Chairty Swim for British Heart Foundation - to done!

Hi One and All,

I've skipped the weeks hobby activities with some training for a charity swim I am doing over this weekend- its a 1.6 mile sea swim between 2 piers in Dorset UK, I've done this event 6 years ago, the link to my 'just giving' page is below..

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/davidhalfpenny2018

 From Local Paper!

Well deserved Drink after the swim

Any support would be amazing, thank you for the time in looking at this post- normal hobby activities will return next week, promise!

LH

Happy Christmas! And the Charity Giveaway Prize goes to...

A huge thank-you to all our readers who pop in and say hi to our corner of the blogosphere. And a bigger thanks to the entrants to the Charity giveaway. It was only an arbitrary figure of:

... page views and now that's accelerated to over 531,000 already! Jeez, I'll have to start thinking what to give for the Millionth page view at this rate, lol.

So the crunch of the article, I used a random.org number generator to choose the random number click that would win, each entrant donation of whole £1 translated to a single entry, so a number was generated and the lucky winner was:

£69.26 raised so 69 whole pounds of entry tickets. Using Random.org generator:

Number 10, the tenth ticket happens to be among the first donation! Congrats to:

NICK THROWER

Contact me buddy with your address and I'll get this prize to you.

Thank-you for everyone who donated to this worthy cause, you are good good people. And thank-you to all the readers for making the WeeMen blog one of your blogroll regular reads, cheers.

WeeMen 500,000 page views. Thanks - Blog Giveaway time!

A huge thank-you to all our readers who pop in and say hi to our corner of the blogosphere. So in WeeMen tradition and other blogger buddies who I encourage to do similar, (and do, well done guys!) I thought a rather nice prize giveaway was in order.

We started the blog as a place to share between us what we were up to, and anyone else could drop in if they wanted. Lord Halfpenny and I don't live in the same town. 6thDegree joined us and lives further away so the blog helps us keep our hobby mojo going and share our interests. The blog is also 8 years old and 700 posts - my first post is one on basing made simple and we hit half a million page views at the end of November! (Although, no idea how many are bots...)

Now for some bigger blogs out there where I frequent, looking at you fantastic Battle Bunnies, Tale of Painters and Faeit212, 500,000 page views is probably a monthly occurrence! But for us, its a nice purely arbitrary milestone.

As you can see, the blog readership is growing over time, thanks in some part to Reddit links which is nice, but more importantly, we have met some wonderful blogger buddies through the blog and especially BlogWars (Cheers Alex at From the Fang), used their talents for painting (Mordian7th, Pirate Viking Painting, Blue Warp Studios and recently 30Kplus40K) and even met up for a battle (Admiral Drax) and arranged meet ups at Gameday but missed due to queues (soz Drake Seta, Col H).

And a shout out to a few blogger buddies, who keep coming back and commenting, or inspiring . Nice chaps all, please check out their blogs for more hobby goodness. And apologies if you don't see your name, I haven't listed everyone, in no particular order:

Dave Taylor at Dave Taylor Miniatures
Dave Weston at Confessions of a 40K Addict - thanks for the picture of 500,000 too!
Zzzzzz at DevosIV
Corrm at St Andrews Wargaming
Joe B at Broken Paintbrush
Andrew and Col F at Iron Legions
Rictus at Recalcitrant Daze
Shadow and Drake (again) at Titan Owners Club
Nick Thrower at The Burning Eye
Rory Priest at Stepping Between Games
NafNaf at Objective Secured
Ron at FromTheWarp - we miss you mate!

See loads of positive hobby great stuff out there!

Now about that giveaway - what to do to get your hands on a chance to win the prize. Well, it could be subscribe, or write some fluff, but I'd rather use this to do some good at this time of year (of course these will be good too, please follow the Blog or put us in your sidebar!). I will post up who the lucky single winner is around Christmas, so please donate for a chance to win this giveaway prize! Thank-you. And it is a sad state of affairs when you have to put quasi-legal speak on a charity giveaway, but that's the way of the world...

Check out the link below or Charity Button in the sidebar >>>>> to the Just Giving page to 'sponsor' me giving funds to Cancer Research UK.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/WeeMen-Raffle

Only one single prize of a Collectors Edition Space Marine Terminator Chaplain BNIB, entry to the prize raffle is via a one pound donation, each single pound will qualify for a single entry. Winner chosen by me using random number generator and winner notified by a BlogPost here on the blog jsut after Christmas Day 2016. No cash alternatives, items lost in post will not be refunded, i will obtain proof of postage and post to wherever the winner notifies me via the comments on the blog or PM via Google etc. Its a charity giveaway - I bought the prize already, the charity gets all the funds via Just Giving.com

DONATE to this fantastic cause, close to my heart, for a chance to win!

2011- Swimming Challenge

Hi!

I will be participating in another crazy challenge (to go with the Reaver!) I'm taking part in the annual Pier the Pier swim for the British Heart Foundation. This is a 1.4 mile swim from the pier in Bournemouth to the pier in Boscombe. The annual event is celebrating its 50th year, with 1400 swimmers taking part! I'll be looking forward to a cold beer(s) at the end!


The link is below,

http://www.justgiving.com/David-Halfpenny

thanks for looking-- Dave (aka PornStarJedi)

Legio Custodes Army for Sale - Davetaylorminiatures

Go check out Dave Taylor Miniatures blog for a chance to buy this awesome army for a good cause. Used picture without permission but I doubt Dave will object to the free publicity. The wider the audience, the more potential bidders.

He is raising funds for some Buddies who have had a bad time of things recently and you get to own a brilliant customized army whilst doing some good. I've bid but it's rightly getting pricey!

Blog article found here