Monopoly and the kids
I had forgotten how fun this game is to play. Played it with my nephews, G is 5, N is 7. N put acquired Mayfair and Park Lane and thanks to his canny property development, was able to charge me $1300 rent to visit. G wasn't too bad, I gave him some hints up until the stage I realised he was beating me; he offered some property swaps that seemed improbably generous and then revealed them to be gags. He also had a thing about wanting to pay $6 rents with a $100 note "Can I have change".
At Cibo when having coffee with Duckworth (he did the coffee orders something like this:
"So you want a latte, A wants a macciato, N and G, what coffee do you want?" Also had to talk him out of giving the kids sugar packets to eat, G kept hinting about wanting custard tarts but he certainly didn't get indulged, and guess what? He still enjoyed himself.
We invented our own Adelaide version of Monopoly, this was quite a lot of fun, renaming the waterworks "Piccadilly Waterworks", inventing chance cards such as "You beat Lleyton Hewitt at tennis and he is fined $500 for swearing" or "Flowers at Centennial Park cost you $10". G did some great illustrations for us, little people, flower signs, money notes crossed out and reinvented the old "2nd prize in the beauty contest" to being for the 1st prize (I've always laughed about that 2nd prize). We also paid tribute to the upcoming Festival of Ideas by including a card that said "You invent a new social paradigm; Philip Adams pays you $5. Both of the boys reminisced about the cockle train trip down at Goolwa, a touching reminder of their innocence that is mingled in more savvy interests. N is a huge bookworm now, reminds me of myself at that age, whilst G is still in denial of his creative interests, claiming to only admire footballers and cricketers, but also telling me that Arthur, the Aboroginal artist in residence at his school, is "the best drawer in the world" (Arthur taught him to draw a turtle).
At Cibo when having coffee with Duckworth (he did the coffee orders something like this:
"So you want a latte, A wants a macciato, N and G, what coffee do you want?" Also had to talk him out of giving the kids sugar packets to eat, G kept hinting about wanting custard tarts but he certainly didn't get indulged, and guess what? He still enjoyed himself.
We invented our own Adelaide version of Monopoly, this was quite a lot of fun, renaming the waterworks "Piccadilly Waterworks", inventing chance cards such as "You beat Lleyton Hewitt at tennis and he is fined $500 for swearing" or "Flowers at Centennial Park cost you $10". G did some great illustrations for us, little people, flower signs, money notes crossed out and reinvented the old "2nd prize in the beauty contest" to being for the 1st prize (I've always laughed about that 2nd prize). We also paid tribute to the upcoming Festival of Ideas by including a card that said "You invent a new social paradigm; Philip Adams pays you $5. Both of the boys reminisced about the cockle train trip down at Goolwa, a touching reminder of their innocence that is mingled in more savvy interests. N is a huge bookworm now, reminds me of myself at that age, whilst G is still in denial of his creative interests, claiming to only admire footballers and cricketers, but also telling me that Arthur, the Aboroginal artist in residence at his school, is "the best drawer in the world" (Arthur taught him to draw a turtle).
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