This is part of the series of trying new things. Every month I challenge myself to try new things, however big or small those things may be. Sometimes it’ll just be a TV show or a recipe, sometimes it’ll be an event or an activity. Anything could happen. Then, I list five things I tried… Continue reading New things I tried in November
Its been a long time since we had a New Things I Tried post. Sorry about that, life got a bit alarming for a while there. Now that it’s starting to settle down a bit I think it’s high time I got back to trying new things. This is a post series I started in… Continue reading New things I tried in October
In this post I wrote about getting to go play board games with Raj and co on Saturday. On Sunday, I did something different to up my nerd score: I went along to an introduction to Dungeons and Dragons. I recently came across a group called girl geek brunch. I am female, geeky and a… Continue reading A weekend of gaming, part 2
It feels like ages since the last time I got to place board games. I guess it’s hard to make time to socialise when you’re writing a PhD thesis and moving house (once again, thank goodness all of that is over). So I really appreciated the chance to play board games twice this weekend. On Saturday… Continue reading A weekend of gaming, part 1
It feels like ages ago now but a couple of weekends ago I took some time out to go play boardgames with Lord of the Moon and a few of his friends. This is becoming one of my favourite ways to spend an afternoon and, as I edge back towards financial stability (yay for having… Continue reading Another boardgames day
Remember how I said me and my friends are an enormous bunch of dorks and that the next time we meet up we’ll probably play laser tag? Well, I was right. Having not played since I was in primary school (I guess I would have been 9 years old) I was still very much up… Continue reading A day of laser tag
Last weekend Lord of the Moon (LotM) hosted a boardgames session. Whenever LotM does this I spend a lot of time looking forward to it. Not only is he an authority on all things board game, not only does he have a fantastic collection of boardgames, not only are all of his friends amazing, but… Continue reading Board game review: Betrayal at the House on the Hill
I love a good board games session but I don’t get to play as often as I’d like. I don’t own any of my own board games yet so I can’t invite people round to play and lining up the schedules of people who want to play is difficult at the best of times. I… Continue reading Games day at M’s
While I was home in Leeds over New Year we dropped into the second BrewDog bar to open in the city (actually we went twice). If you know me, you know I love BrewDog’s beers and I’m a huge fan of the Glasgow bars but I’d found the first Leeds one to be just slightly… Continue reading A trip to ShuffleDog
Some of you may remember this old game doing the rounds on Facebook back in… oh, 2006? 2007? I recently rediscovered it and remembered why I found it so fun. The idea is that you are presented with a map, the game will name a location – maybe a city or a famous site of… Continue reading Minigame review: Traveller IQ Challenge
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