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My daughter is now old enough to play board games and once again the five years of time and money invested in her starts to become worth it, as I get to play games too. And sometimes, if she’s ready for school and we have twenty minutes we get to do that at 8 o clock in the morning. We did Frozen charades yesterday and what I quite admire about my daughter is that she’ll basically just try and adopt the shape of what she is and then give no further clues. She made herself into the moon by trying to look as spherical as possible and then it was up to me to work out what that was.
If only she’d mimed the stick I might have got it. But that might be too much to expect, right?
She got Guess Who? for her birthday and I have taught her well (telling her to ask if it’s a boy or a girl first is basically the main tactic, though I will often do something stupidly specific for the first couple of goes to let her get ahead - but managed to correctly guess Liz straight out of the gate the other day which only made my daughter cry, when she should have been applauding my telepathy) and she plays it very well.
It’s OK as long as Ernie doesn’t turn up and start knocking all the flaps down. Don’t have two kids or you really miss out on the game playing bonus at five years, because the second one won’t understand the etiquette and will ruin almost everything.
We also got kids’ Cranium which we played tonight after pancakes. I mean seriously, how can life be this good. Board games AND pancakes. No one ever tells you about the good stuff about having kids. The only tricky part is engineering it so she wins. Like her father this girl is a very bad loser and even a bad not being in first placer. The problem with games that rely on luck is that it’s actually very tricky to lose them.
It’s terrific to be at home so much and also to have very little imminent work pressure. Although I barely used my gym last year, I am there four or five times a week at the moment and can envisage my life of retirement, exercising, drinking coffee, eating avocado on toast and then coming home to play with the kids. I’ll have to retire now for that last bit to work entirely and I might have enough money to make that work if only I wasn’t keeping myself alive longer with the exercise.
It will soon be back to doing too much work to be able to justify giving up my morning for games and group cycle, but I am fortunate to be able to do this stuff every now and again and still be able to get by.
Stone clearing, chapter fifty-feven recorded this morn. Might be a stone origin story.
Trigger Warning - if you think a masseur has touched your winkie during a massage then this podcast might bring up memories of that. As might this trigger warning.
And talking of stone clearing I must have received more tweets about that massive stone clearing machine than any other human being on the planet. Been getting them for months. But do keep sending them in in case I forget about it.
