Tis the Season to be Jolly...............

Boxing Day at our house is always fun but this year when my 80 year old Mother in Law joined in playing Killer Darts it was the best yet.

Every year we ask out nephew and nieces to join us for fun and games, this year there was the addition of great nephew known as our Grephew, Henry and both my Mother and brother in Law joined us.  The drinks were flowing and everyone was in fine spirits and we began with a game of Hang Man upstairs in the guest bedroom where there is a large blackboard screwed to the chimney breast, we all sat around on little stools and the rules were

1)     You must use a Christmas theme for all words

2)    You must stand up and wave your arms if you think you know the answer

It was unbelievable that every time food words were used I got the answer before we started shouting out letters ha ha ha…. Henry grephew amazed us all playing quietly with his rattles and other toys that Santa had left for him. 

After almost 2 hours of this game, we all agreed to break for food before commencing with Killer Darts.   The rules here are

1)    Hit a number with one dart using hand you DON’T write with

2)    Become a killer by hitting landing in this number  with dart by using the hand you DO write with

3)    Each player has five lives

4)    Kill of your opponents five lives by landing in their number throwing darts with hand you do write with

5)    Regain one life only, by landing a dart in your own number at any time before being killed off

Stephen (brother in law) insists that when you’re dead your dead and you shouldn’t be getting any lives back.  However, no sooner was he down to 3 lives than he insisted on regaining one with much hilarity.  Shirley (mother in law) is only very small and she was killed off before she hit the dart board at all (the floor boards took some punishment) and then we all began systematically picking each other off.  In the second game Shirley managed to survive to the last two players, the other being her oldest son (my husband, Billy) and can you believe he did not spare her!! He had to win oh Billy, Billy…… anyway we had the best time and we are all looking forward to Billy and my BBQ in July where we will organise some BBQ tucker trials…….

Happy New Year Everyone and I hope you all have as much fun as we do Chez Bailey!