Homespun Wisdom: Talks With My Neighbour

Playing, Lying & Cheating to Win


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Daniel starts ruminating. Danger of traps and the dangling lure. Tribal battle lines. The mob is always there, usually just indoors watching TV until rallied. Snakes and ladders discussed as a spiritual journey. Emotional development through games. Masterpiece teaches you to lie and cheat and control your emotions. Sarah plays a witch denunciation game for 7 hours. Board games as safe spaces for bad behaviour. Leakage from the reputation from playing the game to the real world….a bastard at monopoly. Liar’s poker an exercise in statistics and psychology. Games that bring out your personality. Duck a l’orange compared with frog a la peche. Emmental and Sherlock Holmes. All is fair in love and war. Ending the war in Ukraine by a no-holds barred fight between Putin and Zelensky. Being over-dressed or under-dressed. Margaret Thatcher at Balmoral. Daniel fesses up to defeating the cameras at Aldi Shop & Go and so much more.
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Homespun Wisdom: Talks With My NeighbourBy Sarah Sharman, Daniel Confino