games
international chess – best description ever
inside have two colour chessman. Two persons can play together atthe same time and this playcan let you enjoy yourself.
translated from your original latin i think.
i got this from a secret santa at a midwinter christmas party last weekend. excellent stuff.
chenniss
ah. the classic combo. chess and beach tennis
air hockey
i had yesterday off work as we were expecting builders to start work (now delayed 2 weeks – ho hum). since jane was at work and the girls don’t start back at school until tomorrow we went off adventuring, which involved ten pin bowling.
kezia beat esther, and in classic ‘loser is the chooser’ mode she chose air hockey as the follow up gain which she won. ‘winner chooses dinner’ meant we dined like kings chez McD’s before heading home to watch ponkyhonta 2 on VHS (retro). which wasn’t as tearful for the watchers as ponky 1.
on the subject of old fashioned technology we scoured the second hand shops for Playstation 1 games as the girls favourite one departed at the same time as our house guests last week much to their sadness (tears for that too!). A man in computer shop said “sorry, we don’t do retro games”. Esther said “don’t worry dad, we don’t have the latest computer games but we do have lots of adventures” which is good to know.
ham jenga
remember cheese jenga ? this is ham jenga
cheese jenga
ben plays rummikub
here’s ben from church and two pointy fingers.
the worst rummikub hand ever ?
our lovely friends clive, heather and elaine came round yesterday for sunday lunch. later in the afternoon clive and heather played rummikub with esther and me.
to start in rummikub you need to make groups or runs of 30 points from the tiles in your hand. heather was having trouble getting to the 30 and as the game went on it was clear she had a bad hand. it was only when there were only two more tiles on the table to pick up that we realised quite how bad it was (and at that point i won).
Is this the worst rummikub hand ever ?
hoppitty
jane’s family play a game called hoppitty when on the beach. in modern days it’s become a high speed game (as seen here last easter)
here is jane’s auntie barb is seen here playing hoppitty in more sedate times. jane’s mum is wearing the sunhat and pigtails. the other person is cousin Bobbyand it was taken on holiday at Trearddur Bay in 1948
And this photo is of Jane’s great grandfather, a Dr Jackson, on a Newquay family holiday in 1927
how fantastic to have a family game which has spun the generations (with photographic proof to prove it)
hopskotch 2.0
what’s this fancy street witting all about ? hopskotch 2.0 for the new generation ?
kezia playing ‘hoppity’ on the beach
do you know how to play hoppity ? i didn’t and still don’t. jane does though. and so do the girls.
guess the game
the answer is below in the comments ! well done mr exile sir.
