Last night Ally and I were introduced to a new board game by Davie and Chanel. It is called Betrayal at House on the Hill, and is a proper strategy game, much more complicated than board games I have played before. Luckily our experts David and Chanel were on hand to explain it, and it was good fun. In the first part the players construct the house with it’s different rooms and tasks, and then suddenly and unpredictably second part - the Haunting - begins. It’s genuinely quite exciting.
The festive season continued today with a visit to Edinburgh to meet up with Janet, Peter and Anne at the picturesque Sheep Heid Inn beside Duddingston Loch. Despite being at the end of December, the weather was positively balmy, the sun was shining on the Loch and it was hard to imagine the skating minister from the famous painting. We went for a walk before lunch; I took the low road and James, Ally, Davie and Chanel took the high road right up to the top of Arthur’s Seat.
We had a lovely round table at the Inn and had a most pleasant meal and afternoon in great company.
Jennifer messaged me to let me know that the writer and artist Alasdair Gray died this morning. I was sad to hear it; he was a delightful and very talented man. I met him at Aye Write on 12th April 2014 and I blogged about it the next day; it was a very special experience because he had met my Mum in 1952 and remembered the occasion.
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