Time goes so quickly these days that the Newsletter seems to come out every week instead of every month! My programme of "vents, other than rutting out this magazine, running a physiotherapy clinic and writing books, is so hectic that there are just not enough hours in the day. For instance, this month alone in addition to a weekly wargames a meeting of the Wessex Military Society I have been to Great Missendan for a "War and Peace" weekend and, with one weekend break, I am off next Saturday to visit with those lively enthusiasts in Bristol -- Steve Curtis, Mike Blake and Ian Colwell who are going to show some of us the delights of the Western Gunfight Wargame. On top of all that, I am off with six or seven other members of the Wessex Military Society and some twenty-five others of the Military Historical Society on a weeks visit with our own coach to chase around the Peninsular battlefields of Spain. The Great Missenden weekend was one of the most enjoyable I can remember spending, with David Chandler and others of the Sandhurst Instructional Staff, lecturing on the battles of 1812 and the background to Tolstoi's novel. As you will find discussed elsewhere in this magazine, there was also a long reconstruction of the Battle of Borodino -- at least that's what it was called! Five of us from the Wessex Military Society attended, meeting Charlie Wesencraft from Durham and other wargamers and subscribers to the Newsletter. One most interesting feature was the manner in which a number of elderly ladies and gentlemen, completely unused to wargaming, sat doggedly through a seven hour wargame without missing a single move! The visit to Bristol is part of the new policy we have in Southampton of asking specialists to give us personal teach-ins of their specialities -- we have been to Worthing and had an enjoyable day fighting to Wargames Research Rules and now comes Bristol. There will be a report on this in our next issue. The trip to Spain probably makes us the envy of the wargames world but it was mentioned in the Newsletter and available to all at what, for this day and age, is a very reasonable fee of £ 62 inclusive. Taking our own coach with an English driver (the same one as we had in Brussels last year) we are going over on the Bilbao ferry, down to Madrid via Burgos, then to Toledo, Avila besides looking over (under David Chandler's supervision) the battlefields of Salamanca and Talavera with others included if time allows. More about that later too! I am delighted to announce the arrival of a most important new wargamer, produced by Neville and Vera Dickinson of Miniature Figurines (without the aid of Dick Higgs or any other designer) a son David. Congratulations and may all his dice fall sixes! Back to Table of Contents -- Wargamer's Newsletter # 133 To Wargamer's Newsletter List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1973 by Donald Featherstone. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com