Another of the best things we did in the 2008th year of our Lord

was to play Settlers of Catan on this here 3-D game board that was handmade by our friend Tom Settle. It is an actual work of art.

Another work of art that Tom made in the 200th year of our Lord was this:

a scaled-down model of  the shack Henry David Thoreau built and lived in on Walden Pond.

A net of which, will be included in Volume II Issue IV of THE REALEST.

Oh, this saturday Tom will be playing with Former Bullies and Beach Fuzz at a Special Neil Young night at the Black Lion in Salford. 

SEAFARERS of CATAN

A couple of years ago Adrian Orange told us about a board game called Settlers of Catan. We forgot about it until his friend Flint Jamison enthused about it on his visit to Manchester. On account of one of our best friends last name is 'Settle' we thought it would make a good present and so we gave him 'Settlers of Catan' for his christmas in 2007. Since then we've played it, and its variant 'Cities & Knights', pretty much every week. It is amazing. Buy it now! Don't look back!

Last week was Laetitia's birthday. Lucy and Nick bought her the seafarers expansion pack, which is what you see above. Seafarers means islands and ships and exploration as well as the harvesting, trading, building of the basic game. Yes!