Thoughts of a Depressive Diplomatist

First, thank you to all of you who wished me a happy blogday.  As an astute observer notes, I started the blog on my 45th birthday - mid-lif...

Yesterday was the 4th Anniversary of this blog 651 posts 217,697 hits 103 followers 2.840 comments Thank you for all all for vi...

Mirabile dictu , I can report some progress on the Daleks ! After months of them sitting there in a part-painted state, mocking me, ...

It's been three weeks since my last blog post.  What hobby progress have I made then?  None at all. My plan of setting hostages to for...

Warlord Games have just announced that pre-orders are open for their first Doctor Who figures Last year we announced that Warlord Game...

Some of you may remember that I have some of Midlam Miniatures' spellcasters for Frostgrave purposes.  Well, they've just lau...

Programming Note  I wrote this post last week but didn't post it as I hadn't taken the photos.Since then I've been feel...

OK, as you'll remember my first goal for the month is it get rid of some of the half-done terrain that's lying around. ...

This isn't going to be an interesting post, but I need to put a marker down. I'm not one for doing 'end of the quarter rou...

I'm a little late in marking this centenary, but on 27/28 June 1916 William Ollerenshaw of the 10th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers w...

Prizes, but still no cake As you'll remember I was having a prize draw to mark 200K blog hits. Prize 1 - £10.00 Voucher Diplomati...

A couple of British Pathe movies, the first from 1949 and the second from 1965, showing the manufacturing process at William Britain's f...

...that there's still time to enter the 200K Giveaway and get a chance to win some splendid prizes (not least from Diplomatist Books )! ...

In the past I have taken part in a couple of Zooniverse projects (one was transcribing naval logs from the First World War, the other was i...

Do you remember me writing about Stoker John Jones , who was seriously injured at the Battle of Jutland while serving on HMS Broke ?

Eagerly awaiting the next blog entry... Some time on Monday the Blogger clock that counts completely spurious hits went past the 200,00...

Since writing my post on the British officer reporting a 'sticky' situation to his American superior it has become quite clear that...

Last night my butterfly approach to wargaming took another turn. Inspired by a series of posts Bob Cordery has made - particularly this o...

That old salt GaryA responded to my Korean War story with a dit of his own.  It was an excellent example of the dry humour the RN uses in c...

Like most blog writers I enjoy getting feedback from my readers.  In yesterday's book review I said that the lack of notes and proper s...