A brief look back at 2015 ... and an even briefer look forward to 2016

Looking back over last year's blog entries, it was interesting to see what I wrote about month-by-month. Here are some of the more important topics that I wrote about:

January

• I have been to … Belgium, Denmark, and Norway
• Finishing work on my locomotives and rolling stock
• The ConSims session I attended at King's College, London
• Simple Ironclad rules and ships

February

• Operation Barbarossa Mini-Campaign
• Beginning work on varnishing and basing my collection of Del Prado 25/28mm Napoleonic figures

March

• Continuing work on varnishing and basing my collection of Del Prado 25/28mm Napoleonic figures
• Trouble in Zubia: Colonial Mini-Campaign

April

• Continuing work on varnishing and basing my collection of Del Prado 25/28mm Napoleonic figures
• More trouble in Zubia: Colonial Mini-Campaign

May

• I have been to … Spain, Italy, Greece, Croatia, and Gibraltar
• Continuing work on varnishing and basing my collection of Del Prado 25/28mm Napoleonic figures

June

• Freemasonry and the British Army
• The bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo
• The fifth anniversary of the death of Paddy Griffith
• Continuing work on varnishing and basing my collection of Del Prado 25/28mm Napoleonic figures

July

• The bump in the road outside my house
• COW2015
• I have been to ... Norway

August

• Finishing work on varnishing and basing my collection of Del Prado 25/28mm Napoleonic figures ... for the moment
• One Hour Wargames
• Manifesto

September

• Connections UK 2015
• The Historic Dockyard, Chatham

October

• I have been to ... the USA and Canada

November

• The death of Larry Brom
• Getting a new computer
• Starting work on my modular fortress

December

• Completing the construction of my modular fortress
• Achieving one million 'hits' on my blog
• Re-fighting 'The Attack on Morobad'

Looking forward is much more difficult, but some of the things that I have planned are:

• A cruise to the Canary islands and back
• A cruise to Iceland via Ireland and the Scottish islands
• COW2016 ... of course!
• Expanding my collection of Del Prado 25/28mm Napoleonic figures (I already have some Russians to varnish and base ... and would like to add some more)
• Preparing (i.e. doing a lot of painting and modelling) for my long-planned re-fight of Operation Barbarossa

On the military history front, there are a lot of significant anniversaries in 2016:

• 25th anniversary of the start of Operation Desert Storm
• 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour
• 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War
• 100th anniversary of the Battle of Verdun
• 100th anniversary of the Battle of Jutland
• 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme
• 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings