A very busy weekend!

M & L did the 5km Park Run on Saturday morning three-legged (although they didn't manage to run as such) to raise money for Children in Need in just under an hour, which K accompanying them as support. Soon after they got back, they went to help out at the church Christmas Fayre with Scouts, making bacon butties and then in the afternoon it was time to clean the rats' cage.

Sunday we had a lovely treaty day planned, including meeting with friends at the Dice Cup, but unfortunately illness prevented them coming, which was a real shame, but we'll try again in the new year.  We did still have a good time and tried out a couple of new games as well as some old standard ones.

We played were Dixit and couple of times and attempted to play a Harry Potter Chamber of Secrets Quidditch quiz game, but after reading the rules and having a look at the questions decided to skip that.  A new game that we all really liked (so much so that we've bought it for friends for Christmas) was Qwordie.  It's a cross between a quiz and a word game, that works really well.  There are questions which each have several answers and you have to collect letter tiles in order to be the first to spell out a correct answer.  Most of the tiles have letters, but there are also blanks and 'steals' which allow you to take a tile from another player.  The winner is the first to cross the winning line, which is marked on the tin and having won a round, you stack your tiles from that word and when your stack reaches the winning line that's the end of the game.  There are three winning lines to give options of a quick game, or longer ones.

The tin! (I forgot to take a photo while we were playing)

We also had a bit of a play with, but not a proper game as we'd run out of time, Dimension.  It's a 3d logic game, where you have 15 coloured balls of 5 different colours that you have to stack whilst fulfilling the instructions of 6 cards, relating to number and position of the different colour balls as you can.  You get points for the number of balls and managing to do what is on the cards, whilst losing points if you don't manage.  It's not always possible to manage them all, as sometimes the cards can be contradictory.  It'll be interesting to have a proper go another time.

Having a go.

The reason we ran out of time is because we had tickets to see Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.  We all really enjoyed it - it's so good to have a new Harry Pottery thing to enjoy.

In other news I forgot to share the lovely birthday cards that the girls made for A for his birthday, so here they are...

M's card....

...and K's.