Asides

There comes a point in every life where hard decisions have to be taken.  I am at that point now…

This blog has been part of my hobby life for over 4 years now and I hadn’t realised quite how much it meant to me until I realised that it was time to decide on its future.  Some might have noticed that I haven’t posted anything new in the last few weeks.

There is a reason for this…

My free WordPress plan has reached its 3GB storage capacity and, to continue to post here as before, I would need to upgrade to a new plan. There is a personal plan available that would allow me to add another 2-3 years, at my current posting rate, to the blog. Or do I take a more drastic, but cheaper, option and delete older images and posts to free up space allowing me to continue as before.

Upgrading on the cheapest plan appears to offer another 3GB of storage but that means in 2-3 years I would again need to increase the size of the plan at a further cost. From what I can work out, the cost (with one of the regular WordPress deals) would be about £100 a year (plan+retention of domain fee+domain cost).  I am not sure that I can justify paying that each year for a simple hobby blog…

I also worry that I will not be able to bring myself to delete any of the older images, however poor or unread my earlier posts may have been, as they make up the first chapters in my blogging history.

A decision needs to be made if I want to keep the blog in its normal format.

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Or do I start again?  I can leave the current blog ‘as is’, as an archive that I can revisit and reference, and start a whole new blog.

Decisions need to be made…  I would welcome any thoughts or ideas you may have… I know that others have reached this point before me and I now call upon their wisdom.

Its late afternoon on New Years Day and life seems to have finally settled back to an almost normal pace and stress level…  Now that I have said it out loud, as it were, I am likely to have tempted the fates, so watch this space for the next thing that hits the proverbial fan…

I was getting back to an almost semi regular posting schedule back at the start of December and foolishly thought that I might make it to the start of the new year with a list of completed bits and bobs. Albeit smaller projects and items…

Then my Daughter gave birth to my first grandchild. I can’t say for sure that I know exactly where the last 3 weeks have gone…  A healthy little girl popped out to meet us and sadly due to a complication just after her birth then spent her first 3 weeks of life (including her first Xmas) in various intensive care units and special care baby units. Until Sunday, when my Daughter finally managed to bring her home.

I cannot praise highly enough, the care and attention afforded to us all over the time she was under the care of the excellent midwives and nurses.

A real life little fighter (and she also comes pre-painted, so shouldn’t take up too much of my valuable hobby time…). Now, time to get back to the simpler things in life. Like trying to find where my plastic glue has gone from a locked shed after 3 weeks of being untouched.

Evening Viewers…

Its been a while since I got a post up and more notable due to the fact that I was on a roll, 24 posts in 4 weeks… A record for me!

As ever, real life has taken over and I find myself not getting into the shed as often as I would like. That is unlikely to change in the next month so sadly you should not expect too much from me in the next weeks.

I will remain, as usual a viewer of your input, so please feel free to give me lots to read on your own blogs. While I cannot get out into the shed I will rely on you guys to entertain me.

When life settles down again I will endeavour to return the favour…

 

Right, enough nonsense, down to business…  The plan is real.  It is based on a list we wrote whilst in the car on the way back from the Derby Worlds Show last year.  I have added to this some variables that I know that I will have to consider due to a couple of release dates in the next 3 months

The Plan

Play the following games in the next 3-6 months

1. Bolt Action/ Konflikt ’47
2. In Her Majesty’s Name/ Empire of the Dead
3. Dust Tactics
4. Gaslands
5. Frostgrave
6. Legends of the High Seas
7. Fistful Of Kung Fu
8. Steam Wars
9. Blitzkrieg Commander (This one is only a maybe…)

New Games/ armies for release in early 2018

1. Warhammer 40k Codex – Chaos Daemons – Nurgle Daemon Army

Painting and modelling needing to be done to achieve the list above

1. Build and paint a third team for Gaslands (Including a War Rig)
2. Put together and paint a pack of boiler suited minions from 7TV for use in Fistful of Kung Fu
3. Paint at least 3 large Tripods, 3 small Tripods and 20 Martian infantry for Steam Wars
4. Paint the Glotkin that has been sat on my shelf for a year, for the Nurgle Daemon Army
5. Paint 20 plastic Plague Bearers, for the Nurgle Daemon Army
6. Paint the, old and classic, metal Great unclean one on my shelf

THINGS TO LEAVE UNTIL SUMMER

1. Anything Space Marine related
2. Anything Steam Wars – Navy related
3. Anything Death Guard related

Well, as I am not getting much done I have had time on my hands to consider what things I should be doing, and while I am busy getting all that nothing done, I am also building up a healthy level of hobby guilt.

You probably know what it feels like…

Me: I should really start that ‘thing’ that I haven’t finished yet.

The Other Me: Ah, but this would be easier and it also needs doing.

Me: Good idea, I will do that instead.

The Other Me: Hang on though, this looks like it might be worth doing.

Me: Ah yes, we planned to have a game of that soon so I should tackle that first really.

The Other Me: Hold up, have you seen the time, don’t you have to be somewhere else soon?

Me:  Bugger, that’s right…  I can’t believe that have been in here for 2 hours and haven’t gotten anything done yet.

The Other Me:  Well, as you have to leave in the next hour you had best not start anything as you will only need to put it all away soon.  You know how easily you lose track of time when you get into something.

Me:  You are probably right, if I don’t have much time then I had best just tidy up this corner of the shed.

The Other Me:  Oh, what’s that?  I had forgotten that I had that…

A flustered English gent finally leaves an untidy shed in a frantic hurry. Already 30min late for the thing across town that he had promised his women folk that they would be at!  All to the sounds of a frustrated English lady bellowing from the house ‘but you said you were coming out an hour ago!’

Sound familiar?

Well, I plan to try to write a formal plan, a sort of plan of action for the first quarter of 2018.  Not a BIG PLAN that would cover everything but a plan that is achievable and likely to get done.  That plan will prioritise what gets done first

THE PLAN

Item 1 Write up the plan…

Item 2 …  Oh, what’s that?  I had forgotten that I had that…