Games

I have already written about Frederick's Games Box but other games from my parents' era and earlier still lurk in the cupboard with games of more recent vintage.

There are wooden counters, ivory and bone dice and ivory tiddle-winks that belonged to my Smith grandparents and probably to a Smith generation before that. The little green dice are all that remain of several that I found hidden in the grass when my dad cut down the apple tree in the middle of the lawn at Firsby Avenue. The playing cards too are mentioned elsewhere and these are not the originals but a set that I purchased as a reminder.

The are other games that were my parents', all of which I played with as a child. The dominoes and draughts were probably my father's. Pick up Sticks was always fun but the sharp plastic sticks were a bit of a hazard. Lexicon was really an early form of Scrabble. I thought the crime solving card game Krimo was really good when I played it in the 1960s but more recent attempts to play it suggest that either my memory is faulty, my expectations were lower then, or that we weren't playing it properly when we tried it again.