Tuesday 5 December 2017

Man Flu

No club this week, I am suffering from the mother of all flu's, I am like a bear with a sore head. It would seem a few of us have fallen by the wayside this week and I made the decision earlier not to go, for starters I felt lousy and secondly I did not want to spread this horror. Rob has kindly put the Muskets and Tomahawks game back until next week, hopefully I will be back to normal by then, I didn't even manage to get any maps drawn today either, I only just managed to put a smile on for my customers.

Anyway I have bravely sat through some TV and managed to finish the Skythian horse archers and get a bit further with my first pike phalanx. I have not got to grips yet with the long pikes and keep catching them and knocking figures over or on to the floor, I can forsee problems on the battlefield and fingers like pin cushions coming up. The missus has bought the other three phalanxes for me, one I have now and the other two I shall get at Christmas, I don't see me finishing this one before Christmas as I have quite a few map projects in the wings.





I got Netflix recently and so far have enjoyed what I see, I am almost finished the second season of Stranger Things, finished Narcos and the superb Godless (which I highly recommend) and have now started on Mindhunter. I bought John Douglas' book when it first came out years ago, he was one of the first profilers for the FBI, and the book was a great read if obviously horrendous in parts as it deals with serial killers. The jury is out on the show at the moment, I like it but am not yet willing to give it my seal of approval, I do wonder, again, why they have introduced a pointless gay relationship when the woman being portrayed thus is actually happily married with a family. After the success of Godless I tried Frontier, about the Hudson Bay Company, it really is at the other end of the scale, dreadful, bad acting, bad accents and an unbelievably ridiculous story.




9 comments:

  1. Flu is a real b**tard. get well soon

    Have to agree on Frontier; I didn't make it past the first episode. (First 20 minutes actually)

    I'll certainly give Godless a try now - it does look interesting.

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    1. That's about as far as I got with it. Despite all the modern prejudice boxes being ticked Godless rose above it all and was excellent.

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  2. Neat looking Skithies. Hope you get over the dreaded MF, I have been a tad iffy, didn't paint last week and have had to bring stuff away with me to catch up.

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    1. The Twelfth also have a unit as Auxiliaries, nice models. Have you had a chance to look at that Osprey book yet on Romans in the East?

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    2. Got has far as looking at the plates and reading the captions, looks an interesting read from that. Must try and read the text when I get back from holiday.

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    3. I might pick it up anyway, it has Romans in it.

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  3. Good work on the Scythians. Hope you feel better soon.

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    1. Certainly a bit better today, exclusion zone down to 25 miles, lost a complete day yesterday and loads of maps to get on with.

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  4. George if you have Netflix try the 3-part Hatfield's and McCoy's story....if you have not seen it yet.

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