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Christmas Gift Guide – Games!

If you’re looking for gifts that give fun, laughter and connection this Christmas, you need to be giving games! Most of these …

Christmas Lights – Short Review

I finally got round to learning Christmas Lights ready to teach it to you at my December events if you fancy trying …

Boardgames for new parents.

I went for games that would give your brain just a gentle stretch; that pair well with holding a baby whilst playing and probably not having had enough sleep.

Wanted – an itinerant bringer of joy*!

I've come across the advice to write my own job description a few times now. As a sole trader my role includes everything! - marketing, accounting, bookings, stock management, and everything else. I assume it's a way of encouraging people to identify areas of weakness and celebrate areas of strength. I could use this as an opportunity to be reflective and identify on all the things I'd dearly love to delegate (mainly the accounts) but instead I thought I would entertain myself by imagining recruiting my replacement.

The Launch of Come as You Really Are

Nothing could have prepared me for this exhibition. Hetain Patel said that he wanted to put things together in a way that …

5 things I love about Airecon

1. Playing games with lovely folk Airecon is a relatively small convention. I’ll happily go along on my own with incredibly vague arrangements to meet people. Admittedly it’s my local convention so I often see people that I know but I also usually manage to get a game in with people who I basically see annually. It’s such a joy for me to be able to connect with people over board games.

No Dice. No Magnets. Just Skill – Subbuteo Angling.

We finally got round to playing Subbuteo Angling. It promises a ‘game of skill. No dice. No magnets.’ Plus an authentic experience …

Come As You Really Are

As part of Artangel’s ‘Come as you really are’ exhibition I'm delighted to be collaborating with Barnsley Civic, to display 155 vintage games from the 1940s up to the 1990s - fairly horrified to have included the 90s but here we are! The exhibition opens on the 24th May and runs until 8th August 2025. It is part of a UK wide project led by Hetain Patel and Artangel working with 13 partner organisations including Barnsley Civic. In addition to Patel's artworks such as Somerset Road (2024), a Ford Escort rugtufted in the pattern of the artist’s grandmother’s living room carpet, and Fiesta Transformer (2013); the exhibition will also showcase a wide variety of local people's hobbies, things they have made, crafted, collected, modified - presenting an alternative portrait of the UK.