Thoughts of a Depressive Diplomatist

VSF Blogs First up, a new blog - One Last Wargame - SPACE 1889 - which has just started,  The aim is to follow the design an progress of ...

Apologies for the lack of blog updates, which is down to business, some family health concerns and general lack of mojo.  But not only am...

Now, many of you know that I have what can be charitably termed an antiquarian nature.  This, and my interest in the transitional (ie, from ...

I really shouldn't be up blogging at 05:30, but what can you do when insomnia is with you and you don't want to wake the household? ...

The blogging community is a brilliant place!  This week came news of not one but two great prizes from fellow blogger.  My own painting migh...

When the dog took me out this afternoon we spotted this for the first time... ...which put me in mind of a piece by one of my favorite...

The main news is that there will be no more news! Not here anyway... In order to have a better link to the actual storefront and t...

Great news, Beagle-2 did manage to land safely after all.  At the time, you may remember, the method of using airbags to bounce on landing w...

Yesterday I complained that I hadn't come up with any back story for my PBB character.  I must have been worrying about it, because ...

Nice is't it?  It's a figure RoyW has supplied to represent my character in his Old West play-by-blog game.  Unusually for me (...

Might this make my buildings stand up? Nice variety They scale nicely with 28mm The official guide to the most beautiful...

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Happy New Year to our readers and customers! A Reminder Diplomatist Books' stock can be accessed through our AbeBooks Storefro...

A welcome to new follower Tradgardmastare .  He has a whole scad of blogs - go and check out his profile for a list. "Dobro pozhalo...

Well, it was a time coming, but here is my first 'proper' submission to the Painting Challenge (I did submit my Stalin lookee-likee ...