I know I normally do a birthday blog post, forgiving my enemies and all that jazz. Not this year because some of my 'enemies' have really made an impression on my shit list, which takes some doing. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to strike back, but I can't see the point in forgiveness this week. My annual month's holiday lasted a whole 36 hours this year... A new record! Someone very close to me nearly checked out, and as a result is still in hospital, leaving me to celebrate my birthday alone,  with a bowl of spaghetti, but thankful that at the end of it all, said person will be returned to me, upright, and somewhat fragile, but not laid out in a pine box. So, all things considered, it's a fair trade off. I have just been informed that said individual dreamed last night that they were wargaming with me, and were giving me a thrashing. So, it seems that she must still be delirious... So, I went back to work last week to earn some 'grace' at a...

 I decided on a whim - literally - that whilst I am heading towards 15mm in a big way (no ironic oxymoron intended) my ECW has to be done in 28mm. I know, I know, dog to vomit and all that jazz, but if I am going to indulge myself in this hobby, I'm going to do so in a way which brings back memories for me. Now, ECW is an odd one, because I owned 15mm and 28mm at the same time, in my youth, and both had their drw for me, but, I always loved the Once Upon A Time In The West Country skirmish rules by Pete Berry, which we played a lot , with the then newly-released Wargames Foundry ECW figures which could actually be ordered through local  Games Workshop stores for a while, and being blooming and vibrant young reenactors too, we paionted miniature versions of ourselves when we built up armies. So, 28mm has always had the edge in terms of specatacle, but trust me when I say that a good looking 15mm ECW army made up of Mike's Models, Gallia and Jacobite Miniatures, is a wonderful ...