Category: Random Wednesday

  • Lego – Love it? Hate it? Not sure right now.

    I wonder if this is one of those parent/child dichotomies here?  I wonder if I’ve even used the word “dichotomy” correctly?  Anyway. Lego. When I was a kid (cue the “Hovis” music and sepia-tinted video sequences of North Yorkshire) I loved Lego.  I had a big box of the stuff I’d irritate the hell out…

  • Sock Poker

    Inspired by Dad’s Cooking Tonight’s post today regarding lost property, I give Sock Poker to the world… A game for 2 or more players, somewhere public where you can see the socks people are wearing.  Ideal for the train, buses, the tube, airport waiting lounges… Each player picks 3 people without looking at their socks…

  • World Book Day 2012

    It really is true, time goes faster as you get older.  Presumably there will come a point where the years will stretch out again like elastic until they’re as long as they were when I was young, when Christmas would take for ages to arrive (a saying Thing 4 here is fond of. As in: Me…