Happy New Year, have a goog one everyone!

Happy New Hangover Year, everybody!   

All the best for 2016!

P.S. Only 5 more days left for the Penguin Festival at Edinburgh Zoo.

I really enjoyed LAST year on the forum, gentlemen (and hypothetical lady)!
May 2016 be filled with much luck and good humor - Happy New Year to all!

Briefly my plans for 2016  (other than working on the near impossible metric for Maj. Gen.):
1) complete wargaming the battles of Montrose's annus mirabilis
2) continue the wargaming exploration of the first year of the Irish Rebellion (1641-1642) to include:
     a) the siege of (and assaults on) Drogheda
     b) the raids and depredations of the elder Coote on the fringes of The Pale
     c) the battle of Liscarroll
3) probably some 17th century action in North America - likely my closest  "ECW" battle - the Severn.

I also am planning a new project (with a different blog):
To wargame the principle skirmishes and battles of the little remembered War of the Orbs in 1456. Overshadowed by the dynastic struggles for the throne of England, the invasion of Devon and Cornwall by the M-at-Dur-ba (using  hydrogen filled balloons) still holds a certain charm.
Largely remembered only in folk songs and the drunken ravings of a few Cornish Mystics (a group larger than one would first suspect) I will try to reconstruct the war as best I can.


   

Happy New Year to everyone!

May it be filled with new shiny goodness!

A guid ne'er tae een an aa, lang may yer lums reek!

Happy New Year everyone!

Bonne année à tous.

Happy new year to all, first time I have surfaced since a very drunken hogmanay!!

Bit late but, Happy New Year Pendraken Forum 

Happy New Year folks!

Now this year did not start very well...
My library got partly flooded yesterday evening (and I don't even live in the North of GB!) by a leaking sink one floor above... the USAAF collection is as good as destroyed and major damage was done to the US Navy and USMC book shelves.... I fear more than 100 books are total losses and another 50 damaged. Looks like my own Pearl Harbor....
Don't get me wrong; it can not be compared to people who lost everything lately in floods, storms, war or whatever but I'm pretty sad about my share of bad luck

Let's see what the insurance says and if most can be replaced....

Cheers,
Rob

Really sorry to hear about that, Rob.....
Also suffering here, with water 'from above' rather than actual flooding.....Though the ridiculous amount of rain here, has almost turned out paddocks into paddy fields....

Discovered over the weekend that the gales had broken a tile on the roof and b*ggered a small patch of roofing felt, so we've now also go a leak.....Though relatively small, it's still causing water to dribble down the wall into our bedroom, when it really chucks it down.....Which seems to the norm, at the moment.

Got a bucket sitting in a roasting dish in the attic, which, hopefully, is catching 99%+ of the water, now.
Over the next day or so I'll do a patch job on the felt...Then we'll have to ask one of our farmer friends if he'll bring his 'cherry picker' to Techno Towers, and replace the tile.
(Fortunately a previous owner left oodles of spare tiles, so that's not a problem......But it's something I'd rather not be having to deal with.)

Like you say....Nothing remotely to compare with the folk who have had rivers running through their properties !

Cheers - Phil

Spades, I sincerely appreciate what a colossal pain in fundament that would be.

I have some books that have been with me for over 40 years. If they got destroyed I would be devastated.

My ex-wife once casually suggested that I loved my books more than I loved her. Well, strewth, it took me years to get those books!



Wonder if that's another reason she's my ex?  

Quote from: Ace of Spades on 04 January 2016, 07:49:23 PM
Now this year did not start very well...
My library got partly flooded yesterday evening

Well, that sucks!

Hope your year gets better and that the losses can be replaced.

Hope it picks up from here Rob!