Day Eighteen - Twenty: Various

A bit of a cop-out, but I've got behind with my blogs and want to catch up, so I'm grouping a few days together. The reason is that it was a certain person's birthday last week (me) and another certain person's birthday yesterday (Tom's) and it was those certain persons 30th birthdays, no less. And so we had a very busy weekend with lots of friends coming and going and staying and leaving, as well as a bit of a shindig on Saturday night with family and friends. Hence why I'm behind with the blog, and hence why I'm bunching together. Do forgive me.

Eighteen - The Newton Social Club
On Friday, the eighteenth day in our challenge, we chose to have people round and do some old-fashioned socialising (it certainly feels old-fashioned these days - it seems ages since we had a house full on a Friday evening playing games and drinking wine and having fun). We had a few people over to watch the Rugby, and fun was had by all. My dear friend Jamie, from the Isle of Man, also arrived for the weekend, so all in all a lovely evening. Note to self - socialise more.

Nineteen - P.A.R.T.Y
As I mentioned above (I hope you were concentrating), we threw a little party on Saturday night to celebrate our 30th birthdays. It was fun.

Twenty - Learn a new card game
Jamie taught me a really good new card game, which is ideal for two people. As I said in a previous post, we struggle to find games that are good for just the two of us, so this one was perfect. It was easy to learn - maybe that's just because Jamie's a good teacher and I'm a good learner - and got me gripped very quickly. I think it's called the Sunday Night Game (not sure why, but I can't tell you how happy I am that we were indeed playing it on a Sunday night), but I am told that it is a bit like rummy.

So there we go, that's the weekend caught up with. Back to normal blogs tomorrow!

Day One: Play a goofy drawing game

So our fun has officially begun! Hoorah! We had a very busy day yesterday what with family visiting, and with Tom getting ready for the new term which started today, so it wasn't until later on in the evening (well, my version of later on - it was probably actually only about 8:30pm) that we finally got round to choosing something off our list.

Our first choice was a game, catchily called the 'Drawing with your Eyes Closed' game. In case you can't work out how the game works, basically you close your eyes and draw someone and the other person has to guess who it is. Great fun! I think it was first invented about 15 years ago by my friend Hannah (so if you're reading this Hannah, your game-inventing skills speak for themselves).

Drawing with your Eyes Closed is a very silly game but I will let you judge for yourselves...

I am pretty certain that these samples have barely made you smile, let alone giggle like we did last night, which just goes to show that this is definitely one of those 'had to be there' type games. 

So there we go - that's Day One; done! I wonder what Day Two will bring....

PS. I said some of the items on our list weren't particularly interesting didn't I!