I was going to post something about this, but Steve Flanagan said it better on the SFSFW mailing list.

Harbinger is now billing itself as “The Only Independent Miniatures Gaming Magazine” (their emphasis). How true.

Except for Ragnarok, Slingshot, Lone Warrior and all the other society magazines.

And Wargames Journal, Total Model and all the other on-line magazines.

And Ravage and Vae Victis.

And Wargames Soldiers and Strategy, the newly-Englished Dadi & Piombo, and Historical Miniature Gamer.

And Miniature Wargames and Wargames Illustrated.

And is a magazine whose avowed editorial policy is to provide a mouhpiece for medium-sized wargames companies actually “independent”, or is it just multiply-dependent?

The water board don’t have any record for our flat that’s distinct from the shop below and as they, very nicely, don’t want to charge us commercial rates want us to go and check with the landlords.

The gas company also don’t have any records for our flat, which only came to light after I asked them to double check - they were quite happy to sign us up to pay for the whole property.

I haven’t heard back from the electricty company after I asked them to make the same double check.

But we do have water, gas and electricity. Here’s hoping we get it for free…

BT have heard of our flat. They have it listed as “flat above Unwins”. Unwins shut at least two years ago. They also say that the earliest they can get an engineer out is September 21st which is rubbish.