Tuesday
Tuesday 8th August 2000
Visited the shop, and played Bardsopoly in the evening.
Bardsey Island August 2000
John's Pictures

12:58:52
Around lunchtime, here's Alex doing some painting. I think this was the beginning of the board game phenomenon that was to become Bardsopoly.

16:16:15
It's important to make sure you have a picture of your sister standing on a hay bale.

16:19:35
People striding purposefully to somewhere or other...

16:26:01
...ahhh the shop. I think we'd all been to buy Mars bars. Oddly I never really eat them normally, but on Bardsey they seem strangely appealing.

21:29:25
Poor Linda. She thought she was coming round just for a quiet dinner. It turned out to be a cruel trap to force her to play Bardsopoly.

21:30:09
I assume we were drawing towards the end by this point.

22:50:22
Linda, Luke and Alex had formed a syndicate and cleaned the rest of us out. Mild mannered, pleasant, amicable Luke turned out to be a complete monster as soon as any kind of competition was introduced. Linda too was pretty ruthless at times. I'd always though board games brought out the worst in people, and Bardsopoly was no exception!

00:01:39
In an uncharacteristic fit of something that could almost be described as talent, I drew caricatures of everyone to use as the playing pieces. You can just about make some of them out in this picture.

00:09:36
Looks like the game is over. Sue breathes a sigh of relief.

00:17:24
Alex amuses himself shining a torch through the bottom of a pint of lager...

00:21:46
...and again, but in the dark. I'm oddly reminded of Monty Python and the Holy Grail...

01:25:40
Is this Alex being consoled by Becca here? Not sure what for!