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Ooops failed spelling check. A Happy New Year! Especially to all in New Zealand who have just welcomed in 2024. Thirteen hours to go here in Scotland. Douglas aka Blackbob. P.S. Great pictures from New Zealand.

A Happy New Year! Especially to all in New Zealand who have just welcomed in 2024. Thirteen hours to go hear in Scotland. Douglas aka Blackbob.

A Merry Christmas to one and all! Went out earlier today for a great lunch with my wife -- it is her birthday today, so no cooking. Sadly prep needed though for tomorrow. At one time left domestic chores for children ,but all now grown up with their own families. They are coming round tomorrow...

Went to see this film yesterday with my wife. I was aware that the well trailed historically inaccurate elements would annoy me but was willing to go and hopefully enjoy the the epic scenes and storyline. After seeing it:- boring, a bad film are the main reactions. Not a stance I would have...

Come Dancing -->The Kinks

Wild Thing --> The Troggs. Not played for a while but this answer just jumped out at me. Blackbob

Hello John, Really like the set up. That Hinchcliffe gun team looks the real business. You know that this means trouble for someone soon when it moves up. "Hard Pounding!" Hinchcliffe figures, especially their artillery and ambulance pieces stand the test of time very well. Love the work. Blackbob

Hello All, Very keen to acquire John Jenkins WW1 6" 26cwt howitzer, If you have one for sale in mint / vg condition, with box, or a new one please contact. Any information on a stockist with one for sale that will ship to he UK also welcome. This piece is a bit outside my normal area of...

Regards getting older, a friend of mine, who is retired, when spotting his father walking along the promenade in Portobello, some years ago said -"How is life Dad?! He received the reply - "Better than the b***** alternative!" A position that I try to adopt as I get older. Blackbob.

Best wishes to all in New Zealand and Australia and all that commemorate ANZAC Day. Hope the weather is kind and all services and commemoration parades go smoothly. Not forgotten. Blackbob

Here in central Scotland the snow of approximately 2 weeks past is gone, 7 or 8 degrees centigrade predicted for Christmas day. There is snow further north and it may keep those that like to ski happy. Keep Safe all in the U.S. and Canada being affected by the big snow and cold weather. I was...

Thanks for the pictures. Plese let me know who is the manufacturer of the primed Napoleonic command group round the table and the figures in the image below. Page 7 in this thread Many Thanks, Blackbob P:S Been to this venue a couple of times. Not great.

Well done and thanks Andy. It is indeed a strange time for many people just now. I went with my wife elder son and his girlfriend to pay homage to H.M. The Queen overnight on Monday 12th / Tuesday 13th in St Giles, Edinburgh. The atmosphere was a mix of friendliness within the queue and total...

This link may be of interest. Available on the BBC i player. Hope the link works ---- BBC Two - Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story The programme talks to a number of veterans and uses film footage from the conflict. Blackbob.

Those "Paras" outside the Post Office look very much like Royal Marines , "Duke of York and Albany's maritime regiment of Foot", Berets green not red. Confuse these at one's peril. Blackbob

Hello Julie, All working fine now after getting security warnings from my system etc this am UK time. Please pass on my thanks to Stacie for letting me know what was happening. I tend to think::- I must have pressed some button in error...

I was first made aware of the Puckle gun as a secondary pupil in the 1960's by my technical teacher, a Mr Puckle. He claimed to be a descendant of the inventor of this strange weapon, and he stressed the square bullets for Muslims. I will accept the teachers today can be interesting but there...

Hi Gary, I hope this piece of info. helps. Imperial Miniatures, of Cheshire, England now own GNM Miniatures. (Not Imperial Productions of Greytown, N.Z. that I'm sure you know. Visited them when over in 2014. Would have been again but for the covid thing.) Imperial Miniatures acquired GNM from...

Many Thanks for all the photographs you have taken and loaded onto this site. Motivates me to get to The London Show again. Thanks, Blackbob.

My Boy Lollipop --- Millie Small.