As some of my regular blog readers have surmised, Sue and I went on a cruise over Christmas. As a result, for the past twelve days I’ve been pretty well incommunicado except when in port and able to access the internet and my emails on my iPhone. (I could have ‘bought’ a WiFi package onboard, but at minimum cost of £14.00 per day for a very basic service, I didn’t think that it was value for money.)

I would therefore like to apologise to anyone who reads my blog and whose comments might not have had a reply yet as well as to those of you who have sent me emails to which I have yet to respond. Likewise, I have a long list of blogs that I need to catch-up on, and this is something I hope to do over the next few days.

One good thing; I’ve returned from the cruise with a very positive feeling about doing some wargaming and wargame-related activity, and as soon as we have finished our unpacking, the inevitable washing of the clothes that we wore, and putting the luggage away, I am itching to get upstairs to my toy/wargame room.

In the meantime, I hope to upload a blog post about our cruise as soon as I can … and for those of you who like their food, what we ate will be featured quite heavily in it!