I had the strangest experience today. I was spending the weekend with a friend and we were getting ready to go out for brunch. She asked me to get a box out of her wardrobe for her and being a helpful soul, I did. As I was opening the door, my eyes were drawn to a neat pile of games nestling at the bottom of the wardrobe.
And what do I spy? Only a board game that I had when I was a child, and what I have been struggling for literally years to remember the name of!
I can remember only a few months ago trying to describe the game to another friend. "It was really cool, you had this board with categories and one of them was Biblical Characters and you had to spin this wheel and then if you could name something from the category, you chucked this little wooden ball into this box..." "Sounds great" she said (and you know, I get the feeling she wasn't being entirely truthful with me).
So, imagine my utter delight to see this very game in my friend's cupboard. In fact I was so delighted I may have even screamed a little. The memories came flooding back, as did my fascination with the family pictured on the front of the box (the father's pullover was especially memorable for me); and indeed there was a category called Biblical Characters (I think I remembered this one because we found it particularly hard to name any).
This game was so much fun, and maybe it started with lifelong obsession with quizzes and naming things in categories.
Of course, the irony of the name of the game and the fact that I couldn't remember it, is not lost on me.
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