Two fellow bloggers Edwin and Michael (click names to go their blogs and how to enter) are having giveaways to celebrate 50,000 and 100,000 views respectively!

Go visit, enter and follow...............

Received two blogging wins in the post last week and also have decided to enter the 4th Annual Analogue Hobbies Challenge  after a kind invite from Curt and even with my painting drought/malaise continuing but what the hell...........I have finished in the top ten twice I think but this time it will be in the top 40th or below if I'm lucky with the good job finished and finances stretched but let's see how it goes.........no sandbags here!

.....to celebrate his blogs birthday and feed the bloodyshinyitis disease.

James s giving away some lovely stuff on his blog to celebrate his blogs third birthday, go and visit the man!

......in a series of feck knows!

Damn Shiny Blindness!!!!!

So anyway me an Ray are wandering around a show this year and we had talked briefly about getting a board game for the night shifts and the real boredom hours around two in the morning, so we see this stand and had talked about getting the Game of Thrones board game (good reviews, liked the books and the TV series) so we go halves and for reasons unknown to the fecking pair of us we end up with this card game, now Ray bought the item himself and the vendor did throw in something extra but...........

.....it took 6 weeks before we noticed the box cover and that we hadn't played it yet!

....just started!

It's why I try not to use them.........


0145 in the morning, myself and Ray are trying to stay awake at work, watching Casino and trying to paint something, I should have pictures of miniatures tomorrow.....hopefully!

I've been working a lot of shifts lately and it's starting to affect my usual good nature....

Lurker: Stop flicking water at me Ray!
Ray: It's not me......
Lurker: Of course it's you.......
Ray: How do you know it's me?
Lurker: I've looked at the fecking ceiling for a leak and it's dry......and there's only two of us in the fecking room!
Ray: So!
Lurker: Give me strength!

So he goes off to the work kitchen to wash up his dinner items, goes to the bathroom and comes back into the control room but fails to remember the sink filling up....anyone for naval wargaming?



The picture cracks me up because I have dogs that look at me like this sometimes and for other reasons, thank you for the hits and for reading this sorry blog of mine, I have found one page sci-fi and modern rules called FUBAR thanks to a fellow blogger..one page!...I know it sounds horrific to purists like Ray but they look good to me for a skirmish period! Did I mention one page possibly two!

We're nearly there myself and Ray with our small giveaway soon........stay tuned!

The Difference between the Infantry, the Armoured and the Artillery in the army........

HAPPINESS IS . . .

Infantry: A good rifle
Armoured: A big tank
Artillery: A loud boom

UPON HEARING FIREWORKS:

Infantry: Cool, just like a live fire exercise
Armoured: Not loud enough
Artillery: Fireworks? What fireworks?

OTHER TRADES:

Infantry: Waste of rations
Armoured: Waste of rations
Artillery: Waste of rations

IDEA OF FUN:

Infantry: Not having to "pepper-pot" an entire grid square before the
objective
Armoured: Racing across a grid square on "full stab"
Artillery: Leveling a grid square

FAVOURITE SONG:

Infantry: "Ballad of the Green Beret"
Armoured: "Purple Haze"
Artillery: Anything, just play it LOUD!

BIGGEST LUXURY IN THE FIELD:

Infantry: Engineers blowing trenches for them with C4
Armoured: Grunts to dig their trenches for them
Artillery: Cable

A LONG ROUTE MARCH WITH FULL KIT:

Infantry: 20 clicks
Armoured: From the hangars to the tank
Artillery: What's a route march?

OFFICERS:

Infantry: Are morons and should stay away from the trench lines
Armoured: Are morons and should stay out of the vehicles
Artillery: Are morons and should stay away from the gun lines

FAVOURITE MODE OF TRANSPORTATION:

Infantry: Anything but walking
Armoured: Tanks. Tanks. Tanks. TankstankstankstanksTANKS!
Artillery: Don't you have to move around to require transport?

BIGGEST GRIPE IN THE FIELD:

Infantry: The weather
Armoured: Coffee maker in tank not working
Artillery: Only having basic cable

BREAKFAST IN THE FIELD:

Infantry: I don't care what it is, just so long as I can sit down to eat it
Armoured: Hot coffee and rum with a beer chaser
Artillery: Eggs over easy, crispy bacon, sausages, toast and fresh coffee

...meant to post figure pictures today but they're not up to showing and I'm on my fourth day with him and God will forgive me...well Anne will!

An actual Can-O-Whoopass.......



Back on Saturday night shift, see you then!

It's how I try to wargame and always seem to fail!

SWMBO's birthday was recently and among the multitude of gifts she got was this by Terry Pratchett (nice as it saved me buying it as I am a big fan), read it in a couple of days, more Sam Vimes out in the sticks defending goblins, fighting injustice and being a git......

If you have never read Pratchett I recommend this author unreservedly as one of the best out there and the Discworld series which now stand at 39 books I believe are some of the best reads out there especially the City Watch and Witches series.....highly recommended.

Terry Pratchett does humour like no-one else....