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Someone told me a story recently:

„An old woman left her house very morning and took a handful of beans in her left pocket with her. Whenever something good or nice happened to her, she put one bean from the left into her right pocket. This way she always remembered how many good things happened to her during the day when she counted the beans in her right pocket at the end of the day.“

Now, what is that good for hobbywise?

Beans in my right pocket:

• painted some HeroQuest models early last year but did not finish the whole lot
• played and finished the Karakvan campaign
• started to build and paint four Warhounds for Adeptus Titanicus, but still in its early stage, while doing this reaaranged the models from Epic I left in boxes three years ago after a Crete trip
• played a handful of games BattleTech
• played Zomicide for the first time in 2nd edition
• played Bloodbowl for the first time in my life
• started to play the first few scenarios for Jaws of the Lion
• prepared and played the first two scenarios of StarGrave
• resumed 3D-printing, did quiet a few buildings, finishing the ones I left a few years ago
• played Team Yankee (GDW) the first time
• purchased several old GDW cosims from the First Battle- and Assault-series

Beans in my left pocket (Plans for 2025, that is!)

• finishing the four Warhounds and two additional Reaver for Adeptus Titanicus
• play Adeptus Titanicus
• play Team Yankee (GDW), also on VASSAL
• continue playing Jaws of the Lion
• start planning, preparing and playing WW III in 6mm
• painting Steel Legion army squad
• painting Oldhammer Halfling snipers
• painting Steel Legion army collection
• doing some scale-modelling by the way

So let’s see what 2025 will bring…

During the Easter holidays we spent some days at family in southern France. We had wonderful 20 degree celsius most of the time and there is a lot of gaming related stuff going on there. We lived near Béziers and visited the medieval town several times. A wonderful place for a fantasy setting!

Béziers was also the hometown of Jean Moulin, an important leader of the Résistance during the second World War. He is said to have united the several factions of resistance in France. Moulin died in custody of the Nazis before the end of the war but in Béziers he is still present.

Close by, Narbonne is another beautiful town which kept its medieval flair. On our visit there we stumbled across an exhibition with medieval costumes at the cathedral. They were made by a group of reenacters based on contemporary sources, old pictures and scripts. Great inspiration for our next visits to medieval markets!

On Easter Monday we were on our way back home but had to wait for our flight in Montpellier. So we walked around the city and came to the magical toy shop of the old-fashioned sort. Of course it was closed this day. Only window shopping this time but we had been there before.

That saved me some money and, for sure, the next trip to wonderful Occitanie is not far away.

As an early Christmas present I treated myself to an old Märklin starter set I found on ebay. And guess what? It’s incomplete! Three curves are missing and no word about in the description. But at least it works.

Oh,boy! I remember that smell of burned iron from my childhood days. Gladly the set was cheap enough not to complain too much and I ordered the missing rails for a really decent price.

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