Slitherine

Hi Steve,

We only had 2 25mm entries, you and Richard Jeffrey-Cooke, so I am having to pull that competition and will note that you're in the 15mm instead. Very sorry, but with only 2 entries there isn't much choice!

For what it's worth, I sent you an email on 10 March - did you not receive it?

Tim

Final call for entries - closing date is 21 March, at which point we need to finalise the orders for tables, rooms etc.

Anyone dithering, swithering or generally still conducting negotiations with better halves - please buy her that box of chocolates now and get your entry in!

Cheers,

Tim Child
www.bhgs.org.uk

[SoundsLikeRobTaylor]

When are we getting runners and riders then?

[/SoundsLikeRobTaylor]

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Mr Ruddock !!

I was just saying to Paul Johnston today that I haven't asked for the runners & riders at any event for many a month but people now keep abusing my name when they ask for the runners & riders.

What will it take for people to forget my initial eager enthusiasm before I started filling my boots with trophies?

Rob

Robert241167 wrote:What will it take for people to forget my initial eager enthusiasm before I started filling my boots with trophies? Rob

Death by old age.

dave_r wrote:[SoundsLikeRobTaylor]

When are we getting runners and riders then?

[/SoundsLikeRobTaylor]

Soon just checked last list version 10 of Mr ********* he finally got it right
Will get them to Tim or i will publish them if i get the nod of Tim.

Andy

ney63 wrote:

dave_r wrote:[SoundsLikeRobTaylor]

When are we getting runners and riders then?

[/SoundsLikeRobTaylor]

Soon just checked last list version 10 of Mr ********* he finally got it right
Will get them to Tim or i will publish them if i get the nod of Tim.

Andy

Top stuff - everybody appreciates the task you do Andy, but very few say thanks afterwards!

Cheers pal.
Andy

Hi guys,

Just to remind you that the Challenge venue is open from Friday for you to gather your wits and your friends and take on all comers.

Ian Mackay et al will be running some Saga try-out games, so those of you yet to experience the joys of Saga (wargames, not cruises...) can have a taste of this particular new brand of wargaming addiction!

Chris Hanley will also be running his Biggles game, which is an annual highlight for those who have played it in the past.

The tables will be laid out, and you can play pick-ups, practices and anything else that takes your fancy.


On the Saturday, like last year we intend to offer a cold buffet spread for those not going out (just Saturday – Friday night is going out night! ). The halls will be open and available for gaming – last year people produced board games and card games and any other sort of games for a chance to pull some golden oldies and old favourites out and enjoy them in the company of your mates.

It would be very helpful to me if people could please let me know a.s.a.p. whether they will want the Saturday night buffet, in an effort to avoid too much over- or under-catering. Cost will be a few quid, somewhat dependent upon how much take-up I have!

And, of course, the BHGS fully-licensed beer fridge will be available throughout the weekend, while stocks last...

Cheers, and look forward to hearing from you,

Tim Child

Tim - do you ever sleep? I always check the times of your posts and they are nearly always after midnight although this one sets a record!,

Are you an insomniac or really "Tim the Vampire"?!

Don

Just a busy man, Don - horrible week at work (which I could have done without), club night (because I needed it), an hour's chat to the missus when I got home (because I needed it ), and then a load of Challenge admin (because it needed it...)

dave_r wrote:

ney63 wrote:

dave_r wrote:[SoundsLikeRobTaylor]

When are we getting runners and riders then?

[/SoundsLikeRobTaylor]

Soon just checked last list version 10 of Mr ********* he finally got it right
Will get them to Tim or i will publish them if i get the nod of Tim.

Andy

Top stuff - everybody appreciates the task you do Andy, but very few say thanks afterwards!

I think you're great as well Andy. And I'm not Mr *********, or it didn't take me 10 attempts.

Not sure you have the stamina for 10 attempts...

I'm amazed Andy has the stamina for 10 attempts. I usually just write the list for them when they hit 4 - having your FOG list written for you by a DBMM player is the penalty you pay for getting it wrong that often...

Tim

timmy1 wrote:Not sure you have the stamina for 10 attempts...

You can get pills for almost anything these days Tim.

Hi All,

I've had a query about local eateries etc for the Challenge (for Friday night, obviously, as you'll all be staying in and playing board games on Saturday ).

There's only one that's very local - a pub just up the road in the village. The school has quite a long drive - it's a good 10 minute walk, or 15 minute amble, I would guess, from the main school buildings to the pub itself. Emma and I had lunch there when we were checking the place out and it was perfectly acceptable. Nothing special, not that cheap, not that dear. No idea what it's like on a Friday or Sunday night, though - we were there on a working-day lunchtime, the week before Warfare.

http://www.thedukesayerscommon.co.uk/

If you are driving/being chauffeured, at Hickstead (one stop up the A23) there's a pub that has a "Shanghai Brasserie", the Castle Inn - http://www.thecastleinnhickstead.eu/index.html.

Slightly further away (but by the time you're car-sharing not enough to make any difference), there is Burgess Hill to the east, which has all the usual amenities, or Brighton and Hove to the South - head down the A23 and follow it into Brighton and you will find somewhere. In the centre of Brighton the nightlife can be extremely cosmopolitan. and I used to work there, 15 years ago, and have very fond memories of some of the restuarants in the Lanes. There was an Indian on the Lewes Road (probably long gone now) where I had the nicest Lamb Rogan Josh I have ever had.

Tim

What time is it worth arriving on Friday?

Peter

What time is it worth arriving on Friday?

I expect I'll will be arriving about 7pm (traffic/weather etc permitting). I'm not going to feel like a Fog Game at that point and, given the distance to anywhere outside and the late finish Saturday, I'll probably bring some board games (ones that don't have a huge play time). So, if anyone fancies giving any the following a try please let me know and I'll bring it (I don't intend to bring all of them):

Conquest of Planet Earth
Discworld Ankh-Morpork
Dominion (plus Intrigue and Seaside expansions)
Glory to Rome
Lords of Waterdeep
Olympos
Seven Wonders
Zombicide

For what it's worth, as advertised earlier there will be a games-sesh for those staying in-venue on Saturday night too. I have had a decent, although not huge, takeup for the Saturday cold buffet - I could do with a shout from anyone who has decided to stay with us that evening?!

I will be bringing Shadows over Camelot and Morded with me.

Tim Child

Final arrangements being made...

Unfortunately, Ian Mackay has had to pull out of the event, which means that the SAGA demos that he had been going to put on are now rather more restricted. I will have my Welsh with me, and Tom Frankland will be arriving some time during Friday, at which point the boyos will be available to anyone who would like to borrow them to have a bash at SAGA.

This of course makes no difference to any other arrangements anyone was planning - the tables will be up, clothed and yours to enjoy yourselves upon in any fashion your fancy may (reasonably) take you. Last year, as well as pickup games there were various other one-offs happening, and of course it would be an opportunity to get the dust and rust off any board games that you may have brought with you for the Saturday night.

I have had a couple of queries about arrangements when you get to LVS Hassocks - where to park, how to get in, etc. It's a much smaller site that LVS Ascot so you won't have any problems. The driveway leads into the main school area and there are only two main doors. I hope that we will have the doors open at the top of the main flight of stairs that leads to the hall where the FOG AM and FOG N will be, but it's all off one initial courtyard.

In case you need directions, the postcode is BN6 9HT. If you aren’t Satnav.ed:-

• Heading South down the A23 you turn off the A23 where you see a sign saying “Hurstpierpoint, Albourne, Henfield B2118” (there is a tiny little sign underneath the main one, saying “Sayers Common”).
• Follow the slip road around, over the main road, until you reach a roundabout, where you turn left “Hurstpierpoint, Albourne, Henfield B2118, Sayers Common”
• You are now in Sayers Common. Follow the road along and the entrance to LVS is the first major driveway on the right (it is signposted LVS Hassocks quite clearly)
• Go up the school drive to the main school entrance, park in the car park and come in through what is likely to be the only obvious entry!

All the accomodation blocks are under one roof within the main school building, albeit that the FOG R and FOW competitions themselves will be in portacabin classrooms just out the back. I hope that you all enjoy it when you get there - it's a very interesting building (a former abbey!) and I am keeping my fingers crossed for fine weather to enjoy the countryside views around.

Cheers,

Tim