Finding gaming buddies

As I have previously mentioned I'm not really getting as many games in as I would like.  While there are a couple of wargames clubs over the water in Hull they all seem to meet on the days when I am already doing things.  Typical eh!  So I took the bull by the horns and posted on the local Facebook page for anyone interested in historical gaming.  I got one response and wouldn't you just know they live in the same East Yorkshire town Mrs E and I left to come to our present home.  If we were still at the old house I could have walked to their house in 5 minutes!  Even better our areas of interest overlap as he has some Dark Ages period armies.

Still we are both prepared to travel and it is only around 30 minutes drive.  As we are both retired we aren't limited to a fixed time or day.  So I'm going to sort a game out here and he is going to sort one out in turn.  If it works and my contact Paul Dawson over in York is available we could have a small historical gaming group up and running before too long.  I think I will dust off my copy of Altar of Freedom to start with and play the first Manassas/Bull Run game again as I already have the terrain built for that.

By the way I haven't named the new contact for the time being as I don't know his position on social media.

Where did the last few weeks go?

 .....or what's my excuse for not blogging?

To be honest it's because I have been busy on those dratted 'Real Life' things and haven't had a lot of interest to post about.  From a wargaming perspective my early World War Two painting is almost done but my interest in Fistful of T34s sent me down a new rabbit hole looking at what are the best paint colours to use for the various German Camo schemes.  I swear they changed them more frequently than my socks!  I then tried a couple of choices out until I was sort of happy with the look.  More to come on this when I assemble some of the missing kit for late '42 Eastern Front use.

The Real Life (TM still pending) stuff included a long weekend away at the end of May with the Sealed Knot where we did a Seige of Colchester 1648 event.  The SK is to Civil War battles what the Reduced Shakespeare Company is to Richard the Third.  We don't really have the numbers to portray the scale of a major battle, but we try and I enjoy it.  This time out I was doing commentary and after only 30 some years doing guest appearances on the mic, I have been formally added to the commentary team.

The weather having been unseasonably warm after a period of fairly steady rain meant that garden had gone into overdrive.  which in turn means I have been, gulp, gardening.  I know, I did that last year, but that darn green stuff will keep growing.  I have to at least look like I'm trying to keep on top of things.

Last but very much not least, we had family staying with us while they had some heating and water refurb work done on their house over in the next village.  It felt a bit rude to disappear into the man cave while had guests (or so Mrs E told me) so I didn't.  And that M'Lud and members of Jury is my excuse for not blogging.