activities : Brett Fish

for the determinedly board [game recommendation – Cities and Knights]

so you've played Settlers of Catan now and you're looking for something more challenging, even more invigorating... is it even possible? why yes it is, settlers of catan: cities and knights - takes all the brilliance, variety, strategy and intrigue of Settlers and then sends it up a notch (or a couple of notches) there are a bunch of expansion packs for settlers of catan and i haven't tried them all (heard too many disparaging [...]

By brettfish|2011-01-09T07:31:37+02:00January 9th, 2011|activities, sport and games|4 Comments

for the determinedly board [game recommendation – Settlers of Catan]

who remembers - with great reminiscory reverberations - sitting up all nite as a lightie playing monopoly til all hours of the morning? [pretty much the only way to finish a decent game] or waging full on risk warfare with your little yellow three edge single men wedges and your bigger yellow five edge ten-men wedges until you had cornered the last remaining opponent in australia and piled the biggest force known to world domination [...]

By brettfish|2011-01-08T14:05:39+02:00January 8th, 2011|activities, and other animals., sport and games|10 Comments

new year's reVolutions part 5: strawberries!

so this morning the beautiful val and myself and a whole assortment of other people went off to polkadraai strawberry to do some strawberry picking which is the first time i have ever done that... it was immensely hot, but a lot of fun and the reVolutionary part of it being that it was a new experience and that one of the changes i want to make this year to my life (especially as half [...]

By brettfish|2011-01-05T12:09:06+02:00January 5th, 2011|activities, life, the beautiful Val (tbV)|1 Comment

new year's reVolutions…

i have never been a big fan of the whole 'new year's resolution' vibe mostly from the point of having been indoctrinated into that way of thinking from an early time in life - "arr, it's rubbish, you make promises that you break within a week, arr" [it seems like a pirate may have been doing that particular indoctrination but i think it was quite possibly more my parentals] but the last few days of [...]

By brettfish|2011-01-02T06:38:00+02:00January 2nd, 2011|activities, life|8 Comments

what would Jesus play? [and other reflections on Arisefest 2010]

sometimes i like to picture Jesus in a modern day setting and wonder how His life and ministry would have looked if it was 2011 when God decided to come to earth in human form to settle the original score instead of 2000ish years ago would He have watched movies or played computer games? Would He have had His own Facebook page or blog? Would Jesus own a cellphone (my thorts are He probably wouldn’t [...]

By brettfish|2011-01-01T17:26:38+02:00January 1st, 2011|activities, change the world, God stuff, local news, shtupidt people, worship|14 Comments

two roads scrabbled in the woods, and i scored 167…

just got the word 'diverges' over two triple words (e on a double letter, s was a blank) and scored 167 in online scrabble which is some 40 plus points more than my biggest word before... was a game my beautiful wife started with a 7 letter word so a nice comeback and i finished with 500 plus for i think the second time ever. in other news just made some savoury muffins with which [...]

By brettfish|2010-12-24T02:11:53+02:00December 24th, 2010|activities, and other animals., local news, sport and games|0 Comments

here am i

so this last weekend the beautiful val (now tbsv but hoping and praying she gets over the sickly superquick) and i were uber privileged to be a part of the formerly claremont meths church, now combo churches, camp simply titled 'Go' we were meant to be part of a national vineyard youth camp (in bloem) which for various reasons didn't work out and so we transferred all our guys to the mizpah campsite camp in [...]

By brettfish|2010-12-17T09:50:47+02:00December 17th, 2010|activities, God stuff, life|0 Comments

Good Will(ed) Acting

so last nite the beautiful val and myself went off to support theatresports stalwart megan furniss' new directed play 'Good Will Acting' at the Kalk Bay theatre, strangely enuff in Kalk Bay and had a really fun and delightingful time. you should go! no really, do it! the two part play revolves around the concept of four out of work actors (the corporate they were booked for was cancelled) during the december holidays who eventually [...]

By brettfish|2010-12-09T07:31:17+02:00December 9th, 2010|activities, humour'ish, local news|1 Comment

botswanan reflections: next year

so botswana was hot. very hot. hotter than the camembert cheese (or lack thereof) in the monty python 'the cheese shop' skit was runny. and so a lot of the time it was a case of existing and surviving and seeking shade. but there was some contemplation that took place, in between the gaps (surely you mean 'in the gaps?' - yes, quite, i clearly panic'd!) about life, the universe, and a whole bunch of [...]

By brettfish|2010-12-05T04:55:43+02:00December 5th, 2010|activities, and other animals., God stuff, life|0 Comments

botswanan reflection: the animals

so the beautiful val and i just got back from a rad and timely botswana trip with good friends dreadlock mike and nancy the twin and also some friends of theirs (brent, zeldy, norm and kate) and have some incredible memories of a stunning, stunning place we were really spoilt with the animal sightings - elephant (including the smallest baby elephants i have ever seen), giraffe, wildebeest (including the lesser known pussybeest and the lonely [...]

By brettfish|2010-12-05T04:33:50+02:00December 5th, 2010|activities, and other animals., friends and enemas|0 Comments