Margarida S

They will be sent in magical sonnets that travel through the air. Comments.

I don't play golf myself. My main preoccupation with it is whether I should write its name as "golf" like everyone else does or as "Golf" like I do with other games.

That said, it does occasionally impinge on my life. When I go to the train station in Colchester, I drive past a golf club (by which I mean an association for golfers, rather than a tool for striking a golf ball). When I'm on the train, I go past another. An advertisement for the latter was in among the bunch of fliers I was reduced to reading at breakfast this morning as I didn't have anything else within reach to read.

So, previously I felt confident that golf was a snobbish, expensive sport, but in the light of this new information I'm coming to believe that there are two ends to the market:



They seem to be expecting that people will think, "Hmm, normally I wouldn't be tempted into paying £6 to use a stick to hit a ball into a hole, minus the hole, fifty times, but that sandwich has sold the idea to me". I can imagine the queues forming right now. I particularly like the way that the burger is flagged as being delicious but the pizza and sandwich aren't; it suggests that laws against false advertising may be casting their shadow over the text.

They spelled "buggies" as "buggy's" in offer 3 on the other side of the paper, too.

Elton John in playing a gig in Colchester next June.

How are the mighty fallen.

We've cancelled the Kickstarter campaign for The Hopefuls, on the basis that after an opening week in which 12 people pledged a total of £270 we were never going to make the target. If you were one of those 12 people, thanks and sorry.

In part we lost momentum because interface issues meant it was difficult for would-be US investors to invest. However, we were hoping for more passing investment from regular Kickstarter boardgame enthusiasts than we got; the other three boardgames that launched the same day all picked up more investors than we did. It looks, therefore, as if the way to go is to build up a group of potential investors first (by taking prototypes of the game around and getting people to play it — it is actually a good game) and then go to Kickstarter.

Oh well, I guess that's what we'll try. Watch this space...

The final component I ordered for my new laptop arrived on Friday and is now installed:



It's my Gamer sticker.

Normally, I put them more centrally, but thanks to the raised lettering used by the manufacturer in its logo, I can't. Well, not without taking a file to it, anyway.

This sign is at Colchester Station above the entrance to the ticket barriers:



I have no idea what it means.