This is a little temporal interlude, so to speak, which is fitted in before other events I'll no doubt relate, such as 'The .44 Magnum as laxative' or 'Toolboxes in self defence'. Perhaps even 'What have you got in that ammo box sunshine?' I was wandering around Fackham Hall this morning, when my eye fell upon two samll boxes on what is otherwise a book shelf. They were a sealed and opened copy of the 1981 Metagaming microgame 'Trailblazer'. In 1983 I purchased my original copy in a 50p bargain bin even which Games Workshop sometimes ran. I took it with me to Thornbridge Hall in the Peak District, on a week long residential with school in the summer of '84 where we generally spent the week, sketching the scenery or in the evening, simplyfucking about - well, most of the rabble did - unless like a small group of us, you locked yourself in your room (3 of us to a 6-person room - LUXURY) roleplaying and boardgaming. Thornbrisdge Hall is now private...