Hi Everybody,
Unless you have been having a break, camping in a cave, or doing something similar at the moment (possibly a wise option with what's going on with the Covid Omicron variant), the telly adverts would have tipped you off that it has been Christmas time once more. The time when some people forget what is safe and sensible diet and pack as many calories, carbs and assorted flavours of alcoholic beverages in their cakehole as they can.
To be fair, after the last couple of years, we certainly do deserve a pick me up of good tidings and joy. Just, please do not go over the top while you are making happy memories. Some do see it as a time to do good deeds. I hope we remember to turn a few lights off and try to save the planet. You remember the planet ? That thing that used to be green before we turned it into lots of sprawling concrete monsters, which gradually decay into homes of the forgotten. Ah yes.I see its coming back to you, the blue steaming orb, that's the one.
Regarding the wargaming hobby of ours, it seem like nearly every set of new games come with loads of new, expensive, starter set armies to collect, with reserves and squads of creatures waiting in the wings, ready to invade our tables, fuelling the rampant use of resins, lead or plastics yet again. How about digging out those figures at the back of the drawer that you thought cool enough to buy in the past.
Recycling is needed in every form of life, why should our hobby be any different? Scratch build some terrain out of scraps instead of that expensive terrain you had your eye on. If you don't want to paint them up and use them yourself, put them on E-bay, so that someone in our community can get some gaming miles out of them. The bonus is, you feel a sense of achievement, you can boost your funds to afford those new games a bit later on down the road. The Postie gets to keep his job too. Everybody wins.
A happy new year to one and all,
Ivor Cogdell
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