And (At Last!) The Giveaway

I'm sorry for the delay, but as promised the other day, I've having  a giveaway to mark the blog's third anniversary.

The old hands among you might even notice a few prizes left over from the last time - you will see them (and the others below) again and again until they go!  Some of them verge on the educational, but be not afear'd, knowledge is power!

• £10.00 worth of goods of your choice from Diplomatist Books (the postage will be extra on this).   No jokes about first prize being £10.00's worth and second prize being £15.00's worth please!  (I'm looking at you Mr Amos!)

• Hunter Davies, Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Baked Beans: My Search for Britain's Maddest Museums (paperback book)

• Sci-Fi Art: A Pocket History (a small book and lots of fun fridge magnets) 

• Susanna Clarke, The Ladies of Grace Adieu (pb book).  Faeries stories from the author of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell.  I'm a fan of Clarke and recommend this (don't you want to know how the Duke of Wellington reacts when the faeries steal Copenhagen?)

• Life on a Medieval Street by the Norwich Survey (actually an excavation report) and P Clark & P Slack, English Towns in Transition, 1500-1700

• Thomas Dugdale, England and Wales Delineated: Historical, Entertaining and Commercial. Basically a gazetteer with lots of fun info.  Vol I (A-F) only.  A little tatty, but it's been knocking around since the 1840s...

• K Rushby, Hunting Pirate Heaven (hb book).    According to Amazon, "Rushby's objective is to locate the descendants of the 16th century pirates who had carved kingdoms for themselves in the remote jungles of north-east Madagascar.   Hitching rides on a motley assortment of freighters, dhows, yachts and fishing smacks, he sails up the African coast, then east towards his goal.  It is a story full of incident: voyages to islands where forgotten Portugese forts lie covered in jungle, places where some have tried to shoot their way to paradise, and where the ever-present ocean can destroy lives and dreams as quickly as men and women create them."

• Mike Spick, Great Aircraft of WWII: Avro Lancaster; FE Dymond, A Very Special Lancaster: A History of Lancaster Mk1 R5868; Flying Legends Air Show 2004, Duxford.

• Airfix 1:72 Spitfire Mk2A.  JB Models 1:76 LWB Landrover (soft-top) with trailer.  Hawker P.1127.  Sea Hawker.

• A couple of Italeri 1:32 plastic watchtowers (unpainted and I'll probably take them apart to post)

Figures for scale only -  the pirate on the left tower is 52mm; the Santa
on the right is 28mm

• Three vans (two Lledo, one Oxford Diecast) and a Rolls-Royce (Days Gone By)

28mm figures for scale only

•  Serpent-men figures from Asylum Books and Games and a book of scenarios that came with them

   

• The current freebie figure from Wargames Foundry - "It is the the 30th anniversary of Wargames Foundry on Monday 18th of August. This is also the birthday of our founder Clifford Ansell.  So we have an unusual giveaway for you: It's a model of Cliff . The Cliff model comes with four models of model soldiers. Cliff has had four careers in his life: coal mining, the navy, teaching maths and making model soldiers. We have provided four appropriate models of  model  soldiers as part of the giveaway." 

 How to Enter

Three names will be drawn on 7 September and prizes awarded.  No individual will win more than one prize.  To enter the draw:

1. Be a public follower of this blog - either an existing or new one.
2. Leave a comment on this post telling me you want to be in the draw and indicating three prizes of  interest to you (with order of preference).  Do not say "Prize X, Prize X and Prize X" - the whole point is to be able to give you a prize if yours is the third name drawn and Prize X has already been allocated.
3. Bonus entries. There are several ways of earning bonus entries:
• Promote this giveaway (blog, Facebook, Google+), and let me know you've done so.
• Follow the Diplomatist Books Facebook page
• Send me £200 in used tenners.
4. An extra prize will be awarded to the person who gives the most interesting/amusing reason why they (or someone else) should get it.

Good luck!