So you’re underway with word games. What next? Time for a bit of hand-slapping. By which I mean games that involve hands to play the game – with the potential for a bit more overtly competitive behaviour, if you want. 1) The classic is Hand Sandwich. One person puts one hand on a flat surface: …
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Game on: playing with worms
I think you know by now that I like the odd pun, a spot of alliteration. So when I say playing with worms, it’s really about playing with words. There. Â Just to reassure you. Playing with words may not feel like playing a game – and in a sense, it’s not. But wordplay is still …
Game on: confessions of a reluctant game-player
I had a plan, see. Six topics: six months. Â Then I’d go round the topics again. Five down already. And the next one up was due to be travel. Except that I’m not in the mood yet. To do a month of travel posts, you really need pictures to go with them. And I’m not …
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Eco audit: results in
I may not have quite filled the month with posts. But February has come to an end, and I thought it would be worth rounding out the audit by seeing what I thought of the results. Some of what I felt self-important about in my teens – like basic recycling – is now mainstream. Some of it …
Eco audit: on the outside, looking in
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, the time of my teens, a few key things happened that put eco-wheels in motion for me. For one, I went to places where eco was made accessible, possible – and carried out as a mainstream way of living. I went to other places where life was still familiar, …