There are found items – and then there are ones you find again. Which feel pretty much as good, as it turns out. There is an obvious mismatch between what kids want weekends to be about, and what parents want weekends to be about. Parents’ thoughts tend to drift towards savoured cups of coffee, reading, …
Category archives: Art and visual
Living dangerously
Call it the hot and sticky weather (unusual for Scotland). Call it the approach of 40. Call it the congruence of thoughts and various blog posts. Whatever I call it, it feels like a call, of sorts, to shake a few things up. Try some new things. Live dangerously, even – or dangerously for me. …
Game on: treasure hunts
This one wasn’t my game – it was devised by the oldest of the junior players, on our recent holiday. Â It worked really well, so I thought I’d share it with you. (As I’m on catch up on posts, I’m writing in early April, after Easter – but putting the date as a post in …
Game on: pairs
Call it pairs, call it pelmanism – it’s all about matching. And memory. And when it comes to memory, junior players often do pretty well. This is another card game – one which needs a bit of space to spread. So this is one that’s less good for the train, OK for the floor (for …
Game on: bagatelle
At my parent’s house, there’s a little piece of history – and wonder – hidden under the sideboard. A bagatelle board, picked up at an auction, back when my parents were keen to go to little local auctions as a way of picking up a few bits of furniture cheaply. We had a lot of …