And of course life got in the way. Since the car crash of 2010 it's been nothing but a game of dodgems for me, falling in love is chaos after a decade of being a shut-in scanning comics and hosting a chat room for toy fans, which as we all know led our lives to the Vacation In The Shadows boxset earlier in the same year! I also passed a kidney stone a month before the Shads were announced - it was excruciating - if you don't know what a renal colic feels like, try to imagine bollock cramp.
The tube between my kidneys and my testicle had a cramp and I woke feeling like I'd been kicked in the balls.
I jamp out of bed to run to the bin so that I could throw up, but I didn't make it that far. Every muscle in my body contracted at once, I felt like I was being electrocuted.
I crawled my way to the desk, I swung my arm to club the phone to the floor. I jabbed my friend upstairs phone number with my clawed hand. It took forever, all I could do was move one arm and watch the phone. I misdialled three times. The fourth, it went to voicemail. I redialled, he answered and I croaked "Call an Ambulance"
According to Wikipedia it's one of the four worst pains a human body can endure, on the same level as childbirth and getting shot. I don't f*cking recommend it at all.
And then Vacation in the Shadows given to me by you lot, knocked me square on my ass
And then I got hit by a truck a shoved into a teeming motorway airport roundabout a few months later, and woke up somehow not dead but in a parallel reality. Crazy f*cking year. Now I'm 40 with no kids, my own house an amazing landlady, the majority of my hair, chronic f*cking whiplash and a 23 year old girlfriend who loves me. I can't wait for you all to meet her! The only drawback is that she's Scottish and if they get independence next week I'm gonna have to head North with her! I quite like the idea, the music scene is way better there than Nottingham... it just sucks as I've finally found a decent place to live!
I so wish I could have done the book as well, if I ever can find the time then I'd like to do it one day, but the ideas I have require so much bloody work at this point the only hope is a group project.
Anybody interested in helping?
Back to the point, I have apologised to all of the customers who have waited patiently and I have refunded all but three orders. I have two 30th Anniversary Magazines up on ebay, which I'll use to cover that. I've broken even, which is all I've ever wanted from BFTB.
So my Action Force collection in 2014 consists of my
Vacation in the Shadows giftboxset 
complete with 
BFTB Certificate of Authenticity 
, a Secret Base, Staff Car, 
Hawk & 
Blades, 
Z-Cycle and 
Quarrel, 
Gaucho, 
Jammer and 
Doc, 
Dolphin, 2x 
Silent Attack & Natalie Poole and Action Man and an unopened 
Bombardier...... 
Baron Ironblood equipped with the Vacation Black Major's whip, a Roboskull, 
Red Jackal, 2x 
Skeletrons v2, 
Red Laser and a pristine non-Dufus original Red Shadow without accessories from last year's Roll Out Roll Call. And this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271608591021? ... 1558.l2649
If I can find a buyer befoe RORC 2014 I'll have enough to cover the hotel, two tickets and the travel costs. Fingers crossed, All In!
