Twenty one minutes.
We went out today, did some errands, went to see Dad, ate pasties, had loads of great photo opportunities (autumn leaves, steelwork, cranes and a concrete pump, red kites and a great sunset) and really regretted leaving the camera at home. It’s almost a universal law that the day you leave the camera at home you get the best photo ops.
That’s why I’m going to throw yet another random photo into the post.
I won two games of dominoes this afternoon. My Dad also won two and he’s 90 and more than slightly confused. He spent a lot of his life being competitive and skilful with numbers and these seem to be two key values that he has retained despite the challenges. It sets my two victories in perspective, because I really was trying.
Julia won two games too, despite not playing to win and my sister won one game despite actively trying to lose. All in all I have to face the possibility I’m not very good at dominoes.
I enjoyed my relaxed night so much last night that I tried it again. Hence the quick post. Wednesday nights have been TV nights recently because it’s The Apprentice, followed by Taskmaster. We’ve started watching The Circle too, so now we’ll have to watch a repeat of Taskmaster later in the week.
I’m not particularly proud of my TV viewing, but it could have been worse. Julia has spent all night swearing at an origami book and throwing screwed up paper on the floor. I take it that the paper folding is not going well.
She’s generally very good at origami, but new additions to her repertoire are often a bit of a struggle. I have learnt several new words from her failed attempts…
Photos are the Gold 50p coin we had a few weeks ago – it commemorates the 50th Anniversary of D-Day. It’s strange we are now celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the 50p coin. How fast does time go?
Come and take me on at dominoes if you like. It should improve your self esteem because I have never won a game in my life.
It’s one of those games where I suspect there must be skills, but they elude me. I will file this thought for further reference when I get beaten again.
My older brothers taught me chess. I never played dominoes, I only set them up in a line so I could watch them fall. 🙂
That is an extremely satisfying thing, and must be good as a mental exercise. 🙂
Just a small child pushing on one thing and watching and whole line go down! 🙂
Cribbage with my mother. Hope Julia masters her new origami projects.
By bedtime she had a fully jumping frog and a smile on her face. 🙂
Yay!!!
She now has a one woman production line going, folding them for her group to “make”.
I realized yesterday that it has been 50 years since Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon – talk about knowing how to depress myself on how old I’m getting!!
Oh yes. I remember it was quite a shock when I started a sentence “Thirty years ago…” I realised just how much of my three score years and ten had slipped through my grasp.
I can only shake my head and think ‘how could I be so stupid in wasting so much time?’
Me too! 🙂
It was chess and Scrabble that I played with my Dad.
Both good games, but now beyond him.
🙁