Well well well, Weekend once again.

Its Saturday night, the youngster sleeps, time to join in.

My pledge for the week will be: first ever game of Kill Team (in this new edition) this Sunday night with LP (a good friend, we used to work together, he took me in during a rough patch ?). During the week I’ll work on my Elf project. Get these Dark Elves finished, a few more High Elves. Hopefully start on the Wood Elves.

Seasonal Shopping

Oh yes, I still bother. Nowadays presents are mostly for my daughter. Between my siblings and I, my daughter is the only offspring. For older family members, it’s usually food or drink we can share at family lunch. That’s the main thing we have always done: big family lunch.

Oh no, I have not started shopping. I usually like to dedicate a day or two to this kind of shopping. I usually avoid shops as much as possible, since I work in retail already. But for gift shopping I like to trawl through stores for hours, mentally cataloguing potential gifts then selecting what I think the recipient/s will actually enjoy/ use best. This year I know exactly what she wants: a Nintendo Switch. I reckon I’ll be trading in the Xbox 360 I hardly use for a Switch.

Jigsaw Pyzzles

No, not really. As a young child I know we had them, and I know we tried them with my daughter when she was young but they never really took.

There was one real exception: a “Where’s Wally?” jigsaw that was a gift to my brothers and I when Wally was all the rage. Double the fun: build a jigsaw, then find Wally! I remember I sat down and assembled it over… a weekend? a week? It took up the whole of the coffee table we had back then, like, a perfect fit. I thought I would get into puzzles after that, but nope.

Yeah, I made a typo there… then I left it ?

Delivery food

Pizza! No, wait, calzones!

No one makes take away calzones. At least I’ve never seen one.

What about a Meat Pie Man? Like an ice-cream man, but meatier. Also more pastry. The tune could be Beethoven’s 5th.

But these days with the rise (and fall) of companies like Foodora, Delivaroo, Uber Eats, everything is home deliverable now. Might as well all put our fat pants on and tuck in!

Kids toys back in the day

I look at what the kids have now… I think about what we had then… it’s the same stuff! Mostly… We had Transformers and Hot Wheels/Matchbox and He-Man and Lego. Now? No He-man. Even Voltron is back in the shops right now, thanks to Netflix.

I think, back then, I really liked the toys that were available. Now, they might be better designed, but they’re basically the same.

Having a daughter gave a slight different perspective: girls toys. Barbie has become more “girl power” than she used to be. Monster High was cool: Monster toys for girls, though still a strong skew towards “fashion and style”.

We had water pistols, cap guns were available (though not in my house). Other than that, your parents threw out of the house to play outside.

Favourite pie filling?

Huh, what’s that? Do you hear that??

PIE MAN!!!

Mum, Mum, the Pie Man!! Can we have a Pie???

I am partial to a Pepper Steak… but if it’s available Bolognese is gonna get me. Or, I’m gonna get it. ?