Time flies

When you are having fun! 

I have just realised that this little blog has been going for a year. I must admit, I am very surprised. As you can tell from the subjects of the posts, my interests gently morph as time goes by so the fact that I am still here and enjoying this is really cool.

This post makes 45 over the twelve months so not quite one a week but not far off. I didn't set myself a target but this feels about right to me. My blogging activities and my hobby activities are completely interlinked so I can't do both simultaneously. Neither can one exist without the other. One a week is fine, but gaps do occur when real life barges in, especially periods of very heavy workloads like I'm experiencing at the year end.

It has been a real insight to see what I have been doing over the year. I have done some pretty constructive things, making model aircraft and tanks (I know, I am still working on the Shermans), doing some thinking about military power (amateurishly) and documenting my most ambitious project about Tannenburg. All in all, a pretty good year..

Areas of interest for next year? Just glancing round the tip that is my study I see...

• M44 D-Day Landings
• Hold the Line (Highland Charge and perhaps FIW)
• The campaigns of Montrose (in a Stephen Simpson style with extra hexes)
• Finishing Shermans (oh yes) and playing PBI2 before PBI3 comes out
• Completing Tannenberg (even if it is not successful as a game)
• Designing a small game on Neuve Chapelle
• Finishing my own special M44 game on Normandy
• Playing some Flames of War Firestorm Normandy (really)
• Figuring out which WW1 miniatures I will invest in and what rules to buy?
• New Neil Thomas book

And on that note, I can't wait!

Thanks to those of you who have read my blog over the year. I'd be interested if you have any comments on what I have been doing. Nice also to have a follower... thanks all.