A walk, a hero and a completed project

Actually the title is a bit of a misnomer. There are pictures from two walks below. Two walks that could easily have been done together. But still two different days.

First this example of topical topiary.

The next day the Margravina and I took a walk from Petersham (by the Thames between Richmond and Kingston) into Richmond for a spot of light lunch in French place that specialises in galettes (savoury pancakes made from buckwheat). Afterwards we walked back along the river to the car.

This chap was spotted.

Then this one! Answers on a postcard.

Petersham Meadows. It was not as late as it looks.

Back to that post title being a misnomer. I don’t know about Bernardo O’Higgins (seems 1 too many Os), but that ‘completed project’ is only completed in the narrowest sense. I still need to make those trees for the roadsides (‘garnish’ as Monsieur Broom terms them) and acquire some suitable Italian style buildings. But here we are, one small Spanish force and one, slightly smaller, Piedmontese force.

One of the Piedmontese cavalry units (2 bases) is actually a tweaked and re-purposed French unit. I only had enough figures for one but there was a spare pack of horse grenadiers in bearskins. A flick through the French cavalry pages on Kronoskaf showed me that a few regiments switched to bearskins so now I have two such units.

Hopefully I’ll find the time over the next 10 days to fit in a small game with them.

If I don’t catch you before, Merry Christmas!