Month: November 2007

Tonight Cayley was crawling around in the cot, and then she pulled herself up on the side.

I told Brett to look, and then informed him that it was time to move the mattress down.

Elisha went to check the clock and make sure that it REALLY was.

Being a parent desirous of stretching the mental horizons of my child, I betook myself to teach him that ancient, royal game of chess, capable, it is said, by no lesser man than Benjamin Franklin, of imparting “several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life.”

What follows is an abridged transcript of the game.

B. Adams vs. E. Adams, 17/11/2007 (Leeming Am-Champ)

After some initial instruction on the placing of pieces, their worth and allowed moves, the game began.

B. opened with a stock closed game queen’s pawn, but the plucky blighter opted for an Indian defence that he, tossing caution to the wind, developed into the Modern Benoni, allowing B. a pawn wedge at d5 and central majority.

The risk, in the event, was not without calculation. A calculation that included Vezok the Destroyer.

And as Winter is to Autumn, so Decapitations are to Vezok.

At which point Harold the Helicopter ™ was called in. Despite his expediency, the prognosis was guarded.

…and from there, things never really recovered.

The modern game of chess was given birth in the age of the Enlightenment. It was system and theory, and direct control of the center.

The hypermodern game, fired in the crucible of two World Wars, rejected the received wisdom and revelled instead in the chaos of the open field.

Chess historians will note this date as the day Elisha Adams created the postmodern game.

B.

Or 4xC for short as that is quite a mouthful!

Learn to make the gorgeous card below

 

Interested?  I still have a couple of places left at this class.

When?  Wednesday 21st November, 7.30pm
Where?  My place in Leeming
How much? $10
What do you get? Class, instructions and a light supper

E-mail me for further details.

… then you probably don’t want to look at the pictures below.

We found this little guy on our wall a couple of weeks ago. Strangest looking moth I have EVER seen.

Not great photos but…

 

It has been the Little Scrapbook Shop Cybercrop again this weekend.  I swear they seem to happening closer and closer together.  Where do the months fly to!

I set and prepared a sample for the digital challenge this month.  I don’t do a lot of digital scrapbooking but must say that I am very pleased with the result of this page.  There isn’t a lot of elements on it, but it took forever.  Worth it though.

All elements are available from Little Scrapbook Shop.

DebF – Date Stamps Volume 2
DebF – Debs GoTos – binder clip, kraft paper, stitching zig zag
DebF – Grey Afternoon – ornamental stamp
KSK – 4theboyz – red ribbon

Font also downloadable from LSBS – Ma Sexy.

You know you’ve been spending a lot of time with kids when in the middle of relating a story to an adult about seeing a rescue helicopter at a recent picnic, you insert the chokka-chokka sound.

B.