Yes, it's "hammering down outside!" as we say round here! Been raining all day, and looks like it'll be raining all afternoon and evening, as well.
So, what does a wargamer do in the rain? Well, sort out his his hobby room, that's what!
What!!! Why not paint a few soldiers? Or set up & play a small skirmish game? Well, the reason why not, is simple... My hobby room is now *so* full of (family) junk - boxes of my dear old mum's photos, when we had to move her out of her Assisted Living flat into a proper Car Home; our family photos, and boxes of paperback books, which I read years ago, but can't bear to part with! And so-on, and so-on...
So "spring cleaning" it has to be, then. And *then* I can - perhaps - have sufficient space to erect my small gaming table and set up a dinky-little skirmish game.
Question? When *was* the last time I set up, and played, a wargame? ... ... Oh, only about ten or more years ago, that's all (!!!) And even that was only the second or third game I'd ever set up on the dining room table. After that last game - and the succeeding ones - the missus had complained *so* much about the "mess on the table" and "not that silly wargames stuff again!" that I lost heart, and hence my hobby room started to get used by anyone wanting to store other junk... Till now! The fight-back has already started - this week - and now I'm going to stop typing and start sorting out my hobby room for the rest of the afternoon.
