C 19 - When it's all over...

as a kid , we used to play lots of card games , my grandad loved cribbage , which i still do to this day , but for larger groups ( four is ideal ) whist was always popular , and solo , another underrated game , poor mans bridge they used to call it .
Bridge is also a very good game , but takes a while to play to a standard .......trumps , chase the ace , all fun games , ive always steered clear of poker , and brag , games of bluff , where you fleece / or not your friends .......

backgammon is great game if you’re isolating with two people✊️

 

Mrs Fez and I go to Vegas every few years (though not recently, but we visited Atlantic City while touring the East Coast a few years ago) and we know to avoid roulette and craps unless we have money to burn. She might have a go at blackjack and small stakes poker. We enjoy the slots though as that comes with free booze so we at least break even.
Simple rules: two envelopes per day - one with gambling money, one with food and drink money - and a credit card for trips out. Money left over from any day goes into the safe.
Last time out we took $1,000+ off the hotel bill. First time we went was in the middle of a Los Angeles vacation which we hated so much we took a Greyhound to Vegas. We included a trip to Boulder City and the Hoover Dam. I had a decent enough win on the slots in Boulder City to cover the entire weekend and the three nights we didn't spend in our LA hotel as well. Two decent wins did the trick: about $440 in B.C. (2005) and $750 in LV (2009)... all on the minimum stakes otherwise we'd have won silly money... actually we'd have long run out had we played for higher stakes and wouldn't have won anything.

Our gambling generally amounts to: my regular lotto numbers; scratch cards when we buy petrol or have a whim; euromillions once £100m+; and £20 on the the grand national. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

And overall the house always wins... unless it's a tRump casino

 

We've both played crib for the local pub back in the day. We also have the gaming table stuff, roulette wheel, chips, etc.
I once played three card brag with my work mates, coppers only on the table... I was up a weeks wages after a dozen hands. I quit when a fiver down about an hour later. Mugs game.
We're doing a film quiz tonight....

 

An interesting prediction from an American doctor about what awaits the health industry there after Covid-19 - could easily apply to industries here too, including politics.

 

At my workplace in Australia, we had a thriving 500 school every lunchtime - similar to solo & known there as poor man's bridge too. When my boys all lived at home, we used to play crib and skat. None of that now that they've all moved out, my wife and daughter aren't fans of card games - unless it's fish or happy families...

 

Every Sunday at my nans in Eastcote the family would meet and i grew up to solo whist and cribbage...

 

Eastcote? Mrs Fez and I met (2nd time around after a 14+ year break) at The Case is Altered some 21 years ago this summer. The Clay Pigeon was a pub I'd frequent pretty much every Friday in the mid 80's.

 

Some great card games there. My great uncle taught me Cribbage but could never beat him, he played it in a POW camp a lot during the war. I have an app on my phone for it.
Got an A level at school for Hearts or Hunt the..... as it was also known.

 

Did he not like the news story being broadcast when he reacted

 

Is Eastcote the centre of the universe ? (And not Perpignan railway station - copyright Salvador Dali) . I only ask as Mrs. Bodbo's grandparents lived in a bungalow in Eastcote. What will happen to Eastcote when it's all over ? Just to keep the thread on track !

 

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Just in case you are having a spot of nostalgia.

 

My Grandma worked in Bunces sweet shop in pinner and lived ib a bungalow in Oak Grove in Eastcote.
Every Sunday after Sunday dinner.. The men would all play solo whist..

 

Oh, that’s a good idea.

 

Found an old DVD film quiz the other night when sorting a few things out. The evening's events have conspired a postponement for now.

 

Oh, that’s a shame. We’ve been having mad Zoom calls with Mrs Andy’s family. Proper mad. Every Christmas, a quiz is held, hosted by the previous year’s winners, which makes me think the mad calls could be replaced, as they would show commitment to a film quiz. It’s either that or ‘commitment’ of a different nature.

 

We are playing board games. The current favourite is Articulate. One member of a team has to describe a word/object/place/person named on a card and the team-mate has to guess it.Young Master NZ is very good at this even when he hasn't heard of the subject. I won't tell you his description of 'Dick Tracey'.

 

I love that game...

 

An instruction?!

 

where is this?

 

I remember Bunces!