Nicole takes the lead – Champ scores WHP
Nicole was once again the hostess par excellence – in keeping with the piggy flavour of one of our games, she served pink cupcakes with marshmallow piggy faces on top! Yum!
The main game was Pictionary with teams drawn as Nicole/Genelle, Louise/Gill, Tara/Mark and Wayne/Rob. To save time at game end, after Nicole/Genelle crossed the finish line, the other placegetters elected to finish immediately as Gill/Louise were already on the final square, and Wayne/Rob had not yet even left square one!
Pass the Pigs was the backup, and we started off using Gill’s new set of piggies that were in quite different packaging from our old set. After one round, it was noticed that there were numerous instances of pigs landing halfway between on their back and on their side, theoretically a rare situation without a score attached. Rob went and retrieved the older set of pigs from his car, and we swapped them. There were still some “leaning razorbacks” but not as frequent. We elected to treat them as 5-point razorbacks. Wayne won in seemingly effortless fashion while prattling on about anything but the game in question while the rest of us battled pigout after pigout. Nicole and Tara got the minor placings.
This is the first meeting report on the new website that will replace regular updates on the SBGA Facebook group. While Facebook is ideal for our purposes, there is now 25% of the membership that doesn’t use it – Genelle has never taken the plunge, and Wayne recently closed his FB account. With only phone access, he found it too stressful and confusing not knowing which material to ignore or not, and there certainly is much on FB worth ignoring. Some members expressed a preference to keep the SBGA Facebook page alive, so it will stay, but for now I’ll be posting meeting updates and reports here rather than there. Any of you are welcome to post on FB. I’ll probably be tinkering with this website to gradually improve it, so feel free to give me feedback if you find anything broken or annoying.
UPDATE:
Mother Theresa’s missing novelty game pieces have been found on a shelf hiding behind El Prez’s copy of Sherlock Holmes! Now we just need to find Tara’s missing shirt. And just for good measure, here’s a photo of her to prove I can insert photos into news items… (isn’t it a great photo?)
