Too Much Time on my Hands???

 Well recovery goes apace and I have been discharged from oncology and back to the loving arms of ear, nose and throat, which means I am cancer free!! Happy guy indeed, also my taste is coming back slowly and I am eating solids again although mainly savoury as sweet things still taste like sludge especially chocolate, bad news! Anyway I am still signed off work and not due to go back until June so I have a bit of time on my hands, done a few walks and a little bit of weeding in the garden as my stamina is pretty poor at the moment, tire very easily. I went to the football in Inverness to watch a Highland League match, my mate picked me up and we parked up and walked to the ground, watched a very entertaining game and walked back to the car by which I was totally washed out, time I get home and settled I crashed out and slept soundly, still will be working on strength over the next few weeks, so hope it improves.

Anyway with all this time on my hands and with a bit of money to spend due to my bonus from work I have indulged myself a little. I first took advantage of Ist Corps sale, which was a nice 20% of the original price. what did I buy? Well I always fancied doing the Seven Years War in India so bought British and French regulars, some Sepoys for both sides and some Irregulars for both sides, they arrived very quickly  and look nice figures, should paint up well even by my standards! Now 1st Corps don;t do cavalry or artillery for this but regulars of each were pretty short in numbers so will probably look at getting some native cavalry and artillery from another source.

The next purchase was still in the sub continent and got me a whole load of Empress Miniatures from their Indian Mutiny range, great figure, so full of character, the have come of ebay and were at a decent price for the quantity, I am short again of cavalry and artillery but will add to them as required.

Also got a couple of books but hopefully I will reign in my temptation to splurge on more goodies, now is the time to get back to some painting and basing as I have a tonne to do. I really fancy doing some Dominion of Frederick the Great games, very abstract set of rules but easy to set up and play and I have pretty much all I need painted and based, you don't need a lot to get into it. I thought about these rules as they are an easy set up and a quick game which suits my health at this time.

Anyway every day sees a little bit more of an improvement and looking forward to getting back to normality, here's a photo of the match from Saturday, why I haven't a job with paparattzi I will never know!! Inverness Clachnacuddin against Fraserburgh, 4-2 to the away side, good game for the last of the season.