A little Skirmish

I made a flying visit to the Skirmish Toy Soldier Show in Sidcup on Sunday morning and I dragged my long suffering wife ('The Wargaming Widow') along with me. My youngest daughter was away for a Girls Brigade camp weekend and my eldest had other plans so the wife and I had a rare day to ourselves. So we made a flying visit to the Sidcup show before going on to Eltham Palace which is one of our favourite English Heritage properties. We even managed to fit in a quick stop off at a small military museum on the way home so all in all we had a pretty busy but enjoyable day.

Skirmish Wargames put on a Skirmish Wargame at Skirmish (!) - Up Sidcup Creek without a Paddle

Skirmish Wargames - Up Sidcup Creek without a Paddle

Rainham (Medway) Wargames Club - Colonial Sudan with a very nice paddle steamer in the foreground

Rainham (Medway) Wargames Club - Colonial Sudan

Privateers of London - Ancient Naval Game

Ashford Model Club playing a game of Bolt Action I think

Lots of tanks in a very small area..

Old Guard - Songs of Blades and Heroes

Old Guard - Songs of Blades and Heroes

Hornchurch Heroes

Medway Wargames with some very nice 'Tripod' models

Medway Wargames

The guys from Crush the Kaiser playing a WWII game

As usual a nice little show with just enough to wet the appetite. I didn't spend anything this time partly because I'm on an economy drive (unemployment does that) and partly because I'm an idiot and forgot that I needed some Varnish! As always I spent almost as much time chatting with friends and acquaintances as I did looking at the stalls. All of which makes this a very friendly and easy going little event which neatly fills an hour or two on a Sunday morning. Even the wife seemed to enjoy the show. Surrounded by all those wargaming geeks I was sure she would be a bit uncomfortable but she seemed pretty relaxed in the company of my gaming buddies... Maybe after all these years she's getting used to our strange ways?!