It’s a pain that you have to resurrect a game of PINS after the pieces have been put away, especially if you are using Clash of Empires pieces with their attractive cardboard counters showing Hapsburg and Prussian units. But that’s life and you are used to its irritations. You may have passed out in a creche at an afternoon jazz club – after drinking with an old Polish fellow -but you’ll get up and carry on, like you did here!