New record – TWO pregnant gamers!
First of all, big congratulations to Gill on her successful IVF implant – she is expecting a baby boy in 6 months or so. With a heavily pregnant Tara also in attendance, we have two simultaneous special dispensations in force for rule 7.8.1 violations. Remember during Tara’s previous pregnancy we amended the wording at rule 7.8 to say “Unless there are extenuating circumstances as decided by the membership at the time” to allow temporarily shape-altered women to avoid shirt penalries.
The 2018 season got off to a bit of a slow start with everyone re-learning Sherlock Holmes as if we’d never played it before. At one point when Wayne urged everyone to play faster (“C’mon, a fast game’s a good game!” he said), Rob replied with “Do the words pot, kettle and black ring any bells for you?” El Prez was rewarded with a WHP score for this month.
It seems we always need to have the Sherlock rules handy when we play, so those rules will soon be available via a link on the Games List page, and Gill suggested we might keep multiple printouts of the most looked-up pages in the package with the game. Good idea Mrs Wilson.
Tara seemed to be under the spell of pregnancy hormones and not playing up to her usual standard, although she did manage 3rd in Slapzi. Those hormones haven’t kicked in for Gill yet, she scored 50 points for 2nd in Sherlock which was won by Rob. Louise was not feeling 100% but soldiered on and made a good start in her quest to rid herself of the dreaded Spoon by winning Slapzi – a new game introduced by Genelle. Speaking of new games, Genelle gave us a quick preview of another new one called Digit which will be played as a backup at Rob’s in February. Mark also scored points by getting 3rd place in Sherlock. Our new member Jordan was not in attendance, SBGA was trumped by the Australian Open tennis at which he is a spectator. We hope to meet him in February.