Tag: games

Changing the Rules of the Game

Rules are there to help us. If they are not helping, we should question them and either ignore them, or re-invent them. My two-year old granddaughter wanted grandad to play a card game. She tends to get what she wants. This was an elaborate version of snap, with circular cards, each with 6 different animals.…

A Day at the Games – London 2012

We had organised our own triathlon down to London, clutching our £35 hockey tickets. We paced the drive, the walk and the tube stages perfectly, with smooth changeovers. The threatened 60 minute queue through security into the Olympic Park took a world record 3 minutes (including a frisk, but no urine samples).