Some time ago I found an old wiro notebook in a drawer. A scruffy wiro bound notebook with a photo of 2 men in a kayak with a bear on the front cover. In that notebook I found terrible sketches drawn in pencil made while travelling in 1991. One sketch leapt out at me. It was a rough pencil sketch of Mt Ararat from a backpacking trip to eastern Turkey. The sketch really surprised me – it was a very basic pencil sketch, drawn using a .5mm technical pencil on a cheap notepad. The sketch is just black and white… To my surprise the sounds and smells of the day came flooding back. Meeting some Kurdish goat herders and their flock near the base of Mt Ararat, about 10km from the Iranian border on a bright sunny but cool, alpine day. Along with memories of driving across the mountain steppe in an old Renault 19 and the smells of chai and coffee in a Doğubayazıt pasta solunu. It all came back come flooding back! Why did it evoke such vivid memories? I’m not really sure to be honest. Maybe t...
This game was news to me, but the 14 screaming and laughing kids in my lounge for our 10 year olds birthday party seemed to know all about it.
To play you need a block of chocolate, a knife and a fork, a crazy costume of some sort (in our case a wolf mask and some tinsel we found lying around) and a dice. If a player shakes a '6' they quickly put on the outfit before they try to eat as much chocolate as possible with the knife and fork - no hands allowed. They have to stop when the next player shakes a 6. Easier said than done and quite hilarious. Best played with chocolate that's been in the fridge for a few hours.
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