The Lost Realm

Recently, the family has (re)discovered KerPlunk. It’s simple enough for Romilly to play, and complex enough that I get to feel as if all the time I spent studying physics at university wasn’t a complete waste of time.

Digging out classic games to play with your children is one of the cool things about being a parent. You get to relive your own childhood, while your children get to play all the older games that actually teach you something useful. Snakes and Ladders teaches taking turns and procedure, Trouble teaches simple strategy, and Monopoly teaches about counting, money and basic math.

Except, of course, that the new version of Monopoly will use Visa debit cards instead of cash. Seriously, people: what were you thinking? Can we stop branding games and adding silly features that destroy the simple games that we all want to play?

You know those zombie movies, where there’s one human left untouched and he’s just surrounded by the disfigured, twitching, groaning bodies of the infected?

My house is nothing like that just now. Not at all.

So I’m back at work. Romilly’s cast is still on, and her spots are healing up nicely. Carolyn is…

What’s that?

Oh. I see.

Yes, yes; it has been a long time, hasn’t it.

Okay, quick catch up:

• Through the wonders of interwebbynet dating, met the wonderful, amazing Carolyn (no relation to The Amazing Spider-Man) (but just as cool)
• The amazing Carolyn and her daughter moved in with me, creating havoc, destruction, and more happiness than I’m sure I deserve
• Life rocks
• Romilly fractured her wrist
• Took a week off work to look after Romilly while Debs (my ex-wife — keep up, keep up) went on her honeymoon
• Romilly, still in her cast, came down with chicken pox (for the second time)
• Over this time, no less than 28,635 people pestered me to start updating this site again

So now I just have to decide: do I start posting here again, or do I leave it for another four or five months?