I know that you've all been waiting for a dental update so I can
confirm that the permanent crown is now fitted and seems to be functioning OK;
I am certainly no longer in pain. As for the roof, there has been a slight
change of diagnosis. A cherry picker is due later in the week to allow
re-pointing of the chimney stack. I have strongly made the case that as I am
paying for the plant hire I should be allowed a go on it, but various obstacles
are being placed in my path. We shall see.
My boardgaming rebirth has
continued with a few more games played, featuring some very poor last places
from your bloggist. I did get the biggest laugh in a game of Telestrations,
but I'm afraid that you had to be there (which you would be correct in assuming
is a euphemism for smut). Indirectly this has led (may lead?) to an unblocking
of my current wargaming inertia. I have mentioned before playing a couple of
games of C&C Napoleonics with Chris, the convener of the Monday night
boardgaming in the pub group. He has requested another game and so the Great
War will be sidelined pro tem. What I shall do is set up the sort-of Eckmühl game
that James and Peter played last June. Partly because I thought it was a good
scenario and partly because I neglected to write down the OOBs at the time and
have been meaning to retrospectively do so ever since. There was actually some
gaming last week when we played the first evening of a second run through of a
SYW scenario at James'. His report doesn't
mention that we, the Allies, did in fact turn a Move in Difficult card; it's
just that we did so with out last initiative pip and the turn - and the evening
- ended immediately afterwards. All we need to do is to win a dozen or so
initiative points, then turn Manoeuvre, Musket Reload and Move in Difficult in
that order and we're back in the game; not much to ask I think.
I can't go without a brief
tribute to Hugh Masekela. Firstly, and perhaps surprisingly, this is him
playing the trumpet part on the Byrds hit from fifty years ago:
And of course, I couldn't not include this from twenty years later:
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