The Family That Plays Together...

Trivial Pursuit used to feature categories like science, art and literature, and history. It used to be a fine, well-respected boardgame, with fancy little pictures on the squares with frequently unclear meanings.

The DVD edition of Trivial Pursuit features as its categories film, TV, music, sports and games, trends and gossip. It was sold to us without counters, without pieces of pie (or scoring wedges, or whatever the hell you know them as), and without a die. And apparently, the people who put together the DVD did not notice that they had put the flag of the USA in it backwards.

I really didn't know how to dress this post up to make it more ridiculous or more entertaining, so I didn't try. I really don't know what's happened to Trivial Pursuit. They don't even have brown as the colour of one of the categories anymore. Brown is no longer cool enough for Trivial Pursuit. Damn it, you do not have to make Trivial Pursuit cool. Trivial Pursuit will never, never be cool. We love it just the same.

Er, not that I take it too seriously.

Merry Christmas, Everybody

That's really all.

I Sacrifice Goats To Mr Monopoly

A quick count after our game of Scrabble found eleven words classified as "naughty" (such as burn, cruel and whore) and eleven words classified as nice (such as gift, gran and, er, nice).

I declare this a victory for natural balance. Any more boardgame incidents of such natural grace and I may have to start believing in Karma.

The World Is Lovely

It's all change here. Inspired by Just Letters, the name has changed. This is in celebration of two things: firstly, my great triumph in finally spelling out "The World Is Lovely" in spite of the people who kept stealing my letters (see left), and secondly, the loveliness of the world.

We Have Scented Candles

They are scented like wax.

The Coffee Irregularity

When it's five to one and you need to be somewhere at half-past, a cup of coffee can easily take a comortable half an hour to drink.

When it's quarter to five and you're waiting to meet someone at five, a cup of coffee can be sunk in about seven minutes.

Coffee, I can only assume, does this on purpose. The question is: how?