;D ;D
@ fsn and Leman; were your grandfathers called "Albert?"
Mine were Fred and Tom.
Quote from: Westmarcher on 24 January 2019, 12:49:18 PM
:o As the saying goes, you can pick your friends but you can't pick your family.
My neighbour was in his eighties when he discovered by chance that he had been adopted.... [
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Very true, I was fostered at 10 months and eventually adopted by the same family. On a course many years ago we were asked to introduce ourselves and say a bit about out family, after the usual "hi I'm john and my sister is a teacher and my brother is a mechanic and similar I got up.
I said "Hi I am Mark I have a total of 16 siblings that I know about, some I have never met, Their jobs range from a Baptist minister to an armed robber to a prostitute. " I then sat down to ensuing uproar :D
Well...I'm back....It wasn't quite as horrendous as I'd feared..(I was imagining even worse than transpired)...Even tho' I had to get a female nurse to take 'Madam' to the loo, when we'd reached the hospital.
Thank fekk, Von had had the foresight to pack a bag with some spare 'paper pants' and a clean pair of leggings.
Von & I are like two zombies, at the mo'.
Fortunately we're ranting TO each other, rather than AT each other. X_X
Cheers - Poop for brains.
Quote from: Techno on 24 January 2019, 04:31:07 PM
Fortunately we're ranting TO each other, rather than AT each other. X_X
Cheers - Poop for brains.
Well that's a plus then.
My sympathies as it is exasperating and ongoing .
Suggest you both have a kip now and Give MIL something to help her sleep (Large Brandy, Tamazepan, Sleeping tablets,)
Hi Mark.
Yep.....We could both do with doing 'nothing' for the next 10-20 hours...and trying to catch up on sleep.
It won't happen. (That frigging alarm will go off....on & on & on & on tonight.)
I won't post anymore...until I feel at least half normal again
Cheers - Mr Cracking Up :( ~X( ~X( ~X( ~X( ~X(
Hey Phil, sounds like you are having a tough time.
Is there a way at least one of you can get a decent stretch of sleep, while the other is 'on call'?
I know someone whose father was kicked out of Australia for being too criminal....
Personally I am descended from Black Tom Fairfax's Grandfather, and another forebear was Henry VII favourite court musician.
What was he court doing?
COAT !! ;D
Hooray....Feel 'half normal'...The alarm only went off once, at half past four this morning, and I was half awake then.....And that's been the only time.
It IS a big rough at the mo' Forbes.
There's only about three hours of the night, when both Von and I are asleep. Von's a night owl & and I'm an early bird.....Unfortunately, recently, that's the time you hear the appalling BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP which continues for about two minutes....If one of us doesn't stick our head 'through the door'.....MIL presses the button again.
When I saw the Doc yesterday, I mentioned that we're caught between asking for the MIL to be prescribed some sort of sleeping pill......but thinking that would probably mean she'd fall over and end up in hospital again.
We'll get through it !
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 25 January 2019, 08:10:08 AM
There's only about three hours of the night, when both Von and I are asleep. Von's a night owl & and I'm an early bird.....Unfortunately, recently, that's the time you hear the appalling BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP which continues for about two minutes....If one of us doesn't stick our head 'through the door'.....MIL presses the button again.
Well there is an obvious solution - "Hide the Button" ;D
Simpler solution is to just switch off the power to the main alarm.....But Von won't let me do that, Mark.
I can't lie......and say I haven't been tempted, tho'......especially when I'm really really tired, and horribly grumpy...which is most of the time at the moment.
What makes us think that MIL is 'putting it on', is that she CAN get herself out of bed.
Cheers - Mr Barsteward. 8-X
Have same problem with my Dad, he has Alzhiemers but is also a lazy sod and he certainly plays on it at times! Can't wait for the old bugger to go in a home TBH
From talking to my own Doc, late yesterday morning, Matt.
'They' reach a point where they don't care 'a poop' at all.....and basically 'p*ss' you about.
Don't blame you at all....But it makes you feel guilty, doesn't it ? :(
Cheers - Phil
No not really, he'd be much better off, loads of other crazy people to talk to and be totally looked after.
True, Matt !
We'll have to sort something out for her sometime soon, as well, I reckon
At least Von & I got a whole night's snooze last night.....No alarm calls, at all. <:-P <:-P <:-P <:-P
And, with luck, she won't have b*ggered the coax cable for the first time in a week.
I've been getting a little teed off, repairing that, every day.
I know she got herself out of bed early this morning, as I could hear her TV on at half five.
Stroll on I feel so much more 'with it' now. (Which isn't saying much, obviously) :P :D
Cheers - A slightly less grumpy Phil ;)
Glad to hear mate
Thanks, Will ! :)
Cheers - Phil
I-) I-) :-bd
I will just HAVE to mention.........
Because I knew the MIL was up already......I thought....."She's probably suffering.....I'll take all her pills (including the painkillers) in now, before I do a quick 'bun run' into Cardigan.
"I've been pressing the alarm button for ages, " said she.
"Didn't hear a thing, Mum."....said I.....The battery on the second pendant was flat....(Somebody likes us, then.)
Picked up her morphine patches, this morning.......Fekk knows what that's going to do to her already muddled mind.
Going to have to make sure that we stick the first patch, where she won't be able to remove it....She'll try...I just know it !!...Right on her shoulder looks like the best option.
I can see a trip into Accident and Emergency on the horizon, fairly soon.
I think the patches are going to completely 'zonk' her out.
Cheers - Frayed at the edges.....again.
We're not risking the patch today. X_X
MIL's so confused , now, she thinks we're going to the hospital today....("No, Mum....that was two days ago ") Goodness knows what it'll be like when the morphine kicks in, tomorrow.
The second 'button' is now repaired, with a new battery......
I know I'm going to regret that.
Cheers - Kn*ckered of Wales
>:< >:< >:<
Thanks, Paul.
Another whole night's sleep, without the alarm going off !* :)
Mind you, I can't hear her TV on at the mo'...so I'd better stick my head through the door soon (after opening it, I hasten to add.) :D
She did say last night that she wasn't in anything like as much pain.....So we may be cowards and avoid putting the morphine patches on, just yet.
Cheers - Phil
(*...Though I did keep waking up, because the wind was HOWLING around the house last night....When I chucked the dogs out, it looked as though we'd had a tiny bit of snow...Though it might be those ting little 'sleet balls' that have come down.)
Another quick photo:
Die American Pig Dog Hamster Gerbils!
Akagi's airfleet at Midway - Vals, Kates and Zekes.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4900/46891731181_9b36574179_z.jpg)
Still working on the bases.
Looking very nice, Nobby !!
Cheers - Phil
Impressive seeing them all together! Are you going to end up doing all the air complements at Midway?
I'm working on the Yorktown.
That will be enough. :)
:-bd =D> :-bd
I've been slightly distracted by some New Zealand P40s
(http://www.classicfighters.co.nz/CF13%20aircraft%20pix/P40N.jpg)
... and some C18 buildings that I just founds ...
... and some Korean War British Commandos (which are terrific, by the way.)
Just to add to your distraction there is a restored P40 at the Wigram Air Force Museum ;)
https://www.airforcemuseum.co.nz/aircraft/curtiss-p-40e-kittyhawk/ (https://www.airforcemuseum.co.nz/aircraft/curtiss-p-40e-kittyhawk/)
Quote from: fsn on 27 January 2019, 06:59:05 PM
... and some Korean War British Commandos (which are terrific, by the way.)
Thanks, Nobby...Glad you like 'em !
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: fsn on 27 January 2019, 10:22:29 AM
Another quick photo:
Die American Pig Dog Hamster Gerbils!
Akagi's airfleet at Midway - Vals, Kates and Zekes.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4900/46891731181_9b36574179_z.jpg)
Still working on the bases.
Now that's an impressive Air Fleet
Take care
Andy
Impressive!
I hear the hum of aero engines!
I hear the sound of ambulance sirens.
You can guess who for....She was VERY lucky I heard her, as she couldn't reach either of the alarm buttons, had her face down into the carpet..... and had her telly up at 110 Db.
Whenever you believe you can't get any more stressed !! X_X
Cheers - Mr Unraveling very quickly.
Blimey, Techno!
Good job you got to her.
I feel your pain Techno......
My mother is in her mid 80's but still lives independently, but she's getting a bit shaky on her feet. Over Christmas I rang her and she must have slipped over when she went to answer the phone. She has a alarm but couldn't reach it though I could hear her moving around. Trouble is she lives in Auckland, about 650km north of me so I ended up ringing 111 and having to get the St John's Ambos to go round and gain access to her apartment. Sure enough she had fallen over and was carted off to the local hospital. Luckily she has recovered fairly well but all the same a bit stressful for the family.
Is she okay?
Crikey! Hope all is well.
Shes okay now.....got her a walking stick which was "really good".....first time she went out with it she left it in a shop but my brother who lives up in Auckland managed to track it down :)
I'm trying to get my mom to use a cane to help with her balance but I do worry about her leaving it places since she doesn't need exactly need it.
It can get worse. We visited my brother-in-law at Christmas and the aged parents came over on Christmas Day. My mother-in-law came into the front room (admittedly she hadn't seen me for a while) and said "Hello, I think I should know you but I'm not sure".
I explained I was married to her daughter (for the past 35 years but who's counting). I had to leave the room for a few minutes and when I returned she said "Hello, do I know you?"
At this point my nephew left the room choking, as he passed me by he muttered "Well that was a good start!".
Christmas day went downhill from there, my father-in-law didn't speak to me at all, but by the time the meal was over he was just mumbling "I don't know who all these people are".
When we went over to see them on Boxing Day they had no memory of the the Christmas dinner the day before!
Quote from: fsn on 28 January 2019, 05:15:36 PM
Blimey, Techno!
Good job you got to her.
As I mentioned before.....It was
really lucky I heard her, Nobby....I couldn't tell what the sound was originally, or exactly where it was coming from. For a couple of seconds I though there was a cat outside having a 'barny' with another cat.....Then realised it was coming from the annexe.
The ambulance folk were
superb as always. The 'worst' part of that, was having to sit waiting in the ambulance for a couple of hours. It was so busy in A&E there wasn't any room for Mum's stretcher to even be put in the corridor. Apparently a Monday is one of the worst, if not THE worst, day for delays.
"Is this fairly normal, then ?......How much of your shift, are you spending sitting outside an A&E ?"
"Well, we do a 12 hour shift...6:30 to 18:30.....and we just have to accept that we'll spend half of that time, having to wait to get a patient into A&E."
(Jaw drops !) :o :o :o
Anyway, having got Mum into A&E, and as settled as poss, we had no other option but to come home, as there were SO many things that simply HAD to be sorted out yesterday...Yes...we did feel guilty doing that, but at that time Mum was fairly well doped up on morphine and didn't really know we were there....There was nothing we could do.....And she was in the right place to be taken care of.
Von tried to ring to A&E about 6 in the evening...But they were still so busy, no-one would/could pick up the phone, so she left it until 9 to phone again....Then found out that Mum had fractured her left humerus.
In one respect, that's a small blessing, as
that arm's got a big problem with the shoulder joint already, and she barely uses it. If it had been the
right arm she would have had enormous problems for ages, even in sing the Zimmer-frame. Obviously we'd rather she hadn't broken anything !!
At least she's in the right place, as I mentioned earlier.
Peter.....So glad your Mum was OK....I would say Von's Mum managed with a walking stick fairly well, for a few years after she broke her hip...(That was 9 years ago)..Then it was apparent that a stick simply wasn't sufficient. A lot of the time she had to use a wall on the other side as a prop.
It took AGES to get her to use the Zimmer.....("I'm not using that !.....Only OLD people use those." =) =) =)).....Nowadays, she knows she couldn't possibly manage without it..and even sings its praises !
I seem to remember that we ended up actually taking the stick away, so she had no option but to use the zimmer.
SJ....So FAR I don't have the same problem with Mum...Though I often get greeted with "Who are you?"....Which I'm 99.9% sure is in jest. Stroll on, she's known me for about 45 years now, and I see her anything up to a dozen times a day. Though when I take her 'tea' in, she sometimes seems to have a problem remembering my name for a few seconds.
Cookie.... I'd keep encouraging her to use the stick !...If her balance isn't brilliant......
Cheers - Phil
Techno: have a virtual and manly hug.
Just remember what my old Granny used to say - "bu**er off out my way, I need a gin." 8->
She also used to say "'smile' they said 'it could be worse'. So I did and it was."*
Take care.
*On reflection, that may not be as supportive as I originally intended.
Sorry to hear your having a tough time Phil. The hospital is the best place for her at the mo. If they keep her in for a day or two perhaps you can both catch up a bit and have a proper sleep.
Thanks for the hugs, Nobby ! :)
Mark.....(Orcs).....Definitely...She's in the very best place. (Though she's still 'stuck' in Accident & Emergency.... at 10:30, this morning...There is no room, at the Inn.)
I think we both had some sort of decent sleep last night.....But my brain is still so addled, I keep thinking I need to go and see her at the 'norma'l times.
I was going to make her her 'tea', last night....When I realised she wasn't in there, 'next door'.......And I thought (early this morning)...Why's the TV not on ?...."Oh Yeah... I remember"
Cheers - Phil
Sorry to read that, Phil. All the best. It seems the older they get, the more they need looking after like children again. We got the Zimmer comment from ours too, btw. ;D
My late in-laws were as deaf as posts. I got involved in their care towards the end so would see how they lived their lives. One would ask a fairly innocuous civil question, the other one wouldn't quite hear, ask a question back on a slightly unrelated subject, get an answer to a different question .... anyway, before you knew it there was a full blown argument and it would all have started over something innocent like, "What time is it?" #-o ;D
We rented a 'safety button' for my father-in-law, which he was to wear at all times, the idea being if he fell (again) and she couldn't help/raise the alarm (e.g., fast sleep in bed without hearing aids on, etc.) and he couldn't reach the phone, he could press the safety button . This would then activate an alarm in a dedicated call centre who would talk to him through a speaker installed at the foot of the stairs in the house and, if appropriate, alert us or an ambulance or health worker to go round to the house. Of course, after installing this following a spate of falls, he didn't fall again for ages. He eventually got fed up with this 'safety button' dangling around his neck and started to take it off (brilliant - "I can now fall in the kitchen and all I have to do is crawl to wherever I left the button."). Months later one of them asked the other if he/she could hear a mysterious voice. The other one agreed but they couldn't quite figure out if they were hearing things or what. Eventually a nurse appeared at the door and finding out they were both OK, walked to the speaker, spoke to 'the voice' at the other end and reset it. Yes, they had totally forgotten they had this speaker in the house! We reckon Dad took off the button while seated on the sofa, sat on it and both being so deaf, were unaware it was the call handler's voice they had been hearing all along! #-o
They also used to get Community Meals ("Meals on Wheels") delivered. Twice a day, every day, my father-in-law would sit in his chair, looking out of the window, waiting for the arrival of their meals which would be delivered more or less at the same time every day. One day, it being 2pm, and the delivery well overdue, he reluctantly concluded there would be no lunch delivered that day. So, off he then went into the kitchen to open a tin a soup for them. There, on the work top, was their meals. He had been waiting so long that he had needed to go to the bathroom. While he was away, the Meals on Wheels guy had come in with the meals, spoke to the MIL, left the meals and gone back out the door again. Her, having dementia, had then totally forgotten the delivery had happened and he, unaware of this, had returned to his post to gaze down the street again! ;D
My brother was full time carer to my parents going round at several times a day. One afternoon he went round to give them tea, to get an earful from DAD. " I have been trying to call you all afternoon , this phone is not working properly you need to take a look at it,
My Brother asked him what the problem with the phone was. Dad said "I can't get a dial tome Look!". He then picked up the TV remote presses a button and put it to his ear saying "you probably need to report the line" ;D
Davy (Westiie) That's far too close for the truth, as to what we're dealing with, at the mo'.
Yep....It's back to childhood again....Mum was asking a number of times yesterday...."Where's Teddy ?"...Back at home, Mum.
Mark (Orcs).....P**p ..I pick up one of the telephone handsets, and try and change channels on the TV in the kitchen.....I'm so frigging stressed.
Apparently...Mum's still in A&E, rather than a ward, as I type.
Von's just fielded a call from the hospital...trying to get us to have her Mum back here...as soon as .....NOPE !
She'll just fall over again.
We'll get it sorted....Eventually.
Cheers - Phil
Before they went into residential care, I used to visit my parents 3 - 4 times a week to bring shopping and make sure they got at least some hot meals.
4 hour round trip on days where things ran on time. Home - taxi - Tesco - taxi - bus - bus - theirs - bus - bus - taxi - home.
Sometimes I'd stay over for a night or three if they seemed to be struggling more than usual.
One day, helping Dad to dress, I found a substantial amount of cash squirrelled away in a drawer and agreed with him that I should take it and pay it into his bank.
Couple of days later I went across for the day. In the wee small hours of the night, there was a ring on the door bell, followed shortly by bang, bang, bang on the door.
Two police officers had been sent to check on me because Dad had been found in his front garden calling my name, convinced I had been staying over and had been abducted from the house! When they asked if anything else was missing he'd checked his "emergency fund" and found it missing.
Fortunately, all was swiftly sorted out.
Hugs all
I really hope it all works out for you Techno, this sort of thing is never easy for anyone.
I am going up to see my mother in a couple of weeks......not sure how she will be.
Last time I went up I got to her apartment building and buzzed her to let me in the front door, which she did, but when she opened her own door she just looked blankly at me for a moment and asked "who are you? ???
As someone at work said to me recently "be nice to your kids, they choose your retirement village" ;)
Thanks, Will. :)
Mike....That is SO interesting about your Dad 'hiding' cash.
When my dear old Dad died, a good few years ago now.......Mum had a really good old clean out.
SHE found Fivers & Tenners secreted between the pages of various books, throughout their bungalow.
Not a fortune.....But I think between £100 & £200.....(Worth having, tho' !)
(Wish I had a secret stash that I'd forgotten about !)
Peter..... That's very sad.
It's the 'bookcase syndrome'.......Where your most recent memories 'are contained' in the books on the top shelf of an imaginary bookcase.
The 'books ' fall over....Starting on the top shelf......And that means those memories are gone forever...You can never put those books back up.
Von's Mum is still bloody good at mental arithmatic....She still remembers pushing model planes around the map of the British Isles during WWII...But ask her what the date is now...or expect her to remember what she just asked, half a minute ago....and she's gone.
Cheers - Phil
On one occasion having spent the day listening to Mum repeat herself completely oblivious to who I was. She saw me to the door as I was leaving and all of a sudden "the lights came on". She realised which of her six sons I was and then preceded to tell me off for "living in sin" with Mrs Orcs, then the lights went out again.
My Dad heard it all from his bed and nearly wet himself, as this was the only time she had been with it all day and she used it to tell me off. :)
Oh, Mark ! X_X
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 30 January 2019, 10:06:02 AM
Thanks, Will. :)
Mike....That is SO interesting about your Dad 'hiding' cash.
When my dear old Dad died, a good few years ago now.......Mum had a really good old clean out.
SHE found Fivers & Tenners secreted between the pages of various books, throughout their bungalow.
Not a fortune.....But I think between £100 & £200.....(Worth having, tho' !)
(Wish I had a secret stash that I'd forgotten about !)
Peter..... That's very sad.
It's the 'bookcase syndrome'.......Where your most recent memories 'are contained' in the books on the top shelf of an imaginary bookcase.
The 'books ' fall over....Starting on the top shelf......And that means those memories are gone forever...You can never put those books back up.
Von's Mum is still bloody good at mental arithmatic....She still remembers pushing model planes around the map of the British Isles during WWII...But ask her what the date is now...or expect her to remember what she just asked, half a minute ago....and she's gone.
Cheers - Phil
Dad's "stash" was several thousand pounds.... "because I might need to pay the window cleaner or the gardener" ... :o :o :o :o :o
I caused some amusement by asking bank staff if there was a procedure for paying in large amounts of cash that one could not explain or if I just had to try not to look like a Columbian drugs baron :)
My mum still remembers my sister and I but the grandchildren are clearly becoming an amorphous blob of tall young people .... "So, which one are you?" She's much better on the young royals!
All the best to all of those, sufferers and carers, dealing with this.
Oh, stroll on, Mike ! :o :o :o
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
No...there was nowhere near that amount of cash in Mum & Dad's house.
DAMN !!!.... I could/would have been more than happy to be you dear old Dad's window cleaner....Sorry...that's not really funny, at all....I apologise. :-[
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 30 January 2019, 01:21:43 PM
I could/would have been more than happy to be you dear old Dad's window cleaner....Sorry...that's not really funny, at all....I apologise. :-[
Cheers - Phil
Knowing your ability to be accident prone, you would have fallen off the ladder and broken your neck ! =)
OI !!
I've fallen of a ladder.....Well...It wandered sideways....and I managed to get my left foot onto one of the stone 'gateposts' (about 4 foot high).
From there, I did a little dance, before falling completely backwards onto the concrete drive.
For some unexplained reason, I had the 'wit' to not let the back of my skull smack into the concrete, by leaning forward.....So it was my back that took the hit.
Bruised back...But that was about it.
Cheers - Mr Twerp
Silly things FSN has done #37:
This weekend I found not one, but two Pendraken Norman army packs. Plus a few other bits and bobs.
For some reason (and I'm not sure why) I thought it would be a good idea to prepare them all for painting. I now have about 400 infantry and 100 cavalry mounted and undercoated.
It'll give me plenty of practice in painting mail.
X_X =)
Definitively getting more doddery as you get older. ;D
Quote from: fsn on 17 February 2019, 08:05:22 PM
Silly things FSN has done #37:
This weekend I found not one, but two Pendraken Norman army packs. Plus a few other bits and bobs.
For some reason (and I'm not sure why) I thought it would be a good idea to prepare them all for painting. I now have about 400 infantry and 100 cavalry mounted and undercoated.
It'll give me plenty of practice in painting mail.
Of course you now need to place an order for 2 Saxon Army packs to oppose them , there goes another £66 into Leons Coke fund (as in Coca Cola) , or Miladys shoe fund.
Still its all in a good cause.
I hope the wall of Coca Cola cans that Leon posted AGES ago, found their way into recycling bins.....Where is that piccy ?
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Orcs on 17 February 2019, 09:37:24 PM
Of course you now need to place an order for 2 Saxon Army packs to oppose them ,
Ah!
I have 2 Saxon and 2 Norse packs.
Just forgot about the Normans. :(
Quote from: Techno on 17 February 2019, 09:40:51 PM
I hope the wall of Coca Cola cans that Leon posted AGES ago, found their way into recycling bins.....Where is that piccy ?
It's been repurposed ...
(https://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/coke_can_racer_1-620x396.jpg)
Quote from: fsn on 17 February 2019, 10:11:03 PM
Ah!
I have 2 Saxon and 2 Norse packs.
Just forgot about the Normans. :(
Tart...
Quote from: mad lemmey on 17 February 2019, 10:47:17 PM
Tart...
:-[ Harsh ... but fair.
I'm being very good at the moment and trying to delve into the bottom of my lead mountain and turn it into a lead molehill.
I've got some ACW to paint, plus lots of Marlborough and a recently discovered Anglo-Scots selection (probably bought in 2014 in the fervour of the Bannockburn anniversary.) That will leave me with Korea and the mass of Napoleonics that I have been putting off.
And a few bits of WWII.
Oh, and some horses of various descriptions
Maybe the odd wildebeeste and Zebra
And some tiny aircraft - Pacific 1944, Korea, Viet Nam ...And some 1:600 boats ...
Musn't forget those brick walls either ..
Or those 1:144 airliners for the airport scenario ...
Quote from: fsn on 17 February 2019, 10:16:28 PM
It's been repurposed ...
(https://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/coke_can_racer_1-620x396.jpg)
Nice one, Nobby ! ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Silly Things FSN has done #38
It being Pendraken Ordering Day last week, I took the opportunity to send in an order to Tumbling Dice as well. Of course, my current passion is triremes, and so I ordered a few triemes and penteconters.
So far, so good.
Before I pressed the buy button, I thought I'd have a little look at the other things Tumbling Dice has to offer. I strayed into the Napoleonic ships and this is where I made my mistake. "What" I wondered "would the 74 look like?"
I realise now that a little fortitude would have got me through. However, I was at a low ebb, and feeling a bit poorly and weak and so a 74 got added to the order.
It arrived yesterday.
Today I am flicking through Otto von Pivka's "Navies of the Napoleonic Wars".
Please be prepared for a post in 2024 - "today I discovered 42 Napoleonic warships at the bottom of my lead mountain".
Oh man...
Quote from: fsn on 20 February 2019, 09:18:15 PM
Silly Things FSN has done #38
Before I pressed the buy button, I thought I'd have a little look at the other things Tumbling Dice has to offer. I strayed into the Napoleonic ships and this is where I made my mistake
Criminey! I thought this was leading up to you announcing you had made an offer to buy the company! :o #:-S
Sounds pretty small beer by comparison with some of my impulse buys!
Quote from: fsn on 20 February 2019, 09:18:15 PM
Silly Things FSN has done #38
Please be prepared for a post in 2024 - "today I discovered 42 Napoleonic warships at the bottom of my lead mountain".
Bottom of your lead mountain !!!!!!! Now we know your talking complete nonsense, as if your are EVER going to get there.
There is also the point that the bottom is going to be far larger than the top, thus 42 Napoleonic ships, even in 1:1200, are not going to take up much space.
What's is lead alloys critical mass?
Quote from: mad lemmey on 22 February 2019, 12:52:50 PM
What's is lead alloys critical mass?
Its a very big number. We have a friend - lets call him Walter. He has so much unpainted lead in his house its rumoured he would be safe from all but a direct hit of a 1 Kiloton Nuclear bomb/ :)
I've just had to use another of your plasters, Mark. :-[
Today's safety tip is......Don't fix a new 10A blade to the scalpel handle, by pushing down on the pointy end.
(I thought I was holding it each side....until I realised I wasn't....Wazzock !! X_X)
Cheers - Phil. :D
Quote from: Techno on 06 March 2019, 04:32:22 PM
I've just had to use another of your plasters, Mark. :-[
Today's safety tip is......Don't fix a new 10A blade to the scalpel handle, by pushing down on the pointy end.
(I thought I was holding it each side....until I realised I wasn't....Wazzock !! X_X)
Cheers - Phil. :D
You shouldn't really be publicizing this. Someone at the office did the very same thing. Immediately health and safety banned them other than to people who had a gone on a training course on handling pointy things. Is this a joke?. No way, I worked in Local Government.
Quote from: Techno on 06 March 2019, 04:32:22 PM
Today's safety tip is......Don't fix a new 10A blade to the scalpel handle, by pushing down on the pointy end.
(I thought I was holding it each side....until I realised I wasn't....Wazzock !! X_X)
Phil!!!
We do want you to keep enough fingers to be able to sculpt more little soldiers.
I always change scalpel blades with a small pair of long nosed pliers, as I'm so worried about cutting myself while removing or inserting a new blade. And generally I'm quite gung ho about this kind of thing
Quote from: grahambeyrout on 06 March 2019, 05:33:39 PM
You shouldn't really be publicizing this. Someone at the office did the very same thing. Immediately health and safety banned them other than to people who had a gone on a training course on handling pointy things. Is this a joke?. No way, I worked in Local Government.
Phil really is the opposite of local government - when it comes to bureaucracy and administration. At my work you have to go on a ladder training course, so that you can climb ladders, this is in an office, not up trees or the outside of buildings or anything tall ...
You're right, of course, Forbes ! :-[
I always
remove them with a pair of needle nosed pliers..then use the same pliers to remove one of the new blades from the wee packet.
Normally I just slide the blade onto the handle, with my fingers.....(JUST the very beginning, so it starts to sit in the grooves on the handle)....then push the blade home on the cutting mat.
I think I was trying to go too fast this afternoon....It won't be the last time I do something like this. A fact that most of you are sadly, already aware.
Quote from: grahambeyrout on 06 March 2019, 05:33:39 PM
You shouldn't really be publicizing this. Someone at the office did the very same thing. Immediately health and safety banned them other than to people who had a gone on a training course on handling pointy things. Is this a joke?. No way, I worked in Local Government.
Oh...I believe that totally. Though I bet some folk still forgot, even after the training course.
Cheers - Phil
Sounds like you might need some more plasters, or a bandage or some of those butterfly strips ;D ;D
Only had to use one of the butterfly strips since you sent them , Mark.
Plenty of those left. ;)
Cheers - Phil
There was I thinking that Butterfly Strips was some kind of niche adult entertainment.
Is there not an obvious solution here... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07FPCJXYS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_DQnGCbYEYQQTE
Though it is a little odd there's 12 of them.
No.....Don't start giving Mark any ideas. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: mmcv on 07 March 2019, 08:49:50 AM
Is there not an obvious solution here... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07FPCJXYS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_DQnGCbYEYQQTE
Though it is a little odd there's 12 of them.
As Stephen Fry has it "normal for Norfolk".
What are you trying to say, Nobby ? ;)
Cheers - Phil (I'll reply to your 'mail a bit later, Matey !!) :)
P.S. I haven't cut myself today.....yet.
I have - hole not big enough in the vehicle with a mast for the mast to fit in!
How did you cut yourself making a hole, Andy ? :-\
Hope it wasn't too bad, Matey.
Cheers - Phil (OOTP.....Order Of The Plasters.) :D
Usual palaver.Model cast with the hole not quite big enough to take the lug at the bottom of the mast. Insert Stanley knife to scrape away some of the metal.............oops :'(. Not too bad, plaster off after a day.
Finished the Normans last week. I say "finished", but the Norman Army Pack lacks light archers ... so I've now got some of them to do.
In my effort to tidy up odd bits and pieces from the lead mountain, I found some ACW civvies and a couple of stage coaches. They came up rather nice, but then I put them by the existing ACW figures. Oh dear.
The ACW was the first Pendraken forces that I painted. I have learned somewhat since then. I spent the weekend de-basing and Dettol bathing ACW figures. I've still got all the Confederates and some of the Union to (re-)do, but I was down to my last dozen projects so what the hey!
To aide me in my task I put on some YouTube ACW videos. There was a very interesting one that I must post the link to. More of a set of articles that a narrative, it covered such things as the Confederate Soldier Magazine (which published until the 1930s!), detailed examination of a Confederate generals coat and the tools used to maintain rifles. Very interesting.
The American Battlefield Trust videos on YouTube are usually very good also. Some random ACW examples:-
Chickamauga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWbiYhVqetw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWbiYhVqetw)
Zouaves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zx5hqIdb-o (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zx5hqIdb-o)
Skirmishers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VNhcyoO9pQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VNhcyoO9pQ)
It also covers aspects of the (American) Revolutionary War.
There's been some cracking typos on the forum recently.
Two that spring to mind are "Old Gory" and "A Bride Too Far."
The mind boggles. ;D
At last, a bright spot in my life.
Popped up the corridor to tell my boss something, and she asked me to close the door to the office. I naturally wonder what I've done wrong.
Turns out she wanted to thank me for all the effort I've been putting in, and helping support our reorganisation. She said that she feels I have "really got her back." :D
Huzzah!
It's good to have someone thank you.
Quote from: Westmarcher on 25 March 2019, 10:07:59 AM
There's been some cracking typos on the forum recently.
Two that spring to mind are "Old Gory" and "A Bride Too Far."
The mind boggles. ;D
Last week I was explaining in an email that there was some filming going on, and that I had been watching the
busy film crew. The "t" and the "y" are next to each other on the keyboard, and in my haste ... I mashed both.
Totally changed the sentiment of the email.
I'm surprised you haven't found a piccy to go with that, Nobby !
No...Please don't. X_X
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Last Hussar on 25 March 2019, 10:30:46 AM
At last, a bright spot in my life.
Popped up the corridor to tell my boss something, and she asked me to close the door to the office. I naturally wonder what I've done wrong.
Turns out she wanted to thank me for all the effort I've been putting in, and helping support our reorganisation. She said that she feels I have "really got her back." :D
Well done you!
Nice to see someone getting some recognition.
Contrary to the trope, it sometimes feels like bosses are too focused on swamp drainage to recognise the efforts of those actually wrangling the crocodiles :)
Quote from: fsn on 25 March 2019, 11:17:08 AM
Last week I was explaining in an email that there was some filming going on, and that I had been watching the busy film crew. The "t" and the "y" are next to each other on the keyboard, and in my haste ... I mashed both.
Totally changed the sentiment of the email.
Once emailed a notably "pneumatic" lady I was working with to try and set up a phone meeting. I opened with "I know that you are busy but ..." At least, that's what I intended to type but somehow I added an extra "t"
Freudian Slip or Fat Finger Syndrome? I'll never really know.
Fortunately she thought it hugely amusing.
Westie - thanks for those resources.
Hussar - congrats - nice to be recognized in the real world of work - which to me is a fading memory.
And speaking of work, if that was a workplace email, fsn, congrats to you as well. You are now a "person of interest" in the HR dept.
I think he already is, Bill. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Well, the HR Dept does have a photo of me on their wall; and they're always calling me in for a chat; and they always talk to me in pairs, so - they must like me. :D
;D
A word of advice, tell them you are "transitioning" (although, and this is important - offer no details - not another word) and you'll be fine. :D
Quote from: fsn on 25 March 2019, 05:03:38 PM
Well, the HR Dept does have a photo of me on their wall; and they're always calling me in for a chat; and they always talk to me in pairs, so - they must like me. :D
I bet it's not the original photo.....They must have worn that out with all holes that the darts have made. ;)
Cheers - Phil :D
Quote from: d_Guy on 25 March 2019, 05:50:59 PM
;D
A word of advice, tell them you are "transitioning" (although, and this is important - offer no details - not another word) and you'll be fine. :D
They will probably hope (in vain) that he is "transitioning" into a normal person! :)
Tried that.
Didn't like it.
Answer me this, then. :D
If I purchase a song from Amazon, as a download, for 99p...Does it just automatically download to the 'My Music' folder ?
I could buy a second hand copy of the triple CD the track appears on for just £299.99......But I think I'll give that a miss, as I'm only after the one track.
About time I joined the modern age. :-*
Cheers - Phil
I think it goes to a particular Amazon music folder - Music Amazon MP3 on my PC.
What's the tune?
and remember you only borrow digital music, you don't own it....
Pah !!
If I pay for it, it's mine. ;)
It's a live version of an old Status Quo track from the 'Dog of Two Head' album Nobby.
Cheers - Phil
But you only need 1 Quo track, they are ALL the same to cords ;)
Two chords ?
Three, surely. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Didnt think they were that good.
Just finished watching a documentary on the Battle of Saipan (WW2) in which the narrator referred to a desperate last ditch "bonsai" charge by thousands of Japanese. Astonishing. Who would have thought miniature trees could be so deadly?
Quote from: Westmarcher on 01 April 2019, 09:08:11 PM
Just finished watching a documentary on the Battle of Saipan (WW2) in which the narrator referred to a desperate last ditch "bonsai" charge by thousands of Japanese. Astonishing. Who would have thought miniature trees could be so deadly?
Perhaps they were very angry "Small Tree Syndrome"
need some therapy to get to the root of their problems
Can we just leaf the desperate puns out of this thread?
You know these sort of thing branch out before all of us twig what's going on. And then some makes an obscure cross reference and the next thing were talking about Bach. Poor sap.
Ever found yourself playing Beethoven on your harpsichord? Talk about Baching up the wrong tree!
Obviously this set of tree puns has been taken over by the elder members of this forum. :D
Fir goodness sake ! X_X
Cheers - Phil
How I pine for a rational, grown-up forum. Well, he laughs longest who laughs larch.
Tree puns! I ash yew, are yew having a larch? Wood yew stop alder tree puns! ;)
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
That word is spelled with twelve Ws.
Oak-ay ... and if you add a "D" and flip it backwards it spells
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. :D
Don't suppose Ma Hogany is very impressed with the direction this thread is heading =)
Time is was spruced up.
Must go, time to take the dogs for a walk on the beech.
Cheers - Phil
I'm axing you to stop now.
Saw that one coming.
I've just come 2nd in a pub quiz, 3 points behind the team that came 1st (max of 70 points, them 48, me 45).
Now reconsider the pronouns I used in this post.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 04 April 2019, 10:59:53 PM
I've just come 2nd in a pub quiz, 3 points behind the team that came 1st (max of 70 points, them 48, me 45).
Now reconsider the pronouns I used in this post.
You're never alone with schizophrenia :D :D :D
There is no "I" in team?
Quote from: d_Guy on 05 April 2019, 03:08:06 PM
There is no "I" in team?
There isn't but there's an "m" and an "e" ;)
There was just me. My phone was a) out of charge and b) left in the pub so I didn't get the message my regular Tuesday team mates weren't coming.
It was a local branch of a charity having a night out, and allowing others to join in.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 05 April 2019, 03:15:29 PM
There isn't but there's an "m" and an "e" ;)
True, but disassociated, supporting your schizophrenia observation :D
Quote from: Last Hussar on 06 April 2019, 03:52:52 PM
There was just me. My phone was a) out of charge and b) left in the pub so I didn't get the message my regular Tuesday team mates weren't coming.
It was a local branch of a charity having a night out, and allowing others to join in.
Think hard, LH, have other people actually seen this alleged "team"?
Quote from: d_Guy on 06 April 2019, 04:09:44 PM
Think hard, LH, have other people actually seen this alleged "team"?
That reminds me, I need to watch Friday's episode of "Perception".
This perfectly fitting combination of Ziplock containers and Sterlite stacking boxes is part of an effort to make my hobby stuff more portable and also makes me unreasonably happy.
Well March was a good month for me - painting wise. I finished off the entire Norman army (which I spent a fair amount of February doing), and have found the ACW to be a delight to do. Simple and straightforward!
(https://live.staticflickr.com/7867/47551567061_c7c44a0f74_z.jpg)
Dunno what happened in Oct 18 though.
Not even I keep a spreadsheet of painting done.
Mainly because there's more interesting things to do with excel
I must admit I keep track of how many troops I have in excel, but not when they were painted
I also started last year keeping track of the games I play
Quote from: Last Hussar on 07 April 2019, 12:46:00 AM
...
Mainly because there's more interesting things to do with excel
Do tell
Quote from: lowlylowlycook on 06 April 2019, 09:48:28 PM
This perfectly fitting combination of Ziplock containers and Sterlite stacking boxes is part of an effort to make my hobby stuff more portable and also makes me unreasonably happy.
Uh, maybe if I add the pic this might make more sense...
(https://i.imgur.com/WniNd7V.jpg)
I stand in awe of the organizational skills exhibited in the last few posts. Like LLC, I use lots of ziplock-like containers but in a very haphazard way. Just last week I spent hours trying to locate 20 bases of War of the Roses archers. Went through every container - twice- finally found them in a small Amazon box hand labeled, "Ketchup Packets".
My approach to wargaming and most else these days would best be described as "flailing about".
I have a box, in the box are Pendraken Jiffy bags with the army names written on...
I started recording what I painted because I was aware that I wasn't painting consistently.
What the graph does show is that I take time off work in March ... and paint.
I'm getting better organised. Tidying up my lead mountain and prioritising. My purchases all go into RUB boxes, which are labelled. I have found that the order in which they are stacked shows how popular they are with me.
I have really enjoyed painting ACW, and now need to be disciplined enough to move on. I've got some archers to finish off the Normans, then a complete Arab Army for them to take on. Then to finish off the other current projects (currently 16 of them).
Other projects that I haven't started yet are: Viet Nam, Indo-China, India-Pakistan (10mm and tiny a/c), 1:3000 Pacific War naval, War of the Roses, English Civil War and Byzantines. I'd also like to do some chariot armies *ahem*, Pendraken chariot armies.
I use Excel to calculate army points. Not just typing in and adding up, but automatically calculating the points for each unit.
For instance my FoG:N calculator you tell it unit type, size, elan and training, and it calculates the cost. It only allows you to pick options available to that unit. Not only that it loads the correct options for "special" (so for Heavy Cavalry 'Shock' is an available special, but not for infantry). It flags up errors.
It then produces a pretty orbat that can be printed off, as well as another page that tells you how many bases and figures you need.
The last set version has enough pages for 10 corps, and you pick the one you want the oob and figure calc for from a drop down on the OOB page, and it loads that one in.
My sheet for "age of sail" you start by telling it which nation you want, and it loads all the correct options in.
I have a s'sheet that does that.
I'm working on using Excel to manage my ACW rules, so I don't need to throw dice and will have a summary battle report as well. If this goes OK, I will try and expand to the NApoleonics - which will be a bigger job.
Thanks Last Hussar, definitely more interesting :)
I have a few similar spreadsheets for various rule systems
FSN, I've not thought of using Excel for managing a game :-\
I like the OOB and Army Point calculation idea. Slightly envious of your skills, gentlemen (although I do believe at least one of you works in IT ? & so second nature to you?). I rarely used spreadsheets in my working career and, of course, when I did, they had been made up by someone else. Until literally a few weeks ago, I had a guide on Excel which I had for 15+ years (thinking' "one day I'll learn about this") but threw it out as part of a purge to make more room in the house and on the basis that I had never used it, so will likely never do so .... But now the ideas on its potential come to light! D'oh! #-o :)
Well its not me! However I do get phone calls from around the site asking for help. Latest was to write a risk assessment calculator. Typically these things need to be easy for the user to update, so add a data sheet which shows the numbers, use drop down boxes to make sure no misspellings in a choice so the computer can find what its looking for, and have those drop downs refer to a range on the data sheet, rather than define the entries. That way the user can rename stuff as needed.
If you want to try yourself start with learning vlookup and hlookup.
I am always up for an intellectual exercise though.
I have thought of an automation sheet, but my opponents wouldn't want to use it.
vlookip! A favourite on mine.
I'm also fond of matching an indirect with an address, and the sumifs and countifs functions are very useful.
Anyway, I am eagerly watching for the post. I have re-organised, repainted and rebased my ACW forces* and found myself to be 9 infantry figures short. Command figures I have aplenty, but my standards have risen (no pun intended) and want a certain homogeneity in my armies.
So, I dashed off an order to Pendraken.
Union command ...
and ...
Confederate command.
Why?
I have no idea.
So I put in a second order which definitely includes some infantry in kepi. I've just mounted the penultimate arm - the dismounted cavalry ... on painting sticks ... and eagerly await the 9 infantry so I can complete my Confederates ... and so can say I have finished a project. (Again.)
* Rather small 6x32 men infantry bttns, plus 2x20 man cavalry regts, plus 2x2 gun batteries on each side. I chose 1861 so all my Confederates look as if they know what a uniform is, and march under the Stars and Bars and not the Battle Flag. They have been great fun to paint and put together; they are two exactly equal forces (except the Confederate General has a dog). I have said before, and shall say again the ACW is a great beginners period.
Zouaves.
They were an early ACW thing, weren't they?
Depends whose...
Pope had them until 1870.
French used them in Crimea, Mexico, Algeria, Italian Wars of Independence and others up to the Franco-Prussian War, they got around a bit...
Oh.....So you've stopped watching re-runs of the Boat Race, then ! ;)*
Cheers - Phil
*Private joke. :)
Sumifs and countifs make me look good work.
Certainly living up to its title this thread - not a clue what they are talking about, but zouaves still doing their thing for the French army in WWI. Spahis at Sedan in WWII. American zouaves a pale imitation of the real French ones, who had been around since at least the 1840s.
I have to say it was the pale imitations I was thinking of.
I have (nearly) two nice little ACW forces. 'Cos I'm a numpty I looked at the Pendraken catalogue. I was actually looking for other artillery pieces aside from the 12pdr Napoleon ... and saw the huge variety of Zouaves.
(https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/0*Icblfdv_vJ6TUU6w.png) (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/94/2d/9b/942d9b1496122fcdee8ef17bb006c217.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7a/78/53/7a7853446d0e7760fa4db2ebd764299c.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/42/ca/8f/42ca8f6cf98d332514d02ffaad5be92e.gif)(http://www.dixiescv.org/uniforms/confederacy07.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0f/ab/a8/0faba8cec0e857f47516a01c20e62ade.jpg)
An attached Zouave Regiment could be quite pretty.
I particularly like the 10th New Zealand!
We (The U.S.) quickly moved to picklehaubes in the early 1870s in reaction to certain events in Europe.
Quote from: d_Guy on 09 April 2019, 05:17:33 PM
I particularly like the 10th New Zealand!
That had me confused till I had a better look at the pictures :-/
You forgot the Tiger Zouaves
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Tigers :d
Will.......Stop going on about Zouaves, and answer my question about the Iranian cavalry. ;)
Cheers - Phil :-*
Iranian cavalry?
Pulled the rug from under that one!
Quote from: Ithoriel on 10 April 2019, 12:51:37 PM
Iranian cavalry?
For the Persians.......No, not rugs. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Ah! Of course.
I was imagining something more camels and AK47s :)
Quote from: fsn on 09 April 2019, 04:28:28 PM
I have to say it was the pale imitations I was thinking of.
I have (nearly) two nice little ACW forces. 'Cos I'm a numpty I looked at the Pendraken catalogue. I was actually looking for other artillery pieces aside from the 12pdr Napoleon ... and saw the huge variety of Zouaves.
(https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/0*Icblfdv_vJ6TUU6w.png) (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/94/2d/9b/942d9b1496122fcdee8ef17bb006c217.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7a/78/53/7a7853446d0e7760fa4db2ebd764299c.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/42/ca/8f/42ca8f6cf98d332514d02ffaad5be92e.gif)(http://www.dixiescv.org/uniforms/confederacy07.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0f/ab/a8/0faba8cec0e857f47516a01c20e62ade.jpg)
An attached Zouave Regiment could be quite pretty.
Great variety in the hats; consistency with the baggy trousers.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/79/Madness_-_Baggy_Trousers.jpg/220px-Madness_-_Baggy_Trousers.jpg)
Good call
Quote from: Techno on 10 April 2019, 12:35:41 PM
Will.......Stop going on about Zouaves, and answer my question about the Iranian cavalry. ;)
Cheers - Phil :-*
OK then
Iranian cavalry come from what was formerly Persia. they rode horses and carried a variety of sharp pointy things. :)They were famous for fighting the Greeks.
And Romans, Huns, Byzantines, Ayyubids, Moghuls....
Why does the word "monosyllabic" have so many syllables in it?
Quote from: Last Hussar on 11 April 2019, 12:15:25 AM
Why does the word "monosyllabic" have so many syllables in it?
To allow people with too much time on their hands to ponder that fact, rather than some other more unsavoury pastime. :)
Quote from: Techno on 10 April 2019, 12:35:41 PM
Will.......Stop going on about Zouaves, and answer my question about the Iranian cavalry. ;)
Cheers - Phil :-*
Quote from: Orcs on 10 April 2019, 10:32:38 PM
OK then
Iranian cavalry come from what was formerly Persia. they rode horses and carried a variety of sharp pointy things. :)They were famous for fighting the Greeks.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 10 April 2019, 11:17:22 PM
And Romans, Huns, Byzantines, Ayyubids, Moghuls....
Come on then guys, how much more useless info can we give Techno about Iranian cavalry?
He will probably wish he never asked - although if the truth be known, he probably wishes that he never got involved with the Lunatics on this forum (myself included). ;D
Still hindsight is a wonderful thing!
Quote from: Orcs on 10 April 2019, 10:32:38 PM
OK then
Iranian cavalry come from what was formerly Persia. they rode horses and carried a variety of sharp pointy things. :)They were famous for fighting the Greeks.
That doesn't answer the question I asked Will, Mark.....But he's answered me now. ;)
That, and the pretty picture I've already got, tells me everything I need to know. :)
The lunatics on the forum ?
They help keep me sane. (Almost) :D
Cheers - Phil
That chap who played Gandalf was over that way in the old days. His cavalry unit (yes they still had them) was somewhat short of horses, as motorised transport was the "in thing". He tells of a sergeant of his who was totally devoted to his captain. The unit went out on exercise, and Gandalf told the NCO to stay in camp, because there was no horse for him.
Imagine Gandalf's surprse when the next day, 40 miles out in the desert the sergeant appears.
"Well", says Gandalf, "how did you get here."
"I ran, Ian" say the doughty.
I've heard of running a race, of running moonshine, of running rivers, running shoes, or running out of coffee, but never ere now of running an Ian. How does one do it?
Claws are out today FK.
Hmmmph...putting in that comma has spoiled the joke. Rotter.
Quote from: Techno on 11 April 2019, 06:46:36 AM
The lunatics on the forum ?
They help keep me sane. (Almost) :D
Cheers - Phil
Pah! They don't keep you sane ... they just lower the bar on what is considered sanity :D
In answer to wimp's rather rude question - Rare Steak, strong Larger and red wine and fast cars....
Anyway to answer Techno's question ...
Techno: I'm assuming we're talking Archaemenid. I'm also assuming we're talking Marathon to Platea.
In that case, what you do have to get right is the khaphut. It is quite distinctive. Some manufacturers get it a bit wrong and it looks a bit more pheenish-y - the Magister Miletum offering is a definite proto-pheenish.*
You can see the khaput quite clearly on the figure on the right. Being a big nebby, his is likely to have been brightly coloured and possibly jewel studded, but you get the idea? You will also notice why stirrups weren't necessary, as the rider just ran along with the horse.
(http://www.crystalinks.com/ahuramazda800.jpg)
Certainly a portion of Iranian horse would have a dunpher instead of a khaput, specially those from the mountains when the khaput is a bit impractical.
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR9JeamEAX7hMk9jfdgAWJqG9apDl-gfKSMA3aBPGd3fR7IToji)
Here the dunpher isn't particularly well drawn, but you can compare with the khaput above to get the difference.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Achaemenid_cavalry_against_Greek_hoplites_at_the_Stoa_Poikile.jpg)
This may be a dunpher, or possibly an "Orchid"*** khaput. In 10mm it probably won't make a lot of difference, and you'd only really know from a left hand view.
If you're after Iranian horse, please make sure they are armed with bows, javelins and, please, please, please can we have a karkdit? I have a great picture that I'll scan and send to you ... they're the Semi-Cataphract Utilising Babylonian Armour.****
I trust this helps, Techno.
*Hawkins**says that Alexander the Great introduced the pheenish, but from where? It's not remotely Macedonian, and he was in Persia before India. I think it more likely that the pheenish was beginning to gain popularity in the Persian Empire before Alexander got there, possibly due to larger Anatolian horses being imported, and Alexander copied it, as he copied so much.
** See "Armies of the Persian Empire", Arms & Armour, 1998. pgs 48-50.
*** See Farris & Khan, "A Discussion of the Orchid Khaputs in the 5th Century BCE", Oxford University Press, 2012
**** If you do make a SCUBA figure, please make sure the horse has the correct snorkel
I can see from FSN's post that I was right. Iranian cavalry ride horses with an assortment of sharp pointy things
That rock carving, however, is very Sassanid, and thus half a millennium later than the Achaemenid era. Of course, if you're the kind of gamer who'd use Henry V's archers for the Falklands campaign, this isn't an issue.
Quote from: paulr on 09 April 2019, 07:28:56 PM
That had me confused till I had a better look at the pictures :-/
And me - I was thinking ' There were Kiwis in the Union Army? Cool" :D
Quote from: FierceKitty on 12 April 2019, 01:13:08 AM
That rock carving, however, is very Sassanid, and thus half a millennium later than the Achaemenid era. Of course, if you're the kind of gamer who'd use Henry V's archers for the Falklands campaign, this isn't an issue.
Is it? Gosh. It's almost as if I just googled Archaemeniad Cavalry and randomly picked an image or three.
Do you find you uncalled for pedantry a big encumberance in social circumstances?
Thanks for those pics, Nobby.....But I think I'm OK with the ref piccies I've got. :)
It was just the size of a 'bit of kit' that I've got to give one of the cavalry...and Will's answered that.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: fsn on 12 April 2019, 06:42:37 AM
Is it? Gosh. It's almost as if I just googled Archaemeniad Cavalry and randomly picked an image or three.
Do you find you uncalled for pedantry a big encumberance in social circumstances?
Google accepts your spelling of Achaemenid? Well, strike me pink.
Hello pink
Quote from: Techno on 12 April 2019, 06:56:59 AM
Thanks for those pics, Nobby.....But I think I'm OK with the ref piccies I've got. :)
It was just the size of a 'bit of kit' that I've got to give one of the cavalry...and Will's answered that.
Cheers - Phil
Somebody tell him. :P
Tell me what ? :-\
Cheers - Puzzled of Wales. :D
OK... ;D ;D ;D ;D
Thank you, you OIK !!
Cheers - Phil ;)
:D
Worth it to get an "Oik". :D
Oik !
There...You can have two ! :P
Cheers - Phil
And to think Sunjester told me off last night for the discussion about spreadsheets.
That wasn't a discussion! That was a mention!
Anyway Techno-teasing is an honoured tradition on this forum.
Quote from: Techno on 13 April 2019, 07:02:59 AM
Oik !
There...You can have two ! :P
A double oik-er!
I'm so happy! :'( :'( :'(
Moving house on Monday. Today was the day I packed my models.......
Oh Lord....
Mars be with you!
I hope the move goes well
I hope all goes ok.
Thanks guys, its just my wife now knows how much stuff I have :o
Good luck with the move, Matt. :)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 14 April 2019, 06:47:24 AM
Good luck with the move, Matt. :)
Cheers - Phil
And the wife!
;D ;D ;D
I don't use Twitter often.
This is where I go when I want a chuckle: https://twitter.com/Classic_picx (https://twitter.com/Classic_picx)
Well......
If I've seemed a bit distracted from time to time recently, that's been because 'we've' (Von, far more than me) been rushing around trying to sort out the MIL's entry into a residential home.
Today was the day she said goodbye to the 'half way house' hospital...and hello to her new abode.
Huge weight off both our minds.....especially as she behaved almost exactly the opposite to what we were expecting.
Have to feel sorry for the MIL, as she suffers from both vascular dementia and alzheimers, so she's not truly aware as to what's going on....at least, not for very long.....But she surprised the pair of us by going down to one of the lounges in the home, and talking to some of the other residents. :o :o :o
She's normally so 'anti-social' that the only people she has contact with are me, Von and the occasional district nurse.
Really hope she's happy there. :)
Cheers - Phil
Sounds like a hard, but hopefully good, choice has been made.
And...
Relax...
Quote from: Techno on 23 April 2019, 04:30:36 PM
....But she surprised the pair of us by going down to one of the lounges in the home, and talking to some of the other residents. :o :o :o
Looks like a good result, Phil (much better than our initial experience when my MIL was admitted to a care home). My late Aunt used to say that she had had her life and wouldn't want to stop her children enjoying theirs. You've both done well looking after your MIL and now deserve a break to enjoy your own lives together.
That's great Phil, glad to hear it.
Be warned, my Mum seems really settled most of the time but very occasionally, as I'm getting ready to go, Mum will announce that it's been nice to have a holiday "here" but she'll just go and get her things and we can go home. She gets quite upset when I explain that she is home. To be fair, fifteen minutes later she's forgotten all about it and is urging me to go so I don't miss my bus!
Must be a great relief, right enough.
Hope it all works out, Techno.
That's good news Phil, for all involved
That sounds like that a good result for all of you.
Thanks for all the feedback, chaps. :)
Von's going to go and see her today, and I'll try and pop in and see her tomorrow when I do the quick Thursday 'shop'.
Ladbrokes are offering evens that I'll get lost on the way there. X_X
Mike's comment was interesting about being 'there' for a holiday.
I don't think the MIL's going to do that... But she's really quite confused, as she thought she was in 'the home' at the hospital, because she was there for so many weeks.
She still knows who we are...But we think she's forgetting our actual names....Yesterday we were introduced to everybody as......"My Daughter & Son In Law."
Fingers crossed that she'll enjoy herself there.....might even 'slow down' the dementia if she'll interact with the other residents, a couple of whom thought I was a new member of staff. :o
Cheers - Phil
Sounds like she'll settle in, and the pressures on you and Von will ease.
Quote from: Techno on 24 April 2019, 06:52:19 AM
Ladbrokes are offering evens that I'll get lost on the way there. X_X
Now 2:1
Quote from: Techno on 24 April 2019, 06:52:19 AM
... a couple of whom thought I was a new member of staff.
Could be worse. They could have thought you were a new resident.
No, not healthy enough for a resident.
Sounds like she is settling in.
Having had 6 Boys and regular visitors my Mum was so used to being in the kitchen that when she eventually had to go in a home because of her dementia she kept on going in the kitchen to help with washing up after meals. As it seemed to help her (and the staff) they let her continue to do it. Even when we visited Mum would pop off to wash up after the afternoon tea round.
In the end we used to leave at that point as she was happily occupied and would not ask awkward questions about us taking her "home" , and by the time she finished she would forget we had been.
FFS. X_X
She's been there for less than two days and she's fallen over, and given herself a lump on the head.
Hey Ho !....
Better go over and see what she's done.
Cheers - Phil
Blimey!
Hope she's OK.
Also hope it was something exciting like a failed attempt to recreate that scene from Dirty Dancing, but "Evans the Feeble" proved to be adequately described by the sobriquet.
She's fine....Thanks, Nobby ! :)
In fact, apart from a bit of a bruise on her forehead, she's as bright as a button.....Brighter than she has been for weeks.....even months.
Once she's settled in 'properly'....Which the carers said usually takes about a month.....Von and I think she'll love it over there.
(And she won the bingo, this afto'....And met the home's cat....She's well chuffed ! :-bd)
Cheers - Phil
The toughest generation.
I'm glad she's fine. I can now add to my list of implausible ways in which she may have received said bump on the head.
1) Struck by a flying brick from an energetic dominoes match
2) Coming 2nd in the limbo competition
3) Demonstrating the Splot Kiss to another resident so the "b**** gets to know her place".
4) Braking too hard in the go-cart
5) A failed escape attempt
6) Twister
7) Failing to notice the frisbee
8 ) Not looking where she was going whilst eyeing up the next Mr MiL.
Of these, my preferred choice is no 3.
I'm really glad she seems to be settling in. Hopefully it will take some of the worry from you and Von.
Quote from: fsn on 25 April 2019, 05:03:55 PM
I'm glad she's fine. ...
I'm really glad she seems to be settling in. Hopefully it will take some of the worry from you and Von.
Seconded on the first and last :)
Not so sure on the middle bit X_X
Thanks, Chaps ! :)
To keep 'a bit more of an eye' on her, the carers have put a 'pressure pad' by the side of her bed......So if she gets up, and steps on that during the night, the carers will know she's up and about, and go and have a check on her.
Cheers - Phil
Unfortunately....That didn't stop MIL falling over twice last night. X_X
The carers have described her face as looking like she's done a few rounds with Mike Tyson.
Hey Ho ! =)
Cheers - Phil
Not so good, however these pads are definitely a great idea.
Mum's carers have twice been alerted to the need to rescue her when she decided she didn't need her walking stick just to go and use the en suite and wound up nose down on the floor, unable to get up.
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(https://pendraken.co.uk/_img/products/2231/BRF15.jpg)
Officer on the left. Is he on his iPhone?
Now I've seen it, I can't unsee it.
Dammit. One on the right is using his iPad.
Shhh... top secret kit in WW2
Quote from: fsn on 03 May 2019, 07:00:41 PM
Officer on the left. Is he on his iPhone?
Now I've seen it, I can't unsee it.
Dammit. One on the right is using his iPad.
Anyone watched the show "Timeless"? Right out of it.
Well I didn't need a blood transfusion on Sunday.
Public shout out to Mrs Sunjester for acting as a taxi service to the surgery on Thursday.
Get well soon
Yeah, all the best LH!
Thirded.
Cheers - Phil
I need to, because no French skirmishers are getting coloured in while I'm light headed!
I'm sure the skirmishers can wait for a little while
Get well soon
Thank you everybody.
You really shouldn't be telling me to delay though, I don't need an excuse to avoid painting so giving me one is just bad news.
Sunjester and Orcs have heard this story.
I've had a small lesion on my tongue for a few weeks, I thought it was a cut that was slow healing. It bled on and off.
Saturday night and Sunday morning it bled so much that I passed out and had to have an ambulance and overnight in hospital.
normal haemoglobin count is 130-180, mine is normally 160.
Sunday afternoon it was 98. At 80 they transfuse.
I'm pretty sure at one point I had more saline than blood in my veins! (about 2.5 to 3 litres).
Plasma replaces at about half litre a day. Haemoglobin takes 4-6 weeks.
:-& X_X
STROLL ON !! :o
That sounds particularly unpleasant.
Sincerely hope that clears up soon, LH !
Best wishes - Phil
Yowch.
Hope all clears up soon
Trust me, that wasn't the worst bit.
Was just viewing the Scottish News on the BBC website and came across the headline, "Emu on the loose after Care Home escape."
Thinking, "Right enough, Emu must be getting on now, I couldn't help but imagine the chaos that bird would cause."
But it wasn't what I thought.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-48308799 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-48308799)
This is for d-guy ... *
* assuming you already know, Dazza
(only two others currently logged in .. and Nick the Lemming)
Ta' , cultural context is always appreciated. :)
The original article states, "Groundsman Dennis Agnew bought the bird and a female companion a couple of days ago...".
I commend Mr. Agnew on his forthright admission and surmise he was being well distracted when the bird made good its escape.
Stroll on......
I knew Rod Hull had died.....But I hadn't realised that it was THAT long ago !
Cheers - Phil
I like Billy Connolly on Parkinson. He grabbed emu and said words to the effect "you fuxk me about and I'll break your neck and his arm."
;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
My day today
Standing under the wing of an RAF Lysander at Shuttleworth, teaching 11 year olds about Morse code and how to use an Enigma machine.
Doesn't pay many bills, but I LOVE museum work.
Living the dream!
Very jealous.
Keep up the good work Lemmey =D> =D> =D>
Also jealous ;)
Add me to the green-eyed brigade.
Count me out - OFSTED will probably hound you for not flogging more Maths and English into them in order to destroy their joy and imagination. The country needs a subservient workforce to make the rich richer. How dare you make education fun!
This Brazilian car commercial's production values and it's devotion to the old D&D cartoon are kind of out of this world.
Took a days leave to listen to cricket and colour in wooden 1809 French.
55/3.
I took a week off and went to see my daughter.
We went to see the Scottish Korean War Memorial - which is very simple, and somehow moving.
We also lunched in Linlithgow, and I was slightly disappointed that the museum's acknowledgment of the battle consisted of a single diorama. =) There was, however, a very early clocking in machine.
Hope you enjoyed yourself, Nobby. :)
Cheers - Phil
6 bases of 16 to a base finished.
Back now aches.
My painting chair is now on my painting desk and has become the work surface. I stand to do do all my painting and basing and am now completely free of back ache for the first time in two years.
I use a swivel chair.
Couldn't see the logic of your plan there for a moment.
Quote from: Leman on 14 June 2019, 07:12:47 PM
I stand to do do all my painting and basing and am now completely free of back ache for the first time in two years.
That's really good, Andy. :)
I 'self referred' myself for physio a few months ago, and was given a number of exercises to do.......They HAVE helped...But not totally got rid of the ache. (some days the back whinges 'in a different way'.)
Still doing the exercises....Even though I've been 'signed off', now.
Cheers - Phil
This is it Phil - works a treat.
(https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/64574532_149061936253075_6216117119667404800_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_ht=scontent-lht6-1.xx&oh=4934338489db980640fc2c00c27574f8&oe=5D80823C)
But if I stand for a long time my left knee packs up !
Pretty sure that if I painted like that auto-shutdown would kick in and I'd find myself flat on my back with chair, table and contents on top of me!
Still, it might just work at the bar in a pub - just don't dip your paint brush in your beer! :-&
[but, unfortunately, as time goes on, I also foresee a possibly disastrous decrease in quality.... ;D]
I think the bar at my local is the right height for the stools.
And as I'm using art pens to colour in MDF flats I don't have to worry about washing my brush in my beer.
Hmmmm.....
I wonder.
Don't you still have to curve your spine when working, Andy ?
I don't think I could make the wee b*ggers men, without resting my elbows on the top tier.
But, I DO think you've got something there, Matey :)
Definitely 'food for thought'.....Ta !
Cheers - Phil
I tend to avoid pubs where there are stools on the bar - terribly unhygienic I believe.
You deserve an 'OIK' for that, Andy ! ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Ithoriel on 16 June 2019, 11:20:49 AM
Pretty sure that if I painted like that auto-shutdown would kick in and I'd find myself flat on my back with chair, table and contents on top of me!
That does look like an accident waiting to happen.
Ever looked into standing desks? The full desks can be pretty expensive but you can get cheaper toppers that go on top of an existing sitting desk and then can be adjusted to your height. Might be a good long term solution and a bit more stable than the chair on the desk. Haven't used one my self but some people swear by them for working on computers, etc. Would be tempted myself as while I've not had back problems, prevention is the best cure! I am very wary of hunching over desks when painting.
I've discovered another inappropriate music link. For a while now, I have realised that every time I hear of Boko Haram I sing "Whiter Shade of Pale". Every time I hear Isis I sing "Iko Iko", and my new one is on hearing about the protests in Hong Kong, I sing the Hollies classic "Hey Carrie Lam, what's your game now, can anybody play?"
You'll be doing it too.
Of similar ilk, when I bring the dog in from her walk instead of saying In you go, I always say Inigo Jones.
Just finished watching the end of a 2012 edition of World of Sport which featured double decker bus racing. So disappointed that the finishing line did not consist of someone waiting at a bus stop. :(
;D ;D ;D - oh wouldn't that have been peachy!
Well, that's mildly annoying!
I put three orders in to Pendraken ... I'm not indecisive .. well, at least I don't think I am ... or am I? :-\
Anyway. I put in three orders to Pendraken and they've all shipped. Order 1 has arrived, order 3 has arrived ... but of order 2 there is no sign!
And that had the kernel of my Flodden Scots in it. :'( :'( :'( :'(
Would that be colonel Hamish McTavish?
;D
That's the chappie.
I am pleased to report that Colonel McTavish and his detachment (re)joined the ranks today.
Lovely figures - some fillers for the Wars of the Roses and some heft to the Flodden Scots.
I am slightly concerned that Flodden may take a small step back to allow for a V1 ... or two.
Quote from: fsn on 24 June 2019, 07:48:29 PM
I am slightly concerned that Flodden may take a small step back to allow for a V1 ... or two.
They do a V2? :o
Yes :o GRX15 V2 with launch trailer + towing vehicle (formerly code GR176)
Blimey
Gott in Himmel!
Prehaps, instead of dragging those ridiculously heavy guns all the way to Flodden Edge, a few batteries of V2s In Edinburgh might be the ticket. Maybe a few V1s as heralds. Signs and wonders, gentlemen, signs and wonders.
Did someone drag the ageing Leonardo to Edinburgh?
I'm definitely doing it - a c16 Scottish V1 - with the Mona Lisa as nose art!
The Scots, did of course have V1s at Flodden, James was very interested in modern weaponry.
Alas, James had a falling out with Herr Von Braun and had him detained in Edinburgh.
It was only when setting up on Flodden Edge that James realised he had left behind the one man who could read and understand the manuals detailing the setup and operation of the devices.
If only .... Scottish History could have been so different :)
Leonardo did draw many very interesting noses!
Here is a picture of me vibrating some plastic packaging "molds" filled with plaster. It's the top of my high efficiency washer which is quite vigorous when trying to wring out as much water as possible. We'll see how it is at wringing out air bubbles. At least they didn't walk off the machine and make a huge mess on the floor.
(https://i.imgur.com/wT7XvHj.jpg)
Had a thoroughly enjoyable time last weekend driving a Chieftain, FV430 APC, an Abbot and a Stormer with Starstreak HVM launcher followed by a visit to IWM Duxford. 8)
You lucky b*gg*r :) :) :)
That sounds like a HUGE amount of fun, Davy !! :)
Somewhat of the opposite nature of what happened here this morning.
I'd got my morning tablets all sorted out, and left in the lid/tray, on the work surface, while I popped to the loo.
Whilst in the smallest room, I heard one of the mutts attempting to get at the empty tins of dog food, I'd left near my pills.
Back into the kitchen......Put empty tins 'out of reach' and went to pick up my pills......There was one of my blood pressure ones missing.
Couldn't find it anywhere.....Panic sets in....The damn dog must have taken it !.....EEEK !......More searching.....No the pill's definitely gone....Almost certainly down the dog's neck.
Phone the emergency vet....Waited for the call back.
Upshot of it was, even if the dog had taken the tablet....It wouldn't do him any harm.
Apparently vet's will prescribe exactly the same pill for dos with B/P problems.
PHEW !
Cheers - Phil
That will get your own blood pressure up then! ;D
;D ;D ;D
Indeed I am lucky b*gg*r, Paul (birthday gift from daughter), and 'yes' it was great fun, Phil.
Somehow, I've now got a hankering to invade somewhere ...
Quote from: mad lemmey on 11 July 2019, 07:00:20 AM
That will get your own blood pressure up then! ;D
It was 'stomach churning' more than anything, Will.
...But you're probably right. ;)
Cheers - Phil
I've whittered on about Flodden recently, so obviously I'm not doing anything about it.* Actually, I've been tidying up my Wars of the Roses stuff and as a balance, some 1960's British aeroplanes. These are great. They're so Science Fiction. I've got the majestic Vulcan, the perky Hunter, the ponderous Javelin and the workmanlike Canberra. My favourite is the English Electric Lightning. It was the Lightning that my Dad worked on or many years, and in certain aspects it looks just like Thunderbird 1.
(https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/UaW6uy77BxsF3k4pmbRp5SKrqyM=/420x240/https://public-media.si-cdn.com/filer/dc/c5/dcc53a4c-a77b-409e-a3c9-2963b15a237d/vulcan_opener.jpg)(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTqm0oKnfhenrCiqlfhLJ27mbFiEisZUeCNAAZBMJrUpz--dAvt)(https://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/javelin/full/wd804.jpg)(https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/secondary/Canberra-490602.jpg)
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/18/a7/e7/18a7e7f99095b73fd3cd4f39ed2f33d0.jpg)
*Actually, placed my final order(s) for the Scots today. Can get painting once they arrive.
I rather suspect that it should be Thunderbird 1 looks like a Lightening. Sat in the cockpit of one once.
You're quite right. I got a real close up at a families day once. They are impressive beasties.
There used to be (what I assumed was a Lightning) on some sort of 'plinthy' type thing, very 'visible'.... very close to the A1 a few (?) miles South of Newark.
I never sussed what it was doing there, as the glimpses were so quick.
Anyone got any ideas what it was doing there ?
Cheers - Phil
Isn't Binbrook around there ? That would explain it.
IanS
Sounds more than feasible, Ian.
Ta. :)
Cheers - Phil
Just received the V1's. :o That's a chunky bit of kit. Can't wait to get some Cromwells chasing around it.
Although I admire the paint job on the Pendraken version, I'm not sure it would be sensible to have something so bomb-able in such lovely bright colours.
(https://c8.alamy.com/comp/CN96RW/france-seine-maritime-ardouval-v1-site-of-val-ygot-launching-pad-facing-CN96RW.jpg)
Seems a bit viridian to me. B&W photos seem to indicate some sort of camouflage. Any suggestions?
Also took delivery of the last of the Flodden Scots! I see many yellows in my future.
(https://weaponsandwarfare.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/ozqw3md.jpg)
Quote from: fsn on 20 July 2019, 12:03:46 PM
Also took delivery of the last of the Flodden Scots! I see many yellows in my future.
The future is beige ..... and sandy ... and sandy/yellow! :D
For fans of Calvin & Hobbes, see the second photo in this link :) :-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-49015214 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-49015214)
Midstone, with flat brown and reflective green splodges.
Thanks Lemmey.
Hello FSN
Here's a rather rushed photo of a American post war copy of the V1 called a Loon that I took on a very recent trip to the RNZAF museum in Christchurch that they acquired from the Smithsonian Institute. Our guide remarked that while the missile was American it was finished in correct German colours (probably Luftwaffe 65 Hellblau (light blue) undersides with 70 Schwarzgrun (black green) and/or 71 Dunkelgrun (Dark Green) upper surfaces).
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48336309162_0d7de889d9_c.jpg)
Hope that helps.
Thanks Pierre.
Looks like they paint straight lines line I do. :)
Quote from: Leman on 24 May 2019, 12:18:39 PM
Count me out - OFSTED will probably hound you for not flogging more Maths and English into them in order to destroy their joy and imagination. The country needs a subservient workforce to make the rich richer. How dare you make education fun!
Epsilons are always necessary.
Quote from: fsn on 20 July 2019, 12:03:46 PM
Can't wait to get some Cromwells chasing around...
Yes, I think Paul and Pierre-the-Shy share your anticipation with their planned pre-Dunbar battle coming up. :D
Quote from: fsn on 20 July 2019, 12:03:46 PM
Also took delivery of the last of the Flodden Scots! I see many yellows in my future.
Congrats! May the saffron be with you!
Here is a saffron discussion thread:
http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,17061.0.html
Anyone who wants my unrivaled recipes for brodetto, kebab pasanda, and mutanjan pilau, all of which use saffron, send me a message next week.
This weekend to escape the awful weather we're having (32o the other day!) I'm weekending with my daughter. She has promised me rain all day Saturday. Being the excellent daughter she is, she was proposing a visit to the unfortunately named Bandeath Arms Depot - but we have settled on a trek to Perth to the Black Watch regimental museum.
I am very blessed with a very understanding and loving daughter.
:)
Have a great time, Nobby.
Cheers - Phil
Seconded :)
At a restaurant last night
Mrs Sunjester to friends; (LH) wants a dining room table he can extend to a wargames table
Sunjester; no, he wants a wargames table he can collapse into a dining table.
:D :D :D
Nice to see you have your priorities right!
;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Dont' know why but I was served an ad for this while on youtube. Thinking of getting one for terrain purposes.
Sprayroller! (https://www.titantool.com/sites/sprayroller/)
While we are on painting...
What's the best way to paint a MDF base so it is completely smooth? Brush strokes are creating air bubbles under my labelling decals.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 12 August 2019, 04:59:55 PM
While we are on painting...
What's the best way to paint a MDF base so it is completely smooth? Brush strokes are creating air bubbles under my labelling decals.
Foam brush with a few thinned down layers of paint? Or apply a brush on varnish before painting?
Just my thoughts, not really sure how/why those bubbles are forming there.
How big are the bubbles?
I usually put a coat of varnish on before putting on decals.
Quote from: Noktu on 12 August 2019, 06:07:24 PM
Foam brush with a few thinned down layers of paint? Or apply a brush on varnish before painting?
Just my thoughts, not really sure how/why those bubbles are forming there.
Its the ridges caused by the bristles.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 12 August 2019, 08:11:28 PM
Its the ridges caused by the bristles.
Then I'd probably go down the foam brush route. How large areas are we speaking of?
10x20, 20x40
The sponges I have don't seem to spread that well.
Just found your place on an OS map Techno, yup, it's the middle of nowhere!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 19 August 2019, 04:26:54 PM
Just found your place on an OS map Techno, yup, it's the middle of nowhere!
Will.....You know what my address is......You can do a 'Google Earth' look. ;)......(Leon has !)....It's only a mile away from a really good village.....which has just about got everything that a decent sized town has.
(With the possible exception of a bank.....and how many towns are missing those now ?)
Cheers - Phil
Just spent roughly an hour over 4 phone calls resolving a query on my credit card statement. This included a dubious transaction for an Edinburgh hotel we stayed in earlier this month which was in addition to our pre-paid B&B accommodation. Incorrect because we did not incur any additional costs for anything else during our stay there. The only other time the card was used by me was to pay a restaurant bill in the city centre. Somehow, the amount looked familiar - yet, there was no mention of the restaurant bill on my statement. How was it (hopefully) resolved?
Turns out, the restaurant had purchased a re-conditioned card reader (new ones are more expensive) .... which happened to have been previously owned by the same hotel chain we had booked our stay with ... and as the restaurant hadn't changed the settings, instead of the restaurant name appearing on my credit card statement, the hotel chain's did!
NCIS.....Rule 39.....There is no such thing as a coincidence. ;)
Good you got it sorted, Davy ! :)
Cheers - Phil
See Elon Musk re. life is actually a simulation. Even Grimes is now making records and videos based on this premise.
My mom's new medicine has to be refrigerated and so comes packed in styrofoam coolers. I was kind of wondering if I could find a use for them and then I had an idea.
(https://forum.reapermini.com/uploads/monthly_2019_09/1331955063_Coolershelves.thumb.jpg.e6bb6d6be628ddb202d49e301969265d.jpg)
Almost too perfect a fit. Might be a few months before I have extra to turn into hills or other terrain.
I have several of those games in my collection too!
Normal service will be resumed at the earliest opportunity.
With the MIL safely, and happily in a care home...Von and I are taking back the rest of Techno Towers.
Today has been a day of moving all the computer gubbins downstairs......Disconnecting miles of knotted cables....Cleaning SO MUCH dust from the PC's inlets...and wiring it all up again, downstairs.
It went very well...apart from me plugging in the lightning protectors the wrong way up....
But that was easily sorted.......Until BT decided that I was doing something suspicious and asked me for passwords. X_X
All done now..apart from the fact that i haven't got a chair in front of the screen, at the mo'......and I've got cables running down the stairs.
Cheers - Phil ;)
Glad things are mutual and comfortably sorted at the moment, Techno.
Gubbins! What a fun word! Thanks!
Great to hear MIL is safe and happy :)
It will be a great relief for all of you
Take care on those stairs X_X
Will do, Paul. ;)
The cable's temporarily there so the PC will work downstairs....until I get BT to move the extension properly.
It doesn't get in the way too much. :)
All that's left to do now is bring the desk downstairs...Once I've cleaned all the garbage from the drawers. X_X
I've told Leon that it's a shame I don't live closer to Middlesbrough...I could have donated at least a pot of usable white metal, with all the figures I've already binned.
(These were complete odds & sods which I'll never use....But for some reason had kept !! ;D ;D ;D)
Glad you liked the word 'gubbins', Bill. ;D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 09 September 2019, 06:23:06 AM
The cable's temporarily there so the PC will work downstairs....until I get BT to move the extension properly.
I'm a tad wary about recommending this, given your track record, Phil, :P but if it's only an extension, you might find it'll be quicker and cheaper if you do it yourself. You can buy all sorts of telephone cable stuff (e.g., connectors, extra cable, sockets, etc.) in a good number of DIY stores these days. If I can do it (which I have - even to the extent of concealing the cabling by routing it under the floor, through the loft and some inexpensive trunking), I'm sure a resourceful chap like yourself can.
Hi Davy.
I haven't quite decided which will be the 'best method' to achieve what we want. :-\......There are a few options
I'm certainly capable of wiring the extension from the junction box on the wall outside*....either running cable into the annexe....or simply switching over the wires that go to the MIL's old BT socket, as the wiring's still there.
That means going up a ladder tho'....and as you say.....with my track record. X_X ;)
Cheers - Phil. *If I haven't said before.....I was a BT engineer before I worked for the Evil Empire. ;)
I don't recall you saying that while I've been on the forum :)
It certainly explains your technical skills ;)
...... a man of many talents.*
*photographer, musician, telephone repair man, sculptor, stunt-man ......
But good at none ?
Thank you whoever left three full cans of Skol super strength in my garden last night...
Not sure if this a good thing or not@ ;D
Quote from: paulr on 10 September 2019, 06:42:12 AM
I don't recall you saying that while I've been on the forum :)
It certainly explains your technical skills ;)
Will & Leon know that I am doing something 'technical' at the mo' :P
As far as understanding computers tho'.....FORGET IT ! ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
I can't work under these conditions. X_X
The new 'hobby room' is all but sorted now.......and I can't cope with how big it is compared to the old room.........And it's SO clean and neat.....(Obscenely so, at the moment).
The only drawer back so far, has been having to reject a cabinet which was going to be the 'store'....To keep as much crud out of the way, as possible.
Don't quite know how we managed to get it from the upstairs, in the pole barn....
It was particularly heavy.......And once it was 'out'.....We discovered it had woodworm.....So That's not coming into the house !
I can also have my proper stereo (which has been under the stairs for the last 15 years) up and running again.
I'll be able to treat 'the valley' to the delights of that blasting out at 150wpc. :d :d :d :d (That's if the speakers are still OK.)
One other job today is removing a dead sheep from one of the fields.....What fun !! .. X_X...
Cheers - Phil
Ah the quite rural life ;) ;D
Quote from: mad lemmey on 10 September 2019, 11:15:20 AM
Thank you whoever left three full cans of Skol super strength in my garden last night...
Not sure if this a good thing or not@ ;D
Depends what they were filled with...
Quote from: paulr on 15 September 2019, 08:25:03 AM
Ah the quite rural life ;) ;D
Well...that's that job sorted !! :)
Bless the red kites, the buzzards, the ravens, the carrion crows and the foxes......There doesn't seem to be a scrap of it left....anywhere.....And I'm not hunting around for it !
No keeping the remains in a dustbin liner, and arranging for the 'fallen stock' lorry to come and collect it.
Cheers - Phil
Is "quite rural" just suburban by another name? vide supra
Speaking of dead sheep, have you considered sculpting some in 10mm? Maybe with little "x"s for eyes? I could have used some recently.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 15 September 2019, 10:32:50 AM
Is "quite rural" just suburban by another name? vide supra
No....In my case it means we're surrounded by acres and
acres of green vegetation......With the nearest neighbour at least 300 yards away.
I LOVE it !
The only sounds we hear are the damn donkeys 'up the road', who seem to 'go off on one' when they feel like it.....
Cheers - Phil. ;)
That sounds very rural, not just quite rural.
Nobody who hasn't tried to sleep with a vocal ass nearby can begin to guess what a racket they make.
For Wales it's a metropolis ! ;)
Quote from: ianrs54 on 16 September 2019, 07:03:26 AM
For Wales it's a metropolis ! ;)
You Muppet !! ;)
Quote from: FierceKitty on 15 September 2019, 11:54:14 PM
Nobody who hasn't tried to sleep with a vocal ass nearby can begin to guess what a racket they make.
Fortunately they're far enough away......Only tend to hear them if we're outside.
BUT.....knowing how distant they actually are.......You're right.....They'll be making one hell of a din, close to.
Cheers - Phil
Why DO 'things' go wrong in threes ?...and cost loads of money !
Over the past week or so....
1) The brake pads on the car went.....(It wasn't worth repairing, with all the other things apparently wrong with it.)....So we ended up buying one of the local garage's courtesy cars.
2) The on/off switch on the vacuum cleaner gave up the ghost. (I might just be able to get a compatible switch......I do hope so...I'm fairly unimpressed with the cordless 'replacement' we got...The battery life's really not very special....and it only picks up a mug's worth of dirt, before it has to be emptied. Not much cop as one of the 'labs' is moulting for Wales, at the mo'.)
3) Last night the oven decided it didn't want to play anymore.....I think one of the heating elements has gone 'bang'.....So that's a call out to the local electricians to see whether it can be mended, or we need a new one of THOSE.
At least with the oven.....As the MIL is now in the residential home, I could use the oven in the annexe !
Hey Ho !!
At least Nobby cheered me up, this morning, by sending me a pic of some old figures I made 'for the Scottish Tourist industry', which he'd painted up.
Cheers - Phil
It's the Law of Sod (but perhaps, here on the forum we should call it "Techno's Law"?) ;D
Bad luck with so many mechanical/electrical devices going on strike at one time.
Brakes on the car, the switch on an electrical appliance, and an oven.
Hmmm. :-\
Have you upset anyone recently?
Brakes - never use em, my flat is small enough for a cordless to work, and I don't have a Lab to hair it up (don't wear black near a moulting lemon Lab) and finally I've only lost 1 ring on the hob, but I sympathise !
IanS
Quote from: fsn on 01 October 2019, 07:15:06 AM
Brakes on the car, the switch on an electrical appliance, and an oven.
Hmmm. :-
Have you upset anyone recently?
Not that I'm aware of, Nobby. :D
Quote from: ianrs54 on 01 October 2019, 07:21:54 AM
Brakes - never use em, my flat is small enough for a cordless to work, and I don't have a Lab to hair it up (don't wear black near a moulting lemon Lab) and finally I've only lost 1 ring on the hob, but I sympathise !
IanS
Thanks, Ian :).....You're SO right about 'lemon' labs. X_X ;)
At least I seem to have tracked down a switch for the old upright 'corded' Dyson !!.....Huzzah !! :-bd......
Cheers - Phil
Quote
Not that I'm aware of Nobby.
Didn't need the comma :d :P ;)
That's bad luck Phil.
Its my job to repair things , so I would have to fix the vacuum, but not use it. Mrs Orcs divides jobs into Blue, Ping and mixed. I normally get into trouble if I do a Pink job
Pink
------
Washing
Ironing
Vacuuming
Sewing
Weeding
Cleaning house
Dusting - Not sure she actually knows what this is
Blue
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Decorating
Repairs of anything.
Mowing
Heavy gardening - anything requiring Loppers, Chainsaws or axes
Spraying Weeds
Chopping firewood - see above
Spider removal
Cleaning house - only when I have made a mess I do not want Mrs Orcs to see (ie spilling modelling paint on floor etc) :)
Sorting Cars out
Making awkward phone calls
Mixed
--------
Cooking - depending who is working
Putting the Duvet cover on
Shopping
Quote from: Last Hussar on 01 October 2019, 06:45:53 PM
Didn't need the comma :d :P ;)
Hey! I ... (?) I'm insulted ... aren't I? :-\
Well...I'm certainly aware of you, Nobby !! ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Orcs on 01 October 2019, 07:21:43 PM
That's bad luck Phil.
Its my job to repair things , so I would have to fix the vacuum, but not use it. Mrs Orcs divides jobs into Blue, Pink and mixed. I normally get into trouble if I do a Pink job
Thanks, Mark !
Don't think Von & I have ever made lists....as such...But we each do tend to stick to certain jobs.
Not
too dissimilar to your pink and blue lists.....Though I AM banned from doing
any form of decorating, because I get bored very quickly, and rush things. X_X
Cheers - Phil
Don't mention the Duvet cover.
My least favourite job.
Never really gets any easier, no obvious technique to improve, and no matter how well you think you've done, it always ends up a crumpled shapeless mess.
(Even with my 6'7" "Orang Utan" armspan).
Anybody who could build a device to partly automate the process (I imagine pulleys, wires and a lot of steampunk style brass), could become as wealthy as Croesus.
Turning the mattress on our bed is a job for six people at least.
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 02 October 2019, 08:56:00 AM
Don't mention the Duvet cover.
My least favourite job.
Never really gets any easier, no obvious technique to improve, and no matter how well you think you've done, it always ends up a crumpled shapeless mess.
(Even with my 6'7" "Orang Utan" armspan).
Anybody who could build a device to partly automate the process (I imagine pulleys, wires and a lot of steampunk style brass), could become as wealthy as Croesus.
Friends have a duvet with little loops on the corners. Their duvet covers have buttons in the corner. Stuff duvet in cover. Make sure duvet is flat not twisted. Pop loops over buttons (or buttons through loops!). Shake duvet. Drop duvet over bed. Hey presto!
.... why don't all duvets have this???
Quote from: FierceKitty on 02 October 2019, 08:59:47 AM
Turning the mattress on our bed is a job for six people at least.
Not if you reduce the hanky panky
I wish....
Quote from: Ithoriel on 02 October 2019, 09:49:50 AM
Friends have a duvet with little loops on the corners. Their duvet covers have buttons in the corner. Stuff duvet in cover. Make sure duvet is flat not twisted. Pop loops over buttons (or buttons through loops!). Shake duvet. Drop duvet over bed. Hey presto!
.... why don't all duvets have this???
Jolly Clever, These Americans...
Quote from: Techno on 02 October 2019, 07:12:36 AM
Well...I'm certainly aware of you, Nobby !! ;D ;D ;D
Thanks, Mark !
Don't think Von & I have ever made lists....as such...But we each do tend to stick to certain jobs.
Not too dissimilar to your pink and blue lists.....Though I AM banned from doing any form of decorating, because I get bored very quickly, and rush things. X_X
Cheers - Phil
We don't actually have a formal list, but if I suggest I do something that is regarded as a "Pink" job I get a funny look so I know not to go there.
I quite enjoy decorating, especially painting It has the same therapeutic effect that painting little men has. I also refuse to get anyone in to do it,due to the cost and the fact that I will notice bits they have bodged.
We had all the internal doors and the banisters replaced a year or so ago. Despite my complete lack of carpentry skills I still found bits that needed finishing off after paying the bloke a significant amount of money. None were enough to call him back but they niggled me like buggery till I had fixed the, If it was a job I was competent at and had paid some one I would be fuming.
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 02 October 2019, 08:56:00 AM
Don't mention the Duvet cover.
My least favourite job.
Never really gets any easier, no obvious technique to improve, and no matter how well you think you've done, it always ends up a crumpled shapeless mess.
(Even with my 6'7" "Orang Utan" armspan).
Anybody who could build a device to partly automate the process (I imagine pulleys, wires and a lot of steampunk style brass), could become as wealthy as Croesus.
This tends to be my job too but find it fairly simple if you turn the cover inside out, put your hands in the far corners inside, grab the duvet corners while looking like a Scooby Doo ghost (and making the appropriate oooooh noises) then just wave it up and down over the bed as if you were fanning an Egyptian Queen until the cover inverts neatly over the duvet. The tedious bit is fastening all the buttons or poppers on the end. Or option two, forgo the cover and just use the duvet on its own, sure it's all the same in the dark ...
Quote from: mmcv on 02 October 2019, 10:21:36 PM
This tends to be my job too but find it fairly simple if you turn the cover inside out, put your hands in the far corners inside, grab the duvet corners while looking like a Scooby Doo ghost (and making the appropriate oooooh noises) then just wave it up and down over the bed as if you were fanning an Egyptian Queen until the cover inverts neatly over the duvet. The tedious bit is fastening all the buttons or poppers on the end. Or option two, forgo the cover and just use the duvet on its own, sure it's all the same in the dark ...
The "Waving it about" bit never seems to work quite right.
Now admittedly, my Duvet is a king-size, but I expected my arm-span would scale in proportion.
Perhaps the problem is that there isn't much bedroom that isn't bed (A little space at the foot as wide as the door, and a walkspace at the side).
Hence the shaking occurs over the bed, and the low end of teh duvey just drags around the bed.
You need more lift then, flap it more vigorously! Or stand on the bed, though that can risk banging the head in the ceiling...
Quote from: mmcv on 03 October 2019, 06:48:46 PM
You need more lift then, flap it more vigorously! Or stand on the bed, though that can risk banging the head in the ceiling...
That reminds me of my married life. :-[
Quote from: mmcv on 02 October 2019, 10:21:36 PM
This tends to be my job too but find it fairly simple if you turn the cover inside out, put your hands in the far corners inside, grab the duvet corners while looking like a Scooby Doo ghost (and making the appropriate oooooh noises)
Yes that's what we do and often end up in a fit of giggles. :)
I've never had a problem with duvet covers.
I let the wife do it.
Quote from: Orcs on 03 October 2019, 07:18:14 PM
Yes that's what we do and often end up in a fit of giggles. :)
I mean it would be rude not too...
Do-vet? Do-vay?
Or for our Australian members a doona ;)
As an exchange student in Oz, Lee learned to call it a blankie.
Quote from: d_Guy on 03 October 2019, 11:14:52 PM
Do-vet? Do-vay?
A refer the gentleman to Tommy Atkins pronunciation guide appertaining to military equipment of French origin.
Downie
Last night I placed two orders. One with Pendraken (yes I know it's not Pendraken Ordering Day yet, but I am rapidly running out of bases and so I had to order them and it's rude to place a small order so ...) and one with Tumbling Dice. Tumbling Dice have a very rapid turn around, orders are processed in justr a few days, and Pendraken have been frankly astonishing with their speedy service recently, so the race is on!
No pressure Leon.
In other news, due to the sudden departure of my cats, I now have a large room spare. What can I do with it? It was the "spare" bedroom, but I don't expect visitors in the next 23 years, so Wargames Room! There's a project for the winter!
In other, other news, I'm getting a bit twitchy about my next project (again). I've completed the Flodden Scots (huzzah!)and have to start of the Flodden English (boo!) ... but after that? The new Pendraken releases do make me think I might be able to get a Byzantine army ... then of course, the Greeks will be out soon ... and I may even flirt with Greek Mythology or Arthurian ... but I'd like something in a bloomin' uniform. Some Chinese to take on the might of Japan in 1941 - PzIIs vs Type 95s?? Or Viet Nam? I'm a bit leery of Viet Nam ... but French IndoChina? Actually, I'm missing the obvious. I have a pile of Nappies accumulating which all need a lick of paint. Perhaps that's the next one.
Viet Nam = Aussie Centurions.
It's a no-brainer (just finishing mine off with modelled esky's - I'll post some piccies to tempt you ;)) and the M113 with Saladin turret can't be far away...
Quote from: fsn on 14 October 2019, 12:35:49 PM
In other news, due to the sudden departure of my cats, I now have a large room spare. What can I do with it? It was the "spare" bedroom, but I don't expect visitors in the next 23 years, so Wargames Room! There's a project for the winter!
What happened to the cats, Nobby ?
Cheers - Phil
He et em !!!
Quote from: Matt J on 14 October 2019, 02:16:19 PM
Viet Nam = Aussie Centurions.
:x Sir, you are a genius!
Quote from: Techno on 15 October 2019, 06:56:04 AM
What happened to the cats, Nobby ?
The Cats Protection people took 'em. For a number of reasons ... none of which involved physical harm to cat or Nobby.
Quote from: fsn on 15 October 2019, 07:26:50 AM
The Cats Protection people took 'em. For a number of reasons ... none of which involved physical harm to cat or Nobby.
Lead Poisoning? Landlord? Newly acquired allergy? Cat rowdiness? ......
Quote from: fsn on 15 October 2019, 07:26:50 AM
The Cats Protection people took 'em. For a number of reasons ... none of which involved physical harm to cat or Nobby.
Were they found County Lines catnip dealing from your spare room? Drive by shootings involving small rodents? A turf war over actual turf?
Enquiring minds want to know :)
I reckon they swatted too many dice, off the table, while Nobby was trying to have a game. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Westie was pretty close ... on all three counts.
I have come to the realisation that I should not be allowed to dwell with any other living thing ... be it fish, fowl, feline or fauna. I work long hours and was somewhat grumpy when I got home ...especially if I lost another game of furball minefield. Last year I discovered the word misophonia, which is having a hatred of noises produced by others. I have a particular cat form which means things such as cats chewing, scratching, meowing, purring or producing a furball are somewhat painful.
They are lovely cats. The lived with me but that was about it. I thought they should have someone who would at least be available for more than an hour a day. Couple that with new neighbours with a dog that upset them, and my grand plan to move at some point in the near(ish) future ... and it was a Durex moment (better for both).
See also at about 40 seconds in ...
It haunts me.
I thought you'd missed out the joys of the cat tray, Nobby. X_X
Cheers - Phil
Allergic to noise, eh? I'll try not to write in capital letters then. I like Milton Jones - very funny - and 'yes,' people with cats' houses often stink. :-& We have a cat lady across the road (6 cats at last count - and now she has two dogs in addition). Got so bad that even a couple of the cats moved out! One (Fluffy =) ) lives most of the time with a neighbour and another (Gizmo) is feral now. My wife helps to feed the latter - OK, sap that I am I feed her, too, but I've learned not to stroke her unless you want to find out how sharp her claws are. To be fair she has shown something akin to affection on occasion by rubbing (wiping?) herself against my legs now and again, little Rice Christian that she is. I chase away the other cats, bar one other, on the fanciful basis that they might think our garden is the territory of the feral cat and so, will not enter our garden and 'make our house stink.' Seems to work. The other cat is Winston. I am not a cat person but if I did have one I would want one like him. He is the the oldest and largest cat of the six and King of the neighbourhood. What a great natured cat. And, most importantly, he makes his owner's house stink! :-bd
I knew a cat once that played the piano. Not very well but consistently if the keyboard cover was not put down. It left with a circus (we think). I had images of it playing in one of the sideshows. Probably long dead by now. Her name was Star.
The Tumbling Dice order arrived two days ago. :o
I thought I'd ordered 12 Defiants ... turns out I ordered 24. That's nearly 7 minutes against Bf110s.
Whilst waiting to board his plane to London-Heathrow, my son-in-law overheard a fellow passenger on her phone say in an English accent, "That's me about to take my flight back to the UK."
They were at Glasgow Airport. X_X
Ouch!
>:(
Following a conversation in the Sunjester household, I would like to share this image with you.
Orcs (our one) wearing a "chain"mail Mankini.
Why? Why would you want to do something like that? :-&
X_X X_X X_X :-&
Did it look like this?
(https://i.etsystatic.com/6215477/r/il/1a49f4/1393370241/il_570xN.1393370241_chs9.jpg)
Yeah, I know it didn't but I had to shift the image somehow.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 17 October 2019, 07:50:24 PM
Following a conversation in the Sunjester household, I would like to share this image with you.
Orcs (our one) wearing a "chain"mail Mankini.
..... not the rusty one again?
(...... it was rust, wasn't it?)
[Quick, Nobby! Post another picture of the young lady]
At least I know what to get the wife for Xmas now :D
Quote from: Westmarcher on 17 October 2019, 06:39:32 PM
Whilst waiting to board his plane to London-Heathrow, my son-in-law overheard a fellow passenger on her phone say in an English accent, "That's me about to take my flight back to the UK."
They were at Glasgow Airport. X_X
When I was at Edinburgh Uni a letter arrived addressed to "Prof XXX, Department of English, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, England."
The envelope was pinned up on the notice board with the addendum "Macbeth, ACT IV, SCENE III, Line 165*"
*
Stands Scotland where it did?
Quite right to !!!
Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 October 2019, 12:46:48 PM
When I was at Edinburgh Uni a letter arrived addressed to "Prof XXX, Department of English, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, England."
The envelope was pinned up on the notice board with the addendum "Macbeth, ACT IV, SCENE III, Line 165*"
*Stands Scotland where it did?
At least it got delivered.
During my time in the USA, my mail to home went first to Ukraine.
USPS regards U.K. as Ukraine.
Letters to Austria often end up in Australia. So now we mark them Europe at the end of the address, to try and prevent this.
My grandfather received a letter addressed to
"Red Tom, The Long White House, Shetland Isles".
To be fair, first delivery was attempted to the cat.
Quote from: fsn on 18 October 2019, 03:37:18 PM
My grandfather received a letter addressed to
"Red Tom, The Long White House, Shetland Isles".
To be fair, first delivery was attempted to the cat.
But was he himself Red Tom? Your Grandfather?
Oh yes. He was called Thomas and had red hair. He also lived in a long white house.
Given those facts, I would surmise that the moggy was a flame tip Persian given to sunning itself in the front window. This would explain the initial mis-delivery.
It is also likely that it was Colonel Mustard, in the conservatory, with a candlestick.
I accuse Professor Plum, in the kitchen, with the gun.
(Did I hear some of the original characters have been replaced ?)
Cheers - Phil
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Voe_of_Browland_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1297211.jpg)
That's the one - right hand side, lower house. It's about 100 yards long, and one room wide.
No flame tip Persian here.
I've crashed a car on a narrow mountain road, faced muggers with knives in their hands, been swept out to sea while swimming, and written my maths finals; today I was reminded what real fear is - the sound of the drill starting up in the dentist's hands. :'(
Quote from: Techno on 19 October 2019, 07:07:12 AM
I accuse Professor Plum, in the kitchen, with the gun.
(Did I hear some of the original characters have been replaced ?)
Cheers - Phil
It's said that a cleryman among the accused caused a knee-jerk reaction in the States.
Surely that is a "jerk reaction "?
I'm not disagreeing.
Quote from: Techno on 19 October 2019, 07:07:12 AM
(Did I hear some of the original characters have been replaced ?)
Quite so but I am a conservative clergyman.
Dr Fillit, in the pantry, with a drill.
Fsn, I was in error, the catwiki reports that the flame tips have not extended their range north of Aberdeenshire. I Like the picture, a serious place committed to survival.
Quote from: d_Guy on 19 October 2019, 02:46:02 PM
Dr Fillit, in the pantry, with a drill.
Very good, Bill. ;D ;D
Took a second to reference that to Alexander's post !!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 19 October 2019, 08:33:44 AM
today I was reminded what real fear is - the sound of the drill starting up in the dentist's hands. :'(
I'm NEVER going back to the dentist after Matey made such a
complete hash of it last time.
I ended up using a pair of small bent nosed pliers to remove half of one tooth myself.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 20 October 2019, 06:57:29 AM
I ended up using a pair of small bent nosed pliers to remove half of one tooth myself.
OOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
What makes it worse is that he was trying to remove a tonsil.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 20 October 2019, 08:30:25 AM
OOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
It wasn't actually that painful, Ian......It did bleed rather copiously, though.
The other half of the tooth is still in there......I'll leave that.
I reckon that WOULD hurt....LOTS, if I tried to remove it.
(And I'm leaving my tonsils where they are.)
Cheers - Phiil
Went into hospital to have my tonsils removed aged 7 or 8.
Wasn't sure what was going to happen and developed a nervous cough.
Had my tonsils removed and was back in the ward about to have ice cream and jelly when the consultant came in on his rounds. Heard my cough and said,"Better send him home, we can't operate on him, he's got whooping cough!"
Ward Sister looks stricken and says,"He's just back from surgery."
Instant panic, much running about by staff followed by much poking and prodding by concerned doctors.
Almost six weeks off school while I recovered ... Yay!
Never did get that ice cream and jelly ... :(
Quote from: FierceKitty on 20 October 2019, 09:34:16 AM
What makes it worse is that he was trying to remove a tonsil.
=O
Classic, Mike !!
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Ithoriel on 20 October 2019, 12:55:39 PM
Went into hospital to have my tonsils removed aged 7 or 8.
Wasn't sure what was going to happen and developed a nervous cough.
Had my tonsils removed and was back in the ward about to have ice cream and jelly when the consultant came in on his rounds. Heard my cough and said,"Better send him home, we can't operate on him, he's got whooping cough!"
Ward Sister looks stricken and says,"He's just back from surgery."
Instant panic, much running about by staff followed by much poking and prodding by concerned doctors.
Almost six weeks off school while I recovered ... Yay!
Never did get that ice cream and jelly ... :(
Bonus and bogus in equal measures.
Right......Who wants to have a quick sweep-stake.....Just for fun.
How many times has Leon checked Pendraken emails on his phone, while he's been having well deserved break ?
I'll go for 15.....Though I reckon that'll be way too low.
And we'll have to take his word for it when he returns. ;)
Cheers - Phil
I think Milady's charms will keep his attention off the email.
So I vote 0.
He dragged Milady up Coniston Old Man yesterday, so he might be in the dog house today! ;D
The only way you could know that, Will.....Is, if he's posted something on faceache...or if you sent him an email, and he's already replied.
So that's ONE look at his phone, at the very minimum. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Milady posted it... ;D
Grrrrr....
Argh...
Etc...
Over the summer we gutted the old shower area to become a futility room. However, the plumber has failed to check the drain (despite being told explicitly to do so), two hours of using the neighbour's drain rods, and it's completely blocked still.
Glad I checked the washer before running a full load!
I have to denounce Sunjester as traitor. Again. For the same crime ("you don't need that wargame stuff")
Last night he claimed I don't need every ship that fought at Trafalgar.
Well, of course you don't!
............
You need every British, French and Spanish ship of the time, present or not!
:D :D :D
Quote from: Ithoriel on 01 November 2019, 07:45:38 PM
Well, of course you don't!
............
You need every British, French and Spanish ship of the time, present or not!
:D :D :D
I know that, have a word with Sj.
On a related note, does anyone have any WizzKids Pirates of the Spanish Main ships they want to sell?
Quote from: mad lemmey on 01 November 2019, 06:30:21 PM
Grrrrr....
Argh...
Etc...
Over the summer we gutted the old shower area to become a futility room. However, the plumber has failed to check the drain (despite being told explicitly to do so), two hours of using the neighbour's drain rods, and it's completely blocked still.
Glad I checked the washer before running a full load!
THAT is a right sod !
Can you rod it from another point, Will ?
I trust the plumber hasn't let small bits of 'rubble' go down there, and that's what's causing the block.
Good luck, Matey.
Cheers - Phil
Rods didn't clear it last night, and I've left it in the capable hands of my father-in-law as I'm away playing toy soldiers this weekend (although my train and the two after was cancelled due to rugby fans not wanting to drive their train).
I'm so glad you mentioned your drains, Will !
Early this morning Von and I cleared the gutters on the 'annexe', before the really nasty weather set in.
Job done.
This afto' while it was heaving it down, I went outside to check the rainwater was happily going down the downpipes....It was...Huzzah !
Oooh.....I Haven't checked our drains for AGES.....Ooops...We had a very nice block forming.....But catching it that early meant it was the easiest of tasks.....and to finish it off, a couple of buckets of rainwater hurled down the pipe shifted everything very nicely.
Does this count as synchronicity ?......Or is that just a coincidence ?
Hope yours is sorted now, Will.
Cheers - Phil
Evening chaps!
Since I have been de-catted, I've been busy converting my cat-room into a wargames room. Still some work to do, but I thought I'd get a game in.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49003369307_0ba5f930e8_z.jpg)(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49003369192_688e243b92_z.jpg)
The deserts scene was picked because ... the desert cloth was first to hand* ... and I decided upon a French colonial (made up) battle.
1960: the French had become aware of Soviet MiG15s being based at an airstrip in ... an unspecified North African place. They were a bit narked so sent a small force to destroy the MiGs on the ground: 2 AMX13, 2 Panhard EBR and a weak platoon of the Foreign Legion, plus a couple of mortars. The airstrip was defended by a couple of T54s, a pair of PT76s and a scratch platoon plus a hmg.
Long story short, the EBRs scuttled up the right hand side of the table, whilst AMX got stuck around the fort with the infantry. The insurgent/freedom fighters had to charge through the village to take up position. One T54 and a PT76 got the worst of a duel with the French armour, being apparently incapable of hitting anything. The French, though more accurate, seemed to have difficulty with the armour of the T54 and it withstood several hits before eventually succumbing. With the armour defending the airfield neutralised, the EBRs calmly despatched the MiGs. Unfortunately for them a PT76 damaged one of the withdrawing armoured cars and there was a bit of a tense time until it could be coaxed into action again.
Meanwhile, the French infantry sheltered in the fort were under fire from the other T54 and the HMG which had ensconced itself on a convenient rooftop. Under this cover, the insurgent infantry pushed forward towards the fort. This coincided with the French infantry deciding to withdraw, as the MiGs were burning merrily. Unfortunately for them, the T54 advanced and caught them as they crossed the railway line, causing several casualties.
This enthusiam was the undoing of the T54, and an AMX13 popped up from behind the fort and slammed an AP round into the tank's exposed rear.
With the 2nd T54 on knocked out, the insurgent lost heart and did not pursue as the French withdrew.
Victory for the French, but at a cost. They lost the equivalent of a section of infantry, and the two EBRs damaged. The insurgents lost the HMG, and the two T54s. The two PT76s were damaged.
Enjoyable hour, and the new table is high enough to use comfortably (about 105cm tall, and 8' x 4' **). It has plenty storage space and a shelf at one end for dice, rulesets and rulers*** and I can easily make my way around all of it.
I'm a very happy FSN, and it was much better because it is a bit of a shared project with my daughter. :x
*yes I know it need ironing - and the runways need flattening.
** Yes I know I'm mixing metric and Imperial
***Pet hate - stuff on tables
That's an impressive set up, Nobby. Your own little Shangri La! :-bd
:-bd =D> :-bd
Sounds like a fun game :)
Great set-up and a fun game. Here's to many more to come.
Spiffy space, the cats would never have put up with it.
Liked the AAR as well (but given the BWP thread I was expecting a heavily repaired cromwell to appear at the end and save the day for the insurgents).
Quote from: Ithoriel on 03 November 2019, 01:43:01 AM
Here's to many more to come.
Hear, hear!
Great stuff Nobby ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Love it Nobby
Nice Set up Nobby.
Every wargamer should have their own little (6x4) space!
Well....there are three figures no-one's ever going to see, until I've changed some bits....(I won't even risk sending Leon photo's, in case he posts them. :-[)
Talk about it looking as though I was extracting the urine......They were going so well up until that point ! X_X
The annoying thing is that the bits I've made a mess of, are such small parts of the models.....But they don't half look daft at the mo'.
(When I showed them to Von, she cracked up laughing.)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 06 November 2019, 06:00:16 PM
(When I showed them to Von, she cracked up laughing.)
Cheers - Phil
That was very rude of her :o. Perhaps you should point out that you are a much revered maker of wargaming masters, throughout the country - Nay the world. This sublime skill you have pays to keep the wolf from the door and food on your table - and probably more importantly puts grain in the horses nose-bags and hay in their mangers.
If all that fails - tell her that she should respect her elders and that you are the master of the house - no, on second thoughts she will laugh so much at that she will get a hernia and you will end up at A&E again!
To be fair, Mark.
When I showed her the models, I did say, "Do these ears look like they belong to a particular cartoon character ? " (They did....so I don't blame her for laughing. ;))
"Techno's messed the models up,
it's plain for all to see.
P-I-L....E-O-F...S-H-I-*- E. X_X
Cheers - Phil :-[
Just to say....
I hope none of you were badly affected by the deluge in and around Sheffield (and beyond) yesterday.
That looked particularly grim for a lot of folk, in the North ! :(
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 08 November 2019, 08:54:30 AM
Just to say....
I hope none of you were badly affected by the deluge in and around Sheffield (and beyond) yesterday.
That looked particularly grim for a lot of folk, in the North ! :(
Cheers - Phil
Here's hoping Baccus6mm are OK.
Their workshop is in a fairly flood-prone part of town.
Hmmmm...
I'd guess that probably their 'best case scenario' is having problems getting to the site....If they CAN get there.
Their road isn't/wasn't on the list of closed roads when I looked.....But that doesn't really mean much....The water may have already retreated slightly by the time I checked.
Cheers - Phil
Fair play Sir Rod...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50403561 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50403561)
That is DAMN good. :)
The boy's got talent. ;)
Cheers - Phil
:-bd =D> :-bd =D>
Imagine what he could have built if he hadn't wasted all that time on drink and women.
Well Now he's finished it, perhaps he should start wargaming - you never finish that
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 13 November 2019, 07:49:02 PM
Imagine what he could have built if he hadn't wasted all that time on drink and women.
Rachel Hunter complained about the amount of time he spent 'playing with his trains' when she was married to him ;)
Other hobbies are available: https://consequenceofsound.net/2015/08/the-unusual-hobbies-and-careers-of-rock-stars/ (https://consequenceofsound.net/2015/08/the-unusual-hobbies-and-careers-of-rock-stars/)
Roger Daltrey (Trout Farmer) - a man after my own heart.
Dr Brian May, PhD - Astrophysicist
Only took him 37 years to complete his thesis ;D
Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)....Salmon farmer. (Not absolutely sure if he's still involved with that. :-\)
Cheers - Phil
For who ever was asking about 2nd monitors...
you can get a wireless monitor/adaptor, that will broadcast wirelessly to a 2nd screen.
That was me, LH.
Better and better.
Ta for that. :)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: paulr on 13 November 2019, 11:19:55 PM
Rachel Hunter complained about the amount of time he spent 'playing with his trains' when she was married to him ;)
HMM! Have to question his sanity - I can play with trains or my very attractive 20 year old wife .........
Quote from: Matt J on 13 November 2019, 03:30:49 PM
Fair play Sir Rod...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50403561 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-50403561)
... and here was I thinking, with his reputation, his train entering a tunnel meant something else.
Quote from: Orcs on 15 November 2019, 09:28:17 AM
HMM! Have to question his sanity - I can play with trains or my very attractive 20 year old wife .........
A case of "Sexy, single, sane - pick two!" maybe? :)
Single is much overrated. I don't just mean hot and cold sex on tap, either. I'm more motivated to cook with someone else in the house, groceries are half the chore, and since Lee's discovered outflanking wins battles....
Hah! Single is peace and quiet; cooking what you want to eat and when, free choice of what to watch ... or not; spending as much time you like on your hobby; etc etc. Tried both, prefer single.
Tax accountant: Marriage is great! I can claim her as an extra expense, we use each other's banks to hide earnings, joint income means we're rolling in it.
Lawyer: Worst institution in the world. One slip up and an expensive divorce, and I lost the house, car, and boat, I'm paying kilotons in alimony, and I see my kids once every two months. Keep a mistress, but never marry!
Actuary: (smugly) I have the perfect situation: a wife and a mistress. When I'm not with the mistress, she thinks I'm with my wife. When I'm not with my wife, she thinks I'm with my mistress. That way, I get to spend more time at the office.
To your usual standard Alexander :P
I must admit that If my current relationship ended I don't think I would live with a partner again. I enjoy my own company and as Nobby says - My house, My rules.
I played a joke on Mrs Sunjester, and Orcs almost go the blame.
Which I object to, because if I'm going to do something insanely suicidal, I want to claim the glory.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 18 November 2019, 06:16:36 PM
I played a joke on Mrs Sunjester, and Orcs almost go the blame.
Which I object to, because if I'm going to do something insanely suicidal, I want to claim the glory.
Yep, I nearly got a clip round the ear!
I was looking at clip boards with storage on Amazon.
The Genie M800 is described as "Gummies at the clamp prevent a slipping of the papers while making notes or wind".
Can anyone explain? :(
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01M8JXGAA/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&psc=1
(https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01M8JXGAA/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&psc=1)
Obvious clerical error for "breaking notes or wind". Clear now?
Quote from: Orcs on 18 November 2019, 09:54:30 PM
Yep, I nearly got a clip round the ear!
You probably deserved it.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 30 November 2019, 02:13:57 AM
You probably deserved it.
Yes, even if not for that particular event. ;D
Quote from: FierceKitty on 16 November 2019, 12:59:18 AM
Single is much overrated. I don't just mean hot and cold sex on tap,
Cold Sex? ?????? I did not think that you were interested Necrophilia :) :)
As you grow older, you get adventurous, you know....
My daughter went to Wetherspoons (a well known pub chain in the UK) and ordered a vegetarian breakfast with grilled tomato. Some time later, out came a vegetarian breakfast with black pudding (a type of blood sausage). :o You have to wonder what goes through some people's minds. Why would someone order a vegetarian breakfast with meat?
Her partner went for the full English and asked for poached eggs but was informed they had run out of poached eggs. #-o ;D
That makes me wonder....Could you poach an egg and then 'fast freeze it'....So it only needs to be microwaved ? (and that's why they'd 'run out' ?)
'Lunch' at Techno Towers, for the past few weeks (plus) has been home grown poached eggs.
'Home grown' eggs are SO better in taste compared to shop bought ones.
(I just wish the sodding chickens wouldn't follow me around and try and get under my feet !......OIKS !)
Cheers - Phil
As my wife has recently found out, poaching eggs in a microwave can be rather...
Ballistic9
Quote from: Techno on 31 December 2019, 11:28:03 AM
That makes me wonder....Could you poach an egg and then 'fast freeze it'....So it only needs to be microwaved ? (and that's why they'd 'run out' ?)
I knew someone would ask (I wondered myself). According to this guy (see link), you can pre-poach them and store them in the fridge for up to 5 days 'without any loss in quality' when you re-heat them. If you freeze them, apparently the white of the egg will be rubbery and not taste so good. The yolk is unlikely to be runny and will be more like a hard boiled egg. Somehow, I don't think Gordon Ramsay in
Kitchen Nightmares would approve and makes you wonder how fresh the food is at Wetherspoons. :-B
https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/10/the-food-lab-how-to-poach-eggs-for-a-party.html (https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/10/the-food-lab-how-to-poach-eggs-for-a-party.html)
Quote from: Techno on 31 December 2019, 11:28:03 AM
'Lunch' at Techno Towers, for the past few weeks (plus) has been home grown poached eggs.
You grow poached eggs? :P
Quote from: mad lemmey on 31 December 2019, 01:02:22 PM
As my wife has recently found out, poaching eggs in a microwave can be rather...
Ballistic9
#-o #-o #-o ;D
Quote from: Westmarcher on 31 December 2019, 01:10:36 PM
You grow poached eggs? :P
Doesn't everybody ? ;)
(Von still won't let me put an egg (in the shell) in the microwave and give it full power for a minute.......Or do the experiment where you get a ball of 'plasma' zipping around the inside of the microwave....I'm not allowed to have any fun. :()
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 31 December 2019, 01:25:32 PM
Doesn't everybody ? ;)
(Von still won't let me put an egg (in the shell) in the microwave and give it full power for a minute.......Or do the experiment where you get a ball of 'plasma' zipping around the inside of the microwave....I'm not allowed to have any fun. :()
Cheers - Phil
How Mean ! I think you should stand up for yourself and explain that not are you a grown man but the head of the household and you will do as you please.......afterall you have plently of straw in the stable to bed down in. :)
Quote from: Techno on 31 December 2019, 01:25:32 PM
Doesn't everybody ? ;)
(Von still won't let me put an egg (in the shell) in the microwave and give it full power for a minute.......Or do the experiment where you get a ball of 'plasma' zipping around the inside of the microwave....I'm not allowed to have any fun. :()
;D Ooooh! I've never tried that. 8) :d :D
I wasn't even allowed to do that with a really old/kn*ckered microwave (that still 'worked') in the yard.......Far enough from the house so as not to cause a worry (Probably). :-\
I AM doing that one day.......The next time we have an old microwave that's due to go to 'the tip'......And Von's not around to stop me. :D
It's the plasma ball that I really want to try and achieve.
Cheers - Phil. :D
Won't you have to build a bunker and a fall-out shelter first? :P
Got one/both already. :P
(I really have.....Though it would be rather than a teeny bit wiffy....YUK ! :-&)
Cheers - Phil
Phil in your case can we blame Von, you'd electrocute or cook yourself !
No, Ian...... ;)
Knowing my good fortune, I'd miss any 'shrapnel' from the microwave.
One day my luck will run out...... X_X ;)
Cheers - Phil
Yers .... anyway, I was looking at my spreadsheet yesterday, contemplating planned/purchased and purchased/painted ratios, and It's all looking pretty good. I have in most areas about 80%-90% (some cases over 90%) of purchases painted ... then I spotted the cavalry figure. 24%!
Oh dear! What's gone on there?
A little investigation showed that the lack was in the Napoleonics. I have a considerable lead range of mountains that area the bits of 5 different armies (none of them French BTW), and not a single one painted.
Why is this? On reflection, it's a case of pretty poor planning preventing proper performance. My planned Napoleonic armies are quite large (1000 figures), and I don't lay paint to figure until all purchases are made. The not-kickstarter has thrown me somewhat, as I have been diverted into purchasing Confederation of the Rhine instead of finishing off my Brits ... which is also a problem because my planned armies are taken from OOBs and I keep dithering between the Anglo-Allied army of 1815 and a late Peninsula army.
My plan then, is to be focused on my purchasing this year. No Samurai for Nobby until at least one Napoleonic army is purchased and painted. I shall use the time to finish off those half complete projects (e.g. Flodden English, Arab Medieval).
The other issue for me is lack of confidence in may painting. I'm not the greatest brushman, and I think the horse and musket armies pose a particular set of issues ... and I want them to look good. I may just have to dive in and give it a go.
What's the worst that could happen?
Quote from: fsn on 07 January 2020, 08:31:43 AM
What's the worst that could happen?
X_X X_X X_X ;)
Sir,
I notice with dismay that a plane traveling from America to our fair shores, has claimed the record for the fastest subsonic flight across the Atlantic.
How is it, that this wind assisted flight can claim a record, when any records set by athletes with a tailwind of anything remotely approaching 10 mph* are discounted ?
Yours - Puzzled of Wales
(I think 4 metres a second comes out to slightly less than than 10mph...But it was early when I worked this out.) ;)
Thought you only used cubits Phil...
PAH !!
I don't go in for all that new fangled stuff !
Cheers - Phil
Actually, this rant is war-game related, I suppose, but I'm not sure it warrants me starting a new topic. I've just finished watching an interesting documentary about the Halifax bomber* on Amazon Prime (I used to have the Airfix model of that one) and being a wee bit 'corn beef' ('deef' .... deaf ... but not the 'end of life' word used in the SE of Engerlund), I had the subtitles on. Possibly the person doing the subtitles was also a wee bit 'corn beef' because some of the interpretations of what had actually been said started to become annoying (e.g., instead of a German Ack Ack Battery it was described as a German Attack Battery).
I then started another documentary about the Hawker Hurricane. again, with subtitles on. This time you had footage of said plane whizzing by with the caption, "jet engine roars!" #-o immediately followed by "distant radio chatter" - it was an air display and what you were hearing in the background was the commentary on the tannoy!
I soon switched off the subtitles. Really. What kind of people do they get to do these subtitles? Money for old rope! Rant over. >:(
* Mrs Westie's eyes lit up when I started to tell her about me watching this documentary on "The Halifax Bomber" - she immediately lost interest when she realised it was about an aeroplane and not what she was thinking ....
I've heard of 'mutton' (mutton jeff = deaf) used by "Lahdaners" Davy.....But I can't think of the 'end of life' one.....'Brown bread' = dead. :-\
Cheers - Phil :)
Fink harder, Phil. :P
Quote from: Westmarcher on 09 March 2020, 01:40:07 PM
Actually, this rant is war-game related, I suppose, but I'm not sure it warrants me starting a new topic. I've just finished watching an interesting documentary about the Halifax bomber* on Amazon Prime (I used to have the Airfix model of that one) and being a wee bit 'corn beef' ('deef' .... deaf ... but not the 'end of life' word used in the SE of Engerlund), I had the subtitles on. Possibly the person doing the subtitles was also a wee bit 'corn beef' because some of the interpretations of what had actually been said started to become annoying (e.g., instead of a German Ack Ack Battery it was described as a German Attack Battery).
I then started another documentary about the Hawker Hurricane. again, with subtitles on. This time you had footage of said plane whizzing by with the caption, "jet engine roars!" #-o immediately followed by "distant radio chatter" - it was an air display and what you were hearing in the background was the commentary on the tannoy!
I soon switched off the subtitles. Really. What kind of people do they get to do these subtitles? Money for old rope! Rant over. >:(
* Mrs Westie's eyes lit up when I started to tell her about me watching this documentary on "The Halifax Bomber" - she immediately lost interest when she realised it was about an aeroplane and not what she was thinking ....
Some subtitles are now done by Artificial Intelligence of the Amazon Alexa variety.
It's not great with background noise, accents or slang.
The same problem plagues the news coverage.
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 09 March 2020, 06:11:10 PM
The same problem plagues the news coverage.
Yep! Seen examples of that before. Once saw some local politician talking about housing and somehow daleks entered the conversation (but only in the subtitles, of course). :o
Quote from: Techno on 09 March 2020, 05:31:07 PM
I've heard of 'mutton' (mutton jeff = deaf) used by "Lahdaners" Davy.....But I can't think of the 'end of life' one.....'Brown bread' = dead. :-
Cheers - Phil :)
Deaf an' taxis, mate, deaf an' taxis. Tha two fings yer carn't avoid. :)
As someone who comes from East London and is almost a proper Cockney, and probably as near as you are going to get nowadays.
I would like to point out in most cases you only use the first word of the Rhyme
eg Lionel Blairs = Flares (as in trousers). You would say "Look at his Lionel's"
Brown Bread = Dead
China Plate= Mate
Bristol Cities = I'll leave you to work out that one.
Trouble and Strife = Wife ( I don't have one opf those)
Septic Tank = Yank
Plates of meat= Feet
Dog and bone = Phone
Khyber Pass = Arse
Tom Tit = Sh*t
Jimy Riddle = Piddle
Pony and trap =Crap
Frog and Toad = Road
Brad and Honey = Money
Butchers Hook = Look
They are loads of them. In the easy end they were often coupled with backward slang to make conversations even more private to the uninitiated.
Other correct pronunciation is to do the following
H's should normally be dropped eg hands becomes 'ands
th often sounds as a had F at the as in "I an just having a fink" (Think), or as a hard v in Father = FarVa
G's at the end of words are dropped as in Nothing = Nufin
er is pronounces as a soft a
T's in the middle of words are often dropped so:-
Butter = Bu a
Father = Farva
Mothers = Mova
Water = wa a
'ere endef the lesson
Quote from: Techno on 09 March 2020, 05:31:07 PM
I've heard of 'mutton' (mutton jeff = deaf) used by "Lahdaners" Davy.....But I can't think of the 'end of life' one.....'Brown bread' = dead. :-
Cheers - Phil :)
Yep that is the correct rhyming slang for Deaf. as in "That old mans a bit mutton "
Now add a good dose of Polari...
Oooh, nice to vada your eek.
Come in and take the weight off your lallies.
(British) Forces TV.
As a historical wargamer (who has played some fantasy games), I'm personally disappointed. But, on the bright side, I suppose you could argue they are learning strategy and tactics, the game genre and their generation is (hopefully) better equipped to adapt to the nature of future warfare and maybe, just maybe, they'll 'progress' to historical gaming. :)
Quote from: Westmarcher on 16 March 2020, 01:41:59 PM
(British) Forces TV.
As a historical wargamer (who has played some fantasy games), I'm personally disappointed. But, on the bright side, I suppose you could argue they are learning strategy and tactics, the game genre and their generation is (hopefully) better equipped to adapt to the nature of future warfare and maybe, just maybe, they'll 'progress' to historical gaming. :)
Our boys have been caught out using tactics form the last war too often.
Nice to see they're planning into the dark future.
I'm worried about Nobby.
He may be dead because I appear to be channelling him...
https://twitter.com/FrankyBabes/status/1241156501147918337
(You'll need to open the whole thread, not just the bits it shows. Long story short I was effectively told to get my coat)
Playing War Thunder - Like World of Tanks, but with aircraft (and a whole Torpedo boat bit as well). As the vehicles are what you take, you can have Valentines fighting alongside Pz III both shooting at an enemy Sherman.
Anyway - I shot down a Spitfire with the Co-ax of my Crusader. The other side seemed to have gone with a lot of aircraft, so we threw a lot of .303 into the air.
Cool
Can anyone have a good guess as to where I might have put the sponge filter out of the cordless vacuum cleaner ?
I took it to bits last night and cleaned all the filters...and when I went to put it back together......There was one filter missing.....which I'm absolutely positive I didn't take out of the cleaner, last night.
I know I cleaned it the LAST time I took it to bits, but .......I obviously didn't put it back in the machine.
I have the most horrible feeling it must have got chucked away a few weeks ago. :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
(I did say some naughty words !) >:(
Cheers - A Twerp.
Have you checked the fridge? Or the back of the sofa?
Did you wash it last time? Where would you have put it to dry?
I've had to buy some more cleaning materials today.
I had a spray can malfunction. Ended up with something akin to a paint fountain. Managed to get the can back into the spray booth, but I now have beautifully camouflaged hands.
And a polka dot spotted floor. :(
Quote from: mmcv on 22 March 2020, 05:53:13 PM
Have you checked the fridge? Or the back of the sofa?
It's definitely not in the fridge.....But I haven't looked down the back of the sofa yet.
Quote from: paulr on 22 March 2020, 06:02:47 PM
Did you wash it last time? Where would you have put it to dry?
I know I put it on a piece of newspaper on top of the boiler, to start with...(it was sodden)...And I'm fairly certain it went from the boiler onto one of the double radiators.
I've taken the work surface off the boiler...and looked all around
that, and there's not enough room for it to have fallen down behind the radiator. (I still looked though.)
One of the dogs
may have half-inched it, and taken it outside...But I don't think so.
I'll just have to order a new one. :(
Oh, Nobby....So I'm not the only one who's been cursing today.
Cheers - Phil
I put up a coat rack on our newly painted hall wall yesterday. Cheapy thing from TK Maxx. Spent today with the polyfilla... it wasn't able to hold its own weight* so came out of the wall taking some of the plaster with it. At least we've leftover paint.
*I was pretty tired yesterday so entirely possible I may have made a bit of a mess of it...
Socks paired up, much Netflix watched.
Jo made scones, I made pancakes.
Just ordered a bulk bag of 40x20 bases. Are you still cutting, of will I be waiting for a few weeks? (No wrong answer here, just wondering)
Quote from: Techno on 22 March 2020, 05:50:09 PM
Can anyone have a good guess as to where I might have put the sponge filter out of the cordless vacuum cleaner ?
I took it to bits last night and cleaned all the filters...and when I went to put it back together......There was one filter missing.....which I'm absolutely positive I didn't take out of the cleaner, last night.
I know I cleaned it the LAST time I took it to bits, but .......I obviously didn't put it back in the machine.
I have the most horrible feeling it must have got chucked away a few weeks ago. :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
(I did say some naughty words !) >:(
Cheers - A Twerp.
If its like mine, you would have rinsed it then left it somewhere to dry .... like a radiator or window sill? I've forgotten I'd left it out then subsequently did some vacuuming without it (hope it didn't damage the motor).
That's what I did, Davy.....But what on earth did I do with it after that. 8-}
My only other thought was it got dropped into the rubbish bin on an earlier occasion, when I emptied the dogs' hair out of the machine...and I simply didn't notice.
That too seems a tad unlikely as it was a fairly tight fit....Who knows ?
I even looked in the microwave last night, just to make sure I hadn't put in there to finish off drying !
Hey Ho ! X_X
Cheers - Phil
HAH !
No I haven't found the filter.....I just realised the woman on the radio this morning was lying....about the time.
When I heard the time check "At 6 o'clock"...I thought "Poop ".....the clocks must have changed THIS weekend.
I'm an hour in front of what I expected to be, now. ;D ;D ;D.....It wasn't six o'clock..it was blanking five when I got up. X_X
Cheers - An even earlier bird than I thought !
The Hunter-Gatherer returns. ;)
As per recently...Cardigan doesn't seem to be anything like as awful (shopping wise) as some of you lot of you are experiencing.
Did our normal Monday "initial, half weekly shop" for Von.
I got there about 7:30......Car park oodles busier than normal, for that time.....but nothing like completely 'chock full'
Got just about all our normal basics for a Monday, with a few unimportant exceptions.
No skimmed milk, at all.......Had to get semi skimmed.....Meat isle.....Almost nothing there....(Literally, not a sausage ;D ;D)....So the dogs may have to miss out on their weekend treat....Our normal weekend snack of bacon butties. ?....Had to buy some 'posh' bacon today....(Damn the torpedoes !)
The booze aisle......BLIMEY.....Oh, of course, pubs shut....everyone stocking up.
Worst of all....They didn't have any of the big, single, bags of Twiglets......I may not survive. :'( :'(
Lass that was on the till, told me there were queues outside the store at six, this morning. :o...and she'd been on the 'late till shift' on Saturday. "By the time I went home," said she, the shelves were almost all stripped bare.
(There was some loo roll & boxes of paracetomol in stock, when I went in.....Bet that's all gone by now !!) =)
Enough waffling.....Time to push some putty around.
You all stay safe, and healthy, Gang.
Cheers - Phil :)
Quote from: Techno on 23 March 2020, 10:04:27 AM
The Hunter-Gatherer returns. ;)
Did our normal Monday "initial, half weekly shop" for Von.
Seriously as you are approaching the age where they are saying you should not go out, perhaps you shoud do one weekly shop while this is going on to limit your exposure.
Quote from: Techno on 23 March 2020, 10:04:27 AM
So the dogs may have to miss out on their weekend treat
As I said Phill take the air rifle to the flying rats - the dogs will love the breasts cooked up.
Stay well
That's a really kind thought, Mark. :)....Appreciated, my friend.
Von & I are almost self isolated anyway....Usually so far away from the potential.....erm..."twits" (sic) ;)...that I feel as safe as I could possibly be.
(Short of getting Richard, 'up the road' to come and dig a big hole, with the bucket on the tractor, where I could hide, (under half a ton of soil) I don't think we could do anything else to keep ourselves 'virus free'.)
Cheers - Phil :)
Was out at Tesco at 7am this morning. The local Tesco to me is one of the ones that was 24hr but is now 6am to 10pm.
The shop was pretty quiet, almost as many staff as punters, but many of the shelves were pretty bare and choice very limited even at that hour. Particularly slim pickings for vegetarians like me.
No paracetamol or hand sanitiser, precious little loo roll/ kitchen roll/ tissues but enormous bags of pasta and plenty of liquid soap this week, unlike last.
My fellow shoppers all seemed fairly relaxed about things. A couple in paper face masks, one in a plastic full-face mask with built in respirator. A couple, like me, wearing latex gloves in a vague attempt to limit contact.
All being well, I'm stocked up for a week or slightly more.
Awwww.....'Bother' >:( !
I was planning to 'napalm' some weeds today. (This is my idea of gardening) :D
Get out early, so I could do it before the chickens started 'helping', and the weedkiller would dry, so they'd be safe.
Too windy !....I'll end up killing a load of 'proper plants'. X_X
Looks like I'll have to try on Tuesday....(If the weather forecast is accurate.)
Cheers - Frustrated of Wales. (I'll clean out the USB ports on the PC, instead.....That's needed doing for ages.)
What happened to Monday ?
Looks as though it'll still be breezier than is 'safe' for the other plants, Ian.
(Again...if the forecast is accurate.) ;)
Cheers - Phil
But it's a flat calm here !
Sunny but a bit breezy here. It's a shame Phil can't pop over to Ian's, he could do his weed killing from there out of the wind! :D
Well I am only about 10 miles from Wales...
Quote from: ianrs54 on 05 April 2020, 10:19:17 AM
But it's a flat calm here !
That's one of the disadvantages of being the best part of 1,000 feet above sea level.....With effectively no cover from the usual wind direction.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 05 April 2020, 11:02:40 AM
Well I am only about 10 miles from Wales...
And roughly 160 miles from Techno Towers. ;)
It IS a bit of a sod.....Apart from the 'breeze', it's a glorious day here. (For a change !) =)
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Techno on 05 April 2020, 11:53:35 AM
It IS a bit of a sod.....Apart from the 'breeze', it's a glorious day here. (For a change !) =)
WHAT :o :o IT'S not Raining !
Quote from: ianrs54 on 05 April 2020, 03:00:15 PM
WHAT :o :o IT'S not Raining !
Have you forgotten Ian?
There are
two types of weather in Wales.
Raining
...and ...
about to rain.
Clearly, it's currently the latter :)
Yep.....It's getting darker already. ;D ;D
And I've got to go up on the flat roof after din-dins and replace a telecom 'cover' that's come off the wires......Looking at the cover, I can't understand how it ever stayed there. :o
I've got to cut a chunk out of the cover.....and another in the box, so the cover will sit there flush, with the drop wire going through the 'ole. =)
At least the 'cleaning the USB ports' seems to have worked and made the computer a lot happier...It seems to recognise the tablet....and the camera again, now. :-bd
Hey Ho.
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Lovely bike ride with the youngest today, after lots of painting.
Latest game: approach to a siege.
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Can the defenders stave off the attackers for long enough to evacuate the peasants and their sheep to the town?
Errr ... yes. They did.
So because I said that 2020 was going to be a year of Napoleonics ... I had a review of my 1944 British.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49743329677_fd2d5090e2_z.jpg) Squadron of recce Cromwells, bulk of a Sherman squadron (awaiting the Fireflies), 5.5" Howitzers and some Funnies.
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Crocodiles and Crabs.
Since these photos were taken, I've added the Fireflies, a Churchill ARV to the Churchill squadron, and some Achilles to replace the Archers (which were transferred to the 51st Highland Div).
Nice mate!
That's a nice set up, what make is the castle/Town Walls?
:-bd =D> :-bd
Lovely work FSN, those seige engines look really the part :)
Thanks Chaps. :-[
The walls are Kallistra.
Really great stuff, Nobby !! :-bd
Cheers - Phil
FSN, very much like your medieval panorama and your peasants protecting the virtue of their sheep (while their daughters presumably greet the invaders with open....arms?)
Have you made progress on your heralds? Mine languish for lack of livery.
Quote from: d_Guy on 07 April 2020, 06:39:27 PM
FSN, very much like your medieval panorama and your peasants protecting the virtue of their sheep (while their daughters presumably greet the invaders with open....arms?)
"Zounds, sir, you're robbed! For shame, put on your gown.
Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.
Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise,
Awake the snorting citizens with the bell
Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you.
Arise, I say!" - Bill the Bard
Othello
A post in good English - what a pleasant change.
In my defence, I was thinking about priming the next batch.
Let me explain.
I'm in a painting mood at the moment, and try and alternate troop types to keep the interest going and to allow drying time between phases. Currently, I'm painting Wurttemberg Napoleonics and a few top-ups for the British Guards Armoured Division.
I'd just finished the 2nd Bttn, 1st Regt Wurttemberg, and put them on the paint station to spray varnish. However, my mind was on the Sherman ARV and the Crusader OP that would be next up. Assembled and ready to prime.
I picked up the can of varnish and gave it a good shake ... and a spray ...
The Wurttemberg Grenadier company have been wiped out ... or rather re-primed. There are some casualties amongst the other companies too. :(
:o X_X #-o :( ~X( >:(
Oh noooooo! :o
OOPS ! X_X X_X X_X
That's a b*gger ! :(
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: fsn on 06 April 2020, 04:54:40 PM
Latest game: approach to a siege.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49743317177_2aa421bdaf_z.jpg)(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49742445768_0f0d405ea2_z.jpg)(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49742446873_8044163899_z.jpg)
Can the defenders stave off the attackers for long enough to evacuate the peasants and their sheep to the town?
Errr ... yes. They did.
So because I said that 2020 was going to be a year of Napoleonics ... I had a review of my 1944 British.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49743329677_fd2d5090e2_z.jpg) Squadron of recce Cromwells, bulk of a Sherman squadron (awaiting the Fireflies), 5.5" Howitzers and some Funnies.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49743007986_62bdaaa4f0_z.jpg)(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49743333267_724692759c_z.jpg)
Crocodiles and Crabs.
Since these photos were taken, I've added the Fireflies, a Churchill ARV to the Churchill squadron, and some Achilles to replace the Archers (which were transferred to the 51st Highland Div).
Great photos, Nobby! :-bd
[Me, as usual, playing catch-up and still missing stuff :-[ ]
Thanks Westie. :D
Thats a real downer. You then really have to be in the mood to start them again.
You know ... that's very true. I'm looking at their little white faces and thinking "there's the Greeks to paint."
Anyway. Can I check that I've got everything for the British 1944? I've had a revamp and added a few things.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49760839526_7569f2aa64_z.jpg)top: 17pdr, 5.5" howitzer, Sexton, towed 25pdr, recce a/cs: Middle Achilles, Crusader & carrier AOPs, Bottom Sherman/Firefly squadron (incl Crusader AA) & recce Cromwell/Challenger squadron
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49760310433_e82da49d61_z.jpg)Top: Churchill Sqn: Middle Churchill bridgelayers, AVRE, Crab, Crocodile bottom: Leyland Retriever, Archers
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49760310263_34660bed69_z.jpg) Infantry company with half tracks (sorry about the quality)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49761161642_e26731f342_z.jpg) Top 2" Mortars, bottom Engineers, Vickers
Still to paint: Carrier platoon and some Morris Commercials as an alternative to the half tracks.
I fancy some 6pdrs for the infantry company. Don't like Stuarts, so they're out.
But after that ... no more.
Done.
Finished.
No more.
Maybe some 4.2" mortars I can nick off the Americans?
Some more softskins? A bowser maybe?
Sherman DDs, Priests :d
Crab flails
Quote from: mad lemmey on 11 April 2020, 07:18:42 PM
Crab flails
FSN's had crabs once - he would rather not have them again. :d
Quote from: mad lemmey on 11 April 2020, 07:18:42 PM
Crab flails
See middle of second picture, between the AVREs & Crocodiles
He needs MORE
I hate Archduke Charles.
What bastard gives each hussar regiment different coloured shakos.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 11 April 2020, 08:56:04 PM
I hate Archduke Charles.
What bastard gives each hussar regiment different coloured shakos.
This guy:
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Duloc didn't have hussars.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 12 April 2020, 04:08:11 AM
Duloc didn't have hussars.
You've not been following the "special" fan fiction.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 12 April 2020, 04:08:11 AM
Duloc didn't have hussars.
But his opponent had 2 trolls, a Dragon, a donkey and 3 blind mice. that would spice up a Napolenic Army
Ogres ... 2 ogres! :)
Aright, nobody move. I've got a dragon and I'm not afraid to use it.
I'm a donkey on the edge.
:D :D :D
Quote from: Ithoriel on 12 April 2020, 12:05:18 PM
Ogres ... 2 ogres! :)
Aright, nobody move. I've got a dragon and I'm not afraid to use it.
I'm a donkey on the edge.
:D :D :D
That's right it was 2 Ogres, and Puss in boots
Quote from: Ithoriel on 12 April 2020, 12:05:18 PM
Aright, nobody move. I've got a dragon and I'm not afraid to use it.
Ok Mr Vimes - but the question is in all the fuss did you fire 5 or 6 ? :d
I just watched 'The Giant Claw,' on TV, this afto'.
Ray Harryhausen eat your heart out. =O =O =O =O (OK it was a B movie, first released in 1957.) X_X
Cheers - Phil
Super heavy nuclear powered AI controlled tanks?
Which Osprey is that?
The Games Workshop one......That ul git moi bared
For the past few weeks I have been on half time - 3 days one week, 2 the next. This means less people in so we can spread out.
Today it has been decided because some are able to work from home my team can revert back to 5 days a week. Apparently Her Majesty (or at least her local representative) has decided if they are going to pay me for 37 hours a week, it might be an idea if I work 37 hours a week.
I call that rude.
Why should I change the habits of a lifetime?
I'm doing 3 half days this week, emergancy cover, at my one day a week school, which means I only have to work half a day bext week.
Or something...
I'm dying on my ar*e!
Working 4 jobs as everyone else furloughed, home schooling , caring for oldies in isolation including dementia ridden crazy old man, queuing for ages just to get some food, getting disgusted looks off strangers for having the temerity to go the wrong way round tesco and the dogs got scabies.
Covid 19 can go do one >:(
Hugs
>:< >:<
Sounds rough Matt. Here's to better days.
Also, look after yourself as best you can.
>:< >:< >:<
Same from me, Matt. >:<
Take care !!
All the best - Phil
Matt - what can I say - Work Faster maybe. Hang in there !
That sounds tough Matt. keep smiling , if nothing else it will make people wonder what you have been up to. :)
May I apologise for what was meant as poking fun at myself complaining about having to work, may have come across as a bit tone deaf for those of you with actual lockdown problems.
My apologies.
No need to apologies LH and thanks for your concern guys (you are the most convivial bunch that I have never met >:<)
Fortunately my woes should be temporary, it's those working on the front line and losing loved ones to this blight I feel for.
Well I was going to say pints of Crème de Menthe all round and on my tab. Given Matt's reply...
Pints of Crème de Menthe all round and put it on Matt's tab.
After the beers this evening, my wife would kill me...
After a pint of that stuff, she'd be more likely to have to dig a hole in the garden and put you in it - and nowhere near the barbeque.
Is that why she just phoned the Staff Sergeant and told him to make sure he serves a double?
Just bought 4 pint take out from my local (hes getting a couple of barrels in every few days from Vale Brewery). I'd forgotten how good cask beer tasted. >:<
I'm emigrating.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/dutch-official-advice-to-single-people-find-a-sex-buddy-for-lockdown-coronavirus (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/dutch-official-advice-to-single-people-find-a-sex-buddy-for-lockdown-coronavirus)
Civilised and rational people, the Dutch. No wonder such a tiny country has done so much.
Sorting out next academic years maintenance loan for our daughter had been 'interesting' to say the least. Logged on and filled in my wife's tax details in around 15 minutes. Simples. Then when I logged on, it didn't recognise our daughter's code and my relationship to her >:(. It had worked perfectly fine in previous years.
Then to make matters worse you cannot easily contact the Student Loans Company, they have no e-mail address (incredible in this day and age), so contact is done via Twitter or Facebook Messenger and I kid you not :o!!! So after a few exchanged messages (that can only be done at certain times of day!) it appears that my account is corrupted and they cannot fix it via social media. No thought that they can get their tech support to reset things crudely put etc. So now it is going to be old fashioned paper form filling. Incredible really :(.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 15 May 2020, 06:45:37 PM
I'm emigrating.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/dutch-official-advice-to-single-people-find-a-sex-buddy-for-lockdown-coronavirus (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/dutch-official-advice-to-single-people-find-a-sex-buddy-for-lockdown-coronavirus)
You're welcome. But please note that the wording in that advice has been toned down a bit already after it caused a bit of a stir here too. ;)
SteveJ
Yep student loans company system is pants I have trouble with it every year.
Quote from: Matt J on 16 May 2020, 09:44:33 AM
SteveJ
Yep student loans company system is pants I have trouble with it every year.
I remember a couple of years back trying to find out how much I had left to pay and it was an absolute nightmare. You'd think that information should be easy to access. I think in the end j just found an old statement and used payslips to calculate that I still had a fair whack to pay...
If ABBA had been inspired by the start of the ACW, not the end of the Napoleonic one.
"Centerville, it was confused, you start the war,
Centerville, I promise to fight for a year or four
Centerville, Beauregard couldn't pursue if he wanted to
Centerville, it really was a sort of draw."
I couldn't get Manassas to scan.
I'm already wearing my coat...
Quote from: Last Hussar on 16 May 2020, 10:26:54 PM
I'm already wearing my coat...
Not really advised while it's being chewed...
Quote from: Last Hussar on 16 May 2020, 10:26:54 PM
If ABBA had been inspired by the start of the ACW, not the end of the Napoleonic one.
"Centerville, it was confused, you start the war,
Centerville, I promise to fight for a year or four
Centerville, Beauregard couldn't pursue if he wanted to
Centerville, it really was a sort of draw."
I couldn't get Manassas to scan.
I'm already wearing my coat...
Find a way to fi it into a Simon and Garfunkel number. They NEVER let scansion get in their way.
Tried to find hard copy of Blucher in UK.
Nope.
Sam's site – $40.00 USD – £34 GBP after exchange, BUT £27 GBP to UK.
Bought PDF ($20/£17)
Quoted £34 GBP to print professionally.
Guess what I found on 'Sally 4th' for £33 GBP?
Just imagine rest of screen is filled with bleep icon...
Doctor Who tweet alongs are a lot of fun.
I've been ruminating about the past few weeks. I am much more aware of the natural world around me ... I think I just had more time to watch it. Yesterday I watched to magpies torment a cat on my back wall. Good sport they seemed to make of it too. I've also found that direct human contact isn't that important to me. I'm quite happy just watching people on a screen. At least you can always press the "end" button when they get really annoying.
At the start of 2020 I said it would be the year of Napoleonics. Well, that hasn't happened. Anne Hathaway in her Centurion (see "Not for Orcs" thread) convinced me that it was time to review my 1944 WWII Western Europe forces. Given that most of it is 5 years old or so, it was a legitimate comment. (Well said Anne.) I have learned more about the Guards Armoured and Panzer Lehr 130 Divisions and so have updated and upgraded these. Added JagPz IV and Sherman ARVs for example.
With that out the way ... well, it will be when Postie decides to come down my street again ... what next? Obviously back to the Napoleonics? No. OK, there's those English Flodden to complete. No. Finish off those ancient Greeks? Nah. Finish off the Dark Age Arabs? Pshaw!
Anglo-Saxons.
Anglo Saxons? That lot that has been sat in your lead mountain for ages? Yup.
The bright side is that I think I've actually cracked irregular armies. My technique is to prime a unit - say 4 sticks of 10 figures each. Then spray each stick with a base colour. I use three different sprays - white, tan and brown. I then use two shades of a number of colours - say a pale blue and a dark blue. Since this is the "blue" unit, I make sure at least half the unit has some blue on them. I'll do dark blue, then pale blue, then mix whatever is left on my pallet to get a few colours in a third shade. Then do the same with red and a purple-red, but only 25% of the figures. Ditto green, and pick up anything that looks odd with white or a golden brown. The differing undercoats give slightly different shades of the block colours. I can also pick out a unit by colour without it looking too obvious. Spears and belts are painted the same colour for all, to bring it all together. Woks for me anyway. I've also decided upon "fyrd" colours and "huscarl" colours. For example, I don't use a pure red for the fyrd, more a brown-red. Makes the different classes look a bit different.
I've also managed to get some games in. Had a few days (or possibly weeks, who knows?) on Battle of Britain and regrettably the bomber always gets through. Unless they're Whitleys in which case they seem to fall out the sky at the sight of a black cross. Cleared the blue skies away now, and am looking to the Medieval Skirmish for my next set of games.
As my office is now my kitchen and I've a nice tree out the back the birds like to visit I ended up buying a few different bird feeders to attract different birds. Today a magpie decided to try and claim all the food and chase off any other birds but some nippy wee tits were able to get in and out without him noticing. My wife reckons she saw a goldfinch this evening. Never had much interest before but it's nice to watch.
Loving working from home, so peaceful.
Well except when kids start knocking the door and running away... >:(
Oh dear...One for sorrow....
There was another one further up the garden. And maybe one or two more. Depends what version of the rhyme you subscribe to.
One for sorrow,
Two for mirth
Three for a funeral,
Four for a birth
Five for heaven
Six for hell
Seven for the devil, his own sel'
How many for a midnight visit from Jenny Hanley? (1970s Jenny Hanley - just found she is 22 years older than me, which is fine when you are in your 20s, but not when you are in your 50s)(I wasn't in my 20s when it was on)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 20 May 2020, 10:18:06 PM
One for sorrow,
Two for mirth
Three for a funeral,
Four for a birth
Five for heaven
Six for hell
Seven for the devil, his own sel'
I've been told (it was in Sussex) that you can avert the ill-fortune foretold by a single magpie by gripping your collar with the opposite hand,and hanging on until you see a second.
No, No, No, No, NO......If you see a single magpie you have to wave at it and say "Good morning/afternoon/evening (as appropriate) Mr Magpie...How are you today ?"
There are dozens around Techno Towers. Every time I fill up the peanut holder, for the wee birds I end up spilling a few of the nuts on the ground.
Soon as I go back indoors there are up to four magpies that come down and filch the lot.
They TRY getting the nuts out of the holder (with not a lot of success).....In that they're beaten by smaller birds, a woodpecker, a couple of jackdaws, and very occasionally, a jay.
Cheers - Phil
For the apotropaic greeting, I was told it had to be "Good (morning...), Mr Magpie. Give my love to your wife and children." Which posits so many gender assumptions that I'd rather avoid it.
I've never worried about the whole magpie numbers thing, but last week they caught two young sparrows and my wife was not impressed. A permanent fixture in our garden now and one is sitting on the fence as I type.
Definitive.
No. That's it. Discussion closed.
Jenny Hanley said ... so it must be true.
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Don't think these are Magpie era photos, but I think the point in made.
I always heard one for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl and four for a boy...
Like Steve they've become a fairly permanent fixture in the garden now, sitting on the fence, attempting to get food out of the feeders, or else hopping about in the jungle (garden) looking for worms.
I'm not superstitious and confess after seeing a particularly plump one had a Google to see what they tasted like.
Not very nice apparently.
Last year we were woken in the early hours of the morning by the sounds of two magpies pecking to death a third outside. Vicious. They're practically human...
Quote from: Steve J on 21 May 2020, 06:05:55 AM
I've never worried about the whole magpie numbers thing, but last week they caught two young sparrows and my wife was not impressed. A permanent fixture in our garden now and one is sitting on the fence as I type.
There is a method you can use to solve this problem.Provided they sit still long enough.
.22 and a sniper sight... they can move all they like :)
Sadly..as far as a lot of 'wild birds' are concerned.......You're not
really supposed to 'off them', Mark. :(
Quote from: mmcv on 21 May 2020, 06:41:00 AM
Last year we were woken in the early hours of the morning by the sounds of two magpies pecking to death a third outside. Vicious. They're practically human...
Seen that with Ravens here.....About 20, in a circle, with one poor sod in the middle, in one of our fields....
The circle took it in turns to run in and 'have a go'.
Being a softie, I went and took the picked on one in the middle away..and tried to get it back to health.
I NOW know (from keeping chickens) that the one in the middle had a condition called 'wry neck'.....It wouldn't have survived in the wild, and didn't, even after my efforts.
Not sure if I did the right thing.....I may have prolonged its suffering by doing that. :(
Cheers - Phil
A fierce kitty would work :d
Not with a raven, Ian.....
A domestic p*ssy cat wouldn't DARE to take on a bird that size.
(Like the time our very last cat was sitting on a big fence post....With a fully grown Buzzard sitting on the next fence post, about five feet away.....The cat looked at the Buzzard.....The Buzzard looked at the cat...... "You wanna to try your luck ?"
The cat did the usual...."No !.....I'll just pretend to ignore you.".....and slowly withdrew. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Y'know, I tell you all about what I've been up to, and how I was quite excited because I have found a method for doing irregular armies and you lot talk about magpies.
Thanks. :P
This afternoon, the two magpies that saw off the cat yesterday were sat on my window sill pecking at the glass. I think they're coming for me.
You do know what forum you're on don't you?
You could go elsewhere where they will tell you you know nothing about the period, and everything you do is wrong
;D ;D
True, true.
The first rule of Anarchy Club ....
Hold on, I need to think about this.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 21 May 2020, 04:31:27 PM
You do know what forum you're on don't you?
You could go elsewhere where they will tell you you know nothing about the period, and everything you do is wrong
AND within two posts be deep in a shouting match about the danger to American strategic interests of that new Chinese noodle shop in Singapore, with a link to a post revealing the shocking truth that the Etruscans probably didn't have Lee Enfields.
Is that true !! :o :o :o
The stuff I learn from you lot !
No wonder I can only remember 50% 1% of it.
Cheers - Shocked of Wales.
Quote from: Techno on 22 May 2020, 06:29:29 AM
No wonder I can only remember 50% 1% of it.
Thats just the old age :d
Nah, that's Techno's BS monitor.
Quote from: fsn on 22 May 2020, 09:08:38 AM
Nah, that's Techno's BS monitor.
No FSN, Techno is normally knee deep in Horsesh*t. But that is what you get for allowing your wife to have so many horses :)-
CORRECTION . Thats what you get from being allowed to live with a delightful lady who like horses. (Von made me type e that. :-S )
I haven't help muck out the gee-gees for MONTHS. :-bd :D
Cheers - Phil
Today..... I are mostly trying to do a Track & Trace on a wee package I sent to Leon yesterday.....What an absolute farce on both the Post Office, and Royal Mail sites. =O =O =O
Type in tracking number.....Little box with 9 pictures comes up. Tick all the pictures that have cars/bicycles/traffic-lights/boats/bridges, or whatever, and then click verify......I had so many goes I gave up in the end. Loads of the photos are so frigging distant, and out of focus, you can't make anything out (cars, for example)...because they're smaller than a pin head.
Is that a car, or a smudge on the picture ? :-\
THEN when they do give you a decent shot, or shots...and you get it right...the wretched system goes into a 'loop', crashes, and then you have to start all over again. X_X
Are you allowed to send packages of wee through the post to your employer? :D :D :D
I got a package today, about three months late thanks to a UK sender who got the address very wrong. Interestingly, the track 'n' trace site of the Thai post office claimed I had it already at 11:00 A.M. (sending me out to check the postbox again); the site even gave an electronic rendition of my signature (which didn't remotely resemble even my terrible handwriting). But it arrived a few hours later, so I can live with a few procedural shennannigans.
Quote from: Techno on 22 May 2020, 04:14:31 PM
Type in tracking number.....Little box with 9 pictures comes up. Tick all the pictures that have cars/bicycles/traffic-lights/boats/bridges, or whatever, and then click verify......I had so many goes I gave up in the end. Loads of the photos are so frigging distant, and out of focus, you can't make anything out (cars, for example)...because they're smaller than a pin head.
Is that a car, or a smudge on the picture ? :-
THEN when they do give you a decent shot, or shots...and you get it right...the wretched system goes into a 'loop', crashes, and then you have to start all over again. X_X
Are you a robot Phil? As those are designed to catch out robots...might explain a few things...
All day I've been trying to work out why 22 May rings a bell.
On TMP somebody has a post about the 211 anniversary of Aspern Essling*
I've only been researching it for over a year...
*Possibly the finest example of a flour mill being used decisively in naval combat.
I've bought some sausage from a german spa town
Things have gone from bad to wurst.
Quote from: mmcv on 22 May 2020, 04:42:54 PM
Are you a robot Phil? As those are designed to catch out robots...might explain a few things...
We're doomed
Quote from: Last Hussar on 22 May 2020, 06:28:17 PM
All day I've been trying to work out why 22 May rings a bell.
On TMP somebody has a post about the 211 anniversary of Aspern Essling*
I've only been researching it for over a year...
*Possibly the finest example of a flour mill being used decisively in naval combat.
I visited the battlefield with two friends last year. Two small museums that only seem to open up for 2 hours each once a week and at the same time (I seem to recall Sunday morning) leading to a pacey walk to visit both whilst we were in Vienna. Great day with an unexpected highlight being a McDonald's that has a full in Cake section.......... I'll try and look out a picture and post if I can 👍
Tiny museum
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Inside
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Some fab bits
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The Granuary
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Large diorama at the granuary
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The best McDonald's in the world - EVER..... very civilised 😀
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Fab trip, Vienna was very reasonably priced and the people were fab. We even managed to do a tour of some local vineyards on a 'wine' bus that looked like a train 😀
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Quote from: mmcv on 22 May 2020, 04:42:54 PM
Are you a robot Phil? As those are designed to catch out robots...might explain a few things...
Not when I last checked !! ;D.....And I'm definitely not bionic.
A 'bot' guessing randomly, would have probably had a better chance of getting it right than I did. X_X
Cheers - Phil :)
This won't mean much to our non-UK friends, but in line with recent government clarification I took the car out for a 30 mile drive today to check out my eyesight. Somehow I came back with straw on my windscreen and a live chicken in the back.
;D ;D
Strangely I have been going to the opticians for many years to do this. But thanks to the most recent government updates while I am staying at home I will go out for a drive to test my eyesight. Then stay at home. It's all good.
Not too political gents, please.
I thought this was farce, not politics
Oh, wait...
Well, maybe... ;D
I think this might be Orcs... :o :o
http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=530803 (http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=530803)
Had a realisation today.
Back in December I was awarded a bonus at work (I spent a lot of the year covering 2 posts as we are short staffed) This basically funded my purchase of Allied forces for the 5th coalition.
Dawned on me - 205 years after Waterloo the British government are still making payments so the Austrians will fight the French!
;D ;D
There's a poor fellow on Twitter called Bernard Castle, who can't figure out why he is receiving so many tweets.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 26 May 2020, 09:12:09 PM
I think this might be Orcs... :o :o
http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=530803 (http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=530803)
Thank you for the compliment and i quote from your own post on TMP - "a good looking chap with some obvious intelligence"
If you were thinner and had hair.
And intelligence.
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 27 May 2020, 09:29:15 PM
There's a poor fellow on Twitter called Bernard Castle, who can't figure out why he is receiving so many tweets.
I was listening to a story, a short while ago, that kept mentioning Bernard Castle.
It only stuck in my mind, because it made me think of Barnard's Star from H2G2. ;)
Quote from: Last Hussar on 28 May 2020, 12:05:48 AM
And intelligence.
Oooo.....is it pick on Orcs day ?
Can anyone join in ? ;)
Cheers - Phil
Barnard Castle is the last place I went to when on holiday with my parents. It was a gloriously sunny day, we went to Bowes Museum and saw the mechanical swan in action, wandered round the castle that presumably gives the place it's name, had a brief stroll around the town centre and finished up by eating some rather nice ice cream cones in the car.
Well worth a visit if/ when there is no lockdown.
Pick on Orcs day?
More like century!
Quote from: Techno on 28 May 2020, 05:27:53 AM
Oooo.....is it pick on Orcs day ?
Can anyone join in ? ;)
Cheers - Phil
No - it's still pick on Phil day as allways
No change there, then. ;D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Ithoriel on 28 May 2020, 12:50:33 PM
Barnard Castle is the last place I went to when on holiday with my parents. It was a gloriously sunny day, we went to Bowes Museum and saw the mechanical swan in action, wandered round the castle that presumably gives the place it's name, had a brief stroll around the town centre and finished up by eating some rather nice ice cream cones in the car.
Well worth a visit if/ when there is no lockdown.
Sounds nice, but a bit to far north. Only been up that far for a holiday 3 times in my life.
Bernard Castle is a lovely little market town, with a good castle right there in the middle of the town. We visit (briefly) quite often as it is on the route from us over to Durham and the NE, and its a good half-way point to stop and have a walk around and visit a cafe.
Never had call to visit their opticians though.
It also has a rather large prison, and is 2 miles from the HQ of Glaxo-Smith-Kline-Wellcome...
Just saying...
QuoteBarnard Castle means 'pathetic excuse' in Durham slang that's over 150-years-old
I forgot to say...... yesterday.....Saw a polecat beetling across the road, 300 yards from home...Not seen one of those for years.
Cheers - Phil
Superb news.
Is being Techno catching?
Because I'm using a craft knife while drinking cider.
Dont the cyder say "Not to be taken if operating Sharp Machinery" ;)
Quote from: Last Hussar on 09 June 2020, 09:00:01 PM
Is being Techno catching?
Because I'm using a craft knife while drinking cider.
Can we have the full story ?
I can't say whether you've caught Techno's syndrome, until I know whether you're holding the craft knife between your teeth.
Cheers - Dr Phil. MRCSI (Member of the Royal College of Self Impalers).........Next patient, please.
I am unharmed.
I was making game markers by printing them on A4, sticking to the back of vinyl tiles then blade and steel ruler to cut them out.
I've just watched the excellent Mark Felton video on the Breda Panther Tank (Breda being a Dutch town, not an Italian company -- that confused me.) anyway, I was struck by the sheer elegance and horrific beauty of the Panther tank. Stap me, but the Panther is a truly awesome looking vehicle.*
*Not as good as the Centurion, obviously ... and I was just looking ... there's nothing wrong with looking is there?
Just to clear this up, it's BreDA, not BREda, the emphasis is on the second syllable.
Quote from: OldenBUA on 15 June 2020, 06:51:03 PM
Just to clear this up, it's BreDA, not BREda, the emphasis is on the second syllable.
Used to be Spanish...
As for the impressive looking Panther, I'm reminded of the punchline to a completely different joke.
"Just like yours, except it's on fire".
My Sexiness?
Quote from: OldenBUA on 15 June 2020, 06:51:03 PM
Just to clear this up, it's BreDA, not BREda, the emphasis is on the second syllable.
:-bd - but are you interfering with the Englishman's God-given right to mispronounce the names of other places? Dammit, man, next thing you know you'll be insisting he get English right!
In English we tend to stress the middle syllable of any word, whereas in other languages there is even emphasis across the whole word. I noticed this watching 'Homeland' last night where the 'English' actor did this with a name, whilst the 'Middle Eastern' one did not.
Can I just point out I was going from the written title?
I thought I had stumbled upon the Italians building German tanks ...
Quote from: FierceKitty on 16 June 2020, 02:03:20 AM
:-bd - but are you interfering with the Englishman's God-given right to mispronounce the names of other places? Dammit, man, next thing you know you'll be insisting he get English right!
Place names are a complete sod.
You should try some of the ones near me. ;D ;D ;D.
Cheers - Phil
Or this one Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu about 250km from me
But only 249km from the start of the sign!
:o
Quote from: paulr on 16 June 2020, 07:03:31 AM
Or this one Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
Apparently Gershwin's original rendition of
Lets call the whole thing off just never took off until he shortened the name to "Taumata."
[originally the first line was You say Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu and I say Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu but it just never seemed to scan right.]
But it was only in 1979 when
Quantum Leap wrote
The Lone Ranger that Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu was successfully scanned into a song ...
I may have made some of that up. :-B
Paul that looks like a joke played on the English speakers ;)
Quote from: Techno on 16 June 2020, 06:34:49 AM
Place names are a complete sod.
You should try some of the ones near me. ;D ;D ;D.
Cheers - Phil
Remember I live in Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit - and it's a tonal language too!
Ho hum. English versions of place names could indeed be discussed endlessly. But I was merely refering to the pronunciation of Breda in the video in this case.
https://youtu.be/fHxO0UdpoxM
Turns out Taron Edgerton grew up there...
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ellen-degeneres-stunned-welsh-tongue-7300686
Quote from: Westmarcher on 16 June 2020, 08:43:35 AM
But it was only in 1979 when Quantum Leap wrote The Lone Ranger that Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu was successfully scanned into a song ...
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Thanks. I now have that song stuck in my head
... but Tonto don't mind.
Yeah, a good song. The next one that came up for me on YouTube was Star Trekkin - another daft ear worm! ;D
Sadly, Rupert Hine (the lead singer in Quantum Jump) died just over a week ago. :(
Thanks, lots, Davy..... X_X
I've had, "It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim, dead, Jim, dead, Jim, it's worse than that, he's dead, Jim, dead, Jim, dead", as an earworm since I spotted this .%-(
(That's enough commas.....Phil.) :P
Wipe em off Jim!
Will keep it clean !
Gentlemen, whilst looking at some pictures on the interweb I was reminded of these ...
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Did anyone else have them? I sill have mine, both sets and I was quite fond of the Authenticolour paints - "British Crimson", "Polish Crimson", "Olive Drab"
Sorry. Just meandering down memory lane.
Interesting. Never seen those before.
I remember them, but don't recall having more than one or two
Quote from: Orcs on 17 June 2020, 01:09:34 PM
I remember them, but don't recall having more than one or two
Ditto. They are still with me, tucked into a shelf in the bookcase. Don't remember the last time I looked at them though.
Think I slod the Sherman one a few years ago
I remember seeing them when I was a kid, but never owned any. A trip down memory lane seeing them though :).
Quote from: ianrs54 on 17 June 2020, 01:16:37 PM
Think I slod the Sherman one a few years ago
Slod that for a game of soldiers, you tanker.
It is possible, very slightly possible, though who could countenance such an idea, that there is the slimmest possibility, slimmer than Twiggy on a diet, ever so slight chance, as negligible as it is, but a chance none the less, a miniscule, nay, subatomic prospect, even as I type I know how unlikely this is to a wargamer, conceivability, no matter how unlikely, probability, I have bought more movement trays than I actually need.
I know, I know, I realise it is virtually impossible to overbuy wargames equipment, but we have to entertain the merest notion it might happen one day.
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand you....
You haven't bought too many, you've bought just enough for your current project and the start of the next one....
Alternatively you just need a bigger table to fit more on
You know how 2020 was going to be my year of Napoleonics? Well Milday whispers in the ear of the Dark Lord and he bestirs himself on his ebon throne. With a dread laugh which reverberates around the hall like a rumble of distant thunder and causes casting dwarves to pause in terror, there appears to poor Nobby yet another distraction.
In this case the Raiden aircraft. So here are my efforts with the SM79 and the Breguet 693.*
I'm quite happy with the SM79, less happy with the Breguet, and really not happy with my photography.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50020598282_de5d2e1e44_z.jpg)
I've got a Blenheim, 2 Stukas and 2 Typhoons to do.**
Then I just NEED Spitfires, Hurricanes, cute little CR42s, Bf109s and of course Butcher Bird FW190s, P47s, ... all of the French ...oooh and the P36 to use as a H75 ... and Battles of course ( I could end up with more RAF aircraft than the BEF)... oooh and that Wellesley looks so ugly it's adorable (do I really want to create an East Africa campaign just for a Wellesley??) ... and probably some USAAF bombers because I like to take risks with my Shermans. I may also have to sneak a Corsair to support the Marines, and maybe a Ki45 a) to balance thingsout and b) 'cos I have a thing for heavy fighters.
Nobby is thwarted. The Dark Lord settles on his throne, content. The casting dwarves scurry about their toils, breathing slightly easier as their sable master is sated - for now. Milady takes up her knitting and with a smile on her perfect red lips picks up the stitch that she dropped.
*I love Boom and Zoom Graphics ( https://boomandzoomgraphics.com/french_camo_guide.html (https://boomandzoomgraphics.com/french_camo_guide.html) ) description of the French air force in 1940 "French pilots found themselves with an outdated fleet of hangar queens and no clear strategic doctrine, and their few airworthy planes soon littered the French countryside like lawn darts at a family picnic. But they blended in nicely with the landscape."
** Yet more evidence that my 1944 NW Europe project isnot quite finished.
They look damn fine to me, Nobby !! :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Nice work Nobby, the Breguat looks good to me.
I know what you mean about small aircraft, you always need a few more to support your troops.
The Raiden planes look very nice and detailed, I've got H&R and while cheap they certainly don't look as good as these.
Cheers chaps. :)
Forgot to say, I used florists wire for the base. Fitted neatly into the hole in the bottom.
Quote from: mmcv on 19 June 2020, 06:10:42 PM
You haven't bought too many, you've bought just enough for your current project and the start of the next one....
Alternatively you just need a bigger table to fit more on
I need a bigger flat.
That will have a bigger room
THEN I can have a bigger table.
Then I can buy more movement trays, which will need more figures... no wait, is that right?
Nobby - is that a Wurttemburg aircraft? if so its got the 1806 camo, where as the Army of Italy has the 1812.
I have heard that St Georges Hall on Lime st Liverpool is up for sale !
Thanks.
Bit of a walk to work though.
You'd be fine its right next to a train station...
Those planes look great to me too 8)
Top work Nobby, nothing to be ashamed of there.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 20 June 2020, 04:22:01 PM
Top work Nobby, nothing to be ashamed of there.
But he's Nobby! Surely he has much to be ashamed of?
This is true. :-[
Sad, but true. :-[ :-[
I think top of the list must be the awful way I treat Techno. I know we all do it, but he is one of the nicest humans I know, and most of us have benefited from his skills with green putty. He is a storehouse of experience and a fount of interesting anecdotes - usually involving somebody famous - but he remains self-deprecating, and generous of his time and talent. He is obviously devoted to his good lady Von, and seems to be a local repository for lost and bewildered animals.
I am ashamed that I don't give Techno the respect he is due, and that I mercilessly rip the proverbial out of him at the slightest provocation.
Recently, I suggested he played the trombone badly. I posted a scandalous picture of Catweazle in the bath, inviting Techno related captions. I have on many occasions suggested he has no sense of direction, and despite his great love and knowledge of Prog Rock, I have openly stated several times that he is ABBA's no 1 fan in Wales.
I am ashamed for having maligned a good and decent man. I apologise whole heartedly for my conduct towards him.
But it's such fun. :P
And all true.
And he's not a happy bunny this morning, 'cos the arm on his 'best' glasses has just broken again. =) X_X
Not even Araldite lasts very long. :(
PLEASE let the opticians be open tomorrow, so I can finally sort a new arm for them !
Cheers - Mr trying to type anything out with the glasses I've got on, is a pain.......At least they're OK for long distance.
Some peps never stop complaining. ;)
You were doing SO well...up until the last few words, Nobby.
(And to think I so nearly deliberately deleted one of your posts yesterday.....(The one you replaced 'cos you'd 'lost' the original)....And being nice, I didn't.
I really should have, just to see your reaction. :P
Cheers - Phil ;) :)
Quote from: Techno on 21 June 2020, 07:17:47 AM
You were doing SO well...up until the last few words, Nobby.
Well, as has been observed by many ladies of Runcorn, I just couldn't keep it up.
Quote from: Techno on 21 June 2020, 07:17:47 AM
(And to think I so nearly deliberately deleted one of your posts yesterday.....(The one you replaced 'cos you'd 'lost' the original)....And being nice, I didn't.
I really should have, just to see your reaction. :P
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Techno on 21 June 2020, 06:54:23 AM
And he's not a happy bunny this morning, 'cos the arm on his 'best' glasses has just broken again. =) X_X
Not that I'm paranoid, but I have my downstairs glasses, my 2nd downstairs glasses, my upstairs glasses, my wargames room glasses, my painting glasses, my work glasses, my spare work glasses, my emergency work glasses, and my real emergency glasses which I keep with my emergency glasses repair kit.
Hope the optician is open and you get sorted.
I really started to value my eyesight when I started to lose it.
Hope it's sorted soon Phil, otherwise you won't be able to read the sheet music for Flight of The Bumblebee
Quote from: mad lemmey on 21 June 2020, 09:30:25 AM
Hope it's sorted soon Phil,
Same here, Will.
I 'repaired' the 'best/newest' pair this morning.....before I did a shop....and they're still holding. :)
I have umpteen pairs of 'spares'.....Most of which are a damn sight better than nothing at all.
I recently found a pair that must have been 'newer' than what I
was regarding as my last 'old ones'....Go figure.....(Those last 'old ones', I can see perfectly well enough through the left lens......The right....Well....I tend to shut my right eye so I can see clearly.)
I think the odd pair that are (for now) my reserve pair.....I must have given up on, because the lenses are much smaller..than 'wot I like'.
The problem with being as short sighted as I am......If I have glass lenses....they're as thick as the bottom of a beer bottle....and drag the frames down my nose, all the time.
This is why I always wear a 'sport's band,' to keep the sods in place.
If I cut down the weight by having plastic lenses.....They're too prone to getting scratched.
Hey Ho ! ;)
Cheers - Phil (Rambling away, as usual. :P)
Stick on the broken bit with superglue, then wrap it in a strip of muslin soaked in epoxy. You'll look a total nerd, but it should hold.
But will it removable ?
I hope Phil will let it set before he puts it on.
X_X ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
It's almost like being back to my early years in 'secondary' school.
I was forever snapping/bending the plastic arms on my 'specs'.....and doing the 'nerdy thing' with evo-stick and 'sticky backed plastic'.
I DO remember that I had a couple of pairs of 'specs' that had 'windscreen' type glass.....So they would shatter, rather than splinter.......safe, for example, if I got a cricket ball in the face.
THOSE were much thicker than anything I wear nowadays !
They would have been something pretty close to around 1cm thick, around the edge....I'm genuinely not joking.
If I could only go back to wearing 'contract' lenses......(No chance.....Sigh =)
Cheers - Phil. :)
Yes beer bottles have got thiner in the last 1000 yrs.
I knew someone who had incredibly thick glasses. She had contacts that were etched with a prism type thingie.
And now, over to the weather, with Phil :-B
Anyone else have an Armageddon type thunderstorm last night ?
Stroll on it was a 'bit fierce', over here, late last night/early this morning. :o.....
And absolutely heaving down with the wet stuff.
As usual, it'll give me chance to curse the boiler, while I reset everything on it. ;D ;D ;D
I've said it before...The boiler's the big pain when we have a mains 'flick'. =)
Cheers - Phil
We did, actually. It takes quite a lot to spook Valentine and Puck, but even they were clearly wondering whether we should be retiring to the shelter, or possibly grabbing a place on the ark.
Still cracking the flags here mate
No storms here but it is raining, there are some small ones on Angelsy, and Telkford is under massive bombardment....
After yesterday's heat we have rain. It is now hot and humid. :(
Still at least next door won't be setting off an barbecue and kippering me as I work.
I got a phone call from a certain person residing in Middlesbrough last night. (I was sitting in the kitchen, watching the tele, having just started 'doing grub.'
"Hang on, Mr 'X' :D, I'll go into the 'study', so I can check on my lists. (Of figures to be made.)
We then spent a jolly twenty minutes, most of which involved me saying......"Ooo....can I have some of these.....a set of those.....what am I supposed to be doing to this lot."
At the end of twenty minutes, I had to put the phone down, so I could set my watch for a final 5 minute countdown to food....Continue with lists.
Watch 'goes off'........"I'd better go now, 'X'.....I think we've covered everything...I'll mail you if I've got any queries.
Go back to kitchen......Acrid smoke wafting around......"OH PANTS !......The peas have boiled dry.......It didn't half stink ! (I can still smell it, this morning.)
Hey Ho ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil.
Before you ask....Von was down in the study, as well.......So she hadn't noticed, either.
;D ;D ;D
Smoke alarm !?
Oh dear
Yes that's an awful smell.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 02 July 2020, 06:47:07 AM
Smoke alarm !?
There's only a Carbon monoxide alarm in the kitchen......(I mean.....WHY ?)
There are smoke alarms all OVER the place....A couple of which, have minds of their own. (Sodding, frigging things ! ;D ;D ;D)
What I didn't put down, was.......I always put sugar into the water, when I'm 'doing' peas.....So the pan was 'baked' with a thin layer of 'carbon'.
Hey.....I know an
easy way to get rid of that. :> :> :>
Vinegar + Water....Boil....Take off heat....Add baking soda......Job
almost done.
I forgot that the best plan of action, at this point, is to put the pan in the sink.....When it goes FIZZ....Not leave it on the gas hob.....
That was yet another cleaning job. :'( :'( :'( :'(
With use of a Brillo pad....Said saucepan almost gleams, now.
Cheers - Phil. ;D ;D ;D
Phil - I'd see a medic about your acident proneness :d
You'd turn PHIL loose in an environment with scalpels, syringes, bone saws, hard radiation, powerful narcotics... :o :o :o :o :o :o
Only said medic cause I cana spell physciatrist ! :O)
Quote from: FierceKitty on 02 July 2020, 11:00:15 AM
You'd turn PHIL loose in an environment with scalpels, syringes, bone saws, hard radiation, powerful narcotics... :o :o :o :o :o :o
Alexander.......You forgot three gallons of......."Is this petrol (gas) or diesel ? " :-\
WHOOPH !
Cheers - Mr No Eyebrows.? (I really WAS lucky, that day.)
Heresy miniatures have just tweeted that if you send them money, they will send figures.
Which seems an evil thing to post where wargamers might see it.
They didn't ask for payment to be made to a BitCoin account did they :) :D?
I've finished my WWII North West Europe forces ... again.
Boosted the German artillery with a couple of Hummels and 10.5mm Howitzers, plus a couple of SdKfz250/7(?) for the recce troop.
What next?
Ah!
There's those Raiden hairyplanes.
They're addictive. Got a couple of Ms406 and a pair of H75 to boost the French in 1940 on the painting table at the moment. Spitfires, Hurricanes, Bf109s etc will cover that end of the war off. Cr42s for the Italians ...
Already got Typhoons ... so 1944 is covered off ...
May need to get a Corsair or two for the US Marines ... which means I'll need to get ... ooh! that Kawaskai Ki45 looks nice ... (II do have a preference for the Japanese Army as opposed to the Navy) ... so Ki43's are a must ... that means I'll have to get ... ooh Betty ... bombers ... that means I'll have to get some more US aviation ... to balance things out you understand ... possibly some Avengers or ....
Dammit!
Dammit!
Dammit!
How can I have US Forces in Normandy without Thunderbolts?
WWII North West Europe Project re-opened. :'( :'( :'( :'(
:) :) :)
Quote from: fsn on 22 July 2020, 08:05:20 PM
...plus a couple of SdKfz250/7(?) for the recce troop. ..
Isn't the SdKfz 250/7 the Mortar carrier, I suspect you mean the SdKfz 250/9 with the 20mm in the same turret as the SdKfz 222 :-B
The reece troop offically had a couple of mortars.
Quote from: paulr on 23 July 2020, 04:09:16 AM
:) :) :)
Isn't the SdKfz 250/7 the Mortar carrier, I suspect you mean the SdKfz 250/9 with the 20mm in the same turret as the SdKfz 222 :-B
That's the chappie. Not a huge 250 fan ... but apparently Panzer Lehr used them, so Panzer Lehr had to have them.
I bought a new computer the other week. Had to say goodbye to my very old MS Office, and have moved to LibreOffice. It's free and so far does what I need. Biggest pain will be rewriting macros, but ... it's free and I resent giving Bill gates any more money.
I have used the time wisely, and can now put a number on my lead mountain ... 5768.
This being
- 639 Ancients - Greeks, Cartaginians and Republican Romans
- 400 Dark age - Byzantines and some Arabs
- 389 Flodden English
- 66 Samurai
- 289 Korean war "extras"
- 98 Sci Fi & zombie
- 62 WWI 1:600 aircraft
- 208 WWII 1:600 aircraft (1944 Pacific)
- 47 WWII 1:600 ships
- 19 1:2400 Triremes
- 20 1:2400 Napoleonic warships
- 2909 Napoleonics :-[
An item could be a foot figure or a tank or a hairyplane.
Since I have averaged 301 items per month since February 2018, that means I have about 19 months painting in my lead mountain ... or 9 1/2 months until I have to start painting Napleonics.
Gentlemen!
More data!
My lead mountain stands at 5768. It is depleting at 301 items per month.
I have just worked out that I average 179 items purchased per month.
That means my lead mountain is depleting at a rate of 122 items per month.
This means my friends, that my lead mountain will be exhausted on 22nd July 2024.
And we all know what that means. :(
Send no flowers. Maybe a "fond memories of Nobby" thread?
I'd like that.
You'd better open 'the package' early, then. :P
Cheers - Phil ;D
Quote from: fsn on 25 July 2020, 02:22:57 PM
This means my friends, that my lead mountain will be exhausted on 22nd July 2024.
And we all know what that means. :(
No worries there Nobby, I am sure their are some armies you have yet to collect. Pendraken will also have more releases by then. Anyway none of the collections will be complete - there will always be another "must have " unit or Amy
And if you have exhuasted all the periods you are interested in, just decrease the figure to man ratio. At Zama Hanibal reputedly had 36,000 fot, 4000 cavalry and 80 elephants. I bet you haven't even got the Elephants at a 1-10 Figure-Elephant ratio. And then you would need another 3500 figures for the rest of the army.
I am going to live to 183 so I can finish my lead mountain :)
Apart from the Arab-Israeli Wars, India-Pakistan War, WWII Eastern Front 1943, Western Desert, Vichy France, Winter War, 1918, 1914, WWI Austria-Italy, Mexican Revolution, Wild West, Chocolate Box 1860, Seven Years War, English Civil War, 100 Years War, Imperial Rome (Lorica segmentata), and chariots - what's left to do? :( *
*No interest in Colonial, AWI, 1812, proper modern, China, Africa, South America, Crimea or the Franco-Prussian War.**
** Austro-Prussian War is a maybe.
Quote from: fsn on 25 July 2020, 09:13:26 PM
Apart from the Arab-Israeli Wars, India-Pakistan War, WWII Eastern Front 1943, Western Desert, Vichy France, Winter War, 1918, 1914, WWI Austria-Italy, Mexican Revolution, Wild West, Chocolate Box 1860, Seven Years War, English Civil War, 100 Years War, Imperial Rome (Lorica segmentata), and chariots - what's left to do? :( *
*No interest in Colonial, AWI, 1812, proper modern, China, Africa, South America, Crimea or the Franco-Prussian War.**
** Austro-Prussian War is a maybe.
WSS, WW2 polish , WW2 Belgians, Early war Falshirmjager. WW1 Palestine, Need I go on?
WSS, - Got
WW2 polish - Got ,
WW2 Belgians - Yeah, OK - maybe Norway Campaign too.
Early war Falshirmjager - Got
WW1 Palestine - Nah. Put off by Peter O'Toole.
;)
Thanks Orcs.
Quote from: fsn on 25 July 2020, 09:13:26 PM
Apart from the Arab-Israeli Wars, India-Pakistan War, WWII Eastern Front 1943, Western Desert, Vichy France, Winter War, 1918, 1914, WWI Austria-Italy, Mexican Revolution, Wild West, Chocolate Box 1860, Seven Years War, English Civil War, 100 Years War, Imperial Rome (Lorica segmentata), and chariots - what's left to do? :( *
*No interest in Colonial, AWI, 1812, proper modern, China, Africa, South America, Crimea or the Franco-Prussian War.**
** Austro-Prussian War is a maybe.
How about the League of Augsb
erg? ;)
Quote from: fsn on 25 July 2020, 09:13:26 PM
<snip>chariots - what's left to do? :( *
Sumerians, Akkadians, Elamites, Amorites, Melukhans, Lullubi, Gutians, Old Kingdom Egyptians, Middle Kingdom Egyptians, New Kingdom Egyptians, Libyans, Kushites, Hyksos, Hurrians, Mitanii, Hittites, Babylonians, Neo-Babylonians, Assyrians, Mycenaeans, Trojans, Sea Peoples ....
Once they're all done, come back and I'll list the next tranche :) :) :)
Quote from: fsn on 25 July 2020, 09:23:51 PM
...
WW1 Palestine - Nah. Put off by Peter O'Toole.
;)
Thanks Orcs.
WW1 Mesopotamia then ;)
Well last night I was kept awake (as were many of our neighbours) by some young adults having a party and singing at the top of their voices for over 3 hours long. No pretence at social distancing or anything. For one moment I thought one of the neighbours was going to get physical, given the lanuage being used when asking them to be quiet, which they refused to do. Given there is a terminally ill lady* a few doors down, plus families with young children, you would have thought they could have been more thoughtful, but maybe I'm being naive?
So I'm a tired and grumpy bugger this morning whose eyes hurt from lack of sleep! I think I got about 5 hours in...
*She ended up being taken away in an ambulance during the party :(.
Quote from: paulr on 26 July 2020, 06:23:19 AM
WW1 Mesopotamia then ;)
Oooooh! Maayyybe ... :-[
Quote from: Westmarcher on 25 July 2020, 10:38:42 PM
How about the League of Augsberg? ;)
Ha! It is to Laugh! It is neither fish nor fowl! :P
Quote from: Ithoriel on 25 July 2020, 11:10:48 PM
Sumerians, Akkadians, Elamites, Amorites, Melukhans, Lullubi, Gutians, Old Kingdom Egyptians, Middle Kingdom Egyptians, New Kingdom Egyptians, Libyans, Kushites, Hyksos, Hurrians, Mitanii, Hittites, Babylonians, Neo-Babylonians, Assyrians, Mycenaeans, Trojans, Sea Peoples ....
Just waiting for Pendraken to get their fingers out. :D One of the first battles I ever read about was Kadesh, and I'd love to do it.
Quote from: Steve J on 26 July 2020, 06:33:31 AM
Well last night I was kept awake (as were many of our neighbours) by some young adults having a party and singing at the top of their voices for over 3 hours long.
I had that a few nights ago when the Liverpool Kickie Ball team id something. >:(
Quote from: Steve J on 26 July 2020, 06:33:31 AM
So I'm a tired and grumpy bugger this morning ..
Don't blame you.
Can you and your neighbours arrange for your own party when those selfish oiks are trying to catch up on
their sleep......Or are they not locals ?
Sympathies, Steve.
Quote from: fsn on 26 July 2020, 06:35:28 AM
I had that a few nights ago when the Liverpool Kickie Ball team did something. >:(
Bet you did, Nobby.
I confirmed to myself recently that my interest in 'footy' really HAS diminished.....I was going "Oh not bloody football on the TV
again."
I know there are lots of other channels to watch, but being a sad git, I like watching the old Star Trek with cap'n :ar! Picard, and that kept getting kicked off (pun intended) to make way for the soccer.
(I'll still probably end up watching the Cup Final....hypocrite that I am.)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Steve J on 26 July 2020, 06:33:31 AM
Well last night I was kept awake (as were many of our neighbours) by some young adults having a party and singing at the top of their voices for over 3 hours long. No pretence at social distancing or anything. For one moment I thought one of the neighbours was going to get physical, given the lanuage being used when asking them to be quiet, which they refused to do. Given there is a terminally ill lady* a few doors down, plus families with young children, you would have thought they could have been more thoughtful, but maybe I'm being naive?
So I'm a tired and grumpy bugger this morning whose eyes hurt from lack of sleep! I think I got about 5 hours in...
*She ended up being taken away in an ambulance during the party :(.
My sympathies are entirely with the criminal in those cases where someone "Goes postal", as our American friends put it, and silences a party with a shotgun. Heck, I think that person is a public benefactor (-trix).
Quote from: fsn on 26 July 2020, 06:33:48 AM
Just waiting for Pendraken to get their fingers out. :D One of the first battles I ever read about was Kadesh, and I'd love to do it.
Yes alas I've had to go elsewhere for bronze age stuff. You've not mentioned much other ancients or medieval in your list, plenty of good options there. Those 400 Byzantines and Arabs sound like a good seed for the Arab Conquest, the Crusades, the Reconquista, Italo-Normans in Sicily...
Greece, Carthage and Rome have plenty of fun enemies to keep you busy, Persians, Celts, Iberians, Dacians...
Renaissance? Italian wars, Ottomans, Mughals.
Eighty and Thirty Years Wars?
WW2 Burma? Spanish Civil War? Russian Civil War? Russo-Japanese War?
Have you considered the Aztecs?
Stop trying to sneek the "A" word in, I MISS NOWT. :d
Quote from: mmcv on 26 July 2020, 08:13:45 AM
Yes alas I've had to go elsewhere for bronze age stuff. You've not mentioned much other ancients or medieval in your list, plenty of good options there. Those 400 Byzantines and Arabs sound like a good seed for the Arab Conquest, the Crusades, the Reconquista, Italo-Normans in Sicily...
Norman in Sicily is one of my projects. I've finished the Normans, but need to finish the Arabs. The Byzantines are a project in being. I may contemplate a Lombard army. Already have Saxons and Norse ... just so I can burn Rome.
Quote from: mmcv on 26 July 2020, 08:13:45 AM
Greece, Carthage and Rome have plenty of fun enemies to keep you busy, Persians, Celts, Iberians, Dacians...
I'm doing Sicily again ... Greeks, Carthaginians and Republicans (image of Trump storming Palermo). I think I'm pretty done with irregular armies ... though I may be tempted by Pontus.
Quote from: mmcv on 26 July 2020, 08:13:45 AM
Renaissance? Italian wars, Ottomans, Mughals.
Eighty and Thirty Years Wars?
The C16 and C17 don't really float my boat.
Quote from: mmcv on 26 July 2020, 08:13:45 AM
WW2 Burma? Spanish Civil War? Russian Civil War? Russo-Japanese War?
Burma nterests me ... but I need to find a good compromise between the aesthetic and playability of the terrain. All those trees! Same reason I don't do Viet Nam.
Civil Wars ... again, never really caught my interest ... though the Russo-Polish war is an outside possibility.
Russo-Japanese War - YES! I may even have to go into some pre-Dreadnaught fleet action.
Quote from: mmcv on 26 July 2020, 08:13:45 AM
Have you considered the Aztecs?
Yes, but I'm much better now.
Quote from: fsn on 26 July 2020, 08:34:37 AM
Norman in Sicily is one of my projects. I've finished the Normans, but need to finish the Arabs. The Byzantines are a project in being. I may contemplate a Lombard army. Already have Saxons and Norse ... just so I can burn Rome.
Ooh look forward to seeing those. Italo Normans and Byzantines are on my long term expansion list from crusades (likely when the TB line Islamics come out...)
QuoteBurma nterests me ... but I need to find a good compromise between the aesthetic and playability of the terrain. All those trees! Same reason I don't do Viet Nam.
I'd likely just go with a load of large clumps as trees, but the visuals on that are borderline at 10mm.
QuoteRusso-Japanese War - YES! I may even have to go into some pre-Dreadnaught fleet action.
Yeah potentially some interesting actions there, and the naval aspects are tempting.
Quote
Yes, but I'm much better now.
Ah go on, you know you want to...
The Pendraken arabs I can vouch for, very nice figures particularly the cammel riders
Quote from: ianrs54 on 26 July 2020, 10:59:26 AM
The Pendraken arabs I can vouch for, very nice figures particularly the cammel riders
Which camels are you using? From one of the later ranges, as don't think there's any in the Arab range?
Camels are a gap in my Islamics though think there'll be some with the TB line ones when they arrive.
There are some nice Arab cavalry in the Persian range as well for variety. Largest gap in the range is horse archer diversity, though can get some stand ins elsewhere and again think TB Islamics will cover that.
Ah yes - madist ones I think, built the Arabs about 5 years ago, sorry Martin X_X
Quote from: fsn on 26 July 2020, 08:34:37 AM
...
Russo-Japanese War - YES! I may even have to go into some pre-Dreadnought fleet action.
...
You definitely should, a fun naval period :)
Quote from: Steve J on 26 July 2020, 06:33:31 AM
So I'm a tired and grumpy bugger this morning whose eyes hurt from lack of sleep! I think I got about 5 hours in...
I'm joining that club today. @-) @-)
2:30 this morning woken by Von with the news we had a power cut. =)
Come downstairs, check if any of the 'trips' had gone.....No, so it's not us (oh yes it was, but not the house)......Phone up Western Power distribution.....Automated replies which gave the news that "Yes, we are aware of a problem in your area."
Good.....Go back to bed, try and go back to sleep...fail....About 3, Von goes to window and peers out....."I'm sure I just heard someone walking up the drive"......5 minutes later, sound of two people talking.....Von calls out of the window "Hello...is there a problem ?"
It was Western power. They'd traced the fault to a transformer about 30 yards away from the back door.
2 vans and a lorry wend their way up the drive.....Try to sleep.....Fail.....Finally gave up at 4:30 and got up. X_X
I reckon I got about 3 hours sleep......Feel like a zombie. But at least the fault was cleared and we now have a spanking new transformer.
Cheers - What day is it ?......What's my name ? 8-}
That's might annoying. When I've lost sleep the night before, I have come to accept that an afternoon nap is often a much better choice than fighting through the tiredness
My sympathies Techno, though I am impressed with Von's obvious super hearing. Unless you have crunchy gravel on the drive. I am also impressed that your estate is so large you need your own substation.
I get really cranky(er) if I don't get my sleep in.
The problem I have with working from home is that I seem to have to have a 10 minute nap after lunch. Go in to the office and apparently, that's not acceptable.
I wish I had the guts to go in to the office in pyjamas and a dressing gown.
Quote from: fsn on 31 July 2020, 07:31:14 AM
The problem I have with working from home is that I seem to have to have a 10 minute nap after lunch.
I have taken to having an early lunch - 11:00-ish - then back to work until about 14:00, and then take a quick shower. Wakes me up & refreshes me for the afternoon. Going to miss that if/when we go back to "normal".
Quote from: fsn on 31 July 2020, 07:31:14 AM
Go in to the office and apparently, that's not acceptable.
Oh, I dunno. We used to have a bloke who'd regularly doze off at his desk. Wasn't even "liquid lunch" induced.
I live in a four-to-a-block maisonette. It was, relatively, cheap and spacious. Soundproofing side-to-side is perfectly adequate. Sound proofing between upper and lower is non-existant. Currently a family with two small girls is renting the maisonette above mine.
Let me sing the praises of Honeywell's "Howard Leight" Laserlite earplugs! A godsend in hideous pink and yellow :)
Sweet dreams are made of this ...
Sympathies Phil.
My hearing is rubbish and I sleep through anything - apart from people talking. Mrs Orcs hears everything and often wakes me so I can tell her what it is. its no use telling her i am not interested in the Muntjac deer barking, or the foxes fornicating on the lawn.
Still such is life
I'm in a semi but fairly sure the walls are made of cardboard and the wee girl next door seems to wear lead shoes and has her volume setting permanently turned up to 11. Even at 2am. Never hear much from her partner, but she's by far the loudest neighbor we've had, and the previous residents had a baby and toddler and the ones before three boys...
One of the many reasons we're looking to move later in the year. Hopefully to somewhere without neighbors.
Antartica then ?
Quote from: ianrs54 on 31 July 2020, 12:09:52 PM
Antartica then ?
Have you never watched a penguin documentary? Those guys are jerks.
Quote from: mmcv on 31 July 2020, 12:11:09 PM
Have you never watched a penguin documentary? Those guys are jerks.
Very true. In fact, I still have a scar on my knee from participating in a clean-up and feed them operation after an oil spill in Cape Town. They've got quite a bite.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 31 July 2020, 12:25:00 PM
Very true. In fact, I still have a scar on my knee from participating in a clean-up and feed them operation after an oil spill in Cape Town. They've got quite a bite.
Who were you feeding the penguins to?
Mr Dozy, writes.
Amazingly I managed to push some putty around today. (Today 'I are' mostly doing fantasy armoured bears.)
Best thing I've done today ?.....Saved fifty odd quid (pounds) by not calling an electrician out to replace one of those bloomin' awful ceiling 'pull' switches in the loo (john, toilet, khazi)....It was an absolute pig to do....But I didn't electrocute myself. :D
Nobby....We don't have a 'sub station' at Techno Towers....But we do (effectively) pass on the power to 6-10 other properties.
The bit of 'kit' they replaced at the top of one of the poles on our land, apparently weighs half a ton (or tonne).....That's as much as one of the big gee-gees.....and it's only about half the size of a wheelie bin.
Gravel on our drive.....NO !.....That would slide into the road the next time it rained hard.....You know what my address is....Translate that from Welsh into English. ;)
Matthew...Move to a rural part of Wales....Our nearest neighbour is 300 yards away. ;)
Cheers - Barry Bucknell. (How many here will remember 'Barry'..... ;D ;D ;D ;D)
Got first haircut today after almost 5 months of lockdown. Lots of hair off. Now walking around like a Thunderbird puppet.
p.s. sorry, Phil. Saw the TV adverts but had absolutely no idea who Barry Bucknall was.
Good grief Techno! Barry Bucknall!
Yikes! Actually, I do remember him (it was the face)! One DIY job I remember was knocking a hole in your wall beside your front door to install some kind of DIY postal box. Mad.
p.s. What "Barry" was I thinking of in the TV adverts?
I preferred Reg Prescott's DIY slots.
https://youtu.be/MU2BO5Obg2k
Quote from: mad lemmey on 31 July 2020, 09:13:13 PM
I preferred Reg Prescott's DIY slots.
https://youtu.be/MU2BO5Obg2k
The Genius that was the late, great Kenny Everett
Quote from: Westmarcher on 31 July 2020, 08:59:32 PM
p.s. What "Barry" was I thinking of in the TV adverts?
This one?
Reg Prescott still has me in tears of laughter, even now!
Ditto !! ;D ;D ;D
I believe I'm correct in saying that a certain member of the forum, whose name begins with an N and ends with a Y, had the cheek to say that my own attempts at DIY must be very similar to Reg Prescott's.
Cheers - Phil (I feel even more zombified than I did yesterday. (:|)
Quote from: Techno on 01 August 2020, 07:40:29 AM
Ditto !! ;D ;D ;D
I believe I'm correct in saying that a certain member of the forum, whose name begins with an N and ends with a Y, had the cheek to say that my own attempts at DIY must be very similar to Reg Prescott's.
Cheers - Phil (I feel even more zombified than I did yesterday. (:|)
I am sure you are most proficient at DIY, even if all your DIY is covered with your own blood :)
No, Mark.....Von uses the sharp stuff. ;)
I'm not even allowed to look at the chop saw.
I DO the electrics.
I can only remember two 'belts'.....Once when I made a 'strobe'....and the second was when I stuck my fingers down one of the photography studio's flash heads at GW. (I know I've mentioned this before.)
That hurt.....I forgot about capacitors holding a charge, and those things were fed by a couple of battery units that sounded like defibrillators when they were charging. ..."CLEAR !"
Cheers Reg/Barry.
Today is the first day our son has been able to 'safely' go out of the house after 4 months of lockdown. He was very happy and I must admit it was weird driving into town (we would normally go by bus as he gets fee travel, but still not feeling safe with this yet) just to go shopping for non-essential items. Town was very quiet, the little we saw of it, which again is weird as it would normally be heaving on a Saturday.
Well that's good news, Steve ! :)
Have all the folk in the vicinity bogged off to the coast ?
Don't blame you for still not 'feeling safe.'.....We now appear to have a lot of 'invaders/grockles' in Pembrokeshire.
I do feel very conflicted....In the respect that I don't want folks who rely on the 'tourist industry' to suffer anymore....and for the folk who desperately need a 'break', NOT to have their hols.
But it worries me that folk from cities could be bringing COVID here.
The holiday makers (a lot of them) don't appear to think social distancing applies to them. (Oiks)
I don't think I'll feel properly 'safe' for a LONG time.
Cheers - Phil
Phil dont forget horses and dogs can carry it as well ;)
True, Ian :)....But (as far as I know) no-one has got within 100 yards of any of our beasties....with the possible exception of the 'postie' in the past seven months.
The lads from Western Power didn't even get close to any of them when they changed the transformer, two (very early) mornings ago. The 'labs were told' in no uncertain terms......."You are NOT going out to help.....Now, SIT & STAY !
Two of them are birthday boys today !! :)...Bless'em.
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Labs do like to help dont they !
Quote from: fsn on 01 August 2020, 05:38:42 AM
This one?
No.
Actually, it probably was. :-[ Still don't know who he is. Or Jill.
Gave myself a hell of a belt as I moved a light on Thursday.
I also now have no kitchen, purely coincidentally, honest...
A friend and family are off to the Sciliy Isles for their annual holiday. Apparently 50% of the islanders want tourists for income, the other 50% don't. They're unsure of their welcome!
Quote from: ianrs54 on 01 August 2020, 11:14:45 AM
Labs do like to help dont they ?
Ho, yus ! (Oiks)
Quote from: Westmarcher on 01 August 2020, 11:35:20 AM
No!
Actually, it probably was. :-[ Still don't know who he is. Or Jill.
I don't think anyone does, Davy....apart from the fact his name is Barry and he talks very loudly.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 01 August 2020, 12:25:37 PM
Gave myself a hell of a belt as I moved a light on Thursday.
I also now have no kitchen, purely coincidentally, honest...
You do know how to isolate different circuits, don't you, Will ?
Cheers - Phil X_X X_X
Yes, except this wasn't on the right circuit...
Note to self: keep mouth shut when daughter's dog licks your face. Otherwise you will get tongue.
Quote from: Steve J on 01 August 2020, 09:57:02 AM
Today is the first day our son has been able to 'safely' go out of the house after 4 months of lockdown. He was very happy and I must admit it was weird driving into town (we would normally go by bus as he gets fee travel, but still not feeling safe with this yet) just to go shopping for non-essential items. Town was very quiet, the little we saw of it, which again is weird as it would normally be heaving on a Saturday.
Great news Steve :-bd
Thanks Paul :).
Yet another Saturday kept awake by two partys going on this time, with one until at least 2.00am. To say I'm tired (and angry) is an understatement. Again no attempt at social distancing etc >:(.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 01 August 2020, 04:08:36 PM
Yes, except this wasn't on the right circuit...
OUCH !!...That's mean ! X_X
Quote from: Steve J on 02 August 2020, 06:45:03 AM
Yet another Saturday kept awake by two partys going on this time, with one until at least 2.00am. To say I'm tired (and angry) is an understatement. Again no attempt at social distancing etc >:(.
Hugs ! Don't blame you for being angry, Steve....Unbelievable. (Actually it's not, is it ?) Covidiots strike again.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 02 August 2020, 07:08:44 AM
(Actually it's not, is it ?) Covidiots strike again.
Cheers - Phil
They are all going to DIE !!!
Quote from: ianrs54 on 02 August 2020, 07:26:15 AM
They are all going to DIE !!!
No, Ian....They're immortal (not)....They'll pick up the virus.....and go and pass it on, because they simply won't care about anyone else.
(expletive deleted.)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: ianrs54 on 02 August 2020, 07:26:15 AM
They are all going to DIE !!!
If only it were so. We could increase the average IQ of the nation if all these idiots died from it. But like Phil says they will pass it onto others
Quote from: Orcs on 02 August 2020, 04:28:57 PM
If only it were so. We could increase the average IQ of the nation if all these idiots died from it. But like Phil says they will pass it onto others
Yeah, we could do with a Moronavirus to shift out some of the morons...
Quote from: Leon on 02 August 2020, 10:46:30 PM
Yeah, we could do with a Moronavirus to shift out some of the morons...
The four building blocks of the universe - protons, electrons, neutrons and morons :)
Only two things are infinite .... :)
;D ;D ;D
I think our chickens have got more sense than some of these oiks.
We at last got around to fitting a baby dog gate to the backdoor, yesterday....This serves two purposes. The back door can stay open to allow fresh air in for the dogs, and it stops the chickens coming into the kitchen.
Past 'summers' the back door could stay open, and the dogs could come and go as they pleased.... but not any more, with this particular batch of birds !....Pests ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 03 August 2020, 06:08:40 AM
;D ;D ;D
I think our chickens have got more sense than some of these oiks.
We at last got around to fitting a baby dog gate to the backdoor, yesterday....This serves two purposes. The back door can stay open to allow fresh air in for the dogs, and it stops the chickens coming into the kitchen.
Past 'summers' the back door could stay open, and the dogs could come and go as they pleased.... but not any more, with this particular batch of birds !....Pests ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
I
like chickens to come into the kitchen. They can bring some garlic and rosemary with them too.
You could have some very old mutton, to go with that.
Just found one of our last two sheep dead in a field this morning. =)
Cheers - Phil
And turn ut oven on ?
Oh mate, sorry.
Means you'll have to mow the lawn yourself...
Sorry to hear about the sheep Phil, Won't the other one get lonely?
Quote from: Orcs on 03 August 2020, 10:03:32 AM
Sorry to hear about the sheep Phil, Won't the other one get lonely?
Possibly, Mark...But there are a lot of sheep on the neighbour's land that she can see....And she seems quite happy to be with the three cobs, that live outside.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 03 August 2020, 09:55:07 AM
Oh mate, sorry.Means you'll have to mow the lawn yourself...
Good grief, she was a really old girl for a sheep (16), Will so we can't feel sad....(Von cut's the lawns. ;))
Quote from: ianrs54 on 03 August 2020, 08:54:20 AM
And turn ut oven on ?
Oooh, No, Ian....like I said above she was 16....So I reckon she'd be as tough as old boots....
and though she could have only been dead for 12 - 20 hours she was a bit 'ripe' already.Cheers - Phil
(Just grateful that our young friend, Richard from 'up the road' came down to shift her...I really
can't move that sort of weight anymore.)
Stupid question from an ignorant townie - how do you dispose of a dead sheep?
Dig a hole...
Contact Queensland Necrophiles Anonymous....
From memory they have to be disposed off by a licensed person, but can't be certain.
180 degrees, 40 minutes per kilogram, garlic and rosemary.
Quote from: Steve J on 03 August 2020, 12:52:31 PM
From memory they have to be disposed off by a licensed person, but can't be certain.
Correct, Steve ! :)
Has to collected and signed for...we get a receipt.....Apparently they'll pick her up tomorrow.....We have to take a note of her tag number, so DEFRA (?) knows where she's gone, and why we haven't got that particular one, anymore.
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 03 August 2020, 01:40:44 PM
180 degrees, 40 minutes per kilogram, garlic and rosemary.
Stroll on !That'd take a long time....She (almost certainly) weighs more than I do !!
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 03 August 2020, 01:50:02 PM
Stroll on !That'd take a long time....She (almost certainly) weighs more than I do !!
Cheers - Phil
thats about 50KG isn't it (He says jealously)
Somewhere between 55kg and 57kg, Mark....... :(.....I don't know how tall I am now.....I used to be 6 feet....Probably 5' 11", nowadays.
I've said it before, but I really, genuinely wish I could put ON weight.
Cheers - The Beanpole.
Eat more
I'd have to discover something I really, really liked Ian. :-\
As far as I can tell, I eat enough.....But again, repeating myself, I eat to live, rather than live to eat.
The most I've ever weighed is 10st 2lbs .....64 and a bit kilos, and that was when I'd given up smoking, and used to eat 2 Big Macs and an egg Mcmuffin (when you could buy those at anytime, not just for breakfast) anything up to three times a week.
Cheers - Phil
As I'm on day one of a new diet I'd happily body swap at meal times and help you out...
Quote from: Techno on 03 August 2020, 04:36:13 PM
... used to eat 2 Big Macs and an egg Mcmuffin (when you could buy those at anytime, not just for breakfast) anything up to three times a week.
There's the cause of your problems Phil - you've been poisoned ;D
;D ;D ;D ;D
I never truly look forward to eating, with the possible exception of 'brunch'...3 or 4 'homegrown' eggs, scrambled, and slapped on a couple of bits of toast.
Evening meal feels like a chore, and I can't wait to finish that. Feels almost like a waste of time.
Then I sit in front of the TV and eat crisps & twiglets. (I LIKE those)
Quote from: mmcv on 03 August 2020, 05:12:10 PM
As I'm on day one of a new diet I'd happily body swap at meal times and help you out...
Hope that goes well, Matthew. :)
Cheers - Phil
I the autumn of 2017 I went on a very gentle diet and by early 2018 had lost half a stone at which point my parents needed residential care, the stress of arranging that ended thoughts of dieting.
Comfort eating saw me put on twelve pounds of the eight I'd lost, so in the autumn of 2018 I restarted the diet and by late November 2018 I'd lost a stone ... and my Dad died. Diet bust, weight gain by autumn 2019 one and a quarter stone.
So, back to the diet and early 2020, on the very morning that I'd lost a stone and a half, Nicola Sturgeon announced that anyone who could should stay home. Erratic shopping opportunities see diet bust once again.
I've piled 12 pounds back on. I'd go on a diet but I fear that, if successful, by early 2021 I'd have caused the world to end! :-)
It is obviously not intended that you diet sucessfully. Me I never bother :d
Yes sounds like the karmic implications are too dire for you to diet. So really you're doing your part to make the world a little better, one cheeseburger at a time.
I've always been overweight and fluctuated up and down a lot, but lately it's been a lot more up than down so think something dramatic is in order to reset a bit. A few too many lockdown takeaways and "oh just popping into the shop for bread and milk...and chocolate and crisps and ice cream while we're here" have taken their toll. Plus I would have previously walked to work and now my commute involves a considerably shorter walk to the spare room.
Holy tamoly! Have you seen Beruit today?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/aug/04/beirut-explosion-footage-shows-massive-blast-shaking-lebanons-capital-video
Aye, that was a big bang.
Yeah terrifying! Last report I read thought the initial fire was a fireworks or ammunition warehouse, but second huge blast looked like something far bigger, possibly chemical factory. Scary for everyone over there right now.
Yes, Will !!!
Stroll on, that was a VERY big explosion.
First time I saw that, I thought it was a mini nuke !
Having seen it again, I was pretty sure that I could see fireworks going off before the massive bang. Some reports are indicating it was a fireworks storage facility. Maybe it was ?
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Techno on 04 August 2020, 06:22:39 PM
Having seen it again, I was pretty sure that I could see fireworks going off before the massive bang.
Aye, you can see that in one of the videos.
Quote from: Techno on 04 August 2020, 06:22:39 PM
Some reports are indicating it was a fireworks storage facility. Maybe it was ?
I can't see lots of fireworks exploding like that, all in one instant. To me that was one "thing" going whump.
News report I heard talked of a jet passing low overhead just before the explosion. Apparently there are munitions stores as well as the fireworks factory and Israel and Hezbollah are said to be squaring up once more. Sounds like damage to property is extensive in the area and may people interviewed talked of having glass fragments in their feet and legs from all the shattered glass. I imagine casualty figures will exclude many with minor and/or psychological damage.
Here's hoping it was merely an accident.
Shows up the big difference between a real and a Hollywood explosion though.
In Hollywood there'd have been a huge fireball. In real life, nothing
Quote from: Raider4 on 04 August 2020, 06:30:21 PM
Aye, you can see that in one of the videos.
I can't see lots of fireworks exploding like that, all in one instant. To me that was one "thing" going whump.
I agree...it would be astonishing if they all went off together.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 04 August 2020, 06:31:36 PM
Here's hoping it was merely an accident.
Hear, hear !
What I couldn't quite get was the 'real' scale of the devastation....I assume most of the clips would have been made on phones with a relatively wide angle lens, which always stretches distances.
However....From what you could make out from all the different clips, it was a
huge area !....(and beyond that, an awful lot of shattering glass, like Mike says.)
Cheers - Phil
One of my Guild mates in the MMO I play is in Beirut, quite a way from the port, not only are all their windows shattered but their internal and external doors are matchwood too. Fortunately, he and his family are fine apart from minor scrapes and scratches.
As to the minor explosions, there are several before the main one, visible in a couple of the video's I've seen.
That was a big bloody explosion that was heard as far away as Cyprus, some 150m/km away, according to the BBC. 50 dead and 2,700 injured so far :(
From what I've just read, there were around 2,700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate being stored there.
You can make homemade explosives with that stuff.
It can also be particularly dangerous if heated in a confined space.
Hopefully it WAS a tragic accident.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Ithoriel on 04 August 2020, 09:52:34 AMI've piled 12 pounds back on. I'd go on a diet but I fear that, if successful, by early 2021 I'd have caused the world to end! :-)
I lost 10 pounds in the first month after retirement and an additional 10 pounds during the next eleven months.
Recommendations:
* Have a daily exercise routine; it doesn't need to be fantastic, mine is 10 minutes on a static bike plus some pilates routines involving light weights, I found the routines via the internet. Doing it every day slowly improves your physique.
* Minimise red meat and have lots of chicken and fish; a work colleague once lost half a stone simply by avoiding red meat.
* Have a firm routine for meals, and alcohol, and find alternative stress release. A good find has been the small wine bottles, 15% more expensive but it allows controlled drinking and avoids having to deal with a 70/75cl bottle.
* Get a daily dose of fresh air and exercise, my choice is gardening.
Quote from: Techno on 04 August 2020, 09:48:59 PM
Hopefully it WAS a tragic accident.
Good grief !....Seeing the pictures today. :o :(
Thousands injured.....100+ killed (I fear
that total will rise and rise, and rise)....How many missing ?....They surely won't find them all. Without wishing to seem ghoulish.....Some poor souls really close, when it went off, must have been virtually vaporised.
Truly
awful situation. :(
Phil
With the economy already on its knees, God only knows how long it will take to re-build things. Just imagine trying to replace all of the broken windows, even in somewhere like Bristol. It would take months and months, assuming you could get the glass and the frames :(.
Aye, but did you see that bridge that collapsed in Genoa two years has already had a replacement built?
If that happened in the UK the rubble would still be in place, and a replacement would be about eight years in the future.
Same thing happened in Japan a few years ago. Road was badly damaged by an earthquake, and six days(!) later it was repaired good as new (https://inhabitat.com/japanese-workers-take-just-6-days-to-fix-earthquake-shattered-road/).
Although agreed, Beirut will take a lot longer to get back to normal, I expect.
There is nothing the Japanese can't do, except perhaps say "squirrel" confidently.
Quote from: Techno on 05 August 2020, 06:52:35 AM
Good grief !....Seeing the pictures today. :o :(
Thousands injured.....100+ killed (I fear that total will rise and rise, and rise)....How many missing ?....They surely won't find them all. Without wishing to seem ghoulish.....Some poor souls really close, when it went off, must have been virtually vaporised.
Truly awful situation. :(
Phil
Appalling. Not sure about the power but as I understand it about 60 times the weight of the biggest WWI mine that was fired. No surprise that it was audible in Cyprus.
Photo of crater doing the rounds now... :o
Images of the area are coming out
https://images.app.goo.gl/GEajCNHX6doaUnkm9
https://imgur.com/a/1c7ugcG
I want to use the word 'awesome' to describe that explosion and its aftermath.......But definitely not in the way I'd normally use that particular word. (I hope you all understand that.)
I truly can't 'get my head around' how powerful that blast must have been. :(.....Sheesh ! :(
Phil.
It did look totally aewful (C17th usage) - I'm wondering if was an LPG ship going bang, looked very close to that tanker
Wow, that is a big crater!!!
Quote from: hammurabi70 on 04 August 2020, 10:27:38 PM
I lost 10 pounds in the first month after retirement and an additional 10 pounds during the next eleven months.
Recommendations:
* Have a daily exercise routine; it doesn't need to be fantastic, mine is 10 minutes on a static bike plus some pilates routines involving light weights, I found the routines via the internet. Doing it every day slowly improves your physique.
* Minimise red meat and have lots of chicken and fish; a work colleague once lost half a stone simply by avoiding red meat.
* Have a firm routine for meals, and alcohol, and find alternative stress release. A good find has been the small wine bottles, 15% more expensive but it allows controlled drinking and avoids having to deal with a 70/75cl bottle.
* Get a daily dose of fresh air and exercise, my choice is gardening.
I have an exercise routine .... I get out of bed, get washed and dressed and run or ride around Tamriel for four or five hours :-)
My sleep routine is much the same - I go to bed sometime between midnight and 8am, I sleep for 8 hours (give or take 20 minutes either side) and despite the inevitable 30 - 300 seconds of double vision I get when I wake from sleep of any duration I feel better than I did immediately before going to bed.
I'm a vegetarian ... and lots of things are vegetarian despite containing much sugar and fat. I like my carrots in a cake, preferably one I made myself and coated thickly in cream cheese frosting!
My routine for eating is, if I'm hungry I eat. That usually means two meals a day and a sweet snack. My weekly alcohol intake has almost doubled from 1.5 units per week to 2.5.
I live in a city, there is no "fresh" air, only varying levels of pollution.
As to gardening, the idea that some humans think they have a better idea of what should grow outside their house than nature does is a bewilderment to me but in the interest of neighbourly relations I pay money into a monthly fund to have two of these people turn up and undo all the good work nature has done since their last visit in the area around our houses.
To be more serious, I have no problem losing weight. The problem is I do it by thinking,"What can I eat, when can I eat it?" The moment I'm not on a diet the answer becomes,"Whatever you like, right now!"
Back to the news, the BBC have an interactie before and after slider!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53670839
Wow, that really brings home the level of devastation that blast caused!
Awwwwwwww.....NO ! X_X X_X X_X X_X X_X :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
A feral cat has 'just' turned up.....Must have been round for a good 'few days', because of the racket the magpies have ben making early in the morning for the past couple of weeks.
95%+ chance that it's female.....'Cos of its colouring (Trust me....I know this sort of thing)..No doubt that it will produce a whole litter of kittens....And Von will want to feed the whole lot of them.)
I want my life back.
Keep your mice down though....what language is it meowing, it could be a refugee from Beruit
You lucky man!
Mice, I can cope with, Matey. :)
It's the wretched
rats in the barns that make me want to.....No.....Never mind. =) X_X
If the 'new' feline starts knocking out some of those vermin...I'll even put down some 'nice/posh' cat food.
But there is NO WAY I'll ever let that one closer to the house than 'she' is already.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 08 August 2020, 11:40:55 AM
You lucky man!
Not sure about that, Alexander. ;)
Cheers - Phil :)
Having on the premises cats good luck brings, look you.
Happy to bring my air rifle up, if I am your way. :)
Quote from: Orcs on 08 August 2020, 04:52:47 PM
Happy to bring my air rifle up, if I am your way. :)
Take off and nuke it from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.
Speaking of rats... Teenagers back making a nuisance. Throwing stones, knocking on doors, shouting abuse at us and other neighbors and who knows what else.
Made a report to the police thinking nothing would come of it but right enough the police turned up a little later and questioned us on it and had a drive around. They'd already moved on but police told us to call them anytime they were being troublesome again and they'd be out, plus they'd do a few drive arounds in the evenings going forward.
Hopefully that'll be someway to sorting it. Not sure the police will catch them but if they turn up a few times it may deter them.
Can't wait until we can move house away from people. Or at least away from convenient pathways that kids can use as escape routes when they misbehave! It was bad enough when it was wee kids who you could usually shout at and scare but these ones are a bit older so won't be so easily scared off.
Sorry to hear about your rats MMCV :(. We had another party going on last night, but at least they had finished by 10.30pm, which was a blessed relief. We were half expecting another party going on at the 'teens' house but a no show from them thank God! We did have a baby screaming its head off on and off all night though...
Quote from: mmcv on 08 August 2020, 09:24:55 PM
Speaking of rats... Teenagers back making a nuisance. Throwing stones, knocking on doors, shouting abuse at us and other neighbors and who knows what else.
I mean...Why ?.....I can never get my head around the fact that some teenagers want to do this sort of thing.
Sympathies, Matthew.
Quote from: Steve J on 09 August 2020, 06:05:18 AM
Sorry to hear about your rats MMCV :(. We had another party going on last night, but at least they had finished by 10.30pm, which was a blessed relief.
At least that's a step in the right direction, Steve.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Steve J on 09 August 2020, 06:05:18 AM
We did have a baby screaming its head off on and off all night though...
Friday morning I had similar, trying to sort a Universal Credit problem with a baby scearming down the phone. It dont half echo in your head phones. :(
Local pub hosted a party last night. Trying to sleep with a 90s disco going on, then after midnight the inevitable screeching across the carpark.
Bring back lockdown!
Worse still, I have the "5-6-7-8" by Steps in my head.
Grumpy old git :)
Quote from: ianrs54 on 09 August 2020, 09:31:46 AM
Grumpy old git :)
Good for you, Nobby ! ;D ;D ;D
I'm NEVER grumpy......(but that's only when I'm asleep.) :D
Cheers - Phil. ;)
A tiny bit of normality in these very strange times.....
Actually got to see Von's Mum at the 'home', yesterday.....Must have been six and a half months since I saw her.....About six months from when Von last saw her.
Nice to see she was looking pretty good.....And she hadn't forgotten who we were. :)....Only confusion was why we weren't allowed to get any closer, but she seemed to take in there was a 'horrid bug' 'doing the rounds !
That care home has done all the residents proud !!
Cheers - Phil
Grand. Glad it went well for you.
Good stuff Phil
Great to hear Phil :)
Midnight last night I was woken by the sound of someone making noise down our street. Looking out of the window I saw it was a Wessex Water man with his hearing rod checking the water points! They've done it recently but why now at midnight :- :- :-!
Great news Phil, glad it went well.
Quote from: Steve J on 10 August 2020, 08:01:51 AM
Midnight last night I was woken by the sound of someone making noise down our street. Looking out of the window I saw it was a Wessex Water man with his hearing rod checking the water points! They've done it recently but why now at midnight :- :- :-!
Because it's often too noisy during the day to pinpoint problems.
Good stuff, Techno.
Did I tell you that a colleague's 103 year old mother talks to her on Skype almost daily, but seems to think it's like a moving picture rather than the actual person?
QuoteBecause it's often too noisy during the day to pinpoint problems.
Interesting as we're on a quiet residential street with little through traffic, other than during the school run etc.
Quote from: fsn on 10 August 2020, 09:43:52 AM
Good stuff, Techno.
Did I tell you that a colleague's 103 year old mother talks to her on Skype almost daily, but seems to think it's like a moving picture rather than the actual person?
A friend's gran had the opposite problem. She needed a steady trickle of new TVs because she'd poured a nice cup of tea for "that man who lives in the box and tells me the news" into the back of the TV!!
Quote from: Techno on 10 August 2020, 07:44:34 AM
A tiny bit of normality in these very strange times.....
Actually got to see Von's Mum at the 'home', yesterday.....Must have been six and a half months since I saw her.....About six months from when Von last saw her.
Nice to see she was looking pretty good.....And she hadn't forgotten who we were. :)....Only confusion was why we weren't allowed to get any closer, but she seemed to take in there was a 'horrid bug' 'doing the rounds !
That care home has done all the residents proud !!
Cheers - Phil
Thats good news Phil.
At least she din't wonder why Von was still seeing "that skinny young man with the long hair"
Quote from: Ithoriel on 10 August 2020, 10:46:22 AM
A friend's gran had the opposite problem. She needed a steady trickle of new TVs because she'd poured a nice cup of tea for "that man who lives in the box and tells me the news" into the back of the TV!!
;D ;D ;D
Awww bless her!
Just seen pics of the flash flooding that has hit parts of Wales today, as a result of the thunderstorms. Hope all has been OK your way Phil and anyone else living there and of course other parts of the UK that might have been affected. Bl**dy humid here and some light rain falling, but nothing to break the oppressive heat!
Great to hear the visit went so well Phil :-bd
Hope you've not been flooded
Quote from: Steve J on 10 August 2020, 04:59:02 PM
Just seen pics of the flash flooding that has hit parts of Wales today, as a result of the thunderstorms. Hope all has been OK your way Phil and anyone else living there and of course other parts of the UK that might have been affected. Bl**dy humid here and some light rain falling, but nothing to break the oppressive heat!
First of all, thanks all re the visit to Von's Mum. :) It was good to see her again and know she's well. :-bd
I'd have plonked out something sooner, but I had the wifi disconnected from the PC from about 10 yesterday morning, for virtually all day, because of all the thunder & lightning that was about ....it just went on and on and on......Talk about dark skies....Black as night for a good few hours....with a nice strobe effect. ;)
Thanks, Steve.....We did have a short spell (half an hour,
maybe an hour,) when the rain came down like stair rods. (unbelievable !!).....If folk had that sort of level for a longer period, I can understand the flash flooding. As we're on a 'slope' the rain tends to rush down the drive....into the road and then down the track almost opposite.... this almost becomes a culvert to the bottom of the 'valley'.
Not sure whether we're due more of that today. X_X...We were expecting more last night (wifi disconnected again overnight..just in case !)
Like Steve says, hope nobody suffered from any problems yesterday.
Cheers - Phil :)
Only one ferry docked outside yesterday. The only storm I saw came at about 17:00, at same time the web phone software crashed - it's call storm. :D
By God it's been very hot AND humid today. I honestly can't remember when we had a period of weather such as this in the UK. Can't wait for it to cool down so we can all get some sleep!
As the ultimate ectomorph....I am actually struggling today, Steve....Know what you mean.
It's horrid.
Cheers - Phil (Down to one layer, above the waist....That is VERY rare.)
Quote from: Steve J on 11 August 2020, 03:11:23 PM
By God it's been very hot AND humid today. I honestly can't remember when we had a period of weather such as this in the UK. Can't wait for it to cool down so we can all get some sleep!
I am on nights - Try sleeping during the day when its hotter and brilliant sun, even the blackout blind cannot stop all of it (Oh woe is me :()
Good storm here in LB right now Orcs
Quote from: mad lemmey on 11 August 2020, 08:59:37 PM
Good storm here in LB right now Orcs
I like a good storm, nothing here in Hatfield
Impressive light show, distant rumbles of thunder and intermittent torrential rain here.
Nowt ere despite the yellow weather warning
No rain at all and the hottest night I can remember for some 25 years or so; didn't even need a sheet to cover me all night. 26c in the hallway at 6.00am this morning, so probably touching 30c upstairs. Apparently it might get above 34c somewhere in the UK today, which will be the 6th day in a row that that's happened!
Uh-oh !
I'm starting to see some blue sky, in amongst the cloud cloud layer.....as long as it's NOT as hot as yesterday.
Cheers - Phil
It's going to be 'otter........
Noooooooooo...... X_X
(Is it just me....or does that do funny things to anyone else's eyes ?.....the O's look wibbly wobbly.)
Cheers - Phil ;)
Hard to tell as I've got a headache already from the heat and it's due to be hotter here today than yesterday!!! We might get some thunderstorms but the overnight temperature is, again, due to be higher than last night :'(.
Quote from: Techno on 12 August 2020, 06:50:14 AM
Noooooooooo...... X_X
(Is it just me....or does that do funny things to anyone else's eyes ?.....the O's look wibbly wobbly.)
Cheers - Phil ;)
Just a little Phil
We're actually getting reasonably pleasant weather for a change. My sister in England is having the heat, my brother in Scotland the thunderstorms and here in NI we've a clear day in the low twenties and a gentle breeze.
I'm in the office today - air conditioning is a wonderful thing . . .
Might come back tonight with an air mattress and sleep here ;)
QuoteMight come back tonight with an air mattress and sleep here
Sounds very sensible to me!
Someone upset Thor here...
Hot and sunny here. I fear we will pay for it later with more thunder, lighting and torrents of rain.
You could cut the atmosphere with a knife here and we're all praying it might rain tonight to possibly alleviate some of the heat and humidity.
Big storm...
10 degrees cooler
Two storms bypassed us, but at least the pre-storm breeze cooled things down a bit, making it just about bearable. Still forecast for thunderstorm to hit us tonight...
Some rumbles off in the distance last night, a sky promising heavy weather. and some rain for about 10 mins.
(Bet Phil cant see the quote)
Yes he can ! ;)
Wasn't too bad yesterday...Hot and humid, but not AS bad as Tuesday...Disconnected the PC from the line late yesterday afternoon, when there were 'rumbles' about....But we seem to have got bypassed by just about everything.
I don't think we even had a spot of rain, overnight. A couple of very distant flashes of lightning and that was it.
Cheers - Phil
Some rain in the night but no thunderstorms, or ones that woke us up. A lovely breeze today that is making it much more bearable thank God!
Only 19 degrees C today, but torrential rain. Soooooo much better!
Oh, Goody........ X_X
It IS another bloomin' mouth to feed.
The little (semi-feral) cat has decided that she's (we think it's a young 'she') moved in.....So I now have to buy cat food to keep 'her' happy.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 15 August 2020, 05:06:19 PM
Oh, Goody........ X_X
It IS another bloomin' mouth to feed.
The little (semi-feral) cat has decided that she's (we think it's a young 'she') moved in.....So I now have to buy cat food to keep 'her' happy.
Cheers - Phil
Who's idea was it to feed her? ..... You do sound quite taken with her.
Don't feed her too much, she might deal with some of your rodents for you.
This is now three weeks in a row that our neighbours have had a party, with no social distancing, more than one other family and being very loud to put it mildly. Sadly they are not the sort one would approach to have a gentle word about their behaviour :(.
In NZ at the moment we have a confidential reporting line to the Police for people like that
Quote from: Orcs on 15 August 2020, 07:30:24 PM
Who's idea was it to feed her? ..... You do sound quite taken with her.
Don't feed her too much, she might deal with some of your rodents for you.
A fed cat makes a better mouser; they kill more for fun when they're sated. Sadistic little brutes.
Quote from: paulr on 15 August 2020, 09:23:13 PM
In NZ at the moment we have a confidential reporting line to the Police for people like that
We have that in the UK too, you can do it online or just call 101 and it's one of the options to report a social distancing violation. If it's small scale they'll likely not care but a big party they might send someone out.
Quote from: mmcv on 16 August 2020, 12:26:37 AM
We have that in the UK too, you can do it online or just call 101 and it's one of the options to report a social distancing violation. If it's small scale they'll likely not care but a big party they might send someone out.
In our village we have been told to use 101 for the anti-social behaviour of the local travellers - Throwing bricks at cars etc. We have found it to be highly ineffective it gaining the police attention. You hang on the phone for 20 plus minutes, report it to a central office miles away and if your lucky a car is sent 3 hours later, and you get a call back that they could not see any problems.
We have found it far better to call 999 and report it as a crime in progress, then they have to attend urgently. I would do the same for the party. Phone 999 and report it as a crime in progress.
Quote from: Steve J on 15 August 2020, 09:21:42 PM
This is now three weeks in a row that our neighbours have had a party, with no social distancing, more than one other family and being very loud to put it mildly. Sadly they are not the sort one would approach to have a gentle word about their behaviour :(.
Awww, Steve.....I'm sure you have
everyone on the forum's sympathy.
Quote from: Orcs on 15 August 2020, 07:30:24 PM
Who's idea was it to feed her? ..... You do sound quite taken with her.
Don't feed her too much, she might deal with some of your rodents for you.
Have a guess.....It wasn't me. ;)....'She' is quite sweet, though still rather nervy.
No...definitely
not going to overfeed her....The rodents in the barn could do with a predator out there. ;)
There was a sodding great rat that 'someone' had killed yesterday......And if it had been the dogs, they'd have been parading around with it. ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
I did think of calling 101 but, as mentioned, by the time they 'might' arrive, the party would be over. Also with only 10-12 adults, albeit very loud, I very much doubt they would attend :(.
I've also reported a crime in progress before, in fact several times, and only once did the police arrive and that was due to it involving a knife.
Yeah such things tend to be down the priority list, unless it's a slow night.
A Saturday night is highly unlikely to be a slow night :(. I feel sorry for the emergency srvices who are on weekend shifts, as it must be hell.
I think we all feel sorry for you, Steve ! :(
Cheers - Phil
Thanks Phil >:<
Hugs back, Steve.
With the appropriate distancing.
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Techno on 16 August 2020, 02:01:15 PM
Hugs back, Steve.
With the appropriate distancing.
Cheers - Phil.
I believe "air hug" is the technical term
Yep, the kids in school where my wife works have been taught to air hug.
Quote from: mmcv on 16 August 2020, 02:08:42 PM
I believe "air hug" is the technical term
I'll go for that ! :)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Steve J on 16 August 2020, 02:52:33 PM
Yep, the kids in school where my wife works have been taught to air hug.
It's a different world now. I don't remember hugging anyone, ever, when I was I school.
Steve....Don't know why it struck me this morning, but have you tried contacting the local council....
They should deal with 'noise pollution', on an ongoing basis. (I think)
It's been what ? Three (or four ?) weeks on the bounce that you've had to put up with this ?
Might be worth giving them a quick bell ?
Just a thought.
Cheers - Phil
Thanks for the idea Phil. I might drop the local council a line or two and see if there's anything they can do or recommend.
Quote from: Steve J on 18 August 2020, 09:03:19 AM
Thanks for the idea Phil. I might drop the local council a line or two and see if there's anything they can do or recommend.
Double glazing maybe ? To be fair I get the occasional abandoned car in our road, they shift them pretty quickly, so you may well get some help
We have double glazing but it's been so hot we've had the windows open all night. Plus I'm a very light sleeper!
Wow! We've just had a torrential deluge that within minutes was raining so hard it hard overwhelmed the gutters and drains on the road. It probably only lasted 10 minutes, but in that time you couldn't get to the front door due to a few inches of water that extended 6' from the front door. Luckily it all drained away really quickly and now you would barely know it had happened.
Yes we had the same. Had just started taking a tree down in the garden, Got all tools out and down it came.
electric chainsaws and rain do not mix. :(
So now I will have to sit in my Den and Paint. :)
Quote from: Steve J on 18 August 2020, 01:49:32 PM
We have double glazing but it's been so hot we've had the windows open all night. Plus I'm a very light sleeper!
Honeywell "Howard Leight" Laserlite ear plugs - with literally no soundproofing between upper and lower maisonettes here, and two small children upstairs, I'd never get a full night's sleep without them.
Quote from: Steve J on 18 August 2020, 01:49:32 PM
We have double glazing but it's been so hot we've had the windows open all night. Plus I'm a very light sleeper!
We have neighbours who like to bang and stomp about at all hours - got one of those big stand fans and the noise of it covers anything they do, plus gives us a nice cool breeze!
Ring the police and tell them that drugs are being dealt. That will get their attention.
And lilkley a conviction for wasting police time
Quote from: ianrs54 on 19 August 2020, 06:11:14 AM
And lilkley a conviction for wasting police time
Yes they will find time for that, but not dealing with the party as your aneasy target
1) What ruleset do you use in your last game? - Hunt one of the new chickens.
2) What armies were confronted? - Me & Von v The Chicken
3) Did you feel comfortable with the ruleset? - Yes, it's very simple.
4) and... was this the first time you used this ruleset? - No....But we haven't played it for a good while.....and this was a two part game...One evening...One early morning
5) How many players were in the game? - 3
6) What went well? - We found the chicken up a tree
7) What could have been improved? - The bloody chicken could have stayed where it should have, and not escaped. =)
Cheers - I'm too old for this poop. ;)
=O =O =O =D>
I've heard of that one, "Find That Chicken!". Wasn't it the low budget spin off tie in game of Stop That Pigeon of Dastardly and Mutley fame?
I'll leave it up to you to decide which you are and which Von is...
(https://media.tenor.com/images/abd586246cc98e3820bcaeab87a9f6c7/tenor.gif)
I played "find that chicken yesterday".
It was in the oven.
I know I'm almost completely 'out of the loop' as regards the wargames industry......apart from the few folk I make wee men for......But when did Games Workshop get 'bought out' by an investment company ?
Does this 'firm' (BlackRock Throgmorton.) own all of GW now..or just a part of it ? :-\
Cheers - Puzzled of Wales. :)
You'd have to check with your not to distant neighbours Companies House to find out that info Phil. I thought the retail outlets were francises though, in which case no. ;)
Quote from: ianrs54 on 13 September 2020, 08:52:23 AM
I thought the retail outlets were franchises though, in which case no. ;)
You may well be right, Ian....I'd not heard of that either, though.
Could make sense with the 'overseas outlets' ? :-\
Going back to the year dot, when I worked for them......I'm
sure all the 'shops' were under the GW 'umbrella'.
Cheers - Phil
I would assume they are just a shareholder, not an "owner" as it's publicly traded. Games workshop board of directors would be the controller though answerable to shareholders.
Drains assembled and tested (main drain fine, few leaks on other bits need sorting by the team) yesterday.13.5 hours
Today Jo and I painted the kitchen and set up the new lights. Easy day today, 6 hours
Sounds like you're nearly there, Will. :-bd
Cheers - Phil :)
Second coat today, floor tiled this week, another trench to dig later.
With the Long Summer having come to an end, it seems weird to wear shoes for the first time in 6 months. Soon it will be no more shorts and back to jeans, which again will seem somewhat strange.
Useful renaissance parcels have come in, remarkably fast. Some for Pavia, some for Lepanto.
I noticed that one of the Sony Freeview channels has now become Sony Xmas Movies, yet we're still in Spetember and Autumn is only just upon us :(. Also having just come back from ASDA, they had a pallet full of Quality Street being put on the shelves. Am I the only one who wishes that this sort of Xmas stuff would start on 1st December?
I moved to a Buddhist country hoping to escape Christmas. Hmmm, trusting fool.
Christmas will have been in full swing (subject to Covid) for about 25 days already in the Philippines ;D
Christmas should start at 00:00 on 25/12, and finish at 00:00 26/112. BAHHHH 'UMBUG
Quote from: ianrs54 on 25 September 2020, 08:52:09 AM
Christmas should start at 00:00 on 25/12, and finish at 00:00 26/112. BAHHHH 'UMBUG
Oof that's far too long, I say lets do away with the 12 days of Christmas and reduce it down to the 12 hours of Christmas...
Bah Humbuger (incidentally, that would be an excellent name for a Christmas themed burger...)
I have panettone and mince pies due for delivery this weekend. It's never too early for overindulgence :)
Another project complete!
Tiny WWI aircraft.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50397884573_2fa640b541_c.jpg)Germans: Sqn of Fokker Triplanes, one of Albatrossi, Gothas, 4 Roland, 8 Hannover(?) two seaters. .
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50398748232_b9539cf418_c.jpg)British: Sqn of Se5a, one of Camels, Harry Tates, DH4's, and a couple of HP O/500's.
Those look great!
What make/ scale are they?
Thank you.
They are Tumbling Dice 1:600.
Need to clear my table so I can get them in a game.
Those look the bees knees 8)!
ohh nice 8)
Very spiffy, old chap!
They are great Nobby.
Very nice, Nobby. :-bd
They look ace! - and certainly easier to store than my 1/144th ones...
Cracking work, Nobby ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil :)
One thing about them, they are a difficlut assembly job. Also dont do what I did - bought the British and geman starter packs and opened all the bags into one box for each. Certain I have Camels with Pup wings :'(
Quote from: ianrs54 on 02 October 2020, 06:44:31 AM
One thing about them, they are a difficlut assembly job. Also dont do what I did - bought the British and geman starter packs and opened all the bags into one box for each. Certain I have Camels with Pup wings :'(
It doesn't help that they come unlabelled. I also have several with uneven wings, and the undercarriage can be a bit frustrating (both personally and on the models) but from certain angles they look OK.
I did the British first - which was easy. Then the Germans ... which was a different kettle of Albatrossi.
Quote from: fsn on 29 September 2020, 06:46:10 PM
Another project complete!
Tiny WWI aircraft.
Great stuff but what rules to use for so many aeroplanes in the combat?
Quote from: hammurabi70 on 19 October 2020, 05:03:26 PM
Great stuff but what rules to use for so many aeroplanes in the combat?
Nobby's WWI rules. :D
Just been over to the Widnes Model Shop to do some panic buying before lockdown#2.
Very busy - both the shop and the town.
Would have to say folk in Pembrokeshire have been very good, in not going OTT re panic buying...Tesco's seems absolutely normal, with the exception of seeing all the people wearing the masks.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno II on 02 November 2020, 02:35:41 PM
..Tesco's seems absolutely normal, with the exception of seeing all the people wearing the masks.
Cheers - Phil
I am sure that's an improvement with some people round here
What are you trying to say, Mark ? ;)
Cheers - Phil :)
It means he owns a mirror.
Tried this yesterday - Couldn't see any differance in ASDA yesterday, but there were several very large trolley loads infront of me at check out, and people paying in cash. So panic buying was evidenced.
Glasses wearers, the Primark masks seen to be best - a fair few peps wern't wearing one in ASDA though.
All very normal and quiet in ASDA this morning (6.30) and Lidl at 8.00. No shortages of anything and just the normal early birds out shopping.
Aldi customer spotted panic-buying (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/aldi-customer-spotted-panic-buying-hoards-of-rice-and-pasta-ahead-of-second-lockdown/ar-BB1aGsS3?li=AAwnS0s)
Standard tesco loo role non-existent this morning at our local Tescos, but a reasonable amount of other types of loo roll.
I could understand this if Covid caused dysentery like stomach problems, but its coughs and lack of taste. Why this means you need 3 time the amount of loo roll is anyone's guess
Quote from: Raider4 on 04 November 2020, 03:00:40 PM
Aldi customer spotted panic-buying (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/aldi-customer-spotted-panic-buying-hoards-of-rice-and-pasta-ahead-of-second-lockdown/ar-BB1aGsS3?li=AAwnS0s)
Wora irriot
Quote from: Raider4 on 04 November 2020, 03:00:40 PM
Aldi customer spotted panic-buying (https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/aldi-customer-spotted-panic-buying-hoards-of-rice-and-pasta-ahead-of-second-lockdown/ar-BB1aGsS3?li=AAwnS0s)
Spot the brain cell ! X_X X_X :'( :'( :'( :'(.......I'm still not sure I actually believe the photo.
If I put down what I
really think, I'd have to report myself to the moderators.....Ummm.
Cheers - Phil ;)
Quote from: ianrs54 on 04 November 2020, 12:58:34 PM
Tried this yesterday - Couldn't see any differance in ASDA yesterday, but there were several very large trolley loads infront of me at check out, and people paying in cash. So panic buying was evidenced.
Glasses wearers, the Primark masks seen to be best - a fair few peps wern't wearing one in ASDA though.
I had given up wearing glasses with a mask
Loads of fireworks going off last night and tonight as people seem to be having the parties in advance of tomorrow's lockdown.
Not heard a single firework this year.
When we HAVE heard them in the past.....they're always very distant.
Cheers - Phil
Halloween here was mad for them. Non stop all evening long. Guessing because no one could have parties and bigger events were cancelled, a lot of people did their own.
The traffic noise on the ring road by us sounds normal, so obviously lots of people still going to work or the school run. It will be interesting to see if it does quieten down more after 9.00am.
This lockdown is not as severe as that in March/April/May. Both my wife and son went to work as normal this morning.
Working in town this morning - walking to Hamilton Sq there was virtulally noone, Liverpool city centre empty, but that was before 08:00, biot more crowed on way back although city cenrtre was dead, Grange Road was busy.
Local Antics is closed until 03/12. Apparently models & modelling supplies have been judged as non-essential!
Quote from: Raider4 on 05 November 2020, 02:57:35 PM
Local Antics is closed until 03/12. Apparently models & modelling supplies have been judged as non-essential!
WHAT !!!!!. That can't be right.
I was in the local firework shop yesterday and they said that trading standards had been round and said they could only stay open if they sold food - so they are going to put some food for sale on the counter. This allows them to stay open.
He also pointed out on the same industrial estate are a Bed shop and a Bathroom store that have huge areas for customers to walk round, a very low footfall so would be perfectly safe, but they had to shut, but a B &M on the same site with narrow aisles and a big footfall could stay open.
Wine gums!
The Lockdown rules were strange in Germany, first time round.
a local Muller (like Boots) could stay open deemed essential.
for all the perfume and deodorants and hair dyes.
went down stairs and the CD/DVD section was open but the model section was taped off.
so you could buy hair dye or a nice DVD to watch
but couldn't buy and toys or models :o
Regards
Sean
There's a bit of that going on in Wales at the moment from what I can see.
The logic goes:
Books* (for example) are not essential items, so bookshops cannot open.
To be fair to bookshops, no one else is allowed to sell books while they are shut.
Therefore, supermarkets & other shops have had to tape up all the bookshelves to stop people buying books.
Somehow feminine hygiene products ended up on the non-essential list, which caused a bit of an uproar.
* As an example. I don't know if books are actually being classed as non-essential
You're right there, Martyn.
The books in Tesco's are 'taped off'....Though the magazines can be bought as normal.
Yes....There was a bit of an uproar over the 'hygiene products'....But I believe that was just one retailer (and maybe just one branch) 'misunderstanding the rules'.
The only 'things' in that particular aisle that seemed to be 'out of bounds', when I looked.....(and just for the first few days)..... were some cosmetics.
Cheers - Phil :)
Seems a bit mad, when it's all still available on Amazon!
Quote from: Techno II on 06 November 2020, 09:46:03 AM
The only 'things' in that particular aisle that seemed to be 'out of bounds', when I looked.....(and just for the first few days)..... were some cosmetics.
Cheers - Phil :)
So you have given up trying to not look your age then Phil ? :d
Quote from: ianrs54 on 06 November 2020, 10:43:13 AM
So you have given up trying to not look your age then Phil ? :d
Phil needs a trip to a builders merchants not a cosmetic isle :o quick drying cement is an essential beauty product ;D
Regards
Sean
There's nothing that five gallons of Botox couldn't fix.....I could do with the extra weight. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Would this genuinely happen to anyone other than me ?
Down to the village to collect some medication from the local pharmacy, early this morning.
Stand outside...adjust face mask....peer in....Too many folk in there ?.... No.
Enter pharmacy....Look for hand sanitizer.....Ah....They've moved it.
Press top of bottle....Nothing happens....It's sticking....Press harder....and harder.
All of a sudden it decides to dispense the 'goo'........IN A BIG RUSH....Huge dollop of goo hits hand, and sprays all over the place. (Towards me.) X_X
My glasses, face and hair should now be protected from this bloody virus for the next couple of hours. (I suppose). =)
Cheers - Phil.
I has bases, and custom cut dice frames
Phil you use no sort of machinery - you know you will only break it !
AHEM ! :)
I DO use the Dremmel....Thank you so much, Ian. ;)
(I'm still trying to figure out what I've done wrong with the 'wiring' on my 'proper/decent' stereo system.)
I need to check what I need to do, so that they'll hear it in Cardiff...... (Von still won't let me wind it up to over '1 and a teeny bit'.....Fair enough.....The house would shake to bits.) X_X
Air guitar on standby. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil :)
Quote from: Techno II on 07 November 2020, 11:08:34 AM
Would this genuinely happen to anyone other than me ?
Down to the village to collect some medication from the local pharmacy, early this morning.
Stand outside...adjust face mask....peer in....Too many folk in there ?.... No.
Enter pharmacy....Look for hand sanitizer.....Ah....They've moved it.
Press top of bottle....Nothing happens....It's sticking....Press harder....and harder.
All of a sudden it decides to dispense the 'goo'........IN A BIG RUSH....Huge dollop of goo hits hand, and sprays all over the place. (Towards me.) X_X
My glasses, face and hair should now be protected from this bloody virus for the next couple of hours. (I suppose). =)
Cheers - Phil.
:- :o :d :d :d
:o X_X
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#-o =) ;D
Quote from: fsn on 06 December 2020, 11:07:07 AM
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:P :P :P :P
;D ;D
Very good ;D ;D ;D
You do know he isn't joking?
X_X
Cheers - Phil :)
(https://www.frontsigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Love-Decorative-Illuminated-Letters.jpg)
Dammit! They've mucked up my VOLE sign as well!
Gimme strength ! X_X
Cheers - Phil :)
Moderate him out Phil :d
Nah......I'll let him off.
However...If he posts a sign to Newark, with any comments, I might have to chastise him.
Or stwike him vewy wuffley.....
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Dunstable is one letter off Unstable...
Or Dumpstable as we used to call it.
Quote from: Techno II on 08 December 2020, 08:29:01 PM
Nah......I'll let him off.
However...If he posts a sign to Newark, with any comments, I might have to chastise him.
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Techno II on 08 December 2020, 08:29:01 PM
Nah......I'll let him off.
However...If he posts a sign to Newark, with any comments, I might have to chastise him.
Or stwike him vewy wuffley.....
Cheers - Phil. ;)
HMMMM - Might be a way to get Nobby in trouble :)
Mark.... The village where I used to live, in Notts.......That would be even worse.....Truly. X_X
Cheers - Mr Cesspit for a mind. :D
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I like that they have lashed on an extra barrel of fuel :D
That's just there to weigh it down. :-B
Quote from: fred. on 11 December 2020, 07:13:49 AM
I like that they have lashed on an extra barrel of fuel :D
I thought that was a depth-charge.
(To deter the crew form bailing out, or something).
Forward thinking, surely.
Might use more underwater
One definite article too many.
Gentlemen.
My daughter and her girlfriend have escaped across the border and are now at my ex-wife's house.
They are coming to me tomorrow. Consequently I have given the place a super Christmas clean. I have put away my painting table.
This is the first time the painting table has been put away for 14 years.
I don't know what to do with myself, but please, no suggestions.
Clock patience?
Not often.
Are you lot on Twitter? I ask because a tweet from Nigella Lawson about using up leftovers has descended in one "branch" into locating clog wearing Dutch mice.
It just seemed very Pendraken forum.
;D ;D ;D ;D
But to answer your question.....I don't use Twitter, Faceache.....or any of the other numerous 'social media' platforms. X_X.....I'm just not in the slightest bit interested.
Probably why I don't get bombarded with 'poop', all the time...I can't remember the last time I got an 'advert' sent to my email addy.
However....I really DO enjoy linking to the 'blogs' that many of you utilise.....I like them ! :)
Cheers - Phil. :)
Course Phil isn't on any platforms can't figure out the registration process :d
Quote from: Last Hussar on 09 January 2021, 10:16:00 AM
... locating clog wearing Dutch mice.
No need to search any longer!
(Old children's song).
Why on Earth, would I even want to bother ? :P :d.....I'd love to know the plus-side for me to use them.
It doesn't appeal to me, at all.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Facebook, Pintrest and Youtube are useful- dont bother wit rest
I have, or have had, accounts with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest and MeWe. I no longer use any of them.
I use Youtube as a "guest." I use Discord to play boardgames with friends.
Frankly, I feel my mental health soared after I dumped those first five!
I use facebook for groups like the Friends of the Tank Museum, and Scotland from the Roadside.
Apart from that, the thought of being social doesn't appeal.
Von 'uses' Facebook.......But has it locked down to the n'th degree, so no-one can cause her any angst.
Very occassionally, she'll point out something vaguely ammusing that's she's been sent a link to.
Although I don't 'belong' to Pinterest......I often use piccies from them to help understand 'various bits of kit' for the wee men......Wot I are making (sic). ;)
I suppose I DO use Youtube.....without having any sort of link/profile.....But that's almost exclusively to watch obscure music videos like Rick Wakeman with Brian May doing a version of Yes's Starship Trooper.
I'd genuinely NOT feel comfortable in posting photo's of what I'm working on..
...with something like Facebook.....because, as far as I'm concerned.....Leon might want those to remain 'secret' for a while.
My VERY good chum, Nobby, has tried to drag me kicking and screaming into the twenty first century.....But I prefer to stay where I am. ;D ;D
Cheers - The Ancient One......But I'm happier that way. ;)
I blew my Facebook account up years ago and have been a lot better off for it. One thing I did find, from a business point of view, was that it didn't help sales at all. Posting links to new releases didn't increase sales at all. FB is full of people who "oooh, shiny, I'll have some of them!" but never follow the link and actually part with cash.
The only social media I use is Pendraken Forum and Youtube.
Just which the designers of forums like this one would bring them into the 21st century and allow photos to be uploaded direct.
Mark
Quote from: Techno II on 09 January 2021, 12:59:10 PM
I suppose I DO use Youtube.....without having any sort of link/profile.....
Audiobooks, Phil, audiobooks. No profile needed.
Quote from: Techno II on 09 January 2021, 12:59:10 PM
My VERY good chum, Nobby, has tried to drag me kicking and screaming into the twenty first century.....But I prefer to stay where I am. ;D ;D
I'll probably get you there in about 80 years time.
I know I am a massive Pendraken fan ... because Pendraken is fantastic and wonderful and we all know that.
Every now and again I find things that make me appreciate Pendraken even more.
I have been looking at 25/28mm figures (for "Of Gods and Mortals") and I have to say that some manufacturers do not do their figures justice by having some really badly painted figures on their sites. I shall name no names, but if I am looking at them and saying "I could do better than that" then they are in trouble.
Pendraken may have gaps, they may have unpainted figures, but where they do show painted figures they are so damned beautiful, I want to buy them.
Quote from: fsn on 17 January 2021, 06:49:42 PM
Audiobooks, Phil, audiobooks. No profile needed.
I'll probably get you there in about 80 years time.
Not sure I'll last 80 minutes.....The blanking boiler 'went bang' last night...I'm gonna freeze. :'( :'( :'(
Thank goodness the weather's a little bit milder at the mo'......If this had happened a couple of weeks ago, I really
would have frozen !
I've got a fan heater set up by the desk......I'll just have to waste electricity today. =)
HOPEFULLY our boiler repairman will be able to fix the wretched thing this evening......A very prompt reply from him, to a mail I sent to him 'late' last night !
Why is it......whenever I think I'm 'starting to win', does something like this happen ?
Hey, Ho......worse troubles at sea, as the saying goes. ;)
Cheers - Phil :)
Quote from: Techno II on 18 January 2021, 07:21:14 AM
Not sure I'll last 80 minutes.....The blanking boiler 'went bang' last night...I'm gonna freeze. :'( :'( :'(
Thank goodness the weather's a little bit milder at the mo'......If this had happened a couple of weeks ago, I really would have frozen !
I've got a fan heater set up by the desk......I'll just have to waste electricity today. =)
HOPEFULLY our boiler repairman will be able to fix the wretched thing this evening......A very prompt reply from him, to a mail I sent to him 'late' last night !
Why is it......whenever I think I'm 'starting to win', does something like this happen ?
Hey, Ho......worse troubles at sea, as the saying goes. ;)
Cheers - Phil :)
Poor You Phil, Know what you mean - you just think your getting there an you might save some money this month and something goes wrong.
I have a electric fan heater in my Den that is
at least 45 years old. When I was young my brother had the box room on the north side of the house with two outside walls ( no central heating in our bedrooms ). He had a fan heater. When he got married I inherited his room and he left the fan heater for me. That was 45 years ago.
Oh, not good. Hope that's fixed soon Phil!
Quote from: Techno II on 18 January 2021, 07:21:14 AM
Thank goodness the weather's a little bit milder at the mo'......If this had happened a couple of weeks ago, I really would have frozen !
I consider it to have been a mild winter so far, on the grounds that the temperature in my fridge has not been less than one degree colder than my kitchen/diner.
Quote from: Techno II on 18 January 2021, 07:21:14 AM
Why is it......whenever I think I'm 'starting to win', does something like this happen ?
Because life really likes to kick us when we're down. :(
Oh well, at least one more day without any heat, or hot water =).....I've just ordered a new circuit board....(The old one having been fried).......So the earliest it'll turn up is Wednesday...Then it's a case of how quickly the boiler-man can come out to fit the boiler all back together.
We have been warned that the new circuit might not solve the problem, 'cos Matey can't figure out for certain why the old one (and another bit) went 'pop'.
At least we have got the electric shower.
Cheers - Cold of Wales. :(
Fingers crossed you get it fixed soon Phil.
Makes you hanker for the days of a real fire.
I remember my Grandparents house had a peat burning Raeburn. My summer holidays often involved collecting cut peat from the hill and building a peat stack to protect the fuel over the winter. At least one room was warm.
For the rest it was many layers of blankets and, if you were lucky, a hot water bottle. Not uncommon to chip the ice off the windows in the morning ... the inside of the windows.
Sorry Phil. Probably not helping.
Stay warm.
Chipping t'ice off t'winda? In ar 'ouse yer ad ter chip ice of t'blanket ter get out o' bed. Then we 'ad ter go out t'privy an melt t'ice in the bowl and cistern. After a bowl o' cold gravel we ad ter walk uphill twenty mile in us bare feet t'mill and work 16 hours for sixpence a year an then walk twenty-five mile home, uphill an all.
Course, ye tell kids that these days an they never believe yer.
:) :) :) :)
Luxury!
My kids know it bless 'em
Moved house 18 months ago and the house we left was heated by solid fuel Rayburn (FSN grandparents Raeburn must be the Scottish version). Filled the damn thing day and night with coal like a paddle steamer, still freezing in most of the house and I put the damn thing in.
First thing we did in the new house was put oil fired central heating system in.
Shropshire is a lovely place we just 50 years behind everyone else.
It's somewhat of a downer......But we've had worse.
When we lived a few miles outside Newark, we lost the electricity for six days in the middle of a really cold snap.
There had been very heavy snowfall.....which came straight down....So it was able to sit on all the overhead power lines.
Mile upon mile of cables came down.
As we lived in a relatively small village, we were one of the last 'outages' to be reconnected.
Workshop were good, and allowed me to work at home for a few days, so I could muck out the horses in daylight.
Some friends lent us a gas fire, so I could keep warm during the day.......But we survived on soup cooked on a tiny camping gas 'hob'.
The last day we'd were without power, I can remember Von suggesting we go into Southwell to get some fish and chips, for a slightly more substantial meal...and we were just about to go when I noticed the standby light on the VCR had come on. I looked out of one of the windows...and a street light was on.
I went round the whole bungalow switching everything on !! ;D ;D ;D
Those six days WERE grim. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Serious tone...
After the insurrection 2 weeks ago, both Serjeants at Arms of the Capitol resigned due to the security failure. Their positions are now held by acting Serjeants at Arms
A couple of days later footage came out of Eugene Goodman, a Capitol Policeman, leading the thugs away from The Senate. In the CCTV he can be seen looking to his left, and, realising how close he is to members of Government, and the target of the insurrection, pushes the chest of guy at the front of the mob. He is a black man, facing down racists.
They chase him as he runs to his right, leading them away from the Chamber, giving his colleagues valuable time to evacuate the Senators.
Today Eugene Goodman was a Deputy Acting Serjeant at Arms, and it was his duty to escort Vice President Harris to the platform.
Sometimes good things do happen to good people.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 20 January 2021, 06:54:29 PM
Serious tone...
After the insurrection 2 weeks ago, both Serjeants at Arms of the Capitol resigned due to the security failure. Their positions are now held by acting Serjeants at Arms
A couple of days later footage came out of Eugene Goodman, a Capitol Policeman, leading the thugs away from The Senate. In the CCTV he can be seen looking to his left, and, realising how close he is to members of Government, and the target of the insurrection, pushes the chest of guy at the front of the mob. He is a black man, facing down racists.
They chase him as he runs to his right, leading them away from the Chamber, giving his colleagues valuable time to evacuate the Senators.
Today Eugene Goodman was a Deputy Acting Serjeant at Arms, and it was his duty to escort Vice President Harris to the platform.
Sometimes good things do happen to good people.
I wish there was a 'like' button on the forum for posts like these.
Well done that man.
Indeed well done that man =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>
When I first saw the video seeing a single black officer repeatedly facing down a large racist mob was incredible
To learn that he had the presence of mind and courage to lead them away from the Senate chamber was inspirational
Hooray.....The boiler's fixed. :-bd <:-P
It's lovely to put my trainers and socks on one of the 'double' radiators again, so they warm up before I put them on.......Luxury !
Though, compared to the folk that have had their homes flooded, we've not really suffered at all.......Being flooded must be soul destroying. :(
Cheers - Phil
Warmest congratulations!
Glad to hear it's fixed Phil (we went without heating at a similar time for 5 days a few years ago) but as you say, there are lots of people in a far worse situation due to the recent flooding :(.
Quote from: fsn on 22 January 2021, 08:11:49 AM
Warmest congratulations!
Chew your own coat for that one Nobby
Can he put that on the radiator first? ;D
Well....He can, now !
Cheers - Phil. :)
Yep, Flooding had to be the worst, save perhaps loss of everything a fire.
Too frosty and foggy for a nice bike ride this morning, so went for a walk instead. Luckily I barely saw a soul, which was nice, as the dog-walkers obviously decided to have a lie in. Very ethereal in the fog and there was a lovely smell of woodsmoke in the air at one point, followed by a song thrush singing its heart out soon after: both made my morning :).
Sounds like a great walk :-bd
I've got to walk up the road with wellies on, to check the gee gees, this morning......Couple of inches (plus) of snow down.
No driving the car over to Cardigan for a 'shop' today.......Just enough white stuff down to make it risky driving the mile down to the village on the little road....I expect the main road from there will probably be clear.
REALLY glad that the boiler got fixed. :)
Cheers - Phil.
A couple of inches of snow here overnight too Phil, but already a slow thaw is setting in. I still get a childlike thrill at waking to a snow covered landscape, plus the deadening quiet that only snow can bring is lovely. Also the quality of light is just to be savoured :).
It's certainly VERY quiet here, Steve. ......I haven't heard a single car drive past Techno Towers this morning.......(Or a tractor.)
I'm basically waiting to see if someone attempts the road this morning, to see how they get on. ;)
From here to the village it's pretty flat for half a mile.....Then there's a quarter of a mile 'uphill'......then a quarter of a mile down hill.
The up and down bit can be a bit of a bugger......I'm not sure if the wee car would cope with the 'uppy' bit. ;D ;D ;D
Baked beans on toast, this evening. ;)(At least we've got enough dog and cat food to last a couple of days.)
Cheers - Phil. :)
Yesterday it was rather icy and wet early on, so I delayed going for a bike ride till lunch time. When we had a bit of snow mid-morning, I was worried this was going to be a bad idea, but fortunately that snow came to nothing and the sun came out. So I got a nice ride in (which was good, as it had been 12 days since the last one due to illness and weather). Most of the roads and cycle paths were good by that time (as long as you avoided the large puddles in the gutter. But one area of about 100-150 yards of cycle path was still quite snowy / icy - so that was a bit slow and careful to go through. But all in all an enjoyable 20km and good to stretch / spin my legs again!
No snow overnight, but still icy so will see about going out for a slightly longer ride this afternoon.
Snowed yesterday til about lunch time - most gone by early evening, having the Irish sea nextdoor helps a lot.
Loads of families going past with little kids on sleds etc. Perfect snow for snowball fights and making snowmen.
Its snowing quite hard here this morning, not sure it will last as rain is predicted later. Hopefully it will stay cold and continue to snow.
Only reason I have to go outside is to get a bit more wood from the woodstore.
Fortunately we are fairly well stocked up, and like Techno there is always "beans on toast" which is one of my favourites
Good 2-3" here, again, perfect snowman/dog/rabbit/goose sculpting material for the girls.
Starts snowing every time I open the front door, and stops when I close it !
Keep the door open then...
We have a good blanket of snow. Starting to melt a little bit in the sun, but still good and thick.
It seems to be thawing, a bit, now......and the road outside has now got a couple of clear 'tracks' to the 'tarmac'.
Been snowing/sleeting on and off for a good proportion of the day.
I've decided against trying to shovel any off the drive.....That usually seems to make it worse, if/when , it freezes overnight. (And my back would moan like hack, anyway.) ;)
Cheers - Phil. :)
No snow up here in the very north of Merseyside. Grey - but able to get out for another cycle ride this afternoon. Still not fancying getting back to early morning ones as there is still quite a bit of ice around early on.
Going slushy round here now, Probably freeze overnight and make roads treacherous. Good job I am working from home
Definitely no snow here :d
We had 'thunder snow' at one point. :)
I think that's the third time I've encountered that since we've been here.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Lucky you, I've got to drive uphill to Dunstable tomorrow am.
Its not the snow, its the "to Dunstable".
No chance of snow here, 35.8 in Melbourne (Australia) .. not much joy with cricket either =)
Quote from: whubble on 24 January 2021, 11:09:09 PM
No chance of snow here, 35.8 in Melbourne (Australia) .. not much joy with cricket either =)
That's what cricket's all about, sport! ;)
Ciovering of snow here this morning
Don't think we've had any further snow......The little that thawed yesterday has frozen.
When the dogs went out yesterday they were leaving tracks.....This morning ?......They haven't made a dent in any of it.
I've almost certainly got the joy of walking into the village later X_X.....(A few provisions, and post something up to Pendraken Towers)...The road itself might not be too bad later, but if I actually manage to get the car out, onto the road......I doubt I'll be able to get it back up the drive again. =)
Cheers - Phil
Frozen snow and ice everyhwere here, but the sun is out and it's all rather lovely :).
Til you try and walk on it
I did walk on it to the shops and back and it was OK as it was several degrees below zero, so not slippery. Now I'm sure it's a rather different matter.
So 2020 2021 is the year of Nobby's Napoleonics.
I have a system, for I am full of cunning, and so wise that I am mistaken for the straight man of a well known 1970s comedy duo.
Start with the easy ones. For Napoleonics, that is usually the line infantry, then alternate between the peacocks and the pigeons. That means I will do something like line infantry, cavalry, line infantry, artillery, line infantry ... you get the idea. I have been very nervous of painting the Napoleonics, because I have not been sure enough of my brushwork. However, I am not getting any younger and the task isn't going to get easier so in I went.
I am going for a brigade level game. This gives me biggish units - a ratio of about 1:10 - so a British infantry battallion of 600 is 60 figures. I chosen this because I think handling a line 30 figures wide is going to be a more interesting proposition than handling a line say 12 figures wide. Consequently, my artillery batteries are 2 guns (I nearly made it 3) but I've added ammunition wagons to each, to make them more bulky and unmanageable. I've also gone for a 6 man crew, and used the extra guns as a separate piece that can be put on the limber to show the battery is in action. (See the limber in the middle ground.)
So here is my first Napoleonic effort of 2021. A 6pdr RHA battery. It's still short one limbered gun ... but that's on order.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50875172657_6f6d640b98_c.jpg)
Up next, a British infantry battalion.
Oh very nice sir!
They look very nice FSN.
If you should choose to do Austrians I have been very pleased with the GW Contrast white (Pause while Orcs washes his mouth out with soap and water) :)
Thanks chaps.
Orcs, Austrians are very much on my mind - but the white on white is off-putting. Contrast paints may well be the way to go. I have Wurttembergers, Bavarians, Prussians and Brunswickers to paint. Austrians and Russians are on my list. The one army I am finding it difficult to get excited about is, ironically, the French. Aside from the Carabiniers - and two regiments of heavy cavalry doth not an army make.
Maybe by the time I get this lot done., Pendraken would have done some Swedes, so I look to Leipzig. :)
The RHA looks great Nobby - the limbers and cassions are much nicer than the WWI ones, I might have a look at some pictures and see if they will work for 100 years later!
And contrast paints are (generally) great a very acceptable GW product!
Those look excellent Nobby 8).
Very nice Mr Nobs
Cracking work, Nobby ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil :)
:-bd =D> :-bd
Good stuff nobby
What a mess! X_X
The figures are good though.
Quote from: Westmarcher on 26 January 2021, 11:25:43 PM
What a mess! X_X
You should see
my desk......THAT'S a mess.
Cheers - Phil ;)
Quote from: Techno II on 27 January 2021, 08:28:51 AM
You should see my desk......THAT'S a mess.
Cheers - Phil ;)
I can believe it. I imagine yours would be carnage (e,g., greenstuff, blood, descicated flesh ...)! ;D
You know me too well, Phil, to see that's what I meant (some sensitive souls might have thought I was referring to his painting ...) to be fair, the desk is not that bad ... but don't tell him, anyone) ;)
After over a years delay for my yearly eyetest due to Covid, I've finally got my slightly modified prescriptions glasses on, which means I can read stuff normally rather than at arms length, which is nice :). Painting figures etc should be easier too, but I'll know later on today.
Steve - why over a year ? I actually got mine earlier, between lockdowns in the autunm
I couldn't get any free appointments Ian between the lockdowns. Around here it took a while for them to re-open around here as many struggled to find safe ways to have people in in a small space. Ditto our dentist, who is only now allowed to start routine NHS check-ups, so they have quite a back log to get through.
another Pendraken order turned up this week.....sigh :P
Quote from: Steve J on 27 January 2021, 10:04:39 AM
I couldn't get any free appointments Ian between the lockdowns. Around here it took a while for them to re-open around here as many struggled to find safe ways to have people in in a small space. Ditto our dentist, who is only now allowed to start routine NHS check-ups, so they have quite a back log to get through.
Just to depress you futher I have also had two eye appointments at Arrowe Park, 2nd due to a small cataract in my left eye, fortuneatly it's not growing at the moment. ASltough why Byzantine Armoured Cav wants to camp in my left eye I have no idea. (Cataphacts) . Mind youn I'm having problems with my teeth and can't get a dental appointment.
Just be glad it's not assassins you've got.
Hope you get sorted.
Quote from: Macsen Wledig on 27 January 2021, 02:49:13 PM
another Pendraken order turned up this week.....sigh :P
I was grumping yesterday because I received a Pendraken order (usually a great cause of celebration and hossanahs) but it was all wrong. These were not the Royal Horse Artillery I was looking for.
Then I realised it was an order that I had forgotten I'd placed.
Wombat!!! ;D
(https://scontent.fman1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p526x296/135178603_2872932306260101_5274908070067679149_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=2&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=eRve07FILAgAX9KAndu&_nc_ht=scontent.fman1-1.fna&tp=6&oh=e939e24b058b880af0688826bb3b464f&oe=6038695F)
Quote from: fsn on 27 January 2021, 04:45:15 PM
I was grumping yesterday because I received a Pendraken order (usually a great cause of celebration and hossanahs) but it was all wrong. These were not the Royal Horse Artillery I was looking for.
Then I realised it was an order that I had forgotten I'd placed.
I love it when that happens :D
Quote from: fsn on 27 January 2021, 04:45:15 PM
Then I realised it was an order that I had forgotten I'd placed.
And this is why Leon has been able to buy a new factory!
Here's some footage of SAAB Drakkens (I think).
Techno will like it because the singer is a very young Agneta Faltskog who later found fame with ABBA.
What was I watching this? I'm doing a company quiz and was looking for songs sung in other languages.
Kpop stars seem to like to try and sing in Portuguese. Who knew? Well I do now.
Some days, the trinkets we uncover are less valuable than others.
Well...
That was odd!
Quote from: fsn on 27 January 2021, 08:56:05 PM
Here's some footage of SAAB Drakkens (I think).
Techno will like it
Bet I wouldn't. :P........But I
do have an ear-worm at the mo' ! :)
Blue Oyster Cult - Joan Crawford (has risen from the grave)......The last half a minute...I can't get that to get out of my head.
Cheers - Phil :)
Quote from: Techno II on 28 January 2021, 07:14:59 AM
Bet I wouldn't. :P........But I do have an ear-worm at the mo' ! :)
Blue Oyster Cult - Joan Crawford (has risen from the grave)......The last half a minute...I can't get that to get out of my head.
Cheers - Phil :)
Curse you Phil, you've given it to me now!
Likewise - I've got "Ceasers Don't Fear The Reaper" going through my head
Just quoted a few hundred quid to repair a leak in a gas boiler in a house we'll be moving out of in a couple of months :'(
It's not even that the heat isn't working (yet), just leaking....talk about bad timing.
This boiler has been nothing but trouble over the years! Was only serviced a few months ago too.
And just got a scam caller "from HMRC".... sigh
Yet another scam Amazon caller today >:(.
Had one of them last week - got through to other end and blasted the f**king b - hope I defened him ! :'(
Now I only got 9 posts to promotion !
And 8
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If you all wish to adjourn to the bar I'll stand a round of Creme d Menthe and Egg Nog cocktails to all ;)
Huzzah!
Mine is a big one! (photo available)
Indeed Huzzah! General.
As a general note (no pun intended) we do seem to have a preponderance of brass. I have a few suggestions to mitigate this imbalance.
1) Nobody can get promoted until there is a vacancy - for example should a gentleman resign on the grounds of incapacity, a bad run at the card table, a scandal involving the parlour maid or bulk buying 15mm.
2) Those starting as cadet now would need to post far more that the current paltry requirements
3) Those seeking promotion should be vetted by senior members, say Generals and above. This would be a good time for Leon to get his black and white balls out, so we can all have a go.
4) The Techno II option. Gentlemen would voluntarily restart from the beginning, with their number of posts being reset to 0. This selfish act would need to be recognised with an award of some kind, perhaps a virtual medal.*
*Of course, I'd be the first to sign up for this option, except I've had the cards printed now, and ... er ... I wouldn't want to be thought of as medal chasing.
@MMCV: Bad luck, Sir.
Stay warm!
Quote from: fsn on 28 January 2021, 05:24:28 PM
Indeed Huzzah! General.
As a general note (no pun intended) we do seem to have a preponderance of brass. I have a few suggestions to mitigate this imbalance.
1) Nobody can get promoted until there is a vacancy - for example should a gentleman resign on the grounds of incapacity, a bad run at the card table, a scandal involving the parlour maid or bulk buying 15mm.
2) Those starting as cadet now would need to post far more that the current paltry requirements
3) Those seeking promotion should be vetted by senior members, say Generals and above. This would be a good time for Leon to get his black and white balls out, so we can all have a go.
4) The Techno II option. Gentlemen would voluntarily restart from the beginning, with their number of posts being reset to 0. This selfish act would need to be recognised with an award of some kind, perhaps a virtual medal.*
*Of course, I'd be the first to sign up for this option, except I've had the cards printed now, and ... er ... I wouldn't want to be thought of as medal chasing.
Alternatively, as this is a Gentlefolk's club, for Gentlefolk, we should just bust you back down to Lance Corporal.
I'll have you know that in Runcorn I'm considered quite the nob!
Hi
QuoteAlternatively, as this is a Gentlefolk's club, for Gentlefolk, we should just bust you back down to Lance Corporal.
I'm not sure the corporal's mess would be prepared to let him in.
Cheers Paul (ex L/cpl)
Quote from: Last Hussar on 28 January 2021, 05:57:27 PM
Alternatively, as this is a Gentlefolk's club, for Gentlefolk, we should just bust you back down to Lance Corporal.
Discipline gone soft.
Back in my day, and outburst like that would be grounds for the Johnny Walker and the Webley.
:-B
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 28 January 2021, 09:45:26 PM
Discipline gone soft.
Back in my day, and outburst like that would be grounds for the Johnny Walker and the Webley.
I'm not wasting whisky on FSN. Not even Johnny Walker.
I just spent a pleasurable hour this morning taking part in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, which is the World's largest wildlife survey. I think I've been taking part for 15+ years, but sad to see a decline in some species that visit our garden even in this short space of time :(.
Von & I have done the same, Steve.
What you say about the decline in some species is SO true..
Birds that have disappeared from our garden, over the 17 years we've been here.....
Green finches.....Haven't seen one of those for well over 10 years.....(OK, there was a very nasty 'bug' that virtually wiped those out.)
Siskins....Not seen a single one of those for roughly the same amount of time.
Goldcrests.....Same again.
We usually see a handful of Bullfinches and Goldfinches (at the right time of year)....This year none......Same for Wood pigeons
Buzzards.....WERE fairly plentiful......Only seen a few this year......Same for the Red Kites......Ditto Ravens.
We seem to have plenty of Chaffinches, Sparrows, Magpies, (Bloody) Feral pigeons, Crows....and a fair number of Blue/Great/Coal Tits.....A few Blackbirds, Robins, Nuthatches, Jays, and Greater spotted woodpeckers.
Haven't seen a single Thrush this year.....Though there are a decent number of Starlings at the mo'.
Cheers - Phil
Greenfinches and Chaffinches we used to see almost daily when we first moved here, but when new owners on neighbouring properties got rid of loads of trees, shrubs etc, they pretty much disappeared, along with the effects of that horrible virus. We get loads of wood pigeons now, starling numbers are up but rarely pop into the garden, many more jackdaws than before, ditto magpies. We have had a blackcap again, which is nice and a goldcrest last week, which I haven't seen for a few years. Happy to be doing our bit for wildlife in the garden, but without other gardens doing the same, we feel like an isolated outpost of nature :(.
I'd forgotten about jackdaws, Steve.
They seem to come down every week or so....not every single day.
More often when they've got young.....which might be in few weeks time.
Only ever SEEN one cuckoo.....Though you can hear them at the right time.....Also hear grasshopper warblers....but never seen one of those, either.
We used to get house martins, when we lived in Notts......never seen a single one here....the swallow population has declined since we've been here.
Until last year, we'd have up to four nests in the outbuildings......last year....just the single one.
Not seen a sparrow hawk for a while either.
Cheers - Phil
Lots of:
Sparrows, Blackbirds, Magpies, Rooks, Jackdaws Woodpigeons, Starlings (but no big murmurations round here these days). Swallows, Housemartins in summer, but not as many as normal last year. Not in the garden but roundabout; Buzzards (not as many as ten years ago), Barn Owls, Herons. Cormorants down on the estuary.
For some weird reason Blue Tits have disappeared round here. Maybe the cat population?
There are still Robins and the odd Song Thrush still comes in the garden.
We've never had many finches of any sort round here that I've noticed but I haven't seen any for a couple of years.
Still Linnets, Pied Wagtails, Ducks (mainly Mallards) the odd Kestrel.
We've had a massive increase in Herring Gulls recently - spend a lot of time fighting with the Buzzards.
I had blue tits, sparrows, jackdaws (lots), magpies, starlings, wood pigeons, a couple of crows and a robin this morning. Usually there is a couple of collared doves who show up for breakfast, of course not today when I was actually counting them! ;D
When I look out my window whilst working, I see goldfinches, blue tits, sparrows, starlings, collared doves, pigeons, sparrows and herring gulls.
I'd forgotten about Dunnocks....get quite a few of those.
I tried to take some pics.....so we could count everything on the PC screen....much easier.
The light was so bad, it looked like I'd switched the camera to black and white mode.
Cheers - Bill Oddy. ;)
Quoteof course not today when I was actually counting them!
Yep, had something similar today with a Wren, Blackcap and Goldcrest show up, whilst I was having a coffee break!
Mostly coal, blue and great tits here. Plenty of robins. Blackbirds, wrens and dunnocks. Big wood pigeons and magpies. Sparrows sometimes I think. Had a lot of starlings a little while back but not seen them since. Sometimes get a clatter of seagulls but they don't really bother to land in the garden. I've definitely learned to identify a lot more birds this past year!
We were taking part as well, with great/coal/blue tits, loads of dunnocks, blackbirds, starlings, a lone robin, sparrows and goldfinches. Plus crows and pigeons but they're not as much fun. We've just started digging out the garden ready for a new shed so the birds might not be friends with us for a while now.
And today I see a wren. :)
Great start to the week/month, on the way to work this morning and someone's ran a red light and hit the front of my car. >:( Time for one of those fun calls to the insurance company to get it repaired. Luckily I've got a dashcam these days so it's all on video.
X_X
Good start to February !
As long as you're alright, Leon ?
All the best - Phil.
Glad you're OK Leon.
#"Things can only get better!"# :)
Quote from: Techno II on 01 February 2021, 10:21:04 AM
As long as you're alright, Leon ?
I'm fine thanks, just peed off really. The car isn't too badly damaged but it's cracked the bumper and knocked things out of alignment so it's going to need a proper repair.
Well that's a bad way to start the day, but thankfully you're OK.
Quote from: Leon on 01 February 2021, 10:03:44 AM
Great start to the week/month, on the way to work this morning and someone's ran a red light and hit the front of my car. >:( Time for one of those fun calls to the insurance company to get it repaired. Luckily I've got a dashcam these days so it's all on video.
a pain in the arse to be sure...
re birds
I live by the sea/estuarine environment so Herons, Swans, Seagulls and Buzzards abound plus other stuff I have no idea what they are...
I sorry to hear it Leon.
Glad you're OK, but I suppose it's one of those thing you could do without.
Just a warning - you will get a load of unsolicited calls asking if you are hurt at all, so beware Leon.
That is SO true.
I fended off dozens a few years ago, when someone reversed into me in a local car park....He was very honest, and came and found me to 'own up'. (Only broke one of the fog lamps)
I wasn't even IN the car when this happened....But, good grief, the number of calls I got, as he had to go through his insurance.
I did get rather peed off, in the end. =).....It went on for months !!
Cheers - Phil
Yeah, I had those for years when Adele hit black ice and rolled her car in 2017.
Incidentally, this past week we've been inundated with energy brokers trying to get us to sign up to all sorts of stuff, as we've got new premises. I have no idea how they've found this out, as we've not signed the final paperwork yet and haven't taken ownership. But somehow we've appeared on a database and the calls have begun.
Thats a real pain Leon, but as lon as your not hurt hats all that really matters.
I am still waiting to go to court on someone pulling out on me on a roundabout 18 months ago . Unfortunately I didn't have a dash cam. they have come up with some complete fairy tale and its has to go to court.
I'm now into the 4th yeer of a miss-selling case, it started on Friday 13th July 2018........ARGHHHHHH :'(
On the other hand when I wrote my car off I was paid out by the insurance company with in 3 weeks, and by bank transfer. :D
Oh they wrote my car off too as uneconomical to repair. Paid me out 80% of its value and i am still driving it 18 months later. MOT was no problem.
Mine got hit on lefthand side door pillar, no hope. I did have a Datsen 160 SSS in the 80's which I did that with. Hit on Rt front wing, insurance wrote it off, value £800, I kept and got new front wing fitted for £200, had only paid £750 for it. Even better used it as a £1000 deposit for Reanult Feguo, and got £160 for it as well.
Hugs Leon
Not the best start to the month but the main thing is you were unhurt #:-S
Good news - Covid jab on Friday afternoon :D
That's good, Ian !! :)
Cheers - Phil.
Podiatrist visit this afternoon, Covid jab tomorrow.
Out of the house twice in two days! First time I've gone further than the bins, a metre or two outside the door, since November.
Taught my first class of the year this afternoon. Fortunately for morale, a rather brainy teenager.
Quote from: Techno II on 03 February 2021, 01:51:49 PM
That's good, Ian !! :)
Cheers - Phil.
Thanks Phil. Problem is I feel like a fraud, I'm rarly ill apart from the diabetes and walk everywhere. There must be people with much greater need than me. Not that I'm going to turn it down.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 03 February 2021, 01:55:42 PM
Podiatrist visit this afternoon, Covid jab tomorrow.
Out of the house twice in two days! First time I've gone further than the bins, a metre or two outside the door, since November.
That's good too, Mike ! :)
Ian...I'd take the view, that if being diabetic is one of the conditions that they 'worry about'.....Get it done Matey. :)
...Don't feel like a fraud !
Cheers - Phil.
Do it Ian.
To make it fun as the needle goes in scream "it burns, it burns". Some frothing at the mouth would be good too.
Seriously, do it.
To head off on a slightly different tack, I got hit on SH1 in Auckland on Thursday whilst riding my motorbike. Guy alongside me in the outside lane decided he wanted to be where I was, so moved without looking or indicating. The defensive riding courses I've been on payed off as I mostly got out of the way and kept the bike upright. Which was good as there was a huge truck directly behind me. The only damage was a scratched rear indicator, which he offered to pay for. Checked the price $213.00 + GST, I let him know the price and told him I was not going to get it as the indicator works and a bit of black paint would fix it.
I have noticed since being in NZ that driving standards are much lower here than I was used to in the UK, and that is even after several years as a motorcycle courier in London.
Cheers
Ian
Quote from: ianrs54 on 03 February 2021, 02:51:23 PM
Thanks Phil. Problem is I feel like a fraud, I'm rarly ill apart from the diabetes and walk everywhere. There must be people with much greater need than me. Not that I'm going to turn it down.
Are you
Cat 6 or just being prioritised within
Cat 5?
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-care-home-and-healthcare-settings-posters/covid-19-vaccination-first-phase-priority-groups
Cats should automatically go the the front on any queue. (vid. sup.)
Kittys will automatically go to thge front of the queue. I think I'm either 4 or 5. NHS web site isn't too clear on it last time I looked
Quote from: Sandinista on 03 February 2021, 07:09:31 PM
To head off on a slightly different tack, I got hit on SH1 in Auckland on Thursday whilst riding my motorbike.
I have noticed since being in NZ that driving standards are much lower here than I was used to in the UK, and that is even after several years as a motorcycle courier in London.
Cheers Ian
Pleased to hear you're OK, as well, Ian !! :-bd
Cheers - Phil :)
Likewise, hope you're okay.
Hope you're OK too. When I used to cycle to work, I noticed that the standard of driving had dropped markedly over the past 10 - 15 years, especially bus drivers :(. Everyone seemed to be in such a hurry to get to work, overtaking me on blind bends etc :o.
I hope the vaccinations all go well
Good to hear you are ok Ian, NZ drivers are pretty crap and closing the borders has proved we can't blame the tourists
I'm sure the standard has dropped significantly over the last 10 or so years ~X(
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Quote from: paulr on 04 February 2021, 08:28:02 AM
Good to hear you are ok Ian, NZ drivers are pretty crap and closing the borders has proved we can't blame the tourists
I'm sure the standard has dropped significantly over the last 10 or so years ~X(
Ditto from me Ian.... stay safe.... l'm on a bit of a road trip in the South Island currently and can only agree with Paul's comment on the crappy standard of some drivers in NZ these days from my experiences over the last 2 days.
Quote from: fsn on 04 February 2021, 07:16:11 PM
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I was hoping for a mouse with David Fletcher whiskers.
;D ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 04 February 2021, 08:13:08 PM
I was hoping for a mouse with David Fletcher whiskers.
Is this what you were looking for?
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>
My brain
QuoteThat's a crappy looking tank. Bit slabby. Hmm hold on, that a maus isn't I......
Oh, I get it
Cheers, not stopped me riding though :-)
Other good news for me is that I have just completed my first ever house purchase today, in sunny Tuakau. Does this mean that I am an adult now at 56?
Cheers
Ian
Quote from: Sandinista on 04 February 2021, 11:55:41 PM
Other good news for me is that I have just completed my first ever house purchase today, in sunny Tuakau. Does this mean that I am an adult now at 56?
Cheers
Ian
Congratulations on your new home. I am afraid it does not make you an adult. I am the same age as you and have purchased 4 homes (one at a time), and still have the mental age of a small boy. In fact a couple of years back my stepdaughter bought me a card saying "Happy 5th Birthday" with a badge saying "I am 5"
Also the very fact you frequent this Forum with lots of other Old boys with low mental ages confirms this.
Read my sig :-)
Brilliant news Ian. 8)
It certainly is !! :)
(I'm a rabbit of negative euphoria, this morning......The s*dding boiler's on the blink again. X_X =))
Cheers - Phil.
Congratulations Ian :)
Good luck with the boiler Phil :-SS
Well done Ian and Phil, I hope you can get it fixed soon.
So do I, Steve !
It 'works'....but it sounds VERY sick, so we're not risking switching back on.
These things are sent to try us. =) ;)
Worse troubles at sea, and all that...My Brother in law is at death's door at the mo' with very aggressive liver cancer.....I'm expecting my 'little' niece to 'mail me at any time to say that it's over.
She's been expecting 'the end' for the last 48 hours. :(
Cheers - Phil.
Great news Ian! My nephews are at Uni in Hamilton so not too far away from you there.
Quote from: Techno II on 05 February 2021, 08:32:14 AM
My Brother in law is at death's door at the mo' with very aggressive liver cancer.....I'm expecting my 'little' niece to 'mail me at any time to say that it's over.
She's been expecting 'the end' for the last 48 hours. :(
Sorry to hear that Phil. :(
Sorry to hear about your BIL, Phil.
It's a nerve wracking time. I lost my SIL, brother, father and mother to cancer and it is very distressing.
Have a virtual hug.
>:<
Comiserations Phil
Quote from: Techno II on 05 February 2021, 08:32:14 AM
So do I, Steve !
It 'works'....but it sounds VERY sick, so we're not risking switching back on.
These things are sent to try us. =) ;)
Worse troubles at sea, and all that...My Brother in law is at death's door at the mo' with very aggressive liver cancer.....I'm expecting my 'little' niece to 'mail me at any time to say that it's over.
She's been expecting 'the end' for the last 48 hours. :(
Cheers - Phil.
My sister has just turned out to have a cancer that's going to need a prompt mastectomy; after she's been trying to keep sane for six months with a boyfriend who's very slowly learning to walk and speak after a kind of stroke.
Sorry to hear that Phil and Alexander :(.
Sounds bad Alexander. My Sympathies
Sympathies to both of you Phil and Alexander.
Life is definitely not fair.
And from me..... to Alexander.
Life seems to be a bit of a b*gger at the mo'. =)
As far as the BIL is concerned, I'll be happy for him when the end comes, rather than sad.
Cheers - Phil
Ah, well.
Just heard......The BIL died late last night/very early this morning.
Feel sorry for the niece & nephew.....But happy for Rob. At least he's not in pain anymore..
Phil.
A good way to take it Phil, is your sister OK ?
Sorry to hear that, both. My uncle passed a little over a year ago after a long struggle with cancer. It's hard on everyone, especially as it nears the end. :(
My condolences, Phil. As you say, some comfort can be had knowing he is now at peace.
Also, Alexander, best wishes for a complete recovery for your sister.
Condolences mate.
My brother, who had cerebral palsy, died of liver cancer aged 50 largely because various doctors missed the proper diagnosis because of his condition. Though I miss him it is some comfort to know that his Civil Service job allowed him to live independently, that his car gave him mobility and that he packed far more into his 50 years than I have into 67!
Dad had bladder cancer severe enough to require the removal of his bladder but he survived for just over a decade and a half until taken down by alzheimer's, dementia and repeated infections a couple of years ago.
Mum has alzheimer's and is in residential care, she was diagnosed with terminal cancer just before Christmas. Woody Allan is supposed to have said,"I don't mind dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens." Given that her mental decline seems faster than the cancer, Mum may achieve that. :(
None of which detracts from the losses FK and Phil have suffered. Commiserations to all affected.
I suspect that many on this forum are of an age where such stories are increasingly commonplace. Which gives me pause to consider what my own end may bring.
To end on a more upbeat note, got my Covid jab yesterday. Apart from a very slight ache in my upper arm if I move it in certain ways I've had no adverse reactions. I think time taken trundling in and out of the Conference Centre was almost as long as the journeys to and from the place and the time getting the jab combined! The banter with the staff made the whole thing pretty painless.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 05 February 2021, 01:57:59 PM
To end on a more upbeat note, got my Covid jab yesterday. Apart from a very slight ache in my upper arm if I move it in certain ways I've had no adverse reactions. I think time taken trundling in and out of the Conference Centre was almost as long as the journeys to and from the place and the time getting the jab combined! The banter with the staff made the whole thing pretty painless.
That reassures me a great deal - mine is at 16:53 today. :)
Well the past few days we have had weather that has been almost Spring like, with the sun having enough warmth to be able to sit outside and enjoy it :).
Quote from: ianrs54 on 05 February 2021, 01:10:23 PM
A good way to take it Phil, is your sister OK ?
Don't worry about it, Ian....But Sis died just over 4 years ago from the vile Motor Neurone Disease.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 05 February 2021, 01:57:59 PM
To end on a more upbeat note, got my Covid jab yesterday. Apart from a very slight ache in my upper arm if I move it in certain ways I've had no adverse reactions. I think time taken trundling in and out of the Conference Centre was almost as long as the journeys to and from the place and the time getting the jab combined! The banter with the staff made the whole thing pretty painless.
Excellent, Mike ! :-bd.......Good luck with yours, Ian.
Quote from: Steve J on 05 February 2021, 02:31:45 PM
Well the past few days we have had weather that has been almost Spring like, with the sun having enough warmth to be able to sit outside and enjoy it :).
Rub it in, why don't you, Steve ;).....I'm cold...and the boiler man hasn't been in contact yet. :'(.......Poor chap is probably run off his feet at the moment.
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Techno II on 05 February 2021, 03:27:50 PM
Don't worry about it, Ian....But Sis died just over 4 years ago from the vile Motor Neurone Disease.
..Good luck with yours, Ian.
Whoops - sorry Phil and Ta La
No sweat at all, Ian......Go and get that needle in your arm. :)
Cheers - Phil
He should have been done by now. Hope all went smoothly Ian.
Thanks, folks.
>:< Phil and Alexander
Good luck with the jabs
Quote from: Leon on 05 February 2021, 09:27:50 AM
Great news Ian! My nephews are at Uni in Hamilton so not too far away from you there.
There is a great games store in Hamilton that sells 15 & 28mm figures, you should ask him to act as an agent for you and get some of the army packs in :-)
Sorry to hear that Phil, hope you're all doing OK.
Quote from: Sandinista on 05 February 2021, 08:31:10 PM
There is a great games store in Hamilton that sells 15 & 28mm figures, you should ask him to act as an agent for you and get some of the army packs in :-)
We've had a couple of NZ people ask about stocking in the past but the shipping costs make it unviable for them unfortunately. By the time they've paid to get the stuff into the country there's no margin left for them.
Commiserations Phil, i fully understand your sentiments.
Ok so I got the jab, hurts a bit but no other side effects.
It's weird how some jabs 'hurt' (sore arm effect) and others don't.
I have a B12 jab every 12 weeks....Nursey always says "This might sting a bit".....It never does....Ditto the flu jab.
Only one I've had 'recently' that gave me an aching arm was a pneumonia jab.
That DID give me a sore aching arm.....and also a slight fever for a couple of hours....But I'd been warned about that.
Cheers - Phil. :)
I had one jab prior to going to Nigeria as a VSO, which was OK but they did say my arm might hurt in the morning. They weren't wrong, it hurt like hell and I could barely move it for two days. To shave I had to hold the razor and then move my head!!!
One oddity with the flu jab is that it twinges very occasionally for months afterward.
Real men never shave!
Quote from: ianrs54 on 06 February 2021, 09:04:37 AM
One oddity with the flu jab is that it twinges very occasionally for months afterward.
The worst 'jab' I can remember (from a few years ago)....was when I had an antibiotic 'dose' into my thigh.
Stroll on.....That hurt
lots when it was done..(I think they used a hollowed out knitting needle)..And I had 'dead leg' for three or four days.
Cheers - Phil
We are ramping up to 500 vaccinations a day on Sunday at the hub I volunteer at, onward and upward.
Congrats on the numbers and volenteering Ben. St Cats where I got mine was very efficent arrived before time, and got the jab imediatly - only wait was the 15 mins at the end.
I had an epidural.
That wasn't fun, but they were feeding me morphine.
Trippy!
When I had typhoid and needed medication, it was intramuscular in the buttocks, due to the viscosity of the serum. The pain was unbelievable (it literally took my breath away) and felt like someone was injecting a golf ball! The worst part was when they had done one buttock, I then had to have another jab in the other one and new what was coming.
I needed a blood oxygen test. They said it would hurt. I said I'd be fine as I've given blood. They said that's veins, this needed to be an artery.
It hurt.
Years ago Dad had a jab for Yellow Fever. He reacted badly and went own with full symptoms of the disease. We Called the doctor out and he called he Hospital for tropical diseases who said " he should get better in 3 days, but if he get any worse you had better let us know. A few days later he was fine.
When Mum and I had it a few years later, no reaction at all
Well done Ben for volunteering =D> =D> =D>
Some years ago now -
Consultant: We need to put you on <scrabble rack type medicine name> at the strongest dose. Here, take this.
My Mum: I'm allergic to that.
Consultant: Nonsense, no one is allergic to this. We give it to thousands of patients and no one has a bad reaction to it. You must be mixing it up with something else.
My Mum: Oh well, okay. <takes pill and swallows it>
Consultant: I'll look in and see you later. <turns and walks towards door>
Nurse: Help! She's collapsed, she's unconscious!
Fortunately mum was fine a day or so later and put on an alternative drug.
Quote from: fsn on 06 February 2021, 11:10:03 AM
I had an epidural.
That wasn't fun, but they were feeding me morphine.
Trippy!
I laugh at your epidural.
If you want real discomfort try a lumbar puncture. Mine took 6 anaesthetic jabs first.
I see your lumbar puncture and raise you pancreatitis.
That was why they gave me an epidural.
Well, if we are just boasting now.
I had a circumcision at the age of 45. They give you 2 anaesthetics - a general one so they can give you the local one.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 06 February 2021, 10:49:12 PM
Well, if we are just boasting now.
I had a circumcision at the age of 45. They give you 2 anaesthetics - a general one so they can give you the local one.
Finally left the royalist camp. - Don't tell me, The Doctor only did it for the tips!
If I wanted to have Jodie Cromer attending to my personal regions, and the idea has its appeal, I don't think I'd ask her to use a scalpel!
Ditto, David Tennant.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 06 February 2021, 10:49:12 PM
Well, if we are just boasting now.
I had a circumcision at the age of 45. They give you 2 anaesthetics - a general one so they can give you the local one.
There was me thinking that Hussaring was all about knocking the tip off a champagne bottle with a sabre.
When I went for my vasectomy, the first thing the surgeon said was, "Right. How do you do this again?"
I watched myself having the op for my vasectomy, as I was telling the doctor about the mdeical stuff I used to make for a design company. He even gave me one of the bits of 'tube' to hold once it was removed, which felt like over cooked pasta. As you might have gathered I'm not squeemish!
Vasectomy:- Definition. Never having to say your sorry :)
Quote from: Last Hussar on 06 February 2021, 10:49:12 PM
I had a circumcision at the age of 45.
Too. Much. Information.
Quote from: Orcs on 07 February 2021, 09:25:25 PM
Vasectomy:- Definition. Never having to say your sorry :)
Never having to listen to your wife say "Yeah, sorry. Must have forgotten to take the pill that week". Again.
Quote from: Raider4 on 07 February 2021, 09:35:51 PM
Never having to listen to your wife say "Yeah, sorry. Must have forgotten to take the pill that week". Again.
Yep my ex caught me with that one.
I havve always found pregnant women quite sexy - perhaps because if you get lucky you can't get them pregnant. :d
You find every woman sexy. ;D
When he was small my eldest said "You must really love me and [brother] or you wouldn't have had us."
I replied (in front of my parents) "You're mum can't count."
Cue two small boys wondering why all the grown ups are laughing.
Serious question - what's the best way to cut a lolly stick I've mounted that Jarvis flexi hedge on?
Quote from: Last Hussar on 07 February 2021, 10:40:22 PM
Serious question - what's the best way to cut a lolly stick I've mounted that Jarvis flexi hedge on?
Before you stick the hedge on!
Razor saw on the lollystick
Quote from: Last Hussar on 07 February 2021, 10:40:22 PM
Serious question - what's the best way to cut a lolly stick I've mounted that Jarvis flexi hedge on?
Lolly sticks are tough. Secateurs. Try garden secateurs? (not for the hedge! ... the sticks) Or just don't mount them on lolly sticks .....
Got my Covid jab today and I can proudly say I took it like a man and there were no tears.
... OK, so there was a slight tremble to the lower lip when they told me they'd run out of lollipops ...
I was disappointed when I had one of my B12 jabs, and asked nursey if I could have a sweetie for being so brave. ;)
"We're not allowed to give sweets now.....just in case there's an allergic reaction."
Never thought of that. :(
Cheers - Phil.
Must have caught something as I set it down, as the tablet started talking to me. Made me jump as I wondered for a moment who was in the flat.
GA: How can I help you today
Me: [shocked] F :o Off!
GA: I'm sorry you feel that way.
Me: Sorry. Hold on, I'm apologising to a computer!
Quote from: Last Hussar on 11 February 2021, 07:39:30 PM
Must have caught something as I set it down, as the tablet started talking to me. Made me jump as I wondered for a moment who was in the flat.
GA: How can I help you today
Me: [shocked] F :o Off!
GA: I'm sorry you feel that way.
Me: Sorry. Hold on, I'm apologising to a computer!
Nuke it from orbit before they enslave the lot of us.
(or at least pop out the batteries).
Will somebody PLEASE put 50p in the meter for the heating outside......I've asked once already, and no-one seems to have bothered.
I never thought I'd ever say this...but I can't wait for it to start raining again....At least that'll mean the temperature is above freezing.
Stroll on.....The little birds in the garden were almost mobbing me this morning while I was trying to put their grub out.
Cheers - Chilly of Wales. ;) AKA Techno Blue Fingers. :D
I went for a bike ride this morning and the wind chill was enough to hurt my head! Not pleasant :(. It hasn't been this cold for a long time and I too am (sad to say) looking forward to it warming up and raining, as my plants are all looking very, very sad.
"Everybody Talks About the Weather, But Nobody Does Anything About It." - Mark Twain (allegedly)
What worried me the other day was the issue of a Yellow Snow Warning. :o
Quote from: fsn on 13 February 2021, 09:32:15 AM
"Everybody Talks About the Weather, But Nobody Does Anything About It." - Mark Twain (allegedly)
I LIKE that one, Nobby.....(Whoever said it.) :)
A bike ride, Steve ?....I should think the wind chill
would be frigging awful.
It was bad enough just trying to open the gates, this morning.
Tiny bit of snow....But it was mostly 'freezing rain'.
Quote from: Westmarcher on 13 February 2021, 10:14:12 AM
What worried me the other day was the issue of a Yellow Snow Warning. :o
One of Radio 5 Live's presenters said the same thing a couple of days ago, Davy......Then almost collapsed into a fit of giggles. ;D ;D
Cheers - Mr Popsicle. :D
Covid jab booked for tomorrow morning, Huzzar! Well done NHS and everyone working in it.
Cheers Paul
I've been for a bike ride too this morning - was very windy. But once going the wind chill didn't feel like a thing - it was still cold but the right clothes / enough layers were fine for that. But when I got back I was surprised that I'd only gone about 28km felt a lot further due to the effort of peddling into the wind.
My body was fine, the fingers a bit tingly by the end, but I had to put my buff scarf over my head and ears as that bit of me was so cold!
On a positive note, our son had his first Covid jab today, which is a great relief to all concerned :). All very slick and efficient and the staff very helpful and friendly.
I know what you mean about ears and head!
I got a merino wool neck warmer at the start of Dec, and have worn it on all cycle rides over the last few months, always over my ears and back of head, and sometimes over my mouth and nose. It was certainly over my mouth for 50% of today's ride, although it does get a bit wet from your breath.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01LYPHZQI/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Well, no wonder it's cold. They build great big fan heaters on the edge of town and then, with several inches of snow on the ground, they don't turn them on!!
Cheers,
Mr. Bewildered
Did some shopping this morning - bloody cold walking down Roumered to be equivalent of -16 C, I can well belive it.
I know I've said before....about trying to keep 'warm'......Yes.... Use the proper clothing...But having to try and keep a decent body temperature while trying to sort the friggin gees out.
How did our ancient ancestors manage to stop themselves freezing to death ? X_X
Phil.
More Body Hair ?
Quote from: Techno II on 13 February 2021, 01:07:23 PM
How did our ancient ancestors manage to stop themselves freezing to death ? X_X
Phil.
Multiple layers ... furs ... wool (oiled wool is surprisingly waterproof, if smelly) ... huge calorific intake ... and the fact they didn't always manage it!
Mike......Personally, I think I wouldn't have bothered..and just been happy to turn into a popsicle
. ;)
Cheers - Phil :)
I spent 2 hours on the allotment this morning - I know, I know - mad impetuous fool! :D But I had this crazy idea that i should be planting my broad beans.
However, the ground was like iron and it was "bleedin-'freezin" - so I spent the last 45 mins pottering about in the green-house - at least the soil in there was not solid - but I did find a frozen solid mouse (that went into the compost heap).
I managed (using an old entrenching tool - a present from my sadly no longer with us father-in-law - who had liberated it during his National Service days) to harvested the last of this years baby beetroot (now roasting in the oven) and the last of the curly kale, red stemmed kale and cavolo nero - all now cooked and in the freezer. I am contemplating what this years crops will be - last year was very odd, as despite having Covid lock-down induced time to work on the allotment, getting hold of seeds and plants had been a nightmare. But I am better prepared this time.
Glad to be back home and in the warm ... as it is now starting to lightly snow here in Brizzle ... so I can enjoy an afternoon of figure painting (as I came home to a small Pendraken order on the door mat - many thanks Leon). I'll also spend some more time this evening crafting Pendraken rules and assorted other Pendraken top-secret stuff TBC ;)
Quote from: Big Insect on 13 February 2021, 01:53:38 PM
... (as I came home to a small Pendraken order on the door mat - many thanks Leon). I'll also spend some more time this evening crafting Pendraken rules and assorted other Pendraken top-secret stuff TBC ;)
No worries, good to hear that it arrived safely!
Quote from: Ithoriel on 13 February 2021, 01:27:33 PM
Multiple layers ... furs ... wool (oiled wool is surprisingly waterproof, if smelly) ... huge calorific intake ... and the fact they didn't always manage it!
They had not got soft like we have with our fairly draught free houses, heating etc. They probably shared their beds with more than one person and did not go outside more than absolutely essential
My Dad worked outside all his life and never really felt the cold as he just got used to it. Growing up in unheated houses helped I'm sure. Apparently hearth stones are the best way to heat a house, so our ancestors would have been able to keep warm relatively easily and, as above, would have been used to the cold. The same is true in reverse with coping with heat as it's just what you're used to and you body has adapted to.
As a former VSO, we were never sent out in the Hot Season as it was too much of a shock to our bodies and we couldn't acclimatise quickly enough. So we were sent in the Wet Season which was humid but not too hot or in the 'Spring'. So after 6 months in country your body had adapted to the climate and could cope with the heat. Amazing what the body is capable of really.
4 hours car park duty at the the local vaccination hub was fun last Tuesday morning... Wind chill at minus 7 degrees Celsius ...
Quote from: Ithoriel on 13 February 2021, 01:27:33 PM
Multiple layers ... furs ... wool (oiled wool is surprisingly waterproof, if smelly) ... huge calorific intake ... and the fact they didn't always manage it!
They also didn't have a daily commute or the big shop as time critical journeys.
If the weather turned really cold, you could hunker down indoors for a few days, and huddle up with the livestock.
Quote from: Ben Waterhouse on 14 February 2021, 09:21:31 AM
4 hours car park duty at the the local vaccination hub was fun last Tuesday morning... Wind chill at minus 7 degrees Celsius ...
Thank you very much for volunteering.
Same from me, Ben. :)
Good man ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil.
Likewise from me Ben
I've got a cold. I hate colds >:(. They're so boring! Maybe the bike ride in the rather cold wind a few days ago was a mistake... :-.
I think it was the Scandinavians who used to just get all the community to hunker down in a huge longhouse for the winter with enough food and fuel to see them through, then just let the snow build up around the hut to provide insulation. They'd even leave barrels of milder alcoholic beverages outside then when things started to thaw a bit they all came out of their (I suspect very smelly) house, then lift the frozen chunks of water out of the barrels leaving only the concentrated alcohol to warm them up again.
Quote from: Steve J on 15 February 2021, 03:02:53 PM
I've got a cold. I hate colds >:(. They're so boring! Maybe the bike ride in the rather cold wind a few days ago was a mistake... :-.
I hope it's just a cold :-X
Quote from: mmcv on 15 February 2021, 03:52:16 PM
I think it was the Scandinavians who used to just get all the community to hunker down in a huge longhouse for the winter with enough food and fuel to see them through, then just let the snow build up around the hut to provide insulation. They'd even leave barrels of milder alcoholic beverages outside then when things started to thaw a bit they all came out of their (I suspect very smelly) house, then lift the frozen chunks of water out of the barrels leaving only the concentrated alcohol to warm them up again.
I wouldn't mind "Hunkering down" for winter with Kathryn Winnick of Vikings, even if she did get a bit smelly :d
With cold now gone :) and the weather mild, my bike ride today was a real pleasure, well as much as it can be with lockdown restrictions. No need to warm the muscles up from the start, no freezing head and my asthma didn't play up like it did in the sub-zero temperatures. Not quite spring like yet but nice nonetheless.
Oh and the daffodils are beginning to emerge, after being put on hold by the cold snap.
Just had a call from our local GP and I'm getting my first jab on Monday :). To say that I'm very happy is somewhat of an understatement as I wasn't expecting it until end of April at the earliest! Either my asthma or being a full-time carer has shifted me up the queue.
Astma - depens how bad, full time carer is a definate factor. In England allthe top 4 groupos have had 1 jab. It dont hurt too much :D
About 3 minutes ago.... (When I started to plonk this out...Call it half an hour, now.)
Phone...Ring, ring...."Hello....Mr Lewis..".... "Yes".....Have you been to have your Covid jab, today ?"......"Errrrrm, No....." (What ??)
Booked in for a week from today.... Both me and the better half (The sensible one :-*) a minute apart.
I'm certainly not going to be extracting the wee....for a VERY LONG time after Von & I have been 'done'......But it's nice to know when we'll 'be jabbed'...for the first time.
Cheers - Phil.
My asthma is mild but I suffer from slight changes to my peak flwo rates, so I can cycle long distances on the flat no problem, but climbing stairs leaves me somewhat out of breath! The carers recently got added to the priority list.
Being old helps move you up the queue. Glad ya'll are getting yours, Phil. It don't hurt too much. :)
Btw _ Are you all getting AstraZeneca or one of our mRNA types? We got the Moderna.
Our son had the Pfizer jab, not sure what I'll be getting.
I got the Pfizer one.
No idea which one Von & I will be getting. :-\
Bill....I'm so used to being jabbed in the arm, I probably won't even notice it.
Cheers - Phil. :)
I suspect it's what they have - Pfizer may be used first cause it's a pig to store. You will be given a business card with which it was on it.
Sounds like I should be happy I haven't had one yet? Looks like it's a proof of youth! :D
Cheers,
Rob
I've now ben offered a 1st jab 3 times - via NHS and twice via local surgery - so spent 20 mins on the phone trying to sort it out. Just as well I'm not unscrupulous - could have booked it as my second :)
I'm enjoying watching the Robins start building a nest in one of our bird boxes, which I finally got around to cleaning out, as SWMBO reminded me it was long overdue. The Blue Tits keep checkign out the same box, so we are intrigued as to who will win. My money is on the Robins due to their rather aggressive territorial nature.
Quote from: Steve J on 22 February 2021, 10:19:15 AM
I'm enjoying watching the Robins start building a nest in one of our bird boxes, which I finally got around to cleaning out, as SWMBO reminded me it was long overdue. The Blue Tits keep checkign out the same box, so we are intrigued as to who will win. My money is on the Robins due to their rather aggressive territorial nature.
Ten bob on the Robins.
They're proper fightin' birds.
We got fed up with the squirrel eating all the food from the bird feeders, so bought a fancy pole with a 'squirrel baffle' . This has stopped the squirrels, but the only birds that now use take the feed are one robin, a blackbird and a sparrow, with the odd tit eating a few nuts.
The pole, a 25kg bag of seed, big tub of fat balls and other feed has cost a fortune. I have managed to stop the flying rats getting at the food as well by careful placement of the food and water tray.
The pole is located a couple of meters from some suitable bushes they can check its safe from, they have a varied menu, Assorted seeds and nuts, nyjer seed, fat balls . meal worms and peanuts. But we cannot seem to attract any more birds to out 'resturant'
I blame that Chris Packham for our lack of song birds as we now have more magpies and jays and other corvids than we used to before he got the general licence banned. We also seem to have more flying rats
We have a couple of pairs of Ravens that fly over our part of Bristol - near the gorge & suspension bridge.
It is great to hear their harsh 'honking' croak as they fly over.
We need more Crows and Ravens back, as they are what predates on the Magpies & Jays (we have a Jay that visits the garden and terrifies the cats!).
But what we really need back is our raptors. I saw a great TV documentary on the Falcons in New York. We could do with a lot of them in Bristol to kill off the flying rats and also some bigger versions (Goshawks maybe?) to see of the bl**dy Sea Gulls.
Our garden Nesting box has remained empty for years due to a plague of grey squirrels in the neighbourhood - they cannot get into it, but will climb up the sheer vertical wall it is on (like something out a Dracula movie) and perch on it - driving any nesting birds away.
I'm all on board with getting more predators back around the UK! Eagles, hawks, bears, wolves, the whole shebang.
Kite territory here, ironically as its Leighton Buzzard!!!
Owlbears please:
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Quote from: Leon on 22 February 2021, 01:37:21 PM
I'm all on board with getting more predators back around the UK! Eagles, hawks, bears, wolves, the whole shebang.
Got Hawks and the very occasional Eagle up here (Just south of Glasgow).
Bears and wolves succumbed to human hunters several centuries ago.
There are some compelling arguments for their reintroduction, but nobody seems to have solved the "stopping them eating the ramblers" issue.
We ceratinly used to have Kestrels, although I haven't seen one for ages, used to nest on the tunnel vents.
Buzzards, Sparrow Hawk (in the garden yesterday) and Kestrels common here on the Eastern outskirts of Bristol. Red Kites making their way towards us but not seen any yet, which is a shame.
Quite a few Crows around us, ditto Magpies and plenty of Jays in the woods, but absolutely loads of Jackdaws over the past few years, probably around 50+ come home to roost in trees near us. Boy do they make a racket, especially in the Summer when the windows are open.
Sadly all we get here are sparrowhawks on rare occasions. When we lived in Cornwall we had a full family of buzzards that were always overhead and would sometimes land on the rear hedge to eat.
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 22 February 2021, 02:08:42 PM
Bears and wolves succumbed to human hunters several centuries ago.
There are some compelling arguments for their reintroduction, but nobody seems to have solved the "stopping them eating the ramblers" issue.
Well we've got the boars and beavers, with lynx next on the agenda! I thought we had a small population of wolves in a confined area somewhere in Scotland but I can't find the article now. I read the recent piece about putting European bison back in the south-east although my first thought was 'When did we have them in the first place?!'
Quote from: ianrs54 on 22 February 2021, 02:12:20 PM
We ceratinly used to have Kestrels, although I haven't seen one for ages, used to nest on the tunnel vents.
There used to be Peregrines nesting on top of "Paddy's Wigwam" - they had their own webcam. Are they still there? (been a while since I lived in the Pool...)
Wasn't aware of them , i am in the one eyed city. No bird life today but there are often rooks, crows, magpies, herring? (bloody big) gulls and of course pigeons on the rooves of Ridley St.
There are wolves in Shropshire...
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 22 February 2021, 02:08:42 PM
There are some compelling arguments for their reintroduction, but nobody seems to have solved the "stopping them eating the ramblers" issue.
Anyway what's the odd rambler here or there? It would make their walk more exiting. Conversation would go from "is that a lesser spotted warbler" or "look at that wild orchid" to
"Blooming heck that's a very large bear / pack of wolves - I bet I can run faster than you! " :)
Just make sure you have a suitably decrepit person as one of your fellow ramblers. :)
Quote from: Orcs on 22 February 2021, 06:04:01 PM
Anyway what's the odd rambler here or there? It would make their walk more exiting. Conversation would go from "is that a lesser spotted warbler" or "look at that wild orchid" to
"Blooming heck that's a very large bear / pack of wolves - I bet I can run faster than you! " :)
Just make sure you have a suitably decrepit person as one of your fellow ramblers. :)
It would certainly liven up my bicycle training.
Until now the main animal hazards have been loose livestock (ginger cows and ostrich).
Remember folks: You don't have to be faster than the predator, just faster than the slowest cyclist ;)
Great piece on the cascade benefits of reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone.
https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wolf-reintroduction-changes-ecosystem (https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wolf-reintroduction-changes-ecosystem)
Including a reduction of bears stealing pick-er-nick baskets.
It's worth nothing that Yellowstone's area is half that of Wales.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 22 February 2021, 05:29:15 PM
There are wolves in Shropshire...
It is strange to go for a walk in the woods with your girl-friend and discuss what to do if a pack of wolves is encountered; also, to go blackberry picking and have to ensure that if a bear hoves into view, you can reach the car faster than the bear will. I remain to be convinced that the reintroduction of some of this wildlife is 'a good thing'. :-S
The shropshire wolves are safely enclosed (I hope :o) in about 100 acres. Not sure the farmers around here would be too happy them tearing around the sheep farms!
Been a few months since I noticed any Ravens, Red Kites or buzzards. :(
I expect they'll be about again soon. :)
Cheers - Phil.
Watched the BBC Stonehenge in the Preseli Mountains documentary last night Phil. Nice to see some of your early sculpts are still about.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000s5xm/stonehenge-the-lost-circle-revealed
Quote from: mad lemmey on 23 February 2021, 07:16:11 AM
Watched the BBC Stonehenge in the Preseli Mountains documentary last night Phil. Nice to see some of your early sculpts are still about.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000s5xm/stonehenge-the-lost-circle-revealed
Personally I thought his Pyramid sculps in Egypt were better - more precise
So it is Phil's signature on Tutankamans sarcohogous then ?
Quote from: ianrs54 on 23 February 2021, 08:00:07 AM
So it is Phil's signature on Tutankamans sarcohogous then ?
I thought you knew that. that was at least his second, he got bored with the first so jazzed Tutankhamen's up a bit with all that gold.
Quote from: Orcs on 23 February 2021, 11:41:36 AM
I thought you knew that. that was at least his second, he got bored with the first so jazzed Tutankhamen's up a bit with all that gold.
I wuz allus higreant
By God it's windy here at present! The gale force winds are damaging my crocuses, which I'm not happy about :(.
Quote from: Steve J on 23 February 2021, 02:31:37 PM
By God it's windy here at present! The gale force winds are damaging my crocuses, which I'm not happy about :(.
'When I was a Lad', our Crocus would stand, strong and brave! Nowadays, they flop in the breeze or 'birds' mangle them... life's like that...! LOL! ;)
Probably because the thin soil cover of what used to be 'lawn' has reduced over the years and the grass has been replaced by moss... maybe sucking up any moisture in the soil. What used to be good clumps of Daffodills /Narcissi, hardly flower :( What does seem to be thriving, now, is Wood Sorrel. I love this plant... is just wasn't there until a few years ago, and attempts to introduce it failed! Now, it's everywhere! :) Dog Violets are doing well, too. :) I have always favoured Wild Flowers over Garden Flowers, so some things please in spring. Just wish I'd NEVER introduced Wild Garlic as a 'little patch' LOL! :( !
As far as Avian Predators go, we have had an occasional pass through of a Sparrowhawk. Given the tree cover, it's flight skills are amazing! :)
I am not really a bird watcher, but have been delighted at the variety of species which have appeared in the last 20 years or so. :) As well as the 'normal' Robins, various Tits, etc. we now have Woodpeckers, Nuthatch, Treecreepers, Goldcrests, Wrens, Bullfinch and occasional Goldfinch or Wagtail! And, sometimes, a 'rather lost' Duck! ;D (We have a small stream!).
Bird populations have varied, over the years. In regard to the 'nuisances', The Collared Doves :) seemed to be chased off by Big, Fat, Woodies... until 'The Cat' took up residence... so, now seem to be making a comeback! ;) There used to be a lot of Jackdaws, until Magpies appeared... nesting in next-door's chimney. Now, one or two Crows have appeared... and the Jackdaws / Magpies are much fewer. At least we don't have Gulls!
Things change...
Re the reintroducton of 'Large Predators'. MUCH as I would love to have 'wild' populations of Wolves and Bears... WE just do NOT have the 'wilderness'! :( VERY LARGE, enclosed areas, fine by me... but people will live there, or next door, too... so WON'T be happy! As to possible predation on Humans... well, people get killed by cows! BUT, although 'livestock' kills could be'compensated... (Farmers ARE a hard-bitten lot... They Have to be... my family were!)... (But by whom?)... there WOULD be a loss of cats /foals, etc which would result in too much 'heartbreak'. :(
Lynx are 'possible', and I would definitely love to see increased populations of Wildcat... (I MAY have seen one, once, near Allendale... but was probably just a VERY big Moggie! ;) ).
It is a few years back, now, but I was ABSOLUTELY OVERJOYED to watch a pair of Otters 'messing about' in my local river, (The Pont), when on my way 'down the pub'! When I was a kid, they were on the way to extinction! :) :) :)
What REALLY DOES GET MY RAG UP, now, are the 'human' predators. >:( >:( >:(
On Facebook, a couple of friends post 'lost/found', 'stolen', 'watch out for this guy/van', stuff...mainly in regard to dogs/horses...but also cats, etc. I scroll through 20-30 of such every day... SOME, I may share... hoping it 'may' help. BUT 'Animal Theft! The UTTER SCUM who inflict such suffering to both the animals and their tortured owners... >:( >:( >:( 'Bring back the Wolves and Bears... '! :d
Daffodils and other bulbs often need dividing after a period of time to encourage them to flower again. If they keep coming up blind (no flowers) dig them up and replace them. Somehow I think we have Wild Garlic in our garden, so I've got a lot of weeding to do soon, as it's spread everywhere :(.
Covid jab went well and in and out in less than 5 minutes. All OK for first 36 odd hours, then last night felt very tired, run down etc which is a common side effect. Still, far better than having Covid.
Good news, Steve !
Not sure whether we'll get ours tomorrow, now. =)
Von seems to have managed to get the Winter vomiting bug. X_X...Poor lass.
I'll have to check with the surgery as to whether they'll want us to turn up.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 23 February 2021, 08:00:07 AM
So it is Phil's signature on Tutankamans sarcohogous then ?
You KNOW it is....I did put "Techno was here" somewhere in all the hieroglyphics.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 23 February 2021, 07:16:11 AM
Watched the BBC Stonehenge in the Preseli Mountains documentary last night Phil. Nice to see some of your early sculpts are still about.
I really must go and finish those off one day.
Quote from: Orcs on 23 February 2021, 07:41:36 AM
Personally I thought his Pyramid sculps in Egypt were better - more precise
Yes....It's far easier to get nice straight lines with Milliput. ;)
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 24 February 2021, 04:33:36 AM
. . . At least we don't have Gulls!
Lucky! We usually have two or three nests on chimney stacks in our little triangle of houses. Noisy buggers at 04:00, and real pains when the chicks fall of the roofs into gardens and the parents then go mad trying to protect them.
Fingers crossed you can both get the jab Phil.
Likewise. If Von can't have get yours Phil. ;)
Get well soon Von.
Quote from: Steve J on 24 February 2021, 07:07:50 AMSomehow I think we have Wild Garlic in our garden, so I've got a lot of weeding to do soon, as it's spread everywhere :(.
Good Luck with that! :( Once I realised how much Wild Garlic spreads and 'overpowers' the smaller spring plants, I tried digging it out, but... seeing as I am NOT going to use weedkiller, reckon I am stuck with the stuff! :(
With regard to the Covid vacs. Ma, (88), had hers mid Jan...Pfizzer. Now, several weeks on,... and, IT MAY NOT BE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE JAB... could just be Her degeneration, but, she has largely ceased to 'make effort' in several ways. Possibly a 'tiredness' side effect? Maybe it will pass... :(
What is CERTAIN, is that vaccination is essential if Covid is to be contained... it will never be 'eradicated'. Very glad to see that 'poorer' nations are now receiving some supplies... but I rather think that whatever they CAN do will be a 'drop in a bucket', given World population. What 'developed' countries CAN do is try to stamp on the thing, hard in their control province... then help others.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 24 February 2021, 11:54:29 AM
Likewise. If Von can't have get yours Phil. ;)
It'll just be me, tomorrow.
Von's re-booked hers for next Thursday......Annoyingly in 'the other' surgery belonging to the practice. That one's 10 miles away, instead of the mile and a bit for me tomorrow.
At least Von's feeling better now.....Just rather battered from all the puking.
Cheers - Phil
Unfortuneate
Quote from: Techno II on 24 February 2021, 08:49:00 PM
.....Just rather battered from all the puking.
Cheers - Phil
Maybe not the best 'image' to create? :o LOL! Best Regards to your Lady! Horsey Gel's are Tough! ;)
Get well Von!
Hop your jab goes ok Phil
Von's feeling an awful lot better......Thanks, chaps ! :)
BUT.... reading the possible side effects, it was probably the right thing to do to cancel her jab.
Very efficient down at the surgery......Bloomin' heck... it was almost like being back at school, waiting for the TB jab.....Light speed, or what ?
I think my left arm is so bloody used to having jabs.....I genuinely didn't feel a thing*.
Cheers - Phil (* No sense...no feeling !) :P
The injection completely painless, but my shoulder has been very sore for the past few days, which is a pain as the want to put it in the left shoulder, so everyone is the same (they didn't for our son :-) but I'm left handed, so a tad awkward! Also still feeling a bit tired and more breathless than normal, but getting better I think.
At least there's strong evidence for higher IQs on the part of southpaws, so you can feel like a martyr to brainpower. ;)
Arm vacs.. 'Better Red than Dead! ;)
As an aside: Have READ abut inoculations administered to the buttocks. WHY? Apart from the usual military 'sadism'? ;D
Quote from: FierceKitty on 26 February 2021, 02:44:59 AM
At least there's strong evidence for higher IQs on the part of southpaws, so you can feel like a martyr to brainpower. ;)
You claiming to be leftpawed Alexander?
Sems your experiance was the same as mine Phil
Quote from: ianrs54 on 26 February 2021, 07:08:00 AM
Sems your experiance was the same as mine Phil
It really was so painless.....
Only (recent
ish) jab I've had that 'hurt' was the pneumonia one.....That gave me a slightly sore arm for three or four days.
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 26 February 2021, 06:19:46 AM
As an aside: Have READ abut inoculations administered to the buttocks. WHY? Apart from the usual military 'sadism'? ;D
No idea.....I did get jabbed there, once.......must be over 40 years ago....When I had a
really evil stomach bug, and the Doc made a house call.....I'm
fairly sure the jab was some sort of painkiller.
I
assume it's something to do with getting the injection into a larger muscle mass than your arm. :-\ ......Perhaps it works faster ?
Cheers - Phil
No idea.....I did get jabbed there, once.......must be over 40 years ago....When I had a really evil stomach bug, and the Doc made a house call.....I'm fairly sure the jab was some sort of painkiller.
I assume it's something to do with getting the injection into a larger muscle mass than your arm. Undecided ......Perhaps it works faster ?
Cheers - Phi
Or.nearer to the Stomach. A Medieval thing, maybe... LOL! Medical Practitioners have CENTURIES of 'learning' in 5 years coursework.... :) LOL!
Have you noticed how this Forum has turned into an old people's home - you old men all comparing medical conditions.
Well the oinly good Hussar should be dead by 30 :d
Last tetanus jab I had was in my bum, the view is its a much bigger muscle, so will have less pain. I don't recall it hurting, but I had been hit in the face by a hockey ball, and I suspect the split lip was more of the concern.
Last in arm injection was flu last year, seem to recall a bit of pain the next day when I lifted my arm, but pretty trivial.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 26 February 2021, 10:39:46 AM
Have you noticed how this Forum has turned into an old people's home - you old men all comparing medical conditions.
How dare you assume our genders. :D ;)
Ten days after the first Moderna shot I got the so called "Covid Arm" - basically itchy pink hotness (which was dutifully reported to CDC).
Nearly a week later pretty much gone away.
I thought my sense of taste had 'morphed' this morning......Then realised I hadn't put nearly enough sugar in my coffee. X_X =)
My little card said I'd had the Astra Z one.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Sugar in coffee? Ugh.
You're right FK ... unless it's coffee in your sugar it's undrinkable!
Covid Vacs. Being a Carer, I received letter inviting me to book vacs, early. :)
Notes: Went online late am. Was offered site nr. Sunderland, Hmm, OK by me, but website could not proceed..probably too busy/full at the time. Tried again mid pm, and was offered Darlington. (Where IS Darlington? Somewhere on the railway? LOL! Apologies!). ;)
Tried again in the 'small hours', and have booked 2 visits at Newcastle... (wherever the 'site' is...'The Toon' has changed SO much!)... for about 2 weeks time. :)
So, others in similar boat... patience and re-trying may bring about a more convenient appointment. NO idea what 'jab' will be on offer, though. :(
As an aside, Googling for location near Sunderland, the maps showed an 'Air Museum'... probably the Vulcan and 'wreckage' which used to reside at 'Sunderland Aerodrome'. Usworth, (now Nissan), in my youth! Not open at present, but 'might be worth a sniff'', someday? Curious? ;)
I received my letter to book an appointment yesterday, but was already in the system via my GP, so could ignore it. At least I now know I got my jab early for being a registered carer.
The air museum at Sunderland is definitely worth visiting. As well as the Vulcan they have many, many aircraft (Sabre, Canberra etc) and helicopters, as well as military vehicles, many if which used to be at the vehicle collection in Newcastle. Lots of displays (street mock ups etc). Check the website for details (it is now called North East land sea and air museum). It is a good day out. (And the food at the nearby pub used to be decent as well, been a while since I went as a disclaimer though....).
Mark
Quote from: FierceKitty on 27 February 2021, 12:44:29 AM
Sugar in coffee? Ugh.
I
have said before......I drink sugary, brownish milk...... ;)
I only call it coffee, 'cos that's what it says on the jar. :D
Cheers - Phil. :)
What's the Welsh for "poor sad barbarian"?
Barbaraidd trist gwael
I thought it was Phill, look you.
FK you missed the "Look you Dai Bach" off
True. I don't have your genius for Phil-baiting.
Quote from: smallchild139 on 27 February 2021, 08:47:25 AM
The air museum at Sunderland is definitely worth visiting. As well as the Vulcan they have many, many aircraft (Sabre, Canberra etc) and helicopters, as well as military vehicles, many if which used to be at the vehicle collection in Newcastle. Lots of displays (street mock ups etc). Check the website for details (it is now called North East land sea and air museum). It is a good day out. (And the food at the nearby pub used to be decent as well, been a while since I went as a disclaimer though....).
Mark
Ta for that. :) In the 1970s, the Aerodrome had an 'area' with a couple of jet cockpits and the remains of a 1950s (?} helicopter. Early 80's the Vulcan appeared... in a sponsored parachute jump, someone 'LANDED' on it! ;) Not me... I 'landed' ON the perimeter fence... LOL! :'( Sounds like it would be worth a visit sometime. :)
Quote from: ianrs54 on 27 February 2021, 01:47:33 PM
Da*ned uppity celts - again. :P
Britain's First Nations :)
Quote from: FierceKitty on 27 February 2021, 12:55:11 PM
True. I don't have your genius for Phil-baiting.
Think He manages his bait... though Von only allows him a spoon...
SORRY! ;)
Couldn't resist ;D
Just don't ! ;)
Cheers - Phil. :)
Quote from: Techno II on 01 March 2021, 07:28:16 AM
Just don't ! ;)
Cheers - Phil. :)
Why not it's such fun :-bd
:P
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Well 2021 as a Napoleonics year is going well.
I'm starting the British element of Wellington's 1815 army.
Hill's Corps
2nd Div Clinton
- Adam 1/52 71 2/95 3/95
- du Plat 1KGL 2KGL 3KGL 4KGL
- Artillery Bolton Symper
4 Div Colville
- Mitchell 3/14 1/23 51
- Artillery Brome
Reserve
5 Div Picton
- Kempt 1/28 1/32 79 1/95
- Pack 3/1 42 2/44 1/92
- Artillery Roger
Cavalry
- Ponsonby 1D 6D
- Vandaleur 11LD 12LD 16LD
- Artillery Mercer Whinyates Gardiner
At a scale of 1:10, that's 1140 infantry, 200 cavalry, 105 artillery and about 40 command figures. At about 1' per battalion in line that's 19' in infantry. How is this going to fit on my 8' table? All I can say is "defence in depth". After that I have the Brunswick Corps (469 infantry, 92 infantry, 30 artillery).
Can we all say "overdoing it"?Anyway, I'm nearly done with Picton's Division, and just finished the second regiment of light cavalry ... and I'm having a whale of a time. OK, I'm not up the Lemmey's standard, but I'm quite satisfied with the results. I've changed my regime. I still prime, but after the first battalion I've started giving the figures a black undercoat. This speeds up the painting and also give (IMHO) a better result. I have also discovered how much I really enjoy painting Riflemen.
Who will they fight? Well, I have Wurttembergers (396 inf, 80 cav, 30 art) and Bavarians (330/120/30) purchased and started buying some Poles (324/80/30). At some point I may need to get some French ... but to be honest they don't attract me as much as the French Allies.
It's taken me 8 years, but I have finally re-found my Napoleonic mojo!
I am one happy FSN. :D
Oh, and I have the Prussians (420/120/30) bought and plans for Austrians and Russians.
I understood that perfectly, up to the word 'Well'..
But after that...... :-\
Cheers - Phil :)
OK it lists the Divisions and commanders, brigades, consituant Btns, and the artillery commander, so for 2nd - Clintons Division Adams Brigade has 1st Btn 52nd Rgt of foot, 71st Rgt of Foot, 2 and 3rd Btn 95 rgt of foot, the Rifles.
It demonstrates why British infantry are not fighting rgts, that is the administrative element.
That a bit better for your poor worn out brian Phil.
Incidentally the offical title of the OTC I was in was 5th Btn of Her Majesty's 8th (Kings Liverpool) Rgt of Foot, hence the abriviations.
Sorry Phil, and anyone else not into Napoleonics - and thanks Ian for the clarification.
KGL is King's German Legion - nominally German troops in British service
LD Light Dragoons
D Dragoons
In short, I have too many British troops.
Ohhh a name check!!
Love your work, Mr Lemmey.
Gives me something to aspire to.
Well done FSN, keep up the good work
I understood your post perfectly :-B I also recognise most of the names :-B :-B
Having a 'French' army with no French units is entirely historic
My 6mm 'French' forces for 1812 are from the Second Support Army so include Westphalians, Saxons and Poles but no French ;)
I really think it's about time to update the honours list...... ;)
Any nominations, Gang ?
Cheers - Phil. :)
Me as a Knight of the Garter
Orcs as "Page of the Suspenders"?
Quote from: ianrs54 on 14 March 2021, 08:37:32 AM
Me as a Knight of the Garter
I
can see you being given a knighthood, Ian.....But I want something
lots better than Sir Muppet of The Wirral....That doesn't sound
nearly as good as Lord Oik of Runcorn.
Come on...Help me, guys !
There are definitely at least a couple of "For services in (?)* painting Pendraken figures"... In my imaginary inbox.
Cheers - The Sad Twit :)
*....That doesn't sound right either.
The title Duchess of Sussex could be free soon. ;)
Me I'm Lord Keermit of Birkenhead - Knight of the Garter is a lordship
Quote from: DecemDave on 14 March 2021, 11:14:35 AM
The title Duchess of Sussex could be free soon. ;)
Traitor - to the Tower with him !!
Lemmey has to be a "Fastest Brush whilst retaining a high standard"?
I will modestly accept the "Most diverse projects started without actually finishing, using Pendraken figures and a spreadsheet".
I'd like to offer Goat Major the "Confidence Snake" (as in Snakes and Ladders) award for "Showing pictures of beautifully painted horses whilst FSN's confidence was on the rise, making him realise how far he had to go."
Quote from: ianrs54 on 14 March 2021, 11:51:03 AM
Me I'm Lord Keermit of Birkenhead - Knight of the Garter is a lordship
I
like that, lots, Ian !
From now on, you may add Lord Kermit of Birkenhead to your signature. :-bd
Now....For the rest.... ;)
And there ARE a
good few more I want to add. (For services rendered to the best 10mm miniatures company in the World.)
Nobby.....Just put
Oik of the year, each time we get to January 1st......And you're absolutely right about Will. (Lemmey) He's one of those who have been overlooked for FAR too long !)...He was on my list, already. ;)
Keep the nominations coming ! :)
I'm trying to think of acronyms....That
aren't rude...That are a bit like CBEs MBEs and OBEs..But have something to do with painting Pendraken figures.
Cheers - Phil. :)
FSN you have competition for the Started Projects.
On most started projects .... I have five 28mm figures, bought in GW's Hammersmith shop the day after it opened, which were going to be the start of a Laserburn collection that are still unfinished. Is the the longest ongoing started project?
I started counting unfinished projects and stopped counting after 48 - too depressing to continue.
Also, what counts as a project? Are my Early Hominids one project or are the Homo Sapiens, Homo Neanderthalensis, Homo Heidelbergensis, Homo Denisova and Homo Floresiensis tribes separate projects? If the latter I am even worse than I thought!!
Perhaps we should have Yearbook style "Least Likely To ...." attributions.
A few to start off:
Least Likely To Stay On Topic
Least Likely To Be Respectful To The Moderators
Least Likely To Complete A Project Started This Year
Least Likely To Win The Painting Competition
Least Likely To Avoid Physical Damage In The Course Of Wargaming Related Activities
:D :D :D
Quote from: Ithoriel on 14 March 2021, 02:05:17 PM
Perhaps we should have Yearbook style "Least Likely To ...." attributions.
A few to start off:
Least Likely To Stay On Topic
Least Likely To Be Respectful To The Moderators
Least Likely To Complete A Project Started This Year
Least Likely To Win The Painting Competition
Least Likely To Avoid Physical Damage In The Course Of Wargaming Related Activities
:D :D :D
I claim all those titles cept may be the last - dat be Phil
Quote from: Ithoriel on 14 March 2021, 02:05:17 PM
On most started projects .... I have five 28mm figures, bought in GW's Hammersmith shop the day after it opened, which were going to be the start of a Laserburn collection that are still unfinished. Is the the longest ongoing started project?
I recently found some figures I was going to paint for my baby brother ... who is now 46.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 14 March 2021, 02:25:53 PM
I claim all those titles cept may be the last - dat be Phil
I'll have you know, I've not spilled (What the blanks wrong with spilt.....you stupid , useless, illiterate server...or whatever you are...I can't wait until Leon dumps these twerps) any red stuff, from my fingers, for weeks.....
I really wish I hadn't said that.
Mark....(Orcs) get ready to send me more plasters.
Cheers - Phil ;)
Quote from: DecemDave on 14 March 2021, 11:14:35 AM
The title Duchess of Sussex could be free soon. ;)
Hopefully
If honors are to be handed out, please sir can I be made a Night of Zephyrus Passings?
Quote from: Orcs on 14 March 2021, 07:30:07 PM
Hopefully
I don't think its free in a republic.
I already rank as Coffeemaster-General in Bangkok Gamers. I seek no higher honour, if indeed any there be.
Good greif - a modest cat, must be unique.
(Quoting from memory) "Vorbis could humble himself in prayer in a manner which made the power-mad ravings of god-emperors seem subservient."
Anyway, I have Stuart blood. Would you affiliate yourself to those displaced Krauts, Ian?
Great avatar, Ian !! :-bd
Cheers - Phil. :)
Thought I'd better change from Warwicks battle standard. Took a while to find though.
Alexander I'm not a Royalist unless in a class taken by Peter Bury - former head of the Cromwell Society, and occasional expert on Time Team.
Will should now be referred to as Lord Speedy of Leighton. :-bd
Cheers - Phil. :)
I'm related to Black Tom Fairfax via his grandfather.
Quote from: Techno II on 15 March 2021, 04:49:44 PM
Will should now be referred to as Lord Speedy of Leighton. :-bd
Cheers - Phil. :)
Elevation to the peerage?!? well done Lemmey.... it's your shout ;)
Confusing to a certain ambhibian at 06:30 hrs on a Tuesday ! Suppose I should change my name as well
Quote from: pierre the shy on 15 March 2021, 11:25:11 PM
Elevation to the peerage?!? well done Lemmey.... it's your shout ;)
Oi!
That enough?
Didn't want to scare anyone...
Wispers are much scarier :P
.. PLease ignore - responded to a 2013 posting :P
Outside the premises of Techno's last employer .....
(https://i.imgur.com/TdjMCh7.jpg)
:P
With a special thank you to Steve Holmes for making this 'oikness' possible.
;D ;D ;D
Harsh but Fair.
But mostly funny
=D> =D> =D> =D>
Leave Phil alone!!!
(https://i.imgflip.com/vny4a.jpg)
Quote from: Westmarcher on 16 March 2021, 05:35:15 PM
Outside the premises of Techno's last employer .....
...and here's an image from the last day at his first job, hunting the local wildlife. It has been some time since the incident, to be fair. ;)
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F61%2Fca%2Fa6%2F61caa67da368898c13441849e533fdd7.jpg&f=1&nofb=1)
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Ha! Love the velociraptor one. Thanks.
Quote from: Westmarcher on 16 March 2021, 05:35:15 PM
Outside the premises of Techno's last employer .....
(https://i.imgur.com/TdjMCh7.jpg)
:P
With a special thank you to Steve Holmes for making this 'oikness' possible.
Brilliant ;D ;D
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Just to shock Phil I shall refrain from commenting ;)
Hey !
I really shouldn't tempt fate, but I've been fairly accident free recently.
(Apart from remembering to duck my head going down the steps into my 'study' a couple of days ago........That didn't half smart.)
Von saw the 'Accident Free since Phil left. She laughed as well.....You're all horrid. ;)
Cheers - Phil. :)
It's very difficult not saying anything :'(
I admire your self control, Ian.
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Gota keep peps guessing :D
On my bike rides and walks over the past few days, I have noticed a large increase in dog poo bags chucked into hedgrows etc, plus disposable face masks all over the place >:(.
Quote from: Steve J on 22 March 2021, 11:04:09 AM
On my bike rides and walks over the past few days, I have noticed a large increase in dog poo bags chucked into hedgrows etc, plus disposable face masks all over the place >:(.
- yes - my wife has noticed the same with the dog poo bags on a walk she has been doing throughout lock-down. This disgusting habit seems to e on the increase.
She took photos and sent them into the local council and they have put up new 'dog-poo bins' at the worst sights. It seems to have had a limited effect.
Maybe it is all these new lock-down dog owners we are hearing about in the press?
There are also lots of discarded masks.
Even finding discarded masks on my allotment, which is no where near any public accessable footpaths >:(
We see discarded poo bags when there are bins located less than 100m away :o.
Not seen any poo bags 'hanging around'*.....But HAVE noticed a small number of (mainly) disposable face masks littering car parks.
I'll give folk the benefit of believing most of those have fallen out of a pocket...rather than them just having been slung on the ground.
Cheers - Phil. :)
* Chucking them into trees and bushes is appalling ! >:(
Used to be roaches, beer cans and expended prophylactics but since they gated the road to the church parking lot it's very clean (except for the deer droppings).
Who is smoking deer?
That time of year again when an the clocks get all mixed up and steal an hour of the day from us.
Yes we should leave the hour on all the time.
Ah, the joys of longer evenings :).
Let's face it. Nobody likes the clock going forward, but people love the extra hour in bed in the autumn.
We should dispense with the going forward and keep the going back.
What could go wrong?
Quote from: fsn on 28 March 2021, 09:01:39 AM
Let's face it. Nobody likes the clock going forward, but people love the extra hour in bed in the autumn.
We should dispense with the going forward and keep the going back.
What could go wrong?
I often thought this myself, but have since come up with what I feel is a much superior solution. Rather than moving the clock forward an hour in spring, why don't we move it back 23 hours? Then you get a whole extra Saturday to celebrate the start of spring. Gives every one an extra day to adjust to the change.
I see no flaws with this, can't believe we're not doing it... :-\
Well the year is gradually getting longer, so you will get that extra day eventually
Quote from: fsn on 28 March 2021, 09:01:39 AM
Let's face it. Nobody likes the clock going forward, but people love the extra hour in bed in the autumn.
Huh, unless you have small children in the house, who get up after x hours of sleep, which is of course now an hour earlier according to the clock. So you end up getting up an hour earlier, and staying awake for an hour longer on the Sunday.
Quote from: fsn on 28 March 2021, 09:01:39 AM
Let's face it. Nobody likes the clock going forward, but people love the extra hour in bed in the autumn.
We should dispense with the going forward and keep the going back.
What could go wrong?
Wrong (with the autumn extra hour) is if you're n that night-shift.
Latest news from Suez Canal - they are considering taking off the handles and the things wot hold the candles
Gentlemen.
As you know, 2021 is the year of Nobby's Napoleonics.
I have carefully planned the British element (taken from the Waterloo OOB) but may have goofed somewhat. My current scheme is for 19 bttns of infantry, 5 regiments of cavalry and 7 batteries of artillery - 1140 infantry, 200 cavalry, about 150 artillery. This, I thought, reflected the ratios of Wellington's army. It does - but not the BRITISH elements of Wellington's army.
To properly reflect the British element, I need to add a further 5 regiments of cavalry. Now, my conundrum is this: do I want to add a further 200 cavalrymen (Leon - stay out of this) to what is already a force too big to reasonably field on my table, or do I just say "stuff it"? My cavalry is 3 of Light Dragoons and 2 of Dragoons, and I fear that I perforce would have to field either Hussars (nasty foreign things, suitable only for Continentals) or the Life Guards. Certainly I'd have to add the Scots Greys to complete Ponsonby's Brigade.
What to do? What .. to ... do?
The great unanswered Waterloo question...
Did the Brunswick cavalry return home, or did the Duke raise a second unit?
I have heard both over the years.
So you neeeeeeeeeed Brunswickers!
Quote from: fsn on 28 March 2021, 09:01:39 AM
Let's face it. Nobody likes the clock going forward, but people love the extra hour in bed in the autumn.
When I am on nights the clock going forward means I work an hour less. If I am on nights it when it goes forward I get an hours overtime. win Win as far as I am concerned. :)
I'm retired and single. I go to bed when I'm tired and get up when I wake. Clocks? What are they? :D
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 30 March 2021, 08:46:39 PM
So you neeeeeeeeeed Brunswickers!
469 infantry, 92 cavalry, 2 artillery batteries already purchased. :)
Quote from: Last Hussar on 28 March 2021, 02:14:09 PM
Latest news from Suez Canal - they are considering taking off the handles and the things wot hold the candles
They shited it, another 1000 camels I understand
Well the last day of shielding for our son, which is great news! His highlight for tomorrow will be able to go shopping again and regain some semblance of independence and normality. Quite weird yesterday going for a long walk with our daughter and seeing people socialising in groups again, which was nice, but sadly many exceeding the rule of 6 or two family groups and more importantly social distancing.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 31 March 2021, 05:59:21 AM
They shited it, another 1000 camels I understand
That sounds rather painful
Probably for ut camels ;)
Quote from: Orcs on 31 March 2021, 08:04:58 AM
That sounds rather painful
Just keep it on 'Summer Time' for me! ;)
Hmph! What were the Henges 'Set ' at? :o SOMEONE Had to know when to get up to 'Do the Biz' !... "EVERY Year, EVERY Bl***Y Year... TWICE!" ;D
Last para in particular :)
Built-Up Area - Michael Flanders
In case it isn't obvious, this is about Stonehenge...
There's so much building go on everywhere else - on Salisbury Plain nothing, no building at all. There hasn't been any building there for about, ooh, four thousand years I suppose, really. Even then, I daresay, back in Neolithic times, there was some old Stone Age man standing in the observation platform watching what was going on. I daresay he didn't care for it much either...
Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Well wot's this then? You're not going to put up these great ugly stone blocks 'ere, are you? You can't do that! I've got Ancient Lights on my cave! Well, what is it anyway? A henge? Well, what's a henge? You may call it megalithic culture, I call it vandalism! I suppose you realise this is about the last nesting place for mammoths in the whole of Wessex?
What with them building up the long barrows and the round barrows and the bell-shaped barrows... They've started cutting out these white horses on the hillside now, have you seen that? I don't know - it's some sort of ad for mead, I think. They don't call 'em the Beaker Folk for nothing! And then you come dragging along these great prefabricated dominoes all over the roads! They're not meant for that sort of traffic. Every fine weekend it's the same story: ox-carts nose to tail all the way from 'ere to the coast.
I don't know where you get that stone from anyway - that's not local stone - I can tell. You get it from where? The Preseli Mountains? In Wales? I know it's in Wales - I've been abroad. Ooh, what'd'yer want to bring it all the way... You're bringing it the wrong way anyway: you want to bring it round the Chanctonbury Ring road, avoiding earthworks at Avebury.
What a horrible lookin' thing! That's all there is to it is then? Just two up and one across the top all the way round? Well if that's modern architecture, roll on the Ice Age I say! Well, you'll never get a roof on it for a start - never get twigs big enough! Yes, we 'ad a wood henge here once but it rotted. These big picture windows you've got all the way around the bottom: oh, they look very nice, yes, I grant you but what about the draughts? What about the lack of privacy? Who wants to live in a thing like that? Will you tell me when they start movin' in, won't yer? We get a pretty rowdy crowd in some of these new developments. I don't want to end up under the altar stone in a crouching position!
It's not going to be lived in? Well, that's something anyway. What is it then? It's a what? You're pulling my... a calendar? Well, it's a bit big for a calendar isn't it? I mean, you'd look a bit silly with that on your desk, wouldn't you? Well, how'd you work it then? You come up 'ere every morning before dawn - well better you than me, mate - and when the rising Sun throws a shadow of that big stone onto this flat one 'ere, then we shall know if it's Summer. Well, that will be very helpful, I must say. But is it Summer? You can't tell. Well, I'd better come and help you shovel the snow off it then...
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 02 April 2021, 03:17:34 PM
Hmph! What were the Henges 'Set ' at?
Standard Druid Time.....And I agree....leave it on Summer Time.
(At least the chickens are happy now <:-P....THEY came out of
complete lock-down, yesterday.)
Cheers - Phil. :)
Nuisance neighbours relocated by the council
https://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/news/19085305.new-study-reveals-stonehenge-may-relocated-wiltshire-wales/
Where have I heard that speech before? :P
I'm not moving them back again.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Quote from: Techno II on 03 April 2021, 06:08:29 AM
I'm not moving them back again.
Cheers - Phil. :)
WHY NOT ?
I've still got half of the b*ggers in one of the fields at the moment....I don't want anymore. ;)
In truth....there's one bloomin' big rock......Though I don't think it's a bit of bluestone, from a mile up the road, where they took the Stonehenge 'ones'.....
The big rock is definitely out of place......It must weigh tens of tons...how on Earth it got there is anyone's guess. :o
Cheers - Phil. :)
Were you drunk?
Quote from: Techno II on 03 April 2021, 09:12:04 AM
The big rock is definitely out of place......It must weigh tens of tons...how on Earth it got there is anyone's guess. :o
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Df7WrSvW4AAqecm.jpg)
Quote from: Techno II on 03 April 2021, 09:12:04 AM
The big rock is definitely out of place......It must weigh tens of tons...how on Earth it got there is anyone's guess. :o
The usual answer is ... glaciers during the last Ice Age.
There is a locality fairly close to us called 'Pont y glacier'.....I think that translates to 'Head of the glacier'.
Quite frankly, it's a very poor 'gouge' in the landscape.
Cheers - Phil.
Sledges.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 03 April 2021, 11:16:39 AM
The usual answer is ... glaciers during the last Ice Age.
No. Jedi.
That or wizards. If it's Wales, probably Wizards.
If my university archaeology course taught me anything ( a debatable point) it is that if you've a site and no idea what went on there it's a ritual site, if you've an object with no obvious use it's a ritual object and if there's a rock in a place it shouldn't be "a glacier did it!"
(https://res.cloudinary.com/jerrick/image/upload/fl_progressive,q_auto,w_1024/osguv4zqive89nrfs1j4.jpg)
;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil. :)
Can't be aliens, the Welsh are English citizens ;)
Glaciers DID have a fun time in their 'teens'... shifting stuff around 'cos they could!'. 'Little B*****s!' >:(
Now, being Old... they just shrink and widdle! ;D
Maybe, the Norse...with their 'Frost Giants', DID have a 'handle' on the World, after all! ;)
They weren't that stupid... just took events/realities and turned them into 'stories'... Just think about all the free meals that the First 'Author' of 'A Tale Of Ice And Fire' will have had! ;D ;D ;D
(https://scontent.fman1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/169088443_1712623882243278_808694441695430551_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=rLRSxkkA-vsAX_gNAYg&_nc_ht=scontent.fman1-2.fna&oh=9335bf2d8f798fda8570af7e6853f47d&oe=6091F0D9)
Portrait of Annie, a Wenatchi or Nez Perce woman, with an infant in a beaded cradleboard, circa 1905.
Source: photograph taken by Edward H. Latham / University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division.
OK. I will admit that I do love photographs like this.
2021 is the year of Nobby's Napoleonics. I present progress to date.,
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51100684069_c1b2602c12_c.jpg)
From front to back Cavalry, Picton's Div, Coleville's Dic (well, Mitchells Brig) and Clinton's Div.
I have 3 regts of cavalry to complete, and so far have only completed the 2/95th of Clinton's Div, so 7 battallions and a horse battery to go there.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51101407465_38b83d0f5c_c.jpg)
Picton's Division. I deliberately cut down the horse teams ... but regret that so I'll be add additional horses when I get round to it.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51100601331_5996721807_c.jpg)
The 2 regiments of light dragoons completed so far. One more light dragoon and 2 of dragoons to go. Yes, I hate painting cavalry.
In the front Mercers HA battery and Whinyates Rockets.
Each battn is 60 figures plus a mounted colonel. Cavalry regiment 40+1.
Complete so far 13 bttns and 2 regiments.
Nice stuff. Like the rocket trail. Teams look fine to me.* :-bd
* apart from the 'social distancing' team :P
Well they did stand well clear of the rocket, just a tad unpredicatble. They were better if launched friom the tripod, in terms of saftey.
Very impressive Nobby.
One day I may paint my 15mm Battle Honours armies for waterloo. I have only had them since 1987.
Very impressive I must say 8).
Very impressive,fsn, and a daunting amount of work already accomplished! I too like the rocket battery particularly the one just launched to confound the approaching French horse (there will be French horse, correct?). On a side note I take the red glaring rocket as a tribute to our national anthem and say thankee!
Great stuff Nobby, an impressive collection already.
I'm glad to see you have done two horse teams per gun, I'm thinking of doing something similar for my WWI artillery
Quote from: fred. on 07 April 2021, 02:26:27 PM
I'm glad to see you have done two horse teams per gun, I'm thinking of doing something similar for my WWI artillery
Yersss. I've sort of been hoist on my own petard. Originally planned a brigade level game (8-10 bttns) of really chunky units. 24 figures can't form a square IMHO, so I went up to 60. Similarly, I always thought that an artillery battery should be quite a thing to move about, and one gun with 4 figures clustered around it seems too easy. Thus, I had to have the limbers and to bulk it out, ammunition waggons. The problem came in that one brigade didn't encompass all the troop types I wanted, and to maintain the strict cavalry/infantry ratios I need to have more infantry to allow more cavalry ... which needed more guns ...and so we end up with over 50% of the British element. :D
Quote from: d_Guy on 07 April 2021, 02:22:20 PM
... (there will be French horse, correct?)
The who now? :-\ I have Prussians and Brunswickers and Bavarians and Wurttembergers bought and ready to paint ... oh, and I seem to have started buying Poles. I think the Austrians may be after that ... and I'm sure by then the Peninsular War range will be live and who can resist a Spanish Grenadier? I do like the French dragoons and carabiniers, but the infantry are soooooo boring. I know this is heresy, and I apologise. Maybe Westphalians, definitely not the Garde.
Looking great Nobby.
Nobby !!! :o :o
Superb stuff, my friend....Who's been a busy chap ? ;)
Cheers - Phil. :)
That's some great work FSN!
Although at first glanced at the blue cloth I though you were doing Trafalgar
Quote from: fsn on 07 April 2021, 04:07:25 PM
Yersss. I've sort of been hoist on my own petard. Originally planned a brigade level game (8-10 bttns) of really chunky units. 24 figures can't form a square IMHO, so I went up to 60. Similarly, I always thought that an artillery battery should be quite a thing to move about, and one gun with 4 figures clustered around it seems too easy. Thus, I had to have the limbers and to bulk it out, ammunition waggons.
Yes a horse drawn battery was a big thing. I found the below about the 1914 French battery (and I suspect this was much the same 100 years earlier)
"
Each Mle 1897 75 mm field gun battery (4 guns) was manned by highly trained crews of 170 men led by 4 officers recruited among graduates of engineering schools. Enlisted men from the countryside took care of the 6 horses that pulled each gun and its first limber.
Another 6 horses pulled each additional limber and caisson which were assigned to each gun.
A battery included 160 horses, most of them pulling ammunition as well as repair and supply caissons."As you say a small base with a gun and a few crew doesn't really cut it.
"British Napoleonic Field Artillery" by CE Franklin gives an 1808 Horse Artillery troop as 167 men, 56 riding and 108 draught horses, 6 guns, 6 ammunition wagons, forge wagon, baggage cart, curricle, and a spare wheel carriage. 8 horses per limber, 6 per ammunition wagon.
Did I see a forge wagon in the ACW range?
Quote from: Matt J on 07 April 2021, 06:04:28 PM
That's some great work FSN!
Quote from: Techno II on 07 April 2021, 04:44:26 PM
Superb stuff, my friend....Who's been a busy chap ? ;)
Quote from: Orcs on 07 April 2021, 01:05:36 PM
Very impressive Nobby.
Thank you all
Quote from: Matt J on 07 April 2021, 06:04:28 PM
Although at first glanced at the blue cloth I though you were doing Trafalgar
I have blue, dark blue and black permanently on the table for water, sky and night as required. I thought the blue would make things stand out better. :D
Some good detail there - sounds very similar in size to the WWI artillery batteries.
Quote from: fsn on 07 April 2021, 07:07:16 PM
Did I see a forge wagon in the ACW range?
I think you might of. There are lots of good horse artillery and transport bits in the ACW ranges
An excellent display.
If I were a French Marshal I'd be nervous.
Unless I was Ney, who didn't appear to do nerves.
Is a "curricle" a wagon for transporting spicy food?
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 08 April 2021, 08:48:41 AM
An excellent display.
Thank you. I'm looking forward to getting it finished.
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 08 April 2021, 08:48:41 AM
If I were a French Marshal I'd be nervous.
Unless I was Ney, who didn't appear to do nerves.
There were a few like that, weren't there? Murat strikes me as a mad son of a thousand fathers (yes I know he wasn't at Waterloo.)
:-bd =D> :-bd
=D> =D> =D>
The troops stand out very well against a blue background ;)
Quote from: fsn on 08 April 2021, 08:51:18 AM
Is a "curricle" a wagon for transporting spicy food?
You utter Oik !
:D
I'll take that.
Hi
Regarding artillery, in Mark Adkin's 'The Waterloo Companion' there is an excellent diagram/map showing the deployment of the French grand battery (of around 80 guns if memory serves) showing every gun, limber, 1st, 2nd and 3rd line caissons and 'specialist' wagons (forges, spare carriages, spare wheels etc.). How any of d'Erlon's divisions managed to move through that lot is beyond me, in fact I read a book (I think it was Andrew Field's 'Waterloo, The French Perspective') that has at least two of d'Erlon's divisions marching completely around the eastern end of the grand battery before deploying rather than moving through the deployed batteries.
Cheers Paul
Adkin's book is a wonderful volume.
Of course on page 46 it shows 1st Brit Cav brigade with two 1st Life Guards as opposed to one 1st Life Guards and one 1st Dragoon Guards.
If I may channel my internal Valley Girl:
OMG!
OMG!
O
M
G
!
5 ... Like 5 Pendraken Orders are on their way to me! Ijustcan'tbelieve it. Thisisthegreatestdayever! OMG! OMG! I'msoexcitedIjustweed.
In a more serious vein: you have to admire Pendraken for getting orders out in the middle of of a move.
Thank you.
In other news Russia is about to invade Ukraine with columns of T34's... (according to BBC news pics anyway)
I wondered about that pic when I saw it :-.
Quote from: T13A on 08 April 2021, 07:24:33 PM
Hi
Regarding artillery, in Mark Adkin's 'The Waterloo Companion' there is an excellent diagram/map showing the deployment of the French grand battery (of around 80 guns if memory serves) showing every gun, limber, 1st, 2nd and 3rd line caissons and 'specialist' wagons (forges, spare carriages, spare wheels etc.). How any of d'Erlon's divisions managed to move through that lot is beyond me, in fact I read a book (I think it was Andrew Field's 'Waterloo, The French Perspective') that has at least two of d'Erlon's divisions marching completely around the eastern end of the grand battery before deploying rather than moving through the deployed batteries.
Cheers Paul
Things like this convinced me that a lot of the "old style" Horse and Musket rules - with their rigid interpretations of base dimensions and strict formations - were simply wrong.
It didn't help that my armies often ended up in a traffic jam resembling Piccadilly Circus at rush hour.
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 09 April 2021, 09:14:44 AM
Things like this convinced me that a lot of the "old style" Horse and Musket rules - with their rigid interpretations of base dimensions and strict formations - were simply wrong.
It didn't help that my armies often ended up in a traffic jam resembling Piccadilly Circus at rush hour.
And where are all the supply wagons in all this? Where were they left? As I recall it, in Kriegsspiel the train of a brigade took up twice as much space as the deployed units and would be needed for ammunition resupply? How far back would they be if the artillery limbers were so close?
Well, Huzzah !
Radio 4 extra is back up and running. (Since 6, this morning.)
<:-P <:-P <:-P <:-P
Cheers - Phil :)
I know, was thinking it might not reappear. Time signal then music and Dr Morrel appears. :D :) :P :d
I'm right back on form, regarding self mutilation. X_X
My poor left thumb....Don't know quite how I managed it*, but I've caught it twice in the same place recently.....On the back, below the knuckle......Blood all over the place !!
(Trying to do things too quickly, probably. :-\)
Cheers - A Twit. :-[
You could bottle and sell it as a native cure.....
It might have Covid antibodies in it, Ian. Grand idea ! ;)
I nearly took a piccy of four sheets of bright red kitchen towel, and sent it to Nobby...... with the heading "Ooops !"
Cheers - Phil. :)
You'd done that and the local mounties would have been around, sending biologicals through the mail. Mind you they would'nt have arrested you - all Welsh police forces are known as Gurkhas - take no prisoners, do it all by warrent ! ;)
Quote from: Techno II on 18 April 2021, 06:49:37 AM
I'm right back on form, regarding self mutilation. X_X
My poor left thumb....Don't know quite how I managed it*, but I've caught it twice in the same place recently.....On the back, below the knuckle......Blood all over the place !!-[
:-& Hazard of the hobby. Managed to push a scalpel right into my thumb last week cleaning up a mold line. now have one of those ages to heal pencil cut type things which is more irritating than when it happened.
Quote from: Techno II on 12 April 2021, 01:09:06 PM
Well, Huzzah !
Radio 4 extra is back up and running. (Since 6, this morning.)
<:-P <:-P <:-P <:-P
Cheers - Phil :)
Apocalypse averted
https://www.businessinsider.com/bbc-radio-show-may-be-preventing-nuclear-apocalypse-2018-8?r=US&IR=T (https://www.businessinsider.com/bbc-radio-show-may-be-preventing-nuclear-apocalypse-2018-8?r=US&IR=T)
I think I've realised how I managed to do 'my cut'......Air drumming along with Carl Palmer, with a brand new 10A blade attached to the handle. :D
AND I've had to switch the stereo back down to between a half and ONE.....'Cos the 'main' kitchen was vibrating. =)
Oh.....how I want to wind it up, so they could hear it in the village....a mile or more away. ;)
Cheers - Phil. ;)
That sort of stero kit is bared under stratigic weapons treaties Phil...
When Orcs gets round here in the next few weeks......I might make his ears bleed......
I won't be allowed to do this. ;)....It would cause too much structural damage.
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Quote from: Techno II on 18 April 2021, 02:27:58 PM
When Orcs gets round here in the next few weeks......I might make his ears bleed......
I won't be allowed to do this. ;)....It would cause too much structural damage.
Cheers - Phil. ;)
My ears have had it. Listened to too much heavy rock/metal at full volume on headphones while painting.
Quote from: Techno II on 18 April 2021, 12:55:49 PM
I think I've realised how I managed to do 'my cut'......Air drumming along with Carl Palmer, with a brand new 10A blade attached to the handle. :D
AND I've had to switch the stereo back down to between a half and ONE.....'Cos the 'main' kitchen was vibrating. =)
Oh.....how I want to wind it up, so they could hear it in the village....a mile or more away. ;)
Cheers - Phil. ;)
If Carl was visiting you should have got him to so some painting
I may have more Brunswick wrath an the Duke of Brunswick did
Went for a walk with the grandson yesterday along the bank of the Clyde and we had the unexpected spectacle of a cargo ship sailing by about 50 yards away carrying the 'Main Mast' (the pointy sticky up tower part behind the bridge) of one of the new Type 26 frigates (probably HMS Glasgow) currently being built on the Clyde. Very few people out walking and those who were, were probably unaware of its significance. [Anyone know what yard built it (the Main Mast)?]
Being pedantic thats not the Main Mast it's the Fore mast, :D
Frigate? At that size - ~500 ft, ~8000 tons - she's not far off the size of a WW2 light cruiser (e.g. HMS Leander)!
Crew of only 157 though, as opposed to 570 (all figures from Wikipedia).
Everything gets bigger over time. It's the same with cars - go compare a 1980 BMW 3-series with what they sell now!
Quote from: Raider4 on 21 April 2021, 09:20:58 AM
Frigate? At that size - ~500 ft, ~8000 tons - she's not far off the size of a WW2 light cruiser (e.g. HMS Leander)!
Crew of only 157 though, as opposed to 570 (all figures from Wikipedia).
Everything gets bigger over time. It's the same with cars - go compare a 1980 BMW 3-series with what they sell now!
Considerably heavier than many of the scout cruisers, or older types used in some navies as destroyer leaders.
That change in crew size illustrates what can be achieved with automation - Those WW2 guns weren't going to load themselves.
Also reduced demand for shore / boarding parties.
On naming/classification, I always felt that frigates got a raw deal during teh Dreadnought age.
Back in Nelson's day they did light cruiser work - far flung flag showing, scouting, keeping sea lanes open.
Suddenly they're little gunboats fit for harbour defence and a bit of Anti-sub work.
Now, they're getting the respect they deserve.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 21 April 2021, 09:13:57 AM
Being pedantic thats not the Main Mast it's the Fore mast, :D
https://www.militaryfactory.com/ships/warship-anatomy.asp (https://www.militaryfactory.com/ships/warship-anatomy.asp)
[Signed - a landlubber :P ]
p.s. I'm guessing the mast was made in Cumbria?
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 21 April 2021, 10:29:57 AM
That change in crew size illustrates what can be achieved with automation - Those WW2 guns weren't going to load themselves.
And a change in the type of armament - 8x 6" guns and 4x 4" guns vs. 1x 5" gun, 12x air defence missiles, 24x surface defence missiles, 2x Phalanx CIWS and 2x 30mm cannon (all automated). And a helicoptor (or two).
Quote from: Westmarcher on 21 April 2021, 11:50:00 AM
https://www.militaryfactory.com/ships/warship-anatomy.asp (https://www.militaryfactory.com/ships/warship-anatomy.asp)
[Signed - a landlubber :P ]
p.s. I'm guessing the mast was made in Cumbria?
Now confirmed that the Mainmast was for HMS Glasgow but was made by a Norwegian company! :o [see link below to Navy Lookout Twitter account (formerly Save The Royal Navy) - includes a photo of the cargo ship, mast and Glasgow's bow section.]
https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1384768411721469953 (https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1384768411721469953)
I don't know about the 5", but the 4.5 inch in the Falklands shot down an Exocet, something you can do if you fire proximity fused fragmentation every 2 seconds.
It's a good 'pull up a bollard and I'll spin you a dit' tale but as unlikely as most of them.
Hugo White, HMS Avenger's Captain and commander of 4th Frigate Squadron, reckoned it was probably deflected by chaff and Woodward said the Exocet passed harmlessly between Avenger and Exeter.
But I like the idea of 4.5" hitting a 320 metres a second missile ! :)
Late call for the day.
Can I get a big collective "Ding Dong" for actor Leslie Phillips CBE, who celebrates his 97th birthday today.
I SAY!
Ding Dong indeed!
But the man's an utter cad!
Quote from: Raider4 on 21 April 2021, 08:33:29 PM
But the man's an utter cad!
But a very smooth one.
Quote from: Westmarcher on 21 April 2021, 02:52:50 PM
Now confirmed that the Mainmast was for HMS Glasgow but was made by a Norwegian company! :o [see link below to Navy Lookout Twitter account (formerly Save The Royal Navy) - includes a photo of the cargo ship, mast and Glasgow's bow section.]
https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1384768411721469953 (https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1384768411721469953)
X_X :-<
For Mr Phillips - Left hand down a bit ! ;)
In the process of trying to complete a Student Finance Application four our daughter, which is complicated by the fact that:
- I can no longer log on, as my account number no longer matches with our daughter's application (the same happened last year, so know how to 'fix' this via a paper form).
- Having been made redundant, I have to submit a current year income estimate, but also provide income details from 2019/20 tax year.
- Quite a few schools in South Glos had their computers hacked so currently trying to find a way to access my wife's payroll account to get her P60, which I need for the above.
- The only way to contact the Student Finance Company is via Facebook, as they never answer the 'phone, which is very frustrating when really they should have e-mail or online chat like so many companies.
So a tad fed up with the whole process once again and frankly it's not fit for purpose :'(
It's mad, I'm due to finish paying off my student loan this year and because they can't calculate it properly through the tax system I had to arrange a direct debit. Took a couple of months before I was able to actually get to someone (called and it said use the website, used the website and it said to call). In theory it should be sorted but still awaiting a cease order being sent to my employer then the direct debits to start in a month or two...
SLC is a bit of a nightmare. They still send me letters about my loan from '96 - 99 and the 2010-12 one. Both have been fullfil by expiring due to age and time. I also found that payment dates could be very variable. Have fun with them.
Quote from: Steve J on 27 April 2021, 09:33:46 AM
- The only way to contact the Student Finance Company is via Facebook
That's shocking! What if you don't - as I don't - use Facebook?
Martyn......I'm with you...I won't touch any sort of anti social media. ;)
Cheers - Phil. :)
The thing that gets me is that unless a student gets a well paid job they will never pay the loan off before it is wiped in 30 years.
My ex sister-in-law emigrated and never paid a penny off.
so the whole loan system seems fairly pointless
I didn't pay any off either :D
My daughter is in New Zealand and has tried to pay her student loan for a decade, SLC are not interested...
'Phone, Twitter or Facebook are the only options, unless you tried posting stuff but the delay would be hard to imagine in getting a response. This is one of the reasons I 'had' to get Facebook, as otherwise I don't use it now.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 27 April 2021, 10:37:26 AM
SLC is a bit of a nightmare. They still send me letters about my loan from '96 - 99 and the 2010-12 one. Both have been fullfil by expiring due to age and time. I also found that payment dates could be very variable. Have fun with them.
I know a couple of folks who work there.
Their accounts suggest a rolling clusterf***.
They've called in Cap Gemini to assist.
One of my friends there used to work for Cap Gemini.
His view is of the "If this is the answer, you're asking the wrong question" variety.
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 28 April 2021, 09:02:04 AM
They've called in Cap Gemini to assist.
Agreed, if Cap Gemini is the answer, it must have been a strange question.
To be fair the Facebook replies from the staff have been very helpful so far, which means my paperwork has reduced by about 2/3. Whether this remains the case when they receive it remains to be seen!
Someone do the maths....I must have got this wrong.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56920734
As far as I can make out, the value of the gold (weight) is well in excess of the £10,000 asking price.....and it only took 400 hours to produce. :o :o
(And I'm not impressed with the 'flats' of the animals, at this scale...I could do better with Green Stuff.)
Fair enough, I would struggle with a lot of the fiddly bits. ;)......AND making it properly circular. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil :)
"The mint said the price of the £10,000 denomination gold version was available on application."
Eh?. So it's face-value is £10,000, but it actually costs a lot more to actually buy one, if I'm reading that right?
As Phil says, the value of the gold alone - assuming it's solid - is way north of the face value.
Odd. Presumably it's just a one-off, destined for a museum or something?
Quote from: Techno II on 29 April 2021, 09:33:55 AM
Someone do the maths....I must have got this wrong.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56920734
As far as I can make out, the value of the gold (weight) is well in excess of the £10,000 asking price.....and it only took 400 hours to produce. :o :o
(And I'm not impressed with the 'flats' of the animals, at this scale...I could do better with Green Stuff.)
Fair enough, I would struggle with a lot of the fiddly bits. ;)......AND making it properly circular. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil :)
Yes, weird. £400,000+ in materials if pure gold but presumably somewhat less than pure gold. 400 hours of labour? £10,000 is a strange number to have as the sum at the bottom of the calculation; minimised so as not to upset the [ ignorant - like you and me - ] masses?
Just an exercise one hopes.
Quote from: Raider4 on 29 April 2021, 09:49:24 AM
"The mint said the price of the £10,000 denomination gold version was available on application."
Eh?. So it's face-value is £10,000, but it actually costs a lot more to actually buy one, if I'm reading that right?
As Phil says, the value of the gold alone - assuming it's solid - is way north of the face value.
Odd. Presumably it's just a one-off, destined for a museum or something?
AHA !.....(Your first line) Excellent spot , Martyn ! ...Thank you !
Right.....So if 'one' had one of these, 'one'
could use it as a £10K
denomination coin, legally.
(I want to buy this packet of cheese and onion crisps...Can you give me change for this ? ;D ;D ;D)
Well....Seeing as there's not an ice-cream in Hell's chance of me ever owning on of these, I don't think I'll be asking for one.
Yep...must be destined for a museum or a particularly wealthy
numaticist coin collector.
Cheers - Phil :)
There is no limit to the value tenedered Phil, so you can offer a £20 note for a 1p chew. The only limit is on the amout of cooinage the vender has to accept - so you can't pay a £100 bill with 10p peices. I used to know the exact amounts, but suspect it is rather higher now. Mind you getting change for a £10,000 coin in the local news agent :D
Price would have to be on application because at that weight, the mint will have to price it at costs plus the price when they obtained the bullion or current if higher.
If it had been fixed price, I would have ordered a couple. With all this QE and government debt, inflation will rocket and we will need this soon to buy an army pack.
:D
Quote from: DecemDave on 29 April 2021, 12:41:37 PM
If it had been fixed price, I would have ordered a couple.
:o :o
We all know who to ask for a loan, then. ;)
Cheers Phil. :)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9525535/Volunteers-spend-five-days-digging-perfectly-preserved-WW2-amphibious-vehicle.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9525535/Volunteers-spend-five-days-digging-perfectly-preserved-WW2-amphibious-vehicle.html)
NOT A TANK!
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/04/29/14/42369834-9525535-image-a-52_1619701839437.jpg)
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/04/29/19/42381628-9525535-image-a-45_1619721037477.jpg)
Media definition of a Tank . I cant do flow charts on here so :-
Does it have tracks - Yes
Is it some type of JCB/digger/ Bull dozer - No
It must be a tank
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Does the vehicles have wheels - Yes
Is it a civilian lorry or car - -No
It must be a tank
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Does the vehicle have a gun of any type - Yes
Its a tank
Wow. Now THAT is a 'big dig'! 8)
Getting a bit panicky now.
Napoleonic British Army:
- 17 battalions, 8 batteries and 6 cavalry regiments done.
- 2 battalions left to do; one on the painting table.
6 cavalry regiments somewhere in the post. :(
I am
not starting anything until the last British units are done.
'cos that's it. I am definitely not buying more British Napoleonics (1815 - I reserve the right to the Peninsula) after this lot.
Quote from: fsn on 01 May 2021, 01:26:12 PM
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/04/29/14/42369834-9525535-image-a-52_1619701839437.jpg)
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/04/29/19/42381628-9525535-image-a-45_1619721037477.jpg)
Gosh, impressively preserved that. And, yes, a very big dig. Not your average episode of Time Team.
Quote from: fsn on 01 May 2021, 01:26:12 PM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9525535/Volunteers-spend-five-days-digging-perfectly-preserved-WW2-amphibious-vehicle.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9525535/Volunteers-spend-five-days-digging-perfectly-preserved-WW2-amphibious-vehicle.html)
NOT A TANK!
Armoured? Check
Armed? Check
Tracked? Check
MGIAT!
Well some of the Pacific LVT's were tanks LVT(A)-1 witrh a Stuart Turret, and LVT(A)4 witrh M8 Scott turret
Merriam-Webster:
Tank: a usually large receptacle for holding, transporting, or storing liquids (such as water or fuel)
Therefore:
The purpose of the “Not Tank” was as an anti-tank, something to hold back water rather than contain water. That said it occurs that “to hold back” might be construed to mean “contain”. Nothing is ever simple.
Probably safe to say that it is a dam tank.
Nobby - CHEW!
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 10 May 2021, 10:19:08 AM
Well some of the Pacific LVT's were tanks LVT(A)-1 witrh a Stuart Turret, and LVT(A)4 witrh M8 Scott turret
Ahh, but did they have a hull machinegun?
Some way back I saw the Chieftain explain that this was part of the definition of tanks (Maybe just for the US army - who were completely mad for hull machineguns at some point).
Not just the US - the Soviets had tanks with multi MG turrets, as did some of the early British cruisers.
Never thought it was part of the definition for "tank" though?
Quote from: Raider4 on 10 May 2021, 07:37:34 PM
Not just the US - the Soviets had tanks with multi MG turrets, as did some of the early British cruisers.
Never thought it was part of the definition for "tank" though?
I think it was the USA:
Hull MG = Tank, and goes under armoured command.
No Hull MG = Tank Destroyer; allowed into infantry and other formations.
Was the M3 Stuart fitted with 5 MGs so the infantry couldn't steal it then? :)
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 10 May 2021, 11:04:59 PM
I think it was the USA:
Hull MG = Tank, and goes under armoured command.
No Hull MG = Tank Destroyer; allowed into infantry and other formations.
Thought the US definitiion was LID - TANK. No LID - TANK DESTROYER. I think the LVT's had hull MG's
Quote from: Ithoriel on 11 May 2021, 12:03:11 AM
Was the M3 Stuart fitted with 5 MGs so the infantry couldn't steal it then? :)
The Prewar US tanks certainly went in for loads of fixed MGs in a big way.
They soon discovered it was a bad idea, and a maintenance nightmare, removed them and repurposed the space for extra ammo / water stowage.
See if any of you have a bright idea/answer to this 'conundrum'.
Yesterday, the boiler was heating up the water...but wasn't sending it around the radiators. (Wasn't intending to have it on for that long.....just to take the 'chill' off the house).
Hot water out of the taps was fine.
I tried ALL sorts to get it going, to no avail.
This morning..deep joy....It's working again.
It did the same thing a few weeks ago...but that was on a day when the temperature (outside) was pretty damn warm. Fair enough, the thermostat 'didn't feel the need' to heat the house, I guess.
(Coincidently, I was having a chat to one of the Tesco operatives, before the store opened, and he mentioned that his central heating hadn't come on, on the same day....So, in a way, that solved that ''mystery'.
Yesterday it was really quite chilly, so I'm a bit bemused.
Cheers - Phil. :-\
Air lock maybe, try bleeding the radiators Phil
I wondered about that....But they seemed to be OK, Ian.
If it HAD been an airlock, would/could it have gone back to working OK today ? :-\
Thanks for the suggestion though, Matey :)
I'll go round the house later and see if any of the rads still feel cold.
Cheers - Phil. :)
I don't think air locks clear themselves Phil. Can't do any harm can it.
I'll check a bit later, Ian......At the moment, it's working fine, having kicked in for its 'second stint' of the day.
Cheers - Phil :)
I think them being on is the best time to bleed.
Yep, you need to bleed them when on and at the highest point in the system, typically a bathroom radiator towel rail. You may need to do it several times to clear any air blockages.
Student Finance England, what can I say? We submitted out forms as requested, with our projected income the same as last year, but they have given our daughter £5.5k less this year despite us 'earning' the same amount!!! >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
Steve is it her final year? I don't think you get as much (eldest just finished hers)
I still get letters from them, for courses I took over 20 yrs ago, telling me i don't owe anything and please pay NOW
Waste a second class stamp, and send them a cheque for £0.00p, Ian...That might stop them ?
Cheers - Phil. :)
Yes Matt, it is her final year, but I wouldn't imagine that it would be over a 50% cut!
Quote from: Techno II on 28 May 2021, 06:00:45 AM
Waste a second class stamp, and send them a cheque for £0.00p, Ian...That might stop them ?
Cheers - Phil. :)
What's a cheque Phil..... :d
I had to pay a cheque in this week, which seemed really weird, but fair play the automated paying machine was much better than when I last used one a couple of years ago.
I use cheques regularly still, mostly for paying bills.
Cheques are GOOD !!! 'Real' paper...and you can 'date'!
I use Paypal a LOT... as it is 3rd party.So, 'some' securiity 'buffer'.
Suppose I will eventually be 'forced' into 'online banking' , but absolutely NO TRUST in it.
'They' Don't Need To "Blow The Bloody Doors Off ! ""
Just a few 'clicks'...
I can never get paying machine to work, does seem to like the printed signature. I was annoyed years ago when they first started doing electronic clearance and it took a day LONGER than the old manual system - at least these days you pay in and it clears by COB the following day.
Quote from: Techno II on 24 May 2021, 06:39:05 AM
See if any of you have a bright idea/answer to this 'conundrum'.
Yesterday, the boiler was heating up the water...but wasn't sending it around the radiators. (Wasn't intending to have it on for that long.....just to take the 'chill' off the house).
Hot water out of the taps was fine.
I tried ALL sorts to get it going, to no avail.
This morning..deep joy....It's working again.
It did the same thing a few weeks ago...but that was on a day when the temperature (outside) was pretty damn warm. Fair enough, the thermostat 'didn't feel the need' to heat the house, I guess.
(Coincidently, I was having a chat to one of the Tesco operatives, before the store opened, and he mentioned that his central heating hadn't come on, on the same day....So, in a way, that solved that ''mystery'.
Yesterday it was really quite chilly, so I'm a bit bemused.
Cheers - Phil. :-
Sounds like the motorized valve stuck. They sometimes correct themselves as yours has. Some also have a manual leaver that allows you to override its current position.
Video that will explain things
https://skill-builder.uk/motorised-valve-problems
Thought you could spell Alexander !
It's exactly as it sounds, innit ?
Cheers - Phil ;)
3 ways -
Cheque - proper way
Check - Webster
Chez (SP) - from Prauge
Prauge ?
Chez ?
Eh ?
Can you imagine Ian texting co-ordinates for an artillery barrage? #-o :P
Funny you should say that -
it went -
Fire grid 123 456
Left 2000
Right 1000
Up 100, 10 rounds FFE
Well they did say make bold corrections ;)
14, well 13 now for promotion :D
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Spent two weeks dealing with local government for our son to get his social worker support back after it was stopped due to lockdown. A real case of one department not knowing/talking to another, despite it meant to be a seamless >:(. Fortunately an excellent lady who did her job perfectly kicked up a stink and got things sorted!!!
Good news Steve
Thanks Will.
Managed to have a day working from home today.
Despite having a couple of staff problems ( >:() to sort out, I finished at 4pm. :-bd
Got a few hours painting in, finished the 2nd Bttn 3rd Wurttemberg Infantry. They are lovely figures, and great fun to paint. I was doing Brunswickers (I picked a dark grey with a black wash BTW, and an actual black instead of my usual grey-black for the belts and shakos), but ran out of dark grey so had to switch to the Wurttembergers.
It is days like today that I am very thankful for the hobby.
After a bad day at work I did enjoy working on my toy soldiers, if only for an hour or so, but at least I had done something I wanted to do, which was nice :). Now 'retired' I don't have to deal with office politics, just local government!
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And promoted - free bar all....
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 05 June 2021, 09:06:57 AM
And promoted - free bar all....
Pint of Best with a meths chaser please
Many congratulations Sir. After that dazzling display of numeracy, its puzzling why the promotions board waited so long.
Congratulations Milord.
I'll have my usual half of shandy.
With no doubt a raincoat Nobby
Glass of milk here. Congrats.
Cheers!
Had a Pilsner Urqual earlier, muscle relaxant after today.
Congrats on the promotion!
However, you might like to check your connection, the signal to noise ratio dropped dramatically for a few messages there. :D :D :D
You can guess why :d
Some of me doings ...
Brunswick Uhlans ... need basing
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A regiment and an odd battallion of Wurttenberg infantry
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That colonel needs his base clipping! Disgraceful in an officer!
Nice
Those look damn good, Chum. :-bd
Cheers - Phil :)
Very nice 8).
:-bd =D> :-bd
My what big units you have ;)
Carful or Nobby uyl ave yer coat
Awww........Pants ! X_X
Just remembered we're 'locked in' today......BT are closing 250 yards of the road, including right outside Techno Towers, to do some 'pole work'......
Whether that means they're going to upgrade the lines...or simply replace a couple of the poles.....(or both)...I've no idea.
(At least one of the poles has a 'D' mark on it...which means it's 'iffy'.......Probably means we'll be without telephone/internet facilities on and off all day.) =)
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Techno II on 07 June 2021, 06:46:08 AM
Probably means we'll be without telephone/internet facilities on and off all day.
Thought that was normal where you are Phil, afterall you still use oil lamps. =O
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 07 June 2021, 07:49:21 AM
Thought that was normal where you are Phil, after all you still use oil lamps. =O
And when it gets really dark he lights them :o ;D
where's my coat :P
Regards
Sean
Here is my random musing of the day:
I am irritated beyond reason by a TV advert in which a modern day character asks a character fleeing the Pompeii eruption what date it occurred and gets the reply 79 A.D.
Which is impossible because it wasnt a dating system used at the time. He would have said its the consulship of x and y or perhaps so many years AUC.
Why does this annoy me? Asking a historical character anything is impossible and its just an advert.
Help!! Before I waste half a day complaining to the ASA
Well....I want to know if you whisper a question to Alexa.....does 'she' really whisper back ? (I know the ad you mean.) ;)
I'll never know...I've got the damn thing disabled on my tablet.
Cheers - Phil. :D
Totally inaccurate, 'ow could a Woman know it was 79 CE !
Quote from: DecemDave on 09 June 2021, 01:43:47 PM
Here is my random musing of the day:
I am irritated beyond reason by a TV advert in which a modern day character asks a character fleeing the Pompeii eruption what date it occurred and gets the reply 79 A.D.
Which is impossible because it wasnt a dating system used at the time. He would have said its the consulship of x and y or perhaps so many years AUC.
Why does this annoy me? Asking a historical character anything is impossible and its just an advert.
Help!! Before I waste half a day complaining to the ASA
I blame the Babel Fish doing the translation into English :-)
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Gentle reminder.
Well a few fellow Bloggers have rekindled my painting mojo, which is great as I haven't felt the urge to paint for quite some time now :). Seeing those pics FSN brought a smile to my face, reminding me of why I enjoy our hobby!
Quote from: Techno II on 09 June 2021, 02:04:08 PM
Well....I want to know if you whisper a question to Alexa.....does 'she' really whisper back ? (I know the ad you mean.) ;)
I'll never know...I've got the damn thing disabled on my tablet.
Cheers - Phil. :D
Yes she does.
Quote from: Techno II on 07 June 2021, 06:46:08 AM
Awww........Pants ! X_X
Just remembered we're 'locked in' today......BT are closing 250 yards of the road, including right outside Techno Towers, to do some 'pole work'......
Whether that means they're going to upgrade the lines...or simply replace a couple of the poles.....(or both)...I've no idea.
(At least one of the poles has a 'D' mark on it...which means it's 'iffy'.......Probably means we'll be without telephone/internet facilities on and off all day.) =)
Cheers - Phil.
Such a considerate company :D
Quote from: DecemDave on 09 June 2021, 01:43:47 PM
Here is my random musing of the day:
I am irritated beyond reason by a TV advert in which a modern day character asks a character fleeing the Pompeii eruption what date it occurred and gets the reply 79 A.D.
Which is impossible because it wasnt a dating system used at the time. He would have said its the consulship of x and y or perhaps so many years AUC.
Why does this annoy me? Asking a historical character anything is impossible and its just an advert.
Help!! Before I waste half a day complaining to the ASA
Presumably done with humour so acceptable in an advert. What I object to is trying to have period dramas with characters thinking in totally inappropriate modern ways so that modern politically correct concepts can get inserted in the story line.
Quote from: DecemDave on 09 June 2021, 01:43:47 PM
Here is my random musing of the day:
I am irritated beyond reason by a TV advert in which a modern day character asks a character fleeing the Pompeii eruption what date it occurred and gets the reply 79 A.D.
Which is impossible because it wasnt a dating system used at the time. He would have said its the consulship of x and y or perhaps so many years AUC.
Why does this annoy me? Asking a historical character anything is impossible and its just an advert.
Help!! Before I waste half a day complaining to the ASA
We could have believed it if they asked Techno - he was there. :)
Quote from: Orcs on 09 June 2021, 10:00:20 PM
We could have believed it if they asked Techno - he was there. :)
But you know what Phil's long term memory is like
Hey !!! :o
I can remember getting the scale wrong on the Terracotta Army....And watching Stonehenge being built.
(Ask me which figures I made a couple of months ago, and I'd have to check in 'the book'.)
Cheers - Phil :)
In fact, they've recently matched up the DNA of the bloodstain on the third trilith. Guess who?
Can't be Phil, he's got green stuff in his veins
Stomach churning half an hour, last night.....When the 'pup' was sick and then had some sort of fit.
He seems fine now, thank goodness.
Almost certainly a big blooper on my part, as I gave the dogs my leftovers of 'spagbog'..... which I'd covered in garlic granules....Idiot, Phil. X_X
Be keeping a close eye on him today.
Cheers - Phil
Hope he recovers.....
But dogs have to learn Phil.
They will just scoff anything on sight and then worry what it will do to them later - it is instinct.
I remember (as a lad) my aunt had a Boxer like that, she ran off into the woods when out on a walk - after 10 minutes we went looking for her and found her another 5 minutes later scoffing at the carcass of a very well rotted badger. The stink was horrific - but she looked very pleased with herself, & oh yes, she'd also rolled in it for good measure!
We managed to drag her off it - without getting covered in the rotting slime. But then there was the task of how we got her home in the car!!! Thankfully we were not that far away, so I had to lean out of the back window holder her lead, whilst my aunt drove at a snails pace along the road.
When we finally got home, the dog was then tethered to a stake in the middle of the lawn and then blasted with the garden hose - which she thought was a great hoot.
After she had dried off and a few hours later when my aunt had relented and forgiven her, she was allowed into the house.
In the middle of our supper - she got up from her bed - walked into the middle of the kitchen and proceeded to erupt at both ends simultaneously - talk about projectile vomit and defecation! It was like a shot gun ... and the smell was unbelievable. My little sister, seated at the kitchen table eating her supper, immediately threw-up onto the floor and the Boxer swiftly moved in to hoover it up!!!
It's one of the reasons I dont have dogs ;D ;D ;D
As we say...
Quote from: Big Insect on 11 June 2021, 08:22:34 AM
But dogs have to learn Phil.
But did it learn? Or did it roll in the next dead badger it happened across?
Edit: And just for laughs, Dog vs. Cat Diary (https://www.dfordog.co.uk/blog/funny-dog-vs-cat-diary.html)
Yes, Garlic is NO. But our dog seems to like trampling though Wild Garlic plant... worrying... but no ill effect as far as can tell.
Perhaps the boxer was the inspiration for the badgers and burrows thread
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 11 June 2021, 07:40:24 AM
Hope he recovers.....
All seems absolutely fine...thanks, Ian. :)
Mark...re the rotting carcass....Our first dog did something similar with a decomposing hedgehog he found in the garden, back in Notts. The stink was
unbelievable :-&.....we just turned a hose on him.
HH....I should have
thought before I gave him the leftovers......I know any types of 'onions' are dangerous for dogs...We're particularly careful if we fry onions, making sure the dogs don't get
any. =)
Cheers - Phil. :)
Phil: Good to hear he's better. :)
With regards to my dog, A GSD, 'Trampling' Wild Garlic... at leas the does not EAT the stuff... wonder about paws, though, but seems ok.
Sometimes wonder about the early 'decline' of a previous GSD :(
At THAT time, Ma used to eat Grapes.. possibly, she might have let him have the odd one.... hope not, but too late to know, now. :(
I know that, when I was a child, she used to share her Chocolate Buttons with a Siamese Cat... BUT he lived to 10-12 and not 'too' bad for a 'breed'.
Until just a few years ago, plant/food Toxicity was something that we were rather ignorant about. If someone has kids... maybe some lessons?
Chocolate, and any of the garlic/onion tribe, are major no-nos for kitties. Even tiny doses are like lead or arsenic - they build up.
This all DOES make you think.....
A lot of things (food) that various pets (particularly cats and dogs) will scoff to their hearts content are simply, 'not good for them'.....To the point of poisoning/killing them.
We've discovered 'all sorts stuff' about NOT giving pets various types of food.
Our first dog was (from his previous owners 'instructions') VERY fond of grapes.........That's another big no-no. X_X
Plant toxicity, HH ?
Oh...Yes....One of our first sheep spent a morning munching on rhododendrum (how do you spell that?) leaves, through a fence.....I didn't know sheep could throw up. :o
She did survive, though at the time, the vet didn't have much hope......But that was after two complete pots of charcoal tablets.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Quote from: Techno II on 12 June 2021, 10:10:07 AM
This all DOES make you think.....
A lot of things (food) that various pets (particularly cats and dogs) will scoff to their hearts content are simply, 'not good for them'.....To the point of poisoning/killing them.
<SNIP>
Cheers - Phil. :)
True of human animals too :)
Well I defo eat and drink stuff wat be bad for moi ! :'( :'(
Quote from: Ithoriel on 12 June 2021, 10:12:27 AM
True of human animals too :)
FAR too true, Mike. X_X
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Plenty of stuff on Plants / Foods potentially Toxic or harmful to animals via Google. Can be a bit confusing and 'Dosages' seldom mentioned. just 'blanket ' info.
Speaking of which, have seen comments from various sources which would seem to indicate that several commonly available pet Treatments for Fleas, etc... 'May' be toxic to Cats, Esp.
No Idea about how accurate... may be 'mis-information' according to someone's 'agenda'? Some do that. :(
Household 'Cleaning Products' are Nasty Stuff, too... We've seen the Ads for a quick Wipe with X... If it 'lifts' grease / kills Bugs, CAN'T be good for anything / anyone?
Or Flyspray! Or... Air Freshener... scented candles... deoderant... A LOT depends on Ingestion / exposure levels.
Possible 'point' taken, though! lol. ;) :) :)
I'm allergic to wet whipes, discovered during a recent marshalling session using them to clean seats between occupants, without gloves.
Last couple of weeks, my eyes have 'Been Bad' to varying extents. No Covid symptoms that I can tell.... so Think that a recent change of wash powder might be cause. Nearly finished the box! LOL! ;D
Never used to get Hayfever from Pollen... but people change. Of course, it could be from 'something else'! ;)
Rhododendrons... not sure whether leaves are poisonous... but probably. There was a Fantasy Novel: 'The Company' K J Parker, in which a character attempts to use Honey from Rhrodoendron flower as a toxin... usnsure.
Of course, crushed Laurel leaver were used in the killing jars of bug collectors... cyanide? Hence no competiton from below.
I 'like' Rhodies but 'dislike' Laurel... just Me! lol.
Incidentally, for 'darker', more 'twisted' fantasy novels, K J Parker and Joe Abercrombie are 'fantastic'!. lol.
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 12 June 2021, 12:39:33 PM
Rhododendrons... not sure whether leaves are poisonous... but probably...
They definitely are......especially if you've got a lower I Q than a chicken, and are prepared to scoff 'lots'...(I'm referring to sheep, here.)
Other vegetation that you 'd be surprised at (for horses.....).....a surfeit of Sycamore seeds....acorns.....Laburnum seeds...etc.
Fortunately there are no oak trees, out here.....but plenty of laburnams....AND sodding sycamores, which grow like weeds.
Every few years I have to rake up barrow loads of sycamore seeds from the fields, to stop the equines ingesting handfuls of those with the grass, from the fields.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Wonder if there might be a place for a 'Sticky'... a sort of 'Countryfile'. with 'Do's & Don'ts such as for example, postings on :
Do not feed the animals...risks to their health
Provide Water for Hedgehogs in warm.. but Not milk
Things not to let your dog do in the country
Etc.
Other things of interest could interest some members.
Events and activities.
Historic activities
Naturalism in general ... even Naturism... well maybe NOT! lol.
Kit to take when hiking, boating, camping
Etc.
Just a thought?
Not a bad idea. :)
I know there's already a reasonable amount of interest from various folk regarding our avian friends in the garden.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Hmm. Where to put it? As a topic in Chat and News or Fun Stuff... ?
Title... Countryfile ? Or something else?
Would seem to fit in either
Gut feeling would be to put it in 'Chat & News', as another sub-folder ?
Cheers - Phil. :)
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Quote from: nikharwood on 24 February 2013, 10:04:26 PM
And now I can't decide what to watch:
- Blandings
- Strike Back - Vengeance
- Sucker Punch
- Get Shorty / Be Cool / Jackie Brown / Out of Sight (I'm on an Elmore Leonard reading buzz)
- Firefly / Serenity
Thoughts?
Sucker Punch
Firefly, way better than Sucker Punch ... though I feel we are little late to influence Nik's viewing choices :)
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 13 June 2021, 01:01:57 AM
Wonder if there might be a place for a 'Sticky'... a sort of 'Countryfile'. with 'Do's & Don'ts such as for example, postings on :
These are true.
In Australia always look under the toilet seat before sitting down.
Beware when holding a Koala they crap a lot, not nice even if it does smell of eucalyptus.
When dealing with a spitting cobra always puff your cheeks full of air as this deters them from spitting at you.
If it does spit at you and you get it in your eyes, human milk in your eyes will neutralize the venom.
And be careful walking under trees - beware the Drop bear (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear)
Drop bears ? Not seen any bears around here :D
Quote from: Orcs on 17 June 2021, 08:37:49 AM
If it does spit at you and you get it in your eyes, human milk in your eyes will neutralize the venom.
;D ;D ;D You know every time this happens to me, there is never a lactating female available.
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 17 June 2021, 09:06:33 AM
Not seen any bears around here :D
You never do.
Until it's too late . . .
Ah, yes! Thylarctos plummetus, every bit as dangerous as the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus (https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/)!
Quote from: DecemDave on 17 June 2021, 09:58:59 AM
;D ;D ;D You know every time this happens to me, there is never a lactating female available.
last time I looked at a woman's breasts that were not my wifes, it cost me a divorce!! :d :d
Quote from: Ithoriel on 17 June 2021, 10:43:33 AM
Ah, yes! Thylarctos plummetus, every bit as dangerous as the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus (https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/)!
Shhhh you'll upset the Bobwoppits!
Drop Bears are quite cuddly in realty. Tree Octopi are just cute.
The 'Pelmet Cat', however, IS a fearsome creature! :o
So's the hoop snake :o......Wouldn't want one those rolling along behind you !
Cheers - Phil. :)
Obviously strange wildlife in South Wales.....
Quote from: Orcs on 17 June 2021, 11:05:22 AM
last time I looked at a woman's breasts that were not my wifes, it cost me a divorce!! :d :d
I suspect it wasn't just the looking ;)
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"Ruminating" - There's a word you don't hear often enough.
I hear it all the time from a friend of mine - he's a dairy farmer.
I think we should all go back to wearing boaters whilst gaming.
Quote from: fsn on 19 June 2021, 09:24:49 AM
I think we should all go back to wearing boaters whilst gaming.
Sorry can't get one large enough ! :'( :'(
Love the pics fsn. Those were the days. Curious how 30mm prevailed then among the pioneers [but airfix 1/72 for us improverished kids] and the 25-28-"heroic" moderns have now grown to match.
Do any forum members still have a sand table? My newbuild floors already groan under the 10mm mountain.
Quote from: fsn on 19 June 2021, 09:24:49 AM
I hear it all the time from a friend of mine - he's a dairy farmer.
I think we should all go back to wearing boaters whilst gaming.
I'm all for hats: Preferably one that reflect the rank of the player's command.
FSN... ah yes! That book and others still there, somewhere. Used to salivate over the pics, while mucking about with Airfix...and flaking enamel paint! ;D
On 'nostalgia'... having picked up a few 'Callan' episodes from digital TV recently, have been re-watching my DVDs... including the film, with 'Gettysburg' battle.
Hinchcliffe figs arranged by Peter Gilder. Just wondering what happened to the 'film star' pieces and scenery? Anyone know?
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"Hey, Children, gather round... no, not too close, Josh and Marek... right! Once... a very long time ago... there were things called 'Libraries'. Where you could borrow 'someone else's' books! Yes, I know... Yeuch!, Jodi, you DO know what a book is... like a Mag but bigger!
Those books had been sweated on, sneezed on. smoked on... and sometimes still had bits of sandwich in them!
But people loved them..."
Hm. Somewhere on here I posted that I was unimpressed with the movie 'The Last Of The Mohicans' when it came out. '92 ish. Maybe it was a pub closing time vid 'hire'... and I missed bits! But, having got a dvd to re-watch, it IS rather good. :)
The only thing that 'jarred' was the premise of Fenimore Cooper's title... they were NOT the last of the Mohicans... but that's Bset Selling Authors for you... ;D
I'm pretty sure Edward Woodward bought the miniatures and possibly the terrain from the episode they featured in 'Callan' as he liked them so much.
Not heard that.
Recently bought some plastic figs from a Great Guy on another forum. had quite a chat. Edward Woodward, (as 'Wicker Man' ), came up.
Gentleman worked in an Edinburgh Hotel while Edward Woodward was staying. Saw E W was 'working' on a RHA battery and struck up chat! Did errands for paint. On departure, E W called him to room and thanked him with Hotel Manager present.... and gave him a hand painted figure and a 'tip' for nearly 3 wks wages!
Always liked Edward Woodward in his roles as Callan and The Equaliser, etc. The Callan Film DVD has an interview which is refeshingly 'normal'. Seems like a really nice bloke!
RIP, Sir.
Hadn't heard about table and figs... rather 'hope' true!
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 20 June 2021, 02:39:06 PM
Recently bought some plastic figs from a Great Guy on another forum. had quite a chat. Edward Woodward, (as 'Wicker Man' ), came up.
Gentleman worked in an Edinburgh Hotel while Edward Woodward was staying. Saw E W was 'working' on a RHA battery and struck up chat! Did errands for paint. On departure, E W called him to room and thanked him with Hotel Manager present.... and gave him a hand painted figure and a 'tip' for nearly 3 wks wages!
Always liked Edward Woodward in his roles as Callan and The Equaliser, etc. The Callan Film DVD has an interview which is refeshingly 'normal'. Seems like a really nice bloke!
RIP, Sir.
Hadn't heard about table and figs... rather 'hope' true!
Not to mention a cracking "cameo" in Hot Fuzz.
Two terrific movie performances in "The Whicker Man" and "Breaker Morant", otherwise a fine talent on TV.
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 21 June 2021, 09:12:41 AM
Not to mention a cracking "cameo" in Hot Fuzz.
Aye, that one as well!
The Greater Good!
Quote from: Raider4 on 21 June 2021, 10:21:17 AM
Two terrific movie performances in "The Whicker Man" and "Breaker Morant", otherwise a fine talent on TV.
Aye, that one as well!
The Greater Good!
I'm still involved in arguments about that.
I contend that Woodward's part in Hot Fuzz was a reverse-Homage to his Wicker Man role.
One of those glimpses that ahve you chuckling to yourself like Sigourney Weaver's appearance near the end of Paul
In my memory the greatest attribute by far of the Callan film was Catherine Schell :D
Now I have to go watch "Moon-Zero-Two" again.
Quote from: petedavies on 21 June 2021, 11:54:11 PM
In my memory the greatest attribute by far of the Callan film was Catherine Schell :D
Now I have to go watch "Moon-Zero-Two" again.
Catherine Schell WAS a very acceptable substitute! But very little screentime! Lisa Langdon 'was' 'Liz' in TV series... had 'her own' episode... and 'even took her...' ;)... but nothing to see... quite rightly! FAR too much of 'that sort of thing' on TV, nowadays! lol! ;D I Must be getting Old! :( ;D
What promotion do I get for 1500....For the second time ?
I must have lapped 90% :-\ of the forum by now.
Cheers - Phil ;)
Brigadier again...
"Quantity has a quality all its own." - Stalin
:P
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart... more fans than Wellington! lol!
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 23 June 2021, 07:44:54 AM
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart... more fans than Wellington! lol!
But he's dead...mind you we are talking about Methusala sorry mean Phil here. :d
"A Blade Cannot Kill Him"...
Jusr as well, really...
Stroll on. Just remembered. It's wedding anniversary no. 45 today ! :o
Cheers - Phil
Happy Anniversary Von.
Your mental stamina and fortitude are to be admired.
Quote from: fsn on 03 July 2021, 07:12:17 AM
Happy Anniversary Von.
Your mental stamina and fortitude are to be admired.
Ohhhh NASTY !!!!! (
guess the quote)
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/jpoAAOSwSQxexvM9/s-l300.jpg)
Quote from: Techno II on 03 July 2021, 07:04:36 AM
Stroll on. Just remembered. It's wedding anniversary no. 45 today ! :o
Cheers - Phil
Congratulations to you both.!
Congratulations to both of you. I understand 45 years is your Sapphire wedding anniversary so extra special best wishes to you. <:-P
I trust you will be doing something special today? (or have you just suddenly remembered, Phil?* ;) )
Hope you both have a great day. :)
* It certainly caused a sudden panic in my mind as I checked when I was married. :-[
Many congratulations to both of you.
Hugs
Congratulations to both of you :-bd =D> <:-P
Thank you Gents. :)
No...we won't be doing anything special....We never, ever, do.
It's usually truly amazing if just one of us remembers.
I still remember our first anniversary, when the phone rang, early on a Sunday morning, getting me out of bed.... It was my dear old Mum...."Congratulations, Phil.".....Eh what ? :-\
The nearest we got was on our 25th. As Von worked on the 'computer side' of Concord, she always fancied having a flight on that 'old bird'.
At that point, Concord was doing a 'fly around the UK...and be home for tea.'...But we never got around to it.
Seeing as flying is such a total phobia of mine....I'm glad we didn't. ;)
Cheers - Phil :)
Interestingly I cannot remember the date I go married to the ex wife. I know it was May 88. But I cannot remember the date.
It was on the inside of my wedding ring, but I have given that to my eldest , so no chance now - not that I want to remember it anyway.
Congrats, Phil ..... to Von for putting up with you for so long :P
Seriously, congratulations to you both and here's to many more.
My almost-ex and I only managed 25 years.
Congratulations Phil and Von. =D> =D> =D> <:-P
Whilst writing up into a 2022 diary yesterday, it was pointed out to me that it's our 38th anniversary in January, how does that happen???
Congrats to both of you. We've notched up 26 years this year and it's gone by in a flash!
Thanks again, chums.... :)
Where DOES the sodding time go ? ;D
We don't have many photo's of ourselves, around the home. Cats, dogs and gee-gees....dozens of them. ;D
There's one of the wedding photo's, where I look like I'm around fourteen.
Both of us have favourite photo's (separate) with the superstar,
Red Rum.
I feel VERY old today.
Cheers - The Ancient One.
Quote from: Techno II on 03 July 2021, 12:17:54 PM
Where DOES the sodding time go ? ;D
When your young time seems to drag and you cant wait to get older, suddenly you are an adult.
Then your on a downward rollercoaster going faster and faster as there are no breaks you can apply. So:-
HANG ON AND ENJOY THE RIDE!
You don't know when its going to end so make the most of it.
Quote from: Orcs on 03 July 2021, 12:41:55 PM
When your young time seems to drag and you cant wait to get older, suddenly you are an adult.
Then your on a downward rollercoaster going faster and faster as there are no breaks you can apply. So:-
HANG ON AND ENJOY THE RIDE!
You don't know when its going to end so make the most of it.
Very true!!
US Army 6th Corps, Anzio, 1944
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/US_VI_Corps%2C_Anzio_Invasion_22_JAN-31_MAR_44.png/1920px-US_VI_Corps%2C_Anzio_Invasion_22_JAN-31_MAR_44.png)
Anglo-French, Balaclava, 1854
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Allies%2C_Battle_of_Balaclava.png/1920px-Allies%2C_Battle_of_Balaclava.png)
(https://romanimperium.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/the_roman_legion__the_manipular_polybian_legion_by_jefffletcher-d743f1m.jpg)
Looks like Nobby has finally flipped, what are those TOE diagrams doing in here.
Everyone loves a good Order of Battle
Quote from: fsn on 09 July 2021, 04:33:32 PM
Everyone loves a good Order of Battle
OOBs! :) But SNAFU also often appropriate in many fields of Life ... ;) ;D :)
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 10 July 2021, 03:57:36 AM
OOBs! :) But SNAFU also often appropriate in many fields of Life ... ;) ;D :)
Today I learned that there were no tanks, radios, or amphibious landing formations at Balaclava.
Imagine how those would have improved matters.
QuoteHalf a league, half a league, half a league onward.
All in the valley of death rumbled the six hundred.
Forward the Light Brigade, shoot their guns the radio said,
Into the valley of death drove the six hundred
My recreation ...
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vQeaJUQyXho/maxresdefault.jpg) (https://ak.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/3302573/thumb/1.jpg)
Who's that at the back of the Russians ... could that be a nun? ... or is it just a lady wearing a tea towel?
The tea towel ?
Is Lord Voldemort hiding under that ?
I think we should be told.
Cheers - Phil. ;)
(https://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/sechard/GRAPHICS/grail22.jpg) (https://www.theknohlcollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/THUMB-9.jpg) (https://irishamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Nuns-in-Civil-War.jpg)
Nun shall pass!
Those Russian guns could probably do a lot of damage to the light tanks ;)
Quote from: howayman on 11 July 2021, 12:46:53 PM
Those Russian guns could probably do a lot of damage to the light tanks ;)
I was thinking the same.
I'd still back a 12pdr against a Vickers light.
I'd probably back a kid with a catapult against a Vickers light.
Nun may be one of Florrie Nightingale's helpers.
Finished off my Wurttemberg Napoleonics today. :D
10 line bttns, 4 light, 4 lt cav regiments and 3 batteries: 792 infantry, 160 cavalry, 6 guns and 23 staff/ADCs.
Brunswickers done (512 inf, 92 cav, 4 guns and 11 staff/adc)
British done (1140, 420, 14, about 40 staff)
Started on the Prussians. Just the Guard so 420 infantry, 80 cavalry, 4 guns and a dozen or so staff/adc.
Then the Polish (720, 140, 6 guns) and Bavarians (735, 160, 6 guns) bought and ready to paint.
Currently in the way of buying the Austrians (648, 160, 8 guns) then just the Russians (648, 160, 12 guns).
2021 is the year of Nobby's Napoleonics!
Quote from: howayman on 11 July 2021, 12:46:53 PM
Those Russian guns could probably do a lot of damage to the light tanks ;)
So might a Russian female Shot putter disguised as a Nun! ;D
Now... had thought to Google up a pic... disrespectful and in bad taste... but 'humerous', maybe? Failed to apply, again!
BUT... 'Oh, My sainted Aunt'... 'Some' Female 'Track and Field' Athletes... (Nationalities uncertain)... were NOT what I was expecting! Absolute 'Stunners'! :o 8)
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 12 July 2021, 05:05:01 AM
So might a Russian female Shot putter disguised as a Nun! ;D
Was that the famous female Russian Shot-putter, Anna Bolyck-Steroid ? (Private Eye.....From MANY years ago.) ;)
Cheers - Phil. :)
As it's been all over the news recently......
If you were given a ticket, for free, would any of you go up in one of these new, commercial, 'trips into space' ?
Seeing as I'm phobic about even getting on a plane......I just couldn't make myself do it.......(SHUDDER !) X_X
Cheers - Phil. :)
Probably not as it's still very new technology. If it were more like getting on a passenger plane, then no problem at all, given that the view would hopefully be incredible.
Quote from: Techno II on 12 July 2021, 06:35:04 AM
As it's been all over the news recently......
If you were given a ticket, for free, would any of you go up in one of these new, commercial, 'trips into space' ?
Seeing as I'm phobic about even getting on a plane......I just couldn't make myself do it.......(SHUDDER !) X_X
Cheers - Phil. :)
No. Just don't see the point. Might as well get an 'all Routes' Bus Pass or Railcard.
Quote from: Techno II on 12 July 2021, 06:35:04 AM
As it's been all over the news recently......
If you were given a ticket, for free, would any of you go up in one of these new, commercial, 'trips into space' ?
Seeing as I'm phobic about even getting on a plane......I just couldn't make myself do it.......(SHUDDER !) X_X
Cheers - Phil. :)
Yes would certainly want to do that
I would, but I need a second ticket to give to my son or he would never speak to me again, he is the Space mad one of the family ;)
Quote from: fsn on 11 July 2021, 07:03:37 PM
Finished off my Wurttemberg Napoleonics today. :D
10 line bttns, 4 light, 4 lt cav regiments and 3 batteries: 792 infantry, 160 cavalry, 6 guns and 23 staff/ADCs.
Brunswickers done (512 inf, 92 cav, 4 guns and 11 staff/adc)
British done (1140, 420, 14, about 40 staff)
Started on the Prussians. Just the Guard so 420 infantry, 80 cavalry, 4 guns and a dozen or so staff/adc.
Then the Polish (720, 140, 6 guns) and Bavarians (735, 160, 6 guns) bought and ready to paint.
Currently in the way of buying the Austrians (648, 160, 8 guns) then just the Russians (648, 160, 12 guns).
2021 is the year of Nobby's Napoleonics!
Nobby has been busy has Nobby
Quote from: Techno II on 12 July 2021, 06:35:04 AM
If you were given a ticket, for free, would any of you go up in one of these new, commercial, 'trips into space' ?
Seeing as I'm phobic about even getting on a plane......I just couldn't make myself do it.......(SHUDDER !) X_X
Yeah, I really don't like flying, but that's more to do with truly horrible experience you recieve at airports nowadays, and the generally appalling behaviour of both budget airlines and other passengers. Hint - if you can't actually lift your bag I really don't think it qualifies as hand luggage . . . If I ever do win the lottery I'd like to think that I wouldn't go mad with houses and cars and boats, etc. But I would enjoy not having to travel in cattle class.
Back to the original question - yes, I'd jump at that like a shot if offerred. Either the Branson one or the Bezos version.
I'd sooner go to New York than the edge of space and the doctors aren't exactly ecstatic about my plans to do even that.
New York is a lot of fun.
I would MUCH prefer to go up in one of those 'Spitfire' flights over the South Coast! 8) 8) 8) Sadly, circumstances will not permit. for present. :(
A WW2 Bomber or WW1 replica 2 seater flight would also be great. Or a para drop from a Dakota! 8) 8) 8) Oh, Well...
Quote from: paulr on 12 July 2021, 09:03:26 AM
Nobby has been busy has Nobby
Nobby has. I'm a quantity over quality sort of chap.
Brunswickers - The Duke in the front, flanked by the Horse and Fort Artillery batteries. Cavalry (Uhlans and Hussars) on the left, infantry behind the Duke.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51307177838_c1d4cec715_c.jpg)
I went for a Panzer grey for the black uniforms, with a black wash, the shakos, cross belts etc picked out in proper black (which I never use otherwise).
Very impressive work!
Thank you.
I'm happy with my progress.
I know the figures wouldn't win any competitions, but they're fine at wargames range. :)
Great looking army fsn - with 10mm its about armies not individual figures
i will not ask what the blue plastic sheet is for.
its a bit like the stuff gangsters put down before killing people.
is there something you're not telling us ?
;)
Good looking army.
They look great Nobby.
I have always been partial to the Brunswickers. Nicely done, sir, your plan seems to be coming together.
:-bd =D> :-bd
Tip top work sir
Excellent
Cracking stuff, Nobby !! :-bd
VERY impressive !
Cheers - Phil. :)
Seriously impressive numbers. =D>
And heres me awaiting my non Kickstarter 24 man battalions. :-&!!
Maybe I should stick to 12 figure SAGA games in big scale. .
Thank you for you kind comments, Gentlemen.
@Howayman - the blue sheet is there to show off the figures to their best. No bodies involved.
Well, not with that sheet.
Comes in packs of 20.
Gentlemen.
Amazon Music has just suggested that I may like to listen to "The best of James Last".
I feel that I have sunk to an all time low.
If you want me, I shall be in the library contemplating a Webley.
In what way would the BEST of James Last differ from 4′33″ except, perhaps, in length? :)
Quote from: fsn on 15 July 2021, 10:29:52 AM
If you want me, I shall be in the library contemplating a Webley.
A Browning would be better :d
Quote from: fsn on 15 July 2021, 10:29:52 AM
Gentlemen.
Amazon Music has just suggested that I may like to listen to "The best of James Last".
I feel that I have sunk to an all time low.
Nobby,....My very good chum.
Amazon have definitely gone 'boobs up'.
In the very early days of buying 'stuff' through them....I thought, "How the blank could they know I might like that " ?....But, they
were usually correct...But I'd already got what they were suggesting.
NOW....if I link to (what is now, the Evil Empire, as opposed to GW)....They're suggesting things completely randomly....Not the
slightest clue how their algorithms say I might like 'whatever'.
Cheers - Phil. X_X.... (My next mission is to 'turn you on to' Operation Mindcrime....By Queensryche.) :)
I may to have order some head (sweatbands) form them, soon (Von wants those.)...I dread to think what that might link to. X_X
QuoteOperation Mindcrime....By Queensryche.
Great album! Good choice Phil!
May I also suggest their Empire album for some serious glam rock :D
Quote from: Matt J on 15 July 2021, 12:33:18 PM
. . . serious glam rock
Er, what? That's an oxymoron if ever I've heard one.
;)
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 15 July 2021, 11:12:15 AM
A Browning would be better :d
If a 10+ round mag capacity would be a bonus, I seriously wouldn't Bother! ;D
Some of the 'ads' that pop up on Facebook ARE rather worrying!
'Self defence' wands/batons that will smash a Breezeblock.
Laser pens that will burst a a water filled bag.
Torches that can light up buildings at half a mile.
'Scopes' ... so useful for watching bathers.
Throwing Axes for garden games.
Yes, I DID buy a 'Viking' knife for chopping bacon... but, yep, it would make a pretty good throwing knife.
Sometimes, you wonder...
fsn: when you've finished with the Webley, could you please send it on?
Quote from: Matt J on 15 July 2021, 12:33:18 PM
Great album! Good choice Phil!
May I also suggest their Empire album for some serious glam rock :D
Empire ?......
Glam rock ? :o :o :o
Three excellent tracks on that, Matt.....but not what I'd remotely call glam rock. ;D
Yes.....I already own 'Empire'. ;)
Sweet were 'glam'........Nothing wrong with 'Blockbuster ' .......Same riff as that nice Mr Bowie's 'Jean Genie '......Same chords, as well.
Got one of those laser pens, as well, Ian.....Though it's (ahem) 'frigged' now....I left the battery in too long...and it leaked. :'( :'( :'(
Very impressive, switching it on, when we had low flying cloud/fog......You could see the beam for (genuinely) hundreds of yards.....And NO....I
never pointed it upwards towards planes or helicopters.
I bought that to try and scare the pigeons, in the barn, away.....without giving them lead poisoning in the head.....It did work (then)!.....I'm going to have to go back to using lead, to make them disappear.....Wretched things.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Phill... 'ahem'... Keith, actually but no worries! ;) ;D The Throwing Axes 'might' have been an option... would have given 'vent'! But, sharp edges... maybe not! ;) ;D
Quote from: Ithoriel on 15 July 2021, 10:58:40 AM
In what way would the BEST of James Last differ from 4′33″ except, perhaps, in length? :)
4'33" is not an earworm.
Quote from: Techno II on 15 July 2021, 12:02:33 PM
(My next mission is to 'turn you on to' Operation Mindcrime....By Queensryche.) :)
Forewarned is forearmed. I think I'd prefer James Last. :P
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 15 July 2021, 05:21:05 PM
Phill... 'ahem'... Keith, actually but no worries! ;)
Keith is is, then. ;)
Cheers - Phil. :)
#musicthatisbetterwiththesoundoff :-)
Quote from: fsn on 15 July 2021, 08:44:06 PM
I dare you!
I
double dare you.
Cheers - Phil. :)
I did. It is stuck in my head.
It's like that mental image you had when you walked in on your parents.
Quote from: fsn on 15 July 2021, 08:44:06 PM
I dare you!
I found the dancing much better on mute
Both music and dancing are pretty naf - should really suit Nobby though ;) ;)
Which just goes to prove you missed the original point.
Heard and seen worse music vids.
But for Trumpet with a bit of 'zing', i can just about remember jumping around to this stuff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhEmtlpExUo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5pl6W2CFE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuByWtxx8QU
Would you like to use the Webley first?
Remember this one from "The Goodies"? Where they had the pirate radio station?
That takes me back to my early childhood and Junior Choice on the radio! I used to drive my colleagues nuts by playing old songs such as this :d :d :d
fsn: Good One! Liked that, but memory sounded a little different?
Raise you for 'Reasons To Be Cheerful Comtemplating The Webley'...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj40JtpqI0U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-sQSp5jbSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmi5zHg4QSM
Now, this last will be 'controversial'. I was surprised to find it.. never mind different recordings. But, whatever your view of the performer, charges or convictions... this WAS part of MY childhood... 'played as a request on TV'... so I am ' holding on to it.'
So, if you DON'T want to see Rolf Harris doing 'Jake The Peg'... DON'T click it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7tBBABU7Vo
We still seem to have some 'Freedom Of Choice'... as said, rather surprised!
More distinguished performers than Harris have been bigger bastards. Judge art, not the artist.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 17 July 2021, 05:24:48 AM
More distinguished performers than Harris have been bigger bastards. Judge art, not the artist.
Very True.
How bad is this going to get ?
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 17 July 2021, 05:51:24 AM
How bad is this going to get ?
No Smurfs in sight.. yet... ;)
Point taken...
But Nuke entering atmo...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A
LOL!
Second strike:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cdFuMgMkBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFYxCIr-Byo
I REALLY NEED that Webley!
Please NO MORE !!!!!
X_X
Lock and delete buttons on standby.
(If we had some proper music...I mean...like....Sparky's magic piano....Nellie the elephant...The 'Camp Granada' song....It wouldn't be so bad......But not Max Bygraves and that song about toothbrushes.)
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 17 July 2021, 06:29:04 AM
No Smurfs in sight.. yet... ;)
And hopefully no Wombles will be Batted about :d
Quote from: Raider4 on 12 July 2021, 09:41:26 AM
Yeah, I really don't like flying, but that's more to do with truly horrible experience you recieve at airports nowadays . . .
And my hatred of airports grows even further, as I have just been charged £4.00 to stop for one minute and drop off my family at the local grandly-named International Airport.
Grrrr!
>:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
Or, To tone down a bit to the 'just sad':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10dmK7O-KSY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFbrA_P2uu0
If Webley U/A Mills bomb would be acceptable. Hey... designed by a bloke from Sunderland... figures! ;)
OOPS! ;)
Quote from: Raider4 on 17 July 2021, 07:47:17 AM
And my hatred of airports grows even further, as I have just been charged £4.00 to stop for one minute and drop off my family at the local grandly-named International Airport.
Grrrr!
>:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
Can't agree more... £4 charge ain't going to stop a car bomb.
Phill... You must know the 'Boy Scout' campfire song... 'Gilly, Gilly... something... can't find it... ;)
As another 'incidental' memory, when I used to drink in my local Sports Centre Bar, a visiting Rugby Club, having hammered the locals, (Who tended to think a lot of themselves!), instituted a 'sing song' in the bar. No... Not the expected... But... 'Climb, Climb Up Sunshine Mountain, Reach Up To The Sky...' and had EVERYBODY standing on chairs! Even the 'big headed knackers' who lost! Full marks for 'fun', whoever you were! :)
@Heedless Horsemen: This one is on you ... you made me do it.
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 17 July 2021, 08:16:50 AM
Phill... You must know the 'Boy Scout' campfire song... 'Gilly, Gilly... something... can't find it... ;)
Yes.....but only
VERY, VERY vaguely, Keith....(Gilliy, Gilly, (something) Ging gang goo, ging gang goo ?)
Now...
go away....I've got
Nobby's Centurian, Nellie the elephant, as an ear worm, at the mo'.
Nobby.....I'm not even clicking on that. X_X
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Oh Gods! fsn for the win... TRULY horriffic. :o :'(
Even :
'Oooooh!' 'Nellie the Elephant Packed Her trunk, and said Goodbye To The Circ-cus... Trump, Trump, trum-pitty Trump!'.. is less worthy of a .455! :d :d :d
BUT.. having 'The Bunker Mentality.. I could unleash, in my failing throes, though nothing to compare to the Horror of Max Bygraves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwqmlrVGa54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmmOJx_Hxto
Phath... hardly worth the effort!
HOWEVER! Although fsn has beaten me to my knees: I WAS BROUGHT UP ON THIS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KYWOFo6SFM
Beaten, but Not unbowed! ;) :)
Someone ban the horsman, and stopo this pile of trite rubbish he's inflicting on us......PLEASE. :P :P
Currently listening to Joyce Jonathan - I'll tale that over Sparky or Nellie the Elephant any day :)
I'll see your Joyce Jonathan (who I quite like) and I'll raise you Zaz.
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 17 July 2021, 11:15:44 AM
Someone ban the horsman, and stopo this pile of trite rubbish he's inflicting on us......PLEASE. :P :P
Webley! ;D
Quote from: fsn on 17 July 2021, 11:44:13 AM
I'll see your Joyce Jonathan (who I quite like) and I'll raise you Zaz.
ARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!
Playing Valheim so have moved on to Wardruna and Danheim
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 17 July 2021, 12:08:16 PM
ARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!
That's a relief. If you'd liked it, I'd have had to delete Zaz from my music catalogue.
Anyway, here are some photos of my Wurttemberg army - sometime between 1811 and 1813.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51316952871_88786ce50b_c.jpg)8 battalions of line, 4 of light, plus 3 batteries of artillery.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51316952836_6cd7382753_c.jpg) von Koch's Brigade of the 4th and 5th Infantry.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51316952731_0963d19948_c.jpg) Cavalry - 2 regiments of Chevau Leger and 2 of Mounted Jaegers.
790 infantry, 160 cavalry and associated hangers on.
As a side note: I used W J Rawkins e-book as my reference for the Wurttembergers.
I was looking for some additional books, but he apparently he passed away in December.
Does anyone have any news of his books being available?
No help on the books, the Army looks good!
The army DOES look rather splendid, Nobby ! :-bd
(I'm trying to figure out whether the 'mat'...that now (to me) looks green, is the same as the 'blue' one ?
I need to know...or has my colour vision gone completely waffy ? :'( :'(
Cheers - Phil. :)
Those do look very good 8).
Quote from: Techno II on 17 July 2021, 01:54:31 PM
has my colour vision gone completely waffy ? :'( :'(
Yes - fair wear and tear Phil, I see it as green...
I see it as green.
B****r It! Just spent a 'LONG TIME' on an explanatory post/reply to a different post.. but timed out! >:(
Gist was: Mat was Blue. Now, Green. Different mat? Or same mat with diifferent light?
So many things subjective to view!
Doesn't matter, nice troops! :)
Ah!
My armies are stored in Really Useful Box ... ermm ... boxes.
I put felt sheets under them as a handy visual guide - British are red, French are Blue, Russians are dark green, Americans are yellow. Poles are red and white (like the flag). These ones are apple green. :D
Thanks for clarification. Wouldn't Eat an Apple THAT colour, though! ;D
Thank goodness you're all seeing that as green.
Cheers - Phil.
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 17 July 2021, 03:20:58 PM
Thanks for clarification. Wouldn't Eat an Apple THAT colour, though! ;D
Runcorn Apples. Full of chemical goodness.
Thought since we're having some if the hottest weather on record it would be a good time to get some long overdue varnishing done. Yesterday was still and roasting. Today looked to be similar but of course as soon as I got everything laid out and started spraying, along comes a strong breeze....
I think I got them varnished enough, along with my hand, my shirt and probably my lungs! Now if they can just dry without being flipped by the wind...
Have you tried standing upwind ;)
Thats a good size army Nobby ,,Looks great two
Quote from: Techno II on 17 July 2021, 03:45:32 PM
Thank goodness you're all seeing that as green.
Cheers - Phil.
Actually just doing it to wind you up - its salmon pink with purple spots ;)
Gad...the heat !
(It's too hot......even for me !)
Cheers - Phil.
Northumberland... Ok. A bit warm for the Long Hair GSD outside yesterday... but not 'Fahrenheit 451'. Bit of Dawn 'mist' today, so might get out, but just light overcast atmo.
My phone and laptop almost agree on temp one 19 t'other 20 centigrade. Yesterday the laptop had it upto 30. Too ot.
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 21 July 2021, 07:40:51 AM
My phone and laptop almost agree on temp one 19 t'other 20 centigrade. Yesterday the laptop had it upto 30. Too ot.
Phones and Laptops have thermometers? I don't believe the 'ice warning' on the car...too often it's wrong.
Yes. Temperature is easy to measure with modern electronic devices.
So damn hot yesterday, I almost started using the ProCreate putty, instead of Greenstuff.
Normally.....The ProCreate putty is too stiff for my feeble fingers to mix.....It certainly wasn't yesterday !
I had to mix extra 'blue' into the Greenstuff to make that workable. The normal mix was like trying to work with chewed chewing gum, it was so soft !
This supposed to be the last day of silly heat ?
Cheers - Phil. :)
Here's one for you - yesterday went into town, Liverpool nice and cool, Birkenhead like an oven
It's time to take things seriously when the heat starts threatening future mini ranges.
Quote from: Techno II on 22 July 2021, 05:56:26 AM
So damn hot yesterday, I almost started using the ProCreate putty, instead of Greenstuff.
Normally.....The ProCreate putty is too stiff for my feeble fingers to mix.....It certainly wasn't yesterday !
I had to mix extra 'blue' into the Greenstuff to make that workable. The normal mix was like trying to work with chewed chewing gum, it was so soft !
This supposed to be the last day of silly heat ?
Cheers - Phil. :)
Thankfully the first sign here that the extreme heat is on the wane, as we have a nice cooling easterly breeze and it actually feels fresh this morning. I might even be able to get out on my bike for a short ride, which will be nice as it's been too hot to even contemplate it for over a week :(.
Quote from: Steve J on 23 July 2021, 06:25:42 AM
Thankfully the first sign here that the extreme heat is on the wane, as we have a nice cooling easterly breeze and it actually feels fresh this morning. I might even be able to get out on my bike for a short ride, which will be nice as it's been too hot to even contemplate it for over a week :(.
Seems the same here on the NW coast - cooler this morning and somewhat cloudy, still forcast to get to 25º during the day but with some cloud cover.
After self-isolation the last couple of weeks I was very keen to get out on my bike this week, went out later on Tuesday and Wednesday - about 7pm and was nice. Went out earlier last night about 6pm and it was very hot, and felt much harder work even though I went 10km less.
Yeah, it's been a little cooler and mistier this morning in these parts too though still to get warm later. We've had the hottest temperature record broken 3 times this week as it got hotter and hotter. Topped out at 31.4C in some parts. Was so hot they had to grit the roads to stop it from melting. Our infrastructure is set up for cold and wet, doesn't deal with extreme heat! (or extreme snow for that matter).
Cue our warmer climate friends laughing at 31.4C being the hottest ever...
We had ceiling fans fitted to the bedrooms yesterday. I expect the temps to plummet now till next year.
Quote from: DecemDave on 23 July 2021, 08:14:47 AM
We had ceiling fans fitted to the bedrooms yesterday. I expect the temps to plummet now till next year.
Na - next 10 years. Tip for anyone having problems getting fans, fan heaters have a cold setting....
S Northumberland. Thursday was overcast. Today ROASTING!
One plus about sunny weather... (Well, Another one ;) !)... is that those lucky people with 'Classic' cars.. get the urge. Saw a lovely TR2... not many of those around. 8)
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 23 July 2021, 09:13:55 AM
Tip for anyone having problems getting fans, fan heaters have a cold setting....
I've been using that fact, since the beginning of the week. :)
But that hasn't stopped the putty 'going off' at a silly speed......That helps on the actual figures :-bd.......But it's a sod having to mix putty about twice as often as usual, because it's unworkable within 10-15 (?) minutes. =)
Cheers - Phil. :)
When I used to work, car body filler would take ages to go off in Winter, even using hot air guns to speed it up, in contrast to Summer when it went off too quickly. Ditto paint drying, especially two pack paints.
A totally useless fact... :D
I've had Milliput freeze solid almost instantly, when trying to stop a drip on one of the pipes in the barn, when the temp was well below zero. :D
Cheers - Phil. :)
Quote from: Techno II on 24 July 2021, 07:03:39 AM
A totally useless fact... :D
I've had Milliput freeze solid almost instantly, when trying to stop a drip on one of the pipes in the barn, when the temp was well below zero. :D
Cheers - Phil. :)
You need Self amalgamating tape for that.
Thanks, Mark......Useful tip.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Quote from: Orcs on 24 July 2021, 06:36:32 PM
You need Self amalgamating tape for that.
It's been a while, but I think the tape also performs badly in the cold.
In either case, the fix is to warm the repair site to "working temperature" before starting work.
Easier for the tape than for n epoxy putty.
Musing on 'Pipes' and 'progress'. When Gas Board (whatever?) replaced loft water tanks... (DID need doing...I saw what what was inside the old ones!)... they replaced the Copper overflow pipes with Plastic. Can remember 'un-freezing' old pipes with a BLOWTORCH! Happens again... hope some engineers will appreciate a rather chilly 'Call Out'... but wonder how they would get on? Maybe replace the whole pipe?
Garage Gas Boiler. Think builder may have forgotten about Gas supply until AFTER concrete floor laid, (?), as gas pipes led right around OUTSIDE, with very short internal connection. Fine by me...possible leaks OUTSIDE! (Ours was only house in street done like this... as one of first up, maybe 'small builder' was on a 'learning curve' lol!).
When 'Gas' insisted on re-lining with Alkathene pipe... impossible to feed round corners. So, we now have internal gas pipework, (Thankfully, METAL'!), going right round the INSIDE of garage! Such is 'Progress'! lol.
As for 'Greenies' wanting to replace Gas Heating with 'something else'... pretty much 'past caring', but wonder 'just WTF' will they do? lol...or maybe not.
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 25 July 2021, 03:40:12 PM
As for 'Greenies' wanting to replace Gas Heating with 'something else'... pretty much 'past caring', but wonder 'just WTF' will they do? lol...or maybe not.
I've been looking at electric combi-boilers. Basically a giant kettle. Easier to install but currently more expensive to run. I am wondering if a more efficient electric one would be no more expensive to run than my less efficient gas one. If gas boilers go, will electricity be more or less expensive? More expensive because less competition or less expensive due to economies of scale. Where's my crystal ball? :)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 25 July 2021, 03:46:40 PM
I've been looking at electric combi-boilers. Basically a giant kettle. Easier to install but currently more expensive to run. I am wondering if a more efficient electric one would be no more expensive to run than my less efficient gas one. If gas boilers go, will electricity be more or less expensive? More expensive because less competition or less expensive due to economies of scale. Where's my crystal ball? :)
Not something that I have been doing much 'serious' thinking about... but cannot see how electric could be 'cheaper'!
As for general move to 'clean' electric from 'Green' sources? So, ALL cars, vans, etc. AND much heating, etc. to go electric... in not all THAT much longer... just HOW do they expect to provide RELIABLY consistent supply able to cope with ENORMOUS increased demand? Given trend to currently 'Freak' weather 'events', I am very dubious about Wind / water / solar power generation. Better 'get on' with some new Nuke power stations... but all has gone quiet on such for a while.
Maybe some very small experimental developments in the 'Fusion' field. Cannot see it in MY lifetime... but... 'Tech' can change very rapidly...
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 25 July 2021, 04:22:53 PM
I am very dubious about Wind / water / solar power generation. .
A Few years ago I had a rare book rebound by a lovely old gent recommended to me by a second had book shop in Camden Market. When I went to collect the book we somehow got talking about Norfolk and i mentioned the wind farms off the coast. Turns out he was a retired Professor who had done extensive research into wind power, and apparently we only have reliable wind in this country for 10 months of the year, so no matter how many wind turbines we have we are always going to have a 1/6th shortfall over a year.
Quote from: Orcs on 25 July 2021, 07:50:06 PM
A Few years ago I had a rae book rebound by a lovely old gent recommended to m bu a second had book shop in Camden Market. When i went to collect the book we somehow got talking about Norfolk and i mentioned the wind farms off the coast. Turns out he was a retired Professor who had done extensive research into wind power, and apparently we only have reliabel wind in this country for 10 months of the year, so no matter how many wind turbines we have we are always going to have a 1/6th shortfall over a year.
Which is why we are also investing in solar, wave power and other renewables. Not to mention battery technology, which isn't just for electric cars.
"Fusion Power - coming in the next ten years for about half a century" :-)
Which reminds me as I look out to the local (Rampion) offshore wind farm which is about to be quadrupled in size with bigger turbines and more of them. I went to the "consultation" meetings when they first proposed it and questions like "what happens with no wind" were met with patronising corporate speak although they also let slip that some days would also be TOO windy. Meanwhile to my question "will we hear them" was laughed off with "you wont even see them - they are 12 miles offshore".
Well not only do we see them on every day which isn't foggy or misty but they then went and put flashing red lights on the top of each turbine to stop ships, planes and birds crashing into them. They also already cover about half of any local sea view in an area which economically relied on tourism. There has been some recent news on how some of Britain's coastal communities are actually more deprived than the areas which get publicity around levelling up. To date no hotel has yet renamed itself Windfarm view.
I can see why we need renewables but I object to the way in which such schemes get designed, "spun", approved and executed. And with nuclear sites closing, we sometimes run perilously close to power shortages right now, to which the solution seems to be import power e.g. from France and not lets store it up on windy days. And since we import many manufactured goods from countries which rely on coal power, we are a long long way from doing what is needed however many wind turbines get put up.
10,000th post today, 60th Birthday tomorrow!
Momentous days for Nobby!
Congratulations, Field Marshall!
Congratulations Field Marshal, I trust you will be buying drinks in the Mess.
Mines a pint of best
And Happy Birthday <:-P <:-P <:-P
Many congratulations, Nobby.....and Happy Birthday for tomorrow. :-bd <:-P <:-P <:-P
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Ah! Yes! I should also have congratulated you on another successful orbit of the local solar object! :)
Congrats!
Thank you Gentlemen.
The bar is open.
As always a pint of creme'd'menthe please
Happy birthday.....(This time, on the right day) Nobby !
Have a good one. :-bd
Cheers - Phil. :)
Happy Birthday Today Nobby!
Congrats!
And I find that I am now a Major! :) The only Major in our family managed to lead a TA unit on completely the wrong road... so figures! ;D
Try not to set fire to the house with all those candles
Wot they sed :) :) :)
Except Ian ;)
<:-P
Quote from: Techno II on 27 July 2021, 06:21:52 AM
Happy birthday.....(This time, on the right day) Nobby !
Happy 60th Birthday, Nobby! <:-P :O) =D>
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 27 July 2021, 06:49:28 AM
Congrats!
And I find that I am now a Major! :)
Congratulations to you too then sir. I'll have half a shandy with a lime twist.
And many congratulations to Field Marshal FSN.
Apologies for the delay sir, the major took us on a cross country "short cut".
Congrats to both on their promotions. =D> Who would have thought two guys could write so much drivel. ;) :P
Quote from: Westmarcher on 27 July 2021, 09:23:32 AM
Congrats to both on their promotions. =D> Who would have thought two guys could write so much drivel. ;) :P
"Sir!" "Ha Ha, Sir!" "I can only account for the drivel round spread being due to Windage, Sir!" ;)
Quote from: Westmarcher on 27 July 2021, 09:23:32 AM
Congrats to both on their promotions. =D> Who would have thought two guys could write so much drivel. ;) :P
Do they write it.
I figured somebody had build a random phrase generator and connected it to our forum.
Quote from: Westmarcher on 27 July 2021, 09:23:32 AM
Congrats to both on their promotions. =D> Who would have thought two guys could write so much drivel. ;) :P
Well, I can't speak for the Major, but I work very hard on my drivel.
Just be thankful there are things I start to post and then think "nah. That's too silly."
In conclusion can I just say that Centurions are the bestest tank evaaa, and that kneeling poses are not to be considered before 1900 and only barely tolerated thereafter, bases should be devoid of architecture and shrubbery, Pendraken should make chariots, and of course activation is a questionable mechanism.
That, I think is 9,417 of my posts summed up. :P
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 27 July 2021, 04:00:01 PM
Do they write it.
I figured somebody had build a random phrase generator and connected it to our forum.
"Sir!""Permission to requisition a Random Phrase Generator from QM, Sir?" ;D
(Be Thankful Chaps... some of the 'Discards' have been Truly...'Bad' in many ways.).
"Fie, a pox on thee, thou knavish mumblenews!"
Sir, sir! I think this random phrase generator needs an upgrade!
Congratulations you two!
Quote from: Ithoriel on 27 July 2021, 06:12:27 PM
"Fie, a pox on thee, thou knavish mumblenews!"
Sir, sir! I think this random phrase generator needs an upgrade!
It's gone all Wars of the Roses again.
A Field Marsha! What in h__l is a Field Marsha!? What are its pronouns?
Ideas for the next 10,000:
Are oliphants centurions?
What does Foxtrot Sierra November stand for and does one consider it ribald?
Would a cake with 10,000 candles illuminate all of Runcore before exploding the gasworks?
Did people actually not crouch, kneel, or fall on their faces before 1900 (unless they were doing the necessary)?
Will a Pendraken 1815 French army be bought before one's 75th birthday and will it be displayed on a blue plastic drop cloth?
Will the V1's give the Scots success at Flodden?
Will holiday poems return before the quarter quell and will they still be in iambic pentameter?
Will one-sided dice become popular and might they solve the activation problem?
Congratulations. Make mine an IC lite.
"Kirk to Enterprise; Beam Me Up, Scotty!"
Sulu: "Captain... The Random Phrase Generator seems to be malfunctioning... and Mr. Scott is NOT HAPPY!" ;) ;D
Quote from: d_Guy on 28 July 2021, 04:10:45 AM
A Field Marsha! What in h__l is a Field Marsha!? What are its pronouns?
Would a cake with 10,000 candles illuminate all of Runcore before exploding the gasworks?
Feild Marshal - address as sir
No naked flames in Runcorn, too many chemicals in the air.
Are oliphants centurions? Yes
What does Foxtrot Sierra November stand for and does one consider it ribald? Techno revealed this as Frederick Simeon Nobbs.
Would a cake with 10,000 candles illuminate all of Runcore before exploding the gasworks? Not enough oxygen in Runcorn to sustain candles. This video is mis-labelled, it's how they all burn here.
Did people actually not crouch, kneel, or fall on their faces before 1900 (unless they were doing the necessary)? It is rumoured that some Continentals skulked in such a disgraceful manner but I never believed such a thing.
Will a Pendraken 1815 French army be bought before one's 75th birthday and will it be displayed on a blue plastic drop cloth? Categorically not. If a late war French army does make an appearance, it will be from Leipzig. It will also be after the Prussians, Poles, Austrians, Russians and Bavarians (all bought and paid for), and probably after the Spanish, Italians, Saxons and Swedes.
Will the V1's give the Scots success at Flodden? Not so far. I put my trust in the pikes.
Will holiday poems return before the quarter quell and will they still be in iambic pentameter? I need a rhyme for "Cuirassier"
Will one-sided dice become popular and might they solve the activation problem? It is a profound truth that premature ejaculation is not a male problem, it is a female problem. Similarly, I don't have an activation problem. However, my revised Napoleonic rules are strengthening the role of the order bearing ADC, and the way in which generals/units respond to changed orders. However, Nobby's First Law of Troop Movement states that "if a body is at rest or moving to carry out an order, it will remain at rest or continue to carry out that order unless it is acted upon by a force."
Other questions for the next 10,000 posts:
"Please may we have some chariots?"
"When will we see the Japanese castle?"
"Are the Amazons done yet?"
"But chariots will be out soon though?"
"British Marines would be a good proxy for so many things ... like Swedes"
"What goes with the S-tank?"
General Hey?
Rhymes for "Cuirassier"
Ear
Beer
Fear
Sear
Rear
Frontier
Brigadier
Mountaineer
Think you have a few to go on Now
Quote from: Orcs on 28 July 2021, 09:42:20 PM
Rhymes for "Cuirassier"
Ear
Beer
Fear
Sear
Rear
Frontier
Brigadier
Mountaineer
Think you have a few to go on Now
None of those rhyme with cuirassier </pedant>
It rhymes with Bombardier (The Canadian aircraft and transportation manufacturer)
It doesn't rhyme with Bombardier (The non-commissioned artillerist's rank).
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 29 July 2021, 09:18:57 AM
It rhymes with Bombardier (The Canadian aircraft and transportation manufacturer)
Bombardee-err -> Koorassee-err.(I think) :)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 28 July 2021, 10:15:36 PM
None of those rhyme with cuirassier </pedant>
They do with a bit of artistic license :)
Quote from: d_Guy on 28 July 2021, 04:10:45 AM
Are oliphants centurions?
You know about these, ofcourse? I'm sure Nobby does.
The South African Olifant Main Battle Tank is a further development of the original Cold War-era British Centurion MBT.
https://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/detail.php?armor_id=267
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 29 July 2021, 09:18:57 AM
It rhymes with Bombardier (The Canadian aircraft and transportation manufacturer)
It doesn't rhyme with Bombardier (The non-commissioned artillerist's rank).
I'm used to the pronunciations being Bombard-ee-ay for the company and Kweer-ass-ee-ay for the cavalryman.
Marshal Ney?
Quote from: Ithoriel on 29 July 2021, 12:50:50 PM
I'm used to the pronunciations being Bombard-ee-ay for the company and Kweer-ass-ee-ay for the cavalryman.
I think you're right about
Bombard-ee-ay, Mike (does sound more like it), but definitely not
Queer-ass-ee-ay.* :P
* I've revised mine and going for
Koor-ass-ee-ay which I think this wummin is saying (enter "cuirassier" and click on the loudspeaker icon).
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=french+to+english&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 (https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=french+to+english&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8)
Isn't is odd what gets most discussion on this forum? :-\
Quote from: fsn on 29 July 2021, 07:25:08 PM
Isn't is odd what gets most discussion on this forum? :-
Perhaps its because this forum has 2321 "odd" members. ( there are currently 2322 members, but I am not "Odd") :D
But I am sure every member would claim this.
As the women of Alaska used to say about finding a male mate,"The odds are good but the goods are odd".
Quote from: Orcs on 29 July 2021, 09:44:31 AM
They do with a bit of artistic license :)
Close enough for Tennyson.
Quote from: d_Guy on 29 July 2021, 09:23:01 PM
As the women of Alaska used to say about finding a male mate,"The odds are good but the goods are odd".
;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Orcs on 29 July 2021, 08:16:43 PM
Perhaps its because this forum has 2321 "odd" members. ( there are currently 2322 members, but I am not "Odd") :D
But I am sure every member would claim this.
You got a medical note to prove you are not odd !
Quote from: Orcs on 29 July 2021, 08:16:43 PM
( there are currently 2322 members, but I am not "Odd")
But don't you think it's odd that you're not odd in a group of odd people?
Doesn't that make you ... odd? :-\
Quote from: Westmarcher on 29 July 2021, 03:05:39 PM
I think you're right about Bombard-ee-ay, Mike (does sound more like it), but definitely not Queer-ass-ee-ay.* :P
* I've revised mine and going for Koor-ass-ee-ay which I think this wummin is saying (enter "cuirassier" and click on the loudspeaker icon).
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=french+to+english&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 (https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=french+to+english&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8)
Bombar-ee-ay and Koor-ass-ee-ay sound about right to me. Knew a few people who used to work for Bombardier in Belfast and that's how they said it....though that's not to say that's how the Canadians would also say it... :-\
This could fairly easily turn into a thread of "words that you've only ever read and come to realised they're pronounced entirely differently years later"
Quote from: fsn on 30 July 2021, 07:49:07 AM
But don't you think it's odd that you're not odd in a group of odd people?
Doesn't that make you ... odd? :-
Yes :)
Well that's ... strange.
If you need a rhyme for cuirassier, and if you're going with the French pronunciation, maybe you need to run it across two words and into the next line, eg:
There was a bold cuirassier
Too scared to go to war
Which one would not expect from such a classy e-
-lite corps.
There once was a bold cuirassier,
In battle he'd bellow and bray,
But each prospective bride
Found him shy and tongue-tied
And ended up walking away!
I see we have not dsolved this riddle yet
Go round it:
There once was a marshal called Ney
Who threw his cuirassiers away
They charged time after time
But never found a rhyme
So ended up losing the day
I changed it to "Dragoon".
Young Harvey, a noted dragoon,
rode into battle whilst waving a spoon,
I said "'pon my word,
why not use a sword?"
He replied "but lunchtime is soon!"
Magritte was a dashing Hussar
Whose costume was really bizarre
In busby and pelisse
His horse jumped a trellis
And his sabertache caught on the bar
Pronunciation requires flexibility
=D> =D> =D>
There once was a dashing young lancer,
Who everyone thought was a chancer.
Caught trying to hide,
Colonel took him aside
And said are you a mouse or a man, sir?
(http://www.tdpri.com/forum/attachments/telecaster-discussion-forum/156437d1355613504t-i-smoked-wife-took-my-new-tele-well-played-sir-well-played-indeed-jpg)
I could type the 'alternate' version of the British Grenadiers......But I won't....It's too rude.
(I'll put down the first line to see if it rings any bells, though.)
"Some die of drinking water, some die of drinking beer,"
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Quoted in one of De Berniers' novels.
Quote from: Techno II on 31 July 2021, 06:23:37 AM
I could type the 'alternate' version of the British Grenadiers......But I won't....It's too rude.
(I'll put down the first line to see if it rings any bells, though.)
"Some die of drinking water, some die of drinking beer,"
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Thats a VERY rude ditty Phil.
Yes....It is, Mark. ;D ;D
And the 'ditty' has two words where I'd have to check the spelyng (sic), anyway ;)
Cheers - Phil ;)
Quote from: Techno II on 31 July 2021, 09:57:25 AM
Yes....It is, Mark. ;D ;D
And the 'ditty' has two words where I'd have to check the spelyng (sic), anyway ;)
Cheers - Phil ;)
That the Welsh version of Spelling Phil ?
".... the ones who say they never will,
But look as though they might!" ;)
(https://scontent.fman1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/s720x720/228239498_10166365050920377_8270641900641234490_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=0debeb&_nc_ohc=v7QqfkxiajIAX88ZlO0&_nc_ht=scontent.fman1-1.fna&oh=238d4e2c7ccee58d2627c2425ad58655&oe=612EFE18)
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I don't want that pigeon to poop on my car.
Or hit the windscreen!
What's the last thing that goes through a fly's mind as it's hitting your windshield?
.... its backside!
Is this Sir's coat?
I'm awfully sorry, it appears to have suffered some superficial damage from accidentally being set alight when the flare gun was fired.
Unfortunately what was taken to be red wine and used to extinguish the fire was actually the emergency bucket of blood.
Regrettably this attracted the feral dogs who made off with Sir's coat.
Which they left on the midden after chewing at the blood splatters.
Luckily the wild boar who often root at the midden did not trample the coat overmuch.
As it caught on two of their tusks, resulting in some slight tearing.
It may call for the services of a dry cleaner.
My apologies.
By the way; Sir is aware it is not real leather?
How dare you sir, some of my housemates are flies.
(https://scontent.fman1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/s640x640/229176960_1879925455514529_8201422463957874801_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=bjFElEJL8UQAX9VGrPV&_nc_ht=scontent.fman1-1.fna&oh=1caad845c47ef9ebfed45e71e6ee5702&oe=612FB77B)
Interesting view of the ship.
Mermaids on the set film "Peter Pan", 1924.
Long hair seems impractical for a "mainly underwater" species.
Down to those pernicity Victorians Steve
Seeing is believing.
Some peps will belive owt ! :o :o
Next thing you'll be claiming that's not the real Noah's ark in Kentucky.
Course it is'nt, everybody knows Noah's ark is in the British Museum storage
Quote from: FierceKitty on 04 August 2021, 10:44:13 AM
Next thing you'll be claim that's not the real Noah's ark in Kentucky.
Clearly not, since we know the original on whom Noah is based - Utnapishtim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utnapishtim) - had a round Ark, like a giant coracle, known as The Preserver Of Life.
Careful, that makes sense. Which can get you into trouble in some contexts. Fancy a go in the comfy chair?
I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition .... :)
Nobody expects the Spanish Inqusition - our weapon is suprise and a fanatical devotion to the Pope....
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our four...no... Amongst our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again!
.... always a hoot! ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Ithoriel on 04 August 2021, 10:48:47 AM
Clearly not, since we know the original on whom Noah is based - Utnapishtim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utnapishtim) - had a round Ark, like a giant coracle, known as The Preserver Of Life.
The link doesn't say it was round. Sounds more like a cube .....
was 200 feet in length, width and height, with a floor-space of one acre. The ark interior had seven floors, each floor divided into 9 sections, :o
Any brainy mathematicians out there who can calculate how 1 acre of floor space might fit into these specifications if it was round, spherical or cuboid?
[Nevertheless, sounds very small for what it was supposed to carry. Perhaps it was more likely to have been an enclosed Borg-like vessel that not only carried a small number of passengers and livestock but also included a DNA storage facility and clone laboratory? Then again, perhaps not. ;)]
Recent translations of an, until recently missing, part of the Epic of Gilgamesh suggests a round coracle like structure.
There is footage online of an experimental archaeological recreation of the Preserver Of Life.
Frankly, for me, speculation on the shape and dimensions of a fictional vessel is up there with angels and pin-heads, to be honest. However, it does show that the Sumerians could have created a vessel capable of holding an extended family and all their farm animals which could provide a kernel of truth for the story.
Perhaps I am too gullible but it seems there have been historical floods a plenty to provide an actual event which then gets embellished into the legends as the kids are told round the campfire. How did we survive dad? Grandad built a boat. How big was it? Big. Did it have all the animals in it? Yes. Was there enough room? He only needed 2 of each. How come the lions didnt eat the rest? There were sections. How did he know he needed to build it? God told him now shut up and go to sleep.
Definite evidence for Doggerbank going under and various villages in the med being now under water. We in UK are "promised" rising sea levels real soon and 20m plus tsunamis I believe if the Las Palmas fault slides into the sea.
Like Egypt, Mesopotamia, the land between the two rivers, suffered from regular flooding. It would be more remarkable if they didn't have a Flood Story.
Conceived by a high born lady and an unknown father, carried to term in secret, placed in a basket of rushes, with a lid sealed with bitumen, cast into the great river, rescued from the waters, raised to manhood, achieving high rank at court.
Not Moses (14th–13th century BCE) but Sargon of Akkad (24th to 23rd centuries BCE).
Clearly some Bible stories predate the Bible itself.
If you've got an hour, the peculiarly entertaining Prof Irving Finkel discusses flood myths.
BTW, I was actually more interested in the mermaids.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 04 August 2021, 02:58:01 PM
Conceived by a high born lady and an unknown father, carried to term in secret, placed in a basket of rushes, with a lid sealed with bitumen, cast into the great river, rescued from the waters, raised to manhood, achieving high rank at court.
Not Moses (14th–13th century BCE) but Sargon of Akkad (24th to 23rd centuries BCE).
To be fair, that also describes a certain member of the Forum - and I don't mean Techno.
Quote from: fsn on 04 August 2021, 03:31:26 PM
If you've got an hour, the peculiarly entertaining Prof Irving Finkel discusses flood myths.
He's also good on the rules of The Royal Game Of Ur
Insight into what passes for my mind.
As you know, 2021 is the year of Nobby's Napoleonics.
I'm doing rather well: British, Brunswickers, Wurttembergers and Prussians done.
Starting the Bavarians.
Now, as you will be aware, the Bavarians favoured a colour called "cornflower blue". This is a sort of medium blue/grey. Or possibly quite a pale blue. Or a medium blue.
Anyway, for me, Cornflower blue came as Vallejo Pastel Blue. I've just painted the coats of the 1st Bttn 7th Infantry. It struck me that the Pastel Blue was somewhat akin to the French Horizon Blue of 1916.
Soooo ... I've just spent 20 minutes reviewing Pendraken WWI ranges.
This was not covered in the Wargames Survey!
Quote from: fsn on 04 August 2021, 08:11:44 PM
Insight into what passes for my mind.
...
X_X X_X X_X
;)
Quote from: fsn on 04 August 2021, 08:11:44 PM
Insight into what passes for my mind.
It's terrifying
And I got these three armies on account of some leftover paint...
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 04 August 2021, 11:25:24 AM
Nobody expects the Spanish Inqusition - our weapon is suprise and a fanatical devotion to the Pope....
Inspiration for my Irregular Wars armies.
I'll prepare one Priest for the Portuguese dressed in "Python Inquisition Scarlet".
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 05 August 2021, 10:43:59 AM
And I got these three armies on account of some leftover paint...
Don't laugh. It may well happen. :-[
After all, I did buy about 200 figures and a half dozen vehicles because I wanted to paint giraffes.
Prussians done
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51358268152_0571265baa_c.jpg) Just the Guard. 2 regiments of Infantry, 1 bttn of Jaeger. 2 rgts of cav and 2 batteries
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51359018051_93399ff329_c.jpg) Only the 1st bttn 1st Regiment has the outlandish plumes.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51359746504_3375fcb1db_c.jpg) Light cavalry then Gd du Corps. Artillery at the back (awaiting limbers and cassions)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51359018091_48c8b8c4fe_c.jpg) The (unnamed) general surrounded by cheering ADCs. Where he got the standards from I have no idea.
I think I need to invest in some photo software. Colour balance is all off.
It's not that bad, chum...at all. :)
I'd burn you a copy of the old prog, that I use....except that it's probably hidden in the loft...and I'd never be able to find it
Whenever I change things with photos.....I get umpteen choices..which I haven't put on the PC.....I always assumed that those were there fo anyone to use ?
Cheers - Phil. :)
Quote from: fsn on 05 August 2021, 03:11:25 PM
Don't laugh. It may well happen. :-[
After all, I did buy about 200 figures and a half dozen vehicles because I wanted to paint giraffes.
Curious? Have been unable to find any reference to military use of Giraffes. Used to 'flush' snipers in trees? Fitted with a Headcam... or small child... used for scouting?
Just about every other creature has had some sort of 'cavalry' function, from catalogue perusal. Do you have reliable source reference?
Nice Prussians!
Quote from: Techno II on 05 August 2021, 04:00:22 PM
It's not that bad, chum...at all. :)
The sheet in the background is supposed to be black!
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 05 August 2021, 04:46:50 PM
Curious? Have been unable to find any reference to military use of Giraffes.
Nah. Just wanted to paint giraffes, so I had to find an interesting sub-Saharan campaign, and I alighted upon the WWI in East Africa ... which meant I could paint giraffes, and elephants, and hippos and crocs.
Just need a WWI German light cruiser in 1:150.
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 05 August 2021, 04:46:50 PM
Nice Prussians!
Thank you. I've mucked up a bit, because I plan on the Prussian Guard being paired with elements of the Russian guard ... but I've started buying Austrians instead of Russians. :(
Great work there old chap!
Nice stuff
Quote from: fsn on 05 August 2021, 05:53:22 PM
The sheet in the background is supposed to be black!
Black ? :-\
That
might have explained things regarding the exposure of the photo, if you had the camera/phone set to auto....Though theoretically, it should have almost 'bleached' out the figures themselves....and it doesn't look like it's done that.....The figures look really good. :-bd
Why the background's shifted to blue is a wee bit strange.....That
could be down to the colour balance/'temperature' of the lights ?.....Or
maybe the background is an astonishingly dark blue.
Must admit I'm a bit puzzled.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Nice one Nobby.
:-bd =D> :-bd
My frequent advice, the edges of those flags would look a lot better with a touch of paint, in this case the black standard
Quote from: paulr on 06 August 2021, 08:08:35 AM
:-bd =D> :-bd
My frequent advice, the edges of those flags would look a lot better with a touch of paint, in this case the black standard
Agreed. Despite the picture quality issue, looking good. :-bd
Anyone seen my mojo?
It was here a minute ago.
Thought it was under the cushions, but it's not there.
Wonder if I've thrown it out with that pizza box? :-\ Don't know if I can be bothered to look in the bin.
I blame Ithoriel. I dusted off my Traveller books instead of ploughing on through the Bavarians. Lasers instead of Jaegers.
You are "A very naughty boy". You know that when you loose something you must go and look for it properly - not a "Daddy Look"
Just because you may have thrown it in a yucky bin you need to go and find it - you can always wash your hands afterwards - Yes with soap and water.
Think how pleased you will be when you find it again. Then you can get those bravarians done.
(https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/63161616.jpg)
A Mojo does not leave you forever, but it can be possessed of a 'wandering spirit'.
There IS a way to 'call' it back to within yourself.
Sit. Place your hands upon a table.
Imagine a Butterfly alighting upon your hand.
Wonder at the delicacy of its intricate markings.
Breathe slowly and deeply.
Remove all clothing and step outside.
Raise hands to the sky with fingers extended to draw back the Mojo from its heavenly wanderings.
Sing:
"Mojo...Ho...Toh!"
Repeat three times... then bend and touch fingers to the blessed earth three times.
A wandering Mojo may have travelled far... so repeat the call until it returns to you, refreshed in spirit.
Or, you could paint something instead.
Very good HH ;D ;D ;D
I took your advice ... the police persons were very understanding.
They also suggested I stay indoors and paint. In fact they rather insisted upon it.
Consequently, I managed to finish off the 1st Bttn 11th Bavarian infantry in their cornflower blue with green facings.
So that's good.
The old lady who fainted is also OK.
That's good.
She's invited me round for tea.
Honoured Sirs!
It has been indicated to myself that the ancient chant of:
"Mojo... Ho...Toh!"... with much beneficial effect for the calling of wandering Mojo... may, in instance, have been misunderstood by Honoured British Soldiers... and very unfortunately confused with the chant of:
"Mo... Toh...Jo! !" which, if regretably mispronounced... may have unfortunate meanings when performing the 'Calling' of a wandering Mojo. Profuse apology!
May your Mojo return with much Happinesses!
Tea is always nice.
Hmmm, I love the bees in our garden but on Saturday one of the little blighters stung me as I was dead heading some flowers. Aside from the sting itself, nothing really showed until Sunday, when my arm started to swell up, moving up to my elbow and down to my hand by end of play. So today I went to the doctors (I did consider a walk in centre last night) this morning and am now on anti-biotics as it appears to have become infected, along with antihistamines too. I still feel for the poor bee that died though :(.
Quote from: Steve J on 16 August 2021, 08:43:56 AM
Hmmm, I love the bees in our garden but on Saturday one of the little blighters stung me as I was dead heading some flowers. Aside from the sting itself, nothing really showed until Sunday, when my arm started to swell up, moving up to my elbow and down to my hand by end of play. So today I went to the doctors (I did consider a walk in centre last night) this morning and am now on anti-biotics as it appears to have become infected, along with antihistamines too. I still feel for the poor bee that died though :(.
No issues with Bees, but started to 'interfere' with underground Wasp nest...(thankfully small!)... when gardening. Three stings on Head! No adverse reaction...but, sadly, gleeful to 'Nuke' nest with 'killer'. ;)
I've never had a reaction like this before. I was stung just below the eye by a wasp once that puffed up to the point of almost closing my eye, but only due to so much soft tissue there which allowed the inflammation to spread. It did look weird and having a nearly fully closed eye for a few days was strange.
Not fun, Steve ! :o
Hope you feel 'right' soon.
Cheers - Phil.
Thanks Phil. The swelling is going down a bit now the antibiotics are beginning to kick in. Fingers crossed (not on swollen hand ;)) I can start doing stuff again tomorrow.
FSN was lucky said bees were not about when he was recovering his Mojo. He could have been stung in some very painful places
P.S. He might have been pleased if a certain part of his anatomy swelled up beyond its normal size :d
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 16 August 2021, 09:00:42 AM
No issues with Bees, but started to 'interfere' with underground Wasp nest...(thankfully small!)... when gardening. Three stings on Head! No adverse reaction...but, sadly, gleeful to 'Nuke' nest with 'killer'. ;)
Only three!!
Those wasps are losing their touch.
I remember dissuading a workmate who had a wasp nest in his attic from "have a go hero" tactics.
Him: I'm going to wear a heavy coat, rubber gloves and hit them with a stick, then run away and drop through the attic trapdoor.
Me: Have you timed that run? Seems like a recipe for a house full of angry wasps.
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 16 August 2021, 11:03:31 PM
Only three!!
Those wasps are losing their touch.
I remember dissuading a workmate who had a wasp nest in his attic from "have a go hero" tactics.
Him: I'm going to wear a heavy coat, rubber gloves and hit them with a stick, then run away and drop through the attic trapdoor.
Me: Have you timed that run? Seems like a recipe for a house full of angry wasps.
We had Wasp nest in loft. Called Pest Control...maybe Rentokill. Guy
didn't go up into loft but gave their preferred Entry / Exit place under tiles a heavy dusting with killer powder. Did the trick! (
They carry it into nest.).
I did same with ground nests... but 'loosely' covered with a bid lid to keep animals / birds off for a few days.
LOL! Deff safer option to 'considered' tactic of armouring up, pouring petrol into nest in old Rat hole... and chucking matches! ;D
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 17 August 2021, 01:07:48 PM
LOL! Deff safer option to 'considered' tactic of armouring up, pouring petrol into nest in old Rat hole... and chucking matches! ;D
HH Vs the Wasps....
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51385396519_7ba2a6a42b_c.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/187968957@N04/300qmh) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/187968957@N04/300qmh)
You could always try this method........and get your own scuplture into the bargin ;)
Not recommended for above ground nests though!
Quote from: Scorpio_Rocks on 17 August 2021, 06:27:19 PM
HH Vs the Wasps....
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51385396519_7ba2a6a42b_c.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/187968957@N04/300qmh) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/187968957@N04/300qmh)
"Another Bug Hunt!". ;)
Quote from: pierre the shy on 17 August 2021, 11:46:05 PM
You could always try this method........and get your own scuplture into the bargin ;)
Not recommended for above ground nests though!
Hmm. But as I know nothing about casting hot metal, maybe I should call for volunteer Specialists from the casting industry? LOL! ;D
:-\
That seemed fairly pointless. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil. :)
Quote from: Techno II on 18 August 2021, 06:00:14 AM
:-
That seemed fairly pointless. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil. :)
Oh well... but Hey! PenD has Giant Spiders, Giant Scorpions.. why not 'Giant' Waspies'? How to 'reserve' your 'Pub Garden' Table... ;D
Quote from: Techno II on 18 August 2021, 06:00:14 AM
:-
That seemed fairly pointless. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil. :)
Completly and utterly pointless,
Am I the only one who wished they'd been attacked by a giant molten-metal wasp?
I am? OK.
Figure this one out. :-\
Sunday last, went to do one of the half weekly 'shops', at Tesco's in Cardigan.
As usual, arrived early enough to join the 'usual suspects.'
Went to get a trolley.....Oh..Where are the nice new trolleys ? :o (These are a perfect 'mid-size', between the big trolleys...which are so old and knackered, that they all have steering problems..which b*ggers my back even more than usual....and the 'small ones' which are almost too small.)
These new ones are also great, because the handle is bigger, and has a nice flat area...ideal for using as a rest to cross out 'things' on the list.
Walked back and forth looking for the new ones...No..not there, I'll ask someone when I get into the shop.
Found an operative and explained I couldn't find the nice new trolleys...would she mind having a check...operative goes to check, and catches up with me a few minutes later.
"That's disappointing," said she.....they're not there anymore (She liked those trolleys, as well)...I've checked with the manager...They were only for use in the Summer (EH?)..we might get them back near Christmas.
Is there some giant warehouse filled with thousands of new trolleys somewhere in the UK ?
I mean why ? ;D ;D ;D ;D
What a waste of (presumably) diesel, ferrying trolleys back and forth !!
I would have understood more if they'd found out that these trolleys weren't destined for the Cardigan branch..and should have gone to a bigger store.
Very odd !! ;D
Cheers - Phil. :)
That's just insane Phil!
Locxal ASDA has 2 sizes - smaller ones keep disappearing scattered all over Birkenhead.
All I can think on this, is that they were a trial and they have been returned to assess how well they have coped in real world use.
And its not so much they are just at the store for the summer and will be back in the winter, but if the summer was the trial period, they are now in an assessment period, and if the assessment is positive, then that type of trolley (and not necessarily the same trolley) will be available again.
Supermarkets really don't have warehouse space these days - so I can't see them filling a warehouse with trolleys...
And this is just my inference based off 3rd / 4th / 5th hand info
Quote from: fred. on 23 October 2021, 07:20:43 AM
And this is just my inference based off 3rd / 4th / 5th hand info
Good original sources then :d
That makes more sense, Forbes !!...Ta !
But while I'm here....what has happened to the perforations on loo-rolls and kitchen towels ?..Do the manufacturers never sharpen the blades ?
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Quote from: Techno II on 23 October 2021, 07:24:35 AM
That
But while I'm here....what has happened to the perforations on loo-rolls and kitchen towels ?..Do the manufacturers never sharpen the blades ?
No just in case you use them Phil ! :-* :-*
Quote from: Techno II on 23 October 2021, 07:24:35 AM
That makes more sense, Forbes !!...Ta !
But while I'm here....what has happened to the perforations on loo-rolls and kitchen towels ?..Do the manufacturers never sharpen the blades ?
Cheers - Phil. ;)
We have no problems with the Lidl stuff
I'm going to start a "Letters to the editor, thread".....
For silly moans....
Along the lines of "Sir, I notice with dismay....."
Yours...Col. Buffington-Tuffington (deceased) Tonbridge Wells. ;)
Dear Sir,
I am disgusted - disgusted, sir - at the ongoing disrespect for the authority and example of those who stood firm against invasion in 1066, who gave their all to keep Morocco English, who showed Johnny Dervish who was master at Khartoum, and refused to bow down to Czechoslovakian pressure in the matter of peace for the next year (nearly). When, o when, will the people of the other Eden, demi-Paradise, as the Swan of Avon sings, when not giving it to the Martians for some reason, learn proper attitudes towards authority? Answer me that, sir!
Yours faithfully,
Major-General Sir Percy McHogg, MA oxon (failed), KCB, VC (almost), GG, GG, GG.
p.s. And the milk for my kippers was delivered late again this morning!
PERFECT, Alexander.... =O =O =O
Right....everybody leave this one alone.
New thread in a few minutes.
Cheers - Phil ;)
Halloween. In MY day... just a Turnip (Swede to the southerners!) lantern at the door... with another on a string. LOVE Turnip! A quiet walk down street with Grandma and Boxer dog... looking for Witches flying. Maybe a Toffee Apple on return. And that was it :)
No U.S imported Trick or Treat' and Pumpkin rubbish and annoyance! That came in in the 70s with U.S TV.
Kids main efforts were 'Penny for the Guy'... for Guy Fawkes in the U.K.
As a kid, I wouldn't have been seen Dead ( !) in a silly Halloween costume! And as for the 'adults'... :o ;)
Oh, well... just a Grumpy Old man... with a Wicker Man ready for importunate 'Trick or Treaters'... they should 'keep' until 'Bonfire Night' ! :d
Ps: We go back in time ... so... an hour which never existed... Ha , Ha , Ha ! :d :d :d
Seriously, the 'Fun' years are memories for the future of kids, grandkids... someday, they will look back... :( :)
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 30 October 2021, 04:22:37 PM
Ps: We go back in time ... so... an hour which never existed... Ha , Ha , Ha ! :d :d :d
And that extra hour is going to be taken up clearing the Olympic sized swimming pool just outside the back door. X_X
(Not a problem...just that the storm drain can't cope when we get that much rain, as it has to cope with LOTS of water coming from four different directions from various downpipes. A quick bit of adjustment to one 'cover' and then the water whooshes down 'the plughole'.....glug, glug, glug....very satisfying when it does that !) ;)
Cheers - Phil. :)
Quote from: Techno II on 31 October 2021, 06:18:18 AM
And that extra hour is going to be taken up clearing the Olympic sized swimming pool just outside the back door. X_X
(Not a problem...just that the storm drain can't cope when we get that much rain, as it has to cope with LOTS of water coming from four different directions from various downpipes. A quick bit of adjustment to one 'cover' and then the water whooshes down 'the plughole'.....glug, glug, glug....very satisfying when it does that !) ;)
Cheers - Phil. :)
If ever a post cried out for before and after pictures, it's this.
Even a video, with sound.
Go on Phil, give it a go!
Dont clear it, rent it to swimmers
Quote from: fred. on 31 October 2021, 10:28:27 AM
Even a video, with sound.
Go on Phil, give it a go!
Arrange these words into a well known phrase or saying...... :P
Off blank die and.
Mr Narnia was playing such truly awful painful silly sods, I had to ask Von to call an ambulance, earlier.
Four to seven hours wait..(apparently)...Von started driving us over..
Do I really want to go to casualty, at this time ?......Not on your life.
I just kept pushing at the lump.....and FINALLY after around five hours.....the cricket ball sized bastard went back.
Better than anything you could imagine.
I hope I'll sleep for 36 hours.
P
Not good Phil :o
Hope it behaves and you can get some rest
Sounds like you've had your own Halloween horror Phil!
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 30 October 2021, 04:22:37 PM
No U.S imported Trick or Treat' and Pumpkin rubbish and annoyance! That came in in the 70s with U.S TV.
Technically trick or treating is reimported... Comes from an old Scottish and Irish tradition known as guising. Though the kids are supposed to show off some skill or talent in exchange for the treats.
The whole pumpkin thing as well is just because there were no Turnips/Swedes in the Americas, though have to say the smell given off by a candle in a pumpkin isn't quite as bad as a candle in a turnip smells!
I remember as a kid Halloween seemed to involve a lot of apples at my grandparents. Bobbing for apples, apple on a string from the doorframe (you had to bite it without using your hands and without breaking your teeth) and an apple pie with money in it. Toffee apples too. It's any wonder I made it through with my teeth intact.
Quote from: Techno II on 31 October 2021, 03:50:46 PM
Arrange these words into a well known phrase or saying...... :P
Off blank die and.
Mr Narnia was playing such truly awful painful silly sods, I had to ask Von to call an ambulance, earlier.
Four to seven hours wait..(apparently)...Von started driving us over..
Do I really want to go to casualty, at this time ?......Not on your life.
I just kept pushing at the lump.....and FINALLY after around five hours.....the cricket ball sized bastard went back.
Better than anything you could imagine.
I hope I'll sleep for 36 hours.
P
That sounds incredibly painful Phil, Its making me wince just reading it. Hope your ok now
Quote from: Techno II on 31 October 2021, 03:50:46 PM
Arrange these words into a well known phrase or saying...... :P
Off blank die and.
Mr Narnia was playing such truly awful painful silly sods, I had to ask Von to call an ambulance, earlier.
Four to seven hours wait..(apparently)...Von started driving us over..
Do I really want to go to casualty, at this time ?......Not on your life.
I just kept pushing at the lump.....and FINALLY after around five hours.....the cricket ball sized bastard went back.
Better than anything you could imagine.
I hope I'll sleep for 36 hours.
P
I had one of those once and some kind medics made it worse before making it better with one of those mesh things.
I've done a 24 hour sleep once, just after my cancer surgery, the opiates helped.
Hope is all OK Phil
Quote from: Orcs on 31 October 2021, 10:38:16 PM
That sounds incredibly painful Phil, Its making me wince just reading it. Hope your ok now
Thanks, all.
DID get a half decent night's.....Just feel a rather washed out and 'sore' at the mo'.
I was just so relieved when I
didn't need to go to A&E.
If it was going to be a four & seven hours wait for an ambulance...what must it be like in casualty itself ? Poor NHS staff ! :(
Cheers - Phil.
Hope you're happily sound asleep as I write. All the best.
Davy.....How can I read this, if I'm asleep ? ;)
Thanks, Matey ! :)
(I'll probably have a ridiculously early night, again, tonight...Feeling a lot more 'chipper'...Just a wee bit tired....But not too bad, at all, now. :-bd)
Cheers - Phil. :)
Good to hear you are on the mend Techno
Thanks, Paul !
Cheers - Phil. :)
I mean...typical !
You try and do your bit to help the planet by recycling.....and you get bitten on the finger !
(By a sodding tin lid hiding under the soap suds !....Sharper than some of my scalpels ! :o )
Cheers - Phil. :'(
You know you shouldna play with sharp implements Phil. Hope it's not too bad.
No...Thanks for asking, Ian. :)
It's just about knitted together already.
It just meant that I left a few bloody fingerprints around the kitchen, until I got a plaster on it !!
(Didn't half 'sting' when I did it. :o )
Cheers - Phil. :)
Good stuff, hope you washed it out thourghly
Oh, Yes.....
See if you can find the other two mishaps I had this afternoon. =)
Cheers - Phil. :)
QuoteGood stuff, hope you washed it out thourghly
'Packaging from foodstuffs should be presented for recycling, without organic matter residues present.'
;)
His DNA and fingerprints must be everywhere... hold on, he lives there.
I was doing the weekly shop in ASDA this morning when over the tannoy came the advert for 'extra special vegan beef wellington'. I thought I'd misheard it but then it was soon repeated... :-\ .
I have a home made No-Beef Wellington in my freezer as I type which is, I believe, also vegan.
I can't understand why Vegetarians, and more so Vegans, want their food made up as a meat substitute?
eg
Vegan Beef Wellington
Vegan sausages
Vegetarian Chicken Pieces
Vegan Pigs in Blankets
Surly if you choose not to eat meat why would you want your soya or tofu done up like meat?
Why would we not? I'm considering a Quorn Beef-style roast for the Boxing Day family lunch.
Veggie/ Vegan versions of sausages, burgers, even pigs-in-blankets, which I'm also planning to do for Boxing Day family lunch, can be just as tasty, convenient and interesting as the versions full of minced animal corpses :D
Why should I give up on the familiar just because I'm vegetarian.
Why am I not doing nut roast for the Boxing Day meal? My daughter-in-law has a nut allergy and I'd rather not spend the afternoon in A&E, thanks. :)
So, I'm happy for you to not be vegetarian but meat eating not really my style these days.
Suet pudding with beef-style pieces and mushrooms rather than steak and kidney? Toad-in-the-hole with veggie sausages? Veggie Burger, salad and chips? Yum! Bring 'em on!!
Quote from: Ithoriel on 02 December 2021, 10:11:52 PMWhy would we not? I'm considering a Quorn Beef-style roast for the Boxing Day family lunch.
Veggie/ Vegan versions of sausages, burgers, even pigs-in-blankets, which I'm also planning to do for Boxing Day family lunch, can be just as tasty, convenient and interesting as the versions full of minced animal corpses :D
Why should I give up on the familiar just because I'm vegetarian.
Why am I not doing nut roast for the Boxing Day meal? My daughter-in-law has a nut allergy and I'd rather not spend the afternoon in A&E, thanks. :)
So, I'm happy for you to not be vegetarian but meat eating not really my style these days.
Suet pudding with beef-style pieces and mushrooms rather than steak and kidney? Toad-in-the-hole with veggie sausages? Veggie Burger, salad and chips? Yum! Bring 'em on!!
Don't get me wrong, I was not knocking vegetarians, It was just a genuine interest as to why. To this end you have answered my enquiry.
I can understand someone who used to be meat eater wanting something that looks and cooks in a familiar way. Very useful when trying to cater for mixed carnivore/ vegetarian meals.
Each to their own. I tend to eat ready meal / tinned garbage, now, anyway... so might sample some meat substitutes... someday, maybe?
Actually, reading has made me want to Gnash a Steak... while I still have some teeth intact! ;D
Here's a question that's got absolutely bog all to do with gaming...but I'd be interested to know if any of you know the answer.
Do Televisions have a signal booster, just behind where the co-ax cable goes in ?
(I wouldn't try and repair this myself, as I know that even when completely disconnected from the mains, a TV can give you one hell of a capacitor 'kick'.)
Cheers - Phil. :)
uhoh! :o
I have no idea but you are quite right, dont mess wit set ! ;)
I've no idea. But I think the high internal voltage and capacitor thing is to do with CRT sets. Not modern LCD ones.
But I'd hardly take that as a recommendation to stick your screwdriver in it.
QuoteI've no idea. But I think the high internal voltage and capacitor thing is to do with CRT sets. Not modern LCD ones.
But I'd hardly take that as a recommendation to stick your screwdriver in it.
I don't stick screwdrivers into electrical equipment, Forbes !
I use my fingers....which is why I almost electrocuted myself at GW.
Told this story before...but I had a truly awesome photography set there.
Two 'battery' units that cost £1,000 each...which sent the charge to the flash heads...which when they were charging made the same noise as difrulators.
When one of the flash heads threw a wobby...I could see the two 'pins' in the unit had moved.
Disconnected EVERYTHING...
Then tried to move one of the pins with my fingers.
I got one hell of a belt.
Went back downstairs to the figure painters. Used some VERY industrial language....
Another colleague went to try and do what I'd try to do.......and the capacitor STILL had a good charge.
He got 'bitten' as well.
To my shame....I laughed.
Cheers - Phil. :)
'Kid' at ex-work... a 'Know it All' but too thick to know it, (You know the type!)... saw other staff poking around in machines to fiddle out jams or 'lost' items with long screwdrivers. Decided that he could do same without asking... or switching off power! :o
Very Loud Bang... fried machine... and power off for whole building, (With lots of computers!).
Kid did live to get older... though, sadly, never wiser. :(
Quote from: Orcs on 02 December 2021, 05:41:51 PMI can't understand why Vegetarians, and more so Vegans, want their food made up as a meat substitute?
eg
Vegan Beef Wellington
Vegan sausages
Vegetarian Chicken Pieces
Vegan Pigs in Blankets
Surly if you choose not to eat meat why would you want your soya or tofu done up like meat?
As a vegan I ask the same question! I certainly have no interest in my food posing as meat in taste or texture. Tofu is a bit like chewing rubber in my experience, and the ecological damage to the Amazon rainforest from soya growing and shipment is pretty much the same as meat.
No, I found giving up meat easy, when was it, 6 years ago. It was giving up dairy that was a lot harder. Now there are plenty of dairy free alternatives, so for example many vegan cheeses doesn't taste like dairy cheese, but have a good taste in their own right. Just discovered vegan cheesecake, nom-nom 8)
QuoteAs a vegan I ask the same question! I certainly have no interest in my food posing as meat in taste or texture. Tofu is a bit like chewing rubber in my experience, and the ecological damage to the Amazon rainforest from soya growing and shipment is pretty much the same as meat.
No, I found giving up meat easy, when was it, 6 years ago. It was giving up dairy that was a lot harder. Now there are plenty of dairy free alternatives, so for example many vegan cheeses doesn't taste like dairy cheese, but have a good taste in their own right. Just discovered vegan cheesecake, nom-nom 8)
i suppose the familiarity makes the transition easier for people, but I agree, anytime I choose to do vegetarian stuff (we try to keep meat for the weekends and have done vegetarian months before) I try and use it as an opportunity to make interesting vegetable dishes rather than just throwing in a highly processed meat substitute that frankly won't taste as good as actual meat. If you do still crave a meaty style dish there are some great options without going down the substitute route, e.g. if you finely dice and roast/fry up a load of mushrooms, particularly if you add in some oyster mushrooms, shitake and some other unusual fresh or dried ones it makes for a fantastic lasagna or bolognese style meal instead of mince. It has that intense savouriness meat gives you, but its own unique flavour profile.
Alas, though I love mushrooms and still eat them occasionally my finger joints are agony for a day or two thereafter. :(
Never been a fan of tofu, though I did use soya mince and chunks for a long time.
These days I tend to go for actual vegetables as a substitute or Quorn, despite a friend who refers to the latter as Soylent Green :)
Cheese, though, no vegan substitute that I've tried (to be fair that's only 3 or 4) has ever come close. I do love me some veggie cheese.
I didn't care for tofu until I moved to Asia. They have a few tricks to teach outsiders with the stuff. Unfortunately, any Thai will begin by making a sauce with minced pork, which limits its usefulness to those who most need it in farang circles.
QuoteAlas, though I love mushrooms and still eat them occasionally my finger joints are agony for a day or two thereafter. :(
What on earth causes that, Mike ?
Some 'form' of gout ?
Didn't realise mushrooms could cause something like that. :o :(
Cheers - Phil :)
QuoteWhat on earth causes that, Mike ?
Some 'form' of gout ?
Didn't realise mushrooms could cause something like that. :o :(
Cheers - Phil :)
No idea, Phil. But then the medics don't seem to have any idea either, so I don't feel too bad about that. :)
Gout is a swine to live with. My sympathy.
I only mentioned gout, Mike, because Von's Mum DID suffer with that (in almost exactly the same way...really painful knuckles.) if she drank too much orange juice....(She did rather overindulge.)
That's what the Doc said, anyway.
'Crystals' (?) in the knuckle joints..IIRC.
She gave up the orange juice, and never suffered from it again.
Cheers - Phil. :)
When I used to drink beer, my knees and elbows would ache for a couple of days afterwards. Funnily enough when visiting friends in Austria and drinking their wonderful local, organic lagers, I had no problems at all.
Well I've just been made a Field Marshal, so drinks on me in the officer's bar :) .
Hurrah!
Congratulations sir
Congratulations. I will have a pint of the best ale
All these reminders of gout...I'll have a Horlicks milkshake, please.
Congrats.
My usual please - Congrats
Well done, Steve !! :-bd
Cheers - Phil. :)
Congratulations Steve
Is it just me or does everyone not see the correct rank badges/stars any more
Pretty sure Leon's said that that's something that still needs sorting, Paul.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Thanks chaps :)
X_X
When you really wish the ground would open up and swallow you. :-[
Down to the village, this (very pleasant, and sunny) morning....Bumped into a chap that I see virtually every Saturday when I go and get the papers.
"Socially distanced handshake...and Happy Christmas, Paul."
"It won't be, Phil....the wife died on Thursday."
They'd been married 55 years.
What can you say....apart from "I'm SO sorry."
Phil. :(
Glow in the dark dice! :o
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Thought I wus tonly tactless one ? :o
Quote from: Techno II on 18 December 2021, 09:58:11 AMWhen you really wish the ground would open up and swallow you.
You weren't to know. You said what needed to be said. The only other thing you could do is make sure he's not on his own on Christmas day, though he might want to be.
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I knew the air was bad in Runcorn - but that bad ?
Quote from: Techno II on 18 December 2021, 09:58:11 AMX_X
When you really wish the ground would open up and swallow you. :-[
Not your fault Phil, you were not to know, and I am sure he knows that.
QuoteNot your fault Phil, you were not to know, and I am sure he knows that.
Indeed, not tactless if you didn't know, and really if it was only a couple of days ago, no real chance for you to know.
Still makes me feel bad. :(
A bit like when Von asked a mum to be "How's it going ?"
Only to be told...."I miscarried last week. "
I know you can't know these things..But it still makes you feel like a complete uncaring heel. :(
QuoteThought I wus tonly tactless one ? :o
Don't think you have got a monopoly on it.
And now......to change the subject completely.
I've been wondering for the past few weeks/months why I've been struggling to beat 'the computer' on a particularly basic game of logic.....Set at the beginner's level. (Othello)....which I AM far more than competent at.
Finally spotted what the barsteward was doing....it plays SO fast, you can't see what it's up to.
It was having two....or three goes, to every one of mine...once I had it in trouble.
Cheating blanker.....That app's getting permanently deleted. :P
Cheers - Phil. :)
Don't fret on it.
For 40 years, my stock answer to the usual "How are you?"... "How's it going?" has been
"Oh, Surviving."
Suitably ambiguous to allow maneuver unless either party opts to engage more closely.
You sometimes get a 'look' from those expecting the "Fine!", "Great!" response... but it ain't an outright Lie.
QuoteFinally spotted what the barsteward was doing....it plays SO fast, you can't see what it's up to.
It was having two....or three goes, to every one of mine...once I had it in trouble.
Cheating blanker.....That app's getting permanently deleted. :P
That's a very interesting method of balancing the 'AI' vs the human player. It is a method often used in more complex games - but seems a bit blatant to use in a game like Othello!
At least I finally spotted it, Forbes.I
Cheating intercourser. ;D ;D ;D
I play the PC at chess..from time time...at a very low level....That prog doesn't cheat...Though it plays too fast...so it's a case of...
"Where, and what, did you just move ?"
Cheers - Phil. :)
'Tradition' is a odd thing. I have just made the effort and put up the Xmas Tree again. :) Not doing it was getting me down. It just HAD to be done! ???
Same tatty old tree and mostly same decorations... since My First Christmas... I have it all on video tape from old cine film!
'Could' replace with a Fibreoptic... BUT WILL NOT! lol! It is MY Tree.
No real point in it. No Family or other visitors, (Ma 'might' be able to see it from her chair, but not up close.), no Xmas presents to go in the old Tattie 'Sack'... no Santa. :(
Just 'Tradition'. ;) :)
Been ignoring Xmas for years - iunfortuneatly it won't go away.
2021 is Nobby's Year of Napoleonics. With just 10 days to go, the score is*:
- 3392 Infantry
- 774 Cavalry
- 329 Artillery with 64 guns and 45 limbers
- 164 staff
I've finished the British, Brunswickers, Prussians and Wurttembergers. I'm four units away from completing the Bavarians.
I've broken my own rule and started painting Austrians before the Bavarians are finished, and then there's the Poles so far unloved. I've also started buying the Russians, so it looks as if 2022 may well have a Napoleonic tinge - especially if the Spanish and Portuguese are released. I suppose I may eventually get around to getting some French. :-\ Having said that, I quite fancy doing Italians, or Danes or maybe something from the Confederation of the Rhine.
Lawks, I need a change though! I've got some Late Romans / Early Saxons to paint, and a few hundred C16 Japanese, but I really fancy doing something with an engine**. Did I see mention of some Arab/Israeli's in the pipeline? I've also got some super-special medievals which will be fun to paint. :) I'd like to see the Amazons (for "Of Gods and Mortals") come out in 2022.
What is everyone else planning for next year?
* I can paint so many because
- I live on my own and can spnd many hours painting without distraction
- Reference materials are summarised and cross referenced with paint numbers
- I don't spend hours adding walls, fences or living Bonzai to bases
- I have a system which maximises my paint efficiency
- They're not particularly well painted, but are OK at arm's length.
** Oooh! I've got some Raiden Viet Nam aircraft to paint ... that would be a great palate cleanser :)
Great work Nobby! That's some epic progress for the year.
I'm not surprised you are wanting a change - some small planes would seem a good choice.
Wot Fred sed :-bd
=D> =D> =D> =D>
Well done, Nobby ! :-bd
But how long will you be able to put off painting some Knights, Nuns and Monks ? ;)
Cheers - Phil. :)
Quote from: Techno II on 22 December 2021, 06:44:51 AMBut how long will you be able to put off painting some Knights, Nuns and Monks ? ;)
Not long. I'm trying to be good and finish off the Bavarians before turning to the C15. Though I may discover an order of Bavarian nuns who fought at Hanau in 1813. ;) Certainly, Xmas eve will be a prep day and Xmas day will be mail and cassocks, plate and habits. :D
Only two more sleeps!
QuoteWhat is everyone else planning for next year?
Planning? Truthfully, nothing.
I have a 'plan'* to try and downsize all of the accumulated crap that clutters my home.
This includes most of my miniatures/wargaming stuff. None of it's really worth anything so isn't worth eBay-ing. Seems a shame to just dump it though.
Also, all of my model railway stuff. Some (quite a bit, actually) of this is worth selling, but I'm scared of being shafted on eBay by some cockwomble.
Most likely - I'll do nothing. /sigh
* a vague intention, really
Raider4. Not always ebay. Sold some railway engines to a Model Shop years ago.. and got maybe 20% of cost return. This was the good stuff... Britannia Metal or Rare Hornby 'limited' issue.
Ebay auction now... 'might' get a LOT more.. but a gamble.
I needed the cash.
I am also in the down-sizing (clearing out the cr*p) mode of thinking.
I have an (infamous) wargames cupboard that is like the Tardis and it just seems to overflow extra wargaming bits and pieces like a washing-machine with too much soap powder in it.
The thing I am short of is time however (all donations of spare time gratefully received - just email me directly). As when I start - with good intentions- to have a clear-out, I get started and then get distracted.
There's stuff in the cupboard that I bought under the following circumstances (in plea of mitigation)
A). Lovely figures but a fear that they were a bit 'fringe' and that the manufacturer might go out of business (& subsequently did)
B ). The wargames club started a new project/rules set /fad and we all bought figures to participate - [strike the following as applicable]: Border Reiver or Frostgrave or AK47 or predreadnought 1:3000 naval or Dreadfleet or etc.(fill in your own variants here).
C). I went to a show and there was a fantastic demo game of that era/battle/scenario etc and I bought part of an army at the show (as the trader had run out of all the figures) and then never got around to ordering the rest or the rules or the idea of painting 2000 6mm Chilean liberation wars uniformed troops was all too much in the cold light of day back home!
D). I had forgotten I had already bought the army. Yes folks this is a genuine case. I bought a 15mm Ancient Sertorian Spanish army and then found a fully painted and based army I already had at the back of the cupboard ... the 2 were so strikingly similar in composition that my only consolation was that I was at least consistent - even if the 2 purchases were 10 years + apart
E). I'm keeping these 'spare/extra' figures/units/vehicles etc just in case they change the army lists (yet again) and I need the figures to make up the extra/new units
F). It seemed like a really good bargain on eBay (hmmm ... that is very very very rarely true)
G). I have it in one scale (usually 15mm) and it would be nice to use it in 28mm/20mm/10mm/6mm etc.etc.etc.
H). It was on a Bring & Buy at a show and was such good value (& is now gathering dust unplayed with in the cupboard)
I). It was an army I had, and loved, early on in my gaming 'career' but I rashly sold it (for a reason I couldnt remember) so I bought a replacement (only to remember why I got rid of it). So it now languishes in the depth of the cupboard doomed never to see the light of the table top or the clatter of dice ever again
J). It was a present (from the kids, well meaning wife/relatives, guys down the wargames club on a significant birthday) and I am such a softy that I cannot part with it
K). In a similar vein to J). it belonged to a departed mate (usually sold by his widow) and I wanted something to remember him by
L). I've tried to sell it on eBay / at a Table-top sale or a Bring & Buy - but nobody else is daft enough to buy it from me. NB: I even have stuff I have tried to give away free, only to have other gamers look at me at shows with the utmost suspicious, as if I was offering them free samples of highly addictive drugs (which in effect I am doing of course)
M). I love the army, it was great under rules v.3.1 but that was 10 years ago and now in rules v.9.7 it is totally useless, as some 'muppet' has claimed to have done some ground breaking historical research that found that all their war-waggons had square wheels - you know the kind of guff.
N). I cannot remember why I bought it ... so getting rid of it might be dangerous as the moment I do get rid of it I'll remember why I wanted it
O). Nobody will want to buy 3 armless trolls I bought to do that fantastic conversion (that is in the cupboard somewhere unfinished) but it seems a shame to bin them - as "you never know when they might come in handy" [boom-boom]
And it goes on & on & on ....
The wife is threatening to make us down-size when I retire in 2023 and has thrown in that tempting phrase "you might even be able to have a wargames room" ... note the critical word in all that "might"! But we'll see.
But I have 2 weeks off this Xmas and have told myself I will dedicate a few days to trying to contain the overflow from the cupboard out into my Study, as a concession towards domestic good will. But I suspect my new years resolution will fall by the way-side quickly once I start opening boxes.
Hey ho ...
I had a massive downsize in 2013 ... when I found Pendraken. Everything went that wasn't 10mm (15mm, 20mm, 6mm, 28mm, 54mm) ... and now I have more figures in more ranges than ever. *le sigh*
Hey, I resemble (some of) those reasons!
Cleared out the outbuilding a couple of weeks ago - took 47 tins of house paint to the tip . . .
All kept, 'just in case' we need to do a touch-up or another coat. Of course, we never did.
Some must have been decades old.
Quote from: Raider4 on 22 December 2021, 01:49:56 PMCleared out the outbuilding a couple of weeks ago - took 47 tins of house paint to the tip . . .
That's yet another project - I suspect I'll find at least that many tins of old dried up paint in the shed ... but I just cannot bear to look in there!
Just broken through 5000 figures this year, only 900 are mine!
Good Gracious! I have Just achieved promotion to Colonel ! :o ;D
Harrumph!
Right Then.
Junior officers: We shall commence a new regimen of No 'Talking Shop' in the Mess. Frivolous, Inconsequential 'Chit Chat' only.
I have donated 3 bottles of 30 yrs old Port as celebratory gift to the Mess, along with associated Biscuits and Cheeses. (Recycling WILL become mandatory, in line with environmental policy.).
Black Bottles are WELCOMED, as with Green and Blue... there will be NO DISCRIMINATION in the Mess.
Gentlemen, Please Take Note:
Mess 'activities', such as 'Zulu Warrior / Dance of the Flaming A******s', will no longer be acceptable.
Ludo, Dominoes or a Quiet game of Cribbage should be quite adequate for relaxation.
Painting... in tasteful Watercolours, will be encouraged as 'Out of Mess' activity.
FP1 will be reintstated for infringements of Mess Rules.
ALL RANKS should note that there will be will be a STRICT accounting procedure for items such as Fragmentation Grenades implemented forthwith.
Oh dear, gets to colonel and thinks he can boss us around...
Field Marshals- get him!
Don't worry, My Lord. He'll get himself soon enough. Just leave some rope where he can find it.
Welcome Colonel.
Do as you wish with the lower ranks. Meanwhile, I shall join other senior officers in the club - I believe Francois is the chef tonight.
Congratulations Colonel.
I would like to point out that the tradition of the Dance of The Flamming ****** was instigated by Fieldmarshal FSN, when he was a mere Major when he managed to project a flame from a lighted fart 3 feet and set the table cloth alight.
This has now become a much loved tradition, with all newly promoted Majors trying to beat the length of flame set by FSN.
Big insect nearly beat him with 2 feet 9.5 inches after a weeks diet of nothing but Brussel Sprouts, Baked beans and eggs
QuoteGood Gracious! I have Just achieved promotion to Colonel !
Congratulations Colonel. The "mousetrap" is much appreciated. We need more men of your calibre to sort those chateuax generals out.
Quote from: DecemDave on 23 December 2021, 11:17:22 AMWe need more men of your calibre to sort those chateuax generals out.
Have those two shot, slowly ! :d :d
Quote from: Orcs on 23 December 2021, 11:17:07 AMI would like to point out that the tradition of the Dance of The Flamming ****** was instigated by Fieldmarshal FSN, when he was a mere Major when he managed to project a flame from a lighted fart 3 feet and set the table cloth alight.
Ah happy days!
That's why the call me "Crocodile".
QuoteDon't worry, My Lord. He'll get himself soon enough. Just leave some rope where he can find it.
Surely you refer to Braid, Sir?
I find that current Undress / Walking Out uniform standards are Quite Unacceptable. 'T' shirts and shorts! A Smart Tunic with Braided Frogging and with POLISHED Silver buttons embodying the Regimental 'P' ... together with braided Breeches or Pantaloons, (According to stature), and Tasselled Boots will inspire Esprit de Corps amongst The Elite.
Stable Dress of Pajama pants will be acceptable with Braided Cord.
Mustachios and 'Beards' will be allowed, but a decently short Hair cut will be necessary for the smart Side Cap.
Braid shall be Silver to embody the 'Leaden Spirit' of The Regiment.
I defer to Mess Traditions amongst the Officer Ranks which may continue.. however
Disgusting frolicsome they may be.
With respect, fsn, Sir, Francois tends to drool somewhat and 'Do things'. I would recommend Inga who, although a recent recruit, is very hygienic and inventive in the kitchen.
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 23 December 2021, 03:48:50 PMI would recommend Inga who, although a recent recruit, is very hygienic and inventive in the kitchen.
Indeed she is. Quite a good cook too.
<Did I say that out loud?>
Amongst all the other things that tee me off......Picking up other people's beer cans, that they've lobbed out of a car window is right up there.
At least I can put it straight into the recycling bin...But if I ever get the number plate of a 'guilty' car, as it goes past....
Cheers - Phil. >:(
Given your acident proneness Phil if you're more likley to be hit by the can
Why I LOVE Fresh Snow!
OK... a Hate for many.. but...
Out early on new snowfall. Just Your footprints... and Dog's. Find some Fox / Cat tracks... follow? No... let them explore Their 'new' world.
Home... and view the Trees and bushes as 'Winter Wonderland'... with all the crap buried and hidden.
For a little while, All is New.
In days of yore... might tramp down to village... to drink and smoke before a fire... with other 'explorers'!
Work... well, YOU Had got in... !
Doesn't last. Human traffic beats paths to slush or treacherous ice. Cars make ruts... I try to crush them before they Freeze Hard... (I'm an idiot!). Dog thinks He's pulling a sled with 4 paw drive... not Me with 2 ! Gutters freeze and melt runs down wall. Yellow snow and Poo. World turns to slushy mess.
But... for a little while... there is Wonder!
No snow here, today ... only dim, rainy, drear... just remembering!
Quote from: Steve J on 24 February 2013, 05:54:35 PMDriving back to Bristol from Norfolk today I was amazed at how many cars had their headlights on in broad daylight, followed by the amount of drivers cutting in just after overtaking you! Why?
Daytime running lights have been compulsory on all new cars in the UK since 2011.
Many cars now have an "Auto lights" function that turns the lights on if the ambient light is deemed to low by the sensor.
Owners of cars that have them tend to leave them in auto mode. that way they come on if its raining or getting dark
Now I am a little bored after being stuck in the house for 3 days (don't ask) but reading 8 years worth of old forum posts?????
Apologies for reposting... but 'Metal' 'Mohicans' track is a damn good 'booster'!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ycEXkNQlWs
This is one of those tunes of which there are a lot of versions on youtube. I like this one:
Thunderstruck is another. Dozens of versions.
Liked that HH.
In return I offer Saltatio Mortis performing a Metal version of "My Mother Told Me" complete with bagpipes and a hurdy gurdy.
and Feuerschwanz with Warriors of the world
Cheers, Raider and Ithoriel. :)
I think Bagpipes were 'meant' for 'Rock'!
Or E Guitar tuned for 'pipes'!
Deeply regret not going to a 'Big Country' gig when I had the chance to. :( A Fave Band... would have been 'Stomping'!
Good stuff
Finished* (in 2021) some Bavarians from 1813, Hanau.
Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery
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Ensemble
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Under the Command of von Wrede:
3rd Division (Lamotte)- 1/11th, 2/11th. (von Stoch)
- 1/5th, 1/8th, 1/9th, 8 National, 9th National (Deroy)
- Horse Battery, 6pdr Foot battery
Cavalry- 3Chl, 6ChL (von Elbracht)
- 4ChL, 5ChL (Dietz)
- Horse battery
Attached- 1st Lt, 4th Lt (From 2nd Div)
- 12pdr Foot Battery
Total 696 infantry, 160 cavalry, 8 guns, staff and markers
Y'know, I'm, only 6 bttns, 2 cav regimenst and a couple of batteries short of the whole thing. :-\
Superb Nobby!
Great stuff, a formidable force!
Is there a reason you only have 1 limbered gun per battery?
Yeah. I need to get some more guns. :-[
OK. So the project isn't quite finished.
But they will look better, with each limber with its own gun. And just a few guns will be quick to paint - its the crews and the horses that take the time.
Blame Pendraken.
They sell guns in 3's and limbers in 2's.
I do plan to upgrade - the Brits are 100% gunned. I hear tell Pendraken are going to do some cassions.
Quote from: fsn on 02 January 2022, 09:21:52 PMBlame Pendraken.
They sell guns in 3's and limbers in 2's.
I do plan to upgrade - the Brits are 100% gunned. I hear tell Pendraken are going to do some cassions.
I'll pass the buck to the size of the moulds, we can't squeeze that 3rd limber and team into a 9" mould sadly...!
There are some caissons planned at some point, one of our customers has taken the lead with that.
Fsn, a very impressive force :-bd =D> :-bd
Like it
Quote from: Leon on 02 January 2022, 11:04:54 PMI'll pass the buck to the size of the moulds, we can't squeeze that 3rd limber and team into a 9" mould sadly...!
There are some caissons planned at some point, one of our customers has taken the lead with that.
I'm making do with some ACW Napoleons - single trail, but I want to get them unlimbered as quickly as possible. :D
I think I'll invest in some Austrian gun/limber combos. I can use the guns as limbered, and the horses to add to horse teams.
Nice army Nobby. I havve two 15mm 1815 armies to paint hats are still in the box after 30+ years. I cannot get my head around painting them. One day perhaps :)
Indeed they are well done! So much work. I have always liked the Bavarians. Not sure why I thought you did not use flock then I remembered you don't use base embellishments. Shrubs, stones, fireplugs, that sort of thing.
Still, the vast array of enemies of the French that you have done forces the questions, Will there be French? Will you spray paint 20,000 figures in blue, then put a white "X" on the front and back of each? Will there be a 'Year of the French'? Will I be alive to see it?
Today I am celebrating my renewed retirement and harassing Mi'lord Runcorn is one of the simple pleasures I have missed!
Enjoy the renewed retirement d_Guy :)
And harassing Nobby ;)
Ta, Paul :)
Happy renewed retirement! <:-P
Great looking force there, Stewart. :-bd
(what colour did you use for your gun carriages and limbers?)
Happy retirement D-Guy.
@Westie I used Vallejo 70.901 Pastel Blue. :)
Happy Retirement d_Guy. Can't wait to get there myself.
Quote@Westie I used Vallejo 70.901 Pastel Blue. :)
Thanks. I'll look out for that one. I tried Vallejo 70.907 Pale Grey Blue but somehow it looks too pale. :-\
Thanks again for the good wishes. I had been retired, then not, now back into the blessed condition. :)
Well done on your 2nd retirement!
Quote from: Steve J on 07 January 2022, 07:12:56 AMWell done on your 2nd retirement!
TWO retirements! No wonder I am still waiting for mine, if people keep jumping the que for seconds :D
;D ;D ;D
Are you using Manuel as your typist, Mark? ;D
Or, perhaps, Orcs actually is from Barcelona? ;) :D
As a man who has now been at this retirement lark for a decade, enjoy!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 07 January 2022, 08:28:43 AMAre you using Manuel as your typist, Mark? ;D
Que ! :D
Typing after the 4th 12 hour night shift I am more prone than usual to mistypes
Packing for a few days away dog sitting:
- Austrian 1st/41st Infantry - on painting stick and primed
- Polish 6th Uhlans - ditto
- Russian Guard 1 bttn - ditto
- Assorted medieval - ditto
- Assorted paints, brushes, pallets, water container, etc
- Reference materials on a memory stick
- 3 hard copy books
- Laptop
- Kindle
- Chargers
... anything else?
Oh yeah ... clothes and toothbrush and stuff. :-[
Quote from: fsn on 12 January 2022, 07:06:57 PMPacking for a few days away dog sitting:
- Austrian 1st/41st Infantry - on painting stick and primed
- Polish 6th Uhlans - ditto
- Russian Guard 1 bttn - ditto
- Assorted medieval - ditto
- Assorted paints, brushes, pallets, water container, etc
- Reference materials on a memory stick
- 3 hard copy books
- Laptop
- Kindle
- Chargers
... anything else?
Nah, the dog won't care if you paint with no clothes on. !
He will be too intrigued as to why you can't lick your own .......
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Portrait of a woman and baby, Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico in 1914.
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Source: photograph taken by Jesse L. Nusbaum / New Mexico History Museum
I love that baby's smile :D
Love the photo. Hope he/she and his/her mother had a good life. :)
New project:
Buy one pair Tiger slippers from the Tank museum
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1957/1093/products/TigerMerch2021_123_51c75af2-acc1-44cf-90e2-2ef2d089ad22_1024x1024@2x.jpg?v=1627655415)
... and one pair Sherman slippers
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1957/1093/products/OnlineShopMerchMarch2020_031_110x110@2x.jpg?v=1588779442)
Put on one Tiger and one Sherman, and have endless fun conducting tank foot-battles (or foot tank-battles) :D
QuoteHe will be too intrigued as to why you can't lick your own .......
... paint brush? :)
QuotePut on one Tiger and one Sherman, and have endless fun conducting tank foot-battles (or foot tank-battles) :D
This is just . . . weird.
Quote from: fsn on 02 March 2022, 06:29:29 PMNew project:
Buy one pair Tiger slippers from the Tank museum
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1957/1093/products/TigerMerch2021_123_51c75af2-acc1-44cf-90e2-2ef2d089ad22_1024x1024@2x.jpg?v=1627655415)
... and one pair Sherman slippers
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1957/1093/products/OnlineShopMerchMarch2020_031_110x110@2x.jpg?v=1588779442)
Put on one Tiger and one Sherman, and have endless fun conducting tank foot-battles (or foot tank-battles) :D
sounds risky, the Sherman slipper is likely to catch fire :D
Quote from: Orcs on 02 March 2022, 11:02:11 PMsounds risky, the Sherman slipper is likely to catch fire :D
But the Tiger will breakdown and stop you walking
Ironic....I bought a new pair of slippers this morning.
They don't look anything like those....
As long as they keep my feet warm.
QuoteBut the Tiger will breakdown and stop you walking
And if you (fsn) wear the Sherman on the other foot, you'll walk round in circles. :)
Ah! That'll be why. :D
I've just noticed that I've been logged into the forum for 100 days :o
Not bad considering I registered on 04 November 2013, where have those years gone
JUst noticed we are behind the times here, forum clock is still on Zulu (GMT)
QuoteI've just noticed that I've been logged into the forum for 100 days :o
Not bad considering I registered on 04 November 2013, where have those years gone
99 days, 7 hours registered 26 Feb 2013.
What surprised me is that I have started 268 threads!
How many have I derailed? :-\
Online: 174 days, 21 hours and 28 minutes
Quote99 days, 7 hours registered 26 Feb 2013.
What surprised me is that I have started 268 threads!
How many have I derailed? :-\
I've only started 83 threads and a couple of polls
QuoteJUst noticed we are behind the times here, forum clock is still on Zulu (GMT)
UTC, not GMT. Because . . . every international standard or organisation has to be in French*, apparently.
*I know, not really. It just seems like it sometimes.
Hacker: Don't we ever get out own way with the French?
Sir Humphrey: Oh, yes, sometimes.
Hacker: When was the last time?
Sir Humphrey: 1815, Battle of Waterloo.
On Mother's day
Rather 'Strange' and Sad of Me. But... Neither Ma nor Self ever really bothered much about Mother's Day... She hadn't about Her Mam's , for many years. So...'my bad'... but it just did not 'register' at all. NOW... I have been 'ropey' for 2 weeks, and last week hardly ate / slept at all.... and too 'poorly' to consider driving to shops for food, etc. reason unknown. Saturday v slightly better but not much... and Nightime could not get to sleep at all. Just started replaying all the Memories for some reason... but, as said, nothing 'registering'. 6am, gave up on sleep and got a G&T to watch spring morning. 'Suddenly', thought 'H with it'... going to drive to Shields and see if 'Stone' up. (Not yet). Made couple of sandwiches which, oddly, went down fine. Picked handfull of Daffodils, including her Faves... from OUR garden bulbs that She planted 50 yrs ago and some still surviving. Visited and had 'chat'...cemetery seemed a bit 'busy'... but no thought about it. Did massive shop on way back to replenish empty fridge, etc. Ate another sandwich and had a bit kip. Ate 'ready meal' and sat down, (With renewed booze!)... to watch one of several 'Home Movie' Cine to VHS 3hr tapes we got done years ago but did not bother with all that much. Only after going on FB, later, realised Mother's Day. Now... is it 'just possible' that She 'told' me... to get something in belly, visit and restock? As said... we did not bother about 'M Day', so not 'conscience'... and don't think auto-suggestion. 'Strange'. I Think She will have 'liked' Her Flowers.
Does anyone else start browsing the various figure makers websites and before they know ordered 'just a few' figures, ignoring the fact that they're half way through several other projects?
I'm really trying to be good at the moment. I have my 10mm SCW, 1939, Vietnam and AWI projects ticking over along with Pony Wars and Blenhiem in 6mm.
My SCW are my main focus. But I still found myself filling the shopping cart with some early war tanks for a Barbarossa campaign last night.
I've not clicked purchase yet, as I stopped myself. The point is, I have limited painting time, so know that either these would get put in a drawer for a few weeks, or else I'd shelf my half finished SCW figures. Either way, one project would suffer.
But there is that psychological battle of the mind where you feel the need to acquire more stuff. I can rationalise it if there is an imminent price rise, but at other times less so.
But I do have a theory that if all Wargamers just bought stuff they actually painted and played with and didn't acrue a lead mountain, most companies would struggle to make ends meet.
Quote from: Raider4 on 27 March 2022, 06:49:06 PMUTC, not GMT. Because . . . every international standard or organisation has to be in French*, apparently.
*I know, not really. It just seems like it sometimes.
Da*ned Forieners :d :d
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 28 March 2022, 03:27:19 AMOn Mother's day
Rather 'Strange' and Sad of Me. But... ... I Think She will have 'liked' Her Flowers.
yes ... I suspect you'd have liked the flowers and the thought behind them. It is good to remember :)
Quote from: Sean Clark on 28 March 2022, 07:22:26 AMDoes anyone else start browsing the various figure makers websites and before they know ordered 'just a few' figures, ignoring the fact that they're half way through several other projects?
I'm usually quite good. :^o
However, I've just given up motoring and the little bundle of money that I got for selling the car has been burning a hole in my pocket. I do have many as yet unbought armies planned, and I was going to just go wild and do some pre-purchasing for the upcoming Cold War ranges ... but I controlled myself and just finished off purchasing Napoleonic Russians.
oh .. and some more Poles.
What's worse is if I go to a show. I find all sorts of odd stuff in my lead mountain after visiting St Helens. :-[
QuoteDoes anyone else start browsing the various figure makers websites and before they know ordered 'just a few' figures, ignoring the fact that they're half way through several other projects?
I'm really trying to be good at the moment. I have my 10mm SCW, 1939, Vietnam and AWI projects ticking over along with Pony Wars and Blenhiem in 6mm.
My SCW are my main focus. But I still found myself filling the shopping cart with some early war tanks for a Barbarossa campaign last night.
I've not clicked purchase yet, as I stopped myself. The point is, I have limited painting time, so know that either these would get put in a drawer for a few weeks, or else I'd shelf my half finished SCW figures. Either way, one project would suffer.
But there is that psychological battle of the mind where you feel the need to acquire more stuff. I can rationalise it if there is an imminent price rise, but at other times less so.
But I do have a theory that if all Wargamers just bought stuff they actually painted and played with and didn't acrue a lead mountain, most companies would struggle to make ends meet.
I have so many armies in so many scales in so many periods that I can justify any purchase as not starting a new period/ scale/ theatre but rather merely expanding existing ones.
After all, having the same army in 3mm, 6mm, 10mmm, 15mm and 20mm is just an expansion of options .... honest! :)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 28 March 2022, 01:23:15 PMAfter all, having the same army in 3mm, 6mm, 10mmm, 15mm and 20mm is just an expansion of options .... honest! :)
:-bd :-bd :-bd :-bd :-bd :-bd
QuoteI have so many armies in so many scales in so many periods that I can justify any purchase as not starting a new period/ scale/ theatre but rather merely expanding existing ones.
After all, having the same army in 3mm, 6mm, 10mmm, 15mm and 20mm is just an expansion of options .... honest! :)
I am now ruthlessly either 10mm or 1/72/20mm But have reached the point where I have run out of storage space for the as yet undone projects. Each heap is accompanied by enough MDF bases to "complete" as carefully planned in Excel. Except it wont work because when I do get round to heap 7 I will have long since changed my mind on composition or basing or raided it to satisfy a prior project.
There can only be one answer.
Get more storage. :d :d
QuoteDoes anyone else start browsing the various figure makers websites and before they know ordered 'just a few' figures, ignoring the fact that they're half way through several other projects?
Worse than that: I will have ordered a load from our beloved host and then some add-ons from at least two of his competitors so that I have lots to make up a varied army
if when I get round to it
QuoteAfter all, having the same army in 3mm, 6mm, 10mmm, 15mm and 20mm is just an expansion of options .... honest! :)
In 2013 I got rid of everything - 6mm, 15mm, 20mm, 25mm, 54mm - and dedicated myself to the One True Scale (except for 1:600 aircraft and 1:3000 ships).
I'm generally quite good at resisting random purchases from non-10mm manufacturers. But 10mm stuff easily fits the 'it adds to a force' rule so the hurdle is much lower.
In my last order from Pendraken I got an assortment of pikemen, and when rummaging in the Renaissance pile of figures discovered I had at least one of the packs already. Unfortunately this isn't too uncommon. Oh well more units!
I'm at that stage of having done a small project deciding whether to start another new one or dive back into an ongoing one. So many tempting ranges...so many gaps in my collection...
I can't seem to find the details about how many hours I have wasted invested on this forum.
Quote from: Sean Clark on 28 March 2022, 07:22:26 AMDoes anyone else start browsing the various figure makers websites and before they know ordered 'just a few' figures, ignoring the fact that they're half way through several other projects?
I am halfway through dozens of projects, i switch betwen them to keep my mo jo up. So more often than not its adding to one I am doing.
I do try and finish projects, I have almost finished my 20mm Late war Germans - well figures at least. So i am concentrating on them at the moment. painting a few extra crews or LMg team to complete the project. I then have 6 vehicles to do.
QuoteI can't seem to find the details about how many hours I have wasted invested on this forum.
35 days, 12 hours and 12 minutes :o
It's under stats on your forum profile
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A Swedish soldier carries a Sabot ammo round during the Strong Europe Tank Challenge, Grafenwoehr, Germany, June 5, 2018.
If only one of my crew had looked like that I would have stayed in longer......(sigh)...
Cheers Paul
Big energy price rise tomorrow, so tried to submit meter readings.
Gas gives "502 Proxy error", electrickery a "503 Backend fetch failed".
I suspect half the country is doing the same, and the energy companies have buckled under the strain.
Technology, ain't it sh*twonderful.
Quote from: Raider4 on 31 March 2022, 02:22:27 PMBig energy price rise tomorrow, so tried to submit meter readings.
Gas gives "502 Proxy error", electrickery a "503 Backend fetch failed".
I suspect half the country is doing the same, and the energy companies have buckled under the strain.
Technology, ain't it sh*twonderful.
That's what BBC news on Radio 4 just said. Get a smart meter
QuoteThat's what BBC news on Radio 4 just said. Get a smart meter
Ah Yes. Unfortunately Smart meters are installed by not so smart meter installers. As a result, no-one in our block of flats can have a smart read of their gas meter (too far for the signal apparently) and only those on the south side can have a smart meter read of their electric as the building blocks the others signal!!
Aint life grand!
Quote from: Raider4 on 31 March 2022, 02:22:27 PMBig energy price rise tomorrow, so tried to submit meter readings.
Gas gives "502 Proxy error", electrickery a "503 Backend fetch failed".
I suspect half the country is doing the same, and the energy companies have buckled under the strain.
Technology, ain't it sh*twonderful.
Did mine, went thru fine - Octopus seem to be better than most...
Take a photo, email them with it - should get sorted!
I usually email my readings, but SSE was bought by OVO last autumn - guess what? OVO doesn't have an email your reading facility - has to be done through an online account. Haven't got an OVO account. Tried to register - 'mistake in your account details'
No there ****ing isn't! >:(
Emailed the 'help' line - see what happens.
Leccy now working, through a much simplified web page.
Gas still fubar'd.
Those modern sabot rounds look terrifying.
Imagine a half concussed loader lugging one around the inside of a crowded turret.
You can see why the Swedes are so keen on auto-loaders.
QuoteI have a 'plan'* to try and downsize all of the accumulated crap that clutters my home.
This includes most of my miniatures/wargaming stuff. None of it's really worth anything so isn't worth eBay-ing. Seems a shame to just dump it though.
Also, all of my model railway stuff. Some (quite a bit, actually) of this is worth selling, but I'm scared of being shafted on eBay by some cockwomble.
Ebay has changed. I've spent the last three months watching items I have, or very similar, to see what sort of price they'd fetch.
All I see are items listed at a very high initial price, and then they sit there unsold for a month, and are promptly re-listed. E.g. Warmaster Ancients rulebook (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234388656571). No actual "genuine" auctions.
Nothing I've watched - whether wargame or railway related - has actually sold.
Most odd. Don't sellers have to pay a fee to Ebay for a listing, or is that just if it sells?
I've sold 9 things on UK ebay recently for a total of just under £100 and it feels better than sending to landfill. Also crap surplus to requirements even including a freebie sprue that came with a well known magazine. Start with a low price like 99p and just enjoy the few items that manage to attract competitive bidders. Painted 10mm armies will usually fetch over 50p per figure (cav =2) from what I have seen and been outbid on.
The first hundred or so listings are free to private buyers.
Sold several hundred pounds worth last year on Ebay.
Found:-
- Mostly commercial listings.
- Most things on Auction do not get bid up significantly.
- The exception is cheap items that get bid up to the correct value.
- Due to 2 most items seem to be listed at a price vendor will be happy to accept rather than low starting price
- Also if you put stuff at fixed price listing it stays on ebay until sold - much less faffing about. hence 4
- I have done well due to 2 , Got very well painted 10m, SYW stuff for less than bare metal.
- Prices generally seem quite high now. Probably because of 1
- I think some items are being used as money laundering eg Single painted 28mm going for £100's
Interesting thought re the money laundering, Mark.
I know of some really top notch figure painters that get paid silly money...They've managed to get themselves big fan clubs, that want to own a 'figure painted by 'X'.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Quote from: Techno 3 on 02 April 2022, 07:03:39 AMInteresting thought re the money laundering, Mark.
I know of some really top notch figure painters that get paid silly money...They've managed to get themselves big fan clubs, that want to own a 'figure painted by 'X'.
Cheers - Phil. :)
This is one of the things that has been discussed on other forums. Often the figures on sale are not that well painted - not even by my standard, let alone the likes of Kevin Dallimore or some of the stuff you see in the Pendraken competition. Yet if you look at their feedback they have sold multiple items for several hundred pounds each with excellent feedback.
Theres nowt so stupid as folk.
QuoteThis is one of the things that has been discussed on other forums. Often the figures on sale are not that well painted - not even by my standard, let alone the likes of Kevin Dallimore or some of the stuff you see in the Pendraken competition. Yet if you look at their feedback they have sold multiple items for several hundred pounds each with excellent feedback.
In which case, your theory may well be true, Mark. :o
Gentlemen.
Do you face this sort of dilemma?
I'm in the middle of painting Austrian Napoleonics. I picked Grenneville's Division of the III Corps at Leipzig. 2 x Grenzer bttns, 2 x Light Dragoons regiments and a horse battery. I wanted the Light Dragoons to be in green coats to contrast with the white coated Cuirassiers.
Shock horror! The two regiments (Klenau and Rosenberg) wore white coats! Drat! However, the two regiments in the 1st Lt Div (Emperor's and Vincent) wore green.
What do I do?
- Paint 'em green
- Swap the white coated regiments for the green - so have Emperor's and Vincent
- Suck it up and have white coated light dragoons
- Something else
Buy extra and use the greens in a new unit. 8)
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OK ... figure on the right. What is going on in front of her?
It looks like a headless child. :(
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 09 April 2022, 07:52:57 PMBuy extra and use the greens in a new unit. 8)
Hmmm ... but then I'd have to buy the Jaegers to go with them, and that means to keep balance I'd have to buy another couple of regiments of line infantry ... and the artillery to go with it. :-\
Good idea! :D
Quote from: fsn on 09 April 2022, 09:28:23 PM(https://39.cdn.ekm.net/ekmps/shops/89204c/images/-n-NPX2-n-Civilians-2280-p.jpg?v=2262021-164918)
OK ... figure on the right. What is going on in front of her?
It looks like a headless child. :(
Pnematic Drill ?
That's what it looks like to me, too, Ian !
Quote from: fsn on 10 April 2022, 08:01:44 AMHmmm ... but then I'd have to buy the Jaegers to go with them...
It is an excellent idea. Another division by the looks of things, then you'll need another French division to balance things, which is an even better idea. :D
Quote... you'll need another French division to balance things, which is an even better idea. :D
To quote Alice "I've had nothing yet, so I can't take more."
I'm coming round to the idea of getting some French. I'm happy with most of the cavalry (except Hussars of course); artillery is just artillery ... but the infantry is sooooo boooorinnnng. I can exempt the Swiss from that but (and I appreciate the heresy) the French army overall doesn't appeal.
So the French will have to wait until I have completed the Austrians, Poles, Russians, Spanish, Danes and Ottomans (Ottomen?). Maybe the Portuguese too.
Nobby it's possible to do a large French army with no French on it. Swiss, Dutch, CoR Italian etc...
Thank you. The Foreign Regiments give me hope. :D
I'm thinking in the region of Cuirassier brigade, Dragoon brigade and 2 lt cav brigades. That would mean 15-16 infantry battalions.
The Swiss are an obvious addition, but they weren't at Leipzig - on which I've based my Prussian, Russian and Austrians. I could go to Waterloo to match the British and Brunswickers - but there was only one Swiss bttn present. :-\ Mayhap add in some of the Young Guard - but it would just feel unrepresentative. :(
I'll just have to make do with Poles, Bavarians and Wurttembergers for now. :)
Quote from: fsn on 10 April 2022, 11:50:29 AM...but the infantry is sooooo boooorinnnng...
I empathise. Painting any infantry can be a chore. I've just finished the second British division for my Talavera project, some 400 figures. Everything I look at has a red tinge to it at the moment. Maintenance of the objective is fundamental.
Hoplites are fun.
QuoteHoplites are fun.
Do Stinging Nettles grow in Greece? ;)
On Sunday, I was pondering my next project (after the Austrians, Poles and Russians are finished) and I had bought some 1842 Danes with a thought of them being a proxy for 1813 Danes.
Hmmm. Crimson red rather than bright red, says the source. Time to get out the "Cutthroat Red" from Green Stuff. New company to me, new shade.
Shook up the bottle, as one does. Went to drip a few drops onto the palette. Sploosh! Cuththroat red projectile vomit from the bottle as the nozzle flew out. Went over everything - the cutting mat, the wall, the storage units - everything bar the Danes. :-[
Sh1t 'appens. >:( >:( >:(
That it do, that it do.
Must look like Techno's normal workspace! :D
;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 12 April 2022, 07:37:49 PMMust look like Techno's normal workspace! :D
Mean....but probably true! ;D ;D
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 12 April 2022, 07:37:49 PMMust look like Techno's normal workspace! :D
Not even Nobby can be that untidy ;) ;)
Remember, lads. A bunny is not just for Easter.
To be honest ... I don't think I could manage much more than Easter.
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Old age, old age Nobby
Yes it could be habit forming. #:-S
I was getting worried that I didn't have any Pendraken projects left until either the Amazons or the Spanish Napoleonics or the Cold War range or the Arab-Israeli foot turns up* - or the book I ordered on the Ottoman Army arrives*** and I can plan for that.
Fortunately, the brave Danes have stepped in and their force from the 1813 Battle of Sehested is my new project.
http://www.centotredicesimo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/B.Sehested-10.12-1813-First-Empire.pdf (http://www.centotredicesimo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/B.Sehested-10.12-1813-First-Empire.pdf)
Only thing is, I haven't decided whether they should have grey or blue trousers.
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I'm thinking blue, so they don't look too like the Brits of the same era.
*or some other project that Pendraken has up its sleeve **
** Excluding C17, C18, Colonial or Fantasy of course
***June
Nearly running out of projects - that would have been mighty careless! Although does suggest plenty of painting has been ongoing.
For the Danes blue trousers sounds good
Thank you. I agree. I'll do some test figures.
Though I could do white. I always imaging my figures to be late Summer, so I suppose the white trousers would be OK.
Note to Amazon. "Final Days of Planet Earth" is a long title.
However, if you capitalise it, and put it in a tall, thin, boxy font, the "F" and the "I" merge into an "A" - and that would seem to promise things that are not, if I remember correctly, in the film.
Gentlemen, I'm in trouble.
From being worried a few months ago that I was running out of projects, I now find myself inundated.
I'm half way through painting the Napoleonic Russians, and have the Poles to paint (barring a lancer regiment and an artillery battery that I painted for "reasons" =) .) I'm currently purchasing Napoleonic Danes.
I'm being good, and will buy all the Danes before starting buying the next project which will be either Ancient Indians or some of those new Napoleonic Spanish ... or maybe some Ottomans (Ottomen?) ... 'cos I ordered a book which will arrive on the 16th June and that's bound to influence me that way.
This is all to the good, and I feel in control of the acquisition side. However I am, as I said, half way through painting the Russians (4 bttns, 3 Cav rgts, 2 bttys done: 4 bttns, 1 cav rgt, 1 btty to do), and I looked at the painting sticks of more bloomin' figures to paint in green coats and white trousers and I thought "stuff it, I'm painting Danes."
This means I am now painting 3 different projects. This is undisciplined and now my painting has 3 painting schedules on it. This is quite unnerving and I'm not sure I can cope with the (admittedly self inflicted) pressure. :(
On a side note, I wonder if our view of a "toy soldier" (e.g. in the Nutcracker ballet) is influenced by the Danish army ... probably through Hans Christian Anderson?
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Danish guards pre 1899 maybe?
Frankly 3 projects on the go at once would be quite sensible for me.
It was too late for a photo last night but I got to at least 6 that where on my desk. Let alone several more that are languishing at the undercoated stage.
The shiny butterfly has too big an influence on what I paint!
Edit - went and counted 9 on the desk. I'm not actually sure what counts as a project even...
Ooh! 9! :o I'd need a new spreadsheet for that! :-\
I'm usually quite disciplined. Buy all the figures then paint through the OOB, alternating unit types for variety (for example infantry with cavalry/artillery).
I'm gonna say this wild abandon is just a side effect of all the anti-biotics I'm on. 8-}
Always got lots on the go. Working on 2x15mm SU17/22, die cast Chopper - 64 kaistra Chinese, bout 30 20mm plastics, mostly Falscrimjager, some terrain bits, A warhammer Marine landspeeder, 20 frostgrave cultists. 1 Warlord War of 3 Kingdoms arty peice, and 2 County Class CA's. Also doing some writting.
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Things I consider "currently on the go" as in I have made some progress on them over the past 3 months
2mm Strength and Honour
6mm Early Mesopotamian Bronze Age
10mm WW2 Germans
15mm Homo Heidelbergensis Tribe
20mm Sci-Fi for 5 Parsecs
3mm Seguko Jidai
10mm Warmaster Undead
10mm Warmaster Albion Army
10mm Warmaster Harad Army for a LotR campaign that is now very unlikely to ever happen :(
1/1200 scale Roman Fleet
1/2400 scale Armada Fleets
If I'd only concentrated on one of these I'd probably have completed it ... for a certain value of completed.
Alas, a butterfly flaps it's wings and my focus changes or a new project is started!
Just read the newsletter.
Need to add Arab-Israeli 1973 to the list of projects.
Gosh! That means I may have to but some Centurion derivatives! :D
QuoteOoh! 9! :o I'd need a new spreadsheet for that! :-\
I'm usually quite disciplined. Buy all the figures then paint through the OOB, alternating unit types for variety (for example infantry with cavalry/artillery).
I'm gonna say this wild abandon is just a side effect of all the anti-biotics I'm on. 8-}
I do wonder if I need to be a bit more organised! But then that would seem like work.
It is far too easy to buy stuff (compared to getting it painted). I sometimes buy full armies, but more often am now adding bits to ongoing projects. Then I end up with the last 10 or 20% of a project stalled (this is obviously ignoring the projects that haven't even started.)
One of the things I struggle with, with attempting to categorise stuff is what is the unit of measure? Especially across scales and manufacturers.
QuoteOne of the things I struggle with, with attempting to categorise stuff is what is the unit of measure?
"So, what's the velocity of a sheep in a vacuum?" (https://www.theregister.com/2007/08/24/vulture_central_standards/)
Thanks...
A greatfruit feels it could be a useful unit if measure.
There is a US variant based around large boulders (the size of a small boulder) and washing machines. Not sure of the conversion factors.
I am somewhat fortunate in that I (mostly) stick to Pendraken 10mm.*
However you raise an interesting point. I usually think of my projects in terms of "units". So for the Russian Nappies, I have 8 infantry bttn, 4 cavalry rgts, and 3 bttys - total 15. I have painted 9 units therefore am 66% of the way through the project.
However, were I to look at an Israeli force, it would be say - 3 troops tanks, 3 platoons infantry, 1 troop recce, 1 troop artillery ... etc, etc. I may still have 15 units but I can paint 30 Israeli paratroopers a lot quicker than I can paint 40 Russian dragoons.
We need something like the BED (Banana Equivalent Dose) which is the measure of radiation given off by a 150g banana. It's about 10−7 sievert.
* excluding 1:600 aircraft and ships, 1:3000 Ships, and 1:2400 ships - of course.
The most obvious unit of measure would be a figure - but given the number of 10mm figures in a project, this can be a bit laborious to count - but on the other hand approximations are probably fine.
The next one would be by base - which is much easier to count! The problem is its not that comparative - for example a base could be 16x 10mm pikes, or 1x 28mm figure which feels fairly comparable. But then I could have 3x 6mm epic figures or even just 1x 10mm figure on a base.
Then what about figures still in bags, who I may not have assigned to a base? So I don't know quite how many will end up on the base.
If I where to count by units, I'd need to know which rules I'm painting for - which isn't always certain!
You're probably thinking this is all very slapdash!
It also feels like a level of procrastination 8)
With the impending release of Arab-Israeli ranges, I thought I'd brush up on the 1973 conflict. (Disappointed there were no Mi24s in Egyptian or Syrian service.)
Reading Tank Battles in Miniature 5: The Arab-Israeli Wars since 1948 by Bruce Quarrie (PSL, 1978).
On Israeli tank markings it says "Hebrew characters can easily be traced or copied from a good dictionary; if you don't possess one, ask your local librarian, but make sure you tell him or her what you are doing or you might be accused of trying to deface the book!"
Oh, how times have changed!
fsn
In 67 unit markings were much the same as it was a planned attack.... In 73 things were pretty desperate (particularly on the Syrian front). They formed ad hoc units with various companies with mixed equipment as soon as they had one reported in...hence you tend to get mixed symbols. However as you prob allready know the use of the chevron in a variety of positions was used quite a bit.
Helicopters at this time were not usually a high priority for any of the sides....something basic transport like..fighter jets....everyone wanted more. But by 73 the isdaelis used mostly french (allouette III's & supser Frelons) for an interesting read...look up the battles around Mount Hermon (highest point over the galalee area & prime real estate) I believe 3 different battles took place there, several with troop transport choppers. After 73 US helicopter replacements arrived as well & the first (I think) of the cobras. Not sure how soon after the Russians supplied the MI-24's. Bob
Was at Phalanx yesterday and had to possibly maybe get some Centurions for the Israelis.
I see the Arab-Israeli ranges have been released on the home page ... so I've put in a little order for them.
Think that means I'm now doing three projects at once.
On the upside, I've got back into painting the Russian Napoleonics, finished one battalion yesterday and looks like I may finish another today. That will leave just 2 battalions, one regiment of Cuirassiers and the horse artillery battery to "finish" that project.
Well done Nobby, progress is good :)
Picked up some Egyiptain and Isralie infantry at Phalanx, do look rather good....
I was in Home Bargain the other day. They had Really Useful Box ... boxes. The 4l ones were £5.
Didn't have the batteries I went there for though.
Oh frabjous day!
Not one, not two but three packets from Pendraken!
Including Centurions.
Nobby is a happy oik! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: fsn on 01 July 2022, 03:00:37 PMOh frabjous day!
Not one, not two but three packets from Pendraken!
Including Centurions.
Nobby is a happy oik! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Excellent, good to hear that they all arrived!
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Hoorah! Hoorah! Russian Napoleonics finished*
This is elements of Constantine's V Corps - the Guard.
At the back are the Guard Uhlans, Guard Dragoons and the Tsarina's Cuirassiers. At the front is the Tsar's Cuirassiers.
The infantry are drawn from 2nd Div; 2 battalions each from Lithuanian, Gd Grenadiers, Finland and Pavlovski regiments.
Supported by one horse artillery battery, one foot battery and one heavy foot battery. I have given them 3 guns rather than 2 to reflect the tendency for larger Russian batteries.
576 foot, 120 cavalry 9 guns and a number of generals, brigadiers, generals and ADCs.
First time I've used Maverick Models for standards. Pleased with the range offered, but should have got them printed a little bit bigger. Still, we live and learn.
Next up - the Dutchy of Warsaw. Belay that! I'm half way through doing a couple of Israeli infantry platoons, plus far too many armoured supports.
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*"Finished" in this case, means no further work on the project is intended at the time of writing. However, this project may be revived, renewed or enhanced at any time. Future releases from Pendraken may cause the project to be re-opened**. Figure numbers will go up ... never down. Your home is at risk of collapsing if you actually buy all the figures you need
**Like some proper Russian Horse Artillery.
Very impressive, are your infantry battalions 8 bases, each of 9 figures? So 72 figs to a battalion, that is a serious size!
I know what you mean by finished, its a 'this project is a good size' as opposed to a 'this project will never get additions'
Superb!
Wot they sed :-bd =D> :-bd =D>
QuoteNext up - the Dutchy of Warsaw. Belay that! I'm half way through doing a couple of Israeli infantry platoons, plus far too many armoured supports.
I wonder what that amoured support could possibly be :-\ ;)
Thank you for you kind comments, Gentlemen.
QuoteVery impressive, are your infantry battalions 8 bases, each of 9 figures? So 72 figs to a battalion, that is a serious size!
Indeed. The Austrians have 90 figures on 9 bases. The Light Infantry have a number of 3 x 1 bases so they can skirmish.
QuoteI wonder what that amoured support could possibly be :-\ ;)
Would you be surprised to know M51 Super Shermans, M48s and M113s?
Maybe some Centurions as well.
Quote...
Would you be surprised to know M51 Super Shermans, M48s and M113s?
Maybe some Centurions as well.
Yes :o
No surprise there then
THey look excellent Nobby.
Great stuff FSN, nice to see some of the IDF painted up. Trying to resist putting my order in until pay day!
Quote from: Matt J on 05 July 2022, 10:03:03 AMTrying to resist putting my order in until pay day!
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE :d :d
Oh God. 7-8 weeks of COLD baths.. usually after several days!
Eventually despaired of sourcing kits to renew old bath taps, so bought new bath, etc. and contacted phone book plumbing service to replace bath.
Supposed to happen Monday 8-12, but no show... just next in queue... until too late.
I CAN understand this... some others may have IMMEDIATE problems with leaks or no supply... so might get reshuffled... and jobs take longer than thought.
Got a guy reshuffled to take a look Tuesday pm. Estimates up to 7 hrs (£150 hr) for what I thought would be a 2-3 hr job... suggested a quote instead... for Thursday.
But... can do plumbing... but will have to get a Tiler, (Recommended bloke!)... to finish... at extra. Whenever!
All I wanted was 2 little brass bits to take BATH size washers... but cannot get now.
Old and Tired! (And frequently, Smelly'!). :(
Well, it will be character building. :)
Nothing wrong with a flannel wash. To add to the childhood, I suggest filling the sink from the kettle, and using Pears soap ... oh, and a rough towel.
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I've been without hot water and heating since the 20th May. I'm beginning to forget what a warm shower is like! All being well I'll get a new one fitted by Friday of next week.
Hang in there HH and be glad it's July not January!
Plumber's Tiler cannot do. Hopefully, I have found someone to strip tiles before bath replacement... afterwards... ? And timescale?
COLD baths at 60 ARE NOT INVIGURATING! :o
A Swedish Sauna Might be Nice...??? tho maybe not, at 60! LOL! :(
FSN... Pears Soap... you Wuss... I had Lifeboy! ;)
And Kettle does not work, either! :( :)
Cream puffs, the lot of you. I'm 63 this year, and have three cold showers every day, so there!
FK... you have an excuse... Different Climate...! ;D
Though Kats just licked themselves clean.
Wahey! Bath replaced so 1st WARM bath in 2 months! :) :) :)
At least £1300 poorer... and some re-tiling to be done, And, All I wanted were two little 'bits' of Brass... washer 'cups' to turn a basin tap into a bath tap... not available anymore!
New bath ok, but nowhere as comfy as old steel and enamel one... but enamel almost worn through after 55 years. My Word! The WEIGHT of the old thing! Two young, fit, Greek plumbers could hardly shift it outside! No wonder advice for a 'last ditch' emergency in a cyclone or home shootout is to get into the bath! :o ;)
Enjoy! One of life's luxuries.
QuoteCream puffs, the lot of you. I'm 63 this year, and have three cold showers every day, so there!
Uphill, both ways!
What amazed me was... Really Heavy Steel bathtub needed disposal. Asked cousin if he might be able to cut it up with grinder.
He SMASHED it up with a heavy Sledge! I had NO idea that Steel could be so brittle!
Makes you think about Armour Plate... 'Cast' armour and late WW2 poor quality German armour 'Shattering' under impacts. :o
Think Bath was 'Galvanised Steel' rater than cast Iron.... but not metallurgist!
Here's a video of me throwing dice for my Guards brigade, in line, supported, facing shaken militia in the open.
I'm not telling you what rule set.
In other news ... was thinking of sailors to go with the British (Spanish) Marines ... and found this.
Which is now stuck in my head.
QuoteWhat amazed me was... Really Heavy Steel bathtub needed disposal. Asked cousin if he might be able to cut it up with grinder.
He SMASHED it up with a heavy Sledge! I had NO idea that Steel could be so brittle!
Makes you think about Armour Plate... 'Cast' armour and late WW2 poor quality German armour 'Shattering' under impacts. :o
Think Bath was 'Galvanised Steel' rater than cast Iron.... but not metallurgist!
Cast Iron is poured and allowed to cool, generally hard and brittle (but see *).
Wrought Iron is heated and worked with tools: swords, horseshoes, garden gates. It is generally flexible and impact resistant (but see *).
* Things like alloying, carbon content, plating and rate of cooling can introduce far more variation to flexibility and brittleness than the cast / wrought difference.
Galvanisation is one form of plating.
A thin layer of zinc is applied which protects the base metal against corrosive substances.
This is usually done through a "hot dip" into a bath of molten zinc.
Obligatory Wargame angle:
The first examples of gamvanisation are found in 17th century Indian armour.
(You try keeping a plate/mail hybrid in good nick during a monsoon).
Other surface protections are available.
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 29 July 2022, 07:00:49 PMCast Iron is poured and allowed to cool, generally hard and brittle (but see *).
Wrought Iron is heated and worked with tools: swords, horseshoes, garden gates. It is generally flexible and impact resistant (but see *).
* Things like alloying, carbon content, plating and rate of cooling can introduce far more variation to flexibility and brittleness than the cast / wrought difference.
Galvanisation is one form of plating.
A thin layer of zinc is applied which protects the base metal against corrosive substances.
This is usually done through a "hot dip" into a bath of molten zinc.
Obligatory Wargame angle:
The first examples of gamvanisation are found in 17th century Indian armour.
(You try keeping a plate/mail hybrid in good nick during a monsoon).
Other surface protections are available.
Fascinating, ta.
Thanks to Orcs for the E.D.N.A. markers.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 30 July 2022, 10:57:05 PMThanks to Orcs for the E.D.N.A. markers.
No problem, Thought they might look a bit nicer than a dice.
Currently in Twitter prison because I said something nasty about cats. Or more accurately, I said cats were waiting for a poster to die so they could eat him.
Twitter mods are cats, who had that on their 2022 bingo card.
Comes the revolution, people who are nasty about cats will be third into the giant mincer (after rock musicians and people who neglect grammar).
I haven't forgotten warmongering politicians and religious leaders, but the mincer's too quick for them.
QuoteComes the revolution, people who are nasty about cats will be third into the giant mincer (after rock musicians and people who neglect grammar).
I haven't forgotten warmongering politicians and religious leaders, but the mincer's too quick for them.
28mm wargamers?
Or do they just get the re-education camps?
Quote from: FierceKitty on 02 August 2022, 07:17:15 AMComes the revolution, people who are nasty about cats will be third into the giant mincer (after rock musicians and people who neglect grammar).
I haven't forgotten warmongering politicians and religious leaders, but the mincer's too quick for them.
I HATE Cats -------
Quote from: DecemDave on 02 August 2022, 07:35:25 AM28mm wargamers?
Or do they just get the re-education camps?
Nah, they'll just have to work 180% more.
Milton Jones: Tell me. Does anyone in here own a cat?
Shout from the audience: Yayyy!!
Milton Jones: ...... Your houses stink.
Any one here a student?
(Yay from audience)
Your houses stink. I can't believe you fell for that.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 02 August 2022, 01:14:01 PMAny one here a student?
(Yay from audience)
Your houses stink. I can't believe you fell for that.
I think we have to be very careful here. bearing in mind the aroma that you often find at some wargames shows.
But MOST wargamers don't wee on the curtains. :o ;D
I love cats. Some think them creepily 'inscrutable. But, in fact, they have a wide variety of expression. The Glare, the 'Innocence', the Feed me, the comfortable, the 'I know YOU can't be bothered right now but I'm going to (?) anyway. Etc., etc.
I have just emptied litter tray. Cat jumped straight in for No.1 and No.2...then happily spread litter all over kitchen. You have to Love them...sometimes! :'( ;)
Watching S3 E8 of New Tricks on iPlayer. Its got wargaming in. Makes wargamers look like a bunch of sad weird blokes...
Looks at board membership...
No, as you were, nothing to see here.
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 02 August 2022, 02:30:06 PMI have just emptied litter tray. Cat jumped straight in for No.1 and No.2...then happily spread litter all over kitchen. You have to Love them...sometimes! :'( ;)
And that's exactly why I won't let Mrs Orcs have another cat.
QuoteWatching S3 E8 of New Tricks on iPlayer.
They missed a trick, Dennis Waterman should have played Mary I at some time in his career.
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Maybe, or Eleanor Roosevelt
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I don't like tech. Car has been showing 'Oil Life Remaining' message, going steadily down, tho' no leaks. Popped into Garage and they said it was a 'count down'... not a Fault warning. I Eventually found manual and cleared it... I Think! :o Bl**dy Computer Thing! >:(
BUT... Home Computer has been 'Going Ape' for some days. Thought Dying. :'( Just for laughs, I excavated... and I mean EXCAVATED an OLD keyboard. Well dusted with cig ash beforehand, it was 'retired' after drying against radiator... having had pint of Whiskey & Coke spilled into it... but just abandoned under desk... for 8 yrs! Disinterred from Ash mound, I scraped off ENCRUSTED tab ash deposits , brushed keys and gave it a Good Smacking to get rid if some internal fag ash... and it WORKS! lol. :) New keyboard pending! :o ;) ;D
Battery on the tablet on the blink. Or I can use 60% power REALLY quickly.
Talking of 'look-a-likes' (sorry, Last Hussar) - Confederate General D H Hill and Dustin Hoffman (isn't it also strange that the former's first initials are the same as the latter's initials?).
D H Hill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Harvey_Hill#/media/File:Portrait_of_Gen._D._H._Hill_(cropped).jpg)
Dustin Hoffman (https://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Dustin-Hoffman-with-a-beard-Photo-Print/25389637/product.html)
It is probably a conspiracy of some sort - knowing the Confederacy!
It's always a conspiracy - I can see it ont dark web :'( :'(
We dropped the eldest off in Bangor yesterday to start University. Bit of an odd feeling leaving him there on his own but I'm sure he'll be fine. He's doing a conservation and woodland management course, all about saving the trees and reintroducing wolves and beavers to the UK, so it's right up his street.
House feels a little emptier without him clanging about though.
Quote from: Leon on 19 September 2022, 07:00:43 PMWe dropped the eldest off in Bangor yesterday to start University. Bit of an odd feeling leaving him there on his own but I'm sure he'll be fine. He's doing a conservation and woodland management course, all about saving the trees and reintroducing wolves and beavers to the UK, so it's right up his street.
House feels a little emptier without him clanging about though.
Never mind, on the first semester break he'll be home with a few potted trees, a beaver in a cage and a wolf on a leash.
Good luck to your oldest, sounds like a very worthwhile course
Quote from: jimduncanuk on 19 September 2022, 07:07:37 PMNever mind, on the first semester break he'll be home with a few potted trees, a beaver in a cage and a wolf on a leash.
He's taken several potted trees with him and still left us with a windowsill full of them! I wouldn't mind a pet wolf though...
Quote from: paulr on 19 September 2022, 07:14:58 PMGood luck to your oldest, sounds like a very worthwhile course
Cheers Paul, he's got a real passion for it so I think he's going to do well. The lecturers have said that there's 2 jobs for every graduate currently as well, so there's certainly a job market for it once he gets his degree.
When I met him at the last Salute, he seemed a very capable young man, and a credit to you both.
I am sure he will be fine, even if it takes a little while to settle in.
Orcs and Sunjester are round tomorrow to play Blucher withe the Little Wooden Men. Orcs first game of Blucher.
I'm sure I'm prepped, but am wondering what I've forgotten...
To check sunjester's dice carefully! ;D
Quote from: Orcs on 19 September 2022, 09:33:14 PMWhen I met him at the last Salute, he seemed a very capable young man, and a credit to you both.
I am sure he will be fine, even if it takes a little while to settle in.
Cheers Mark, he texted us today after a couple of days of silence just to say that he's doing OK. He's done a bit of exploring around the campus, had a shopping trip to Morrisons and seems to be getting on well with his new housemates. He doesn't drink (currently!) so his Freshers Week is a little calmer than usual!
Quote from: Leon on 19 September 2022, 07:00:43 PMWe dropped the eldest off in Bangor yesterday to start University. Bit of an odd feeling leaving him there on his own but I'm sure he'll be fine. He's doing a conservation and woodland management course, all about saving the trees and reintroducing wolves and beavers to the UK, so it's right up his street.
House feels a little emptier without him clanging about though.
Been there, albeit a few years ago. Mine went to Aberdeen, about as far from home as it was possible to be. He loved the experience and ended up sharing a house with five other who became friends for life. They even came out to Australia for his wedding. It sounds to me as if he's going to be just fine. A word of warning, they are still able to reach into your back pocket regardless of where they are in the world.
QuoteA word of warning, they are still able to reach into your back pocket regardless of where they are in the world.
father
fä′ᴛʜər
noun
1. A man who has photos of his children where his money used to be
;D ;D ;D
Very good. That sums it up neatly enough ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: John Cook on 20 September 2022, 11:46:14 PMA word of warning, they are still able to reach into your back pocket regardless of where they are in the world.
It does not seem to matter what age they have got to for that either :(
Quote from: Orcs on 22 September 2022, 09:49:51 AMIt does not seem to matter what age they have got to for that either :(
No it doesn't. The truth is, though, that my father helped me out over the years and I'm happy to do the same for my son when I can. After all, it's what parents do is it not?
Quote from: John Cook on 22 September 2022, 11:17:58 PMNo it doesn't. The truth is, though, that my father helped me out over the years and I'm happy to do the same for my son when I can. After all, it's what parents do is it not?
The responsible ones. Let us remember the others who see kids as convenient slaves to support them in old age!
Quote from: John Cook on 22 September 2022, 11:17:58 PMNo it doesn't. The truth is, though, that my father helped me out over the years and I'm happy to do the same for my son when I can. After all, it's what parents do is it not?
I totally agree, I help mine out when there is a need or I can lighten the financial load.
The exception was when my second daughter was just spending money like water and each time I sorted things out, and made provision that she could get by, she went behind my back to borrow more from elsewhere. On that occasion we "had words" and I made her pay back what I had given her. She eventually got straight, although she still seems to save very little despite living at home with my Ex.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 23 September 2022, 12:32:32 AMThe responsible ones. Let us remember the others who see kids as convenient slaves to support them in old age!
Well, yes, there are some like that. I have always thought that prospective parents ought to be required to pass a test before being allowed to breed. ;)
If you're ever collecting signatures on a petition to that effect, let me know.
Quote from: John Cook on 23 September 2022, 08:55:11 AMWell, yes, there are some like that. I have always thought that prospective parents ought to be required to pass a test before being allowed to breed. ;)
Quote from: FierceKitty on 23 September 2022, 09:12:52 AMIf you're ever collecting signatures on a petition to that effect, let me know.
Yes, that would be a great improvement.
Along with compulsory sterilization for all those who are convicted of any form of child neglect or abuse
Quote from: Orcs on 23 September 2022, 09:32:10 AMYes, that would be a great improvement.
Along with compulsory sterilization for all those who are convicted of any form of child neglect or abuse
...or the inability to feed and educate the kids they create.
Quote from: Orcs on 23 September 2022, 09:32:10 AMAlong with compulsory sterilization for all those who are convicted of any form of child neglect or abuse
Careful here .... often those who were most abused themselves as children become abusers. They need help as much as they need to be contained safely.
QuoteYes, that would be a great improvement.
Along with compulsory sterilization for all those who are convicted of any form of child neglect or abuse
Is this the opportunity to mention that since Prince Andrew has been made Earl of Inverness some Scots have taken to calling him The Loch Ness Noncer?
Quote from: Big Insect on 23 September 2022, 11:22:11 AMCareful here .... often those who were most abused themselves as children become abusers. They need help as much as they need to be contained safely.
Agreed, but if they go on to become abusers, sterilisation should break the chain of abuse. Thus reducing the number of abusers for further generations.
Quote from: Orcs on 23 September 2022, 11:47:42 AMAgreed, but if they go on to become abusers, sterilisation should break the chain of abuse. Thus reducing the number of abusers for further generations.
How?
Aren't these posts a tad heavy for what is supposed to be a light hearted thread Gentlemen ? (unsubtal hit)
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 23 September 2022, 01:13:36 PMAren't these posts a tad heavy for what is supposed to be a light hearted thread Gentlemen ? (unsubtal hit)
Probably
Just a little story which for reasons that are unclear to me I wish to share.. I used to work as an advocate for all sorts of marginalized groups and one of my clients was trying to recover her child from, social services. It concerns a youngish lady I shall call X , Now, we read through the social service notes together and it said "as X was abused as a child there is a high chance that she herself will become an abuser. I said to X – that seem remarkably unfair and even logically questionable." To which she said – "I don't know Ian – what I do know is that it is rubbish and I was never abused as a child" Basically social services had confused the notes on two of their charges to the detriment of X and her attempt to get her family back together.
Anyway just a little story around abusers real and supposed
Now the case involving the 6ft tall fetish model and the gypsy curse I will leave for another time
Quote from: Orcs on 23 September 2022, 11:47:42 AMAgreed, but if they go on to become abusers, sterilisation should break the chain of abuse. Thus reducing the number of abusers for further generations.
Man hands on misery to man;
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.
On 'Confusion' of records.
Dentist, a few years ago. Well knackered tooth. X Rays before referral to Dental Hospital for extraction... dentist put one up.
"Oh Dear! Well, THAT one looks very bad too... I'll add it onto notes."
THEN, had another think... and realised Assistant had put X Ray WRONG WAY ROUND!
Talking to Radiographer... happens quite often! Pre op.
VERY occasionally, in Hospital Op theatre, Good surgeon might think "Well, That does not look bad... let's double check, again!"
I think it becomes filed as 'Exploratory Surgery'... do stress, VERY rare! And, at least the good bit has been looked at!
Still got what is left of tooth, maybe 6 years on!
"My Lord... THERE are your Gums!" ;)
QuoteOn 'Confusion' of records.
Dentist, a few years ago. Well knackered tooth. X Rays before referral to Dental Hospital for extraction... dentist put one up.
"Oh Dear! Well, THAT one looks very bad too... I'll add it onto notes."
THEN, had another think... and realised Assistant had put X Ray WRONG WAY ROUND!
Talking to Radiographer... happens quite often! Pre op.
VERY occasionally, in Hospital Op theatre, Good surgeon might think "Well, That does not look bad... let's double check, again!"
I think it becomes filed as 'Exploratory Surgery'... do stress, VERY rare! And, at least the good bit has been looked at!
Still got what is left of tooth, maybe 6 years on!
"My Lord... THERE are your Gums!" ;)
It could have been worse
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/21/elderly-man-has-wrong-leg-amputated-at-austrian-clinic (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/21/elderly-man-has-wrong-leg-amputated-at-austrian-clinic)
The eldest attended the Societies open day last week and chose himself a few clubs to join, those being Birdwatching (fair enough), Tabletop Gaming (he plays Magic and D&D) and... Medieval Re-enactment?! He's never mentioned any interest in this previously but he said that they had two guys sword fighting outside so it looked like fun. He might change his mind when they throw 25kg of chainmail on him...
;D
Quote from: Leon on 27 September 2022, 12:02:57 AM25kg of chainmail on him...
Chainmail, you'll set the Kat mewing
No longer necessary - people are noticing it for themselves now. ;D
Well, that's what the peeps selling the stuff call it:
Chainmail and Plate Armour (https://armchair-armoury.co.uk/chainmail-and-plate-armour/)
Chainmail Armour for Sale (https://www.theknightshop.com/buy-historical-armour/chainmail-armour-uk)
Re-Enactment Chainmail Armour (https://www.southernswords.co.uk/body-armour/chainmail-armour.html)
Macdonald's call their wares "food". Does anyone believe them (twice, anyway)?
QuoteMacdonald's call their wares "food". Does anyone believe them (twice, anyway)?
And their retail outlets are clearly not restaurants, despite their claim.
Language does evolve with usage, otherwise we'd all be still spelling stuff like this:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Souldiers_Pocker_Bible_1643.jpg)
Printed in London by "G.B. and R.W." in 1643 (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
Quote from: FierceKitty on 27 September 2022, 09:41:53 AMMacdonald's call their wares "food". Does anyone believe them (twice, anyway)?
Sadly, yes
Bear in mind that spelling only standardised with mass printing - Billy Spearshake couldna spell.
I generally warn my students that they can trust me on syntax, lexis, pronunciation, idiom, punctuation, dialect, and register, but NOT on spelling.
QuoteBear in mind that spelling only standardised with mass printing - Billy Spearshake couldna spell.
He didn't have to since his words were designed to be performed.
(How I wish my English teachers had remembered this simple fact).
I taught a group of students Much Ado about Nothing using only films once. They loved the idea.
For Fred. From my latest game - Poles vs Bavarians. (I know, but I did because I could.) Terrain and initial placement are randomly determined.
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Overview of the Poles. Infantry on the left, the 14th Cuirassiers and some infantry in the centre and a lancer brigade on the right - on the wrong side of the river.
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Infantry in the centre, with the 14th Cuirassiers and a lancer regiment in support.
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Other side of the windmill. 14th Cuirassiers in the background and a couple of artillery batteries. The general, Kaminiecki and his staff take position in front of the windmill.
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Polish right, two lancer regiments trying to get over the river
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Bavarians - all the cavalry (4 regiments) on the right
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The Bavarian centre is held by a brigade of light infantry. Their commander Wrede and his staff move off the road to let the artillery pass.
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Left wing. Regular infantry and a couple of battalions of landwehr.
I mentioned the 14th Cuirassiers because they were the stars of the show. They (and the 3rd Lancers) cut across their infantry and straight into the Bavarian cavalry, destroying the two brigades in short order.
The Bavarian Light infantry holding the centre went into square and their inertia seemed to infect the next in line National infantry who refused to advance from their hedged field, and the regular infantry were held in place by the other Polish cavalry brigade (2nd and 4th Lancers) who had finally made their way over the river on the Polish right.
Wrede, in command of the Bavarians, seeing no way forward conducted a controlled withdrawal, leaving the field to Kaminiecki and the Poles.
Lovely looking game there 8) .
Cracking stuff! Thanks for sharing. Always great to see a game with loads of figures involved. Your units are of an impressive size!
:-bd =D> :-bd =D>
Love the columns, limbers & caissons :)
Quote from: paulr on 10 October 2022, 06:15:22 AM:-bd =D> :-bd =D>
Love the columns, limbers & caissons :)
+1
The large units are impressive, really look the part.
Can't cope at the moment - need to take stock.
Yesterday I based a unit of Imperial Roman auxiliaries, painted a battalion of Danish Napoleonic infantry, and prepped some British Cold War vehicles.
I'm waiting for the promised Israeli half tracks before I can finish that project, I bought some Hoplites because (?), and found some Roman Republicans that need a coat of paint.
So what did I do this morning? Worked out how to get a Napoleonic Swedish army. =)
By my reckoning, I have 13 projects on the go at the moment. :o
So, being resolute I am going to:
- Paint the horse, and finish basing Uncle Richard <<Project Finished>>
- Paint the 2nd (technically the 4th) battalion of the Danish Holstein regiment (75 figures), and the Brigadier
- Paint the Cold War British vehicles - 26
- Rig the HMS Charlotte <<Project Finished>>
- Finish painting the Imperial Romans - just a few to do <<Project Finished>>
- Paint the 2 battalions of the Danish Funen Regiments - 150 or so figures
- Paint the British Cold War infantry - 120 figures <<Project Finished>>
- Paint the 2 battalions of the Danish Schleswig Regiments* - 150 or so figures, and the Brigadier
- Paint the Cold War Harriers *Project Finished*, A10 Warthogs and Su25s*
- Paint the Danish General, staff, ADCs, markers and cassions - 50 figures(?)<<Project Finished>>
- Paint the M60s and M113 for the US Cold War forces* 10 vehicles<<Project Finished (see below)>>
- Paint those two Napoleonic Polish battalions I "found" - 144 figures
- Finish painting the Republican Romans - 2 allied Legions - about 200 figures <<Project Finished>>
- Paint those other two Polish battalions - 144 figures <<Project Finished (again)>>
- Paint those Hoplites <<Project Finished>>
Meanwhile, in terms of purchasing I need to heavily invest in Soviet T34's, T62s, BTRs and BMPs to finish off the Egyptians and Cold War Soviet (about 40 vehicles),a nd the M3s when they arrive for the Israelis. Also, realistically, I'm not going to resist those new buildings for long. Oh, and 'cos I've got some British Cold War artillery, I'll have to get some Soviet ... and that means I have to get American guns too. :(
Then, and only then, may I start a new project.** This will be one of (in current order of interest)
- Swedish Napoleonics (I can proxy)
- Ottoman Napoleonics
- Spanish Napoleonics
- Romano- British
- WWI Russian, Austrians, Germans (Eastern front anyway)
- Minor Napoleonics (e.g. Italy, Saxony, Westphalia, Naples***)
- French Napoleonics
- Portuguese Napoleonics
- Viet Nam or French Indo China
- Something else
Yes, I could just go period specific and for example, blitz the Danes, but that means painting nearly 400 red coats and blue trousers in one fell swoop. I prefer a bit of variety in my painting, and unfortunately painted all the Danish cavalry and artillery in between Romans.
This, Gentlemen, is a
plan. The plan is of such a quality that requires an appropriate logo:
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*Assuming they arrive from Pendraken by the time I get here in the list
**This does not include the possibility that Pendraken may release something that is more interesting - e.g. Ancient Indians, Amazons, SciFi.
***Too many damned white uniforms!
Please note: *Project Finished* just means "balanced force that can be gamed with" and implies no cessation of increasing, improving or generally updating the force in question.
No plan survives contact with the enemy Pendraken release schedule!
:d :d :d :d :d :d :d :d :d :d
On fire tonight Ithoriel! 8)
No plan survives my butterfly mind and poor bookkeeping
- Paint the horse, and finish basing Uncle Richard <<Project Finished>> In progress! :D
- Paint the 2nd (technically the 4th) battalion of the Danish Holstein regiment (75 figures), and the Brigadier Need my order to arrive, but I can do #8
- Paint the Cold War British vehicles - 26
- Rig the HMS Charlotte <<Project Finished>>
Finish painting the Imperial Romans - just a few to do <<Project Finished>> Done- Paint the 2 battalions of the Danish Funen Regiments - 150 or so figures
- Paint the British Cold War infantry - 120 figures <<Project Finished>>
- Paint the 2 battalions of the Danish Schleswig Regiments - 150 or so figures, and the Brigadier
- Paint the Cold War Harriers *Project Finished*, A10 Warthogs and Su25s
- Paint the Danish General, staff, ADCs, markers and cassions - 50 figures(?)<<Project Finished>>
- Paint the M60s and M113 for the US Cold War forces 10 vehicles<<Project Finished (see below)>>
- Paint those two Napoleonic Polish battalions I "found" - 144 figures
- Finish painting the Republican Romans - 2 allied Legions - about 200 figures <<Project Finished>> Yeah, well they came to hand so I've prepped a legion
- Paint those other two Polish battalions - 144 figures <<Project Finished (again)>>
- Paint those Hoplites <<Project Finished>>
This plan lasted 3 hours 28 minutes. Better than normal.
Only 13 !!, I wish for such ease and order.
My current Projects
- 28mm Prussians for In Her majesties Name ( 1 gun 12 figures left)
- Finish painting 20mm French Platoon for Chain of Command (20 left)
- Assemble and paint French vehicles for above (10 vehicles/tanks)
- Paint 20mm Radar station
- Paint 20mm MDF Girder bridge
- Paint 20mm Canalboat
- Paint additional 10mm Wars of the roses to complete units for To the strongest (90 figs)
- Paint 60 Early Iperial roman archers to replace rubish ones from another manufacturer. (Yes I know)
- Paint the Latex streams to go with Timecast rivers (6 feet)
- Finish camps for To the Strongest (3)
- Finish 10mm French Foreign Legion
- Finish 10mm WSS (200 figs)
- Pant Spanish peninsular Village for above.
- Rebase 1200 10mm ACW for Fire and fury.
- 15mm Biblical (8 chariots 100 infantry)
And this is before the other projects that I have yet to start that are in the "next on the list pile"
10mm
WW2 Japanese
WW2 BEF
WW2 Russian
10mm Fallshirmjager
Macedonians(500 figs)
Parthians (500 Figs)
20mm
Falshirmjager Platoon
3 SDKFZ 232
3 Half Tracks
4 Bunkers for Normandy
You then go onto the Lead Mountain
1:3000
pre dreadnaught Russian and Japanese fleets (40 ships approx)
10mm
1000 ACW
6mm
FWC Space Marines
15mm
500 Italian wars
400 Waterloo Napoleonic (French and British) All Battle honors miniatures purchased before 1990
28mm
100 Men Of Gondor
50 Orcs
Box of plastic Fuzzy wuzzies
20 plastic Sudan Brits
80 Arabs
As you don't die till you have painted your last miniature I am on course to live to 183!
Ah! Good to know I'm not the only one.
I don't like having so much on the go. I prefer only one or two projects running concurrently at the painting phase, with one other in the purchasing phase.
When I signed the Pledge that the Dark Lord was the Way, and that 10mm was the One True Scale, I ditched all other scales (barring 1:600 aircraft and 1:3000 ships) which does allow me a consistency with scenery. My one regret is that it does limit one somewhat in the realm of skirmish games.
Recently Pendraken have tempted me to stray by releasing so many new loveliness. I need to next few releases to be Meso-Americans, League of Ausberg or AWI, so I can look and say "that's nice, but not my period".
QuoteAs you don't die till you have painted your last miniature I am on course to live to 183!
My spreadsheet tracks my purchases and paintings and dynamically calculates the point at which my lead mountain will be exhausted.
At the moment 5th May 2025. I hoping to extend this somewhat, because it's a bit too close to my daughter's birthday.
Oh what have you guys started? I don't like thinking too much about the labours ahead:
1. Complete "butterfly" project with 1/72 saxons and Vikings
2. Back to true scale and complete ugrade of "verneuil" armies. My "MO" is usually to buy something off ebay, touch up, reflag add another 50% new for variety and to break up unhistorical "strip" ranks and re-base it all.
3. Consolidate and Upgrade two ebay purchased WOTR armies. did someone mention 90 figure units?
4. New Late Roman, upgrade purchased Romano-Brit and Early Saxon
5. Upgrade ebay purchased huns
6. New Peninsular Spanish, Brits, Portugese, French
7. New Barons War medievals to incude scots and welsh
8. Upgrade Scottish ECW and new Jacobites. (I will leave the opposition for fear of having to start whole Marlburian/SYW eras)
9. New Dark Age (Dux Bellorum) Picts, Scots, Irish, Welsh, Mercian
10. Upgrade Napoleonic Russian, Prussian, Austrian
11. 1/72 "El Cid" Spanish, Andalus and Herbert Lom army
12. 1/72 Crusades including Baltic, Mongols, Rus
And then he tempts me with those glorious AWI and Russians!
Is there anywhere we can get help?
Quote from: DecemDave on 17 October 2022, 08:10:30 AMIs there anywhere we can get help?
NO Where are the Cheiftain and FV432 (
Leon is going to bar me soon)
Maybe this will help justfy your "lead mountain"? :-\
Looks like this guy is more into 40K...probably why he also has another video on "You Need to Watch Out for Hobby Debt" ;D
I think you'll find that you can buy many more 10mm Chieftains/FV 432's than you could buy 40K "Rus/Leaman" (or whatever they are called) tanks for the same amount of money..... ;)
Quote from: DecemDave on 17 October 2022, 08:10:30 AMIs there anywhere we can get help?
No not a chance, just accept you are an addict.
Recovering wargamers are as common as unicorns, as they tend to relapse every time they see something shiny.
If you ever see Ground Zero games stand at a show he has a container with "free figures" working on the principle, that the first hit is free, then you will be back for more.
Peter, knowing fellow addicts may be even worse than I doesn't make me feel better about my own :)
Outstanding projects
1/?
Spaceships and assorted scenery
1/4800
Napoleonic Naval
1/3000
WW2 British and German naval
1/2400
Armada period English and Spanish
1/1200
Roman and Carthaginian naval
1/600
Sengoku Jidai Japanese
WW2 Coastal naval
WW2 NWE Brits and Germans
1/300
Sumerians and enemies
Late Romans and enemies
Renaissance Italian Wars
WW2 Germans and Russians
Epic 40K - Imperial Guard, Space Marines, Eldar, Squats
10mm
15mm
Early Hominids for Tribal (Homo Heidelbergensis, Homo Neanderthalensis, Homo Denisova, Homo Floresiensis, Homo Sapiens plus assorted wildlife)
Napoleonic French
Samurai
WW2 Germans and Russians
Warmaster - High Elves, Empire, Albion, Lizardmen, Dry Undead, Chaos, Haradrim
20mm
WW2 Germans and Russians
Sci-fi figures and scenery for RPGs
28mm
Generic Fantasy for RPG's
Far Horizon: Zero Dawn
Assorted Warhammer 40K
No doubt there are others buried in the back of cupboards and long forgotten!
QuoteOh what have you guys started? I don't like thinking too much about the labours ahead:
Sorry. I am comforted to know that everyone else seems to be as messy as I am.
Quotedid someone mention 90 figure units?
'Fraid so. For Napoleonics, I went for a division level game (10-12 battalions typically) and a ratio of about 1:10. This typically gives 60-80 figures per battalion, 40 per cavalry regiment but the Austrians want a bit more,
For the Romans I went 1:50 which gives me legions of 100 figures.
Hmm ... my cut'n'paste seems to have eaten my 10mm section :)
10mm
WW2 Germans and Russians (again!)
Warmaster - High Elves, Empire, Albion, Dry Undead, Chaos, Lizardmen, Herne and the Forces of the Forest and Haradrim
QuoteI think you'll find that you can buy many more 10mm Chieftains/FV 432's than you could buy 40K "Rus/Leaman" (or whatever they are called) tanks for the same amount of money..... ;)
About 12:1 for Pendraken tanks vs a GW 40k Leman Russ
But that's not even trying as you can get 28:1 tanks vs 1 single command figure...
(I used WWII tanks, modern ones are a bit more expensive so just 8:1)
In these days where mental health is a more open subject, and good mental health is something that is something that we should strive for. It should be made known particularly to spouses (other relationships are available), that a wargamer needs their own body weight in unpainted metal, resin or plastic to feel content. :)
Quotethat a wargamer needs their own body weight in unpainted metal, resin or plastic to feel content. :)
;D ;D
At last, a reason for gaining weight. Pass the Mars bars...
;D ;D ;D
My list of projects is a little different:
- Indian Mutiny / First Indian War of Independance
- Painting 120 more 40mm hexes for coastlines in naval games
- Pondering what should come next
:o
I really admire your discipline, but not having at least 6 things that you could possibly do next?!
That's a little bit frightening.
Quote;D ;D ;D
My list of projects is a little different:
- Indian Mutiny / First Indian War of Independance
- Painting 120 more 40mm hexes for coastlines in naval games
- Pondering what should come next
That is worryingly short as a list of projects!
Last time I compiled a list, I had more on my painting table than that!
Hmmm, an earlier post I made this afternoon has failed to appear. Let's see if this one works :-\ .
Quote:o
I really admire your discipline, but not having at least 6 things that you could possibly do next?!
That's a little bit frightening.
I've got plenty I could possibly do next; the question is what...
QuoteThat is worryingly short as a list of projects!
Last time I compiled a list, I had more on my painting table than that!
;D ;D ;D
Hi
Not sure if it is a 'Paul' thing but I really have only two projects (that is figures that are in the que to be painted) currently ongoing:
Assyrians (15mm, you know, the ones who are 'dead' but don't know it yet)
American War of Independence (10mm, my 'lockdown' project that might never get finished if Pendraken continue to bring out more lovely figures). ;)
I'm pretty good at not purchasing figures until I have (nearly) finished the last lot and indeed, in actually finishing what I have before moving onto the next lot, that said I spent about half my working life in training people in how to organise, manage resources, prioritising etc.
Cheers Paul
Quote...
Not sure if it is a 'Paul' thing but I really have only two projects (that is figures that are in the que to be painted) currently ongoing:
...
Well said, that well named man ;) :)
Quote from: T13A on 18 October 2022, 07:12:52 AMNot sure if it is a 'Paul' thing but I really have only two projects (that is figures that are in the que to be painted) currently ongoing:
I think that is what is bothering me. Normally I have 2-3 projects on the go; at least one of those is in the "purchase" stage, as I tend to buy my projects in stages. Between birthday gift and Pendraken unreasonably releasing some magnificent new ranges, I'm all a flutter and I don't know my grumblestocks from Thursday! (Puts apron over head)
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Having firmly put BAOR at action 3 on my to do list, of course I've started some of them. Many apologies, some of these are not Pendraken. These are the light forces, the CVRT Scorpions, Scimitars and Spartans, and a couple of big Land Rovers.
What could be next? Hmmm ... any thoughts? Any notions from the Wirral perhaps?
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OK, rotten photography time ... but progress on Uncle Richard. Need to add a bush and mayhap some trees. (https://i.imgflip.com/1z37me.gif)
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Work in progress
Getting there ... Imperial Auxiliaries - blue. This project is now "finished". Two legions, and two lots of auxiliaries (blue and green) plus some archers and a small unit of cavalry.
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Test paint (very quick) of Napoleonic Spanish grenadiers - Asturias, Guadalahara, La Princesa and Zamora from La Romana's division.
Not sure about coat colours. Pretty much every source says white coats for all four regiments, but Suhr brothers show blue coats for at least part of some regiments.
(https://www.napoleon-series.org/images/military/organization/Spain/Suhr/Suhrspanish19b.jpg) Soldier Princessa Infantry Regiment, Soldiers Guadalaxara Infantry Regiment
(https://www.napoleon-series.org/images/military/organization/Spain/Suhr/Suhrspanish24b.jpg) Musketeer Asturia Infantry Regiment (Fig. 1) Musketeer Princessa Infantry Regiment (Fig. 2,4,5) Musketeer Guadalaxara Infantry Regiment (Fig. 3)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Kn%C3%B6tel_III%2C_31.jpg/800px-Kn%C3%B6tel_III%2C_31.jpg) Knotel - left two figures Princesa.
I'm tempted to do at least one regiment in blue. Not that one, that was Green Stuff Summersea Blue and it won't do at all, think I may go back to Vallejo Pastel Blue.
Also, totally bottled the grenadier bags - just went for the facing colours.
(https://www.napoleon-series.org/images/military/organization/Spain/Suhr/Suhrspanish18b.jpg)
Anyone done the Spanish yet? Any tips?
https://www.napoleon-series.org/military-info/organization/Spain/c_Suhrspanish.html (https://www.napoleon-series.org/military-info/organization/Spain/c_Suhrspanish.html)
Hi FSN
Love the Chieftains above (who couldn't)? :)
But (sorry for the 'but') the 'green' doesn't look quite right to me, shouldn't it be a bit, eh, 'greener'?
Cheers Paul
(https://tankmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Chieftain-MBT-feat-1100x500.jpg)
Thank you. Possibly ... I went with this one from the Tank Museum.
QuoteNot sure about coat colours. Pretty much every source says white coats for all four regiments, but Suhr brothers show blue coats for at least part of some regiments.
Anyone done the Spanish yet? Any tips?
The reason some Spanish line infantry regiments are shown in blue and some in white is because from 1802 the army was going through the process of issuing new uniforms. In early 1808 three uniforms were in use, those issued in 1797, 1802 and 1805
The old fashioned uniform with white coat, dating from 1797, was replaced in 1802 by a new uniform which included a dark sky-blue jacket. This was not popular and in 1805 the infantry reverted to its traditional white with a white jacket, with distinctive facings, in similar style to the 1802 uniform.
None of these changes were complete by 1808 and three regiments still wore the old 1797 uniform, while 12 still wore the 1802 dark sky-blue uniform.
In early 1808 those regiments still wearing earlier uniforms were as below. The rest had been issued with the 1805 uniform.
Blue 1802 Uniform
Aragon
Corona
Castilla
Espana
Estado
Extramadura
Granada
Leon
Princesa (in 1808, while in Denmark, issued with white jackets made in Paris, hence both blue and white shown in the Suhr illustrations)
Rey
Reina
Zaragoza
White 1797 Uniform
Fijo de Cueta
Jaen
Malaga
This comes from Summerfield and Cronin 'Spanish Infantry of the Early Peninsular War'
Thank you.
Interesting.
Yesterday I went to see the surgeon again.
Was told that my sepsis problem had probably been caused by my appendix. The suggestion was that the appendix had got blocked and then inflated and burst. They could do some exploratory surgery, but the collected opinion was that the appendix had been "obliterated" and that surgery would find nothing.
"Wouldn't that have hurt?" I asked.
"Oh yes." Was the reply.
Since I felt no pain then either a) I'm a flippin' hero or b) they don't really know what happened.
Either way, I'm glad to have been released from the clutches of the NHS.
Hugs
>:<
Phones and Mr. Angry.What IS it with organisations? No contact No. provided for a site. 'National' service 'Helpline' line... several Menu paths... not appropriate... then... " Due to exceptional call volumes... estimated response time 30mins +."
Online... speak to our 'Friendly Chatbot'... which would not even load... and would have been no damn use anyway.
Eventually... managed to get a number from helpful 'other' site... (Actually a Fleet Maintenance depot!). Receptionist gave me another number... and got through to someone. Understanding, and OK.
Took about two hours... and this when Unwell and trying to 'Report Sick' as courtesy, rather than just not turn up! :( >:(
Afraid I do not remember whether I have posted this music track before... but good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj8_wufhE28
Then, watching, realised that, as a late teen I remember when 'Space Invaders' was brought out! No wonder memory going! LOL! :( ;D
Hmm. Maybe a Sub Board for Music?
Guy Fawkes night. 10.30... at least Fireworks enthusiasts seem to have run out of ammo! Swear some of those things had more BANG than a 105! Wonder effect if one went off, somehow, in hand?
In my day they went fizz, phut. ;D
LOL! As teen we even had hand made Rocket Launcher! Naughty! ;)
Not Team Yankee - support for the Cold War US infantry - M113's and a troop of mixed M60s (a Starship has snuck in somehow) with a couple of A10 Warthogs giving air cover.
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I remember seeing an A10 Warthog hedge hopping many years ago by a village where I lived. I didn't hear it until it was almost next to me. Very impressive to see.
Over the years I've been assaulted by Hunters, Phantoms, Tornadoes and Tyhpoons. Hogs coming at me from below the M1, near Coventry were the worst
Years ago I went to a RAF station and had the pleasure of a low flying Vulcan.
Quote from: fsn on 06 November 2022, 02:03:04 PMYears ago I went to a RAF station and had the pleasure of a low flying Vulcan.
And got deafened, noisy beast.
Pardon?
QuotePardon?
He said,
"And got deafened, noisy beast!". =)
QuoteOver the years I've been assaulted by Hunters, Phantoms, Tornadoes and Tyhpoons. Hogs coming at me from below the M1, near Coventry were the worst
Years ago, hill walking in Snowdonia, was very startled to find myself looking down onto the Tornadoes hurtling through the valley.
Where a friend lived near the Brecon Beacons, there was a valley you used to see various fighters whizzing up, which was pretty impressive, especially looking down on them too.
As a kid we often went to RAF Alconbury to see the various 'V' Bombers at the base, plus the Duxford Airshow of course.
QuoteYears ago, hill walking in Snowdonia, was very startled to find myself looking down onto the Tornadoes hurtling through the valley.
QuoteWhere a friend lived near the Brecon Beacons, there was a valley you used to see various fighters whizzing up, which was pretty impressive, especially looking down on them too.
I'm not exactly sure where "the course" is but this sounds like the famous "Mach Loop." Very popular with military aircraft enthusiasts and, of course, the military.
Loads of spectacular videos on YouTube, btw, .... although I wonder if they are really there for the flying ..... :-\
Mach Loop (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cg_xa8CEpA)
QuoteLoads of spectacular videos on YouTube, btw, .... although I wonder if they are really there for the flying ..... :-\
Mach Loop (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cg_xa8CEpA)
"Sign in to confirm your age. This video may be inappropriate for some users."
Aeroplanes and . . . er, what?
Quote"Sign in to confirm your age. This video may be inappropriate for some users."
Aeroplanes and . . . er, what?
... and here was I thinking you were over 18. ;) ;D
When I was a child, my Dad was in the RAF. He served on English Electric Lightnings.
When they scrambled, it was very, very noisy.
Always loved the Lightning.
One of the few aircraft that could climb vertically.
QuoteAlways loved the Lightning.
One of the few aircraft that could climb vertically.
And go into ground vertically!! There is a pic of such, but I can't post it. Pilot survived with injuries.
Used to travel through valley where A10s would just pop over hill, not far overhead. And than a Vulcan did same thing!
At a Burma Star Day show in the 1970's, a Lightning came in low over the runway and then did a vertical climb until out of sight. Damned impressive to say the least!
Ma recalled... not sure when. Sunbathing with female friend on beach. Then a shadow and a Roar! Thought it was a spaceship... but Vulcan! Very low!
Have heard of an excercise... US or Canada... where US fighter spotted Vulcan Low, over river... so attempted 'bounce'. TWO RAF fighters popped up from underneath LOL! ;D
Quote from: Steve J on 06 November 2022, 09:15:02 PMAt a Burma Star Day show in the 1970's, a Lightning came in low over the runway and then did a vertical climb until out of sight. Damned impressive to say the least!
Must have been impressive - Lightnings were all about pure brute power. Saw a then brand new USAF F-15 Eagle do a similar manuvere from a standing start at an Airforce open day at Ohakea in 1981. 'burners on and as soon as the gear was up it was climbing vertically and accelerating to mach 0.9.......I'd hate to think how much that would cost to do these days :)
In the middle of the North Island of NZ is the Waiouru military training area. State Highway 1 passes through it and there are a number of steep gullies that the road dips down into before climbing out the other side
On one trip I spotted a pair of Iroquois helicopters flying along a gully as we headed down into it. I mentioned them to my then wife who was in the backseat with our very young son. She looked out the front windscreen down onto the pair of Iroquois flying past below us and for some reason screamed. This amused our son and I'm sure has contributed to his lifelong love of Iroquois
My health: I'm posting this not for pity points, but to record a catalogue of wtf's.
A brief recap:
- In May I what I thought was a tummy bug. Lots of shouting for God on the Great White Telephone.
- I phoned 111, and they asked lots of questions including if I'd been hit on the back of the head with a brick. I still consider this to be an overly-specific question.
- Since this persisted, I went to see a doctor. I has stopped the upchucking, but just felt so terribly drained of energy. She set me up with a blood test.
- Had the blood test a few days later at 10am. Was phoned by the doctor at 12 noon and went to see them at 4pm.
- Sent to hospital, directly to hospital, no detour home to pack - sepsis.
- Spent 10 days in hospital with anti-biotic drip which was only changed when I managed to get to sleep. 2am was a favoured time.
- After a few days, the sepsis was identified as having come from an abscess of the bowl.
- Spent a fun hour with a nurse dressed as a clown, a one armed surgeon and a CT scan having a drain put in my side. This drain collected the gunk from the abscess and I shall never eat chicken soup again.
- Young blonde female surgeon told me the most likely causes of an abscess on that side of the body were "old age, fish bones and colon cancer." Bit worried, 'cos history of cancer in the family.
- Sent home with the drain (named Mr Stinky because of the faint odour) and told to contact the local Treatment Centre as the drain would need to be flushed daily.
- Phoned Treatment Centre and was told that they "don't do that".
- On 20 tablets per day, with 6 weeks supply from the hospital.
- Called to local pharmacy who gave me a second supply of 6 weeks of tablets. They didn't have the capsules for the drip, and their supplier didn't either. Did I want to try Boots? Since walking the 200 yards to the pharmacy was somewhat of a trial, I declined the offer.
- Sanity saved by the District Nurses who didn't have the correct flush capsules (it was just saline for Goodness' Sake) but beg/borrowed or stole some.
- Had a new district nurse and Mr Stinky was so pleased he ejected himself from my body. Nobody seemed bothered.
- Saw the Boss Surgeon as an outpatient. He spent more time showing photos of himself at a football match to my daughter then he did examining me. I liked that; made him human.
- Boss Surgeon unable to proceed until the emergency CT scan that he had ordered 3 weeks ago had taken place.
- Had CT scan a month later.
- Saw Boss Surgeon and he started explaining how there was a tumour and they could do a colonoscopy but they were worried it would damage the bowel. Nurse interrupted and pointed results of 2nd CT scan after which he said "there is no tumour! You will have a colonoscopy and then we will hug." Like I say, very human. Think it brightened his day to give good news. I think I would like to have hugged the nurse there and then.
- The night before colonoscopy had little sleep due to drinking bowel cleaner called Movieprep whose prime ingredient was, I think, battery acid.
- Had colonoscopy and was told that Movieprep hadn't done its job and I had to go for another colonoscopy with a double dose of Movieprep the night before.
- That night will long remain in my memory.
- Second colonoscopy fine. Chatted to nurse about the benefits of university vs apprenticeships as she held my belly so the camera could "get round the corner". We all parted as friends, with a vague promise never to do this again.
- Received a letter saying I had to visit the Chest Clinic. No reason given.
- Went to see chest clinic and was told that the appointment had been cancelled. Should have had a letter rescheduling, because I hadn't had a CT scan of the chest. However, the receptionist did get me five minutes with a chest specialist who said I had sarcoidosis, but would not be drawn on what it was, nor what caused it, nor what the effects would be.
- Received an appointment for a CT scan of the chest.
- Went back to Chest Clinic. Told that the sarcoidosis was "historic" (in that case I think he meant from the past rather than legendary) because new CT scan had shown no change in the sarcoidosis. He asked if I had difficulty breathing, told me to lose weight and dismissed me. No indication what had caused it.
- Had a call back to the Bowel Surgeons. Saw a blonde female surgeon who denied ever saying "old age, fish bones or colon cancer" and explained that the problem was all due to my appendix exploding. I asked if this would have been painful and she said it would be very painful, and that I must have a high threshold of pain. No use doing exploratory surgery as the appendix had been "obliterated". Now worried that my internal organs may explode and I don't notice. Not twisting my torso in case one of my kidneys pops. Anyway, she signed me off, and there I thought the NHS could safely forget about me.
But, alas, no. This week I received a text from the NHS inviting me to a diabetes clinic. I replied that I had not discussed diabetes with anyone and they responded that I had been referred by my practice.
Wondered down to the practice to gather information. The receptionist asked (quite rightly) if I had diabetes. I was going to respond about my diabetes being analogous to the welfare of Schrodinger's cat, but decided that would be somewhat d**kish, so I just shrugged and said "I don't know. Do I?" She tapped away (on her computer) and then confidently told me that I did in fact have diabetes. At that moment, I felt as if the Movieprep was making a comeback. I asked when I had been diagnosed and she said that I must have had a blood test in the past 3 months. I most definitely had not, so she arranged for the Diabetric Nurse to phone me.
Diabetic Nurse (turns out both interpretations of that description are true) rang me and explained that I had not responded to a letter sent to me in August. I could categorically assure her that I had not received any such letter (all communication with the NHS is filed in strict date order). I was somewhat disheartened, as you may imagine. I don't have a perfect diet, but I don't eat cakes or sweets or takeouts and the last time I had alcohol was last Christmas. I asked if my bout of pancreatitis (in 2002) may have been a factor and she said that 40% of people who have pancreatitis develop diabetes. Would have been a good thing to have been told in 2002.
So now, I have a boot camp diabetes session booked in, a visit to the Diabetic Nurse, but first off I have an appointment with the "Blood Nurse".
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Individually the people I have seen have been excellent, and I won't have a word said against them ... except maybe blonde lady surgeon. Boss Surgeon was a "good bloke", clown nurse was bright and reassuring, local doctor probably saved my life, and those angel District Nurses definitely saved my sanity. The bigger battle for me has been against the poor communication and the medical bureaucracy that seems so disjointed.
Overall I feel fine, physically.
Good to read you're feeling fine, Stewy (sorry about the brick, btw - I was aiming at someone else). As my old aunt used to say, "auld age disnae come by itsel" (although I would not classify you as old). I could tell you stories about our wonderful NHS in relation to me and my family (suffice to say, the stories are both good and bad). Colonoscopys are great fun (I preferred my endoscopy), particularly the wiped out day beforehand constantly drinking that awful stuff and running to the loo. One time, when I was wheeled into the theatre lying there in all my glory (you know how you are 'dressed' - or rather 'undressed'), I heard a voice saying, "Oh hello, David. How are you?" It turned out that lady surgeon carrying out the procedure was someone I knew! :-[
"get well soon" doesnt cut it really. so I hope you get to the next step as quickly as the system lets you.
As for endoscopies they are much better than colonoscopies provided you make the right choice when they ask "Do you want to be sedated or shall we just numb the back of your throat?" 45 minutes later being able to drive yourself home doesn't really compensate for the trauma.
Blimey Nobby!
Blimey, you have been run ragged old chap! Dealing with the NHS is rather akin to Local Government, you constantly feel you are going round in circles and not really being told what is going on etc. Hope things begin to improve for you!
:o X_X :-& >:<
Thank you all for your kind words.
It has certainly been a tumultuous and interesting few months.
Not much fun! Sepsis is dangerous...uncle, (in his late 80s), has been found on the deck twice after lying there for hours... once outdoors... lucky... like yourself, straight to hospital. Might be an idea to take small bag of undies, etc, to Docs,,, just in case,,, if feeling really unwell.
I always tell people with illness, to 'get it checked out'... but do not do it myself! 'Appointment in 2 weeks'...! Referral, another 2-4 weeks... tests, results... more tests...
By that time, either you are mending or dead.
Always exaggerate symptoms... never say "It's not so bad, really". Uncles' daughter in law Radiographer... so knew how to push things on phone to get something done.
Anyway, Best Wishes.
Nobby it makes my eye op seem trivial. I find Diabetes makes little difference apart from the 27 million pills I have to take. Hope you didn't respond the way I did when told - at midnight having been in A&E for 7 hours "What f***ing Diabetes"
Well, mate, you story is not unusual these days, more's the pity. I could exchange notes with you in the context of my dealings with my GP, a different one every time, the urologist at my local hospital and the local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), who refused to allow my medication to be prescribed notwithstanding that it had been approved by NICE for NHS use in 2012, such that I had to buy it privately for six months until the CCG was disolved earlier this year, but I don't think current IT has enough band-width to relate it all here. At least you have retained your sense of humour which is a positive thing. Hope you are feeling better.
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 13 November 2022, 07:56:11 AMNobby it makes my eye op seem trivial.
Oh Heck no! They need to stay away from my eyes! I will take any number of colonoscopies, CT drains or stoma as opposed to one eye operation.
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 13 November 2022, 07:56:11 AMI find Diabetes makes little difference apart from the 27 million pills I have to take. Hope you didn't respond the way I did when told - at midnight having been in A&E for 7 hours "What f***ing Diabetes"
Nearly. I was quite respectful with the Diabetes unit I had been referred to, kept myself reined in with the receptionist at the practice, but lost it slightly with the Diabetes nurse. Seems a long time between August and November to chase up someone with the condition.
Quote from: John Cook on 13 November 2022, 10:47:25 AMWell, mate, you story is not unusual these days, more's the pity ... At least you have retained your sense of humour which is a positive thing. Hope you are feeling better.
Indeed, I don't think my story is unique or even rare. The worst bit is having to explain to my boss a series of increasingly ridiculous stories. Telling them that my appendix had exploded, but I hadn't felt it, was something of a event. The reaction I got was "are you sure?"
That was a fairly crap few months. I am glad that despite the incredible foul up that is the admin side of our NHS, you are relatively ok. Diabetes is a pain, and different people seem to get sugar spikes on different things. You will have to work out yours.
There were three of us in the office who had diabetes, all with the same health care trust and all told different things. I find a low carb diet is best, and if you are going to eat sweets chocolate is best as it has a high fat content.
Most diabetes pills work by stopping your gut absorbing sugar. However Sugar in the gut is a laxative - you have been warned. :-& Hence my trying to stay on low carb diet.
Because of above I am very careful to lay off the carbs for 48 hours before going on a plane or long journey. :)
Help! I'm being held hostage and tortured(!) whilst Mrs Westie watches Strictly Come Dancing on the TV ....
[mind you, the competition is being held in Blackpool tonight ..... great memories running around that superbly sprung ballroom floor when I was a kid. :) ]
Ah! The joys of married life.
I really looking forward to not watching "I'm a nonentity ...", "World Cup Kickie-ball" and all those schmaltzy Christmas films.
QuoteHelp! I'm being held hostage and tortured(!) whilst Mrs Westie watches Strictly Come Dancing on the TV ....
[mind you, the competition is being held in Blackpool tonight ..... great memories running around that superbly sprung ballroom floor when I was a kid. :) ]
I confess strictly is one of the few reality competition shows I can actually watch. Gotta credit the amount of work and determination they put into it. Though it is over the top at times.
Absolutely.
Lots of work and determination.
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Over on Twitter The Dark Lord appears to have confused meters with feet
What a Twit :)
Heretics! The Dark Lord is ineffable and without flaw; may he curse you with weak ankled figures and bent bayonets! If He says Meters then Meters it should be.
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All hail the mighty Dark Lord, and his winsome Consort, Milady of the Dimpled Cheeks that the likes of us are not fit to gaze upon!
Should that read Metres, rather than those items in our houses to gauge our gas and eletric use etc?
That's it FSN - give them ell !
So say we all.
All hail the Dark Lord
QuoteShould that read Metres, rather than those items in our houses to gauge our gas and eletric use etc?
Unless he meant to talk about electricity feet I'm guessing so :)
Its just he thinks 17m is a feasible pike length.
GW and their ridiculously over-sized weapons have lots to answer for :)
QuoteOver on Twitter The Dark Lord appears to have confused meters with feet
We put up a tweet about us stocking brass spears/pikes in 40mm/50mm/80mm and 100mm lengths and you asked about who carried 17m pikes. I replied 'The winners!' as a joke as I wasn't sure what you meant?
QuoteIts just he thinks 17m is a feasible pike length.
Clearly it isn't, unless you're thinking about putting a 100mm brass spear with a 10mm figure? I don't think I'd recommend that, they'd be a bit big...
I'm browsing on Amazon, looking for Napoleonic War Posters and I come across this description "14x22 inch Cossacks 2 Napoleonic Wars Silk Poster CGSF-A80".
This is the accompanying picture ...
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I am genuinely confused. I assume that it's the wrong picture, but if I spend my £12.99 and a couple of pictures of Russian light cavalry come back, do you think I could demand what is advertised?
X_X
Does that count as a SAM site?
Quote from: Ithoriel on 22 December 2022, 01:43:33 PMDoes that count as a SAM site?
How do we know she's called Samantha ?
Educated guess based on the inscriptions in the background.
Of course Samantha Thavasa are a Japanese fashion brand, so there again, maybe not. :)
QuoteI am genuinely confused. I assume that it's the wrong picture, but if I spend my £12.99 and a couple of pictures of Russian light cavalry come back, do you think I could demand what is advertised?
You could but is 12.99 a good price for a red handbag?
Quote from: DecemDave on 23 December 2022, 09:09:03 AMYou could but is 12.99 a good price for a red handbag?
It probably is if you are only using it at the weekends ;)
Quote from: DecemDave on 23 December 2022, 09:09:03 AMYou could but is 12.99 a good price for a red handbag?
Think that handbag goes for $170.
(Bang goes my google search history!)
Quote from: fsn on 21 December 2022, 07:10:53 PMI'm browsing on Amazon, looking for Napoleonic War Posters and I come across this description "14x22 inch Cossacks 2 Napoleonic Wars Silk Poster CGSF-A80".
This is the accompanying picture ...
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I am genuinely confused. I assume that it's the wrong picture, but if I spend my £12.99 and a couple of pictures of Russian light cavalry come back, do you think I could demand what is advertised?
I think the 'item' in the photo might be a lot more expensive to maintain than a couple of miniature Russian light cavalry! :D :D :D
I don't know two small Russians could cost a lot to maintain.
Putin is just one small Russian and he is costing the world billions. ;)
Quote from: Big Insect on 23 December 2022, 11:54:22 AMI think the 'item' in the photo might be a lot more expensive to maintain than a couple of miniature Russian light cavalry! :D :D :D
Yes! But a LOT more fun to play with. :d
My eye was caught on Amazon by the Castle in A Book: Cut out and build medieval castle suitable fo 10mm and 12mm scale wargames miniatures Paperback – 3 April 2022.
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It says on the front cover "1:160 scale suitable for 10mm or 12mm wargames figures".
Perhaps spotting that mistake on the advert should have raised a red flag, but I had a "look inside".
There is says "..., this model is scaled to fit 1/76 or 1/72 scale figures (20mm tall)."
I've DM'd them on Facebook, but more for curiosity than to progress a purchase.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Castle-Book-medieval-suitable-miniatures/dp/B09WZFZG9D/ref=d_wlr_sccl_1_4/258-8887919-2730502?pd_rd_w=aY5Bt&content-id=amzn1.sym.d62a13d8-c1e2-4d58-a575-a84f42fb3d58&pf_rd_p=d62a13d8-c1e2-4d58-a575-a84f42fb3d58&pf_rd_r=06PWDARATCHMK77TGKCY&pd_rd_wg=wY37C&pd_rd_r=650bc3ab-d87e-4bc0-b3c6-dbfccd2c8804&pd_rd_i=B09WZFZG9D&psc=1 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Castle-Book-medieval-suitable-miniatures/dp/B09WZFZG9D/ref=d_wlr_sccl_1_4/258-8887919-2730502?pd_rd_w=aY5Bt&content-id=amzn1.sym.d62a13d8-c1e2-4d58-a575-a84f42fb3d58&pf_rd_p=d62a13d8-c1e2-4d58-a575-a84f42fb3d58&pf_rd_r=06PWDARATCHMK77TGKCY&pd_rd_wg=wY37C&pd_rd_r=650bc3ab-d87e-4bc0-b3c6-dbfccd2c8804&pd_rd_i=B09WZFZG9D&psc=1)
It does look pretty basic - I'd think you could find some stone texture images and create your own walls and square towers pretty easily.
I have quite a bit of Kallistra castle walls and would look to this as scenery rather than terrain.
I was just intrigued 'cos it is quite rare to see something "mainstream" and 10mm. Other stuff from Amethyst seems to be 20mm.
If you've got the Kallistra castle stuff then I'd certainly stick with that - its nice stuff.
I've not looked at paper craft stuff for some time, but I do have a cut-out and build book to make the Unseen University from Disc World - which is still very much pristine I'm afraid to say. But it looks to be around 10mm (which was one of the reasons I got it). I now wonder if someone would have used this as the basis for a 3d printed version?
I needed a new tube of superglue. I find that I have 14 spare, and 6 spare UHU type. Also, 2 spare tubs of Copydex.
I also have going on for 50 spare brushes, and at least 54 backup Vallejo paints, besides 116 in use and the 114 non-Vallejo paints that I am phasing out.
I can trace this back to my parents. When I was a child we lived in Germany and there was a toyshop which I remember vividly having Airfix WWI Germans in the window - the casualties liberally daubed in red paint. The owner was an older gentleman with one eye. In my youthful imagination he lost it when his dirty rotten Panzer was taken out by some gallant Brits in a Churchill. There would, of course, be a cry of "take that Fritz!" from the Churchill and he would of course have yelled "arrghh!"*. Possibly after "accursed Tommies" or "schwinehund" - my knowledge of WWII being based mainly on the Victor comics. That the eye could have been lost in an accident or due to disease never really crossed my mind.
Anyway. My dad would usually drag us by the toy shop because he said "if you go in, you have to buy something." I think he took this as a warning, but I think I have taken it as a challenge. I mean, you always need an extra tube of glue don't you?
The second parent, usually known as my mother, was brought up on Shetland. There, a trip to the shops was somewhat of an expedition, so one maximised the opportunity. (My dad was also brought up in Shetland, but his family owned a shop, which, upon reflection may explain his "must purchase" sentiment.) When my mum went to a shop, she made sure she bought everything she needed. Her mantra was "better to have than to want."
So now when I go into the Widnes model shop https://widnesmodelcentre.co.uk/ (highly recommended) for a matt varnish I invariably come out with 2 brushes, 5-6 Vallejo tubs and maybe a Metcalfe n gauge building. Sometimes, I remember the varnish.
Similarly, when doing a food shop I will be drawn into the household aisle, and thoughtlessly chuck some glue into the basket.
In 2023 I'm going to try and bring down that stockpile. I think I only need two - no three - spare tubes of superglue.
Maybe 4?
* If Japanese, it would have course been "aieeee!"
Such folly can only lead to a sticky end. :P
I buy my superglue from poundland and as I go into this store as rarely as possible I always by £5 of superglue. This lasts for ages. Currently i have 10 tubes and 4 bottles
When I need a better bond I use the Gorilla Superglue.
Yes I stick to the poundland stuff
I buy Gorilla Superglue when I'm looking for an item to hit the £40 minimum for grocery deliveries by Tesco and the glue is on offer. I daren't open the drawer to check how many I have now.
I think they are breeding! :)
I see that we have all moved quickly on to super glue after the glimpse into the childhood of fsn...
With regard to the cheap super glue, I had a good stock of this laid in. But then discovered that most of it had solidified within the unopened jars and tubes. So there is perhaps a shelf-life for the cheap stuff.
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 01 January 2023, 01:05:12 PMYes I stick to the poundland stuff
<<Insert glue joke here>>
Quote from: fred. on 01 January 2023, 02:34:13 PMWith regard to the cheap super glue, I had a good stock of this laid in. But then discovered that most of it had solidified within the unopened jars and tubes. So there is perhaps a shelf-life for the cheap stuff.
Read this. Got tube of superglue - solid. First time that's happened to me. Coincidence?
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When I was growing up in Fulham there was a toyshop 2 doors down from the entrance to my primary school called 'The Dolls Hospital'. The window was packed with 54mm toy soldiers doing battle, wild west forts etc. I don't remember seeing many dolls. My school regularly took us to Fulham public library (the normal column of children holding hands) where one day I came across a big book entitled 'The Centenial History of the Civil War' written by Bruce Catton packed full of pictures of men in blue and grey, again doing battle. Next to the toyshop was a sweet shop which sold little packs of bubblegum which came with a picture card of various actions in the American Civil War. I vividly remember the pictures for their blood and goreness. One depicting a Union soldier impaled on a cheval de frise at the battle of Champions Hill sticks out im my memory. Each pack also contained a facsimile of either a US dollar or Confederate states dollar bill. It was the early 1960's
I really never stood a chance.
Cheers Paul
I both remember and had that card, Paul, along with a wodge of others plus a collection of the fake dollars.
My first introduction to the ACW and the trigger to my wheedling a pack each of Airfix Confederate Infantry, Union infantry, Artillery and US cavalry out of my parents.
There was a story in the local paper about a bank teller who exchanged the fake dollars for GBP who was reported as saying something like,"How was I to know? I've never seen a US Dollar bill!"
I've still got some of those cards somewhere. :-\
My introduction was the Timpo ranges.
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/pBUAAOSw881hjDor/s-l500.jpg)
As a kid I spent a lot of time in hospital, and got see my parents once a week. Every week they brought me either one Timpo cavalryman or two infantrymen. :)
I had a few of the Timpo figures, but much preferred the Britians Deetial ones I had. I think I perhaps had as many farm implements and machinery as soldiers :o
Woo-hoo! Three orders from Pendraken in two days! My cup of joy overfloweth into a faintly unpleasantly scented puddle. (I'll clean that up later.)
Those three orders are obviously for the same project ... right?
(https://www.science.org/do/10.1126/science.aav3537/full/butterfly_thumbnail_16x9.jpg)
The first order was for Ottomans (Ottomen?) for my next phase in Napoleonics which is obviously the Ottoman Empire ... or the Swedes ... well maybe the Swedes, the last order was Swedes ... no definitely the Ottoman Empire. Certainly. Ottoman Empire ... not Swedes. Swedes after Ottomans.
Y'know I've always liked the Saxon Cuirassiers. Second order was definitely the fault of His Obsidian Majesty. I may have intimated at some point that I think the BTR60 is a chunky beast and lo and behold, there appear BTR60s! Marvellous are his ways, and it would be rude not to ... wouldn't it?
Third order was on 1st January. There were two reasons for this. Firstly, I wanted to try out the new feature in my spreadsheet which tracks spending, and secondly I watched a video about the Winter War in the air.
I can see some Winter War troops in my future. Just need some more pine trees. :-\ At that point I realised I just needed some T62s to "complete" the 1984 Soviets ... so they sort of got added. (https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52611741287_ec38bdc14e_z.jpg)
So here it is:
- 10 BTR60s
- 2 BRDM2 (Didn't I mention them?)
- 10 T62s
- 4 Fokker XXI
- 2 Blenheim2
- 4 I-153
- 2 Sb2
- 1 unit of Janissaries
- 1 unit of Sipahi
- 1 battery of very big, silly guns
- 0 Hope
Drat! I meant to get Gladiators and I16's.Anyway, I'll get cracking on them after the Napoleonic Poles are finished. :^o
;D ;D ;D
Good to see you have started the year as you meant to will continue it ;)
:(
'tis true.
I'm OK though. Bern through a bad patch ... few impulsive purchases ... but I've got a plan. I've bought all I need for those odd projects provoked by Pendraken's 2022 releases (Arab-Israeli and Cold War), so I'm back on a even keel. It's Napoleonic Ottoman for me now ... or Swedes.
Anything else would be a new project and I can resist impulsive new projects (see Winter War aircraft).
Only one project at a time on the go for me in 2023.
I have a plan.
I can resist temptation.
I am strong.
Unless Pendraken bring out a new range. :(
You know there is a really nice potential scenario for the Continuation War.
Finnish Hurricanes Vs Soviet Hurricanes supported by the squadron of RAF Hurricanes based in Murmansk!
Yes. :(
I'm trying to stick to the Winter War. That's odd enough. :)
Don't think we're supposed to encourage further impulse buying Lord Speedy :-\ :)
Mind you those Raiden Gladiators are nice looking, and I can assure you are easy to assemble! ;)
And Raiden even make the Russian Hurricanes with a rear gunner that they used for artillery spotting (Code is RAI-GBR022)....opps :-[
I can fully sympathise with fsn's impulse buying from my own "oh shiny new stuff" experiences, though I've been 100% good this year.
QuoteMind you those Raiden Gladiators are nice looking, and I can assure you are easy to assemble! ;)
And Raiden even make the Russian Hurricanes with a rear gunner that they used for artillery spotting (Code is RAI-GBR022)....opps :-[
Hurricane I is "out of stock" on Pendraken. :-\ I'll see how I get on with the Fokkers, then Gladiators are a definite possibility. (Who am I kidding?)
QuoteI can fully sympathise with fsn's impulse buying from my own "oh shiny new stuff" experiences,
Thank you.
Quote... though I've been 100% good this year.
:P
Quote from: fsn on 07 January 2023, 08:30:53 PMYes. :(
I'm trying to stick to the Winter War. That's odd enough. :)
Spotting rolls are fun..
It's a hurricane
Which one
Erm...
A hurricane?
Having moaned about the huge amount of "backup" material that I have stashed around my painting desk, I was somewhat surprised whilst tidying through my games storage to find a box labelled "spares".
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52626594360_9155603c22_z.jpg)
Yes. Another 47 assorted tubs. :(
This all dates back to my wargaming resurrection. In 2013, I did away with all figures and models; all scales, because I found the One True Scale and its Obsidian Emperor, the Dark Lord. As well as those horrible 6mm, 15mm, 20mm and 28mm figures getting dumped, many pots of Humbrol Enamel paints were also consigned to the bin. At that time, my local shop (the Widnes Modelshop) stocked Tamiya and Revell and Humbrol acrylics and I enthusiastically restocked.
This was before the Master of Shadows in his infinite wisdom made his will known, and I converted to Vallejo.
Anyhoo ... that's why I have, by my count, 161 non-Vallejo paints, inks and varnishes.
I actually like the Tamiya NATO black and there are 5 of those, so that's just 156 to deal with.
:o :o :o :o :o
Thats a lot of 'spare' paint. The Tamiya paint is quite odd, a very quick drying time (i.e. on the brush), but goes on well and some good military colours.
It is a lot of spare paint. I'll use them on bases and terrain and other non-key areas.
I found the Tamiya to be of variable quality - the white is atrocious - but you're right about the military specific colours. Like I say, the NATO black and NATO green are still favourites of mine.
I think I bought the Humbrol as a transition from the Humbrol Authentic Colour enamels - which were my go-to before acrylics. I could cope with "British Scarlet", "French Artillery Green" and "Prussian Dragoon Blue" much better than "orc snot green" (sorry Orcs), "Elf earwax yellow" and "gnome being slightly disconcerted bluey-greyish-green".
This should have been a warning to me, but I was out at the Liverpool game shop (Just Play, Tithebarn Street, https://justplaygames.uk/ (https://justplaygames.uk/)) to buy a black spray paint. I hadn't run out, but y'know I needed a backup. Just Play had paints by a company I didn't know Two Thin Coats (https://www.duncanrhodes.com/ttc-paints/ (https://www.duncanrhodes.com/ttc-paints/)). I was told they were manufactured locally, so I just had to but a few. :-[
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Can 8 be considered "a few"?
X_X
QuoteX_X
Indeed
That the reaction to finding 150+ spare pots of paint is to buy another 8. Suggests there is only one hope for you fsn. Buy more storage containers. And a second shed. And a lock-up garage.
:-\ You might have something there.
Ah! Ah! Another thought. Buy more shinies to use up the paint! Right ... my next project has to use bronze, field blue, fern green, wild rider red (i.e. orange), sky, black green and Humbrol 171.
If anybody can find a use for Salmon Rose (VAL835) let me know, we got a load of them on special offer from our supplier and it seems to be the most unpopular paint in the entire range (and yeah, maybe that was why they were on special...!)
You're just tempting fsn now aren't you?
I think I've got about 15 of them, we'll have to start throwing them in orders as a free gift!
Put one aside for me.
No idea when I'll use it, but please.
Putting together a small order including paint so put my name on one too, please, Leon.
No idea when I'll use it either but I do have some aliens to paint, maybe they'll have salmon rose skin! :)
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Salmon Rose you say? I havses a gap in my paint shelf I has.
Sorry - already have a bottle. At current rate of use, my executors will need to put in on ebay.
It could be a suitable flesh colour for nubile maidens maybe? Can't be sure, not seen one in a while.
:D
What, the paint or the maiden Dave?
Shoot me a reminder when you order next and I'll throw one in.
Quote from: Leon on 16 January 2023, 02:50:21 PMShoot me a reminder when you order next and I'll throw one in.
What, the paint or the maiden?
And that's why I love Pendraken!
I have some odd colours in my paints, including both a light and a dark Turquiose. Don't think I ever used them. Must have thought they were a good idea at some point.
Several 'odd colours' in my paints... mainly bought for medievals / ancients. Think my paints will have coagulated / dried up by now. If I( get 'the urge'again, there may be disappointment! LOL!
Order made.
Salmon Rose included. Now I need to find something that needs painted that colour! :)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 18 January 2023, 01:56:57 PMOrder made.
Salmon Rose included. Now I need to find something that needs painted that colour! :)
Fish ?
QuoteIf I( get 'the urge'again, there may be disappointment! LOL!
Story of my life. :(
F35 crashes whilst doing a vertical landing.
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My question is: when did the US Navy start buying their parachutes from Anne Summers?
Nobby, get on with the Danes
Paul stop nagging
QuotePaul stop nagging
'S OK. It's working. :D Actually getting some paint on some figures. :D
Quote from: fsn on 22 January 2023, 11:55:43 AM'S OK. It's working. :D Actually getting some paint on some figures. :D
Get on with it then!
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If a man says he'll do something, he'll do it. You don't have to nag him every six months! :)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Easter Eggs in Tesco this morning, in fact a whole aisle of them. We haven't even finished January yet :o :( .
Local Tesco has had an aisle full of them for ten days or so.
I expect Halloween items to appear in a few days time :D
Spotted Hot cross buns while doing the supermarket shop yesterday ~X(
Shops are insane! BUT you might be able to get Xmas Cards cheap! ;)
Quote from: paulr on 28 January 2023, 07:38:22 PMSpotted Hot cross buns while doing the supermarket shop yesterday ~X(
Most of the big supermarkets sell them all year round, save retooling the production line I guess
They started stocking Chocolate 'Easter Bunnies' before Xmas! Probably last years!
I have never been a Chocoholic... but rather miss the old Lindt boxes of Kitties, Bears, etc. Or the selection boxes of pretty little bars that you ALWAYS got for xmas! Or the tubes of foil wrapped discs... think Terrys... that were fun to puncture before you scoffed! :(
Next time you're in Paris, visit the Foucher shop. Sex and music are alright, but their chocolates are the real thing.
So... you know how I've been banging on about my next project is the Ottoman Napoleonics? Well it is ... -ish. I'm in the purchasing stage, so will be buying amounts monthly over the next six months or so.
Well, maybe 7, 'cos I had to buy those BMPs for the 1973 Egyptians.
"So what Nobby?" I hear you cry.
a) Don't be mean - I'm not made of stone.
b) I'll tell you - as if I wasn't going to.
Let me take you back through the mists of time ...
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*Cough* Why do the mists of time smell like unwashed socks? *cough*
It is February 2013. The German Pope resigns and an Argentinian cardinal will soon take over and give him shelter. Edward Snowden is about to release US secret documents before taking a long trip to Moscow, and da yout was chanting along to that lovely ballad "Get Up (Rattle)" by that crew of rapscallions the Bingo Players.
In a chilly Runcorn, a fresh faced yet ruggedly manly Nobby (I know, 10 years and I haven't aged a day) joins this august forum.* I was greeted and welcomed by Techno (the original, not the upgraded cyber one - the steam powered analogue one) and Lord Speedy before his ennoblement, and NikHarwood and other notables, some of who still haunt these hallowed corridors and some who don't.
(https://i.natgeofe.com/k/9acd2bad-fb0e-43a8-935d-ec0aefc60c2f/monarch-butterfly-grass_4x3.jpg) Butterfly mind strike #1
I'd been buying Pendraken for a while. Mostly WWII and ACW, but since 2014 was coming up, and that was of course the 700th Anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, I strayed slightly from my plan into a smallish project to recreate the great battle.
Being a Pendraken neophyte, I bought all I needed from Pendraken - spearmen, archers, cavalry ... and the schiltron. (Yes, we'll come to that.) The thing about butterflies is that they tend to be short lived - bit like Edward II's army - so the Bannockburn project reached the purchase stage then became the foundation of my lead mountain as I moved on to something else.
Now back to 2023!
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*Cough* *Snurt* Sorry, that was me this time.
With a six (or possibly 7) month - let's face it if Pendraken release Amazons or SciFi or something, it could take a while - so lets just say a "purchase time envelope of indeterminate and flexible duration" for the Ottomans, I returned to my lead mountain and dug out the Bannockburn box. I wanted a project for Xpress paints, and nothing that had a uniform would do, and the C14 would be a nice test bed. Archers ... OK, infantry ... doable, cavalry ... I could make it work, schiltron ... oh.
I'm looking for (https://i.pinimg.com/474x/49/2c/55/492c55b1bd9fd8cf71da4dbb7839b719.jpg) and I had bought (https://files.ekmcdn.com/89204c/images/-n-elm35-n-unarmoured-pikemen-1256-p.jpg?w=660&h=9999&v=129e769d-d879-49da-8b8b-95a29a1eb609).
Yeah, I could have had a go ... but I'm sorry, I wasn't feeling it. The Pendraken offering was too regular, too disciplined, too ... civilised. I needed an alternative. I scanned the rest of the Pendraken catalogue but nothing yelled that I could not take their freedom in a throaty Australian burr.
That's when I did it. First it was T35s (since replaced by true Pendraken versions), then it was pig faced bascinets (since replaced by true Pendraken versions), then it was Chieftains (soon to be replaced by true Pendraken versions) and now it is C14 Scots (I hope I don't detect a pattern.) I have sinned. I have strayed from the path to walk another. I replaced my Pendraken pikemen with specialist Schiltron figures. :'( :'( :'(
They are slightly bigger than the Pendraken, but that boosts my view of the innate physical superiority of the Scottish over the English.
(https://i.natgeofe.com/k/9acd2bad-fb0e-43a8-935d-ec0aefc60c2f/monarch-butterfly-grass_4x3.jpg) Butterfly mind strike #2
Unfortunately, whilst browsing the catalogue of this snake in the Garden of Pendraken, I noticed they also did a Wild West Range. OK, they called it "Pony Wars", but it's all cowboys and Apaches to me.
Of course, by Apache, I mean (https://m.warpaths2peacepipes.com/images/apache-warrior-2.jpg) not (https://d1a2ot8agkqe8w.cloudfront.net/web/2010/11/dutch-apache-rnlaf_36974.jpg) (https://i.natgeofe.com/k/9acd2bad-fb0e-43a8-935d-ec0aefc60c2f/monarch-butterfly-grass_4x3.jpg)No! No more butterflies!
To cut a long story short, although, and I have to be very clear about this, my current project is Ottoman Napoleonics, I am currently painting some C14 Scots and some 1880s Americans, some of who may not actually be from Pendraken.
* 10th April 2013 I posted "I apologise in advance for my future verbose postings." Can't say I didn't warn you.
Footnote: Fortunately, the Apache Helicopter was introduced in 1986, too late for my Cold War forces of 1984.
Reminds me, must paint my version of medieval Scots, and my Imperialist German, and my Jewish Zealots, and my Woodland Indians, and my Dacians and...
I hear you, Sir. :)
Actually my lead mountain isn't that bad.
Some of the new Greeks, a miscellany I've proxied to be Byzantines, and the Samurai. Oh, and some 1:600 WWII ships, and the 1:600 Pacific War aircraft.
Barely 2000 pieces.
my lead pile is growing :)
Perils of the Pendraken, I'm afraid.
You just think you're got it beaten and then *kapow* they release more new goodies.
sorry, just thought I should fess up again
Since it is well known that wargamers do not outlast their lead mountain, I have created a spreadsheet which documents my purchases, painting and consigning of unused figures to the spares box. From this, I can calculate my approximate demise date.
As at today, since 2013 I have
- Bought 28629
- Painted 22680
- Spares 2341
- Lead mountain 3608
I am buying (on average) 252 pieces per month, putting 34 in the spares box per month and painting 344 per month.
Thus, my lead mountain reduces by 126 figures per month, giving me 29 months to clear the mountain.
Estimated demise somewhere between 17/06/25 and 14/07/25.
Why so many spares? Mostly from post 1900 ranges. If I want a platoon of US Cold War Infantry, I want 3-4 M72s, and get a pack of 5 teams so 2-4 spare figures. Similarly radio operators, officers, etc all generate figures that don't fit into the OOB.
Quote from: fsn on 18 February 2023, 10:32:27 PMBarely 2000 pieces.
By that, I of course, mean 3608.
wow, alot of detail there. I just look at the number of really useful boxes full and make a guess :)
I dont dare count mine. Latest additions are in the hands of Royal Mail. Supposed to be here yesterday but tracking says now with North West Centre having been in Nottingham for 2 days. Supposed to be 48 hrs tracked and dispatched by Warlord (sorry Leon) on Wednesday.
Quote from: fsn on 25 February 2023, 08:08:53 AMEstimated demise somewhere between 17/06/25 and 14/07/25.
Oh no! :'(
Clearly you must take yourself to a well known Middlesborough emporium as soon as possible and buy load more .
Preferably with heads
You can see why I'm so keen for new Pendraken releases. :)
its a major job cataloguing them all.....
Lead Piles can be a real PITA, sometimes.
QuoteLead Piles can be a real PITA, sometimes.
;D ;D ;D :-bd
OK ... I have a suggestion for an addition to the Amazons range :D
How times have changed! I joined this forum 10 years ago. This was my work station then...
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Gosh I was so excited and happy then.
... and this was just before Christmas 2022.
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Not so easily excited, but just as happy.
Actually, since that photo was taken, I've replaced that cutting mat with a new A3 one.
Very nice, Where do you keep your spare paints and bases?
On the left is a stack of 14 drawers.
In it are decals, spare brushes & glues, Lego (for tiny aeroplanes), some of the spare paints, bases, basing materials and some of the lead mountain.
:)
:-bd =D> :-bd
Very well organised Nobby :)
Desk, currently:
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Paints, glues, brushes & tools are all on a shelf directly above.
OH. I though the idea of the painting competition was to show figures.
Now I see its a PAINTING competition. So here is my set up in the least tidy and ergonomic category. Apologies for anyone offended by 1/72 figures. I will return to 10mm after these two dark age armies are "finished". Also I'm not finding reactivation a problem with AP speedpaints (yet) but then I tend to do one colour over a 100 fig batch then take a short break anyway. And I bought the set before the Vallejo announcement.
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Dont dare photo the mess I work in !
I can't get onto MY worktable. So piled with 'stuff' that it avalances off! :o :(
What passes as my painting station, aka the kitchen table:
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One of the things that constantly intrigues me about this competition is the variety of painting styles. Some of them I am in awe; some I appreciate and may try to emulate; and some of them I file as "OK, but not for me".
I have described my personal style as "not 'well painted' so much as 'well, painted'." I do work on the "observe from a table distance" philosophy, and don't paint specially for the competition (Gerald apart.)
This year, I am going to steal a method of painting windows, and am contemplating my way of painting horses (which has always been a pain.) I'm also going to try and improve my photography, In fact I'm quite happy (not totally) with these photos from my latest game "1984: Texas National Guard vs Soviet Rifle Rgt".
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And that for me is what it is all about. Seeing what everyone else is doing and learning and being happy with what I do. I've been looking back at photos of stuff I painted ten years ago and frankly shudder. I can see where I have grown and this competition points to ways I can improve.
It's not about the winning* and although it would be fantastic to win** it's all about the taking part.***
Thank you to Leon et al for setting up the competition, and may the best man win.****
*Yes it is
**I want those vouchers!!! Gives me the precious, precious vouchers; Nobby neeeeeeds the precious vouchers.
***If you believe that, may I interest you in purchasing Runcorn Bridge?
****Yeah, not even I'm gonna say that's me. Have you seen the competition?
BTW, very interested in other people's painting stations.
@Raider4: Are those tiny skyscrapers at the right side of your monitor? :-\
@SteveJ: You have my respect if you can be so disciplined to paint on a table that small. :o
@DecemDave: I have to ask: what is the Dulux for?
Thanks Nobby! I have no other choice but to be disciplined given the 3' x 3' space (or thereabouts) I have 'access' to.
Your vehicles look fine and these days I paint to a standard I'm happy with and looks good when on the table. As I get older I want to play with my 'toys', so 'speed is of the essence'!
Quote@Raider4: Are those tiny skyscrapers at the right side of your monitor? :-\
Aye, the twin towers. Not so tiny though - almost 10" tall. Modified from Dropzone Commander downloads.
The 'YOUNG' just do not seem to have ANY sense now. YES grieve for dead... re car crash... but flares, smoke and releasing Balloons?
This, the generation which is all about 'pollution', 'emissions' ... and balloons KILL animals!
Given up on 'Young'. :(
Quote@DecemDave: I have to ask: what is the Dulux for?
An attempt to save money!
Its a earthy mud colour [RAL.8008.3432] in vinyl matt, extra deep base that I had made up on the recommendation of another gamer as a basecoat for bases which get through silly amounts of those little bottles otherwise.
I ruined the saving by waltzing into an official Dulux shop {*} and getting a 1L can.
I am about 3 years in now and its done 3 big armies worth. I should be £ ahead again by 2037 if inflation continues at 10% p.a. :D
* Note to self. If you are the only one in a swish looking shop, there is a a reason.
;D ;D ;D
Quote from: DecemDave on 08 March 2023, 10:24:42 AM"Its a earthy mud colour"
From the Dulux "Just Say What You See" range methinks?
QuoteFrom the Dulux "Just Say What You See" range methinks?
;D ;D ;D
Did you mean our special "Olive Brown" sir?
Should have gone to Farrow and Ball
Autumn Builder's Tea.
I use 250ml Resene test pots from our local DIY store for my bases, Hemlock for temperate, Golden Glow for arid and Mairangi Bay for sea.
Back when I ACTUALLY 'did' stuff! I used to spray everything with Humbrol Dark Earth,'Rattle Can'. Pretty good base coat for everything... except, maybe, Yellows! Bright Yellow facings, etc. needed coat of white first. Gave a suitably 'dirty' look... and if you missed something... well, Dirt! lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMkCXuZiYaw
Vikings version... But Others... explore! Two Steps From Hell
Poss BEST Epic music you can Get! Whatever Vid compilation... defy not to enjoy!
And R Marines Band version!
Never been much into concerts... But think Mountbatten Concerts would be... OUTSTANDING!
Just listened to a copule of other Renditions... WOW!
Serenity... but have to watch Firefly series First! Excellent SF!
Firefly is my second favourite SF show, after The Expanse.
If you like Firefly you might also like Killjoys, Dark Matter and The Orville.
Firefly ended too soon.
I lost the Expanse after series whatever, probably need to binge watch it to get back on track.
Killjoys early series were fun hokum, but it started taking itself too seriously.
Dark Matter was interesting and had the good sense to end after 3 series.
I'm never quite sure about the Orville. Sometimes serious series get too jokey, but the Orville is a comedy serious that sometimes gets too serious. Having said that, The Orville is the best Star Trek Series for ages.
Speaking of which Star Trek Discovery is an STD in more than name. Picard series 1 was just ... sad, and I didn't have the heart for series 2. I hear better things for Series 3 though. Haven't seen Strange New Worlds but it was a discharge from STD so I'm not hopeful, though I did like Captain Pike, though I hated the dumbed down Spock. Perhaps free of the STD it could have been something entertaining.
I watched the first episode of The Mandalorian and yawned my way through it. Not a big Star Wars fan, and so CBA to even look at Andor.
I actually quite enjoyed Space: Above and Beyond from 1997. Only one series but some interesting, grungy episodes. The thing that I found implausible is that the team were space fighters pilots ... and then ground pounding grunts. Seemed a bit implausible.
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Season 3 of Picard is defo worth it, 2, avoid!
QuoteI actually quite enjoyed Space: Above and Beyond from 1997. Only one series but some interesting, grungy episodes. The thing that I found implausible is that the team were space fighters pilots ... and then ground pounding grunts. Seemed a bit implausible.
Guadalcanal in space. Loved the series but also found the idea of, presumably, expensively trained starship pilots deployed as grunts odd, to say the least.
QuoteI lost the Expanse after series whatever, probably need to binge watch it to get back on track.
Speaking of which Star Trek Discovery is an STD in more than name. Picard series 1 was just ... sad, and I didn't have the heart for series 2. I hear better things for Series 3 though. Haven't seen Strange New Worlds but it was a discharge from STD so I'm not hopeful, though I did like Captain Pike, though I hated the dumbed down Spock. Perhaps free of the STD it could have been something entertaining.
Recently started on The Expanse. Finding it very good. About halfway through series three now.
ST:Discovery - thought the first series was mostly good. Annoying main character mind, balanced by Michelle Yeoh and Jason Issacs enjoying themselves. Second series went downhill very quickly and gave up on it after only a couple of episode.
ST:Picard - first series was mostly good, but the last couple of episodes were rubbish. Second series was really bad as well. Third series is much better, much more TNG like. Although the Raffi character is just terrible. Badly written, badly acted. The world's least convincing undercover spy.
The original book of
The Expanse on audiobook.
Enjoyed The Expanse 1-3 so far, but will wait until latest may come out as R2 DVD... and favourite character killed off.
The cancellation of Dark Matter... leaving it on massive cliffhanger was annoying. Surely just one extended episode ... as wrapped up Firefly with Serenity movie?
Never really got into Trek franchiise afret original series and got bored with Star Wars after first 2.
Quote
"Leviathan Awakes. Book one of the . . ."
Hmm, doesn't get the title of the book right.
That Sir, is a fine piece of nit-picking.
I applaud you, and trust that this small (albeit repeated) error, will not ruin your enjoyment of the presentation.
As compensation, I can offer "Round the World in 80 days", "Lice in Wonderland", "'Merican Gods" or, of course, "Nimal Farm"?
QuoteThat Sir, is a fine piece of nit-picking.
Not nit-picking. If I listen to an audiobook, I expect the speaker to accurately convert the written word to spoken.
I presume The Audiobook Guy is "just" an enthusiastic amateur (and that's not meant as any kind of insult) rather than a professional voice actor?
Good luck to him, honestly.
I apologise for bringing this dross to your attention and hope you won't lower yourself to access it.
The reader, Jefferson Mays is in fact an award winning actor. Recently he has concentrated on stage work, but he has appeared in a number of films an TV series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Mays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Mays)
QuoteI apologise for bringing this dross to your attention and hope you won't lower yourself to access it.
I hate this place sometimes, far too full of snide and snark.
As an infrequent poster (but long time member/reader), the preponderance of angry old men can be a tad off putting at times :(
There is alot of reading certain posts as a grevious insult to be attacked in retribution when it is just someone's opinion/critique.
Wish everyone would just pack that in.
Quote from: Raider4 on 18 March 2023, 02:03:51 PMI hate this place sometimes, far too full of snide and snark.
From the person who dismisses 16 hours of entertainment for a letter "a"
Quote from: Matt J on 18 March 2023, 02:39:08 PMThere is alot of reading certain posts as a grevious insult to be attacked in retribution when it is just someone's opinion/critique.
I apologise. I usually post in good humour, but sometimes a well meant post is responded to with snide and snark which I find difficult not to respond to.
I withdraw from this element of the thread, disappointed that a link to an audiobook has resulted in such bad humour.
Great, now I feel bad (I have a tendency to be hyperbolic).
:(
This is why I avoid posting..
Not at all. You are quite correct and it's time we moved on to something more interesting.
Perhaps you can help me with a dilemma?
I'm trying to track how much I spend on this great wargaming hobby. Anything spent with, for example, Pendraken for figures, paints, terrain are obvious costs.
I bought a book of wargames scenarios and that too is an obvious wargaming cost, as is the books that I bought to support my Napoleonic Ottoman project.
What then of books that are of military history? A book about the doings of said Ottoman army for example?
Going further afield, I bought a book about Renaissance warfare, a period for which I will never field an army. Is that a wargames cost?
What about buying a fiction book in the same vein? A DVD of "The Longest Day"?
Where does one draw the line?
Quote from: Matt J on 18 March 2023, 04:03:35 PMGreat, now I feel bad (I have a tendency to be hyperbolic).
:(
This is why I avoid posting..
Don't worry, he will be back
'Where does one draw the line?'
Indeed. One needs to also consider the cost of time spent (using what ever arcane formula strikes your fancy) on the hobby. As a pensioner I charge myself £1.00 per hour for simplicity of calculation So:
Time I spent on this forum tonight reading and replying to posts = 33p (always round up)
Time on the porcelain throne thinking about what a push-of-pikes looked like ( my obsessive specialty) = 14p
And so on.
You would then need, of course, to add in updating your timesheet.
What shocked me is that I assign a value x for a standard monthly Pendraken order.
I realise I am weak and so assume my standard monthly order will actually be 2x.
Then there are those impulse buys which means I am prepared to spend 4x monthly.
In January I spent 7.1x and in February 7.2x. So far in March I'm on 2.7x but also impulse bought a book which is military history (for 0.7x), but not one I game, so I'm dithering about counting that.
Then a bulb in one of my painting lamps blew ... :(
How about getting another credit card and using it (and only it) just for wargaming purchases? For your definition problem, I would personally include everything military or history. Which just leaves the odd situation to classify like the hotdog and coffee you bought at the wargames show.
But is it really worth knowing? Its a hobby (unless you really want to classify it as two or more linked hobbies).
Assuming you have first taken care of the much more expensive hobbies like housing, eating, women, children etc.
Spend spend spend if it brings enjoyment. A natural brake occurs when you survey piles of books and figures you will never have time to read or paint. I approach that point rapidly !!!
You're probably right.
It started 'cos I was planning my retirement in a few years and trying to work out if I could afford to live.
I have scared myself, not by the amount I spent but by my ignorance of what I actually spend.
Me being me, I probably started to over analyse. :(
QuoteA natural brake occurs when you survey piles of books and figures you will never have time to read or paint.
Yes, but then Pendraken release a new range that I most definitely, absolutely, positively
have to have.
... and probably a book or two as well.
QuoteMe being me, I probably started to over analyse. :(
I did the same to decide I could retire early which I did. A full spreadsheet of
everything . But most of it turned out to be irrelevant. The following dominate:
Household (food, cleaning stuff and the like that you buy every day, week, month)
Housing (mortgage/rent, council tax, service charges, insurance, Allowance for new kitchen/bathroom/roof)
Holidays, alcohol, ciggies (if relevant) and eating out.
Utilities (water, elec, gas, broadband, phones, prime, streaming services,.. )
Allowance for Capital Replacements especially cars, furniture, washing machines, boilers, fridges,..
Medical (dentists, opticians,..)
Gifts (cards, birthdays, anniversaries, christmas, charities..).
Hobbies is whats left over and under 10% in my case including all hobbies, PC and related Gadgets , newspapers, mags, lottery tickets etc
If it looks "tight" its probably too early to retire. My state pension alone would not permit any Pendraken spending thats for sure. And while how long is usually unknowable, your pension may have to last you 20, 30 years or even more.
Its the one time you definitely need financial advice (pension wise is free) because the bigger problem is your
income and the impact of inflation on it plus scenario planning (life expectancy short or long cases, wills, possible care costs , leaving money to dependents, emergency funding..) and in UK : IHT, LTA, CGT etc if you are fortunate enough to have such problems.
And, yes I am struggling to resist LoA, AWI and the russo-japs. But my will is strong.
Well I suppose a few samples wouldnt hurt.. :d
QuoteAssuming you have first taken care of the much more expensive hobbies like housing, eating, women,
I would like to point out, The amount one woman cost me in the divorce, dwarfs my entire lifetime spend on wargames, Military books, firearms etc.
I could have brought a
Brand New Ferrari for what my divorce cost. However it was the best value for money I ever got. :d
Realising that I am mortal has made me start to try and finish projects, and only buy figures to finish that particular army.
It has sort of worked, but in my need to want things complete I do end up purchasing extras to a project I thought I had finnished. eg I said to a freind on Friday I had finished my 20mm ww2 French for Chain of command. Only to realise I was short of 3 engineers and 4 crew for heavy weapons . The resulting purchase had 4 extra crew, 6 extra engineers, a 3 man team with LMG in AA roll ( nice little vignette), and half a dozen figures that were better posses for Leaders than I currently had. So 19 figures instead 7. But that should be it ........ :)
I am usually quite disciplined, with planned purchases but then Pendraken release something I really, really, neeeeeeed (or I have a good/bad day and need retail therapy.)
If I get an enthusiasm (e.g. 1929), I can usually schedule it into the Plan. I'm OK unless Pendraken release two or more new ranges that interest me simultaneously.
QuoteUtilities (water, elec, gas, broadband, phones, prime, streaming services,.. )
Gas bill for Q1 2022: £350.
Gas bill for Q1 2023: £834.
Puts a dent in anyone's planning.
Quote from: Raider4 on 19 March 2023, 01:49:08 PMGas bill for Q1 2022: £350.
Gas bill for Q1 2023: £834.
Puts a dent in anyone's planning.
Ouch!
Fortunately no where near retirement but hobby expenditure definitely curtailed last 12 months.
Bulk of my hobby either 10mm historical (Pendraken) or GW. 10mm historical is what I would class as my luxury hobby so this has taken the hit really (although I have a huge mountain as it is). The GW is the more budget stuff so that has ticked over.
QuoteThe GW is the more budget stuff so that has ticked over.
GW is budget? :o
(https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/920x950/99560101475_CorvusCoraxLead.jpg) This GW? Where Corvus Corax, Primarch of the Raven Guard Legion costs £90?
Or is there another GW?
Lol. Once smoking ban came in, started internet buying for 'later'. Stopped, now! Must have £20k+ 'stuff' in piles! And just not doing anything! :o :(
QuoteOr is there another GW?
No 'the' GW.
Budget for me if you like
Example, last autumn was going to treat myself to a bigger purchase, toss up between Pendraken new Arab/Isreali range or GW Killteam Gallowdark.
Already got about dozen MBT's and other armour for Arab/IDF each side so for a workable project need infantry-2 army packs plus extra bits £70, more armour and transports say another £40, CWCII £25, desert mat £60, scenery probably £40 plus research books. So you looking at least £250 for a project that I've already got £100 worth of models for.
Gallowdark £105 from discounter - everything already in the box, 2 teams, loads of scenery, the rules, game board. Plus add another team for £20-£30 quid whenever. Similarly Blood bowl, Underworlds, £20 ish for another team, warband, easy cheap add on.
My Arab/IDF project will happen but slower burn, no instant gratification, no instant play.
My 10mm Quebec project is 13 years old....and still only half way.
Ah! I see.
For modern stuff, I work on a 1:1 platoon of infantry + troop of armour, plus bits and bobs comes to about £50. I did this for the Israelis and Cold War USA.
Then I did a company + squadron of Egyptians, Soviets and Brits ... at about £150.
Oh yeah, and I did old + new equipment for the Arab Israelis, so Super Shermans and M3s, as well as Centurions and M113s ...
OK. You win.
Yep, that's about right!
I work at the same ratio's and you also need every vehicle available in sufficient numbers for variety. This is just modern stuff which is relatively low model count.
1/10 or 1/20 for SYW or Naps and you looking at £100's and £100's.
Luxury hobby :D
HATE driving at night now! Not all that happy during day... used to LOVE driving! MGBGT... long gone.
What can WORRY, is night... YELLOW lights coming up to bend... which side of road will he Be on? Just Old! :(
Eh! Somehow thought this had migrated to driving! WTH! Anyway!
Shakes Head, Drops Rat!
Aawwwww!
I'm re-reading a book about the Mosquito war and then you mention MGBs and I go to this ...
(https://spitfiresofthesea.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/71ft-mgb.jpg?w=1024)
... and I have a stack of 1:600 models that need painting and I've been too scared to attempt, and that made me feel bad, so I ate chocolate and now I'm feeling guilty and my blood sugar is probably through the roof.
BTW: I agree about driving. I gave it up and don't miss it at all.
QuoteNot at all. You are quite correct and it's time we moved on to something more interesting.
Perhaps you can help me with a dilemma?
I'm trying to track how much I spend on this great wargaming hobby. Anything spent with, for example, Pendraken for figures, paints, terrain are obvious costs.
A related question:
Does anybody with practical experience have advice on disposing of wargaming stuff? (Asking for a friend).
I'd imagine there are lots of hobbyists with mountains of stuff that appears to be junk to 95% of the population.
Also, in my experience, tidying stuff up, and recognising when you have too much aren't strengths in our hobby.
I've seen these "we buy your unwanted stuff" ads in the hobby press.
I get a similar revulsion to those old "sell us your gold", or payday loan advertisements on the television.
When one of our club members died we bought his stuff via The Wargames Store in Brimstage. Bit far for you, but try local shops. Also you could try taking a table at a local show. Penkridge in Staffs is one, again a tad impractical for you. Otherwise Evil Bay is an option.
I am in the process of downsizing the figure and kits mountain, books and rules; to the local hospice charity shops.
Quote from: Ben Waterhouse on 25 March 2023, 10:50:41 AMI am in the process of downsizing the figure and kits mountain, books and rules; to the local hospice charity shops.
I gave away my 15mm collection a couple of years ago to a school for 'disadvantaged' children where they used wargaming as a vehicle for teaching history. Mainly first generation Minfigs.
When a friend died, Jim (of this parish) organised people to sell off what we could to people we knew in the hobby. He then took the remainder to Bring & Buy stalls and Table Sales tables at various shows. All proceeds to charities like Help for Heroes. Raised a fair bit of cash for them.
Lot of work on Jim's part though.
Years ago we did a sale at our old club for a member who had sadly passed away. One member priced everything up, which took a bit of time, but most went as it was 28mm. I know some stuff you can't seem to give away (books, old rules) so a lot seems to go to charity shops or give away at a table top sale. Evilbay seems to be the preferred option for many, if you have the time and energy to list stuff etc. Then of course there are the dedicated FB groups that are another option.
FSN Lovely pic of lovely boat. Have never been a sailor... but 'sometimes' you can 'SMELL' the water! Small ship actions in Channel / North Sea or Med were good reading, long ago.
And 'Killer Kennedy' in the 'Victor'! lol.
What mess is left in my head has Definitely gone A over T! Woke up. Thinking Eggs for Breakfast! (But, I don't DO breakfast! Well, this IS new...WTH!). Whattimeisit? 8.). OK. Go for it! Couple of Eggs in Fryer... take Dog into Garden for early wee. Birds twittering... BUT... thinks... "Should it not be lighter by now"? JEEZ! 8PM! NOT AM! Must still be Sunday! Somebody get me a Webley! :o :'( ;)
You HAVE to laugh,sometimes! This Current Gwyneth Paltrow Sk-ing thing. Whatever! I used to ski in teens, 20s. Most DANGEROUS Ba*****s were the little 8-10 yr olds... would run over your skis without a thought! Have known blokes, go off the side...straight into tree... or others embedded in a bank! Girls didn't scream... just got back on even if had a shock!
"Blood Curdling Scream"... LAUGH OUT LOUD! :) If someone suddenly pulled up in front... wording WOULD have been different! No TIME for scream.... just swear!... and not apparently!
I use photos of my hobby as a screensaver on my computer. This is a mix of highs and lows for me. Some of the pictures make me quite happy and some make me cringe.
Thus, I decided to try and redo some of my worst efforts, but do them better.
So here from Feb 2015 is a SF armoured vehicle inspired by a Chinese colour scheme.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/8565/16673724241_310623cc51_z.jpg)
Lawks! That is awful. I was still using flock and not static grass and the horrible weathering can't cover up the painful brushwork. Let's try again.
Regrettably I don't think that same vehicle is still available on Pendraken, but I got a few of the next best thing. I didn't do a "special" job on these, just my usual routine, but the geometric layout of the hull definitely helped in assigning colours to areas.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52821597531_cc75650f67_z.jpg)
OK, better but I always see things that could be done better when I look at photographs of my work.
I think those early efforts my be due a Dettol bath.
Does the Dettol bath relax you prior to the painting session? confused!
Think of it as Nitromors Lite.
Ideal for those lamenting the removal of methylene chloride from their favourite stripper (!)
Works wonders on removing paint from figures - bad for cats.
Quote from: Gwydion on 16 April 2023, 05:27:27 PMThink of it as Nitromors Lite.
Ideal for those lamenting the removal of methylene chloride from their favourite stripper (!)
Works wonders on removing paint from figures - bad for cats.
Wot he said.
Nitromors certainly does the job...but Nasty stuff.
Dettol will do the job Fine...just takes a bit longer in a coffee jar... but enamel paint will 'lift' enough for a light scrub with a bit of Toothpick for crevices. Much less dangerous.
About 10yrs back, I thought I might get back into Microarmour, so Dettolled a LOAD of 1970s GHQ...thick coats of enamel... some in rather incorrect schemes. Intent was to replace lost guns, carve track, detail, pin turrets and base. Never got round to anything much...apart from taking poor, but usable paint off!
1/285 is now a bit small for eyes and fingers. I have got a load of 1/200 for Microarmour to returret and not bother with pins or bases... based Adler foot do ok alongside, although 6mm.
BUT... 5yrs later... not a lick of paint! :(
QuoteDettol will do the job Fine...just takes a bit longer in a coffee jar... but enamel paint will 'lift' enough for a light scrub with a bit of Toothpick for crevices. Much less dangerous.
About 10yrs back, I thought I might get back into Microarmour, so Dettolled a LOAD of 1970s GHQ...thick coats of enamel... some in rather incorrect schemes. Intent was to replace lost guns, carve track, detail, pin turrets and base. Never got round to anything much...apart from taking poor, but usable paint off!
Very useful to know. I got a 100 plus old 6mm at WARFARE last year and have just overpainted but would have preferred to strip them first had I known this. What about acrylic paint? Is that just plenty of hot water?!!
Nail varnish remover for acryilics
Or cellulose thinners.
Car brake fluid works as well.
Mark
I now have in my mind a desperate gamer who really, really, REALLY needs to repaint some figures, dropping them into assorted fluids ... Dettol, nail varnish remover, olive oil, ... car brake fluid?
I'm watching Chris Cappy's description of Poland's Grot rifle.
Very interesting. The video is sponsored by Goat Guns, 1/3 scale models of various weapons. I wondered how much they cost so I went to Amazon. Here I saw this
Western Rifle Gun and I'm a bit confused.
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81y9X0csjEL._AC_SX679_.jpg)
Where's the trigger?
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52835731607_8d0053d39a_z.jpg) (https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52836491369_2992298b17_z.jpg)
One night in the Dettol bath. A little bit of clean up required, but quite an effective start. :)
Bonus: a nice clean aroma around the place.
Dettol DOES work. :)
On repainting. Early 70s, aged 10, I got my first 1/300 micro tanks. Bought at 'Tradition', no less... on trip to London. The early ones... frequently 'squashed' and wire guns. Over years, they received several 'repaints' with Humbrol enamels... but overpaints... ended up 'blobs'! ;D
I moved on to GHQ. They will still be there, SOMEWHERE! If I ever excavate them from one of the piles... think I will let them be. Crappy models, anyway... but memories of happy years, long ago. :)
As lol footnote... school 'friend' used to come round for a game occasionally... one time he brought some other kid round and we had couple of games. At end they got chucked into box... so I thought! Few days later friend said he had some tanks... wouuld I like to buy them from him? Came round... AND MY DA*N TANKS! He CAN'T have been stupid enough to try to sell ME, my stuff that HE had pinched... must have been his mate! >:(
Yes, Dettol does work. Those two I painted years ago in acrylics; clean as a slightly dirty whistle after one night.
I'm not keen to rebase or repaint - so much new stuff to do, but browsing through some of my early Pendraken stuff, I am genuinely embarrassed.
QuoteAs lol footnote... school 'friend' used to come round for a game occasionally... one time he brought some other kid round and we had couple of games. At end they got chucked into box... so I thought! Few days later friend said he had some tanks... wouuld I like to buy them from him? Came round... AND MY DA*N TANKS! He CAN'T have been stupid enough to try to sell ME, my stuff that HE had pinched... must have been his mate! >:(
;D ;D ;D
Continuing the "then and now" thought:
SOMUA S35, painted in 2013
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52839343617_5a5042a520_z.jpg)
Char B1, painted in 2023
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52840364113_f4a6639e3d_z.jpg)
:-bd =D> :-bd
Your B1's look execellent fsn :-bd
looks like bathtime though for your S35 force purhaps? :-\
Thank you.
I think my house is going to have that disinfectant Dettol smell for a while. :)
With the Ottoman Napoleonics purchasing still going on, I have been digging through the bowels of my lead mountain and tidying up my nearly-finished projects.
Since February I have painted*:
- Fantasy: 2 woolly rhino ('cos did) :-/
- Dark Age: 128 Arab spears and archers
- Bannockburn: 252 English and 218 Scots
- Napoleonic: 147 Poles, 42 Dark Riders and 30 civvies
- Western: 149 townspeople, Mexicans and Apaches plus 4 wagons
- 1920s Imagination: 60 North African warriors
- WWII: 6 Soviet a/c & 11 French tanks (8 Dettol stripped and re-painted)
- Korean War: 108 Chinese infantry
- Arab-Israeli War: 10 Egyptian BMP1s
- Cold War: 100 British infantry and 2 US Dragon AT teams
- SF: 5 tankie things (2 Dettol stripped and re-painted)
On my painting table are some More Dark Age Arabs and the last 2 schiltron of Scottish pikemen. Finishing these will mean that all these projects will be completed**. Huzzah! It's a good feeling.
What now? :-\ Well, I have 2 carriers worth of tiny US and Japanese aircraft. Haven't put brush to the Samurai I bought and I've got some ancients to paint as well and ... the first 15mm army I bought was Peter Laing Marlborough range, remember them?
(https://collectingpeterlaing15mmfigures.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/img_7099.jpg?w=580)
This was my first experience of metal figures and I've since had a low level, but constant affection for the period. I started buying Pendraken WSS range in May 2014, and after having bought the lot, was so disappointed with my painting results, I entombed my disgust in the very depths of the lead mountain. Now, after 3 years of Napoleonics, I think it is time to resurrect my interest in the War of the Spanish Succession. In 2014, I created two imagi-nations more so I could play with the colours than anything else and I may well stick with the concept. There's about 1700 figures to keep me going.
However, I want to make it clear that my current project is still Ottoman Napoleonics.
* I have highlighted my non-Pendraken shame in blue
**Completed as in the wargamers' definition: "work has been temporarily suspended as sufficient forces have been amassed to fulfil the current project specification, but additions may be made at a later stage."
If I have got this right, then these are my Pendraken WSS.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lasthussar/albums/72157624726193297
Sunjester puts 4 on a 20mm base. Mine are 3x2 on 20mm base. You have to trim the figure base to do this, and it is 50% more expensive but I prefer this packed base.
More photos
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lasthussar/albums/72157625282250497
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lasthussar/albums/72157626970021933
We've just had the WSS range painted for the website, so I'll get those uploaded asap to either inspire or depress...!
QuoteIf I have got this right, then these are my Pendraken WSS.
QuoteWe've just had the WSS range painted for the website, so I'll get those uploaded asap to either inspire or depress...!
Thank you. I am now in two minds about re-burying the WSS and digging out those tiny Japanese aircraft :-\
Nobby's butterfly mind strikes again ...
(https://www.okiesformonarchs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/monarchsflying-600x330.jpg)
- Pendraken preview Korean War smoke dispensers.
- I think they look like oil/petrol/gas barrels
- I think of the Battle of the Bulge and the German obsession with capturing fuel
- I think the smoke dispensers could be repurposed for a Bulge scenario
- Can't do the Bulge without Tiger IIs
- Not fussed about Tiger IIs
- Like big, stupid tanks though
- (From outfield) Had fun (re)painting those French tanks.
- Great fun to pitch big, stupid tanks against each other
- Buys Char 2C's with a view to Char 2Cs and B1's against T35s and T28s.
UK Change in getting Antibiotics.
Interesting, but Be V,V Careful.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65488030
Most things, you do NOT need antibiotics. And increasing 'resistance' to treatments, Human and Animal.
BUT, wait for a Doctor's Appointment can be ridiculous. 2-3 weeks! By then, whatever may have 'gone' Or you will be 1/2 Dead. Or, you might get appointment next day for something that 'could have waited'. Russian Roulette!
Pharmacies tend to be careful about things... just customers are not.
Medical treatments...Years ago, found what seemed to be beginning of a 'lump' in a Nut. Dr's .appointment, THREE weeks later... by then Cyst had broken up and gone. Converse... Ma had two mastectomies, both Malignant, found early... and lived long time afterwards. So... if think 'something wrong', best to try to have it looked at.
Now, I tend not to bother... rather think that various things wrong with Me. But various, 'Check Ups' and samples, last year showed nowt. So... do as you will... but best looked at, sometime!
Moving tomorrow, so I have just submitted my final meter readings for gas and electricity. I haven't done so since February, and I've used £30 less than they estimated. In fact I used so little the website actually asked me "are you sure that's right?"
May you be happy in your new home.
If you get a £30 refund, that's 5 Pendraken packs. :)
Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 09 May 2023, 12:59:33 PMUK Change in getting Antibiotics.
Interesting, but Be V,V Careful.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65488030
Most things, you do NOT need antibiotics. And increasing 'resistance' to treatments, Human and Animal.
Pharmacists are more than just people who work in a chemists shop. They have pretty impressive qualifications and, I'd say, they are as capable as most GPs as far as prescribing medicines for most common illnesses.
Last Hussar. Had that reply to last 3-5 submitted meter readings! Dunno what they will do when Mechanical meter goes 'Over the Clock' ! Have asked, but reply was, "Its OK"! lol.
I've put my last order* for Ottomans in with Pendraken, and hopefully it will arrive soon and I can get painting. In the meanwhile, I've started (re-started) my WSS with two completely made up countries. I have picked the Earldom of the Isles and the Dukedom of the Mountains as the antagonists. The Earl, being a man of the sea, has picked blue as his colour, and includes a couple of battalions of marines in his order of battle. The Duke who (has been Frenchified and like to be called "le Duc") is less formal about his uniform code, but tends to favour green. The Duchess likes purple, so the Duchess Guards are not happy.
With all this being said, with a total of 19 battalions of infantry, 21 squadrons of horse, 10 of dragoons and 2 of cuirassiers, with 7 batteries of artillery of various grades ... the first thing I painted was the supply train for the Earl.
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I didn't remember that I'd bought so many wagons, but think the could be useful in many periods, and yes, I have the same for the Duke.
With that out the way, I painted a squadron of the Earl's dragoons, and one of their precious batteries of artillery.
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I do like the black and blue artillery pieces. I'm putting the dragoons in a lighter blue with 15 mounted figures. There's also the option for the plebs to dismount giving 9 skirmishers and 3 horse holders.
*This will be the third "last order"**, but I had a change of heart and decided each Orta needed to have their kettle, so neeeeeded to order some more command units.
** I've had more "last orders" than my local pub.
:-bd =D> :-bd
Lovely work!
Great stuff, Nobby !! :-bd
Was awarded "reward and recognition" voucher at work.
Just been down HobbyCraft and spent on RUB and magnetic sheets!
Quote from: Last Hussar on 18 May 2023, 04:48:32 PMMoving tomorrow, so I have just submitted my final meter readings for gas and electricity. I haven't done so since February, and I've used £30 less than they estimated. In fact I used so little the website actually asked me "are you sure that's right?"
Hope all went ok. See you at the multiplayer night at Sunjesters.
I don't have any gas*, and the gas company is trying to charge me £70 for 1 day, and not admitting I am also £190 in credit.
They know about Northern Road, they can't get into their heads that I can use that for the new place.
*It's capped, but no one seems to know why.
So Octopus repaid the credit at the same time saying I owed them on the new place!
So I've just paid them with the money they repaid.
The efficiency of the private sector.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 05 June 2023, 11:54:13 PMSo Octopus repaid the credit at the same time saying I owed them on the new place!
So I've just paid them with the money they repaid.
The efficiency of the private sector.
Yes but if we still had the Electricity Board and the Gas Board. Each would have insisted that you pay for the new place before your moved in.
Then when you moved in it would take them a week to get your supply connected.
They would then have taken 8 weeks to refund your credit, whilst still issuing you with a monthly bill to pay.
Whereas the insurance company of teh lady that totalled my wife's car (no injuries) today have already provided us with a hire car! :o
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 09 June 2023, 06:01:38 PMWhereas the insurance company of teh lady that totalled my wife's car (no injuries) today have already provided us with a hire car! :o
That's no good, hope everyone's OK.
Ditto !!
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 09 June 2023, 06:01:38 PMWhereas the insurance company of teh lady that totalled my wife's car (no injuries) today have already provided us with a hire car! :o
Thats good, any accident you walk away from is a good one in my book
Does anybody else find the urge to sing "The lion sleeps tonight " is just a whim away?
X_X
QuoteDoes anybody else find the urge to sing "The lion sleeps tonight " is just a whim away?
No, but I did do some work at a council where one of the employees was called Endicott. I really wish I had been a manager there just for the end of year appraisals.
Serious post (it does happen)
I was/am due a furniture delivery by Tuffnalls for an item bought at B&Q.
Does anybody know where I should be contacting. I know roughly the consumer law, I'm not worried by that at the moment, I want a way to chase my delivery.
QuoteSerious post (it does happen)
I was/am due a furniture delivery by Tuffnalls for an item bought at B&Q.
Does anybody know where I should be contacting. I know roughly the consumer law, I'm not worried by that at the moment, I want a way to chase my delivery.
Depends who you contracted with. If bought from B&Q and they arranged the delivery (eg online), then chase B&Q.
If you arranged the delivery separately then Tuffnalls (I know you can do this sort of thing at Ikea, not sure at B&Q) and good luck getting hold of anyone.
Either way I think it will be stuck in a depot for sometime. I'd hope its a B&Q arranged delivery so they send it again with a different courier.
How come no-one has posted in 45 hours?
Have you all gone off to a different forum and left me on my own?
Yes !
AND
we are not telling you which one.
But we will pop back here from time to time to gloat.
So ... if everyone has left ... and it's just me ...
I'm King of the Forum!
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Someone fetch the frog pills and straight jacket, Nobby's delousional again.
What's that, Peasant? Are you speaking against the Emperor of the Forum?
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Off with the heads of his next order! Allow him Chieftains, but bend the barrels! Make his bases not quite square so they don't really fit together!
Beware - I have seniority of 1000 posts :D
Don't make me waste my four posts until my next promotion coming down on high on you mortals!!
Try it and see :d
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Infamy! Infamy!
Actually, it will be 502 I think...
I can waste a few
Gentlemen, have you seen the news from Rostov-on-Don
If not, I would suggest you go to the BBC website immediately.
Just looked, end of begining or begining of the end ?
... or maskirovka?
"We are little-by-little running out of popcorn," jokes Yuriy Sak, an adviser to Ukraine's defence minister.
Speaking to BBC World Service Newshour, Saks says just before Russia began its 2022 attack on Ukraine the world thought Russia had "the second most powerful army in the world".
"Yesterday everybody knew that Russia was the second most powerful army in Ukraine and today we're seeing how... the Russian army is becoming the second most powerful army in Russia."
Lots of popxorn
QuoteGentlemen, have you seen the news from Rostov-on-Don
If not, I would suggest you go to the BBC website immediately.
Takes you back to the days of Carthage, or late Byzantium.
But those rebellions weren't led by people who thought the state should have used tactical nuclear weapons...
Yes, strange to say I'm cheering on Vlad, not Yevgeny in this one.
Whatever happens there will be a sad outcome.
This is not going to make Russia a better place.
Is it over?
Some body is going to have to be very careful about whom makes their tea.
Bungalow sales in Belarus increase ..
Well, that was weird.
The Wagner group is a very odd and quite disturbing entity, I can't see how Putin thought he could keep them on a leash. I think since the mass recruitment of some of Russia's worst convicts it's now the biggest private army in the world? And they're still recruiting active Russian soldiers serving alongside them on the front lines, reducing an already demoralised and depleted 'official' Russian force with the promise of better conditions and pay.
The writing was on the wall a couple of months back when Prigozhin started being critical of their supply lines and some of the defence officials, although I'm still surprised he took this step so openly. But he's in an incredibly powerful position now as without his troops the Russians could never hold the occupied territory. And he's got a much more accurate perspective on this 'special military operation' so won't just throw men at the problem like Putin would/has.
Could we see him bring Putin down by making a deal with some of the more extreme government officials? Remove Putin, install a new dictator and prop him up with a private army. We've seen today how the Russian army have backed away from any engagement with the Wagner fighters while they were heading towards Moscow. So would they have the strength/will to stand in their way, especially after so many have been lost to Putin's failed invasion?
I think Prigozhin has shot his bolt.
There's a lot of media spin on this but I would think he expected someone in the FSB to act in Moscow as he advanced. When it didn't happen (and attack helicopters took out several vehicles in the convoy) he took the negotiated deal with Lukashenko.
What happens next?
I see foreign travel ahead. Take care opening doors and taking tea with old friends.
Apparently he's now been 'exiled' to Belarus so who knows what happens next. I doubt Putin can take him out as it'll cost him the Wagner support and he'll won't be able to hold the front lines without them. So does he leave it 'pending' for a few years and knock him off once the Ukraine conflict has been decided.
Quote from: Gwydion on 25 June 2023, 12:44:23 AMThere's a lot of media spin on this but I would think he expected someone in the FSB to act in Moscow as he advanced. When it didn't happen (and attack helicopters took out several vehicles in the convoy) he took the negotiated deal with Lukashenko.
That's a good theory and would make sense, rattle the cage and prompt some action within the Kremlin. Maybe he'd already had some conversations but the other parties weren't able to get the job done before he arrived in Moscow. I'm sure I read that Putin only has proper contact with about 3 people these days, so it's going to be incredibly hard to get to him. It'd probably be easier to just lock him in his quarters and conduct the coup without him!
Quote from: Leon on 25 June 2023, 11:17:32 PMApparently he's now been 'exiled' to Belarus so who knows what happens next.
Who knows what happens next is a pretty good summary of the situation ;D I wonder how many in the western intelligence community saw this coming? What I couldn't understand was how Prigozhin was able to bad mouth the regime and get away with it when others who put so much as a critical post on Twitface ended up in prison for eight years and more, or if they were really unlucky fell out of a window or were poisoned. I constructed a number of competing hypotheses.
Hypothesis 1. It is all designed to disinform and confuse the Unkrainians and the West.
Hypothesis 2. Putin couldn't act against Prigozhin as Wagner is the only effective Russian military organisation.
Hypothesis 3. Putin is in on it and plans to act against the MoD and Army command with Wagner support.
Hypothesis 4. The hypothesis I hadn't thought of.
Hypothesis 5. Another one I hadn't thought of.
Then there is this mutiny, take-over of Rostov and the Army HQ, with no apparent resistance, and a march on Moscow by Wagner that ends abruptly but with next to no interference from the Russian army, and Prigozhin is allowed to go into exile in Belorus after an agreement is brokered by Lukashenko.
I just don't get it. Putin has a 100% record of not letting opponents get away with it and his rhetoric about treason and dire punishments prior to the agreement were pretty typical Did Putin have no confidence in the Russian army's ability, or willingness, to stop Prigozhin? If that is the case Prigozhin seems not to have shared Putin's view, otherwise why give up? Furthermore, what leverage/influence did Lukashenko have? He's just a grubby dictator and Putin puppet. As for exile in Belarus, that hardly puts him beyond Putin's reach. I'd want to be a lot further away than that if I were Prigozhin – Salisbury at least. Is there is something going on here that I just don't see? The problem is that if Putin is replaced it could be by somebody even worse.
So,
Hypothesis 6. Who knows what happens next.
An interesting point in the paper yesterday was that no recent Russian leader has survived more than a few months after a failed coup, as it weakens their position so much.
QuoteWho knows what happens next
Furthermore, what leverage/influence did Lukashenko have? He's just a grubby dictator and Putin puppet.
Totally agree hypothesis 6.
I think you underestimate Lukashenko though. He pre-dates Putin. Sadly (since he is clearly a bad man) I think Lukashenko has proven to be an absolute master at fence sitting during the last two years and stretching out his/Belarus's own interests given he has a very weak position to resist kremlin pressure. I'd cite in particular that open leak of the invasion plans early on last year. Impossible to believe he didn't order someone to take pics of his presentation. And now he has paid back the favour for Putin supporting him against the Belarus revolution and will feel stronger to resist the
Oligarchs grab our assets Russia-Belarus integration plan. Hopefully the CIA are holding their noses and talking with Lukashenko .
On which topic, why on earth is a fraction of the $$$ aid to Ukraine not used to pay Wagner mercenaries to switch sides?
Disinformatsya? Possible but a bit Byzantine even for the Russians. A lot of working parts to go wrong, and to what end?
Agree Putin wouldn't want to use forces to fight Wagner troops if possible with a war in Donbas ongoing. How effective Wagner is after the head on attacks around Bakhmut is moot.
I don't think Putin has problems getting rid of his senior military that would require a faked coup attempt.
? Prighozin thought he had a deal with people in the FSB or FSO (Presidential protection service) but for whatever reason they either failed or failed to act.
? Prighozhin did a deal with a western intelligence service (and the financial scale required suggests it would have to be CIA) perhaps in connection with above possibility, which failed.
?As above but Prigozhin decided he couldn't trust what would happen next and split the cash with Vlad for protection.
The latter two are almost as Byzantine as the Disniformatsiya idea, but with the added tease of a recently (20 June) announcement of a doubling of the noted (18 May) accounting error in the value of arms sent to Ukraine by the USA. It now stands at $6.2 billion vice $3 billion overestimate. You can lose a lot of bribes, even at Prigozhin's level, in that figure. Especially if you think Prigozhin wouldn't survive the infighting in the Kremlin after the coup and you stand a good chance of getting the money back.
Of course Putin has sometimes taken years to complete his destruction of enemies he has sidelined so Prigozhin is probably not safe yet.
As for survivors of failed coups - Gorbachev, 32 years ago is the only one I can think of who was ousted in short time - very different circumstances. Khrushchev defeated the AntiParty coup attempt but he lasted another seven years so I don't think that counts. And not exactly 'recent'.
QuoteWho knows what happens next is a pretty good summary of the situation
Hypothesis 5. Another one I hadn't thought of.
Reposition Wagner troops in Belarus to start a new front against Ukraine? I thought the annexation of the frontier republics was evidently to enable the fiction that conscripts were defending Russian territory. No need to go with the fiction that Wagner is not under Russian control but it would be a counter-play to the Free Russia units now raiding towards Belgorod that Ukraine state they have nothing to do with.
Although he had frequently critised the head of defence ministry, and the head of the army, he never critised Putin, so perhaps he hadn't expected Putin to be quite so supportive of the generals.
Another point I've seen made was that perhaps he expected some sort of support from other generals, which he didn't receive.
A hot dog seller who became a restaurant owner who became Putin's personal chef, who became a mercenary leader...
To quote Sesame Street, one of these things is not like the others.
Quote from: hammurabi70 on 26 June 2023, 06:33:56 PMReposition Wagner troops in Belarus to start a new front against Ukraine?
Well, in anaysis of competing hypotheses none should be excluded. But, have not the Wagner fighters been absorbed into the Russian army now, and only their former boss has gone to Belarus?
Quote from: John Cook on 27 June 2023, 01:23:38 AMBut, have not the Wagner fighters been absorbed into the Russian army now, and only their former boss has gone to Belarus?
I've not seen anything confirmed yet, but it seems that Putin has offered them a few options:
- exile to Belarus with Proghozin
- demobilisation, but it doesn't say whether the ex-cons would be sent back to the gulags
- absorption into the Russian army
I'm beginning to see the value of Baudrillard's approach - The Prigozhin Coup did not take place.
It is however still being fought to the death in cyber space by all parties involved and many who weren't.
Gosh!
Just been looking at my October 22 Wish List and so much has happened!
1. Swedish Army, Napoleonic Wars As likely as next week's lottery numbers, but I have a proxy. (No, that's not a social disease.)
2. British Vehicles 1980s Any time now ... any time now ...
3. Harnessed horses Please. I never have enough harnessed horses. B)
4. Chariot Armies Indians first. Excellent. They have chariots.
5. Soviet 1980s Done. Loving the BTRs!
6. Swedish 1980s Some day, maybe.
7. Instructions Even a diagram would be helpful in some cases.
8. Valkyries Amazonian perhaps?
9. Slingers Possibly with the Macedonians :D
I remember when I created that list I was rather jaundiced about the number of projects I had left in me. Since then, things have changed somewhat.
Currently, I am in a painting phase with the WSS and the Ottoman Napoleonics.
My current research/purchase project is the Bishops' Wars; particularly the Battle of Newburn. I'm planning Covenanter and Royalist armies, with perhaps a Parliamentarian one to follow. There's a good few months purchasing in the plan. The only thing I would like adding to the Pendraken range would be mounted Scottish officers in bonnet.
Planned projects are (in no particular order):
- Swedish Napoleonics
- Spanish Napoleonics
- Russo-Japanese War
- Ancient Indians (when released)
- Amazons (when released)
- SF range (when released)
- WWII Western Desert. This is a remote possibility, and to be honest it's just 'cos I want some Grant tanks. I could just buy a couple, add some Australians and pitch them against the Japanese.
So my July 2023 wish list (leaving aside the "not gonna happen, not eva", the proxies and the promised) is somewhat reduced.
1. Harnessed horses
2. Mounted Scottish officers in Bonnet for the English Civil War range.
Quote from: fsn on 09 July 2023, 04:46:54 PM2. British Vehicles 1980s Any time now ... any time now ...
Should be mid-August I think, they've all been printed so I need to check them over before we put them into master moulds. I need to schedule them in/around the Sci-Fi moulds too.
Quote from: fsn on 09 July 2023, 04:46:54 PM2. Mounted Scottish officers in Bonnet for the English Civil War range.
That's a bit of a gap there, I'll make a note to sort that out.
My wallet and I thank you. :)
Apparently I'm on Telly again.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 19 July 2023, 05:20:27 PMApparently I'm on Telly again.
Do you mean
a) You're participating in a factual/quiz programme as a knowledgeable chap/player
b) Your Kojak rug has arrived?
c) There's a new series of Crimewatch?
Yes.
But mostly (1)
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I was on Eggheads a couple of years ago, and every so often it gets repeated. I always get the same question wrong, you would have thought I'd learned it by now.
We watched the latest version of 'Dune' on Amazon at the weekend. Now I know I'm getting old, but even our daughter complained about barely being able to hear the dialogue, to the point that we ended up putting the subtitles on :( . I'm not sure why they make some stuff barely audible, then suddenly the music kicks in and double the volume :o !
Whilst visually excellent, we just did not feel engaged at all with the story nor was it easy to follow what they were trying to convey. Anyone else feels the same?
Saw it at the cinema last year and thought it good (no issues with sound there!).
However because I've seen the 1984 version many times and the new film is essentially the same story it kind've ruined it for me because, well, you know what's going to happen next and exactly how it ends...
Quote from: Steve J on 31 July 2023, 02:40:29 PMWe watched the latest version of 'Dune' on Amazon at the weekend. Now I know I'm getting old, but even our daughter complained about barely being able to hear the dialogue, to the point that we ended up putting the subtitles on :( . I'm not sure why they make some stuff barely audible, then suddenly the music kicks in and double the volume :o !
Whilst visually excellent, we just did not feel engaged at all with the story nor was it easy to follow what they were trying to convey. Anyone else feels the same?
Try resetting Amazon to not 5:1 surround sound, it automatically assumes you have the full set up.
Read the book and sequels, the first more than once.
Saw the 1984 version and thought it tosh, but enjoyable tosh. I can forgive it much for the "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion ..." lines that Lynch is said to have come up with.
The 2000 TV version was insipid, IMHO.
The latest one seemed to me to be closest by far to the books and I had no problem with the sound levels. I liked it.
Despite a career in IT, the more intrusive computers become in my life the more I yearn for the Bulterian Jihad :-)
The David Lynch version was badly let down by some truly terrible special effects, trying to cram the whole book into one movie and a couple of really stupid moments - the one where the Emperor & his top generals main the guns stands out as spectacularly bad.
Saw the new one on Amazon Prime - very good I thought. True to the (first half of the) book. Looking forward to the second.
No problem with sound levels. Unlike Tenet - one of the very few movies I have walked out of.
Thanks for the tip Will :) .
Quote from: Steve J on 31 July 2023, 02:40:29 PMWhilst visually excellent, we just did not feel engaged at all with the story nor was it easy to follow what they were trying to convey. Anyone else feels the same?
No problem with the sound but I agree with you. I have no idea what it was really about - I haven't read the book which would probably help but I shouldn't have to. The film was one of those that is instantly forgetable.
My flexi sheet for work shows I am 5 hours 60 minutes in credit.
Not 6 hours, 5 hours 60.
You know time's gone decimal, right?
Quote from: Last Hussar on 11 August 2023, 12:43:17 PMMy flexi sheet for work shows I am 5 hours 60 minutes in credit.
Not 6 hours, 5 hours 60.
Book off four fifteen minute periods one after another ;)
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From the Friends of the Tank Museum:
Modelling Monday, something rather different this week... Dayananda Lokuliyanage sculptured this tiny tank using a craft knife with an x-acto blade on the tip of an HB pencil.
- Nine Inch (finger) Nails
- "It started as a Pendraken M60, but I needed to whittle away a few bits ... and got carried away"
- New Pendraken range - Pendraken's Pendraken 1:150 figures for your 10mm figures
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From the Friends of the Tank Museum: Modelling Monday, something rather different this week... Dayananda Lokuliyanage sculptured this tiny tank using a craft knife with an x-acto blade on the tip of an HB pencil.
And I get told I have too much time !
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I've just done an online quiz "Which Disney/Pixar character are you most like".
It said I got 0/8 correct...
I am now confused.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 08 September 2023, 11:08:13 AMI am now confused.
Surley gthat should be "still confused"
More confusederer
"Confused" was a great character.
Loved her and that little song she sang ... no, no, no ... that was Snow White. Who did the "Let it Snow, let it snow, the pole never bother me any way" ... no, that was Elsa who appeared with Virginia McKenna and a meerkat.
You know, I think I'm a little Cinderella.
Attended Colours wargames show today and it was uncomortably hot on all floors, but especially the top one. Hard to concentrate and had to keep popping outside for a drinks break and some fresh air. 37C in the car when I set off for home :o !
Aye, went there too. Was not a pleasant experience, purely because of the heat.* Never made it to the top floor.
Picked up what I wanted - sorry, nothing from Pendraken this year.
Seemed a bit less crowded than the last time - 2019 - I went?
Lots of people showing beautifully painted scenery and selling it unpainted.
The only stall that intrigued me with something new was ROK Minis (https://www.rokminis.com/shop), selling small scale "battles in a box". Investigation when I got home revealed it's all 3d-printed resin miniatures and cast resin buildings.
When I left at ~midday there was an enormous queue of people trying to get into Newbury - apparently the County Show was on this weekend. Luckily I got there early and missed that chaos.
Hope it was worth the long journey for Pendraken.
* Although the pool of dried vomit in one of the stairwells did not help.
Quote from: Steve J on 09 September 2023, 03:59:51 PMAttended Colours wargames show today and it was uncomortably hot on all floors, but especially the top one. Hard to concentrate and had to keep popping outside for a drinks break and some fresh air. 37C in the car when I set off for home :o !
Blimey! That's a bit warm... sadly the Pendraken rapid ordering beer system wasn't working, I believe!
26C in the house when I got home and this felt nice and cool!
Spent most of yesterday afternoon on the roof, helping a friend who was replacing a ridge tile.
I stayed on the flat roof 'footing' ladders. Swore, when I put my hand on a bit of lead flashing.
*?!#,,,that was hot !
Well that ended better that I thought it was going to. :)
Techno on a roof ... what could go wrong?
(https://i.chzbgr.com/full/9776898560/h2BCEDE9D/person-go-out-beer-or-2-but-not-attacking-and-pillaging-constantinople-15-beers-later)
From the Pendraken front page
QuoteWe've had a lot of messages asking about [Chieftains]
Repeated moans from Nobby doesn't count as 'a lot'.
Really tempted for some Iran-Iraq, Chieftains sound lovely!
DON'T SET NOBBY OFF! >:(
Quote from: Last Hussar on 15 September 2023, 11:44:09 AMDON'T SET NOBBY OFF! >:(
Doesn't he get excited by Centurions, the earlier, better version :D
Quote from: Last Hussar on 15 September 2023, 11:44:09 AMDON'T SET NOBBY OFF! >:(
It's almost certainly too late. Mind you - WHERE ARE THE LEOPARDS AND MARDER APPCS !!!!!!
Quote from: toxicpixie on 15 September 2023, 11:48:23 AMDoesn't he get excited by Centurions, the earlier, better version :D
Something beginning with "C"... :-$
Centurions are my first love :x I could wax legs about how wonderful the Centurion is.
Secondly, the Churchill. Squat, ugly, slow - we have so much in common.
I have always decried the Chieftain as a smoky interloper ... but I have come to appreciate its finer qualities - whatever they are.
Now, where are those FV432's and Abbotts?
That picture I posted - just remembered a story a (then) fellow re-enactor told me about 30 years ago.
He was off to some do, and had to cross London by Tube. The easiest way to carry a mail shirt is to wear it, so he had a coat over the top to hide it.
A mugger pulls a knife on him - guy refuses to be mugged.
Mugger uses knife and slashes coat.
Nothing happens...
Re-enactor put his hand into his bag, and pulls out an axe (I'm guessing Viking-ish) and says "Now it's my turn..."
Mugger runs.
Sounds very "that's not a knife..." Was it Wolf Jorvik, Crocodile Dundees northern cousin?!
Nobby, I only want Chieftain to make Centurion look even better ;) And give some target practice for T-62 Ofc.
Brilliant!
Does that count as experimental archaeology?
I know a bloke who used drive Chieftains, and I mean professionally. He has... stories! I'll see if I can get him to refresh my memory.
Just recovered from what was most likely a touch of the latest Covid variant, which knocked me out for a few days. Our daughter has gone down with it and loads of people round here in this part of Bristol affected.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 15 September 2023, 04:50:00 PMI know a bloke who used drive Chieftains, and I mean professionally. He has... stories! I'll see if I can get him to refresh my memory.
Club mate of mine was a Chieftain driver... he has... vocal... comments... about their performance.
Fortunately he never got shot at in anger in one or I suspect they'd have been comments about their armour as well!
Hi
As an ex-Chieftain driver/gunner/loader-operator (I trianed as a gunner and almost the first thing that I did when joining my regiment in Germany, Ajax, 2RTR, was to be put on a driviing course so that I was able to do all the crew jobs on a Chieftain) I can honestly say that if I had had to go to war in a tank during the time I was in the forces, my first choice would have been in a Chieftain.
(https://i.imgur.com/WEZmzom.jpg)
Cheers Paul
Friend of mine is exREME, was a an armour fitter.
He has some choice words about why you never move one without its engine in...
Sent the front page photo of the Chieftans to the bloke I mentioned above.
Reply as follows
Quotethis takes me back to when I was a young trooper in the QRIH
Queens Royal Irish hussars , Chieftain tanks where the most unreliable tank the army had since ww2 . They had towards the end of their service a British Leyland bus engine which was under powered . The gearbox was never redesigned for this and both engine and gearbox failed. FYI I did an exercise and spent 3 weeks in the REME field garage with 5 other vehicles
Wasn't the problem associated with the multi-fuel engine requirement?
You guys must have envied the Scorpion crews zipping about with their Jag engines.
(Envied; as long as nobody was shooting back).
Saw a Scorpion at the Royal Tournament (yes, that long ago) doing a little combat display. There was a basket on the side with a flashbang in it - someone said that it was in a basket not taped on because they didn't want the armour dented...
Other Chieftain stories
Tank commander said back-up, the driver said are you sure, there is a Chieftain behind. Commander says "Don't worry, I know how much room there is.
Apparently a L11A5 120 mm rifled gun does more damage than you would like to the back of a turret, even when not being fired.
As you know British tanks have black 'hoops' painted on them. The way Kev's unit put these on were to give crew members paint pots of black paint.
As one crew pointed out to a "quite angry" sergeant-major, he never said don't paint the whole tank black...
That particular argument fell flat, and they had to do it again.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 15 September 2023, 12:29:47 PMThat picture I posted - just remembered a story a (then) fellow re-enactor told me about 30 years ago.
He was off to some do, and had to cross London by Tube. The easiest way to carry a mail shirt is to wear it, so he had a coat over the top to hide it.
A mugger pulls a knife on him - guy refuses to be mugged.
Mugger uses knife and slashes coat.
Nothing happens...
Re-enactor put his hand into his bag, and pulls out an axe (I'm guessing Viking-ish) and says "Now it's my turn..."
Mugger runs.
Yes - it's amazing how being in armour can change the entire 'attitude' of those around you.
I did C15th re-enactment back a few years ago (Company St.George & White Company) and we were on an event in the South of France (as you do). We'd been drinking (heavily) in our C15th civilian clothes for most of the late afternoon & evening, in a bar on the sea-front in Nice and had been 'ejected' by the owner for being too rowdy & loud (& probably too British) following a series of complaints from the other customers that we were bringing down the 'tone' of their evening (NB: we were also probably very smelly - it was hot and we'd all been in woollen clothing and under canvas for a few days already).
So the next evening we all went back in our fighting harness (mainly because we thought that we'd try and pull off not being recognized by having our visored sallets pulled down :D ). Anyway ... upon arrival the landlord was delighted and asked if we'd put on a 'display' fight. Which (after a few drinks) we did, by faking an argument over a dice game and throwing each other about and out into the street - rolling around in the gutter etc.etc. We ended the evening with free beers and an invite for a repeat performance the next night.
Upon our arrival the next afternoon, we couldn't get into the bar. It was ram packed with people wanting to see us.
By the end of the week, we were 'playing' to such a large crowd that another lot of reenactors (from our own group) was set up - along with various of the women re-enactors - to march down from our camp to arrest us all for disorderly behavior - which (of course) resulted in an even bigger 'fight' in the street - with those of us in the bar being beaten with brushes and sticks by the women and herded shame-faced back to our encampment.
All of which resulted in a couple of cases of wine & beer plus food being brought up to us by the grateful landlord, as a reward.
It's amazing what a bit of shiny armour can achieve ;D
Did you get the disappointed crowd members who moaned they could still see the "dead" breathing?
We did the Bedford River Festival early 90s, and the start of the display was the Saxons facing off the Vikings, 'nervous' about getting 'killed', while the women members 'screamed' at us to get stuck in and not be cowards!
No matter how bad your life is, remember, you are not Daniel Khalife's solicitor
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/daniel-khalife-pleads-not-guilty-to-escaping-custody-at-hmp-wandsworth/ar-AA1h2JVz
He must be delighted to land that task ! :o
Google gas failed me.
Does anybody know the Anglo Saxon war chant, the one that is some like
Fram fram, Christos, ????? Koenigsman.
*Google HAS, Not gas...
The one I heard was "Utt Utt Utt"
Plunga, plunga ,wiggy wiggy wiggy...
Possibly too early - from around 123AD
I'll get my coat!
Lee
The best warcry EVER!
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 25 September 2023, 06:32:49 PMThe best warcry EVER!
From the most convincing depiction of Roman Britain
put on TV
I'll take that as a 'no' then... :-\
Gentlemen. I am in a quandary again.
I have on the go four project in status "paint": Napoleonic Swedes, Napoleonic Ottoman, Marlburian and Covenanters for the 2nd Bishops' War.
I have in the sidelines, Royalists from the 2nd Bishops' War and FV432s to top up the Cold War Brits. These are purchased but remain unpainted.
This means I have a gap in my purchase programme, and am contemplating what to fill it with.
- Ancient Indians This was top of the list about a year ago, until someone said that the range was due a revamp.
- Romano-Britons AKA King Arthur. I'd have to do a corresponding Early Saxon army and I'm not feeling it.
- Parliamentarian Again possible, but since I haven't played a Bishops' War game yet, this may be premature (Also, may be a bit fed up of painting C17 by the time I've got through the Scots and the Royalists)
- Napoleonic French I've looked at this again. My problem is that I like French cavalry, but not the infantry. I've drawn up an OOB which is quite heavily biased towards the cavalry, and dammit I'm tempted;
- Napoleonic Portuguese My problem with the Portuguese is that I feel they need to be mixed with British. They are tempting, but I'm doing a blue clad Napoleonic army at the moment ... but their flags are very cool.
- Napoleonic Spanish I'm not great with White Uniforms.
- Napoleonic Saxons Ditto - but with very interesting cavalry.
- Napoleonic Italians Ditto.
- Napoleonic Something Else I'm quite tempted to look into a smaller German state.
- Little Wars A sort of late C19 affaire that HG Wells would recognise.
- Russo-Japanese Possible. However, I feel this is a company level game, 100-150 figures at most.
- 1929 I looked at the possibility of UK-France kicking off, Vickers 6 tonners vs Char 2Cs. Give me a Carden-Lloyd and a Lewis Gunner in a cap, and I'll take the plunge.
- Sci Fi Definitely going to do this at some time, but it's not out yet.
- Amazons Ditto.
Decisions, decisions. :-\
I think it's between the Indians, the Napoleonic French, and the Russo-Japanese.
These 3 speak to me
- Little Wars A sort of late C19 affaire that HG Wells would recognise.
- Russo-Japanese Possible. However, I feel this is a company level game, 100-150 figures at most.
- 1929 I looked at the possibility of UK-France kicking off, Vickers 6 tonners vs Char 2Cs. Give me a Carden-Lloyd and a Lewis Gunner in a cap, and I'll take the plunge.
I've just done lots of the RJW Russians - very nice figures. Not sure why you are seeing it as company level actions. But I'm using my figures for WWI so not really looked at RJW in any detail.
What about A Very British Civil War?
Quote from: fred. on 27 October 2023, 04:35:11 PMI've just done lots of the RJW Russians - very nice figures. Not sure why you are seeing it as company level actions. But I'm using my figures for WWI so not really looked at RJW in any detail.
I see it as company level the same way as I see WWI as company level. I don't know why, but battalions of 24 in WWI just doesn't look right to me. Maybe it's when formal lines went out of fashion? I have an arbitrary date of 1900 after which everything is platoon/company level.
I like the idea of the Chocolate Box war. Highlanders in scarlet tunics, pipes skirling; Zouaves and Cuirassiers marching together; white clad Austrian grenadiers and dashing hussars (I hate Hussars); stolid Prussians and the Czar's finest! I quite fancy doing this with fairly small units, maybe 30 infantry? Couple of brigades of 3 bttns each, plus a cavalry brigade, an artillery battery or two and a special unit. 250 figures per side?
Brits would be Highlanders from the Indian Mutiny; Guards from the Crimea ... do I try for Home Service Helmet or a shako? :-\
Quote from: Orcs on 27 October 2023, 05:45:21 PMWhat about A Very British Civil War?
I did think about it. I was modelling it on the Experimental Mechanised Force, and who can but love another opportunity to have a go at the French? AVBCW has too many factions for my liking - besides I need a Carden LLoyd carrier and a Lewis Gunner in a peaked cap. However 1929 does have the advantage of having something other than bloomin' cavalry. >:(
You don't have to go "official" for AVBCW - we didn't. Just assume Albertines/Parliamentarians, Edwardian/Nazis, and maybe a Red Fsction, with the Moderates/Trade Unionists/Social Democrats with Anarchist/Communists/Soviets bubbling inside?
Don't forget the Peaky Blinders/who knows what side they're on.
Quote from: toxicpixie on 27 October 2023, 09:58:53 PMYou don't have to go "official" for AVBCW - we didn't. Just assume Albertines/Parliamentarians, Edwardian/Nazis, and maybe a Red Faction, with the Moderates/Trade Unionists/Social Democrats with Anarchist/Communists/Soviets bubbling inside?
Oh yes. Thank you. That makes it so simple. :P
QuoteDon't forget the Peaky Blinders/who knows what side they're on.
Peaky Blinders I could do, using the Home Guard (and probably something from the SCW*) but I really, really need a Lewis Gunner in a cap and a Carden Lloyd carrier
(https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/b4bm7n-british-army-lance-corporal-585116011.jpg) (https://images.hattons.co.uk/subcategories/3143186.jpg?v=030821-102650)
*If there's a C20 fight that you can't proxy something from the SCW into, I can't find it.
Quote from: fsn on 28 October 2023, 07:25:03 AMOh yes. Thank you. That makes it so simple. :P
Pleasure!
Just do "your bit" - pick two forces, make 'em. No one else local enough to count :)
Spanish civil war ?
I'm not a fan of Civil Wars. Except the American one. :-\
Having a go at the French though ...
Quote from: fsn on 28 October 2023, 10:01:58 AMI'm not a fan of Civil Wars. Except the American one. :-\
Having a go at the French though ...
Henry Vlll invasion of France
Operation Torch
QuoteHenry Vlll invasion of France
Dammit! I was looking at the Elizabethan range. Can't resist a morion.
QuoteOperation Torch
That one I did after reading ...
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61zT5Xx-d+L._SY466_.jpg)
Madagascar or Syria now :-\
Madagascar would be a good excuse to get the Tetrarch tank.
QuoteDammit! I was looking at the Elizabethan range. Can't resist a morion.
That one I did after reading ...
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Madagascar or Syria now :-\
Not sure about the title of that book fsn......it was not just England's last war against the French (and to be trifling why have a Union Jack if its only the English? :-\ ;) ).
Operation Exporter (the attack on Vichy Syria) is a very interesting campaign if for no other reason than the sheer number of unique units that took part in it, and thats just from the Allied side:
From Wikipedia we find the following:
Commander-in-Chief[1] Middle East Command: General Sir Archibald Wavell
General Officer Commanding Palestine and Trans-Jordan: General Sir H. Maitland Wilson
South Syria and Lebanon – Australian I Corps (from 18 June)
Australian troops from the 2/14th Infantry Battalion
General Officer Commanding I Corps: Lieutenant-General John Lavarack
Australian 7th Division – Major-General John Lavarack (until 18 June) then Major-General Arthur "Tubby" Allen
Divisional Troops
6th Division Cavalry
9th Division Cavalry
2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion
The Royal Scots Greys and The Staffordshire Yeomanry (composite mechanised regiment detached from British 1st Cavalry Division)
One squadron, The Royals (detached from 1st Cavalry Division )
C battalion Special Service Brigade (commandos based in Cyprus for seaborne landings)[2]
Artillery (Brigadier F. H. Berryman)
2/4th Field Regiment
2/5th Field Regiment
2/6th Field Regiment
2/2nd Anti-tank Regiment
57 Light Anti-aircraft Regiment
21st Australian Brigade (Brigadier J E S Stevens)
2/14th Infantry Battalion
2/16th Infantry Battalion
2/27th Infantry Battalion
25th Australian Brigade (Brigadier A. R. Baxter-Cox until 22 June, Brigadier E.C.P. Plant thereafter))
2/25th Infantry Battalion
2/31st Infantry Battalion
2/33rd Infantry Battalion
17th Australian Brigade (from 28 June) (Brigadier S. G. Savige)
2/3rd Infantry Battalion
2/5th Infantry Battalion
2/2nd Pioneer Battalion
'Gentforce' (command activated 12 June until 18 June) – Major-General P L Legentilhomme (wounded 12 June and succeeded by Brigadier W. L. Lloyd until 18 June)
British 6th Infantry Division (activated 18 June) – Major-General J. F. Evetts
British 16th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier C. E. N. Lomax) from 20 June
2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment
2nd Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
2nd Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment
British 23rd Infantry Brigade (Brigadier A. Galloway) from 29 June
1st Battalion, Durham Light Infantry
Czechoslovak 11th Infantry Battalion[3]
4th Battalion, Border Regiment
5th Indian Infantry Brigade (Brigadier W L Lloyd) (Lieut.-Col. L. B. Jones of 4/6th Rajputana Rifles while Lloyd commanded Gentforce)[4]
1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
3/1st Punjab Regiment
4/6th Rajputana Rifles
18th Field Company Bombay Sappers and Miners[5]
1st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
1st Free French Light Division – Major-General Paul Legentilhomme
1st Free French Brigade (Colonel Cazaud)
1st Battalion of Foreign Legion
1 March Battalion
3 March Battalion
2nd Free French Brigade (Colonel Genin)
1st Battalion of Marine infantry
2 March Battalion
4 March Battalion
1st battalion of Naval Fusiliers[6]
1st Moroccan Spahis group of squadron
1st battery field artillery (4 75 mm guns)
1st company of tanks (9 H39 tanks)
Circassian Cavalry group of squadrons (453 troops) (Colonel Collet)
Circassian troops with a French officer
Northern Syria
Elements of Iraqforce:
Advancing on the Euphrates
10th Indian Infantry Division – Major-General W J Slim
13th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers
157th Field Regiment RA
21st Indian Infantry Brigade (Brigadier C.J. Weld)
2/10th Gurkha Rifles
2/4th Gurkha Rifles
4/13th Frontier Force Rifles
25th Indian Infantry Brigade (Brigadier R Mountain)
1/5th Mahratta Light Infantry
2/11th Sikh Regiment
3/9th Jat Regiment
2/8th Gurkha Rifles (detached from 20th Indian Infantry Brigade)
In northern Iraq and the "Duck's Bill" region of Syria
Under command of HQ British Troops Iraq: Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Quinan
20th Indian Infantry Brigade (detached from 10th Indian Infantry Division) (Brigadier D Powell)
2/7th Gurkha Rifles
3/11th Sikh Regiment
17th Indian Infantry Brigade (detached from 8th Indian Infantry Division) (Brigadier Douglas Gracey)
1/12th Frontier Force Regiment
5/13th Frontier Force Rifles
In central Syria
Habforce commanded by Major-General J.G.W. Clark
British 4th Cavalry Brigade of the British 1st Cavalry Division (Brigadier J.J. Kingstone until 24 June, Brigadier J G E Tiarks from 29 June[7])
Household Cavalry Regiment
North Somerset Yeomanry
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
1st Battalion of the Essex Regiment
Arab Legion Mechanised Regiment
237th Battery, Royal Artillery (60th Field Regiment)
An Australian battery of 2-pounder anti-tank guns (detached from the 2/1st Anti-Tank Regiment[8])
169th Light Anti-aircraft Battery
Thats quite an array of forces, including the last "true" cavalry brigade in the British Army IIRC.
Authors Note:
"Readers may well wonder why this book is not called Britain's Last War Against France. After all, large numbers of Scots, Welsh and Irish found themselves fighting against the Vichy French. Its title does not reflect any animus against the Union on my part. Far from it. But for the French, perhaps because over the centuries they sometimes acquired Celtic allies, the old enemy is almost always 'the English'. Sometimes - usually when they are very angry with us or we are allied with the Americans or both - we become 'the Anglo-Saxons'. Only rarely in their eyes, are we 'the British', a people with who they tend to have a more neutral relationship. CS"
Syria is an interesting campaign - typical shoestring operation for that time. Thanks for the OOB, I've stashed that. Easier terrain than Madagascar, and I dont have any WWII Middle East. Add a Grant or two and 1941 Desert is possible too.
In other news, I've largely given up on the Chocolate Box War. Couldn't find a decent proxy for bearskin clad Guardsmen. Greatcoat in the Crimea, but I wanted bright Scarlet.
Ok thanks for the explanation fsn :-bd
Quote from: fsn on 29 October 2023, 08:59:25 AMAuthors Note:
"Readers may well wonder why this book is not called Britain's Last War Against France. After all, large numbers of Scots, Welsh and Irish found themselves fighting against the Vichy French. Its title does not reflect any animus against the Union on my part. Far from it. But for the French, perhaps because over the centuries they sometimes acquired Celtic allies, the old enemy is almost always 'the English'. Sometimes - usually when they are very angry with us or we are allied with the Americans or both - we become 'the Anglo-Saxons'. Only rarely in their eyes, are we 'the British', a people with who they tend to have a more neutral relationship. CS"
Syria is an interesting campaign - typical shoestring operation for that time. Thanks for the OOB, I've stashed that. Easier terrain than Madagascar, and I dont have any WWII Middle East. Add a Grant or two and 1941 Desert is possible too.
In other news, I've largely given up on the Chocolate Box War. Couldn't find a decent proxy for bearskin clad Guardsmen. Greatcoat in the Crimea, but I wanted bright Scarlet.
1864 Danish Guards in Busby
Thanks for the suggestion. I did have a look at them, but the bearskin is somewhat European.
(https://files.ekmcdn.com/89204c/images/guard-1842-pattern-uniform-in-bearskin-18--2414-p.jpg?w=660&h=9999&v=2262021-113051) (https://files.ekmcdn.com/89204c/images/guards-in-greatcoat-and-bearskin-2450-p.jpg?w=660&h=9999&v=129e769d-d879-49da-8b8b-95a29a1eb609)
Is it the shape? Is it the shagginess? I always think of the Guards as being somewhat sleek.
I may get a pack for a sample.
Once they been on campaign for a month or two, sure they would lose the perfection
https://img.theculturetrip.com/450x/smart/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/person-people-musician-profession-denmark-marching-1070103-pxhere-com_.jpg
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 30 October 2023, 12:33:22 PMOnce they been on campaign for a month or two, sure they would lose the perfection
Ah! But that defeats the point of the Chocolate Box War. Everyone is pristine, everyone is a gentlemen (officers only, of course) and everyone who is hit gives a mild grunt and falls gracefully to the round.
Ideally, this would be Britains writ small.
Whoa! Hold it right there a second.
1864 Danish Guards in Busby - where are these? Please?
I've looked at the 19th Century European page - found the 1864 Danes but there aren't any Guard units on that page as far as I can see.
Also - those aren't Busbies - they are Bearskins. Busbies are worn by RHA and Hussars. Different kettle of fish entirely.
Knew someone would bite on the Busby comment! :d
Guards, 1842 dress
https://www.pendraken.co.uk/guard-1842-pattern-uniform-in-bearskin-18-2414-p.asp
QuoteKnew someone would bite on the Busby comment! :d
Glad to oblige :D
QuoteGuards, 1842 dress
https://www.pendraken.co.uk/guard-1842-pattern-uniform-in-bearskin-18-2414-p.asp
Ah - so not 1864. So I'm not blind, just incompetent- reassuring - I think. :-\
Thanks.
Quote from: Gwydion on 30 October 2023, 06:52:35 PMGlad to oblige :D Ah - so not 1864. So I'm not blind, just incompetent- reassuring - I think. :-\
Thanks.
My fault. I default to 1864, as it's the ones I've painted...
Well, I've managed to upset a Crown Court judge.
How are your week's going?
Impressive, what did you do this time?
Exactly what I was supposed to do. The NHS did something, and the Court blamed me >:(
Also ... "This time" ??
My current, current project is (aside from the Napoleonic Swedes, Napoleonic Ottoman, WSS and Cold War Brits) is of course, a Scots army for the 2nd Bishops' War of 1640.
I decided that the army needed (as all Scottish armies after 1314 do) a little boost. I had a look, and Pendraken don't do what I needed, but by combining two products, and a little gentle application of a file, I have come up with a reasonable approximation.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53313033032_de91ff4550_z.jpg)
I took the hull of an A13, and added the turret of a Crusader I - the result is supposed to be a Cruiser Tank Mk V aka A13 Mk III aka the Covenanter - which seemed appropriate. I've done it in two tone grey, which I think the ministers may consider a bit flamboyant.
Hope it doesn't break down before it gets to Newcastle.
The hobby, as it should be fsn! Well played. The Scots army of 1513 could have done with a few Humbers as well. Since that army was pre-Knoxian, they could have blue, red, yellow and white livery with little criticism and much approbation.
Quote.... a Scots army for the 2nd Bishops' War of 1640.
... the result is supposed to be a Cruiser Tank Mk V aka A13 Mk III aka the Covenanter - which seemed appropriate.
Hope it doesn't break down before it gets to Newcastle.
Cool model - not quite sure how 1640 army gets a 1940 tank - but go for it!
Middlesbrough to Newcastle, I'll give you even's on no break down...
QuoteCool model - not quite sure how 1640 army gets a 1940 tank - but go for it!
Same way the Scots used V1's at Flodden. :D
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49652465612_a93d2fa303_z.jpg)
Phtt! Everyone knows V1s are green and grey on the top surfaces.
Do the bullocks get released before firing?
IIRC that particular V1 was fired from Flodden Edge toward the English and hit somewhere near Aberdeen.
Quote from: fred. on 06 November 2023, 08:32:06 PMPhtt! Everyone knows V1s are green and grey on the top surfaces.
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Quote from: fred. on 06 November 2023, 08:32:06 PMPhtt! Everyone knows V1s are green and grey on the top surfaces.
Sorry Fred, but I have to correct you. According to Zaloga in his book "Renaissance Rockets" Before 160O V1's were painted in the heraldic colours of their user, so Azure and Argent would appear to be correct for the Scotts at Flodden.
Quote from: d_Guy on 07 November 2023, 02:24:09 AMIIRC that particular V1 was fired from Flodden Edge toward the English and hit somewhere near Aberdeen.
But that was only because those dsastardly, sneaky English MOVED! The Scots were all set up, in a lovely position, with the V1 pointed in the right direction, but the scunners thought they'd fight from somewhere else. Rude!
Quote from: Orcs on 07 November 2023, 10:36:10 PMSorry Fred, but I have to correct you. According to Zaloga in his book "Renaissance Rockets" Before 160O V1's were painted in the heraldic colours of their user, so Azure and Argent would appear to be correct for the Scotts at Flodden.
Indeed. The Royal V1 in Gules and Or was somewhat gaudy for my taste.
May need to add a Mk IV tank to my 1314 Scots.
Quote from: fred. on 06 November 2023, 08:32:06 PMDo the bullocks get released before firing?
No, but there was a lovely barbeque after every firing.
I can't wait for the Osprey.
"Cruise Missiles of the Bishop's Wars".
Prefer Dreadnoughts of William of Normandy
I'm working on Conan the Destroyer.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 08 November 2023, 12:32:54 PMI'm working on Conan the Destroyer.
No doubt a Tribal Class
X_X
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It is closer to five and a half.
Hold on.
Important point people are missing.
Look at tge cartoon as a reflection of us, and ask yourself...
Which civil war?
Followed by the mind-shattering information that most of the world thinks of 1812 as the year Napoleon captured Moscow, not as the year Canada beat the US in a war of minimal historical importance.
I've got a fractured rib.
I was hit by a prison officer.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 18 November 2023, 02:13:39 AMFollowed by the mind-shattering information that most of the world thinks of 1812 as the year Napoleon captured Moscow, not as the year Canada beat the US in a war of minimal historical importance.
Nonetheless, thanks to Tchaikovsky, we celebrate it every Fourth of July.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 18 November 2023, 02:39:20 PMI've got a fractured rib.
I was hit by a prison officer.
Commiserations, what was he driving?
No, she used her hand.
Quote from: d_Guy on 18 November 2023, 04:16:27 PMNonetheless, thanks to Tchaikovsky, we celebrate it every Fourth of July.
And in rather a good movie.
QuoteI've got a fractured rib.
I was hit by a prison officer.
:o
QuoteNo, she used her hand.
:o :o :o
What did you do X_X
Everything I was supposed to do!
I am a Civil Servant, and work in a prison. While officers obviously get full training in fighting the gentlemen, the "non-operational" staff also get some training.
I can't remember exactly what we were doing, but she struck me in the chest. She felt the rib "pop", and I definitely did!
As they can't do anything for a minor rib fracture, the hospital doesn't xray. The doctor said if it still hurts in a couple of days then it is a minor fracture.
It still hurts 3 days later. I'm going to be in pain until the new year.
Standard solution, drink far too much. And Comiserations
Get well soon!
QuoteStandard solution, drink far too much.
"Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." (Homer J. Simpson)
Quote from: Last Hussar on 19 November 2023, 09:16:48 AMI can't remember exactly what we were doing, but she struck me in the chest
Unusual bedroom antics???
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 19 November 2023, 10:33:26 AMStandard solution, drink far too much. And Comiserations
Got a WhatsApp from Sunjester
QuoteHave you any suitable pain relief?
Apart from booze.
I've fractured my ribs twice and they are bloomin' painful once they start to heal, so you have my full commiserations old chap. I've popped a rib too, which was more uncomfortable and awkward rather than painful per se.
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Anyone?
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Anyone?
I get a weird joy when I see my name somewhere, maybe because it's a bit of an odd one? There's a restaurant chain called Leon who get my business whenever I see them purely because of that.
You can afford the expensive burger place?
Quote from: Last Hussar on 30 November 2023, 09:01:04 PMYou can afford the expensive burger place?
Five Guys?! :D Nearly had a heart attack in there and it wasn't from the grease on the burger!
Apparently there's a yellow snow warning.
Ewww!
How to feel old
Me: "Those glasses make you look like someone from a Gerry Anderson series"
22 year old "I don't know who Gerry Anderson is"
:'( :'( :'(
Next you'll tell us twenty years ago was like 2003, and not 1970...
Well known fact; 20 years ago was mid 80s
Went to record "Saving private Ryan on the tv - Its 25 years old !!!!
Yeah, I find I get that a lot, especially with music - "hey, this album that C just released is good. Oh wait... "
Quote from: Orcs on 17 December 2023, 03:24:22 PMWent to record "Saving private Ryan on the tv - Its 25 years old !!!!
I was fortunate enough to visit the Omaha beach cemetery where the opening and closing scenes of SPR were filmed. Seems like yesterday but my visit was in 2015...8 years ago 😯
ebay madness: Old GW Bretonnian battalion box - £420.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116012807929 (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116012807929)
I have one of these, still shrink-wrapped. Hmmm . . .
Mind you, it might be offered at that price, but will it sell?
Probaly, after all it's cheaper than their current offeringes
Quote from: Raider4 on 31 December 2023, 10:31:03 AMebay madness: Old GW Bretonnian battalion box - £420.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116012807929 (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116012807929)
I have one of these, still shrink-wrapped. Hmmm . . .
Mind you, it might be offered at that price, but will it sell?
You're better searching for Sold prices, a lot of folk will put up hugely overpriced auctions just to fool the buyer and trends into accepting much lower but still over priced listings (or to keep a listing active they don't have stock for but might in future!).
Gentlemen, may I remind you of a ordeal of our youth...
We have just been explaining to a couple of 20 somethings in the department...
Izal Medicated toilet paper.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 26 January 2024, 02:42:01 PMGentlemen, may I remind you of a ordeal of our youth...
We have just been explaining to a couple of 20 somethings in the department...
Izal Medicated toilet paper.
You mean "Tracing paper"
Izal Medicated toilet paper.
That's brought back terrible memories of school days and outside toilets at home :'( :'( :'( .
Dear gods, I'd blocked that from memory...
Even Newspaper was better than Izal, apart from leaving print on your *rse.
Not so much wipe as redistribute...
Quote from: Last Hussar on 29 January 2024, 12:04:22 AMNot so much wipe as redistribute...
:-&
Don't know what toilet paper we had at primary school back in the 1980s - came in small, cardboard boxes, single piece tracing paper-type, but yeah ... That was, not so much wipe as redistribute. Once experienced, never again, for me. Never needed to find out what the bog roll was like at secondary school, early to late 90s.
Quote from: Roy on 29 January 2024, 09:01:09 AM:-&
Don't know what toilet paper we had at primary school back in the 1980s - came in small, cardboard boxes, single piece tracing paper-type, but yeah ... That was, not so much wipe as redistribute. Once experienced, never again, for me. Never needed to find out what the bog roll was like at secondary school, early to late 90s.
We had something similar in the 1950's. Single sheets similar to wax paper dispensed from a locked metal box. Only used in a dire emergency. My Grandparents' generation used corncobs, so a vast improvement I would think.
You may be aware that some prisons are 'Open', and some are 'Closed'.
My colleague has just typed HMP Louvrepool... so I am guessing sometimes it's open, sometimes it's closed...
Quote from: Last Hussar on 04 March 2024, 02:49:58 PMYou may be aware that some prisons are 'Open', and some are 'Closed'.
My colleague has just typed HMP Louvrepool... so I am guessing sometimes it's open, sometimes it's closed...
If its anything like the louvre window in my bedroom as a kid ,its permanently ajar. The glass only closed to the point where each section had a half inch gap to the next. not really a problem in summer, but in winter it was cold. I used to roll over and switch the two bar electric fire on half hour before getting up.
State of play at the moment is Ottoman Napoleonics half painted, WSS one and a bit armies to paint; French Napoleonics unpainted; Royalists mostly unpainted -probably about 2000 figures there.
SciFi - well they're pretty much all done - Blackforce, Brownforce and Blueforce just need a bit of basing.
But it's that time again - POD (Pendraken Ordering Day). I'm a man of regular habits, the very embodiment of the "shut up and take my money" meme - but what to do? What to do?
I have several options:
- I can start buyimg another Napoleonic army. The Portuguese are favourite at the moment, 'cos the others on the list (Saxons, Italians and Spanish) all wear white. This will take about 6-8 months, so I should be able to get a bit caught up.
- I can start on the Russo-Japanese war. Again 6 months or so.
- I can put in a holding order for bases, paint, scenery, big aeroplanes etc
- Something else (e.g. Ancient Indians)
At the back of my mind is the words of the
Pendraken Plans for 2024 "followed by (SF) ranges 5 and 6 in early February." :-\ So are 5 and 6 imminent? I can hear Milday's tinkling laughter - "Nobby, you poor fool, you cannot win!" She is of course, quite right. If I put in a holding order, we play the game again next POD, if I start a new project she will graciously allow the Dark Lord to release SF 5 and 6, so forcing me into yet another quandry. I would hate to play chess against such an implacable but daintily dimpled opponent.
Do I hang on for the next SF, or do I start a new project? :-/ What to do? What to do?
Belated welcome back fsn............hope all is well with you.
I really liked how you painted up your SciFi entry that appeared in the painting competition (well done for your Late Romans doing so well too :) ).
What to do next gaming wise? well to me that's always a pretty personal decision.....how's the Bishop's War coming on?......We should be onto our Newburn scenario by the end of the year.
See you a bit later today if you can make it along.
Quote from: fsn on 09 March 2024, 04:48:35 PMAt the back of my mind is the words of the Pendraken Plans for 2024 "followed by (SF) ranges 5 and 6 in early February." :-\ So are 5 and 6 imminent? I can hear Milday's tinkling laughter - "Nobby, you poor fool, you cannot win!" She is of course, quite right. If I put in a holding order, we play the game again next POD, if I start a new project she will graciously allow the Dark Lord to release SF 5 and 6, so forcing me into yet another quandry. I would hate to play chess against such an implacable but daintily dimpled opponent.
Do I hang on for the next SF, or do I start a new project? :-/ What to do? What to do?
Minor delay on ranges 5 & 6, just due to a deadline for another project and then a load of work needed prepping a new product line (announced about 5 minutes ago...!) Sci-Fi range 5 is all done and moulded, range 6 should be moulded in the next 10 days, and then I'll prep them for release around Friday 22nd.
On other plans, the AWI are going into master moulds this coming week and we'll have some previews of the new IndoChina figures for you tomorrow.
QuoteBelated welcome back fsn............hope all is well with you.
Thank you. I've been terribly busy at work, lots of things going on. I'm hoping to be able to devote more time to the hobby.
QuoteI really liked how you painted up your SciFi entry that appeared in the painting competition (well done for your Late Romans doing so well too :) ).
Thank you. :-[
Quotehow's the Bishop's War coming on?......We should be onto our Newburn scenario by the end of the year.
I have been a bit derailed by the SF releases. Scots all done, a few bits of the English done, but I'm not happy with them. There may be a Dettol bath for some cavalry. :-\
QuoteMinor delay on ranges 5 & 6, just due to a deadline for another project and then a load of work needed prepping a new product line (announced about 5 minutes ago...!) Sci-Fi range 5 is all done and moulded, range 6 should be moulded in the next 10 days, and then I'll prep them for release around Friday 22nd.
Sorry, Sir, I am but gently pulling your leg for some base amusement. It is my problem, not yours. Fortunately, I've have put a holding order in, so should be good to go for 5 & 6 next POD. :)
Quote from: fsn on 10 March 2024, 03:50:37 PMSorry, Sir, I am but gently pulling your leg for some base amusement. It is my problem, not yours. Fortunately, I've have put a holding order in, so should be good to go for 5 & 6 next POD. :)
:D We'll get that sorted and out to you asap!
Me. Need to book MOT
Also me on walk home. Ah roadworks till the 18th, I'll book it for the 20th because the traffic is a nightmare.
Also Also me. Booked MOT for 13th.
Just noticed there is a logo on my box of tea bags - "Plant based tea bags".
Dunno what you lot are drinking then...
I'm guessing you are drinking tea in bioplastic bags rather than bog standard teabags made with plastic not derived from plants.
An element of greenwashing, perchance?
My first SF miniatures must have been 15mm Traveller figures from the very late 1970's. These figures were often to be found in spaceships, so naturally they got a flat grey base. When they weren't on a ship, my characters were on station or in a city and very rarely ventured into the countryside, so grey didn't matter.
In 2013, when I found the one true scale, it seemed natural to continue grey bases. Dragonhead, my 1960s Scottish town that randomly attracts people and things from all over the place and time, is mostly concrete and tarmac, so grey bases are OK.
Then Pendraken do SF in a big way. Woo-hoo! Grey bases just seemed to happen. :-\
OK, so now we need justification ... and welcome to planet M1-50A-500Y. The captain of the first ship to visit was stroking the ship's cat - a British Shorthair - and remarked that the planet was "as smooth and grey as the Eric's backside", and so the official name was dumped for "Eric".
(https://pics.craiyon.com/2023-09-25/080117ba4214473cb2321b72b6d1d4a8.webp) Eric (the Planet) (https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2668/1922/files/british-shorthair-1.jpg?v=1689089942) Eric (the Cat)
Eric (the planet) is indeed both smooth and grey. It is said that nobody has ever placed a flag in Eric in case it burst. However, there is water beneath the surface which has given rise to a vivid and diverse plant life. They grey colour is due to qualtities of reduced iron or other minerals like manganese in the sandy surface.
With an atmosphere that can support human life, water just below the surface and abundant minerals, it was only a matter of time before competing forces arrived to stake a claim. Being 0.8g means that anti-grav venicles can whip easily over the surface.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53626865177_08246066e1_z.jpg) The Blues have gone for a large number of autonomous drones, small missile firing units able to lay down a withering barrage, and a swarm of airborne drones that can snipe or overwhelm.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53626863142_afb90324e9_z.jpg) The Browns are quite conventional. Tanks and IFVs mostly with a couple of anti-vehicle missile units.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53626888012_a9ba413bcb_z.jpg) The Blacks are also conventional, but have unarmed APCs rather than IFVs. To make up for it, they have serious missile artillery attached.
All three of these wait nervously for the Greens who will probably kick any of them into next week. Will there be alliances made? How long will they last? Aside from Humans, could there be alien species that know of Eric?
Nice! Really stand out 8)
Really nice work, Nobby ! :-bd
Really nice work there 8) .
Down right spiffy!
My daughter used Salmon Rose on her latest figures! :x
:-\
I'm on leave this week, gainfully using my time to tidy up a few projects, 'cos I haven't done any serious painting for months.
I've finished my late Romano-British with the final 90 infantry. I'm also finishing off my first early C18 imagi-nation army, the army of the Earl of the Northern Isles. I was pretty focussed on this May to July last year, but there were some few bits to tidy up. I've done the last 2 battalions of infantry, and 2 squadrons of cavalry. On my painting table is the last 2 squadrons and the staff/ADCs. The Earl of the Northern Isles is a somewhat dour and parsimonious character, and all his troops wear blue (bar the marines who [for some unknown reason] inherited buff coats from the cavalry.)
The Earl's great enemy, the Duke of the Southern Lands is a much more flamboyant, educated, erudite and wealthy character. Originally, I thought his troops could wear green, then in honour of Sir Isaacs work on optics, the Duke could dress his troops in the colours of the spectrum. However, the Duke has nine batallions, which is more than the ROYGBIV. Yellow was popular for a time - but yellow is a horrible colour to paint - black is a possibility, but probably overwhelming, historically not feasible, and not a great contrast to the Earl's dark blue. Mid grey? Possible - but I've just painted a Covenanter army.
Then, like a bolt from the walls of Châlus-Chabrol, it struck me. Reading Duke Speedy's last post, my eye was drawn to the little container of Salmon Rose. Could I do it? An army in pink? Cuffs and small clothes in complementary blues and greens? Natural dark leather belts to be visible over the vibrant rose? The contrast of the bright pink of the Duke to the sombre blue of the Earl ... is this a sensible thing to do?
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No, Of course not. I'll stick to green.
Or maybe grey.
I think a regiment in Salmon Rose would be ok.
There is a slight chance that with small scale figures the difference between faces and coats will blur a bit but for this period with big coats, it will probably be OK. What's the worst that could happen?
The worst is that I end up painting 540 pink coats - and that's just the infantry.
Actually, my problem is that there wont't be enough differentiation between the pink coat and the flesh.
Perhaps do a small test batch?
Oh, you and your sensible ideas!
OK. I'm in. Bear with ...
Though I am supposed to be finishing off my 1:2400 Napoleonic ships. :-\
Sorry? A sensible decision? Here?
I am going to have top discuss this horror with the committee!
Sorry Sir. My fault. Won't happen again. :-[
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Test paints, using Salmon Rose coats and various facings.
You know, I don't hate it. :-\
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Adds to the back story, the regimentap washer woman accidentally left a red sock in with the white uniforms...
I like em
Yes. :-\
I wanted the Duke's army to be fabulous, to contrast with the admittedly dull Earl's bluecoats. Hence, the idea of the rainbow scheme - something that separates them from history as much as anything else. it would be interesting as a visual. Of course, pink (in the UK) was a boys' colour, only becoming linked to the female in the C20.
With 9 infantry units, I can have my cake and eat it. Six being red, orange, yellow, blue, green, purple reflecting the Duke's enthusiam fro optics - the remaining 3 being the Guard in their Salmon Rose. The Guard's white uniforms were stained when they were washed with the 1st Battalion's, but the Duke just chortled in delight. His family crest was a fish, for reasons long lost in history, and the Duke, who was as we have said is flamboyant, educated and wealthy, but also is one sabre short of a squadron, saw the colour as reflecting the delicious pink fish he enjoyed eating - and that's not a eupehemism. So the Guards were delighted (and by "delighted" I mean not happy at all) to receive the pink coats.
The Duke hasn't managed to acquire any cuirassiers yet, but they will also wear pink coats. The cavalry have been left out of the Duke's enthusiams so far, so the horse continue to wear green, and the dragoons grey. Artillerymen also wear grey.
Originally the dragoons and artillery wore white, but somebody confused gunpowder for the soap powder.
Think the Duke should get a new washer service.
News from Eric! The Greens have arrived.
No anti-grav, the Greens rely on tracked vehicles. They also have smaller infantry units, but have uniquely retained snipers.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53652937388_40bdf084c7_z.jpg)
The mobile artillery has the shorter howitzer barrel, indicating the Mk II.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53653067149_11d84b5219_z.jpg)
Aside from evidence of previous inhabitants, Eric also has areas dotted with small craters. Occasionally, these emit a jet of blue flames, which makes the craters less than ideal as places of refuge.
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Wow you are getting on fast FSN. they look good
Thank you. :)
It's taking shape. I think I need more of the 6mm habitation and monorail kits. :-\
I'm also pondering some air support.
Saab do some futuristic designs, with a funky paint job they may do the job.
(https://www.pendraken.co.uk/user/products/saab-37-viggen-5991-p.jpg)(https://www.pendraken.co.uk/user/products/saab-jas-39-gripen-5992-p.jpg)
Then there's he 1950's
(https://www.pendraken.co.uk/user/products/gloster-javelin-5974-p.jpg) (https://www.pendraken.co.uk/user/products/dassault-mirage-iii-5981-p.jpg) (https://www.pendraken.co.uk/user/products/large/lockheed-f-104a-without-tip-tanks--5958-p.jpg)
This week I've been on leave. My painting mojo has come back and I've spent hours at the painting desk, happily slapping pigment on unsuspecting models.
My score for this week is:
- 90 heavy infantry for the Romano- British
- 12 x 1:2400 French warships for the Battle of the Nile
- 120 infantry, 60 cavalry and 15 staff for the Marlburian period
- 7 carts and waggons, and 14 drivers and assorted hangers on for the Bishop's War Royalists
- 31 pieces of assorted scenery for Eric
- 24 infantry and 12 vehicles for the Green faction on Eric
Altogether 394 bits and pieces. Considering that in 2024 up to last week, I had painted 420 pieces, that's a massive increase in productivity.
Better still, I've "completed" four projects, the Romano-British, the Napoleonc naval, the Earl's Blues and the SF Greens.
I also got in the second 1984 game that I was promising myself.
All in all, a good week's work. :)
Great progress - glad you mojo returning aligned with some free time to paint
QuoteAltogether 394 bits and pieces. Considering that in 2024 up to last week, I had painted 420 pieces, that's a massive increase in productivity.
=D> =D> =D>
QuoteBetter still, I've "completed" four projects, the Romano-British, the Napoleonc naval, the Earl's Blues and the SF Greens.
=D> =D> =D> =D>
QuoteI also got in the second 1984 game that I was promising myself.
All in all, a good week's work. :)
=D> =D> =D> =D> =D>
Good effort fella
I moved last year, and have been meaning to update my Electoral Register info.
Today is the deadline, so I went on the website at work during lunchtime.
Government sites are moving to a common platform.
I am a civil servant, so I use that platform.
They have autofill - if you apply for a passport, the computer will remember that info if you start typing for a driving licence, for instance.
It auto filled my first and last name, because I put my first and last name into the computer at worked.
It then asked if my middle name was 'Canterbury Crown Court'...
Sooo many questions. :-\
Do ask.
- Is your middle name Canterbury Crown Court?
- Have you ever lived in Canterbury Crown Court?
- Have you ever worked in Canterbury Crown Court?
- Have you ever been in Canterbury Crown Court?
- Have you ever put Canterbury Crown Court in another online form? If no, where do you think this instance of Canterbury Crown Court could have come from?
- Do you think that if you change your middle name from Canterbury Crown Court somebody elsewhere will be recorded of being convicted at "Derek" (or "Brian", or "Zebedee")?
- If the box for your middle name is big enought to enter Canterbury Crown Court, then what middle names do people have that require at least 21 characters? That's more than racehorses get for their entire name.
- Is there some sort of facial recogniotion problem? Do you look like Canterbury Crown Court? Even if you squint a bit?
(https://www.thelawpages.com/magistrates-county-crown-court/pics/canterbury_combined_court_centre.jpg) To be fair , that last was a long shot.
- Is Canterbury Crown Court your mother's maiden name?
- Is Canterbury Crown Court your porn name?
- Did you ever have a dog called Canterbury Crown Court?
- Do you have a visible tattoo of Canterbury Crown Court?
- Do you have a hidden tattoo of Canterbury Crown Court?
- Is Canterbury Crown Court your favourite property on the Kent version of Monopoly?
- Could it be a typo? In What3Words cantered.crown.court is in North Island, New Zealand, near Waimamaku Beach. Is that where you buried your treasure?
1 (one), and exactly 1 (one) of those guesses is correct.
Your middle names are Chauncey Owen Courtney and you were too tired*/ stressed*/ emotional*/ drunk* to type properly?
*delete as appropriate
Quote... and you were too tired*/ stressed*/ emotional*/ drunk* to type properly?
*delete as appropriate
Autocorrect. It's always autocorrect.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 16 April 2024, 10:26:12 PM1 (one), and exactly 1 (one) of those guesses is correct.
Well that's a better hit rate than I was expecting. :D
I'm going with Canterbury Crown Court being your favourite property on the Kent version of Monopoly. It's everyone's favoutite.
Normally, I'm quite good at planning purchases. I do the research, find an OOB to model on, then work out how many and which lines to get and how many of each and (roughly) how many months it will take to buy everything. Regrettably, this has not be the case with the recent SF ranges.
| Sensible Me | | Real Me |
| Oh I see Pendraken are doing some SF ranges | | Oh I see Pendraken are doing some SF ranges |
| Still, I have started on the Russo-Japanese War | | Where's that Traveller: Mercenary rule set? |
| The next order will basically be Russian infantry | | First two ranges ordered! |
| So Russian Infantry, definitely Summer uniforms | | Next two ranges ordered! |
| What are you doing? | | Hmm. All my SF have grey bases. Better order a grey cloth |
| But the Russians? | | Need some scenery. Better get some fish tank foliage |
| :o | | Oooh! Pretty. better get some more. |
| What are you doing? | | I think I need some buildings. Wonder if that 6mm Red Vectors stuff will do? |
| Shouldn't you finish those Royalists? | | Love that monorail and those buildings :x |
| Or the Ottoman Napoleonics? | | Better get some more |
| Or the Marlburians? | | I like that Salmon Rose colour ... must give that a try |
| Please stop | | Ooh! Ranges 5 and 6! |
| Oh by Milady's dimpled knees! | | Ordered! |
| I give up! | | You know. Some 1950s aircraft would make great SF additions |
| Will they have aircraft then? | | Ordered! |
| You don't have AA vehicles. | | I don't have any AA vehicles |
| Please don't! | | Ordered! |
| Are you done now? | | Do you think with AA vehicles, one aircraft per sde will be enough? |
| For the love of mercy, please stop! | | Better get some more. Just to be sure |
| :'( :'( :'( | | I wonder when the next SF ranges will be out? :D |
Quote from: fsn on 24 April 2024, 04:24:06 PMNormally, I'm quite good at planning purchases. I do the research, find an OOB to model on, then work out how many and which lines to get and how many of each and (roughly) how many months it will take to buy everything. Regrettably, this has not be the case with the recent SF ranges.
I'd say this current method more closely approximates to my usual approach to new projects ..... and my Gangs of Rome agree with me on that :)
I'm currently (metaphorically) sitting on my hands to stop myself buying c. £100 of MDF Roman buildings.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 24 April 2024, 05:42:34 PMI'm currently (metaphorically) sitting on my hands to stop myself buying c. £100 of MDF Roman buildings.
I have loads of the figures, but never bought the buildings, but LOVE the rules!
Real me is wondering if 68 Alien Creatures is actually enough.
Sensible me is feeling worried.
Thing is, you can recycle dead ones...
Unless acid splash is bad.
QuoteReal me is wondering if 68 Alien Creatures is actually enough.
I have 60 smalls, 20 mediums and 3 queens. So there are people worse off then you . . .
Thought based on something I have seen online.
In the Hobbit, Gandalf gives Bilbo a mithril mail shirt. He tells Bilbo it was made for an elven prince.
Bilbo gives this mailshirt to Frodo.
The mail shirt is small, it fits a Hobbit, not a full grown elf.
The only elven prince born in the 4 Elven kingdoms of Middle Earth is Legolas.
Frodo is wearing Legolas's baby clothes...
It would explain why Legolas doesn't speak to Frodo, he's freaked by Frodo wearing his baby clothes.
Frodo in an elf-romper?
Hurts my brain.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 26 April 2024, 06:31:23 AMThought based on something I have seen online.
In the Hobbit, Gandalf gives Bilbo a mithril mail shirt. He tells Bilbo it was made for an elven prince.
Bilbo gives this mailshirt to Frodo.
The mail shirt is small, it fits a Hobbit, not a full grown elf.
The only elven prince born in the 4 Elven kingdoms of Middle Earth is Legolas.
Frodo is wearing Legolas's baby clothes...
It would explain why Legolas doesn't speak to Frodo, he's freaked by Frodo wearing his baby clothes.
Smaug was already centuries old before he came to Erebore and killed the dwarves and took up residence in the lonely mountain. So this princlings mail shirt may well have belonged to someone other than Legolas, but i do like your thinking
Quote from: fsn on 26 April 2024, 07:42:55 AMFrodo in an elf-romper?
Hurts my brain.
Stupid Sexy Baggins
On Eric, the various factions have followed a line of raised platforms (perhaps walkways, perhaps road of some description - who knows?) This has led to a settlement (research station? barracks? sanitation station?) and all four human factions have sent forces racing to it.
The mysterious settlement. showing the walkways clustered around it.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53680874769_0216845201_z.jpg)
One of the many local craters has flared in blue flame - which they are prone to do randomly.
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Blue approaching with lighter forces foremost. The Blues make great use of automated fighting machines including a thick screen of free flying drones, but most vehicles are tracked.
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Black force. Each section of infantry is paired with a heavy fighting vehicle. For additional support there is a pair of heavy missile launchers. All vehicles are anti-grav.
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The plan is to fight each of the four forces, teasing out the differences and modifying the rules to give balance between the various configurations.
I was worried I'd overdone the grey - but I think the pretty flowers make it bearable.
I'm contemplating making some of these plants somewhat dangerous. Then perhaps add in some native fauna - black, slightly glossy, snappy mouths and acid blood. Or not.
This scenario could do with some competing archaeologists/xenobiologists/disposable scientists that need to be protected.
I also need to come up with some proper names for the factions.
Looks awesome Nobby 8)
That looks cracking, Nobby ! :-bd
Very cool set up there Nobby 8) !
Love the monorail
Can't believe you have painted that all so fast
Golly! Eric is really quite beautiful and I would consider a visit once it stops being a war zone. Really nice work!
Thank you all for your kind comments.
Quote from: Orcs on 27 April 2024, 07:27:01 AMCan't believe you have painted that all so fast
To be honest it's very low effort. :-[
Quote from: d_Guy on 27 April 2024, 06:16:47 PMGolly! Eric is really quite beautiful and I would consider a visit once it stops being a war zone. Really nice work!
It's coming along. :) Not bad as a holiday destination bar the flaming craters, the malevolent flora and the (planned) hostile denizens,
Are monorail zone passes available?
QuoteOn Eric . . .
Looks great :-bd
Good stuff fsn I like the grey terrain.
Did you choose not to add the 'rail' bit to the mono-rails, or has the design changed?
Also where are you building blocks from?
QuoteGood stuff fsn I like the grey terrain.
Thank you. :)
QuoteDid you choose not to add the 'rail' bit to the mono-rails, or has the design changed?
I did not add the monorail. I fancy them as walk ways - and thought it would be easier to place figures on them without rails.
QuoteAlso where are you building blocks from?
The buildings are 6mm Red Vectors habitation modules.
https://www.pendraken.co.uk/red-vectors-6mm-sci-fi-habitation-modules-red-6s-01
QuoteThank you. :)
I did not add the monorail. I fancy them as walk ways - and thought it would be easier to place figures on them without rails.
The buildings are 6mm Red Vectors habitation modules.
https://www.pendraken.co.uk/red-vectors-6mm-sci-fi-habitation-modules-red-6s-01 (https://www.pendraken.co.uk/red-vectors-6mm-sci-fi-habitation-modules-red-6s-01)
Customisation of the mono rails - interesting approach as walk way. In our games they have largely been decoration. I'm not sure anyone has wanted to pop their jump pack troops right up on top in line of sight of everyone!
Thanks for the link, I thought they looked familiar
Does anyone know where my thread about Russian Cavalry is? I can't find it.
Derailed....
In the rules section.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 03 May 2024, 12:53:10 PMDoes anyone know where my thread about Russian Cavalry is? I can't find it.
Deserted ?
In pub while browsing the forum
My mate: "Are you annoying the Internet again?"
Me: "No, I'm on the Pendraken forum, we hase FSN for that."
Thank you for the kind mention, I'm moved to think I'm constantly in your thoughts.
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I can't help but feel they are misrepresenting this
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as a
QuoteFun Family Party Board Game
QuoteI can't help but feel they are misrepresenting this
as a
Fun Family Party Board Game
Pretty sure my family would find it fun ... if we were ever in one place long enough to play it!
Quote from: Ithoriel on 13 May 2024, 01:54:29 PMPretty sure my family would find it fun ... if we were ever in one place long enough to play it!
Well it is harder to hit a moving target :'(
Email to head of department "When is [this] going to be done?"
Reply; "Is 'when I can be arsed' an appropriate response??"
For you yes, for me know. Seriously get hold of his boss and get VERY LOUD.
Not that sort of relationship with him. He has been appropriately poked. My reply
QuoteIt's definitely... a... response. Half way there.
Gentlemen... Nobby...
If you are looking for some chewing gum for the eyes, may I suggest a movie that went on YouTube 3 days ago.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
British chaps on a secret mission to blow up Nazis.
Quote. . .may I suggest a movie that went on YouTube 3 days ago.
Saw that on my "suggested" feed. Did wonder if it's there legally?
Doesn't help that YouTube seems to have morphed primarily into an advert delivery system that eventually shows the video you want to see nowadays.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_of_Ungentlemanly_Warfare
Didn't realise when it popped up on the suggestions
Probably the wrong thread to post this but...
Bit of a nightmare in Richmond market place (North Yorkshire), this morning. Sky News doing hourly reports. LBC radio interviewing anyone and everyone. Independent photographers taking stock photos of the PM's constituency. The fair is in. Wagons can't get to shops to unload. Traffic cones. Traffic wardens. Tourists and locals. Place is best avoided if possible. >:(
In all honesty, there's nowt in Richmond, full stop. And that's coming from me, who loves the place. I only went to sort out a draft for a Will (hope my executor likes toy soldiers ;D )
Actually I take that back. There's the Green Howard's Museum and Richmond Castle. The River Swale looks nice too.
Finished painting the Napoleonic Ottomans, and am blitzing my way through painting the Bishops' Wars English/Royalist/Generally Not Scottish. I had painted the armoured cavalry and not been happy, so the project stalled. The cavalry went for a Dettol bath (thank you whoever let on about this) and have been re-done to a much better standard. Just one infantry, 2 cavalry and a dragoon unit to paint!
On the purchasing front, I've bought the Russians for the Russo-Japanese war, and have started on the Japanese. These are small-ish projects of about 300 figures each side.
Then what? Ah, there's the rub. Perhaps squidlings will be available by then, but that will constitute a mere palate cleanser in the grand scheme of things. My ideas for the Chocolate Box (mid-late C19) or 1929 are both shelved for lack of appropriate figures. Similarly plans for chariot armies are in abeyance, and WWI isn't grabbing me at the moment. Of course, I have taken a blood oath not to touch anything between Malplaquet and Maida, and the age of the machine is inspirationally barren ground. I'd go for the Winter War, except for the scenery I'd need to source.
Sooo, that most fertile of eras, the War of the Sixth Coalition (aka late Napoleonics) sits plumply in the corner awaiting the attention it expects and deserves. I've based my armies on Leipzig where possible and have armies for France, Austria, Prussia, Russia, Poland/Warsaw, Bavaria, Wurttemberg, Britain, Brunswick, Sweden, Denmark and the Ottoman Empire.
Who's left? Well, from Germany there's Westphalia or Saxony, plus a myriad of smaller states (who don't field a big enough army for me). Then there's the Kingdom of Italy and Naples. Or in the Peninsula there's Portugal, Spain and King Joseph's Spanish and finally I could look at other bits of the Anglo-Allied Army of 1815 - the Dutch-Belgians or Hanoverians.
That apparent wide choice is slightly less than stellar. "White coat, Shako, coloured facings" applies to the Germans and the Italians - and I'm not a fan of painting white uniforms. However, I've kept away from Iberia to date, but at least they have a bit of colour.
What to do? What .. to .. do?
At the moment, King Joseph is leading, though I may need to be generous in the OOB. Maybe I need to do some test paints to see what clicks with me.
In the grand scheme of things, this is a good problem to have.
I did like all the Confederacy stuff when I painted the French Little Wooden Men. It was the same but a bit different ("oh, so you have yellow turn backs!").
Because Walter's LWM are so cheap I could field proper units, not just that trade off between historical and bank manager. Also it helped I have done Blucher at Grand Scale, so the Westphalians were an actual corps. I have all of the Men in Black (Brunswick). And I do mean ALL.
I did the original for Wagram as a base. Now I have Russians for Borodino, I am going to add the Italians. For Blucher at the lay out I am doing it is 1 stand line (16 figures), 1 skirmish (4), 1 mounted (6 horse) and a gun. It's the French uniform, but green. What's not to love?
Hmmm ... wonder how long to replace all my Pendraken ... :-\ No! I have nailed my colours to the Dark Lord - and it didn't half make him wince.
My typical armies of the period are in the 900-1,000 figure range. That's modelling a force of 9,000-10,000, usually a historical infantry division with a couple of cavalry brigades attached. The Brunswickers are an exception as they come in at 620 - and the Brits who somehow managed 1714.
My brain says "carry on with the 1813 German campaign" (whaddaya mean you don't know about the Ottoman contribution to the 6th Coalition?) Saxony offers some lovely yellow cuirassiers, Westphalia has nothing particularly interesting, Italy has the whole green-and-white-minty-fresh thing going on, and the Neapolitans are fascinated by the colour amaranth.
Then there's the Peninsula. If I start on one, then the rest will have to follow. The Portuguese appeal as they have a lovely, regular order of battle, and not too many cavalry. The Spanish are a bit of an outlier, because I'd like to go back to the La Romana division in 1808 who sport an older uniform. Then there's Joseph's who at least wear brown coats.
Since I was on the Maverick Models website, ordering a few Royalist cavalry standards, I have covered all my bases by ordering sufficient standards for Joseph's Army, Saxons, Italians, Neapolitans, and Wurzburgers (Well the Saxons on their own are a bit light).
I think I have a problem.
This is how I get distracted. Helion have a sale on, and are offering "The Bulgarian Air Force in WWII" for only £9.
What do I know about the Bulgarian Air Force in WWII? Very little ...
You may wish to ask me and Sunjester about WSS and Pendraken...
Quote from: Last Hussar on 07 June 2024, 11:10:56 AMYou may wish to ask me and Sunjester about WSS and Pendraken...
Hey LH. What's with you, Sunjester, the WSS and Pendraken?
Last Hussar , Sunjester and The W.S.S go into a bar for a drink .........
Sunjester orders a pint of Dark Ale. quaffs deeply.
Last Hussar orders a pint of Dark ale. Sips ale whle looking for avaliable women.
Th W.S.S ( Is this an alias for FSN???) asks = Can I have 1/3rd of a pint please , I am only here to taste test.
(WSS Established in 1997, Wirral Sensory Services conduct consumer research for food, drink and household products.)
https://wssintl.com/
As nice a story as Orcs spins (it's true about the women)...
Sj and I were looking at doing SYW.
Then we went to the Milton Keynes show.
Some one was selling off a couple of packs of WSS cheap. And that's how we ended up with a period we initially knew little about.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 08 June 2024, 01:47:05 PMAs nice a story as Orcs spins (it's true about the women)...
Sj and I were looking at doing SYW.
Then we went to the Milton Keynes show.
Some one was selling off a couple of packs of WSS cheap. And that's how we ended up with a period we initially knew little about.
and you both twisted my arm to buy the British pack.
Good thing too :D
Both? I didn't know about it until you'd bought it...
Quote from: Last Hussar on 12 June 2024, 07:02:29 AMBoth? I didn't know about it until you'd bought it...
Must have been Sunjester then.
Probably Sunjester - he's definitely to blame.
Just had an email from the Parole Board about a case, saying they want previous decisions made by the Parole Board...
Get home,do a YouGov poll.
Last question "do you wear cardigans?"
Today's "No, really?" moment
It is contended that the car chase demonstrates further that the appellant was unwilling to be answerable for his role in the offending, or to co-operate with the investigation of these offences.
:o
Things that circle through your brain at 04:00 and you can't get back to sleep:
"When did croissants stop being, well, crescents?"
It's to do with fat content
All butter croissants are straight shape, mixed fats are the other.
I've got that "new posts don't show up in The new posts bit" problem somebody else had a few weeks ago. Did anyone work out how to fix it?
And this is why i do not frequent amusement parks:
People left dangling upside down (https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c100281gjyjo)
Today's "What, really!?" moment.
Firearms are not defined as offensive weapons by English/Welsh law...
Quote from: Last Hussar on 18 June 2024, 08:04:19 AMToday's "What, really!?" moment.
Firearms are not defined as offensive weapons by English/Welsh law...
Offensive weapons are close quarters weaponry, bows and catapults.
A football rattle is an offensive weapon,
Any blade over 4" is
As I also found out while fencing, as long as it takes over a minute to draw your weapon in public, swords may be accrued in a suitable container. The 1" plastic pipe that mine were is was more of an offensive weapon than my foil and epee.
Fire arms are covered by the forearms act, and are licensed.
I was stopped in Cape Town once for carrying my foil home. I think the cops realised they'd never get a conviction.
Quoteforearms act
So just a slap on the wrist then? ;D
The firearm in question was a sawn off shotgun.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 18 June 2024, 09:40:24 AMThe firearm in question was a sawn off shotgun.
In that case it's a prohibited weapon, same as all automatic weapons - shotguns must have a barrel at least 24" long (bout 60 cm).
An offensive weapon is defined as anything designed(ie Knife), intended or used as one.
Rather tautologous, what?
Its designed to cover it all - Brit legalies
"An offensive weapon shall be understood to comprise
i) an offensive weapon;
ii) an offensive weapon designed as an offensive weapon; or
iii) an item employed as an offensive weapon."
That will be 2, 000 pounds, please.
I have had actual official guidance on this
QuoteSection 1(4) defines an offensive weapon as "any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to the person or intended by the person having it with him for such use by him or by some other person". The court have identified three categories of offensive weapons:
• Offensive per se i.e. those items made for the use of causing injury to the person. Examples are a truncheon, a rice flail, a butterfly knife.
• Adapted for use. Such as a bottle deliberately broken.
• Intended by the person having it with him for use for causing injury to the person. This definition includes defensively as well as offensively.
The defined offence 'Possession of sawn off shotgun, barrel less than 12 inches' derives from non-compliance of the firearms act/certification standards. There is no intention to use the firearm to cause harm
Quote from: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 18 June 2024, 09:18:10 AMAs I also found out while fencing, as long as it takes over a minute to draw your weapon in public, swords may be accrued in a suitable container. The 1" plastic pipe that mine were is was more of an offensive weapon than my foil and epee.
Fire arms are covered by the forearms act, and are licensed.
Yes and as long as the firearm is unloaded and any magazines do not contain rounds, you can walk down the high street with them as long as they are in a case.
Interestingly the police cannot ask you to show them what is in the case, as to open the case in the street is illegal. Obviously they can confirm you have the correct license over the radio, and ideally you should be carrying it.
They can request you come to the Police station to show them, but it is entirely voluntary, as you have not committed any offense.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 18 June 2024, 09:40:24 AMSo just a slap on the wrist then? ;D
Didn't you know that's why all Americans wear T-shirts, they have the right to bare arms! ;D
QuoteDidn't you know that's why all Americans wear T-shirts, they have the right to bare arms! ;D
Really? And there was I thinking the right they had was the right to arm bears which is why in the USA "If you go down to the woods today you're in for a big surprise!" :)
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Thoughts that keep me awake at night, part 2:
"Why's it not 'van Beethoven'? it's 'van Gogh'. It's 'van Basten' and 'van Nistelroy'. So why is Ludwig van just 'Beethoven'?"
Is it 'cos Beethoven is German and the rest are Dutch?
Family is clearly of Dutch origin, hence the 'van'.
The Gerrman equivalent would be 'von', and is usually also given as part of the surname.
The mysteries of language.
There was someone on the roster sheet called Van Driver when I worked for BT.
(I'!! get my own coat. :D )
Hertz Van Rental - best striker the Dutch team ever had :d
Quote from: Techno 3 on 22 June 2024, 01:06:49 PMThere was someone on the roster sheet called Van Driver when I worked for BT.
(I'!! get my own coat. :D )
How many people work for BT - about 10%
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Had a few days off and been quite productive.
Finally finished the English for the Bishops' War - 6 regiments of (96) foot, 6 of (30) horse, a regiment of (30) dragoons and 3 batteries of artillery. I shall pit them against the Scots 6 regiments of (96) foot (with a couple of frame guns per regiment), 5 regiments of (30) cavalry, 1 loose rush of (96) Highlanders, and 3 batteries of artillery. With staff and associated hangers on, each army in about 950 figures. Checking back I started the painting part of the project in September last year.
I've not been doing Bishops' Wars only, had a few distractions, including the Russians for the Russo-Japanese war. This is admittedly not a well researched force. I've gone for what I think of as the
Black Powder* method of unit construction - 6 battalions of (36) infantry, 1 regiment of (24) cavalry, a section of 3 machine guns and total overkill of 3 batteries of artillery. All in all, barely 300 figures. The Russians took 2 weeks to paint.
Why the difference?
- The numbers. 950 in an army figures against 300. 950 is a big slog with waxing and waning interest, and SF distractions. An army of 300 figures is almost immediately visibly do-able.
- Painting a variety of snazzy schemes as opposed to the rather simple unforms of the Russians. Each English regiment has a different base colour, which needs a bit of planning, with sufficient customising to make them not-quite-uniform.
- The high proportion of cavalry in the Bishops' War - about 1/4 of the head count against the 1/12 of the Russians. I think I'm not alone in grumping when painting horses.
- The number of different troop types (4 types just of cavalry in the English army for the Bishops' War) each of which have a learning-to-paint overhead. For the Russians, there were really two types: the cavalry and everyone else.
Coming next - the Russo-Japanese Japanese. Bit worried that I have an order being processed and I may run out of Japanese to paint before it arrives. **
I still have the table set for Eric. I'm on leave for the next two days. Perhaps time to put away the SF, and bring out 1640.
*I watch the Napoleonic Wargaming channel on YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/@NapoleonicWargaming (https://www.youtube.com/@NapoleonicWargaming) - he always has standard infantry at 24 figures and large at 36. For Napoleonics I find this quite upsetting.
** Usually, I don't start painting until I've bought everything
That's good progress fsn. look forward to seeing your Bishops War stuff on the table. :-bd
Did you find some decent information for the English in the end about cavalry unit flags?
I'm looking at completing a couple of units of English "Dutch Horse" for use at Newburn 1640 belonging to Lord Conway and Lord Wilmot once we have finished our Irish adventures.
QuoteDid you find some decent information for the English in the end about cavalry unit flags?
No. In the end, I went to maverick models and picked some almost at random. :(
OK thanks :-bd
I downloaded an old series of articles about ECW flags that appeared in Military Modelling years ago that the authors allowed the BCW site to post before its demise. I will use a couple of those as standards for my units.
The Bishops's War English (on parade, not tactically arrayed.)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53828620321_30786dd17a_z.jpg)
From top to bottom - infantry, staff, more infantry, cavalry, dragoons on the hill to the right.
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From the other end - infantry to dragoons.
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English supply column and heavy artillery
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Scots (plus Covenanter tank)
In contrast, the complete Russian army (gosh, it looks so small)
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Having said that one of the first, if not the first period I did in Pendraken (in 2013) was the ACW. The two forces are only 192 infantry, 40 cavalry and 4 guns, and that is quite sufficient for an enjoyable game in an evening. (I also note that a pack of infantry was £4 at the time. :o )
From the general introduction of gunpowder armed infantry (say 1550) I prefer big armies when massed ranks and massed fire, however short range and inaccurate, were the order of the day. (about 900 figures each representing 10)
The introduction of the rifled musket (about the time of Crimea) is when I swap to much smaller forces. I think these suit the more advanced technology better, allowing for more moving about the table and longer range shooting. (About 200-250 figures each representing 25-30)
With motorised armoured vehicles, I go down further to a platoon/company at 1:1 figure ratio. I would do 1914 as a small force, but when the trenches come, I'd go to 1:1. I recognise the inconsistency as I'd do 1917 in Flanders as 1:1, but 1917 Mespot would be a small force.
It's a rich hobby - so much variety, so much to explore, so much that can be done. :)
:-bd =D> :-bd
Quote...
It's a rich hobby - so much variety, so much to explore, so much that can be done. :)
Well said, that man :)
Excellent pics of your Bishop's War troops and I love the detail you've added to the supply column 8)!
Quote from: Steve J on 02 July 2024, 05:35:29 AMExcellent pics of your Bishop's War troops and I love the detail you've added to the supply column 8)!
Thank you ... it worries me how much satisfaction I get from carts. :)
Quote from: fsn on 02 July 2024, 07:12:42 AMThank you ... it worries me how much satisfaction I get from carts. :)
A good doc can cure that....
Quote from: fsn on 02 July 2024, 07:12:42 AMThank you ... it worries me how much satisfaction I get from carts. :)
I like painting artillery. My 15mm Italian wars have more artillery than they can ever get on the table
Quote from: Orcs on 02 July 2024, 10:26:08 AMI like painting artillery. My 15mm Italian wars have more artillery than they can ever get on the table
Oooh yes!
That reminds me, didn't Mr Leon promise us some caissons?
I like the artillery for my Napoleonics because its a 4 man crew and gun, as opposed to 96 infantry...
That would never do! I have limbered and unlimbered guns, necessitating buying twice the amount of artillery, so my guns usually have 6 or 8 figures gathered around them.
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Absolutely, positively spiffy.
I too like painting carts before the horses.
Carts, wagons, and pack animals never get sufficient attention. This is a shame since they are what really win wars.
The Covenanter tank represents the same characteristic forward thinking as the V1 hauled about by your Flodden Scots. If one can't be proud of one's country then there is little point in having countries (this last is a half baked thought that has not been fully been considered).
I have done limbered an unlimbered, but just wasn't using the limbered enough.
QuoteThe Covenanter tank represents the same characteristic forward thinking as the V1 hauled about by your Flodden Scots. If one can't be proud of one's country then there is little point in having countries (this last is a half baked thought that has not been fully been considered).
History suggests that Scots would have benefitted from small advantages on the battlefield.
I've been contemplating the 1745 - an unusual mount for Charlie.
(https://www.pendraken.co.uk/user/products/large/FWC-FRE9.jpg)
Not the real king.
With a gun platform like that who is to say?
How to you figure the platform would have been moved about? Oxen or horse or heavy lift helicopter?
BTWFWIW, recon drones would have been more useful to the Scots than a single use V1.
Quote from: d_Guy on 03 July 2024, 02:52:00 AMWith a gun platform like that who is to say?
How to you figure the platform would have been moved about? Oxen or horse or heavy lift helicopter?
BTWFWIW, recon drones would have been more useful to the Scots than a single use V1.
Historically it was towed by 8 heavy horses
Do we have any idea of their names?
Dasher and Dancer, Cupid and Vixen, Prancer and Comet, Comet and Blitzen.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 03 July 2024, 02:03:16 PMDasher and Dancer, Cupid and Vixen, Prancer and Comet, Comet and Blitzen.
But those are Reindeer, not Persherons
QuoteDasher and Dancer, Cupid and Vixen, Prancer and Comet, Comet and Blitzen.
Looks like Comet has drawn a double shift! 😀
He is an exceptionally large Comet.
Meanwhile Donner is off having an assignation with Rudolph. Who is doing what to whom is open to historical interpretation.
Quote from: d_Guy on 03 July 2024, 11:46:46 AMDo we have any idea of their names?
Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb - thats the crew , not the Horses
Anyway ... I had a hard look at my phone bill and have, by tweaking the "bonus features" saved myself £17 per month.
That is two Pendraken packs plus postage per month, or 2 1/2 packs if I add it to a regular order, or 4-5 Spanish buildings if they were in stock >:( .
My latest project of projects is the Peninsula in 1810* - and the Portuguese element is 26 packs. In other words, just from the savings on my phone bill, I could buy a half army in a year.
That makes FSN a happy Nobby. :D
* Anglo-Portuguese, Spanish, Franco-Confederation, Joseph's Army; January 1810.
Well done, that man :)
Alchemical, turning fluff to lead. :D
Quote from: fsn on 06 July 2024, 02:07:08 PM...or 4-5 Spanish buildings if they were in stock >:( .
Yeah... We're working on a potential solution to the lack of supply on our resin products.
Quote from: Leon on 07 July 2024, 10:52:52 PMYeah... We're working on a potential solution to the lack of supply on our resin products.
Sending the casting dwarves round with hammers and a surly attitude to discuss the subject of knee caps? :D
QuoteYeah... We're working on a potential solution to the lack of supply on our resin products.
Sounds promising :-bd
Don't suppose there's any chance of resurrecting the 10mm ECW era Star Fort that Pendraken used to produce a few years ago?
Put me down for a couple of them if you do Leon, would be very useful for Newburn and Worcester games in 2025.
Quote from: pierre the shy on 08 July 2024, 05:52:26 AMSounds promising :-bd
Don't suppose there's any chance of resurrecting the 10mm ECW era Star Fort that Pendraken used to produce a few years ago?
Put me down for a couple of them if you do Leon, would be very useful for Newburn and Worcester games in 2025.
+1
I have just found out a producer on "The Walking Dead" is called Caleb Womble.
I just found out that for the film "Idiocracy" in 2006, a film in which America had descended to a state of ... idiocracy, the costume designer had a limited budget, so bought what they considered to be stupid looking shoes from a new brand.
Crocs.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3I-fjEVgAEVJsl?format=png&name=900x900)
Quote from: pierre the shy on 08 July 2024, 05:52:26 AMDon't suppose there's any chance of resurrecting the 10mm ECW era Star Fort that Pendraken used to produce a few years ago?
Definitely, I've wanted to get that back into production for years. I think the current plan is to convert it into a modular setup instead, so that you can create different types.
QuoteDefinitely, I've wanted to get that back into production for years. I think the current plan is to convert it into a modular setup instead, so that you can create different types.
:-bd
Great, consider me pledged when it come back into production :-bd
+1 for star fort here!
Ladies, Gentlemen... Nobby...
I give you today's "Headline of the day", courtesy of the Daily Fail.
Nudists saves the day by fighting back against blowtorch-wielding man attacking tourist in San Francisco's famous 'gayborhood'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-3231027/Video-Nudist-fights-blowtorch-wielding-man-San-Franciscos-gayborhood.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-3231027/Video-Nudist-fights-blowtorch-wielding-man-San-Franciscos-gayborhood.html)
He's not wrong! Well, technically a clothed man took the blowtorch, then two nudists beat seven shades out of the chap.
Today, Gentlemen, is a somewhat momentous day for me. I started my 10mm journey in 2013 with WWII, ancients and the ACW - fairly simple paint schemes. It was only in 2020 that I tried my hand at Napoleonics with a battalion of light infantry. Since then I've painted a lot of figures from the period (about 10,500) but ... and this is a big but - a Kardashian if you will - I've never painted the French.
That changes today, and I have a battalion of French line on my painting desk and I am a little bit nervous.
Wish me luck!
Good luck, Nobby ! :)
Of all the countries not to paint for Napoleonics, how have you gone "do I need any French? "
Err ... not sure to be honest.
I think I just distracted by the rest. :-[
You solo game, don't you?
I do.
Good luck
Laissez les bons temps rouler.
Allez les bleus 🙂
My "French" Napoleonic army is the Second Support Army of 1812
After the 1813 Leipzig French, I'm planning to move into the Peninsula. The "French Peninsula" army is from Nafzinger's Jan 1810 IV Corps including Hesse-Darmstadt, Nassau and Frankfurt infantry, and Vistula Legion Lancers. :)
You solo game Napoleonics... and you don't have any French...
Nope, I've got nothing...
Wait ... the French were involved in the Napoleonic Wars!? I thought Napoleon was Corsican. Why were the French involved? ;)
QuoteYou solo game Napoleonics... and you don't have any French...
Nope, I've got nothing...
They were always planned ... I just needed to do the more interesting things :-[ ...
like Danes and Ottomen and Bavarians.
It's St. Swithin's day. And it's pissing down. This does not bode well.
No rain here yet.......note YET. :D :D
We've got a rain weather warning from about now (Hampshire/Surrey border) ...
Edward
I was expecting it to be much worse than it is, in SW Wales.
It's raining, but nothing like the 'deluge' the forecasters were hinting at. ;)
On Bucks /Herts border, it keeps spiting big raindrops for few minutes, stops, drys out and then starts again half hour later
Thanks for that Raider. Just looked outside and it's lissing down.
Now...It's chucking it down !!
(Or as Nobby says..lissing !!) :D
Some light rain but mainly drizzle for most of the day. Beginning to rain again, but nothing like they forecast, but there's still time...
Got to love British 'summers' ;)
"threatened to punch a person with a jar of coffee which you were prohibited from doing by a criminal behaviour order
That's a VERY specific CBO!
Sun's out
Water meadows still flooded
Cloudless blue skies here in Crete
Broken cloud, plus blue sky...and a strange yellowy white orb in the sky, here in SW Wales. :D
If you are a member of this forum and happen to be in Crete I understand it is compulsory to go here:
(https://i.imgur.com/lHHX0GK.jpg)
;) (Just jealous). Hill 107 (and German cemetary) in the background.
Cheers Paul
Rather weired to suddenly have some sunny, dry and warm weather all of a sudden, even if only for a few days.
QuoteIf you are a member of this forum and happen to be in Crete I understand it is compulsory to go here:
(https://i.imgur.com/lHHX0GK.jpg)
;) (Just jealous). Hill 107 (and German cemetary) in the background.
Cheers Paul
Been there, done that, strangely didn't get the t shirt!
Flying ant 🐜 day here!
Yuck
Quote from: T13A on 17 July 2024, 09:05:12 AMIf you are a member of this forum and happen to be in Crete I understand it is compulsory to go here:
(https://i.imgur.com/lHHX0GK.jpg)
;) (Just jealous). Hill 107 (and German cemetary) in the background.
Cheers Paul
Is that the bridge over the dry riverbed of the River Tavartis(sp?) near Maleme airfield Paul?
If so it will be familiar to quite a few Kiwis I would imagine :)
Never got to Crete myself yet, but would be a very interesting place to visit.
Hi
Yes it is. Crete is one of the best places to visit if you are in to 'walking the ground' I always make a point of visiting the CWG cemeteries to pay my respects. My Dad was in the BEF sent to France in 1939 (2nd Bn the Buffs, Royal East Kent Regiment) and was captured during the retreat to Dunkirk spending nearly 5 years in various POW camps in Poland and Germany.
Cheers Paul
OK thanks for that Paul.
Last time we were in Europe we took the time to visit various bits of Normandy and Caux in France that my father and grandfather were involved with during the war.
My grandfather was a Royal Artillery officer with the 51st Highland Division who was captured at St Valery en Caux in June 1940 and my father was a very young midshipman on an LCT at Juno Beach four years later.
I've visited a number of battle sites when in Crete, especially in Hania province - Meleme/Hill 107 (German cemetery) and the Commonwealth cemetery at the head of Suda Bay. Also Pink Hill behind Galatas where there's a memorial and an abandoned building project of what was supposed to be a big war museum. There's a small battle of Crete permanent exhibition within the martime museum by the harbour in Hania old town. https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/the-battle-for-crete/the-battle-day-4-6
QuoteYou solo game Napoleonics... and you don't have any French...
Nope, I've got nothing...
I remember why, now ... and this is probably going to be an unpopular opinion. The French army is aesthetically a bit boring. Infantry all wear the same outfit - no distinguishing facings, no easily distinguishable standards - and the light infantry basically wear blue trousers instead of white ones. The artillery wear about the same as the light infantry. It's all rather samey.
I'm doing V Corps ('cos I want French Chasseurs as supporting light cavalry) so I don't even get the option of light infantry.
No, I'm not doing the Guard. I usually do about a division based on a historical OOB, and I don't have room for the Guard. (Besides I have a plan for a Guard force in about 2027.)
No, I'm not going to mix in some French allies. I have those aplenty in their own divisions.
No, I'm not going to do greatcoats. On my table, it is always summer.
Unusually as I hate painting horses, the cavalry are the saviour. I usually go for 15% - 20% cavalry, but for the French I've gone up to 32%. This is a ridiculously high proportion, but the French army redeems itself in its cavalry. Chasseurs, Lancers, Dragoons, Cuirassiers - each has a different uniform, each has distinctive facing colours. (The also had hussars, but I hate hussars, and carabiniers, but I couldn't fit them in.)
As I say, I picked V Corps for the attached Chasseurs brigade, and I Cavalry Corps so I can use a lancer heavy brigade from 1st Lt Cav Div, and the mixed Cuirassiers and Dragoons from the 3rd Hvy Cavalry Division.
But no Hussars. Definitely no hussars.
Thinks: :-\ My least favourite Napoleonic figure would be a dismounted Hussar firing his carbine from a kneeling position.
Quote[Definitely no hussars
You are a bounder. I will see you in a duel.
Assoon as I have finished with this wench. And that one. And those over there...
:D Ah! My intention is not to importune the courage or skill of the Hussar; but my poor painting skills are insufficient to do these noble soldiers justice.
However, if you insist, you may call upon my seconds at any time.
I shall, of course, be at an airport wearing a false beard and eye patch.
(https://www.pendraken.co.uk/user/products/large/dismounted-hussar-kneeling-firing-15--2495-p.jpg)
Good grief! This is terrible! My nightmare realised!
Quote from: Last Hussar link=msg=364986 date=1721577071
Assoon as I have finished with this wench. And that one. And those over there...
/quote]
You have a wonderful imagination LH ;D
I've just been gifted a friend's 10mm French Guard division for Napoleonics.
Needs a couple more lancer units and a rebate, but...
Muhahahahaha
Actual conversation* I have just had
"Door on your left... your other left..."
*Less a conversation, and more me calling down the corridor.
After a wild spate of purchasing, I've so much to paint that I am tempted to stray from my usual practice of painting all of one project before starting another.
I've received my last* pack of Japanese infantry for the Russo-Japanese. So what I should do is paint them and then that's a project finished. However, I am mid French 1813 - about a third of the way through, and I have waiting in the side lines lie the Portuguese division for the Peninsular 1810 ... and and this is what I find quite exciting, the Hesse-Darmstadt element for the opposing 1810 force.
The sensible thing to do would be to paint the Japanese, then the French ... so I have just primed some Peninsular buildings.
*"Last" here is used in the wargamers' sense of "until I buy more".
FSN, is there a period you DON'T do? (Aside from French for Napoleonics, as previously discussed.)
QuoteFSN, is there a period you DON'T do? (Aside from French for Napoleonics, as previously discussed.)
I now do Napoleonic French! :)
I don't do Malplaquet to Maida 'cos of the tricorns, and I don't do Colonials, and I don't do chariot armies because Pendraken don't do them.
Aside from that, pretty much anything is fair game.
Tricorn are cool. Prefer them to Shakos.
Here's a summary of what I've got.
| Confict | Armies | Figures | Comment |
| Trojan War | Myceneans. Trojans | 461 | Not Pendraken |
| Ancients | Republican Roman, Carthaginian, Greek (x2)Imperial Roman | 2175 |
| Dark Age | Romano-British, Saxon, Norse, Norman, Arab, Byzantine | 2259 | Byzantines to paint |
| Medieval | Barons' War, Bannockburn, Skirmish, War of the Roses | 1863 | Bannockburn Scots Not Pendraken |
| Renaissance? | Japanese C16, Flodden | 1928 | Japanese not painted |
| Horse & Musket | Baron's War Scots & Royalist | 1969 | |
| War of the Spanish Succession | 1845 | One army not painted |
|
| Napoleonic 1813 | Austrian, Prussian, Russian, Swedish, French, British, Brunswick, Bavarian, Danish, Ottoman | 13333 | Painting French at the moment |
| Napoleonic 1810 | Anglo-Portuguese, Spanish, French/Confederation. Joseph's Spanish | | Purchasing phase 4023 figures planned |
|
| American Civil War | Union, Confederate | 694 | |
| American West | Skirmsh | 167 | Many not Pendraken |
| Spanish-American War | Skirmish | 120 | |
| Russo-Japanese War | Russian, Japanese | 650 |
| WWI | East Africa | 319 |
| 1920s | French Foreign Legion, British, Arab | 319 | |
|
| WWII 1939-40 | French, British, German, German Para, Polish | 731 + 226 vehicles | |
| WWII 1941-43 | British, German, Italian, Russian | 268 + 116 vehicles | Can use some of the 1939/40 kit too |
| WWII 1944 | British, British Para, German, German Para, US, US para | 832 + 260 vehicles | |
| WWII Far East | British, US Marine, Japanese | 192+ 13 vehicles | |
| Korean War | British, N Korean | 420 + 46 vehicles | |
| 1960s | British, French, Soviet, US | 452 + 73 vehicles | |
| 1984s | British, Soviet, US | 248 + 85 vehicles | |
| Arab-Israeli (1967 and 1973) | Israeli, Egyptian | 177 + 47 vehicles | |
| SF | Old Stuff | 1054 + 137 vehicles | |
| New Stuff | 153 + 74 vehicles | |
| "Of Gods and Mortals" | Asgard, Olympus, Celtic, Egyptian | 463 | Some "gods" not Pendraken |
|
| 1:600 WWI Aircraft | British, German | 82 aircraft | |
| 1:600 WWII Aircraft | 1939-1940 Germany, France, Britain | 192 aircraft | |
| 1943-1944 Germany, Britain, FAA, USA | 208 aircraft | |
| 1941 Pacific - Akagi and Enterprise(?) | 130 aircraft | |
| 1944 Pacific – Taiho, Japanese Army, US carrier, Rabaul | 192 aircraft | Carrier a/c not painted |
| 6mm WWII Aircraft | British, German, French, Italian, Japanese, American, Soviet, Polish, Finnish | 54 aircraft | |
| 1:600 Post War aircraft | Korea, 1960s, Arab-Israeli | 253 aircraft | |
|
| Space Ships | | 32 craft | |
|
| 1:600 Post War | Korea, 1960s, Arab-Israeli | 253 aircraft | |
|
| 1:2400 Napoleonic Naval | Battle of the Nile et al | 58 ships | |
| 1:3000 WWII Naval | French, British, Italaim, Med 1940 | 124 ships | |
| 1:600 WWII Naval | British, German | 47 ships | Not painted |
In my defence, I don't have any other hobbies, no social life and never go on holiday.
Quote from: fsn on 28 July 2024, 07:12:49 PMIn my defence, I don't have any other hobbies, no social life and never go on holiday.
Busy social life then...
QuoteHere's a summary of what I've got.
...
Impressive :-bd =D> :-bd =D> :-bd
The number of aircraft alone is impressive as is your historical breadth.
Quote from: d_Guy on 29 July 2024, 03:00:17 PMThe number of aircraft alone is impressive as is your historical breadth.
Thank you. Very kind as always.
In 1:600, I worked on a squadron basis. For Battle of Britain, I have a squadron (12) of Spitfire, one of Hurricanes, Battles and Defiants, and a bomber squadron of Whitleys and Hampdens.
For the Pacific, I did a full aircraft carrier's compliment. the 1941 Akagi has 30 Zero, 16 Val and 24 Kate.
Then there's the Battle of Germany with squadrons of Lancasters, Halifaxes and Stirlings, Liberators and Flying Fortresses.
Chuck in French, Italian, 1944 Pacific, Japanese Army, Rabaul, etc, etc and that makes quite a few tiny planes.
Like I say, I don't have a social life and no other outlets.
I need to unsubscribe from Helion notifications. They have such niche, yet interesting subjects ...
(https://mcusercontent.com/4ae455279c378839c7c25d66b/images/9c480047-7c34-c80d-a62b-b5c8af719682.jpg)
Why didn't I know about Military Aviation in Mexico in the 1920s?
Now we wants this...
Quote from: fsn on 05 August 2024, 03:37:37 PMI need to unsubscribe from Helion notifications. They have such niche, yet interesting subjects ...
Obsessively residing within the nicheous of niches, Helion still manages to satisfy my cravings once or twice a month. The shipping cost to the States adds about 30% to the cost, yet I have not the will to unsubscribe.
On a different note: I was mightily impressed, fsn, with your having the complete air wing of the IJN Akagi in 1941. I imagine myself setting up various card stock drawings of deck areas, ammo,fuel,and parts storage, machine shops and repair facilities. Cards for CAP, Reece, and attack as well as dozens of other status boards. I would then endlessly manage things. No need for a A/C model or even an opposition force. Ithoriel told me that such a game once existed but I have not found it yet (although I have had little time to look).
Should you be interested, I would gladly trade hundreds and hundreds of unpainted Pendraken figures for your air wing. Time is short, darkness approaches.
Quote from: d_Guy on 06 August 2024, 02:01:29 PMShould you be interested, I would gladly trade hundreds and hundreds of unpainted Pendraken figures for your air wing. Time is short, darkness approaches.
I respect you too much to take up that offer. I've got the Taiho in 1944 to paint ... as well as a corresponding US carrier.
Watching the Mythbusters lift 750lb with a single dop of superglue, whilst desperately trying to get a single wheel to stick on a gun carriage. >:(
Went to a Damned/Dr and the medics gig tonight.
First time pogoing and in a mosh for 30 years.
My calves are already hinting on the pain they will be bringing in the morning.
Quote from: fsn on 08 August 2024, 04:35:32 PMI respect you too much to take up that offer. I've got the Taiho in 1944 to paint ... as well as a corresponding US carrier.
Maybe I should have mentioned that the figures I had in mind are 1870 French, Prussian, and Bavarian? Thanks for your respect, however. :)
I still haven't found the carrier operations game.
Today's work problem. When is 6 months from 30 August? :-\
Ooh! 30th February, obviously.
Quote from: fsn on 29 August 2024, 10:31:23 AMOoh! 30th February, obviously.
I knew Widnes was na wit rest o world :P
NHS.....
Been having a problem with my left foot for several months, eventually gave in and filled in one of the 'triage' forms that you have to complete before you can get an appointment with the GP around here. Sent it in about 16.35 on Tuesday afternoon (this week); had a phone call from the surgery within ten minutes asking if I could come and see the doc at 10am the next day (yesterday). Saw the doc (on time) who proscribed some gell and said I needed to have an x-ray. Had a phone call from the x-ray department at Frome Community hospital at around 15.00 yesterday asking if I could come in at 09.15 for the x-ray tomorrow (Friday).
Well done NHS. Now going to lie down in a dark room (and rest the foot).
Cheers Paul
Despite the screwing around for the last decade or more, the actual NHS does try to do things right.
My son had a kidney transplant during the pandemic. Despite everything extra the pandemic brought when I was being tested as a donor the appointments were pretty much on time.
(I wasn't suitable - one kidney has two stones, apparently - the maximum is one, and the other was too complicated to remove; though the diagrams show one artery in, on vein out, often this is actually multiples, and I have 3 of one of them - the maximum is 2)
Quote from: fsn on 29 August 2024, 10:31:23 AMOoh! 30th February, obviously.
Widnes, Wigan (a personal down for an ex of mine) - all near Manchester, all bloody weird.
That's the
Midlands for you.
(Go on, argue - dare you to...)
Quote from: Last Hussar on 29 August 2024, 11:44:50 AMWidnes, Wigan (a personal down for an ex of mine) - all near Manchester, all bloody weird.
That's the Midlands for you.
(Go on, argue - dare you to...)
No it bloody aint - that do......
Birkenhead, also in the midlands.
:D
As a matter of interest Hussar, what did you decide? Last day of Feb? 1st day of March? I think I'd go last day of Feb. :-\
Also, I may live in Runcorn, but I'm not from Runcorn. Where I'm from pretty much everyone in the UK is a Southener.
Confirmed by Head Office 28th Feb.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 29 August 2024, 08:47:10 PMConfirmed by Head Office 28th Feb.
Hmmm. That'll do until 2028 I suppose.
Isn't the administrative mind a wonderful thing?
Well aside from the 30/02, when would you have put.
And FYI it would be the 29th Feb if it really was the 30th. It is actually the 31st of August, but I knew everyone here would get it wrong... :d
Hmmm.I did notice that it was the 30th but went for "closest to 6 calendar months from the date, without going into the 7th month" rather then "the penultimate date of the month six months from now" which would suggest 27th Feb as a viable suggestion.
Interestingly if you add 6 months to the 30/08/24 in Excel, it gives you 02/03/25.
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 29 August 2024, 12:08:25 PMNo it bloody aint - that do......
The Scottish border runs South west to North East. If you use the mid-point as a good average, then the distance from a point equal to north Manchester to the Boarder is almost exactly the same as the Solent to Birmingham.
England is about 510 km North South. Dividing it into 3 equal parts of 170km, the middle runs Leeds to Northampton.
Thus Scousers and Mancs are, like Brummies, from the Midlands.
So Kermit - Yow allll reet?
Mathematically pretty close, culturally you are going to have some stern questions to answer from the President of the Council of the North.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 30 August 2024, 12:12:59 PMThe Scottish border runs South west to North East. If you use the mid-point as a good average, then the distance from a point equal to north Manchester to the Boarder is almost exactly the same as the Solent to Birmingham.
England is about 510 km North South. Dividing it into 3 equal parts of 170km, the middle runs Leeds to Northampton.
Thus Scousers and Mancs are, like Brummies, from the Midlands.
So Kermit - Yow allll reet?
Bloody suferners - just jealous dey be so. Proud Northener. least I dona chat like I is slow wit speach inpediment. Even worse youall ul has me as welsh !!! :d :d :d
Quote from: Gwydion on 30 August 2024, 01:12:31 PMMathematically pretty close, culturally you are going to have some stern questions to answer from the President of the Council of the North.
Whose turn is it to wear the good underpants today?
I originate from the east end of London. Traditionally for those of from that part of the capital "the North" is anything north of Watford Gap services on the M1.
Thus anybody who lives north of this point is a "Northerner".Also anyone from south of the Thames is definitely a bit suspect.
Quote from: Orcs on 30 August 2024, 03:38:40 PMTraditionally for those of from that part of the capital "the North" is anything north of Watford Gap services on the M1.
Thus anybody who lives north of this point is a "Northerner".Also anyone from south of the Thames is definitely a bit suspect.
My name is Last Hussar, and I approve of this message. (For those who don't know, the Watford Gap is near Northampton).
Quote from: Last Hussar on 30 August 2024, 03:55:37 PMFor those who don't know, the Watford Gap is near Northampton.
NORTHampton see even its name tells you its North :D
There's a village in Hampshire called Northington.
Manchester, Liverpool etc, definitely Midlands.
;D
Quote from: Last Hussar on 30 August 2024, 09:21:52 PMManchester, Liverpool etc, definitely Midlands.
;D
Would that be the Manchester 100 miles north of where you reckon the North starts?
Typical southerner, lost 10 miles outside their own 'manor'.
There is of course the question of which is futher east Liverpool or Edinburgh ?
QuoteThus anybody who lives north of this point is a "Northerner".Also anyone from south of the Thames is definitely a bit suspect.
I are confused. Is the criteria where you live or where you are from? I was born Rugby (DEFINITELY Midlands); lived/worked London; retired to Costa Geriatrica on the South Coast.
Hold my Shandy.
This is a pet hate.
Manchester and Liverpool are the midlands.
I would have to drive 100 miles South to get any where near them. :d
Quote from: DecemDave on 31 August 2024, 08:33:32 AMI are confused. Is the criteria where you live or where you are from? I was born Rugby (DEFINITELY Midlands); lived/worked London; retired to Costa Geriatrica on the South Coast.
Hold my Shandy.
Its where are born otherwise if you retired to Beijing it would make you Chinese.
However by the East Londoners definition you are a Northerner as Rugby is north of Watford Gap services.
According to the East London atlas, "the Midlands" extend from approximately Luton to Daventry, although some would have the southern point of the midlands as Enfield.
QuoteIts where are born otherwise if you retired to Beijing it would make you Chinese.
I remember saying something like this to a friend back in my teenage years.
His reply was along the lines of,"Being born in a cark park doesn't make you a car, you twonk! It depends on the nationality of your parents."
To be fair his great-grandfather had been a missionary in India, so his grandfather was born in India. His grandfather had been a missionary in Africa, so his father was born in Africa. His father had been a missionary in Nepal, so he was born in Nepal. But he was still a British citizen despite the rather scattered birthplaces of his ancestors.
Oi! I'm from Enfield.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 31 August 2024, 11:10:33 PMOi! I'm from Enfield.
Sumun as to be disadvantaged data way.
I get really annoyed by references to Australia as a "western" country. It might make sense if you lived in Argentina, but then Japan would have to qualify too, and Rome would be in the far east.
QuoteI get really annoyed by references to Australia as a "western" country. It might make sense if you lived in Argentina, but then Japan would have to qualify too, and Rome would be in the far east.
It's a Western country in terms of culture not geography, I don't see the problem personally.
But there again, when I was at school, Geography as a subject was second only to PE in the list of subjects I loathed. Might have something to do with it.
1at World country?
So great gig last night, Blues club at Tring cricket ground.
1 shandy and 3 non alcoholic beers.
Total cost £450...
That includes the £100 joining the AA (cars, not booze)
£150 "oh you want to join NOW, at 145 in the morning? When you are on the hard shoulder?" Payment
£180 for 2 tyres this morning.
Wow!
Why is there a "Near East" but no "Near West" (that I know of)?
We have an "Up North" "Down South" "Out West" but a "Down East" (which should be "In East" to improve the symmetry)?
Our "Mid West" is much more north than west and is almost entirely east of the Mississippi River.
You are where you were born even if you can't speak the language or find it on a map. Possibly it is where you were conceived but you might not be privy to that information. Using the last, I'm from Connecticut (and no, I do not speak the language but know it is "In East").
£90 for a tyre ys not too awful.
Why is there a "Near East" but no "Near West" (that I know of)?
Maybe there is in ... say ... Turkey or one of the Stans. Here in the UK, there is nothing west of us bar a big, cold ocean.
We have an "Up North" "Down South" "Out West" but a "Down East" (which should be "In East" to improve the symmetry)?
Your "Out West" is more of a cultural than a geographic description; stetsons, cow herding, random gun deaths, etc. It's not actually what's in the West, it's somewhere John Wayne would fit in. I suspect few would include Alsaka as being "Out West".
(We don't have an "Out West" here ... we say "Wales".)
QuoteThat includes the £100 joining the AA (cars, not booze)
£150 "oh you want to join NOW, at 145 in the morning? When you are on the hard shoulder?" Payment
£180 for 2 tyres this morning.
I can see why you've got the blues.
"2 Tyres this mornin'" (Dah daaah da dum).
Quote£150 "oh you want to join NOW, at 145 in the morning? When you are on the hard shoulder?" Payment
Slightly surprised they covered your "pre-existing condition" as it were. Insurance usually doesn't.
QuoteSlightly surprised they covered your "pre-existing condition" as it were. Insurance usually doesn't.
In my experience all of the roadside assistance services are happy to let you join any time. Even when broken down at the side of the road .... for a little extra.
QuoteWhy is there a "Near East" but no "Near West" (that I know of)?
Maybe there is in ... say ... Turkey or one of the Stans. Here in the UK, there is nothing west of us bar a big, cold ocean.
Well, there is Ireland (see below)
We also have the "Far West" which dips its toes in the Pacific. Interestingly the "Far East" is west of our "Far West" - I think this has been covered by others in this thread, however.
Quote(We don't have an "Out West" here ... we say "Wales".) [/color]
:) Which, naturally, makes Ireland your "Far West".
Quote from: d_Guy on 06 September 2024, 04:23:06 PMWell, there is Ireland (see below)
:) Which, naturally, makes Ireland your "Far West".
Where?
QuoteWe also have the "Far West" which dips its toes in the Pacific. Interestingly the "Far East" is west of our "Far West" - I think this has been covered by others in this thread, however.
:) Which, naturally, makes Ireland your "Far West".
An Australian Defense Minister (in)famously pointed out that Indonesia may be in the Far East to a lot of countries but to Australia it was the Near North
Quote from: paulr on 06 September 2024, 07:21:08 PMAn Australian Defense Minister (in)famously pointed out that Indonesia may be in the Far East to a lot of countries but to Australia it was the Near North
You mean your West Island, certainly.
Sorry gentlemen, really beginning to perseverate.
Hi
When I lived in Fulham, London, going 'Up West' meant going to London's 'West End' even though technically it was ENE from Fulham. Go figure.
Cheers Paul
Quote from: Last Hussar on 06 September 2024, 11:12:40 AMSo great gig last night, Blues club at Tring cricket ground.
1 shandy and 3 non alcoholic beers.
Total cost £450...
Ouch!
QuoteWhere?
QuoteWolf?
There wolf!
Gods bless Marty Feldman and Mel Brooks
:) :-bd
QuoteAre you crying Wolf?
Err .... I might be.
But I'm not.
I'm quoting "Young Frankenstein" :)
Purhaps its time to combine this thread with the music genre thread under Wolf Tone? :-\
Or Steppenwolf?
Just found out the 2020 Ignoble Peace Prize went to India and Pakistan, whose diplomats were running up to each other's houses, ringing the doorbell then running away. :d ;D
Sunjester emailed me re a game.
I have accepted, but made it clear that
Quoteif Victoria Coren-Mitchell phones me and offers a night of naked hedonism, then my plans will change.
For purposes of clarity, I'll also accept WhatsApp, email, SMS, carrier-pigeon and in-person pleading.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 13 September 2024, 11:23:18 AMSunjester emailed me re a game.
I have accepted, but made it clear that
"If Victoria Coren-Mitchell phones me and offers a night of naked hedonism, then my plans will change."
For purposes of clarity, I'll also accept WhatsApp, email, SMS, carrier-pigeon and in-person pleading.
lets be honest here-
1 If any female (attractive, but I suspect your not overly fussy) offered you said entertainment, your plans would change. :d
2 I hope you have a good game with Sunjester. :)
*You're
Sorry
QuoteThermal dissipation decoheres qubits
Decoheres?
Decoheres - causes something to cease to be coherent.
In my case that tends to be alcohol.
In the case of qubits ( not to be confused with cubits) apparently it's heat dissipation. The wonderful world of Quantum Mechanics.
Just went to the Ral Partha Europe website to investigate something.
It does not inspire confidence that the latest news on the homepage is dated February 2018.
QuoteJust went to the Ral Partha Europe website to investigate something.
It does not inspire confidence that the latest news on the homepage is dated February 2018.
Curently running a 20% off sale.
Autumn SaleUse the code Autumn20 for 20% off any order
up until Sunday 6th October
You cruel blighter. I though you were announcing a Pendraken sale! May you find frogs in your tea for a year!
QuoteYou cruel blighter. I though you were announcing a Pendraken sale! May you find frogs in your tea for a year!
You are spoiling me, monsieur.
Today's big question.
When doing laundry why to shirts dry so quick, but socks and pants take ages?
Quote from: Last Hussar on 01 October 2024, 01:11:23 PMWhen doing laundry why to shirts dry so quick, but socks and pants take ages?
Because heat rises, so my soggy shirt starts to dry but my feet are still wet... :-\
Because for each shirt there are pairs of socks and pairs of pants. Logically a single would dry twice as fast as a pair.
At the risk of being sensible.
Because the shirts are of thinner lighter materials which hold less water and allow what they do hold to evaporate more quickly. Socks tend to be of thicker chunky materials (in general).
Quote from: Last Hussar on 01 October 2024, 01:11:23 PMToday's big question.
When doing laundry why to shirts dry so quick, but socks and pants take ages?
Its nota question I have ever considered? I put my shirts , socks and pants in the magic basket in the bathroom, and a few days later they are washed, dry and ironed and back in he correct cupboard or draw. :)
Quote from: fred. on 01 October 2024, 07:03:28 PMAt the risk of being sensible.
Because the shirts are of thinner lighter materials which hold less water and allow what they do hold to evaporate more quickly. Socks tend to be of thicker chunky materials (in general).
Yes, I have considered that, but the difference seems excessive. Socks would need to be 4 times as dense (4×4×4=64, hence difference. )
Orcs needs to develop a more 21st century approach to household chores.
Or an eagle
https://youtu.be/itxbCZyE_KY?si=cukHMs3YoaqneifG
Quote from: Last Hussar on 01 October 2024, 11:01:17 PMOrcs needs to develop a more 21st century approach to household chores.
Why!!
In our house we have Pink jobs and Blue jobs. To stray into the area of Pink jobs is asking for the wrath of Mrs Orcs.
She knows that because he's told her so! ;D ;D
QuoteYes, I have considered that, but the difference seems excessive. Socks would need to be 4 times as dense (4×4×4=64, hence difference. )
Orcs needs to develop a more 21st century approach to household chores.
Chuckles in "Naval Architect": "The Square / Cube law strikes again... Mwahahaha!!".
Just bought some razor blades. They are marked "Suitable for vegans".
Quote from: Raider4 on 03 October 2024, 02:42:39 PMJust bought some razor blades. They are marked "Suitable for vegans".
Probably packed in a vegetable oil rather than rendered bacon fat or even a light machine oil.
Aye, I know it's a serious issue for those so inclined, but my first thought was "how are they served?" . . .
The other warning on the packaging was "DO NOT FLUSH". Must admit that had not occurred to me as a way of disposing of used razor blades.
I have some disposable, and therefore manual, razors the packaging of which warned:
Batteries not included
and
WARNING: May be sharp, handle with care.
"MAY be ....." ?????
If there is a warning, there is a reason for the warning.
"Remember the intelligence of the average person, then realise half of them are stupider than that."
Perhaps Pendraken should put a warning on its figure packs "These may cause addiction"
Why? I'm not addicted.
Maybe it's just the weak willed.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 04 October 2024, 09:22:13 PMWhy? I'm not addicted.
Maybe it's just the weak willed.
No you have an MDF addiction
I can stop anytime I want.
It's just that I need a few more cannons for Second Western Army.
Doomed X_X
God I'm just fed up of this wet weather we are having at present :( !
Its sunny here ATM - locals are out on their knees worshiping it.....
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 08 October 2024, 12:05:51 PMIts sunny here ATM - locals are out on their knees worshiping it.....
In Birkenhead its probably the first time they have seen it in living memory.
Quote from: Orcs on 08 October 2024, 12:49:05 PMIn Birkenhead its probably the first time they have seen it in living memory.
Na - Widnes, Runcorn or Middlebrough may be, Ellsmere Port for certain.
Hi
QuoteGod I'm just fed up of this wet weather we are having at present :( !
Just got back home after playing a game in south Somerset that we had to abandon simply because the roads were getting so bad (that said my friend lives in a place called Horsington Marsh, I think ther may be a clue in there somewhere, however even the main roads were looking pretty bad).
Just wondering if I should start to look to see if I have enough wood to start building an arc.....
Cheers Paul
Quote from: T13A on 08 October 2024, 02:38:57 PMHi
Just wondering if I should start to look to see if I have enough wood to start building an arc.....
Cheers Paul
It needs to be Gopher wood, which I believe is cedar.
Oh, I wouldn't put any faith in Noah's new-fangled contraption.
Enki gave Utnapishtim perfectly good instructions first time around.
Irving Finkel's downsized reconstruction of Utnapishtim's version from the "Ark Tablet" is not the ark most are used to ....
(https://assets.telegraphindia.com/telegraph/1409noah_113.jpg)
That explains no dinosaurs - no way they'd fit on a vessel that size
Little ones.
Is that an ark ?
Or an oversized coracle ?
Quote from: Techno 3 on 09 October 2024, 09:28:22 AMIs that an ark ?
Or an oversized coracle ?
Yes, to both! :)
However the one in the image is a scaled down version of the Ark described in the "Ark Tablet." Film budgets only stretch so far.
Well the BBC weather online forecast shows hurricane force winds here, coming in from the NE, at 4959 mph. I think there might be a fault :-\ .
Quote from: Steve J on 10 October 2024, 05:50:21 AMWell the BBC weather online forecast shows hurricane force winds here, coming in from the NE, at 4959 mph. I think there might be a fault :-\ .
I'm hoping that either a) that should read 49 - 59 mph or b) that you live in an underground bunker, Fallout style! :)
It was reading at over 12000 mph this morning locally.
Feeling this is a bug - as we are still here...
WE are not that bad 8575, there be a bug !
QuoteWell the BBC weather online forecast shows hurricane force winds here, coming in from the NE, at 4959 mph. I think there might be a fault :-\ .
HAH !!....That's nothing..Our BBC app forecast is for NE winds of 16,688 mph all day, (I've even saved a screenshot.) ;)
The forecast temperatures DO seem to be correct..or at least believable. :)
Nottingham I think was forecast to be 404C, so a tad toasty!
Quote from: Steve J on 10 October 2024, 03:54:31 PMNottingham I think was forecast to be 404C, so a tad toasty!
Temperature not found?
Very good ;D !
It's being a day at work...
Senior on Secondment: "Head Office are asking [x, y, z]
Me: "have Head Office ever considered ####ing off?"
Laughter from Office where Head of Department is sitting followed by "Email Head Office with that suggestion. CC me in, so I can say this is the first I've heard of it."
Hi
Funny/Weird Things You Notice:
Just watching a recording of one of my favourite TV programmes, 'Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing', and noticed that Bob Mortimer had a tee shirt on at one point with the one word printed on it, 'WORRHAMUH'. :-\
Cheers Paul
Geordie visitor to Upton Park?
(https://scontent.fman2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/463549041_963898129113498_713550323064260307_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_p526x296&_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=LVtUgGWGsC0Q7kNvgHdSWX9&_nc_ht=scontent.fman2-1.fna&_nc_gid=AZFkuOfKmxwthYhmDccebHI&oh=00_AYDEAYaEoHoZdPrTLXO1pSkUsakTO7xJKfq_46-qSdpw6w&oe=671686FC)
Now re-writing my medieval rules to include "bonkybois"
Will you be including pokeybois, slashybois and bonkystopprs?
I will now. :)
Following GW down the same road that lead to their Orks using choppas, burnas and shootas.
Are you impugning Ork culture?
Racist.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 17 October 2024, 02:32:14 PMAre you impugning Ork culture?
Racist.
Orks are imposters - Unterorks. The only true Orcs are those of Tolkien lineage, with swarthy skins not green.
So you judge on skin colour...
Quote from: Last Hussar on 17 October 2024, 05:25:39 PMSo you judge on skin colour...
It's like a uniform. Historically correct orcs are swarthy in colour not green. Having green orcs is like painting your Napoleonic British with Purple uniforms or the Russians with orange uniforms, It is just not right.
Being a South African, I'd better keep out of this debate.
I don't see this thread heading in a healthy direction on it's current trajectory. Maybe we should stop now?
But . . .
Quote. . . Historically correct orcs . . .
The what now?
Should I paint Chieftains black with green stripes, or green with black stripes?
Based on the Voynich Manuscript Orcs (or Orks or Orques) are green. This predates Tolkien by at least three hundred years
Quote from: Raider4 on 18 October 2024, 02:13:43 PMI don't see this thread heading in a healthy direction on it's current trajectory. Maybe we should stop now?
Historically correct is from the writings of his Holiness J.R.R Tolkien. Anything else is Heresy :)
And we are only having a banter on the colour of of Orcs..... unless anyone has ever seen one (when they were sober)
Being drunk is the best way to see you.
Quote from: d_Guy on 18 October 2024, 03:00:25 PMBased on the Voynich Manuscript Orcs (or Orks or Orques) are green. This predates Tolkien by at least three hundred years
I thought that the Voynich Manuscript proved the existence of Yoda?
Quote from: Big Insect on 18 October 2024, 06:05:50 PMI thought that the Voynich Manuscript proved the existence of Yoda?
You needed proof that Yoda exists? I thought that was a given. :)
Quote from: Big Insect on 18 October 2024, 06:05:50 PMI thought that the Voynich Manuscript proved the existence of Yoda?
I haven't read that far yet.
Quote from: Orcs on 18 October 2024, 11:16:00 PMYou needed proof that Yoda exists? I thought that was a given. :)
Corrected: Proof you needed that Yoda exists? A given I though that was.
(Nine hundred years old, and can't handle basic word order?)
Quote from: FierceKitty on 19 October 2024, 03:13:36 AMCorrected: Proof you needed that Yoda exists? A given I though that was.
(Nine hundred years old, and can't handle basic word order?)
;D ;D ;D
QuoteNow re-writing my medieval rules to include "bonkybois"
Dave used to have a Duelling Bonk, no idea where it is these days!
Starting to feel human again after picking up a virus at the Partizan show and having to spend 4 days in bed this week. Not ideal with the amount of jobs needing to be done at the moment!
Hope you feel much better really soon, Leon ! :-bd
Rest up and get better, the jobs will still be there when you are feeling better
Quote from: Leon on 19 October 2024, 11:54:16 PMStarting to feel human again
Surely that's a downgrade for you?
Get well soon.
(Checks to see if he has an order outstanding - he doesn't.)
Take all the time you need.
Hope you feel better soon.
QuoteShould I paint Chieftains black with green stripes, or green with black stripes?
Dunno. What do you think?
Berlin.jpg
Quote from: Raider4 on 20 October 2024, 12:02:39 PMDunno. What do you think?
Berlin.jpg
Trying to do that scheme on anything smaller than 15mm is a short route to insanity. Best colours for 70's and 8-'s British camo is Valerjo GreenGrey with Black or Baslt grey blobs, not stripes.
QuoteTrying to do that scheme on anything smaller than 15mm is a short route to insanity. Best colours for 70's and 8-'s British camo is Valerjo GreenGrey with Black or Baslt grey blobs, not stripes.
Are you trying to imply that some of the forum might actually be sane?
Quote from: Orcs on 20 October 2024, 12:39:50 PMAre you trying to imply that some of the forum might actually be sane?
No
I'm sane...
Quote from: Last Hussar on 20 October 2024, 10:58:36 PMI'm sane...
That's highly debatable, even if your mother had you tested. :)
I'm normal.
My eldest is hyper-normal.
The rest of you are weird.
The most insulting thing you an call me is "normal".
Don't worry, FSN. At no point has anyone on this forum ever said 'That FSN, he's a nice normal chap."
Under Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Requisite and Minimum Custodial Periods) Order 2024
one of the exclusions is "An offence under section 69 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 (possession of paedophile manual)."
Sorry... MANUAL?
What, like "How to be a pervert for Dummies"?
Never expect logic from British Law....
Rule of looking at laws - whatever country - if there is a law for it, then enough people have done it that it has been a problem at some point.
"270.This section creates a new offence of possession of a paedophile manual, that is any item containing advice or guidance about abusing children sexually (subsection (1)). There are already a number of criminal offences that seek to prevent the possession, creation and distribution of indecent images of children, and the dissemination of obscene material."
:o
People aren't always as helpful as they can be on our computer;
QuoteDistinguishing Marks - Head
Really? I'll look out for him.
(To be fair, there is a expansion, but you have to click on it.)
So last night I ran a quiz at the 'Members Club' in town (CAMRA call it a working men's club, but it has women and carpets in it)
I'm not a member - so they CHARGED ME to get in :o
Quote from: Last Hussar on 25 October 2024, 03:39:29 PMSo last night I ran a quiz at the 'Members Club' in town (CAMRA call it a working men's club, but it has women and carpets in it)
I'm not a member - so they CHARGED ME to get in :o
You should have charged them for running the quiz
QuoteSo last night I ran a quiz at the 'Members Club' in town (CAMRA call it a working men's club, but it has women and carpets in it)
I'm not a member - so they CHARGED ME to get in :o
You didn't expect them to let you torture them for free did you? :)
Quote from: Gwydion on 25 October 2024, 09:10:26 PMYou didn't expect them to let you torture them for free did you? :)
I don't know, FSN pays good money for that ;)
QuoteSo last night I ran a quiz at the 'Members Club' in town (CAMRA call it a working men's club, but it has women and carpets in it)
I'm not a member - so they CHARGED ME to get in :o
Did they charge you again to get out?
Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 25 October 2024, 10:29:47 PMDid they charge you again to get out?
No, they were pleased to see him go :D
Quote from: Orcs on 26 October 2024, 02:33:47 PMNo, they were pleased to see him go :D
Most peps are :d
I am much taken with words and games about words, and am working my way through 1970's editions of "Call My Bluff" with the inestimable Robert Robinson, and the erudite Frank Muir. It interests me how the use of words goes in and out of fashion. It is also a great way of expanding ones vocabulary.
From the edition I'm watching:
Futon - had them confused
Tolpatchery - the common infantry as mentioned by Carlyle.
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 26 October 2024, 02:45:20 PMMost peps are :d
YOU'VE NEVER EVEN RUDDY MET ME! >:(
Thought my watch had stopped, then realised I hadn't put it back.
QuoteThought my watch had stopped, then realised I hadn't put it back.
Ahh, clock change day. Will be dark at 17:00 tonight :( .
Quote from: Raider4 on 27 October 2024, 09:31:21 AMAhh, clock change day. Will be dark at 17:00 tonight :( .
More time for hunting humans then
Quote from: Last Hussar on 27 October 2024, 09:12:46 AMYOU'VE NEVER EVEN RUDDY MET ME! >:(
Thought my watch had stopped, then realised I hadn't put it back.
Obviously your reputation precedes you. :)
Couple of colleagues having problems with the Bus. Apparently the driver, among other faults, has managed to get lost...
Quote from: Last Hussar on 28 October 2024, 02:15:46 PMCouple of colleagues having problems with the Bus. Apparently the driver, among other faults, has managed to get lost...
Had it happen to me a few times
I've had to act as navigator on buses and coaches in the past, either solo or part of a navigation team. Always fun when there's more than one way to go and the navigation team is split on which route the bus should be on.
QuoteCouple of colleagues having problems with the Bus. Apparently the driver, among other faults, has managed to get lost...
Had it happen once to me many years ago - the driver took a turn that was wrong for that particular bus number (but was a valid route for a slightly different number) the level of out-cry from the passengers within seconds of going the wrong way, rather quickly alerted him to the need to course correct.
I've had to re-direct a bus before, many years ago when it got lost due to a diversion. Recently a bus on a route by us took the wrong turn and had to do a u-turn, which was fun to see!
Quote from: fsn on 27 October 2024, 08:56:28 AMTolpatchery - the common infantry as mentioned by Carlyle.
Strangely that is the term we use for the art of repairing a toll road without closing it.
;D ;D
Don't laugh, Nobby ! Take his coat and give it a good chew. ;)
Quote from: Techno 3 on 29 October 2024, 09:28:24 AMDon't laugh, Nobby ! Take his coat and give it a good chew. ;)
Regrettably the only thing I like better than a good pun is a bad pun.
And carrot cake. I like carrot cake.
... and Centurion tanks :D
... and I'm quite fond of Anne Hathaway :-[
... and the good folk of the Forum :^o
OK, but bad puns are in the top 10 ... or 12.
I was reading through some of the original 1977 Traveller materials, 'cos why not?
I was struck by the description of Tech Levels:
Level 8: 1980-1989
Level 9: 1990-2000
Level 10: Interstellar community
So by 2001 we should have reached Alpha Centauri? Does this reflect the optimism of 1977, or the degeneration of our spirit initiated by Dexy's Midnight Runners releasing Geno?
QuoteSo by 2001 we should have reached Alpha Centauri? Does this reflect the optimism of 1977...
We should also have sent a manned ship to Jupiter (film) or Saturn (book).
And there's a substantial moonbase established, plus a nuclear waste dump on the far side just wasting to explode.
Sadly our dreams have not yet materialised.
A man's dreams should exceed his grasp or what are on-line forums for?
QuoteAnnoying people :d
Yes, online forums are full of annoying people :d :d :d
QuoteI was reading through some of the original 1977 Traveller materials, 'cos why not?
I was struck by the description of Tech Levels:
Level 8: 1980-1989
Level 9: 1990-2000
Level 10: Interstellar community
So by 2001 we should have reached Alpha Centauri? Does this reflect the optimism of 1977, or the degeneration of our spirit initiated by Dexy's Midnight Runners releasing Geno?
Nah, it is the onset of neoliberal policies and the aliens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(British_TV_series) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(British_TV_series))
Geno by DMR an absolute classic!
QuoteGeno by DMR an absolute classic!
That's the kind of thinking that has deprived me of my opportunity to live in the Alpha Centauri system. >:(
Quote from: fsn on 03 November 2024, 08:20:13 AMThat's the kind of thinking that has deprived me of my opportunity to live in the Alpha Centauri system. >:(
What? That, rather than the 148,000 years it would take to get there in any current spacecraft? Oh! That and the fact that only one of the five planets identified so far is likely to be habitable and it orbits the red dwarf of the trinary system? As far as the Alpha Centauri system goes, "The future's dim, the future's orange! :D
Interstellar! We should have jump drive by now, and popping over to AC should be like taking a cruise to Australia.
Anyone else remember the Terran Trade Authority series of books from Stewart Cowley?
(https://d1rbbjrn2xovty.cloudfront.net/000002/30/92/72/030927234171.jpg)
This book - the first - told a potted history of the 21st century, and the tale of the wars with Proxima Centauri, and of contact with the inhabitants of Alpha Centauri.
Needless to say we are nowhere near where it hoped we would be in spaceflight & technology.
Sounds fun! :)
Quote from: fsn on 03 November 2024, 08:20:13 AMThat's the kind of thinking that has deprived me of my opportunity to live in the Alpha Centauri system. >:(
"There are a couple nice places there but overall I'd give the system a pass."
I seem to remember this from a recent Yelp review.
"Mostly harmless"
Quote from: fsn on 03 November 2024, 08:20:13 AMThat's the kind of thinking that has deprived me of my opportunity to live in the Alpha Centauri system. >:(
Well Zefram Cochrane seems to have lived in AC system for a while....he even met up with some humaniods with pointed ears (not elves!).
It all seems a bit illogical to me though :-X
Elves are tricksey, so they might be elves. Hieronymus Bosch, who likely visited AC (or originated there) visually documents other possibilities. You will note that Zefram Cochrane is an anagram of Hieronymus Bosch in Welsh (at least in Techno's Southern dialect).
For part of his exile until 1814, the King of France stayed at Hartwell House, just outside Aylesbury. In honour of this we have a road called Bourbon Street.
Can't help but feel they missed an opportunity to call it Louis Lane.
Tad anacronistic that...anyway it could be named for the biscuit ;)
I bought a pack of Garibaldis. found you can't put them in the same tin as the Bourbons.
Eat some Bourbons and make some room. :D
"It's Biscuit Week, and Prue would like you to make a dozen identical custard creams. You have two hours. Bake!"
Quote from: howayman on 07 November 2024, 04:22:29 PMEat some Bourbons and make some room. :D
Will it stop them fighting.
Another in the occasional series "What happened for this to be law"...
Display flags / banners / notices / emblems that are threatening / abusive / insulting at Bristol Airport
I mean, why specify Bristol airport?
Well we all know how strange they are in the south west :d :d
"'ee zaid, 'Well, oi dun like zider'" zo oi adda teach 'im a lesson"
Oih!
QuoteWell we all know how strange they are in the south west :d :d
I resemble that! :o :)
Hobnobbing with the likes again?
Oh the joys of the latest Windows 11 version whatever update :'( ! Aside from taking ages to install, it then signed me out of all of my sites for no known reason. Then last night a very slow computer, caused as I surmised another batch of updates. So this morning turn the computer on and all my files and desktop stuff had gone! A minor panic to say the least, but they suddenly reappeared once the updates were fully installed :o . WTF!!!
Yes, I will have to upgrade my PC by next october to install Windows 11. I am not looking forward to it.
My current laptop is now ~10 years old and runs Windows 8.1. I'm very happy with it - it's setup the way I like it and pretty much does everything I need*, generally using older versions of software. The battery life is now starting to decrease though and I suppose it won't be long until something breaks and it needs replacing.
I'm also not looking forward to getting a new one with Windows 11 on it. Everything I've heard about it sounds like it's going to just annoy me.
* Except offline email now :( . I use Outlook 2010 and it stopped working with Hotmail earlier this year thanks to those ********* at Microsoft.
My biggest concern about any upgrade.
Will it auto delete my Stormcast Eternals software.
(It's a Games Workshop gag)
Still running 8.1.
There's a Windows 11 PC still sitting in its box, waiting for the 8.1 one to die.
Guess what's back
ZX Spectrum (https://www.argos.co.uk/product/4095774?clickSR=slp:term:spectrum:1:2:1)
Guardian review (https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/dec/06/the-spectrum-review-a-tactile-trip-to-the-1980s)
Quote from: Techno 3 on 06 December 2024, 01:55:52 PMStill running 8.1.
There's a Windows 11 PC still sitting in its box, waiting for the 8.1 one to die.
I have the near same situation, Phil.
My win10 desktop (purchased right after win10 was released) is slowly giving up the ghost and I bought a win11 machine during the Thanksgiving sales. It is sitting in a box. Being old, my current desktop has every piece of software I like, arranged to suit my exact taste. Hate to start over again. If I can continue to limp along will likely do the replacement near the time win10 support ends.
I miss Win3.1.1
Quote from: Last Hussar on 06 December 2024, 03:12:15 PMGuess what's back
Thanks for sharing this. It brings back great memories.
The original 48k was £175 back in 83. That is about £560 now.
I am severely tempted - they are out of stock EVERYWHERE at the mo, but might pop into Argos tomorrow to reserve/order. :D
Quote from: d_Guy on 06 December 2024, 03:52:15 PMI miss Win3.1.1
And DOS 6.0. You knew what the pc was doing and where files were actually stored.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 06 December 2024, 03:12:15 PMGuess what's back
ZX Spectrum (https://www.argos.co.uk/product/4095774?clickSR=slp:term:spectrum:1:2:1)
Guardian review (https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/dec/06/the-spectrum-review-a-tactile-trip-to-the-1980s)
Very retro.....no doubt aimed at those who were young back in the 1980's.
Is it a personal computer or a retro gaming consule though? According to the box its a PC, but the ad lists it as a gaming consule?
If its a PC I'd like to see it run Win 11 on 48k of memory - good luck! :)
QuoteIs it a personal computer or a retro gaming consule though?
Does it come with the original manual, which documented the built-in BASIC programming language?
If yes it's a computer, if no it's a gaming console.
Must admit I struggle to see the point, other than the nostalgia factor.
Bit like when I bought a Stylophone a while ago. Played with it for a bit, but now it sits on a shelf somewhere, unloved & unused.
Quote from: Raider4 on 06 December 2024, 07:38:59 PMBit like when I bought a Stylophone a while ago. Played with it for a bit, but now it sits on a shelf somewhere, unloved & unused.
That was the fate of all Stylophones
Think my pc is still 8
We've been on Windows 8 at work for years but it finally gave up the ghost and forced us to upgrade to 10 instead. I hate every new version of Windows, it just never works as it should.
Quote from: Leon on 08 December 2024, 10:08:48 PMWe've been on Windows 8 at work for years but it finally gave up the ghost and forced us to upgrade to 10 instead. I hate every new version of Windows, it just never works as it should.
Its because Microsoft no longer does a thorough check that the programs work. It does some basic checks then releases it. It then waits for the bugs to reveal themselves and issues upgrades. far cheaper for them, infuriating for us.
We never used to have so many upgrades on programs.
Just ordered a new computer...
I wait with baited breath...
QuoteIts because Microsoft no longer does a thorough check that the programs work. It does some basic checks then releases it. It then waits for the bugs to reveal themselves and issues upgrades. far cheaper for them, infuriating for us.
We never used to have so many upgrades on programs.
WARNING: Old computer industry veteran vents.
"No Longer" is doing a lot of heavy lifting above.
Micro$oft were notorious for chucking it out and letting the
mugs early adopters do the troubleshooting.
More upgrades is mainly because there are a lot more hackers out there now.
And PC manufacturers decided it was better to provide some organic virus protection.
After standing back for decades and expected punters to install Kaspersky - (which might just eat your system from the inside).
"Up" - grades.
Ever requires twice the computer power to simply function.
It's always been thus.
We are expected to accept this as a norm.
My policy used to be - Do not install any Microsoft product until it has formally released (not beta version) for at least 18 months. I now try to leave it as long as possible
Well, as I don't have an option, I will find out Wednesday what it is like (Pub Quiz on pick up day, so assuming no use on Tuesday)
However it is now 3 years old, so am hoping nothing major.
I am quite proud of myself for purposely booking the Section's Christmas Lunch at 13:00 on Friday the 13th
;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Last Hussar on 13 December 2024, 08:56:13 AMI am quite proud of myself for purposely booking the Section's Christmas Lunch at 13:00 on Friday the 13th
;D ;D ;D
That should go well then!
It did!
Got a free bottle of wine for the table, and Head of Function didn't come, but did give me the money for the first round!
Gentlemen, you need to be aware of this work of genius.
Pigs in blankets Toad in the hole - full size sausages, not the normal little ones used for PiB.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 19 December 2024, 03:36:49 PMGentlemen, you need to be aware of this work of genius.
Pigs in blankets Toad in the hole - full size sausages, not the normal little ones used for PiB.
arn't those just your normal M&S 'hippo's in duvets' ... :D
Quote from: Big Insect on 19 December 2024, 04:00:13 PMarn't those just your normal M&S 'hippo's in duvets' ... :D
No, because these are "Hippos in Blankets in a Yorkshire Pudding Bed"
Playing Neanderthal Poetry with my parents. In it you have to define the words on the cards using words of just one syllable.
My mum has just defined woman (2 syllables) as "man with tits"
Hmmm. I'd have guessed Bill Oddie or Ruben Amorim.
Gentlemen, I managed a great feat this year.
I avoided Whamageddon.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 26 December 2024, 12:25:08 PMGentlemen, I managed a great feat this year.
I avoided Whamageddon.
You've got to get up before you go-go to do that :D
Very good Mark ;D !
The annual Christmas plague has hit our house, so we've spent most of the last 4 days in bed / asleep on the sofa. The kids seem to have avoided it as usual...
My wife just can't get rid of her cold, having had it more or less full-time since breaking up from school the Friday before Xmas :( .
Condolences to both families :(
Ant wars
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_ants
The fact they draw up in specific formations, or ritualise the combat is astounding.
QuoteThe annual Christmas plague has hit our house, so we've spent most of the last 4 days in bed / asleep on the sofa. The kids seem to have avoided it as usual...
Sorry to hear that Leon. No consolation, but it has been exactly the same for me!
Quote from: Leon on 31 December 2024, 10:30:28 PMThe annual Christmas plague has hit our house, so we've spent most of the last 4 days in bed / asleep on the sofa. The kids seem to have avoided it as usual...
Sorry to hear that, Hope you are recovering now.
Get well soon all
Seconded.
Daughter announced she's getting married on October 25th.
"Ahh, Agincourt" says I . . .
Congratulations.
Suggested text for the Father of the Bride Speech
"This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.' "
Quote from: Last Hussar on 01 January 2025, 11:25:50 AMAnt wars
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_ants
The fact they draw up in specific formations, or ritualise the combat is astounding.
Is this a request for another range ?
From the url you copied LH this would be a historical range, all be it of insects
Followed by a post from FSN about all the figures he bought, and the specific ranges he's bought.
Do you think we could add aphids as a supply train?
(https://nwdistrict.ifas.ufl.edu/hort/files/2023/04/sheryl-vegara-aphids.jpg)
Well played Sir :)
Spent last two days tiling then grouting kitchen. Approximately 4m50 of length.
I would post a link to the b&q website for them, but I can't find them, so lucky you!
They are 200x100mm, with sloped edges (that is like a horizontal slice of pyramid). Tiled "Running" style in brickwork, that is each row offset by half a length on the one below.
4 rows, then a thinner grey tile to top on the sink wall, only 3 high on the cooker wall, because of the cupboards.
Tricky bit was the 5 switch/socket plates. Rather proud one tile I have cut in a 'n' shape to go round the cooker switch.
Always amazes me when people cut tiles around switches. Just take it off the wall and remount on the tiles :D
My Dad informed me that he has just received our Xmas card, that we posted 1st class a week before Xmas :o >:( . This really is taking the p*ss! Since Xmas we've barely seen our postmen, who do not turn up somedays or only deliver to half of the street. I'm awaiting some important mail for our son, so may have to chase things up tomorrow when everyone should be back at work. Sooooo annoying and frustrating!
We often only get a couple of deliveries a week. If you have to collect a parcel from the sorting office they only open from 0800-1000 M-f and 0800-1200 Saturdays.
QuoteAlways amazes me when people cut tiles around switches. Just take it off the wall and remount on the tiles :D
Most switches have a box behind them that is embedded into the wall - so surely you have to cut around this? But agree that removing the face plate will give more tolerance on the cut around the box, as the edges will be hidden by the face plate.
Whilst our post has moved to being delivered later in the day - we do get a postie most days of the week still.
Yes, going to collect a parcel was a pain, due to limited opening hours - most of the time we just chose the deliver it tomorrow option.
And just had an Amazon parcel delivered by Royal Mail at 2:30 on a Sunday. How do Amazon get RM to deliver on Sundays!
There must be a backlog in international mail currently - we had a NZ Couriers delivery at 12:15 yesterday. We were expecting it at some stage, but first time I've ever seen them deliver on a Sunday afternoon.
Quote from: fred. on 05 January 2025, 01:55:07 PMMost switches have a box behind them that is embedded into the wall - so surely you have to cut around this? But agree that removing the face plate will give more tolerance on the cut around the box, as the edges will be hidden by the face plate.
Hmmm, didn't consider this - would the wiring cope with the extra? I know it's only a few mil, but the wires can be a bit tight on some plates.
I think I will look at seeing if I can retile those bits - I have quite a lot left over, so I can try out on one socket. I'll ask the Old Man next time he is over. Cutting round the plate is the way I learned, now I am thinking "Oh bottoms".
Quote from: Last Hussar on 06 January 2025, 11:43:06 AMHmmm, didn't consider this - would the wiring cope with the extra? I know it's only a few mil, but the wires can be a bit tight on some plates.
I think I will look at seeing if I can retile those bits - I have quite a lot left over, so I can try out on one socket. I'll ask the Old Man next time he is over. Cutting round the plate is the way I learned, now I am thinking "Oh bottoms".
When I worked for an electrician , he always told me push 6 inches of cable back into the wall cavity if at all possible to cater for this , or the wires breaking and needing re-terminating. You might well be lucky
Well, that gives me something to do in my otherwise empty life. I don't have other stuff I'd rather do, or even figures to paint.
(Not all of this post is true.)
Hi
Woke up to a fair amount of snow in the Mendips this morning with vehicles unable to get up the hill in the village where I live for the first few of hours. Cars just seem to be able to make it now; hope it clears by Thursday as we need to get to Heathrow to catch a plane to Thailand. :-\
Cheers Paul
Not at home, but just realised there might be a problem with the 'Mount the plate on top' method; the tiles are sloped - like a roof but with a flat middle - the switches might be on one level on one side, and another on the next.
If I ever use flat tiles I will do this though.
Quote from: T13A on 07 January 2025, 09:55:51 AMHi
Woke up to a fair amount of snow in the Mendips this morning with vehicles unable to get up the hill in the village where I live for the first few of hours. Cars just seem to be able to make it now; hope it clears by Thursday as we need to get to Heathrow to catch a plane to Thailand. :-\
Cheers Paul
Snowed Saturday night/Sunday Morning here, but the Sunday morning rain cleared it. Because we are in a vale the weather does seem to do its own thing on occasion; the county border is on a ridge line, and you can sometimes see the line of clouds on this as you drive up the A41.
We had a tiny bit of snow (1-2cm ?) Saturday afternoon/early evening, but the rain almost washed it all away.
All gone by Sunday morning, apart from a tiny amount on the sides of the road in a couple of places.
On the 10 mile trip into Cardigan, Sunday morning, I only saw enough to make one small snowman. (If that !)
Your own fault being on the coast - drag the town inland in future.
Here is a problem for an idle moment...
As you may have seen I'm tweaking my Battle of Britain rules. I use the Spitfire as the basis for stats. I wrote it as the 'way the system works', and then extrapolated the other aircraft from that.
For instance there are three phases in a bound, so the Spitfire has a max speed of 9 - 3 moves in each phase. This gives me a Bf109 of Max 10, Hurricane of 8.
Each phase is 3 seconds.
Firing is as follows.
Start with -Range mod +/- Aspect mod + Guns +d6
A Spitfire carried 14 seconds of ammo, which was fired in 3 second bursts* (hence phase length), so that is 5 shots, 4 at +3, and the last at +2.
For the 109 I have 9 seconds (3 phases) of Cannon and Mg fire, then another 9 seconds of Mg fire after the cannon was empty.
There were just 2 MGs firing on interrupter through the prop.
The firing profile of the 109 is
+5 / +5 / +5 / -2 / -2 / -2
SO, given the MG pair is -2, what is the Cannon with no MG? (and no, it isn't +7!, the MGs aren't actually reducing their effectiveness.)
To be clear, I am not looking for any suggested amendments, the game works well as it is. This is just idle curiosity.
*RAF pilots would have the tracer every 3 seconds to help them count usage. The last 2 seconds often had a lot of tracer to say "You're out!"
"Spring chicken to s***ehawk in one easy lesson" :D
Purhaps this website will be of interest to you LH: https://flying-guns.com/flying-guns-wwii-fighters/ (https://flying-guns.com/flying-guns-wwii-fighters/)
It lists various fighters and considers their armament, including how long they can fire their various weapons for.
The day after my Birthday in 1991, the Alliance invaded Kuwait/Iraq.
On my birthday in 1981 there was an attempted coup in Spain.
On my birthday in 1988 Saddam Hussein begins a genocide against the Kurds
On my birthday in 2021 Four prison riots killed 62 people Ecuador.
The day after my birthday in 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine.
I might have to stop having Birthdays, people celebrate in the most inappropriate ways...
In January 2023, I started monitoring how much I spent on the hobby; figures, books, paints etc.
So far, it's somewhere between "wow!" and "ouch!".
I justify it 'cos I don't go on holiday, don't own a car and don't socialise. If I ain't at work, I'm hobbying.
To be fair I only looked at it 'cos I just put in another order with Pendraken and another with Maverick Models (flags for armies I haven't even started ordering! :( )
Quote from: Last Hussar on 16 January 2025, 12:29:26 PMThe day after my Birthday in 1991, the Alliance invaded Kuwait/Iraq.
On my birthday in 1981 there was an attempted coup in Spain.
On my birthday in 1988 Saddam Hussein begins a genocide against the Kurds
On my birthday in 2021 Four prison riots killed 62 people Ecuador.
The day after my birthday in 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine.
I might have to stop having Birthdays, people celebrate in the most inappropriate ways...
Mine's got the relief of the siege of Malta to its credit; also Borodino, from the days when Russians could with a straight face be called good guys in venues other than Quora.
I'm impressed you were born before Borodino...
And my house is bigger on the inside....
It turns out 'The corridor' as we know it wasn't invented until late in the 16th century...
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/some-people-s-ancestors-are-kings-or-poets-i-m-proud-my-family-invented-the-corridor/ar-AA1wEmAJ?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhoverent&cvid=4e4e44327b5046f0939804024a210636&ei=4
I've just had our new starter ask me how to use the photocopier - she's 24 AND NEVER HAD TO USE ONE BEFORE.
I feel soooooooo old... :'(
What's a photocopier ?
New fangled technology to you.
OK - what is going on - has someone excavated a pyramid in Smoggy. There are "unread" posts from 2019 up today. Take it Leon has uploaded the entire "waybackmachine" content ?
Yeah, I woke up to 15 Billion* notifications.
*This may be 10% inaccurate
It's Leon's annual review of the "Oh God! What do these morons want us to make now??" stackpile. :) :) :)
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 20 February 2025, 09:51:16 AMOK - what is going on - has someone excavated a pyramid in Smoggy. There are "unread" posts from 2019 up today. Take it Leon has uploaded the entire "waybackmachine" content ?
Yep, exactly as Ithoriel suspects, I've not updated the requests lists for a while so thought I'd get it done last night. We're hoping to clear some of the decks this year (along with some of the requests too) so I'll get a new Top 10 list put out this weekend.
QuoteIt's Leon's annual review of the "Oh God! What do these morons want us to make now??" stackpile. :) :) :)
Saint Helenan voltigeurs form the war of Jenkins Ear....
Email at work yesterday;
When weapons are used during violence,
Quoteit impacts on everyone who sees the incident
it impacts on those who have to support anyone who is injured
it impacts on staff dealing with incidents of violence
I emailed back
"Pretty sure it affects the victim too. Pretty sure it does..."
QuoteEmail at work yesterday;
When weapons are used during violence,I emailed back
"Pretty sure it affects the victim too. Pretty sure it does..."
Careful. That sort of sass will get you marked as a troublemaker.
I trust that Alexander (Fierce Kitty) is OK after the earthquake affecting Bangkok ! :o
Fingers crossed
Tempted by this
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/may/06/drop-duchy-review (https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/may/06/drop-duchy-review)
Ta for ut link, not I think for me though
Typical computer game review "Roguelike deck builder" - leaving me (and maybe other readers) none the wiser.
On an upside, It's nice to see Keith Moon (formerly off of the Who) getting media work.
A bit more - I watched the YouTube video embedded.
It starts off as tetris, blocks fall from the top, and you fit them in. However, when you complete a line, they don't disappear. Instead the blocks represent land tiles; you want grazing next to a farm, etc. When the grid is full, you have your country. This is then pitted against your enemy.
Deck building comes from table top games. As you get more powerful, better cards are added to your deck. In this it translates as better "tetris tiles" that come up.
Rogue like comes from the 1980s computer game "Rogue". It is procedurally generated, meaning rather than fixed maps pre designed, it makes it up as needed, according to a set of rules with some randomness, so no two games are the same.
It does sound interesting, but it's PC only so of no use to me.
But good to see games being produced that are sold as a single fairly cheap cost. Too many iOS games are based on the micro transaction model and are basically unplayable unless you spend stupid amounts of money on them.
I could murder a bacon butty...
QuoteI could murder a bacon butty...
(https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fm.media-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F61ictLLYoPL._AC_UX679_.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=70d4bef3aef6c53947439ba584d57c940a2c949a477c78786f5326b3c6b6d7f7)
So I bought Drop Duchy Thursday. Played a number of games, and am enjoying it (mostly).
The Tetris bit is challenging/thought demanding/annoying/fun(ish)
If you've ever played Tetris it's like that, but slower, as you need more thinking time. Except when it's not. Woods/fields/mountains are classic 4 square tetris tiles, but there are other pieces, like farms, barracks, watchtowers etc which are 1, 2 or 3 squares. A farm near open turns them into fields. Military tiles recruit from certain nearby terrain.
So you drop a barracks near some plains, and it recruits some men. Then you drop a farm, which turns those plains into crops, adding to your wheat score. Then the barracks is reevaluated, because the wheat is worth more than plains.
You also have to drop in enemy recruiting tiles, and again these gain men from close by terrain, so you are trying to keep them AWAY from that, while still putting it close to your production centres, leading to decisions of "do I gain x, but give them y?".
Completed lines don't disappear, but instead add to your gold. More lines simultaneously means gold per square is higher. The tile drop ends when you put a tile on the last row, even if there are still moves you could make.
Then you go on to the battle part. You drawer a single path between all the soldier producers, and when all in the path you "fight". This is very simple; the first group proceeds to the second. If it is the same army, they add, if they enemy they fight. Then the winners proceed to the next in the path, and that is resolved.
Fights are simple, you just watch the arithmetic. If they are the same type, then it is highest minus lowest. So 12 blue Swords attack 4 Red Swords, and the result is 8 remaining blue travel on.
The choice is when you have different types; there are Axes, Swords and archers. These have a A>B, B>C, C>A relationship, with a 3:2 advantage.
So if 12 Axe attack 12 Swords, the have the advantage. For every 3 Swords killed, you lose only 2 Axemen, leading to the Axes winning by 4 survivors. Swords do the same to archers, while archers are better than Axes. If you add two allied groups, it becomes whatever the most numerous is.
This leads to "I'll attack the Swords with my Axes, then join with my archers, who will be more numerous at that point, so the group will become archers, and then attack THEIR axes" decisions.
After each fight you move along the path, where decisions are made, such as trading, or getting new cards (the cards are the Tetris tiles). Depending on path you might chose which fight next; hard, or the easy one that will make the boss fight harder? One where the tiles are mostly open, mostly woods, or evenly balanced?
Lose a battle, and you lose some "hit point" equivalent. Lose them all and game over. You can then start again, but you have a better deck, upgraded from the previous games.
Sounds a lot of fun.
I had better not get it, addictive personality and all! ;D
It is, but I'm good enough at the 'easy level' that a game now takes 80 or 90 minutes. Need to see if it's got a save function
I'd read that AIs will speak to you as you address them, so I put in a random historical question...
Me: Good afternoon, young sir. May I respectfully ask you furnish me with the casualty percentages at the Battle of Waterloo? Thank you in advance for your forebearance on this subject.
Response
QuoteAh, a fine inquiry into one of history's most pivotal battles! The Battle of Waterloo, fought on June 18, 1815, saw staggering losses on both sides. The casualty figures are estimated as follows:
• French Army: Around 25,000 killed or wounded.
• Allied Forces (British, Dutch, and German troops): Approximately 22,000 casualties.
• Prussian Army: Roughly 7,000 casualties.
In total, nearly 50,000 men were either killed or wounded in the battle. The sheer scale of devastation left the battlefield littered with bodies, and the aftermath was described as truly harrowing.
A grim but fascinating chapter in military history! Would you like to delve deeper into the strategic elements of the battle?
Me: No thank you, sirrah, you have furnished me with the information I require. A very good day to you.
QuoteAI: The pleasure was mine! May your afternoon be filled with noble pursuits and enlightening discoveries. If ever you require further historical insights, I remain at your service. A very good day to you indeed!
How polite
Polite but not the answer to your question. You asked for casualty percentages, you just got numbers of casualties - it needed to at least provide total combatants per side to derive percentages.
I've just tried this on Chat GPT and got some more detail
Good afternoon, kind sir. I am most honored by your courteous inquiry.The Battle of Waterloo, fought on 18 June 1815, marked a decisive end to the Napoleonic Wars. It involved three primary forces: Napoleon's French Army, the Anglo-allied army under the Duke of Wellington, and the Prussian army under Field Marshal Blücher.Here are the estimated casualty figures and percentages for each side:🇫🇷 French Army (Napoleon)- Total troops engaged: ~72,000
- Casualties: ~25,000–30,000 killed, wounded, or missing
- Casualty percentage: ~35–42%
🇬🇧🇳🇱 Anglo-Allied Army (Duke of Wellington)- Total troops engaged: ~68,000
- Casualties: ~15,000 killed, wounded, or missing
- Casualty percentage: ~22%
🇩🇪 Prussian Army (Field Marshal Blücher)- Total troops engaged: ~50,000 (present at Waterloo proper)
- Casualties: ~7,000 killed, wounded, or missing
- Casualty percentage: ~14%
Summary of Overall Casualties- Total forces engaged (all sides): ~190,000
- Total casualties: ~47,000–52,000
- Overall casualty rate: ~25–27%
These figures, though grim, attest to the immense violence and finality of the encounter. The Battle of Waterloo was not merely a military event but a profound turning point in European history.Should you wish a breakdown by nationality or regiment, I would be happy to oblige further.
What happens if you ask it the question in a rude or offhand manner?
Interestingly it offered me two responses. One just the straight response, no intro text. The second started 'let's keep this respectful' then the same core text
Thought for today.
Do you think Thor in the Marvel universe, which is set 20th/21st century, every read the Norse myths? Which he was in?
"Right, avoid the giant worm's sting, got it."
I quite enjoy the
Napoleonic Wargaming channel on YouTube. He's fixated on 28mm, but in this one, he's recommending Pendraken spears and bases.
Nobby has just accused someone of being fixated...
Quote from: Last Hussar on 30 May 2025, 12:16:11 PMNobby has just accused someone of being fixated...
I did. Takes one ...
(Seen on another forum, so I take no credit for this. Paraphrasing...)
In 1953 the movie 'Genevieve' came out, about driving a 1904 Darracq vintage car from London to Brighton and back. So the car was 49 years old when the movie was made and looks like this:
Darracq.jpg
If you made that film today, and used a 49 year old car, you could use a Mk.1 Ford Fiesta :o
Other cars introduced in 1976 include the Rover SD1 and Porsche 924.
Feel old yet?
I wanted a 924 as a teenager in the 80s
I try to take the time to deny cookies on my internet browsing. It does lead to some odd results - a few years ago there were apparently no end of Muslim women in Bradford wanting to meet me.
The latest one had me searching. Apparently there are Council jobs for me in Uttlesford. I finally did a map search. It's a small village, about 7 miles North East of Bishop Stortford!
Quote from: Last Hussar on 09 June 2025, 09:44:48 PMI try to take the time to deny cookies on my internet browsing. It does lead to some odd results - a few years ago there were apparently no end of Muslim women in Bradford wanting to meet me.
The latest one had me searching. Apparently there are Council jobs for me in Uttlesford. I finally did a map search. It's a small village, about 7 miles North East of Bishop Stortford!
So perhaps you should marry a muslim woman from Bradford and move to Uttlesford to become a council worker. ;D
I mean, it's an option.
I was once offered the North Korean army. I don't mean figures, I mean the NORTH KOREAN ARMY.
Nowhere to store it, though.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 10 June 2025, 11:58:40 AMI mean, it's an option.
I was once offered the North Korean army. I don't mean figures, I mean the NORTH KOREAN ARMY.
Nowhere to store it, though.
Can I offer you a large bridge in Sidney ?
Have you accidentally hit clickbate, and now you have a bridge on your drive?
Every few years I seen to post a "I'm running out of projects" post.
I've been looking at the Pendraken catalogue and have dabbled in every one of Pendraken's 10mm categories. This is not to say that I have indulged in every range. I field no Ancient Persians, have no interest in Aztecs, or colonial conflicts, and have sworn off "Malplaquet to Maida".
I eagerly await the forthcoming Pendraken Amazons :-w and SF ranges. The Bronze Age armies will be fun, and are the Ancient Indians still on the list?
What then? At the moment, I have 1810 Spanish, Anglo-Portuguese and Joseph's Spanish armies purchased and in some respects painted. For Napoleonics, my choices seem to be Saxon, Italian, Neapolitan or Westphalian. In other words 4 white coated armies. :( I could also do Baden or 1815 Dutch-Belgian, but after that the Napoleonic well is dry. (No, I'm not doing India or the 1812.)
I have a mild hankering for a
Chocolate Box, Little Wars type of conflict. Something late C19, where I can be historically mildly inaccurate. Standardise sizes for units, same size armies for each country. This is what I think of as being a "mid level" game, maybe 400-500 figures per side. It's a low stress, fun project. To be honest the only thing holding me back is the lack of suitable British Guards Brigade figures - thought there are other British, Prussian, Austrian, French, Bavarian, and Russian options. :-\
Similarly, I could do a
1929 Britain vs France. I'm missing a Lewis gunner in a cap, and nobody seems to do a Carden-Lloyd carrier in 10mm. There are Brodie helmet and pith helmet options - perhaps Gunner Sugden could crew the Lewis? It's the lack of a Carden-Lloyd that puts this one on the back burner. I also wanted to do this so I could field the Char 2C, but I've done that now.
Which brings us to WWI. I see two options here ... maybe three.
1914 I would handle as a "mid level" game. Plenty of colourful units - French Cuirassiers, Belgian Guides, kilted Highlanders. Even thought about using the 1904 Russian Maxim with some dogs for the (in)famous Belgian dog machine guns.
Conversely,
1918, when the trenches have been largely left behind, and fighting had got "through mud and blood to the green fields beyond." This would be a company level game - about 100-150 infantry supported by a couple of tanks, half battery of guns, etc, etc. Setting it in 1918 avoids that nasty terrain build.
Finally for WWI, I could perhaps do something on the
Mesopotamian campaign. Some lovely stuff in the Pendraken range. Again, this would be a company level game, but if I'm being honest I'm more interested in the variety of armoured cars than the camels. Besides, when Pendraken released giraffes, I did an East African project which scratches most of the itches from Mespot.
What about WWII? There are a couple of gaps I could fill. I have some lovely KV1, T35s, and T28s from the Soviet 1941, but have nothing for
Soviet 1944. Frankly, it doesn't move me much. For some reason I can't get excited by T34s; late war Soviet kit generally.
I could look at
The Western Desert. I have, I think, most if not all of the hardware either in North West Europe 1940, or Italy 1943. Do I want the same thing, but painted sand yellow? Maybe.
At the other end of the thermometer is the
Russo-Finnish Wars. Obviously one would want to model the Winter aspect, but I'm not really interested in creating a set of scenery but in white. I could do the much neglected Summer fighting. I'd probably just need to buy many more pine trees. :-\
A more distant possibilities is
Border Reivers. This would be a true skirmish game, and I'd end up buying a pack of 30 figures and use maybe 4 or 5. Quite fancy crafting a Peel Tower though.
For some reason, I am drawn to the
Texian Revolution (Alamo) and the
Mexican Expedition of 1917. The Mexicans of the 1830s can be mostly proxied, but the Americans come up a bit short. There's a dearth on both sides for 1917. Having said that, some of the new ACW range may be suitable to fight at the Alamo. :-\ Need to look at that one.
I've done a lot of bright uniforms and horsies recently. I would appreciate a change, some camouflage and things with engines would be good.
As I say, I have 3 armies ready to paint. That will take me some time. My painting is at a low level at the moment- only about 200 figures per month. That gives me about 15 months of painting to do.
I need Leon to come in as a
deus ex machina to bestow many goodies. Though it didn't go so well last time.
I know something you don't! :D
Quote from: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 29 June 2025, 11:19:46 AMI know something you don't! :D
Aha!
Since I am hoping for Amazons, Indians and Squids, then I assume that Pendraken are going to release something different.
Amazonian Indian Squids? ;D
QuoteEvery few years I seem to post a "I'm running out of projects" post.
Have... you tried... actually gaming with them. Y'know, just for a change?
Quote from: Last Hussar on 29 June 2025, 03:48:08 PMHave... you tried... actually gaming with them. Y'know, just for a change?
Oh, I do.
I tend to paint in the evenings and play at the weekends. If I have a week off, I will usually spend most of it painting. :) I rarely record anything about a game. Usually think "that was a good one" then realise I haven't recorded anything about it at all.
Bottom line. I have no social life. I don't go anywhere. My whole life is bound up in 10mm figures. Without Pendraken, my life would be completely empty of meaning.
(Do you think that may get me a Carden-LLoyd carrier?)
Border Reivers
Getting a fitted sheet on a King size (American) bed is like stringing a 140lbs long bow. Stuffing a duvet into its cover is like throwing a resisting convict off the Tarpeian Rock. At least that's what I think.
Quote from: d_Guy on 30 June 2025, 05:43:34 PMBorder Reivers
That one is a very real option. It's a 300 year scope - I'm thinking something with morions.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/B5RaCWFKDWOZiD5ToV_4auoCAO8BJO02bI85oTVqYP2ZdS9FQCCj6x0KMf8lKz6hb6GXHdVOPBLOxWo-cm7b3JwAUQ) (https://www.karencharlton.com/uploads/7/3/9/8/7398138/4791222_orig.jpg)
Some of my kin are Armstrongs. :-\
Quote from: d_Guy on 30 June 2025, 05:49:04 PMGetting a fitted sheet on a King size (American) bed is like stringing a 140lbs long bow. Stuffing a duvet into its cover is like throwing a resisting convict off the Tarpeian Rock. At least that's what I think.
No, putting on a duvet is the opening to a fifth dimensional wormhole
Easy to put on a duvet cover.
At the moment though, I'm not bothering, just the cover.
QuoteNo, putting on a duvet is the opening to a fifth dimensional wormhole
I could support that comparison as well since the best approach seems to be to crawl into the cover and pull the duvet in behind you.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 30 June 2025, 08:48:14 PMEasy to put on a duvet cover.
At the moment though, I'm not bothering, just the cover.
no, get out my bed!
I beg you, rephrase that! :o
Quote from: fsn on 29 June 2025, 10:01:51 AM...and are the Ancient Indians still on the list?
:-\
Quote from: Last Hussar on 30 June 2025, 11:21:31 PMI beg you, rephrase that! :o
No wonder I can never get a decent night's sleep, all these wargamers hogging the covers
On the subject of bedding, let me wish you the following
Good night
Sweet repose
Half the bed
.... And all the clothes.
:d :d :d :d
Quote from: d_Guy on 30 June 2025, 05:49:04 PMGetting a fitted sheet on a King size (American) bed is like stringing a 140lbs long bow. Stuffing a duvet into its cover is like throwing a resisting convict off the Tarpeian Rock. At least that's what I think.
Remember when we just had blanket?
A blanket? We could only dream about a blanket. Slightly damp discarded newspapers and a few dead leaves when we could get them.
Leaves! Luxury!! ;D
No doubt in a hole in the road and working 30 hrs a day.
Duvets are easy.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 03 July 2025, 12:17:18 AMDuvets are easy.
Tried putting the cover on ? :'( :'(
So, we're getting ancient Indians then?
Soon. :-bd
Quote from: fsn on 03 July 2025, 06:52:50 PMSo, we're getting ancient Indians then?
Soon. :-bd
Don't be distracted by occupants of far distant shores. As a now admitted Armstrong (Annandale?) it should be de rigueur to delve into the border revivers. A vast catalog of Pendraken proxies await!
Good point well made.
Sigh...
Lay duvet on bed, top edge toward where you are standing.
Turn cover inside out.
Put hands in top corners.
Grab top corners of duvet
Shrug cover onto duvet.
Locate bottom duvet covers into bottom corners of cover
Grab corners and shake/flap until flat and full
Takes 5 minutes
Thanks, LH. Seems simple enough. One question, and I mean no disrespect at all, are you built like an orangutan?
Ook!
As an ex-librarian who was not metamorphosed into an orangutan by the magical tomes of Catherine Cookson, Jeffrey Archer or Barbara Cartland I find grabbing the corners of a Super King Size duvet something of a feat in itself. Plus shaking the assembled duvet and cover seems to simply result in the duvet curling itself up in the foetal position unless the corners are held in place with binder clips.
I don't understand why the cover doesn't simply zip up on three sides. That plus a loop on each corner of the duvet and corresponding buttons or toggles in the corners of the cover would make things so much simpler. Open the cover, lay bottom face down on a flat surface (there should be one conveniently nearby!) lay duvet flat on cover and button/ toggle duvet to cover, fold upper part of cover over and zip up. Arrange duvet and cover on bed, if not already in place,ensure duvet cover edge with no zip is at the head end of the bed.
So, does this mean we are getting Indians? ???
Quote from: fsn on 05 July 2025, 09:37:09 AMSo, does this mean we are getting Indians? ???
https://youtu.be/ssv-jSSoI7I?si=s4w0JHVE94eZqFZT
Quote from: fsn on 05 July 2025, 09:37:09 AMSo, does this mean we are getting Indians? ???
Shades of Aztecs - so once only ask please :'( :d
A very sensible design, Ithoriel. Please obtain a patent, thus assuring that it will be pirated and I'll be able to buy one at the local WallyWorld in less than a year.
QuoteShades of Aztecs - so once only ask please :'( :d
To recap. I said I'd like Amazons, Indians or Squidlings.
Speedy insisted that he knew something I didn't know.*
Leon pitched in with a little teaser
Then it all got a little ... chamber linen ... and I thought this must be some sort of coded language** about Speedy knowing something*** and I am seeking clarification.
* My first guess was the pleasure in drawing on silk stockings over one's own freshly shaved legs
** AKA forum drivel I don't understand
*** which in itself a rare event.
Quote from: fsn on 05 July 2025, 04:13:29 PM
* My first guess was the pleasure in drawing on silk stockings over one's own freshly shaved legs
** AKA forum drivel I don't understand
*** which in itself a rare event.
*I have never shaved my legs! A gentleman waxes before he plays any part in the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
**Duvets and N space equations https://youtu.be/DRPfudNNd8Y?feature=shared
***Muhahahahahahaha 😈
Wax is a bit of a nightmare. Veet, that's your friend.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 06 July 2025, 05:43:39 PMWax is a bit of a nightmare. Veet, that's your friend.
Wax earned £400 for Cancer Research (in 1992)!
I limped for a day...
Quote from: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 06 July 2025, 05:49:46 PMWax earned £400 for Cancer Research (in 1992)!
I limped for a day...
A worthy cause, worth limping for a day
Colleague is currently Googling the neuro-surgery doctor she has been referred to, to make sure he is good looking...
Good effort.
Hope it's an easy treatment path. 🤞🏻
May I just say, despite the awful behind the scenes allegations against it's creator, the new series of 'The Sandman's is very good. Great cast and well thought out stories and scripts.
Gwendolyn Christie absolutely living her part
Jenna Coleman again showing what a talented actor she can be with a great range (if you've not seen her in 'The Jetty's, it is a tour-de-force), and how she can both play serious, straight man and the foil.
I remember watching the first season. I can remember nothing about it, other than it was about a super-skinny Robert Smith clone moping about.
I know I'm getting old (despite being in the spring chicken phase amongst forumites) but I think I still have a good selection of my marbles (and yes, I see the flaw in that logic.)
I was up in the games room today, and came across this ... box.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54649907999_19ef184e4a.jpg)
It's a bottle box, designed for carrying a bottle of wine. I don't remember buying it, but it would have been in the heady days when I was visiting antique and 2nd hand shops with my mother - say 10-15 years ago. It is not an old box, it just looks that way.
Intrigued, I opened it and was frankly gobsmacked.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54648831672_55cffda456.jpg)
Eight sets of dice, three tape measures, a dice shaker and a bag of counters. Did I buy all this for me? Unlikely. I never use counters, no dice shakers, and Nobby's rules tend to use proper d6 and not these polyhedral absurdities. 3 tape measures? I have a trusty 5 yard one that was my father's. I have a Glenfiddich tin with many. many dice.
So I didn't buy it for me. Did someone buy it for me? Not that I can remember. Only one who would do so would be my mother, but she wouldn't have the self confidence to have filled it. Did I then buy it as a gift for someone? Nope.
This then is an enigma.
Maybe my marble bag has a bigger hole than I thought. :-\
But a decent find. 8)
Quote from: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 12 July 2025, 03:45:22 PMBut a decent find. 8)
Indeed, but I'd gone up for box dividers ... which I couldn't find. ???
That's quite the find to have forgotten about, and then still not recognise when you unpack it!
QuoteThat's quite the find to have forgotten about, and then still not recognise when you unpack it!
I know! :D I'd forget about it ... but I've already done that. :-[
It's the first of August.
And Film4 have today broadcast A Christmas Carol, followed by Miracle of 34th Street, followed by Jingle All the Way.
Why?
Quote from: Raider4 on 01 August 2025, 05:28:28 PMIt's the first of August.
And Film4 have today broadcast A Christmas Carol, followed by Miracle of 34th Street, followed by Jingle All the Way.
Why?
Australian second Xmas (it's a thing) and
QuoteIt's the first of August.
And Film4 have today broadcast A Christmas Carol, followed by Miracle of 34th Street, followed by Jingle All the Way.
Why?
So you can appreciate* them as artistic eneavours without all the Christmas schmaltz and bullshit getting it the way? :-\
* Level of artistic merit entirely up to you to decide... ;)
Quote from: O Dinas Powys on 04 August 2025, 08:43:17 AMSo you can appreciate* them as artistic eneavours without all the Christmas schmaltz and bullshit getting it the way? :-\
* Level of artistic merit entirely up to you to decide... ;)
With that selection....me tinks na. :d
Makes sense, Christmas is just a repurposing of the Northern European mid-winter festival; these are 'It's cold and dark, and the stored food run out soon, lets have a party.'
QuoteMakes sense, Christmas is just a repurposing of the Northern European mid-winter festival; these are 'It's cold and dark, and the stored food run out soon, lets have a party.'
"Gadzooks! The stores are gettng a bit thin! Quick Cousin Noel, come here and eat your fill..." =)
"Yule, make sure the woodpile is replenished..." ;) :-$
Not so much as run out as goes bad.
How is everyone's Saturday?
I'm at work and it's gone quiet... ;D
Part from my achillis tendon protesting, the two dogs barking from over the road.....fine =O =O
Quote from: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 09 August 2025, 01:39:34 PMHow is everyone's Saturday?
I'm at work and it's gone quiet... ;D
I did 23 years working 24 hour shifts ad the word beginning with Q was not allowed to be spoken. Bit like not whistling on a ship. AS inevitable once some one had used it all hell broke loose.
Simultaneously trying to do some painting and listening to the Napoleonic Wars Podcast - this episode is about sexy things.
Josephine?
Marie-Loiuse?
Harriet Arbothnot?
Angela Burdett-Coutts?
Lady Caroline Capel?
Lady Francis Weddeeburn-Webster?
Georgina Lennox?
Lady Francis Shelly?
Lady Caroline Lamb?
Lady Charlotte Grenville?
Marianne Patterson?
Knowing FSN, he is probably imagining Anne Hathaway in a Napoleonic era bodice............ I don't think we want to know any more of his imaginings :d
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a1/3d/fe/a13dfe54247583799fc5c5f31fbac550.jpg)
:-[
Meanwhile ... this is what I was listening to. (Listener discretion is advised.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYBKGg4lJyc&t=2678s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYBKGg4lJyc&t=2678s)
Well, my, Saturday was a series of minor but irritating disasters.
Starting with my usual early morning half litre of instant coffee and a buttermilk pancake which I had taken to consume in front of my PC (I know, I know, very bad practice).
Can you imagine what happened next? :-\
Probably not. I picked up the plate with the pancake on it and the plate snapped in half, for no apparent reason. Leaving me holding half a plate and no pancake. Reversing the computer chair to recover the errant debris I ran over it instead. Fortunately I have a rubber mat to protect the carpet so scraping fragments of pancake off the floor was not as much of a chore as it might have been. :-[ >:( #-o :-<
The day did not get better thereafter. :(
Sh1T appen
This year is Rail 200 - celebrating the birth of the modern railway 200 years age.
The problem is I remember Rail 150.
And suddenly Im feeling old. Very old. And very down. Not good.
Hopefully this will pass soon.
Quote from: Orcs on 09 August 2025, 03:07:52 PMI did 23 years working 24 hour shifts ad the word beginning with Q was not allowed to be spoken. Bit like not whistling on a ship. AS inevitable once some one had used it all hell broke loose.
Same at my place.
A joke on the internet made me realise something.
In the original Star Wars (later retitled to 'A New Hope')
The Millennium Falcon is captured by the tractor beam on the Death Star, pulled in, and captured in a hanger. Two storm Troopers enter to search it. Luke and Han grab them, put on their uniforms, go and rescue Leia. In the ensuing firefight, the Falcon escapes in a hurry.
One assumes when it landed at the Rebel Base, the Rebels did a 'pit stop' check on it.
Which means some engineer came out and asked "Why have you got two semi-naked people tied up on your ship?"
Those stormtroopers are still there.
"Hello? Hello? Help us please! We won't tell Lord Vader."
They shoved them out the airlock part way home
They shot jumped first ;)
Notice today
• 5-a-side Football Tournament (Max 7 players per team)
:-/
Tis well known suferners is dispracic
QuoteNotice today
• 5-a-side Football Tournament (Max 7 players per team)
:-/
I think current usage is much more around the number of players and subs - as the team. Rather than just the players on the pitch.
I was going to say:
Make like Doenitz - bring subs.
I KNOW they mean subs, but...
Never mind.
Bloody wargamers...