game day

[winterbadger]

Peter replied; is anyone else (local) up for some gaming, on either the 4th or the 5th of November? I've gotten a few more titles since the last big event (yes, *more* ;-) including an interesting-looking card game called En Garde! and some boardgames that are close along the line between historical and more general-audience.

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[deridere.livejournal.com]

Gaming? oh what? *yawn* Not back gammon, cluedo or monoply then, eh? I've no interest but felt the desire to respond. I'll be at the Urbanna Oyster Festival any how, probably trying to thrown an effigy on the bon fire.

[winterbadger]

Not backgammon, cluedo or monoply then, eh?

All games are welcome; most folks just prefer ones a little more interesting than those, is all. :-)

...probably trying to thrown an effigy on the bonfire.

Which makes me think of (the by then wheelchair-bound) Michael Flanders in one of his monologues saying, "Ah, nearly November the 5th, my goodness! [His musical comedy partner Donald] Swann pushed me up the road--we got one and sixpence, all in coppers..." :-)

[For those not familiar with the custom, not only do (or at any rate did) people in the UK celebrate Nov. 5th--Guy Fawkes Day--with fireworks and a bonfire on which was burned an effigy of Mr Fawkes himself, called "a Guy", but kids (at any rate used) wheel their Guy around the neighborhood in a barrow beforehand, asking for "a penny for the Guy" with which to buy fireworks. Kind of a British trick-or-treat.]

[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

And then there's Cob Coaling for the bonfire, too, not to mention Soul Caking for All Saint's Day. These Brits will do anything to go from door to door!