Tuesday 7 March 2023

It Had To Happen Eventually

 "A disease known is half cured." - Irish proverb


I have had Covid. I wasn't particularly acutely ill, but it's left me very washed out, and with a sort of persistent brain fog. So no gaming - board or war - and not much of anything else really. My recent purchases of Irish kern have arrived, but haven't got any further than a heap on the dining table. Also in the pile are various flags which I ordered in to help fill the strange gaps in my complement of Wars of the Roses commanders. Of course, if I have the strength to write a blog post can painting and modelling be far behind?



Illness requires lighter reading material than my normal diet of Wittgenstein, Nietzsche and Proust so I picked up 'Winter Pilgrims', which had been passed on to me by Peter. I think the appropriate word for the main plot line is 'implausible', but the descriptive set pieces of various battles are both entertaining and give food for thought. As I have often observed here, no one knows what happened which means that fictional imaginings are as valid as anything else really. I thought that the passage about the attack on Sandwich was the strongest, perhaps because of the relatively small scale of the affair. By the time of Towton, the author had rather lost me; too many tea breaks in his interpretation for my taste.

The book covers Mortimer's Cross, so the kern put in a brief appearance. I trust that, once painted, my figures will put up a better show.

3 comments:

  1. If that's your first time with Covid, you are doing pretty well for a UK resident I would think! I am pretty sure I have read this book and possibly a sequel ( or maybe it was a trilogy, can't quite remember) It's the one about a monk and a nun, isn't it?

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  2. 'Washed out' and 'brain fog'? Isn't that just middle age? Had that for years...! Hopefully you are on the mend, hope that continues and further painting/gaming/blogging follows.

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