T'was the Night Before Christmas...

...and all around the house the water was dripping...because it has been raining ALL day. I have wisely stayed indoors, away from the malls and other points of gross human congestion and spent the day completing the bases on a number of items.

First is the packed version of the Carlist mountain gun set, plus the ammunition mule that goes with the deployed mountain gun set.

Second is a battalion of Carlist infantry from the Navarre region.

The final item completed today is the second of the Bruno Liebivitz 54mm figures that I bought in Paris inAugust. This time it is a brigadier-trumpeter from the 9th Hussars from the Revolution. He has been sitting on the painting table in a semi completed state for the last couple of months.

As we sit down to dinner on our wet Christmas Eve all that remains is to wish you all a...