Mister and Missus Heid Go To Hong Kong (1 Viewer)

[Harrytheheid]

 

[Harrytheheid]

Couriers arrived today;

 

[aujj65]

Hi again Jeff.
I forgot to mention in my previous post that Missus H has been muttering about joining the various forums as a collector in her own right for some time now.
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I can think of all sorts of reasons why its actually a brilliant idea on her part.

1/ The more contributions we get from the Ladies, perhaps it'll encourage more of them to get into the hobby - and stop bending our ears.

2/ She's the only Lady we know here in Dalian who has the slightest interest in toy soldiers, or even knows they exist. So she does tend to feel a bit isolated.

3/ She's really been practicing her English and this'll help her even more. The idea is that she'll do her posts in a Chinese version of Word on her new laptop, then run them through an on-line translator, Chinese to English, then paste the translation into the post page. Thing is is with these translators, the grammer in the original text has to be as close to perfect as possible, so it ought to have the side benefit of teaching her proper sentence construction.

4/ As a woman contributing to male-dominated forums - and an Ethnic Minority Woman at that - she'll be breaking new ground in the laudable aim of assisting us all to understand and relate to different cultures in this sadly-divided world of ours.

It might take a few days before she enroles here cos I'm still in the process of setting up her new laptop and she doesn't want to use my computer for her posts, plus it might be a good idea if she used a different IP address to mine.
Obviously, I'll have to help her post photos in the initial stages of her membership, but she'll soon pick that up.

It would be nice for example, if Lucy and Yvonne could discuss their mutual interest in SOHK figures without feeling "threatened", for want of a better word.

So, what do you think of that one then?

PS. She's just received a phone call from the Chinese courier company. Sounds like the latest miniature figurine purchases that we couldn't get into our suitcases in Hong Kong are going to be delivered to the house very soon.


Cheers
H

Harry, nice idea, I have a feeling it could cost me though!

Jeff

 

[aujj65]

Couriers arrived today;

Good grief! Not bad for someone who wasn't going down the Napoleonic route!

Jeff

 

[Harrytheheid]

Harry, nice idea, I have a feeling it could cost me though!

Jeff

HA-HA-HA.

Yeah, I see what you mean. Welcome to the world of shared, mutual toy soldier collecting.

BTW, I ought to know sometime tomorrow when we're mobilizing to Beijing to pick up the 3 parcels that should, by now, be taking up all available space under my personal head postmistress's desk. I haven't told Lucy that one of them's a personal gift, so I'll have the camera ready when she opens that one up.

Cheers
Harry

 

[Harrytheheid]

Good grief! Not bad for someone who wasn't going down the Napoleonic route!

Jeff

Aye, errr, well, ummm........
Couldn't resist them - simple as that.

I honestly reckon the green/grey/tan coloured tanks and figures we're going to Beijing to pick up next week, and the ones we ought to receive in November will be the last - much as I believe I'll like them.
I'm going over to 1/72 scale AFV's for my armour fix and Samurai plus Napoleonics for my figure fix.
Of course that's what I'm saying.............right now.


Cheers
Harry

 

[Wraith]

Hi again Jeff.
I forgot to mention in my previous post that Missus H has been muttering about joining the various forums as a collector in her own right for some time now.
....
I can think of all sorts of reasons why its actually a brilliant idea on her part.

1/ The more contributions we get from the Ladies, perhaps it'll encourage more of them to get into the hobby - and stop bending our ears.

2/ She's the only Lady we know here in Dalian who has the slightest interest in toy soldiers, or even knows they exist. So she does tend to feel a bit isolated.

3/ She's really been practicing her English and this'll help her even more. The idea is that she'll do her posts in a Chinese version of Word on her new laptop, then run them through an on-line translator, Chinese to English, then paste the translation into the post page. Thing is is with these translators, the grammer in the original text has to be as close to perfect as possible, so it ought to have the side benefit of teaching her proper sentence construction.

4/ As a woman contributing to male-dominated forums - and an Ethnic Minority Woman at that - she'll be breaking new ground in the laudable aim of assisting us all to understand and relate to different cultures in this sadly-divided world of ours.

It might take a few days before she enroles here cos I'm still in the process of setting up her new laptop and she doesn't want to use my computer for her posts, plus it might be a good idea if she used a different IP address to mine.
Obviously, I'll have to help her post photos in the initial stages of her membership, but she'll soon pick that up.

It would be nice for example, if Lucy and Yvonne could discuss their mutual interest in SOHK figures without feeling "threatened", for want of a better word.

So, what do you think of that one then?
PS. She's just received a phone call from the Chinese courier company. Sounds like the latest miniature figurine purchases that we couldn't get into our suitcases in Hong Kong are going to be delivered to the house very soon.


Cheers
H

H,

I think it'll be great.

However, just a consideration......Whilst you're feverishly slaving away on a rust bucket in the middle of some shark infested pond, your wife, whilst bored at home, may just decide to have a look through some of her beloved's past posts.

Simon

Nice collection of newbies BTW.

 

[Harrytheheid]

H,

I think it'll be great.

However, just a consideration......Whilst you're feverishly slaving away on a rust bucket in the middle of some shark infested pond, your wife, whilst bored at home, may just decide to have a look through some of her beloved's past posts.

Simon

Nice collection of newbies BTW.

Ahaaah Simon, I have a cunning plan though. Just haven't thought of it yet.
Removing the fuse from the power plug on her new girley, white, Acer Aspire 10.1" screen, laptop, which I'm still trying to set up, won't work. She'll just get someone in to fix it. Same with removing the internal fuse inside the modem.
Hmmm....I know....!!!! She can enrole on the forum using her own name - she'll never guess that I'm harrytheheid and that she's been referred to for years as Missus Heid.
Errrr - no, that won't work either. There's too many photos of her kicking around on this forum.
Hmmm....leave this one with me - I'll go sleep on it.


Cheers
H