Success! Failure! The Human Condition!

Success!
     No thousand parents for this success, only Conrad.  Yesterday I made up some burgers from scratch, only for one of them to fall apart whilst being removed from the grill.  Birdsweat, quoth I (for Conrad avoids vulgarity), not enough binding.  Today I shredded some bread and toasted the resulting crumbs, mixed them into the burger mix - and produced 4 very tasty burgers which did not disintegrate and which were devoured by the assembled family.

Like mine.  Drooling audience needs to be imagined.

Failure
     Today I got an e-mail from Noble Knight Games, an American company that specialises in out-of-print hex and counter wargames.  A game I ordered back in June had been returned to them as "Not Called For", and I now have to pay $58 to have it redelivered.  Not Called For?  Apparently this is my fault as my telepathy ought to have informed me that it was ready for collection, since Royal Mail certainly didn't.
     What was the game?  O I'm so glad you asked!  "Operation Crusader", about the 8th Army's winter offensive of 1941 - 1942.  Thousands of counters, huge maps, a big thick rulebook and - the real kicker - simultaneous movement.  Yes, I thought that would impress you!


Roger MacGowan artwork for a Frank Chadwick game.  Those are Infantry Tank Mk II Matildas, FYI

 The Human Condition
     Er, not sure what to post here, it seemed like a good Blog title.  I'll get back to you on this.

Obloquy
    Language again, chaps.  "Obloquy" is so transparently a Russian anarchist author of the 1870's that it would be foolish to deny.  And yet ...  It actually means being disgraced.  Disgraced?  A fantastic combination of letters reduced to such bathos.  Pah!  I prefer to remember his work on peasants in one of the Minsk oblasts and how they aspired to primitive socialism <cont. Page 94>

So - Tanks?

A Finnish Vickers 6 Ton Tank, which is also a recognised tongue-twister

 Gentlemen - and ladies - meet the Vickers Model E or 6 ton tank.  Never used by the British army, it served in numerous armies abroad.  Finland, as mentioned above.  Also the Soviet Union, who filed the serial numbers off and called it the T26. They built thousands of them.

Dilemma
     I really want to nail that Pecan and Pistachio ice-cream recipe.  Do I wait until tomorrow or bash away at it tonight?   

<imagine a long pause here>

Tonight.  Then I can put the ice-cream maker bowl back in the freezer and use it tomorrow.

Ta Ta!