Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred and Forty-Eight
Monday Good morning happy readers and it looks like it’s going to a nice week for the last week of the school holidays down here in the South. So Liebore said they were going to [more…]
Hobbies
19th Century
Postcard From Birmingham, Part Three
Chamberlain Square Having checked out the Council House and Town Hall during our day trip to Birmingham, myself and Mrs AWS nip around the back and into Chamberlain Square, the centrepiece of which is the [more…]
20th Century
Desert Diorama, Part Three
Some model kits come with suitable figures to assemble but recently I have taken to buying figure kits made via rapid prototyping techniques by new manufacturers in China. The sculpting of these and also ICM [more…]
Authoritarianism
A View From Near The Greenhouse; A New Dawn…..Innit?
I thought I was under no illusion when I marked my “X” on my ballot paper back in July. Due to boundary changes I’ve ended up living in one of the safest constituencies in the [more…]
20th Century
European Journey 1953, Part Two – Amsterdam
I have been watching them all morning; those bicycle wheels going round and round and round the Leidseplein. There is something hypnotic about it. Something a little frightening too. Like watching life on a perpetual [more…]
Hobbies
Escaping The 8118
Introduction Every Autumn/winter my primary school would drag (probably more true than I care to think about these days) me to the local swimming pool. Understandable as it was indoors and heated. I hated it. [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Forty-Seven
Monday Good morning happy readers today is a bit dull, but I am pleased to see there is no rain forecast until the middle of the night. So Liebore have announced they are going to [more…]
20th Century
Desert Diorama, Part Two
In parallel with building the baseboard, desert and buildings (see Part 1), I started to collect and assemble the DAK armour, vehicles and figures to populate the diorama. My preference is for kits made by [more…]
20th Century
European Journey 1953, Part One – Brussels
A cold east wind, blowing in short, stinging gusts all the way from the Russian steppes, swoops down over Brussels. It sets all the gilded weather-cocks spinning madly, that boisterous wind. It slaps the cheeks [more…]