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The Mountain o' Games is growing. It must be nearly chest height on me now. We recently acquired the new edition of Space Hulk. Andy is gluing miniatures as I type. I have to say that I have hardly seen a more beautifully put together game. The production values are excellent - but you'd want that for the price! The miniatures are great! But I don't think they've changed many of the rules. It's still basically Space Hulk (not a bad thing - it was a nice simple little game).

The other addition was Middle Earth Quest, of which the same cannot quite be said of the production values. It's rather disconcerting when you put the Ringwraiths on the table and their swords fall off! And this was not due to a failure of superglue either. We played it on Saturday and I wasn't immediately grabbed by it - but then I don't think we had quite gotten the hang of it. It seems to fit in with most other Middle Earth based games in that it is a)insanely complicated (well not quite so bad in this category as certain other games I could mention) and b) heavily weighted to the Sauron player's side.

Andy took the kids to the Show today. They had a Show Day at school (ie the school thinks everyone is going to take a day off for the show anyway, so they make them all go on the same day - and the day with the worst weather forecast for the whole week). As it turned out the weather was not really the problem, so much as the sick toddler, who basically only stopped grizzling for the five minutes between acquiring a cheap plastic gun and breaking said item. He refused to have breakfast, or dinner, and wouldn't drink his medicine laden juice, so this evening we had to resort to the hogtying procedure. Which is to say, I hold him down, while Andy squirts it down his throat with a syringe, and he tries frantically to spit it out at the same time. He's pretty good at this. You would think it would be pretty hard to spit out something that has been squirted down your throat, but no, he has the trick of it. I have learned a great deal about passive resistance from this child. For instance, if you want to make it really difficult for someone to force you to put a shirt on, you lock your elbows but let your wrists go floppy.

I really hope he gets his appetite back soon. However I listened to his chest tonight and I could still hear the 'crackling' that is evidence of infection. And Erin was sick for at least a week.....