Sunday 8th March 2026, 3.15pm (day 5,309)
A Sunday afternoon game of cribbage. I won 3-2, by the way. As C pointed out when she first saw this, sometimes a blur is exactly the point of the shot.
Clare deals crib
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Cards on a Sunday afternoon
Sunday 22nd June 2025, 4.10pm (day 5,050)
I have had one of those weekends where I did virtually nothing but still reached the end feeling no more refreshed than I was on Friday afternoon. The Handmade Parade, in all its colour and movement, had been taking place earlier in the day but I do not feel I got a representative picture of it — the day was much more as seen here, kind of soft-focus and dim. The recent run of interiors therefore continues.
Concentration
Sunday 25th May 2025, 4.35pm (day 5,022)
I don’t care that I haven’t captured him actually picking up the piece. Somehow it works just fine like this, and chess is an intrinsically black-and-white subject matter.
Degree project (non-digital)
Friday 16th May 2025, 1.55pm (day 5,013)
The point of travelling to Scotland was to be in attendance for at least one of the sessions of Joe’s final year exhibition, or should I say the Abertay Digital Graduate Show. Not that this piece of artwork is ‘digital’, but it seems that the BA Games Design and Production projects can be in whatever medium one likes. At least you can’t get an AI to do this kind of stuff. Good luck to them all.
In the training ring
Friday 26th July 2024, 1.55pm (day 4,719)
That faceless mass of hair over there is Joe, down on one of his occasional visits from Dundee. This being the case, an afternoon off work was called and more exciting pursuits engaged in. And Totopoly is a pretty good game, all in all — it keeps up the interest to the end. Number 9 won, by the way — and it was my horse.
The backgammon contest
Monday 25th March 2024, 4.50pm (day 4,596)
It was a tense one, but I think Jack (on the left and playing white) just nicked it in the end.
High-risk strategy
Friday 8th December 2023, 5.45pm (day 4,488)
One might think that Jenga and Red Stripe are a risky mix in the first place, but Tom’s ‘reacharound’ move just adds to the tension on this Friday night match-up. However, though the tower did fall — they always do, in the end — it was not for another few moves yet.
Drinking game
Wednesday 31st May 2023, 6.55pm (day 4,297)
I wasn’t participating, just documenting. And out celebrating having finished the end of the latest bout of marking.
Worldle (daily fix)
Monday 7th November 2022, 4.20pm (day 4,092)
Clare has her daily fix of brain food, but though this particular game is on her phone, she brings it up for my entertainment. I get most of them first go, to be honest. This one’s easy: we were there, not three months ago.
Chess and poppies
Sunday 19th June 2022, 12.30pm (day 3,951)
On the move again. A scene on the train to London, where I will be for the whole week to come. The field of poppies outside — somewhere near Doncaster — was so extensive that I had time to see it, get the camera out, set up the shot and still capture it OK, despite moving at around 75 miles per hour at least. I believe black won the game in the end.
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