Lets open this post with a pic of another unit of classic figures I've been painting for my Renegade Crowns army. Marauder Ogres and these boys are the original casts, not your new fangled releases from GW (not that it matters). They are missing their Captain but he'll be coming along later.
What this post is really about is turning 50 and how it doesn't seem that long since I was posting on here about turning 40!
My main birthday present was a Record player (deck in modern parlance!) and speakers which my wife had consulted with Neil about over several months. I've not had a player in the house for years and I used to have a pretty substantial collection that we had to sell when the kids were little (at one point we had 3 kids under 4 and an 8 year old) as money was so tight. So to add to the remnants of the collection that I've kept for years we went off to explore some record shops in the local city.
We also dug out my collection and cleaned it down (and had to dump a couple that had gotten warped or damp) and started listening to some of it again for the first time in years as well as some of the new stuff we'd bought or that I'd been gifted (Neil got me some classics that you might be able to spy in some of the other pics below.
On Sunday we managed to organise ourselves into playing a game of old world. I've been painting a Dwarf army for Neil, made up of the figures that have been safeguarded in boxes in the backs of cupboards for nearly 40 years. I'll need to get round to showing them off here at some point. I used my Orc and Goblin army and we had nice relaxed knockabout showing off the superior leadership of the dwarfs and the effectiveness of Charging Orcs on boars.
So here is my newest pride and joy, I've also found that it is a really effective tool for clearing teenagers out of the living room and for waking the whole house up on a Saturday morning. If you aren't careful I might start blogging about my Vinyl purchases as well.
And here are some of my other Birthday presents, altogether, I count myself as a fairly lucky man. Till next time.
My wife and I had been sensible enough to book the day of for my Birthday and had planned a nice quiet day of pottering around together after the kids had been dropped off at school. Obviously this was too sedate for her so she had invited a couple of my oldest friends down to surprise me. This led to a lovely weekend of ever broadening accents, whisky drinking and food munching.
As gentleman are wont to do when they haven't seen each other in ages, bottles of whisky and rum were opened and drunk enthusiastically and we managed to stay upright till about 4 in the morning. As you can imagine the next day was a little bit of a haze but we did blether and listen to more records.....and eat more food.
Cheers.
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