And a Happy New Year to you, old chum.
I have a similar 9/10 year-old memory, only it was Easter and I was watching The Great Escape while painting Napoleonic soldiers with a glass of orange squash and a couple of biscuits. I remember thinking that life didn't get much better than that. I was probably right, to be fair.
I liked The Battle of the Bugle, but it's one that historical knowledge has ruined for me. I went through thon Anthony Beevor book about it and they didn't mention Robert Shaw once.
Are you doing your usual January flit to foreign climes to avoid weather this year?