Families

Yesterday we went down to Bristol to a family party held by my sister "J". She has five children already so one or two more can't have much impact on the noise and sheer level of activity. All a bit of a shock when you are used to just one child though.

After the lunch we had a quiz game. Not usually the sort of thing that we all do, and an interesting insight into how competitive we can all be. Considering the rules were rather basic (each write out ten famous people, these names are then put in a pot, a selected team member pulls out a name and describes who it is so the rest of the team can guess, get as many names as possible in two minutes) it was surprising how much confusion followed. There was also a fair amount of cheating (I am shocked by my family), eg "she was the queen in the victorian age", my father putting the name of his doctor in the pot (apparently famous in the village), saying "yes" when the name hadn't been guessed correctly, someone cutting their names into special shapes so they knew them even before any describing had occurred, and a number of people throwing the name back in if they didn't like it. I have to admit I may have been a bit stupid on this as every time it came to my teams go everyone said that they would play properly and not throw the names back in so we didn't and battled through the difficult names (like a certain village doctor), then the other teams threw back names they didn't like. maybe by the third round we should have twigged. Anyway, the team that say they won should have been disqualified for cheating (you know who you are).