Wednesday, 21 September 2022

Trailing the Pike, at last

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Before I was so easily distracted by the Eighteenth Century,  I had always meant to resume wargaming with the 'Pike and Shot' era,  ...
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Tuesday, 30 August 2022

100 Up, and Where Next?

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As The Ragged Soldier marches onward, a small milestone has appeared by the roadside : this is my 100th blog post. I'm rather pleasantly...
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Sunday, 21 August 2022

Fnurban #16 : The Airfix Guide to.. Serendipity

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Serendipity is 'an unplanned fortunate discovery';  I experienced a small moment of serendipity the other day.  Walking near home, ...
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Sunday, 7 August 2022

Der schnelles tragbares 'drei-mal-drei'-Kriegsspiel..

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..which should, more or less, mean 'Fast Play 3 by 3 Portable Wargame' :  Thanks to Google translate for the title of this post. I l...
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Sunday, 31 July 2022

One door closes..

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  The slightly grubby rucksack in the picture ( it's been carried between my house and my partner's,  weekly for several years ) con...
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Saturday, 9 July 2022

Fnurban #15: An Imposter at the Festschrift

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 On Tuesday I was lucky to be able to attend a rather special event - and all thanks to the generosity of  most excellent fellow blogger Nun...
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Thursday, 30 June 2022

Fnurban #14 : Northumberland - Moss Troopers, Anti-Tank Cubes and pre-Wells Wargamers

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All a bit quiet here recently, partly due to a pleasant week's holiday in Northumberland; as it turned out, there was quite a lot of wha...
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