Rowan Tree and Red Thread

Well this has been a long night. BB has been up pretty much since 1.45am and has his parents worn down to paper-thin wraiths. I feel like I've been bearing the One Ring for too long.

I have no idea what is up with the little blighter. I hope it passes soon.

sammywol and I played a 2-hander of Ticket to Ride Europe last night, breezing through in easily under an hour including set up time and a brain-fuddled recap of ferry and tunnel rules. It was a tight game with the scores within about 7 points of one another all the way through. I pushed ahead to run out my supply of trains quickly, taking only one additional ticket beyond my starting four. sammywol risked 7 tickets and was caught 4 green cards short of completing the lot, which cost her 22 points in all. Final score was sammywol 110+12, mylescorcoran 126+12. So that one ticket swung the game.

The bugger of it was that sammywol chose to take back a move - which I allowed of course - earlier in the game that would have completed that troublesome ticket. Oh the irony.

I've been reading The BFG to my daughter over several nights, with a break in the middle for some shorter books that meant it's been several days since we last opened it.

That changed over the last two nights as we read the great scenes of the BFG meeting the Queen, and the resulting comedy at the palace before the final excitement of the capture of the 'human bean eating giants'.

Great fun and a handy excuse for to try out various comic accents as I read aloud.