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Welcome to the London Borough of…, part VII
It’s 10:36pm, and I’m travelling through Yorkshire on a train to London. We should have arrived nearly half an hour ago. Our first train was cancelled before we got to the station, and our…
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What’s wrong with diagonal thinking, anyway?
Last week, we were talking about “lateral thinking” puzzles, taking a board game called Brain Strain as a jumping-off point. But it wasn’t my first encounter with them, which is probably the reason I…
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I’m getting more open-hearted
CN: Capital punishment (yes, really) Recently, I managed to track down a review of another product by Octogo Games Ltd. The game was called Where on Earth, and the review was in the December…
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Welcome to the London Borough of…, part VI
Last time: I concluded that trip to London having got selfies with signs for about three-sevenths of the boroughs. I then cruelly left you on a cliffhanger that I presume has been torturing you…
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A quiz on the cards
I’m not sure how I stumbled into board game reviews being a regular feature of this blog that was once about travel in the southern midlands of England, but here we are. I had…
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Strictly Come Statsing
I’ve been watching Strictly Come Dancing since 2011, when Harry Judd, the drummer from McFly, beat Jason Donovan and Waterloo Road’s Chelsee Healey to the Glitterball trophy. For those unfamilar, Strictly is a BBC…
