Topiary is the art of clipping evergreen trees and shrubs into symmetrical shapes to create ornamental garden features. Topiary clipping is as old as gardening itself dating back to ancient Egypt.
I, however, decided to let my Bush grow wild…no trimming allowed…I did make some a bit bigger or smaller to increase variety.
I would have got a lot further but we stopped for family game time. I did however get a first coat on the cave after thus photo was taken. I am doing these for my mate.
I haven’t forgotten my 6mm Italian wars stuff, I just needed to ease my way back into painting.
I must have overdone it as I slept for 14 hours straight last night so I took things a bit easier today.
I spent a lot of itjust chilling and also slicing some stuff for the printer…. I did find my Catalucian Guerillas who will become part of my Silver Bayonet force…
My main present was the Ironclads kickstarter which drops mid January. So I got a funky Mr Grumpy mug and some fudge so that I had something to open today. The kids got me a nice selection of Contrast paints.
The kids enjoyed their presents and my wife loved her fishy stitch markers…
She also liked her bag and new wool that I got her.
I hope you got some cool things too. Having an early night tonight as I am a bit popped again.
Well Santa is already on his way and He will soon be with some of you… evidently according toNORAD he is over Budapest as I type this… you can track him here: Where is Santa?My family are all watching Nativity, evidently it is funny, but I really cannot be bothered with it this evening. I am sitting in bed working out a force list for Silver Bayonet… I have my Flintloque Ferach.. AKA French as well as some Spannish guerrillas… I need to get some regulars to boost the Spaniards.
I actually managed to get out in the car today, I drove into town to get some stocking fillers. I also managed to get the presents wrapped and went to do the horse too. Looks like I am definitely onntge mend… totally knackered now 😉
While I was getting some of the hidden gifts out I came across one of my Christmas presents from 1973… I reckon presents have changed since then 😀…
As Christmas Eve draws on I just want to say a Merry Christmas to you all and hope Santa is good to you this year wherever you are… in case you live in Krakow, Poland…he is nearly there…
Surprisingly I managed to avoid Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’… must be a record…okay I have been in bed for over two weeks and not been out the house in three weeks.
Speaking of Christmas songs or Carol’s to be more specific, this has a special place in my heart. When I was still south I was in Durham on a freezing, snowy night and was passing the Cathedral, the light shone through the windows colouring the snow. This was coming out of the building as the choir practiced. I went and sat at the back and it was one if the most magical sounds I have ever heard and this is from someone who isn’t that religious…https://youtu.be/RPMTjEKHR00
Although I am definitely on the mend, I am still not 100%. I didn’t sleep well last night due to coughing, so slept in until 11.30 but I have been able to stay up all day and actually managed to potter about doing bits and bobs in the house.
I also managed to get some slicing done, I have an idea for my wife’s Christmas present and as they are all going out tomorrow, my plan is to try and get it done then.
I have got into Battlefield V on the console and there is a mix of people, some who think a tank is indestructible and charge into the enemy positions and others who play a tank like a tank should be played, carefully without infantry support.
I usually play as a medic and do my best to help my team mates, unfortunately not everyone thinks the same and will run past my riddled body to go and claim the flag. If you want to do that play as an assault trooper, not a medic. I reckon my blood pressure is up this evening because of knackers.
Still not 100% but I have been up mostof the day, Peak Flow is now up to 500, so the reaching is improving too.
I didn’t do much at all, today apart from fill the dishwasher a couple of times throughout throughout day. I managed to also make a starting glueing my mates miniatures together and onto their pennies, to match the previous ones…
I need to find some more pennies, but I do have a mountain of them somewhere, just where…
I also managed to get the resin beasties sprayed too… hopefully I can get some painting started tomorrow if I am up to it.
Things are definitely picking up. I managed to spend a day out of bed, back in there now, as I am a bit zonked, but that is the first day I have spent out of bed. Okay I sat on the sofa for most of it, but I did potter around the kitchen and got it sorted out a bit and managed to get the tea started too.
I also managed to get this lot glued down ready for a bit of an undercoat tomorrow…
They are just done with Copydex, so should come away from the bases easy enough when I need them to.
Hopefully tomorrow will follow today’s trajectory.
Woodlouse I managed 90 minutes up today doing things, the downside was that I needed to go and lie down again afterwards, but I managed it so that is good.
The down side with all this being in bed is boredom. I have watched YouTube nonstop now and have pretty much run through all of the back catalogue of the channels I subscribe to. I am now on the fringe areas of YouTube and am seeing if I have ASMR… the one channel that does totally chill me out is the Crafsman Show. Absolutely love that channel.
Today I ended up watching the Hornby channel… simply because he was making a Ffestiniog Railway based board. I worked there as a student for about 8 years, so was bit interested.
I am now, as I said, very bored of bed and tomorrow I am going to go for a day up on the sofa.
Bogenwald 