When one hasn't posted on a wargaming blog for weeks and weeks then what better way to return than with a bit of nineteenth century sym...

Oisive jeunesse A tout asservie, Par délicatesse J’ai perdu ma vie. Ah! Que le temps vienne Où les coeurs s’éprennent. Je me suis dit: laiss...

Something - let's refer to it as 'real life' - has been running amok in the wargaming circles of the Lower Wharfe valley, with u...

 Happy New Year to you all. Over at Palouse Wargaming Journal there was a recent post , itself in answer to a post somewhere else, about the...

 It's time for the review of the year. (N.B. The wargames are right at the bottom for those who wish to skip the cultural bits.) One the...

  "Each year arrives, waxes great, commits the sin of Hubris and must therefore die." - Aeschylus I rather tempted fate myself wit...

  "beware the preachers" - Charles Bukowski There has been a bit of wargaming going on in the background, namely a fine refight of...

 What do you get if you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? I ask that question in honour of it apparently being World Philosophy Day, ...

 It's the 69th anniversary of the reason I haven't been able to post recently. Further information can be found here or here .

                                   Shall they return to beatings of great bells                                    In wild trainloads?      ...

 The following is a quote from a South African who fought at Sidi Rezegh in November 1941. “We headed straight for the enemy tanks. I glance...

  I wrote earlier in the year about how one member of my regular boardgaming group had been named Lemon Curd champion of Otley. Subsequentl...

 I need to mark the death of Leeds born poet and translator Tony Harrison, a working class boy made good who kept his radical politics his w...

  We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding he...

 Regular readers will understand that I am always on the look-out for excuses as to why I haven't posted for a while. Well, I have found...

 Poetry has been somewhat absent from the blog recently, so let's rectify that. The spark for this is a sparrowhawk who decided yesterda...

"Nowadays Roman numerals only exist for things which powerful people want to look permanent, but which are actually very impermanent in...

 I've been doing a little bit of research about the collection of model soldiers at Wallington in Northumberland. Unsurprisingly perhaps...

 Well, another month nearly finished and not many posts, but let's see if we can squeeze one more in before September starts. In any eve...

 It's the summer and, relatively unusually in the UK, it has been summery. I have therefore been out and about, but, finding myself brie...

 It may astonish you to learn that your bloggist has never been invited to a film première, never walked the red carpet in his dinner jacket...

 Big technical problems at the Casa Dojo Mojo House Epictetus, which have been affecting all sorts of things. There has been a very brief bi...

 A few years ago, I complained about the lack of legibility of the Warbases' tokens  for Square Bashing and mentioned how I had made som...

 I've been away. of which more in due course. But some wargaming action awaited me on my return. Firstly, the tanks advanced at Amiens o...