Packed and passport in the pocket.
My baggage is borderline, so the lead I'e done up here will have to get posted back.. with a few books including the prize of the trip: TCG James' RAF History of the Battle of Britain (Vol 1 of the air Defence of Great Britain)
I will miss the Bröt, I will miss the snow and I vill miss SWMBO. It's a long stretch this year. won't be in her lovely clutches again til next November.
I will miss the tee und kaffee with the mixed bag of expats at CTK Episcopalian Church in Frankfurt, the glorious organ Postludes by a lovely Irish bloke named Simon.
I will miss one of the nicer quieter spots in the Gießen Seltersweg, the Thalia Buchandlerüng.. nice spot to read and have a coffee, much quieter than your average Borders' back in Melbourne.
The Good news today is that Max the Guinea Pig is back from the vet and what was thought to be a nasty and final tumour probably is now, something enlarged and onc he's over his infection a further X-Ray will find something far less fatal.
Speaking of Kafee, I am bringing back a 500g bag of "Orange Liquer" flavoured beans.. well I have my strange wargaming habit and SWMBO has her bizarre tastes in Coffee (OK, what else is bizarre about an Anglophile German anyway?), some undrinkable (to my taste) and some fabulous! (though I'm positive my Friends Nino and Rosa at Pellegrini's would scoff).
SWMBO is off picking up Küchen from her Granny in the next village and then we are off to stay overnght with the Parents closer to Frankfurt Flughafen, we haven't had much snow but the little we did hav yesterdaý caused chaos on the A5 south to Frankfurt.
This is supposed to be a wargaming blog so I'll pass on a link from one of my clubmates at the Knights of the Square Table a glance into the past at a year in the life of one of the Founding Fathers of our hobby, Don Featherstone from the very early 1960s.
Dave from Museum Miniatures just email to say they've posted my Defiants and .Dornier 17s. Yay!
I've put some stuff on the Ipod for the trip back as the movies coming ove were absolutely dire. Peter Ustinov recounting his Biography, Dear Me, a few of the old UK radio crime serials and Choral Music the lovely SWMBO loves and the radio Series of Absolute Power with Stephen Fry and John Bird by Mark Taverner.
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Leaving Frankfurt.. reflections #1 A house divided
I'm leaving Frankfurt to return to Melbourne this Sunday.
Leaving may smarter, cuter half, heretofore known only as "She who Must Be Obeyed" or SWMBO for short, to battle on against the elements alone.
in the last 3 months I've done a bit of gaming here but not much.. some episodes follow:
[originally posted on boardgamegeek.com 10 December, 2009]
"... I arrived in Frankfurt a month ago for 3 months and as I will almost certainly be moving here in a few years and am spending all my winters here from now on (yes crazy, pass up an Australian summer, but the heat kills me and I happen to be head over heels with the Woman concerned!)
The process of slowly finding out about the gaming scene here in Frankfurt is an interesting one.
I have met and arranged my first game, it will be AHD against (tellus on bgg), who I located through a german miniatures forum as I found the frankfurt mob here on BGG just seem to do euro stuff, though I do plan on making trips to the Cafe Vorspiel in the future.
Tellus and I are both fair to say of a certain age and our collections, his and mine, and tastes reflect that; I suggested AHD as he seemed to have a few ACW gaes in his list (I converted him onto BGG muhahaha!) and it can be fairly short and easy to get a complete playing in a limited session, as I have no gaming material with me apart from a lot of lead to paint, I suggested one from his list. I suspect he'll be hooked into and demand a few more playings once he's tried it is addictive. I think he said its a GDW edition or a german "GDW-like" licensed edition.
Tellus has opened AHD and played a few turns out solo sometime back, so this will be a first play for him against "the living" as Han Solo said once.
He's chosen to play Confederate and so I will defend as Union.. We talked AHD and games miniature and board both over Früstück (or brekky I as I say in Melbourne); the Phalanx edition, which I have not seen except for photos on BGG, while it is truly beautiful and exquisite and the components divine, I realized I prefer the GDW map for a few reasons:
1. it is a clear, effective communication tool as any LINK or LINK design will testify to.
2. its READABLE. why is this important? Well sad to say a lot of us are getting old and in the ast 6 months I have noticed on a lot lists and boards players are beginning to ask questions and making choices with their vision in mind. Contrast, Colour, Size and Typography for matter for communication as much as beauty in Design.
So I thought of a vote, on whatever basis you like for your preferred board.
Indications of owned and/or preferred editions and if your vision is hawk-like, codger-esque or Magoo-opic are encouraged but, of course optional.
I own GDW 2nd and vision-wise would love to say I'm a codger, but in reality, I'm a Magoo...."
Leaving may smarter, cuter half, heretofore known only as "She who Must Be Obeyed" or SWMBO for short, to battle on against the elements alone.
in the last 3 months I've done a bit of gaming here but not much.. some episodes follow:
[originally posted on boardgamegeek.com 10 December, 2009]
"... I arrived in Frankfurt a month ago for 3 months and as I will almost certainly be moving here in a few years and am spending all my winters here from now on (yes crazy, pass up an Australian summer, but the heat kills me and I happen to be head over heels with the Woman concerned!)
The process of slowly finding out about the gaming scene here in Frankfurt is an interesting one.
I have met and arranged my first game, it will be AHD against (tellus on bgg), who I located through a german miniatures forum as I found the frankfurt mob here on BGG just seem to do euro stuff, though I do plan on making trips to the Cafe Vorspiel in the future.
Tellus and I are both fair to say of a certain age and our collections, his and mine, and tastes reflect that; I suggested AHD as he seemed to have a few ACW gaes in his list (I converted him onto BGG muhahaha!) and it can be fairly short and easy to get a complete playing in a limited session, as I have no gaming material with me apart from a lot of lead to paint, I suggested one from his list. I suspect he'll be hooked into and demand a few more playings once he's tried it is addictive. I think he said its a GDW edition or a german "GDW-like" licensed edition.
Tellus has opened AHD and played a few turns out solo sometime back, so this will be a first play for him against "the living" as Han Solo said once.
He's chosen to play Confederate and so I will defend as Union.. We talked AHD and games miniature and board both over Früstück (or brekky I as I say in Melbourne); the Phalanx edition, which I have not seen except for photos on BGG, while it is truly beautiful and exquisite and the components divine, I realized I prefer the GDW map for a few reasons:
1. it is a clear, effective communication tool as any LINK or LINK design will testify to.
2. its READABLE. why is this important? Well sad to say a lot of us are getting old and in the ast 6 months I have noticed on a lot lists and boards players are beginning to ask questions and making choices with their vision in mind. Contrast, Colour, Size and Typography for matter for communication as much as beauty in Design.
So I thought of a vote, on whatever basis you like for your preferred board.
Indications of owned and/or preferred editions and if your vision is hawk-like, codger-esque or Magoo-opic are encouraged but, of course optional.
I own GDW 2nd and vision-wise would love to say I'm a codger, but in reality, I'm a Magoo...."
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