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Toys for the rainy day blues

Toys for the rainy day blues

“I’m bored” – the words that all parents fear hearing!  No need for boredom with our list of ideas to fill rainy days!  Much as we love to get our children outside come rain or shine, we all need some tricks up our sleeve to entertain and relieve the boredom of being stuck indoors.  Take a look at our huge selection of games, craft activities and puzzles, we have something for all ages! Games and puzzles are a great way to…

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Marbles over the Millennia

Marbles over the Millennia

There’s a nicely written piece about traditional games on Time Magazine’s website with the author describing how he and his primary schoolmates played marbles in the playground in the 1970s.  No doubt he thinks that makes him sound old, but I could have written the same about my primary school in the 1950s and I reckon if I asked my father – now in his 80s – he could have done the same for the 1920s and ’30s.  But in…

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Traditional game to get new look

Traditional game to get new look

Apparently the makers of Monopoly in USA are “dropping Water Works and Electric Company in favour of Wind Energy and Solar Energy” according to globeandmail.com .  They quote the games owner’s CEO as saying this is “a nod to the efforts of countries worldwide to increase the effectiveness and availability of renewable energy and resources.” A “nod to the efforts”?  How patronising can a company get? But should we be surprised at the cynical attempts of one the world’s largest…

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