Showing Off

Last weekend I responded to a request to help man a booth at a hobby and craft display in Halifax. The lazy part of me thought "hour drive each way, out of touch with the current hobby, why would I?", the rest said sure, I can do my bit and come on Sunday.

So I put aside preparing tax submissions and preparations for Huzzah, put together a display with one of those slideshow digital picture thingies, a selection of books and rules over the last 1/2 century, a wide range of miniatures in scales from 15mm to 54mm and prepared a small simple game as a demo or "give it a go"sort of thing. 

Now, when I got there, Paul greeted me with the news that he had somehow not packed his "mat" for the demo game he was going to run and could he borrow mine. "No problem", until I opened my bin and......no tablecloth/battlemat. What!??  It had just been that kind of morning. But "Nil Desperandum" I rummaged around in my backhatch and found two cheap green cloth shopping bags. A few minutes with scissors and some masking tape followed by a ruler and felt pen and Voila! a gridded battlefield suitable for a small F&IW game using the Square Brigadier.

By the time the show closed up and I headed home, I'd chatted with various fellow wargamers of all sorts, with various interests as well as talking to various passers by who had never imagined such a hobby. By the end of the day my feet, legs and brain were tired but it had been a good day. 

Now,back to preparing for Huzzah!.......and getting around to that pesky tax return nonsense.......