Glorious Games Galore

It has rained all week this week but on Fridays we seem to often be blessed with good weather, so after attending Ferdy's Christingle service, we headed out to Sudbury Hall.

Sudbury Hall is one of our regular haunts and we can generally be found playing hide and seek in the playground, climbing trees in the grounds or scrambling up the chimney in the museum. But we don't often go to the hall itself (it's really borin' in there apparently). However, today an exhibition opened called Game On.

It was brill. You had to follow a trail around the house and in six of the rooms, there were over-sized board games to play.

We began downstairs in the Saloon with a walk on game of Dragons and Ladders. Ferdy won and Gil cried but luckily was quickly distracted by Scrabble in the Library in which we had to search out all the hidden letters and unscramble them to reveal a two-word name.

Upstairs we spent a long time in the Long Room: six tables were laid out with Lego with which we made animals and had to guess each other's creation (no one guessed mine was a tortoise). Then next door was Buzzwire which Gil excelled at. And on the same floor we played an exhilerating version of Cluedo where we had to work out, by reading witness statements, who had stolen the Lady Vernon's jewels.

In the Basement we Guess(ed) Who with the characters who used to live in the Hall, and finally there was a room full of even more board games to try out.

Despite some tears when games were lost, and a few cross words when we had to go around the house again searching for our toy rabbit and both the stamped gamecards which had been dropped, we had a lot of fun.

I think Ferdy may have been thinking about my indistinguishable lego tortoise when he wrote 'The terrifying torture of a tortoise', as an example of alliteration later.