The last twenty-eight days have been a bit different from what passes for ’normal‘ these days. The reasons for this are as follows:

1. I celebrated my seventy-sixth birthday. (Yes, I am really that old!)
2. My blog achieved ten million hits … and I see that it is close to reaching eleven million!
3. Sue’s car needed to have its hybrid battery refurbished, and this required it to taken to Northampton and back.
4. It then developed a fault with its tyre pressure monitoring system which required new sensors to be fitted to each tyre … and two new tyres as well!
5. Over the course of several days we moved the contents of our large offsite storage unit to a much smaller one … and I rediscovered all sorts of useful wargaming bits and pieces that I had forgotten about.
6. I delivered a talk about the history of the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society (the RACS) to a local community group.
7. One of my favourite wargame manufacturers – Irregular Miniatures – announced that they were closing down and I had to send them what will be my final order in a bit of a hurry.
8. I achieved the goals I set myself at the beginning of the year.
9. I became embroiled in an ongoing ‚discussion‘ with the Debt Collection Department of Royal Greenwich Council over care cost invoices from 2024 that I paid the day I received them! (I have proof in the form of screenshots of my bank statements and a letter from the Adult Care Department that said my case was closed and that all payments for care had been made.)
10. I have had two bouts of ‚gastronomical illness‘, in quick succession, the second of which I am still recovering from … and is the reason that I have not made any blog posts over the past few days.

That’s quite a lot of things to deal with over the shortest month of the year! Hopefully, March will be a much quieter month!