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12.08.02On Drinking GamesDrinking games hadn't featured heavily in my life until I arrived in Canada and was introduced to the Century Club, the Buffalo Club and more. We were young; that's what we did. Drinking was about getting drunk. When I left, I thought that was pretty much over with. The UK doesn't have the same kind of drinking culture as Canada, and neither does Europe. My liver breathed a sigh of relief. But years later, at a party in Spain, a Canadian man who vaguely knew me - and knew at least that I'd studied in BC - saw me drinking ...
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11.27.01Peter Rabbit’s Race GameWe used to have a board game based on the Beatrix Potter books called Peter Rabbit's Race Game. The game consisted of five playing pieces - Peter Rabbit, Jeremy Fisher, Mrs Tiggywinkle, Jemima Puddleduck and Squirrel Nutkin - which have to race around a board and get back home, but each on their own path, with their own special pitfalls and pleasant surprises and forfeits to contend with.The paths looped in and out of each other, crossing bridges and hopping over lilypads. The whole game took about an hour to play, and was all painstakingly illustrated in the Potter style ...
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