15/06/2008 (Day 2.167) - A Father/Son Consultation

Today I am both celebrating my father and celebrating being a father.

I have always been interested in playing games with toy-soldiers, and started doing it 'properly' with rules and such (wargaming) when I was about 10 or 11. However I was too young to join our local wargames club. My dad was less interested in the games, but did have an interest in military history, so joined up so that I could go along with him. Of course he became as active a member as I (in fact more so), and we both wargame regularly. So I have him to thank for allowing me to pursue my hobby and he has me to thank for introducing him to a new one :-)

Having grown up with games all around him, it was inevitable that Cei would have some interest as well - he's a third-generation wargamer. Today we were both at the Valhalla show in Farnborough, helping the Staines Wargamers run the 'Earth Attacks!' Victorian sci-fi game. In this picture we are discussing the advance of the British infantry towards a Martian canal.

A year ago today I was at a swimming gala.

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Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Farnborough (show map)

Taken on: June 15, 2008

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