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The kids have now been off for two full weeks (and a couple of days) so I thought I would update with what we’ve been up to so far – especially since I’m not keeping up with my monthly updates at the moment.

The school holidays couldn’t really have been off to a worse start, than a weather forecast like this ^^ However, I am grateful to work from home and so no matter what the weather, at least I get to spend time with the kids! As they broke up on the Wednesday, we had a couple of extra days that week, to fit in some fun. Thursday was one of my favourite days actually as we went to see Despicable Me 3 (which was average in my opinion), then went to Chimichanga for dinner (which we had never been to before) and finally we went to our local park – Hartsholme – for a lovely walk around the lake.

On the Friday, the girls made a video of themselves doing the Beanboozled challenge and I really must remember to upload it, plus we seemed to watch a ton of movies over the first few days including; Definitely Maybe, 10 Things I Hate About You, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Phantom of the Opera and Save the Last Dance. We also got an invite to my mum’s on Sunday for a roast dinner and that was amazing.

The following week was the first full week and for the first four days we had visitors in the form of Amy and Liv. The girls were at their dad’s on the Monday so Amy and I just spent time catching up, then in the evening Chris, Amy and I had chinese takeaway and watched Game of Thrones. The other days were mostly spent sewing, though Amy and I did manage to go fabric shopping too.

The weather was fairly rubbish all week, starting off raining and ending up sunny or vice versa. After dropping Amy and Liv at the station though, the girls and I took a trip to Norton Disney (a place we had joked about visiting for a while) and luckily the sun stayed out for some pics.

That weekend, we went to LFCC (which is London Film and Comic Con). I had been once before and really enjoyed it, but this time was a flying visit really – all so I could meet Wil Wheaton. Chris was working until 4.30pm Saturday so we headed off down to London after that and stayed at a Travelodge near Heathrow. In the morning we drove to North Ealing station, parked there and caught the train to Earl’s Court and then walked to London Olympia. Grabbing a virtual ticket for Wil Wheaton’s queue was first priority but after that we did some shopping and wandered around stalls. We ate lunch and shopped some more until finally we could meet Wil Wheaton. I had taken a blank Flux card with me for signing and had decided a CREEPER would be best. These are cards that if laid in front of you in the game, means you can’t win. Since Wil is pretty notorious for not winning on his YouTube show “Tabletop”, I thought this would be perfect. He seemed to agree and wrote “IT SUCKS TO BE YOU” and then signed it. Sadly as he was passing it back, he smudged the card but I didn’t mind as I still knew what it was. He said “Now it really sucks to be you!” which made us all laugh.

As I’m writing this post, I realise this all happened almost a week ago (it was Sunday and today is Friday) but it honestly only feels like yesterday! Anyway the next day the girls were with their dad and went to a National Park and built a den. They have a video of that too which I hope to upload soon. The rest of this week has really just been spent at home. I had a lot of work to catch up on after Amy’s visit and so the girls have really just entertained themselves on Minecraft, Slime Rancher, Theme Hospital etc. Yesterday though they started a jigsaw with my mum and once my work was done I joined in too. Then mum left and I couldn’t bear to leave the jigsaw unfinished so we spent the rest of the afternoon and evening making sure it got done!

That pretty much sums up the last two weeks and I’m so glad its been a combination of lots and nothing. I always think its important to have plenty of down days during the holidays so you don’t feel completely knackered, but you also need days were you do things together, or else you end the holidays feeling like you didn’t do anything! Hopefully I’ll update again soon with whatever else we get up to!

Cards Against Humanity is a brilliant, funny, witty and mostly… horrible card game!

What is Cards Against Humanity? (From the CAH website):
“Unlike most of the party games you’ve played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends. The game is simple. Each round, one player asks a question from a Black Card, and everyone else answers with their funniest White Card.”

The game itself, is genuinely as simple as it sounds. Everyone gets dealt a handful of white cards (the answers) and these are used every round to answer the black cards (the questions, one selected each round). You can play with 4 people, or you can play it with 20 (or any in between of course – or more even). The basic jist is for one person to pick a black card and everyone else to answer with a white card.

Sounds easy right? Well there is one catch… to play this game, you have to be a horrible person!

Source – Amazon

Now when I say horrible, I don’t really mean that you have to be horrible to each other in the game, or even to do horrible things. In all honesty, a better description would be that you have to have somewhat of a sick sense of humour.

We have a friend who pretty much thrives on sarcasm. He’s kinda dark by way of a personality and he’s definitely got a sick sense of humour. This game is the Christmas present that me, my partner and my brother all chipped in to buy him. As such, when the four of us decided to spend New Year’s Eve together, this was our entertainment of choice.

As you can see, the variety in answers is quite unique, as are the questions I assure you. I’ve been very careful not to post anything NSFW though, but some cards are quite risque.

The game was originally only available to buy in the US and the US versions are the main ones. However, there has always been a FREE downloadable version too, which you can find on the CAH website, or directly here. Luckily though, there is now a UK version, which you can buy from Amazon here. There are loads of expansions too, but unfortunately right now they are only US versions too. The great thing about the expansion packs are that you are given blank black and white cards, to make your own questions and answers. This adds your own personality and of course room for your own personal sense of humour.

When we played the game on New Year’s Eve, we ended up playing right through the whole black deck in one evening. Keeping score of a win (which of us had our white answer picked as the right/funniest answer), we found that all 4 of us came very close, meaning we clearly all have a similar sense of humour to one another and this made it a close call!

These are the recommendations on the back of the box. The one I’m sold by is Wil Wheaton. Everyone who knows me, knows I have a sort of respect/admiration/crush on Wil Wheaton, ever since he started his YouTube series, TableTop. He’s not wrong either, this is one of the best games I have ever played.

Since getting this game (or rather gifting this game to a friend) we have played it twice and he now owns all the expansion packs available too. This game is incredibly funny and also quite addictive, the only possible downside I can see to this, is playing with people that just don’t get the humour. But be warned, it really isn’t for the fainthearted…