AND A NEW ONE HAS JUST BEGUN…

“Another year over. And a new one just begun,” as a wise man once said. As we pass the shortest day of the year here in the UK, the long winter evenings always seem the perfect moment to contemplate and reflect, and as the chapter of 2024 closes and the fresh, empty page of 2025 lies before us, to think not just of the past but, more importantly, the future. As usual, the constant march of technological development continues at a pace that, were we to stop and log its progress, would amaze us. However, busy people that we are, we tend to simply ride on the rising tide of innovation and invention and enjoy its benefits without pausing for thought.

Richard Clarke

The change of the hobby since the advent of the internet is something I have oft commented on. How it has brought us together as one large world-wide community, rather than existing as a myriad of isolated groups, strewn across the firmament of the hobby like stars, each shining but never connected with others in a coherent manner. As I type this, I look back on my trip to Historicon last summer and look forward to Cancon in Australia in the coming weeks. Great examples both of how we truly exist in a global hobby with friendships that span the planet. One of the highlights of 2024 for me was meeting some friends from the US at a Lardy games Day in the Netherlands. Yet, as we continue to benefit…

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