Rain

It`s absolutely peeing down here in Sunny Oldham,yet the Sun`s still shining,should be a rainbow somewhere,not Ritchie Blackmore`s i hope.Everything is still Foreign Legion,Danjou and his Boys arrived the other day good looking figs .

cheers,
Andy

Rain

Holidays

I need one,that blast of heat as you step off the plane tells you,"you`re there".Then you`ve got 14 nights of arguing kids,irritable spouse/partner,and really annoying foreign locals who steal your kids and tell you that their bar is better than their brother`s/uncle`s/father`s,whatever.
I still want one though.We went to Marmaris,in Turkey,two years ago-what a shit-hole!We stayed in a suburb! called Armuatalan,2 km from the beach-yeah in a straight line, more like 6km by dolmus.I`d still rather be there than here though.
Our next hols are Florida for the kids either(more than likely)DisneyLand or Universal,either way the Police speak English(i hope)and it`s clean-it`s gotta be cleaner than Marmaris ,the corporation dump is!

Anyway,wherever you`re off to have fun,enjoy yourselves,remember you`re British,and we probably used to own the country and above all wear Manchester City shirts and play cricket on the beach/park/any grassy area you can find.

cheers,
Andy

Pheww!!

E-mail from Caliver-everything Ok.

Good Day

Today the new Perry French Foreign Legion arrived and they are super little figures,plenty of character and detail,just what you`d expect really.I`m going to use the Foundry "Storm Blue" palette for their overcoats as this gives a darkish blue with a definite grey tint to it,trousers are going to be the Winter red ones as i think this is more appropriate for fighting in Spain and it can get quite cold and wet in Algeria,as at the seige of Constantine in October 1837.I will paint some in the Summer white trousers in time.
On a more unhappy note i`ve just realised that my order to Caliver Books for a book on the battle of Camerone and some of the excellent,Mark Copplestone sculpted figures (Captain Danjou and friends) may have gone astray as i gave my adress as being in Afghanistan,oops!I`ve e-mailed Caliver pointing out my mistake and i`m still waiting for a response,but i`m sure they`d have spotted the mistake and contacted me if there was an issue,the Post Office on the other hand.........

cheers,
Andy

Camerone

It`s all Matt Golding`s fault! You see over on his "Waterloo to Mons" blog he`s talking about themed painting ie "this month it `s Russians",so i get the idea "Great last stands on the American sub-continent".We all know about Custer(sorry Keogh)and Billy Travis at the Alamo,but what about Danjou,and his 64 legionnaires at Camerone in 1863
?outnumbered 30 to 1 and they still held out for 12 hours,and just what were the French Foreign Legion doing fighting in Mexico?Very interesting,i`ve ordered the (first) book and the first pack of figs.(which includes Captain Danjou,himself)and we`ll see how(if at all) it goes.

cheers,
Andy

School Holidays

They start today,seven and a half weeks of the little b£$t%&ds,sorry,darlings.I should have been a teacher,I actually studied for my degree at a teacher training college,Edgehill College,in Ormskirk.Instead i got my B.A. and ended working for Morrisons,what a result!
But never mind everything is French Foreign Legion and the new(ish) greens from the Perry`s First Carlist War range-Algeria 1830`ish here i come.
They`ll look good skirmishing against Carlist guerillas in 1830`ish Spain as well,plus i recently bought "The Best of Devo" what a band!!!!!!!

cheers,
Andy