Prometheus in Aspic

 Two days ago, I am awake at 05:00. It looks a bit gloomy outside, so I am pondering whether I will need to do my early morning pyjama run, ...

 What hedge? The boys came back this morning and finished the job in about 90 minutes. Not a wonderful view, but better than a bombsite. Onw...

 This follows from my earlier post about Storm Babet wrecking our hedge in October. I wasn't really expecting them until next month, bu...

 Wild weather here - Storm Babet passing through - should be with us until sometime tomorrow. As ever, one mustn't complain - there are ...

 I'm very pleased to welcome two new units for my French army, once again painted - and very nicely indeed - by Lee. Here (without and w...

Yesterday I attended a wargame in the company of Stryker and Goya, at Stryker's house. We played an excellent Napoleonic game based on t...

Yesterday, 07:50 - looking more or less due east, East Lothian, Scotland. Another interesting sky - this shot isn't from the usual wi...

06:17, 18th Sept, South-East Scotland, looking - erm - South-East. Only seems a few weeks since it was getting light at 3am - something...

View from the upstairs bathroom window - somewhere out there, there should be a distant view of Dunbar, and the Lammermuir Hills. But not ...

I used to have a boss whose catch phrase was "Don't spend much time telling me what you're hoping to do - tell me when you'...

I live in East Lothian, in South East Scotland, on a farm, and there is a north-facing beach about 200 yards behind my house, on the othe...

In my experience, weather is an important addition to wargames, but it is one of the most likely things to get forgotten about when you are ...