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Ye Olde Red Horse. I’m at work there on Friday from 12-4. Lovely grub in a 15thC pub. Beers served by me. What more could tempt you?
Olympic sized pool*😉

*outdoor pool as tested by Charley Walker

**may be not Olympic sized😬

Did these sites as part of the excellent Leger “Ann Frank and Oskar Schindler-The Holocaust Remembered” tour last month.

C&C:Ancients again today with son Liam (Hannibal) v Me (Varrus) at Cannae 216BC in the first game.
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Command and Colors:Ancients Lake Trasimenus-217BC with son Liam today. Game one, I’m Hannibal and he’s Flaminius.

Invites for #OML10 went out today. If you didn’t receive yours and think you should have, reply to this post ASAP. Cheers! #spreadthelard

Merry Christmas BlueSkyers!

Maya says “Hi”

Continuing with “Operation Sosabowski” a little light reading material arrived today. Hopefully this will tie in nicely with the PSC in this year’s Lard Annual.
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Grom’s Goblin Guard!

Big progress on the Polish Paratroopers for Operation Market Garden. Basic platoon all but done and supports next up. #chainofcommand #spreadthelard

Sat listening to this as I paint only to discover that my wife “Dolly” has never seen the film. It’s one of my faves. That’s tonight’s viewing sorted then😃

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“Operation Sosabowski” begins. 18 head-swaps putting Warlord Games plastic Polish Paratrooper heads onto Artizan figures. Substituting my existing beret wearing British Paras for the forthcoming Driel scenarios from @toofatlardies.bsky.social
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That’s the eventual intention with this force.

Sixteen in this one😂

“Dans le terrier du lapin” for Chain of Command.

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And LOTS of hair‼️😂

It was an 80’s thing. Thankfully it didn’t make it far into the 90’s.
A bit like Bros.

If you see this post, post any photo in your gallery without explanation.

Fire from this house into the parkland made short work of the Germans in the parkland. Moving the Möbelwagen up couldn’t save the day and German FM collapsed to 0. Great catch-up and fun game to umpire.

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Möbelwagen appeared. Was attacked by PIAT. No damage. Return fire routed PIAT team.

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Two Para SL’s finally swung it in their favour with their FM at 5. Both German elements broke tumbling their FM to only 3!

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Paras added a Vickers &extra section, Germans a MG42 MMG & senior leader. Shock aplenty with few casualties apart from BOTH Para JL’s!
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Today’s CoC battle @glenbrookgames.bsky.social v @paulbaldwin.bsky.social was a near replication of the Stationsweg action we fought in The Hartenstein. Took far too few photos as we were jibber-jabbering too much🤦🏻‍♂️
It quickly devolved into a close firefight on the German left flank.
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Tomorrow’s table set for the visit of @paulbaldwin.bsky.social and @glenbrookgames.bsky.social Usual CoC action set in Oosterbeek. It’s my adaptation on a battlefield that @toofatlardies.bsky.social may recognise? (He’ll say not now of course🙄)

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Endex. German attack falters with the SL routing off while trying to rally the MMG. With little left to press home any further attack the Germans retire.

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German assault in the centre takes the position. Germans 1 dead, Paras 5 dead and routed.
Current FM:
Germans - 4
Paras - 5

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German right flank is pinned by fire from the White House. They deploy an MMG to take the pressure off-but achieve no hits. The firefight in the centre proves devastating for the Paras who are pinned and have their JL killed.

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