@guyhgamer.bsky.social
Retired (actual) professor of history. History purist/puritan. Page for my wargaming interests. I try not to do politics or academia/academic history here (for which see realhistoryguy.bsky.social). #actuallyAutistic
Would be confusing in Hull, where toad is pronounced turd…
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Like I need this temptation…
Where is your Mediterranean household?
Aerial view on Google Earth
@caseshotpublish.bsky.social !
Lidl Italian operations and its crisp production are weirdly focused on the sites of Napoleon’s victories
👆🏻What he said
The great unboxing has commenced (after nearly two years). Found this fellow (about 5cm long when on the move) in the bottom of a box of boxes of 1/72 figures
‘Come and visit for some games’
[some hours later in A&E]
‘Well that went well…’
“Whenever you want to buy something stupid you say it will be a teaching aid”: my then girlfriend.
Currently he is most interested in the horse and (especially) cart - in line with his general obsession with lorries, diggers, tractors, etc
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Have I set him off towards becoming a wargamer?!
1:1 ‘wargaming’ for kids. In Santa Cruz de Tenerife there’s a whole kids’ playground based on the battle of Sta Cruz (1797 a where Nelson list his arm) and specifically on a particular painting of it. It’s insane - it’s fantastic. Esp if you have the excuse (eg a 2-yr-old) to explore it!
Mr Humbert d’Umpty, a prominent local purveyor of pies.
Self-aggrandisement beginning ‘most people think…’ has a familiar ring to it
The ‘British battleship’ climbing frame.
More photos of boards with cut-out faces to look through
1:1 ‘wargaming’ for kids. In Santa Cruz de Tenerife there’s a whole kids’ playground based on the battle of Sta Cruz (1797 a where Nelson list his arm) and specifically on a particular painting of it. It’s insane - it’s fantastic. Esp if you have the excuse (eg a 2-yr-old) to explore it!
40 minutes on the train from us!
Mine was Bruce Quarrie's Airfix Napoleonic Wargaming book/rules.
Thought I recognised it. I read all of the Howard Conan stories when I was in my early teens.
Howard?
Blimey. I might still have my copy of that, bought in the early ’80s
Is this from a Pyrenean/Alpine fortress?
It was a different book. It’s hilarious.
This is the museum website
www.framleyexaminer.com/museum/
I loved it. Did you ever look at their Framley Museum page and, later, book?
Framley Examiner?
This is the way with TMWWBK
…and it was joined by @realhistoryguy.bsky.social’s ‘Worlds of Arthur’ which, among a few choice works, represents the pinnacle of sensible exploration when it comes to much-discussed ‘Dark Ages’
Another book which I truly couldn’t do without. Formative, seminal, etc.