Prometheus in Aspic

Eventually, it came as a complete surprise. This blog has been running for ten years - last Tuesday, in fact. When I first started it, I h...

A friend passed me these scans of some Civil Defence-type posters issued by the UK Women's Voluntary Society in 1951, to help the popula...

Portreath Harbour When I was a kid, my closest relative and friend was a cousin, Dave, who was the same age. I had a pretty gruelling couple...

No, no - this is not a return to the HG Wells theme, this is my replacement mini-tripod. I have to confess that this morning's logic wor...

 It became obvious during my recent playtest session for my WSS rules that something needed to be done about artillery limbers - there aren...

A few weeks ago I was chortling about the £6 second-hand book I bought online which turned out to have been the property of Charlie Wesencra...

These aren't mine - any idea what they are? The figures in question are the British Waterloo-period Life Guards at the back of this phot...