Many, a few years in the past I watched the Channel 4 quiz Countdown on a small black and white TV within the kitchen. It was on at 4.30 as I used to be getting tea prepared for the youngsters.
When the time modified to a bit earlier it coincided with afternoon cuppa time and after Col retired we at all times watched it collectively. They went by means of some fairly common presenters after Richard Whitely died and I deserted it altogether when the terrible Anne Robinson was in cost for a 12 months however what a pleasure to observe once more now with Colin Murray as host – he’s so enthusiastic, performs alongside and actually appears to take pleasure in the entire programme, as am I once more – though I might by no means win a recreation.
Tucked away within the cabinet is a recreation that is moved home many, many occasions. I truly gained it in a contest on the kids’s Major faculty within the late 80’s. The thought was to invent a recreation for kids to contain including up.
We had some templates for drawing spherical of a prepare and coaches and I reduce out a number of and put numbers on them from one to 6. The sport was to roll a cube and begin with a engine with that quantity then roll once more so as to add coaches and add up the numbers in your prepare when all of the coaches had been used as much as see who had gained.
I might need been the one entry – no concept – however I gained the Countdown recreation. Colin and I had a go at it however the issue was that with out a Susie Dent and a Rachel Riley (or Carol Vorderman again within the day) there was no method of figuring out if we had received the longest phrase or if there WAS a method to do the numbers once we could not, so it wasn’t a lot enjoyable.
It is about time it went off to a charity store.
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