So on the home front.
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Its is another 'jour férié' here on Monday. So perhaps another game of Chain of Command
in the week coming.
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Its great weather here, its been hot all
week. So Monday decided to start making
this years hay for the winter fodder for the sheep.
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Started with the mower and after two times
around the field the tractor just died.
I know the problem and the fix, because it does not get used a lot the
fuel filter in the tank gunges up. So
its drain the tank, clean the filter, bleed the air out of the fuel system and
off you go (takes a couple of hours). So
asked a friend to finish cutting the grass as I had to be down at the restaurant
for the fixing of some new external doors. Les Sapeurs-Pompiers have inspected
and required two external doors to have 'crash bars' and open out. Took Monday and Tuesday to get the old doors
out and the new ones installed so all is well.
More grass cutting for the neighbours and repairing an old greenhouse and
planting tomatoes.
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Then on Thursday afternoon the Prime Minister
announced that bars and restaurants' can open next week starting on
Tuesday. So its all hands to get the
building clean and all the furniture clean and everywhere presentable. And then decide on what's required for the
bars operation. All the social
distancing marked out and then table and chairs placed. Fixed and plumbed in a new glass washer for
my daughter so that they can get all the glassware washed over the weekend.
So time for my hobby continues, not this week.
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This has not been very productive this week.
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The weeding out.
A unit of 28mm Prussians for the Franco-Prussian War has been sold.
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The bases are now complete on the 28mm cavalry,
a unit of 1846 Mexicans and a unit of US cavalry. They are now based and flocked. In the box with the rest of the painted
figures for the 1846 Mexican American war.
I know have enough painted for a game of Sharpe Practise. I still have some German models to finish, a
fixed MG42, Wespe, and Panther but they will not be needed in the first games.
So the clearout.
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Next up to go, 1:32 scale plastic, CTS Churchill
tank.
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1:32 British Para's by a couple of different
companies, Airfix 14 figures and Conte 16 figures.
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1:32 Airfix Japanese infantry 13 in number.
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6 Britain's North American Bison.
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1:32 Airfix British Commandoes, 40 figures.
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A small contribution and the postage please for
the bits and pieces.
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Oh and I still have a lot of the heads and
weapons castings.