For months we have had an outstanding invitation to visit Simon and Kate to enjoy Kates cooking (Kate always cooks superb meals for us when we visit) followed by an evening of board games – an activity which all four of us thoroughly enjoy. I use the word board games in its loosest sense – many favourites can be played from the comfort of the sofa, from where we started with Linkee, essentially answering four questions and finding the link between the answers, but since the winner of each round is the first to shout out the link, players have to be fast of thought. Simon and I lost abysmally to Kate and Chantal.
This was followed by an even faster game, shouting art answers to somewhat ransom questions in just 5 seconds, where once again I came fourth, before we retired to the dining table for a game of Dobble, which is in fact several games using a pack of round cards resembling coasters, and finally triominoes, the only game which I won.
The evening passed too quickly before we had to head home, partly because we had left the dogs at home, and partly because Claire had arrived from Leeds, staying overnight before helping Keith with the decoration of his new home in Thornton, just a few miles away.
Technically we live in Oaktree House, but sadly the tree had to go.
We now have a thriving Oakstump at the front of the house.
