Saturday, seniors, shopping, smashing...

As you might have guessed, Saturday didn't have the earliest of starts given the antics of the night before, which meant we were kept rushed off our feet, for the portion of the day that we were off our backs for.

We went to visit Julie's grandparents who lived relatively nearby, in the 'morning'. They were fairly generic old people, with biscuits and tea. They also erm...yeah. Old people. Very pleasant though. Oh, and there were cats.


_{This is an old person. They're not related to anyone I know.}

So, moving on - for Christmas, Julie had provided me with a lovely set of shot glasses, and a chess board. The two had cunningly been combined into a single box to make 'shot glass chess', a bizarre game in which the odds are evened by the fact that upon *taking* a piece, one has to drink a shot.

This doesn't seem like most drinking games I know, where the loser gets punished by drinking, and so I've added an additional rule, that the loser has to finish the rest of their colour's shots when checkmated. The game therefore, is now an exercise in gaining checkmate whilst leaving your opponent with the most remaining pieces possible. Also, 'Suicide Chess' has taken on a whole new meaning.


_{Red vodka, blue vodka...does this ring a bell for any of you regular readers?}

Unfortunately, despite being packed in many layers of polystyrene, a fair few of the shot glasses were smashed when I opened it. When we took the box back to the Reading branch of 4Front (multinational branding and globalisation pushing out independent shops does have its advantages), the staff were a bit dubious about our claim that the glasses were broken when we opened the box. That is, until they opened a box at their end and found the same thing. We managed to piece together one whole set between the two that were now open, but I'm still fairly bemused by the fact that the glasses could get smashed in such a protective environment.

Well, that's enough about shot-glasses for what was meant to be a non-alcohol related post. We spent the rest of the day getting ourselves spruced up for...

Wait for it ;)