Thursday, April 03, 2008

More Board Games

In the late seventies and eighties we had a mobile home in silver strand. It was great for the kids they had their school friends , and then we went to wicklow for the whole summer.

There was no running water in the mobile so that had to be collected, outside loo and i won't go into that , days were spent on the beach early evenings playing rounders and then playing board games.

Every year we would buy a new game so we built up quite a large collection, one year we arrived down to clean and air the mobile to find we had been broken into and all our games were gone. We were devastated.

I still try and get a game at christmas and play it that night ,however i find that they all go on the computer and most games are solo so we all sit around looking at whoever is playing at the time, I even got the Buzz games so we could all play. They would all get bored after a while.

While i love the computer and computer games , I miss the laughs and arguments as we sat around the table playing the latest board game.

8 comments:

  1. Those sound like good holidays, ails. Love Silver Strand! It's fierce expensive to park now though, €8 on weekend...

    I have fond memories of Cluedo, Scrabble, even Ludo. And later on, Journey through Eurpope (oops, Europe - though small Catholics might enjoy 'Journey Through Your Pope', who knows?) and a quizzy one, can't remember what it was called. V educational!

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  2. We play Rummikub all the time! Love it. We're also fans of Buzz...

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  3. The DS has taken over my life as well as fourninepounds.Loved mousetrap as well and pictionary

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  4. I like the look of that one that's like 3D pictionary - you have to do all sorts of things, even make clay models - I can't remember what it's called.

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  5. Jo, they'd have to be very small Catholics indeed to make their way through the digestive system of his Excellency. Like that film Inner Space - the papal years. "small catholics" should be the new man hams.

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  6. Ah the memories, forget about the board games those holidays were the best times ever. Wish to fuck we had kept the caravan going.

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  7. I have many, many board games. But still, I'd give away them all for a copy of Journey Through EurPope! And Shan, of course it's a mobile home! Common people call them caravans. Tish. Played Operation with my little girl last night, she was in heaven and so was I.

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