Bored in Swindon General, thanks & a DIY Game.

First of all THANKS fellers for all your posts and well wishes they are most appreciated. My little sourjon to Swindon Hspl was a fairly serious do and if it was not for the quick thinking of my Nursey Wife I would not be here to post. The medicos still don't know the cause of my potential demise.

Anyway, laid up with no form of entertainment, the hospital does have TV on bedside but its a long story as to why I did not. I remembered a comp. from my youth; 'Write a set of Wargame Rules on a Postcard'. So away I went and came up with race game. Making racers from plastic spoons, a stand/direction marker (which always points north & determines the angle of turn) from a paper pill pot, these along with a dice app on my phone and bits and pieces on a dinning tray/trolley for an ever changing circuit did the biz. After a couple of goes I got the feller in the next bed interested and by the end of my stay we had a little ladder going. Winning the top prize,a bar of chocolate (!). I did feel a bit of a shark as I did write the rules (he, he). This went to Mrs. PZ for Valentine's Day (romance isn't dead).

Spoon Speeders Jockeying through a Gap

Getting tighter

Race to the finish

My loot from Call to Arms.

Well thanks again guys and thanks to the staff at Swindon Hospital for their care.

Next post back to the campaign.