I’ve not ventured into Second Life – first life quite occupying, thanks. But there are still some attractions to having an alter ego, maybe particularly online, but perhaps a few variations in the everyday too. Before this all starts sounding too ‘multiple personality’, we all do it – because we all fit into each others’ lives …
Category archives: Games
Three little words
Star Wars Monopoly…The festive season is now complete – or at least, the activity while hanging around indoors with people bit. Following Dan’s brainwave for a present for his cousin, who at a tender age has embraced the excitement that is Star Wars, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get a set for ourselves …
Board games for grownups
I’m going to lay my cards on the table straight out – as well as beginning the gaming metaphors – and confirm that I was a bad loser at board games as a child. And so I stopped. Unattracted as I was, equally, to other people being openly competitive, there wasn’t much reason to start again. …
Travel in the real world
About time I put another post out there, keen to extol blogging as I am yet not doing much of it just now… Blame spring cleaning, early summer cleaning, oh there’s another cold snap, cleaning and general furniture shifting. But, for a change, blame holiday…where we deliberately kept off-line. Actually, this gets easier if you …
Sensible mid-life crisis
Maybe it’s another birthday. Or maybe it’s just Facebook. Here are all the ways to try out new cars, pose, acquire a car that suggests there’s a crisis of some kind, or just enjoy beating other people… It probably doesn’t sound terribly healthy. But the Facebook option – aka Petrolhead – does mean that you …