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WoW! How weighty was thy download?! Having been persuaded to try Blizzard's World of Warcraft 10-day free trial I registered an account...

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A reminder of the story so far A couple of weeks ago, I was talking about how Combat Commander Scenario 20, A March in December , is unba...

So I've still not been posting much, despite my hopes about trying to think my way from a zine into a journal, and despite too several g...

As the world holds its breath waiting to see if there's a hole at the bottom of the big bailout's bucket, I feel a bit like I'm ...

Badger and I returned to the published scenarios, as I'd talked about before . I'd had a specific scenario in mind all along, natura...

So, Badger was round Saturday night for some gaming as noted . No prizes for guessing what we played. We got in 3 games and a nice curry sup...

So I've finally gone and done my first ever bit of ebay business. I bought a copy of the forgotten 1975 classic naval wargame Seastrike ...

One of the things about journal writing as opposed to 'zine writing is that you don't need to try to write full length articles. You...

I don't know the effect on you all as readers, but I confess that the recent staple diet of ever thinner Combat Commander battle report...

As I pondered the map for our 4th game, Badger was keeping up his own personal whinge, "Oh dear please, not the bocage." Victory...

Getting the choice of map, Badger decided it'd be amusing to send us to the wide open spaces of map #23. Oh dear, I thought, this is the...

So, Badger and I had our bank holiday Combat Commander session as announced. I cooked a meatball lasagne ( Millefoglie alla 'guardiese...

A call last week from Donald broke incommunicado, so he and Andy were round for boardgames on Sunday. A recent thread on the Classic AT b...

Mark and Robert, a couple of old, old buddies, passed through last weekend. Mark was an avid and skillful Up Front player back in the day, ...

So, I did go and see this again as I'd said I would. I enjoyed it about as much the second time around as I did the first. That's pr...

Andy asked me to expand on my comments about The Dark Knight , so here's what I'd written up when I decided I was going to see the ...

Feeling a bit better today. Sleep and self-care indicators have evened out a bit. Some weak late summer sunshine is no doubt helping, but a ...

Still feeling ropey. Sleep cycle and key self-care indicators (medication, feeding and oral hygiene) are all in the red zone. And I've b...

I still made it to this year's DiceConWest , where I took these pictures. Ivanhoe. Here's Donald, Natasha and Andy in the heat of...