Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 19^th March 2024.  As usual, we will start playing shorter games from 7.30pm as people arrive, until 8pm when we will start something a little longer.  The pub is doing food, and the table is booked from 6.30pm for those that would like to eat first.

This week, the “Feature Game” will be Meadow (review, rules, and how-to-play video).  This is a very smooth, engine building, set-collection card game with charming artwork, where players take the role of explorers competing for the title of the most skilled nature observer.

– Image by boardgamephotos

And speaking of meadows…

A horse and a chicken were playing in a meadow. Suddenly the horse fell into a muddy hole and started sinking. He told the chicken to go and get Farmer Jeff to help pull him to safety. The chicken ran to the farm, but Farmer Jeff couldn’t be found.

So, the chicken drove Farmer Jeff’s Mercedes back to the hole, tied some rope around the bumper, threw the other end of the rope to his friend, and drove the car forward saving the horse from sinking. A few days later, however, the chicken and horse were playing in the meadow again, when the chicken fells into the mud hole. The chicken told the horse to go and get some help from Farmer Jeff. The horse replied, “I think I can get you out.”

So, the horse stretched over the width of the hole and said, “Grab hold, and pull yourself up.” The chicken did as he was told and grabbed the horse’s tackle and was pulled to safety.

The moral of the story: If you are hung like a horse, you don’t need a Mercedes to pick up chicks.