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Week 22 - Simon escapes reality...for a little while

Edited BY


G P Kennedy

Simon - Perth, WA

 Hi everyone, hope you are all safe and well. Bit of a quick one this week as I am heading off to work in half an hour.

 

It’s still the same old situation here in WA which I suppose is a good thing but one week feels very much like the next.

 

 The Pandemic has slowed down somewhat in Victoria but daily deaths have still been around the 20 mark. Someone soon we are due to find out what restrictions and hard borders may or may not be lifted before Christmas.

 

 I have looked into booking us a holiday in WA later this month but there is almost nothing available. Our hard borders mean that everyone is holidaying interstate so I need to get a move on!

 

Men to boys

 Biggest personal news this week was that after a break of nearly six months our Monday Night Gaming Group met up face to face at our house. Since I have been about 12  I have played board games and later table-top role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. We have been playing online recently but it’s not the same and with 7 players it can get a bit hectic with everyone talking at once. Besides which, the social aspect of playing is half the fun.

 

 My wife and kids thought it was hilarious watching six grown men and one 20 year-old pretending to be various heroic characters and battle foes. The truth is it’s a bloody good laugh and once a week for 3 hours all of us from different backgrounds (Surveyor, Doctor, Engineer, IT etc..) forget about everything else and pretend to be someone else who is somewhere else doing things none of us can do. Can’t wait for next week for the adventure to continue.

 

Now back to reality…

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