NZGary
Command Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Jan 8, 2015
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Well its the weekend again.
Its been a tough week one way or another with long working days and high pressured meetings including attending parliamentary select committee to present a report to MP's. I had to stay in work a little longer on Friday night with the worst of it being the banter my team of Kiwi's were giving me about Englands abject performance against New Zealand in the cricket world cup. I had a ticket for the game (as the stadium is only 10 minutes walk from my office) but by the time I left the game was all but won by the Black Caps so I quietly sneaked out of Wellington and got the train out to the Wairarapa.
My wife had come over a little earlier and had prepared a huge rack of pork ribs, corn on the cob and mashed potatoes. This and the bottle of local pinot noir cheered me up no end.
The weekend ahead is a quiet one - we will do some more planning for a big month long trip to Australia in August (where we are flying over some of our children from the UK) and there is lots of gardening to be done as well as harvesting grapes and plums which have ripened. Other than the normal domesticity I will get around to doing a few more toy soldier shots. Top of my list is a Saxon and Viking setup and I will see what else comes to hand. Not much other news on the toy soldier front this week. I have reserved the new Empire Miniatures WW1 Belgian and English Civil War figures. I have commissioned ATS to do some ECW musketeers and also some English troops from around the 1550's (Henry VIII). Regal Enterprises are doing some commission work on a Gary Hunt maraja figure, some American and Mexican troops from the 1846-48 war and starting on the figures for a Saxon shield wall at Hastings. I also loved the new JJDs WW1 bus - I need to catch up on their WW1 stuff as recently I have been focused on other figures.
Anyway I am off to start cleaning the deck from where the birds have got at some of our vines. I will come back with a few shots later.
Gary
Its been a tough week one way or another with long working days and high pressured meetings including attending parliamentary select committee to present a report to MP's. I had to stay in work a little longer on Friday night with the worst of it being the banter my team of Kiwi's were giving me about Englands abject performance against New Zealand in the cricket world cup. I had a ticket for the game (as the stadium is only 10 minutes walk from my office) but by the time I left the game was all but won by the Black Caps so I quietly sneaked out of Wellington and got the train out to the Wairarapa.
My wife had come over a little earlier and had prepared a huge rack of pork ribs, corn on the cob and mashed potatoes. This and the bottle of local pinot noir cheered me up no end.
The weekend ahead is a quiet one - we will do some more planning for a big month long trip to Australia in August (where we are flying over some of our children from the UK) and there is lots of gardening to be done as well as harvesting grapes and plums which have ripened. Other than the normal domesticity I will get around to doing a few more toy soldier shots. Top of my list is a Saxon and Viking setup and I will see what else comes to hand. Not much other news on the toy soldier front this week. I have reserved the new Empire Miniatures WW1 Belgian and English Civil War figures. I have commissioned ATS to do some ECW musketeers and also some English troops from around the 1550's (Henry VIII). Regal Enterprises are doing some commission work on a Gary Hunt maraja figure, some American and Mexican troops from the 1846-48 war and starting on the figures for a Saxon shield wall at Hastings. I also loved the new JJDs WW1 bus - I need to catch up on their WW1 stuff as recently I have been focused on other figures.
Anyway I am off to start cleaning the deck from where the birds have got at some of our vines. I will come back with a few shots later.
Gary
