Answer to Kevin

for some reason I can't post a reply so you get your own whole blog entry! 
Yeah the weather has been getting noticeably hotter. In fact on Sunday it reached a staggering 23 degrees. One of the problems about being on an island on this latitude is that you get all of the crap weather that the antarctic weather gods decide to vomit our way. The weather can change from hot to snow in the space of hours -literally. We can have really settled great weather all really settled shit. In the South Island you should pack for winter but hope for summer if you go camping. For a human from the northern latitudes it must seem a little incongruous to see a winter santa being celebrated in a southern summer. For us however we receive our iconography with little critical thinking.  Besides it is cooler to see a winter Santa than a Santa in a tee-shirt and jandals (worth looking that last word up)

Its that time again,,,

The girls decorated the tree this time themselves. I think they overcooked the baubles a bit but otherwise it was a pretty good job.

Santa

Santa has to source my boxes of soldiers from England. They were put on the reindeer 2 days ago so I hope they make it before Christmas.

Last Week....

Here it comes babeeeeeee! We have organised a staff party at Ombrello's at the outside part.  This is important as it enables me to smoke my obligatory end of year cigars!

Holidays are coming up....

Santa has organised...
2 boxes of penninsular war brits from Hat Industrie, French Curassiers, Russian Hussars and French General Staff from Zvezda. 2 and a bit weeks to go till the end of the year and I will have 3 WEEKS OFF!!! Beer, Sun, Riding,Painting, Sleeping!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My "New" Osprey Books

I picked up some second hand Ospreys from TradeMe a few weeks ago and here they are. This little group expands my 19th century collection quite nicely!

I actually bought this one in Hong Kong in '92. It sat alone in my collection because I was much more interested in the Napoleonic wars that the earlier period.

This ine is really outside my period of interest but it has sparked a bit of interest in the uniforms of Marborough.

Nothing to report...

I'm older...... It has been so long since I last posted that I had forgotten my password and had to go and make a new one. I haven't painted a single figure in months and I am not exercising. My stomack looks like I am six months pregnant. But I have bought 6 more Osprey books. I now have the complete 18th century American Colonial period uniform books. Photos coming...