"So Carnehan weeds out the pick of his men, and sets the two of the Army to show them drill and at the end of two weeks the men can manoeuvre about as well as Volunteers. So he marches with the Chief to a great big plain on the top of a mountain, and the Chiefs men rushes into a village and takes it; we three Martinis firing into the brown of the enemy".
Kipling "The Man Who Would Be King"
In 1882, the 'London Illustrated News' printed this drawing of a group of people looking (west) towards Portchester Castle (the square tower in the distance). Looks like it was taken from the crossing at Portsbridge - but the view is unrecognisable these days - due to land reclamation, the new road access, and land fill you've got to get a bit higher to be able to see Portchester Castle! 😏
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I have no idea what drives these things, but there are probably cleverer people than I 1 who could drum up Powerpoint2 presentations until the point I lost the will to live, to explain the reasoning....
So I was just typing up my last post and spotted that a review I did of the Zvezda Pz. II kit had an implausible3 number of page views, so on a quiet afternoon, and after 1061 posts (😲) I thought I'd look and see which one was the most popular...... I wonder what drives these things??? I can only assume someone on a more popular blog has mentioned the following for some reason.....!....astonishing..... well.... anyway, it passed an interesting 5 minutes.... 😏
| Entry | Pageviews |
|---|---|
| Zvezda 1/100 (15mm) Pz II.. a review 27 Nov 2012, 5 comments | 3.65K |
| "Arena" - a review... 30 Aug 2013, 3 comments | 1.72K |
| Definition of "Old School"?? 18 Feb 2013, 55 comments | 1.65K |
| Warfare 2016 22 Nov 2016, 4 comments | 1.64K |
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Swedish vs Dutch models and basic notes on infantry organisation in
English Civil War 16 Feb 2019, 9 comments |
1.59K |
| ACW rules - my One Hour Wargames derivative.. 7 Jul 2020, 10 comments | 1.46K |
| 13th Indiana 7 Feb 2017, 8 comments | 1.29K |
| Updated 15mm figure comparison - Infantry 1 Mar 2015, 5 comments | 1.28K |
| "All For a Shilling a Day".. a review.. 29 Mar 2014, 4 comments | 1.27K |
1 you know who you are - shiny silk suit, two sizes too small, loud lining, much taken with talking loudly on latest model Apple iPhone (or whatever is considered must have gadget of that time) while wearing those very pointy shiny leather shoes....
2 in the words of the BBC, "other presentation tools and applications are available"...
3 I'm amazed anyone reads this drivel so anything more than 3 (that's me, my mum, and one accidental hit) is implausible .....
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Laters, as the young people are want to say...
Steve, enjoying the C. J Sansom work that you recommended. Re page views, if you go into your stats and see what countries are ‘reading’ you at the moment, you might get a surprise where the views are coming from …… the bots are often restless :-)
ReplyDeleteAfternoon Norm - thanks for the feedback - you always worry that you are sending people off on a high road to nothing if you recommend a book.. :o) I'm fairly confident with Sansom though - very safe hands... I feel the need to re-read Shardlake, but I may well start with Dominion instead.. as to the clicks - yes, it was all a bit tongue in cheek - most of them are Bots without a doubt
DeleteA nice review of the Pz II model Steve. Maybe the internet algorithms work properly sometimes. 😊
ReplyDeleteCheers Ben - I was, and remain, a fan of those Zvezda 15mm kits - I was all set to have my my prejudices confirmed but all of them to date have gone together well and ended up in a good finished item... "fascinating" thing about the page views for that post is that they all occurred within 2 or 3 days of the post... my assumption is a Bot on amphetamines! :o))
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