Three months in ... and where did the time go?

Its is now the second day of April, and we are already three months into 2021 ... and one begins to wonder, where did all that time go?

Because the UK has been in lockdown for most of that time, those of us who are no longer working have had time to do loads of things, but looking back, I seemed to have little to show for three months of enforced idleness ... but on reflection, I have actually done more that I realised. Since January I have helped to organise VCOW2021 and over recent weeks I have been helping to set the wheels in motion to ensure that COW2021 takes place. Admittedly, COW2021 will be taking place under restrictions imposed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, but this is a major advance of what happened last year, when we had to cancel COW2020.

In addition, I have:

• Tinkered with various versions of THE PORTABLE wargame, and begun planning the next book in the series, which will I hope will cover the American Civil War.
• Revived my interest in warfare at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in particular I have read up about the various annual manoeuvres that took place in the UK and abroad.
• Helped to revive interest in FUNNY LITTLE WARS by renovating and basing some otherwise unused figures that I had in storage to form my ARMY KHAKI and encouraging their author to republish them.
• Been featured four times in the same issue of WARGAMES ILLUSTRATED.
• Developed some ideas for mini-campaigns that will use the Snakes & Ladders Campaign system/matrix.
• Written several book reviews and presented two online Masonic talks.

When I consider that this was done in the aftermath of my pre-Christmas surgery, and whilst I was recovering from its aftereffects, I don't think that I have actually wasted much time over the last three months.