As a child I was never much into the game of charades.... perhaps it was the thought of Lionel Bleurgh, Una Stubbs and their "jobbing" luvvie friends cavorting merrily on-screen with their secret handshake Da Vinci code style clues..... i.e. They had a series of repeated actions that you would never find in any other game of charades, like when they touch their nose and point to the person who said the correct word that they had been miming to suggest that they had got it right..... Twaddle of the highest calibre, and SO overly camp!
Anyhow......
I DID say I was never much into it... but that doesn't mean we never played it.....
For one thing, as a child, how are you supposed to know if, let's say for instance, Lord of the Rings is a TV show, a film, a book, a play or a song or indeed any combination of the above! I bet Lionel and Una never had to argue that there had never been a TV series of Lord of the Flies....... ridiculous concept then.
I only have two memories (and they may well be clues as to why we didn't play it much).....
When someone tried to mime the hit TV show "Panorama" we managed to arrive unconvincingly at "hand-floor-armour" and I think the game was over shortly thereafter.....
Another game of equal success left us with a very firm suggestion that "Emu-gin soldiers" was actually a book and a film, only to be let down by the final answer of "Virgin Soldiers" - Again.... a decent "mimer" could really have given us kids something to think about with that one!!
And all this tomfoolery and shennanigoats leads me to the following......
Whilst in the Lake District recently, I took some photographs - I posted a link to this flickr set yesterday.... but today I've added something very special to that set......
A selection of hand-floor-armours!
