I'm sure like most of you, the last 18 months plus have been both trying pretty weird. I've been very fortunate in that I have a reasonable job in the Health Department and can quite happily work from home - which I have been doing since March 2020. I've made it into the office probably 5 times since February 2020 - and I am fine with that.
I'm fortunate that both my wife and I a fully vaccinated, and neither of us mind spending a lot of time at home. The dog thinks this is exactly how life should be and gets very confused if I disappear for longer than about 10 minutes.
So whilst I've been locked down for long periods of time - or at least living as if I was 90% locked down anyway - I not had loads of free time to twiddle my thumbs or complete all my many unfinished projects - I've had to work.
I have managed to paint a few things - mainly for others and I think I've played 1 game since 2019. It was the world's fastest game of Cruel Seas where my freighter was sunk at the beginning of turn 2 -and since that was the primary objective of my opponent, that was that.
Added to that mix we've been planning on moving home to New Zealand for a number of years now - so much of my free time has been preparing for that. That has meant slowly packing up all my toys and day after day of rolling tanks up in bubble-wrap.
Then our house went on the market, was sold and then we entered lockdown again.
So needless to say I haven't had much time or energy for this blog - so I just wanted to say that it will be back - and hopefully once we finally move and settle down again - I'll have more time to focus on the things I enjoy and that includes doing some gaming, model making and figure painting.
I wish you all the best and hope to be back sooner rather than later. That's all for now.
Richard
