Our biggest crowd yet and 11 games in one evening!
Although we continue to miss some of our regulars, away on holiday or studying for re-takes, we had a record turn out with 12 people (13 if you count a little friend who is staying with us and played two very quick games at the beginning of the evening). We welcomed Chris and Sinead for their first visit plus Daniella, Leonie, Crispin, Effie, Liza, Ben, Claire, Brian and obviously the lovely Gwen.
Other things of note were that we had four family groups (parent and child or husband and wife) and again the majority were ladies not men, 8 to 4.
With so many people and two of the number professing to being very tired (one because of a health issue and the other youthful excess) picking the right games that would work for everybody was always going to be a challenge.
We even prepared an extra table in case we split into three games, but in the end although we played 7 different games, 2 of them twice and 1 three times we managed to keep it all around one table – cosy!
The evening started with the early arrivals being lured into a couple of quick games of
Pinguin Party with one of our great nephews before he headed off to bed. A simple card game with some really vibrant and amusing images of penguins where players seek to get rid of all their cards as they all collaborate in building a penguin pyramid, something penguins obviously specialise in!
As more people arrived they were convinced, doubtfully at first, to play
We have been trying for months now to entice some of the Blue Anchor Quiz Night attendees to join us on the alternate Sundays from the Quiz. Until last Sunday we had had no luck, in spite of Damian (the landlord) making regular announcements at the quiz evenings and having posters up around the pub. Our logic was that people that like coming out on a Sunday to play a quiz with friends might equally enjoy playing games with those same friends after all isn’t a quiz a game? Well this Sunday we finally got lucky and 
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