Moltres Day

Today, my son and I went out for a long walk.  Since he has been playing this, he has started to walk a lot more.  Before we played this, we did not walk that much, in fact, he would always do his best not to walk.  While I credit PokémonGO with encouraging him to walk a lot, he has improved when it comes to exercise in many ways, an example being how he is playing cricket.

Anyway, this was something that we had been looking forwards to for a while, as we had missed the previous days which dealt with two other legendary Pokémon.  My son called a friend, whom we had been out with on another day before, and he in turn woke up his mother and dragged her out of bed (she had the option to have her first lie in for a while due to her work) to take part in this.  Anyway, we all had fun catching them and he was amazing with how far we walked.

Afterwards, we had lunch near Ipswich, bought some non-alcoholic beer and on getting home relaxed watching Strictly Come Dancing, and we watched the end of a disappointing episode of the X factor.  While it may not look like we did much, I do think that it was an enjoyable day for all, it just does not appear so when I type it up!

   

Remembrance Day 2017

Another interesting day today.  I helped a local school with mock interviews to prepare the students for the real thing and I found it rewarding.  The children have both had to attend birthday parties (though my daughter forgot to take the present to the party she went to) and at present, my son, who got to try on some contact lenses earlier today is at a sleep over (brave parents) while my daughter is watching the X factor with us.  We do prefer Strictly though but I am impressed with two of the acts.  The kids do love each other and do bicker at times, but my daughter loves being able to snuggle with us without having her brother here.  And while we do miss him, it is nice to have that time with her.  In fact, while I type this, she is stroking the hair that remains on my head!


Last of all, an update on chess. I finished joint first in the We Love Groot tournament.  But I am not going to do that well in a few others!

Invasion Colchester 2017

We had a great day today in Colchester.  Today was Invasion Colchester and it is something that I have been looking forwards to with my son for ages.  My daughter, when I had first discussed it, was not too interested in it, but she changed her mind on this.  So my son walked in with us, dressed in a jacket we got him a few years ago when The Force Awakens came out.  Although he had wanted me to dress up in something, I had refused but did wear a Star Wars T shirt while my wife and daughter wore normal clothes.  

And of course, this meant that we played Pokemon Go while my wife was very patient and did not complain at all.  We split up when my wife and daughter went into a shop and my son and I continued walking about to catch more Pokemon, but later, we met up again.  But this was in the town centre itself, and my son and I had encountered some of the characters invading the town.  This included two Predators, and later I had my photo taken with Wonder Woman (no not my wife, the other superhero).  

My son of course had no idea what the Predators are, and of course, being so young, he is not going to find out for a few years.  But he was in ecstasy when we saw an Ewok.  Culver square was full of other people, including Batman and Harley Quinn as well as the Joker, but we had to meet up with the other who, who had encountered some Wizard and Witches.  Both my son and daughter were sorted into houses, sadly neither into Slytherin, but time will tell.

Later it was a walk to Castle Park, where a Pokemon raid was to take place.  My daughter, now she has seen some of those who play Pokemon, is not as keen on it as she was before, but this means that I might get access to her account!

Anyway, she met up with some friends and left us to shop with them (a first) while my son had us by himself for two hours.  Later, we ate at Mamma Mia, a restaurant three of us had been to before, but my daughter had not and we had an amazing meal there.  

Once at home we rested and watched The X Factor. There were some good singers, but this one is amazing.


And last of all, while the kids have not played chess that much, I have continued to do so, and I have realised that I have not continued to post much on it.

So, my performance includes the following finishes.
1st place
12th place out of 19 players
203rd place out of 507 players
2nd place out of 100
19th place out of 100 players
52nd place out of 100
5th out of 99 (I was annoyed to come so close to a top three finish!)24th place out of 99 players
150th place out of 533
9th out of 16