Real life has a habit of getting in the way of one’s plans

When my wife and I retired, we expected that we would be able to sit back, relax, and enjoy life at a more leisurely pace. Unfortunately, we soon found that real life has a habit of getting in the way of any plans that we might have.

In my case, my health problems have rather impacted on what I hoped to do and has rather slowed me down. Since the end of 2020 I seem to have been visiting - and sometimes staying in - the two local hospitals on a fairly regular basis and the medication I have been on has added to general feeling of debility. The upshot of this is that although I have the desire to do work on various wargaming projects, I don’t always have the mental energy to do work on them.

I’ve already put my Eastern Front/Great Patriotic War project on the back burner and work on my Belle Époque project seems to have stalled, albeit temporarily. At the moment I am concentrating my efforts on making sufficient 4-inch/100cm square terrain squares to experiment with FP3x3PW and FP5x5PW rules as well as preparatory work on the next PW Compendium and David Crook’s Ironclad Naval Wargame rules.

I will be trying to write blog posts as and when I feel the urge, but I expect that my output might be significantly less than it has been over recent years. I’ll still be here but taking a bit of a break from trying to blog on a daily basis … so if I seem to have disappeared for a few days or a week, don’t worry … real life will have got in the way of my plans, and I’ll be back soon.