Sorry for the above individual quotes - too tired to consider replying to everything in one.
Fantastic weekend as ever and holding it's place as one of the highlights of the year for me.
Friday was fab, learning new games with Mali and Kern. Both Patchwork and Azul have been put on my Christmas wish list. Also thanks to Rich for ordering the pizza, you wouldn't think it would be such a difficult task - but it really cane be. Good judgement on the quantity too! Brilliant drinking game with lots of laughs and lots of unexpected twists and turns! Grim... went upstairs for the first time ever when playing hide and seek with Craster! Played our one and only game of Mafia that evening where people totally changed time (I am not always a bad guy!!).
Saturday continued in the same vein. Played Colt Express, almost won Flamme Rouge and Captain Sonar where Gaz managed to shock the whole room into silence. Played some Codenames too. Wouldn't mind a game of that on the forum sometime soon.
The Yes Chef!'s did a marvelous job as always and it felt really nice to see the team back together. The smoked pork had a lovely flavour to it. Curio mixed the quiz up a bit this year with different rounds (explains why I wasn't able to mark myself as attending on the calendar - typical it was the first year I'd remembered!). Excellent cockatailing by Jacket who deserved that win. We topped this off with playing The great Dalmuti until 4am. Amazing scenes. There must be a photo of Myp with his crisp packet hat somewhere I'm sure.
Sunday was a bit more subdued, although not for Singham! Betrayal at house on the Hill was good. Craster really does roll a higher than average amount of 1s and Grim... cannot be trusted to NOT unleash all of hell on us five minutes into the game. Also Jacket cannot be trusted to read rules by himself.
Playing Last night on earth was good fun too, it felt like a nicely balanced game where anyone could win and it's a shame that we didn't get chance for another turn. Played a bit of Exploding kittens (Malc is some sort of expert) then Jurassic Games went on - it looked so bad it's good, but I couldn't take the pace so went to bed. I've brought it home with me though so will watch it and chuck it back in the Cottage box.
It was great to finally meet Wookie who is an awesome laugh and just jumped right in with everything. Same goes to Mrs Jacket.
Thank you to everyone who brought cake, Jem's Biscoffee cake was amazing.
Apologies if I have forgotten someone or something, I'm sure a lot of things will come back to me over the next few days - we just packed so much in!
A big thank you to everyone for simply being so awesome. Same time next year?