Tumbling Interminable Torrents

Are you bored of waterfalls? Oh dear, well we thought this one was a good one, so we’ll show you anyway!

On Saturday morning, the skies were clear (shockingly). Without a proper plan, we attempted to go for a walk to a popular viewpoint, but the car park was full. Second choice was Kennedy Falls. It was a fun 4 hour round trip through patchy snow and ice. We had our micro-spikes/mini crampons on. Whilst Rosie felt smug about how little sliding she was doing, Ollie felt embarrassed because he kept seeing other people in just trainers. You’d think he’d give up trying to be cool now he’s 30. The waterfall at the end of the walk was one of our favourites! It doesn’t look as impressive in the pictures as it did it real life, probably because of the camera angle, but it was wide and tall with lots of different levels and interesting rocks to look at.

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During the week, Rosie made a devastating discovery (devastating for certain people who think she shouldn’t spend all her money on board games anyway). There is a huge board game shop down the road from our apartment! We went in to see if they had any Exit games (a board game version of an “Escape Room”) as Rosie bought Ollie one for his birthday and it was good. They did. They also had everything else! As it was only a few minutes to closing, we only came away with an Exit game and Codenames Duet. It’s going to be hard to stop Rosie buying Scythe on our next visit.

Unfortunately the games of Codenames are not going very well. If you haven’t played it, you have to get your partner to find your “secret agents” by linking words on cards together with just one word and a number. Some cards represent your secret agents, but some are assassins… E.g. if you have agents hidden below three words: “Eggs”, “Babies” and “Nose” – you could say “Smells, 3”. But you’d want to be careful if there was an assassin under the word “Cheese” in case your partner guesses this incorrectly. It helps if you are both on the same wavelength, which apparently is not the case for us. Rosie misses the 9 year old she used to play with at the Baldock board game club.

Guess what the weather is doing this weekend… It’s raining! Again! We will use this regular opportunity for a few Skype calls, but will probably have to go on some kind of wet walk to fend off the cabin fever.