Sometimes unfortunately real life interferes with my world and causes me to simply stop wargaming altogether. Sadly the New Year has been one of these times when reality breaks into my cosy world. I suppose it was inevitable that I would suffer from some sort of flu related illness after my exertions during the Christmas period.
I admit it I don't make a good patient and cannot suffer in silence. I knew I was ill when I managed to consume a bottle of whiskey [which I normally wouldn't drink] in the matter of a week. It did help me sleep.I must be recovering as the second bottle has been put away.
Sadly my minor illness was nothing to the news that my oldest school friend died shortly after his birthday after a long hard battle with cancer.The funeral will finally happen tomorrow. There's not much point in writing here about our friendship which spanned some 52 years, all I can bear to say is that I will miss him considerably and that there is a giant void which he used to inhabit.
As a result of these real life reminders I have done very little in the way of painting. Somehow I managed to complete a unit of Parliamentarian dragoons and an artillery crew for my Hinchliffe project. They are not the best I've painted but that is understandable in my defence. Usually I am able to shut out real life and disappear into my wargaming world. It has stood me in good stead all of my adult life when things were getting very very stressful but for some reason I was unable to do so this time, I personally blame the damned whiskey.
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