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Exploring the w i d e o p e n s p a c e with BARG

Written by Nicky Getgood on Monday, May 11th, 2009 ( One response )
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I spent Saturday running around playing games and picnicking, it was great fun. We met up with the BARG team in the Bullring at 2pm and got things going with Hat Snap, which had us donning numbered newspaper bonnets. We had to photograph other player’s numbers whilst trying not to get snapped ourselves, which made for some interesting situations, not to mention odd looks from passing shoppers.

The chasing took us down to the car park behind Curzon station, which is a great place for exploring – full of nooks and crannies and naughtily discarded sheds and terrapins to root around in.

The next game was The Lost Sport of Olympia, a 2500-year-old game invented by the Ancient Greeks apparently. It consisted of a blindfolded person walking around a chalked labyrinth, with their teamates forming the walls and guiding by humming. I had a go and it felt and sounded really weird.

Then it was picnic time. Some packed lunches were more appetising than others.

After lunch we played a few more games on the grass, such as bowls. But BARG encouraged us to throw creatively.

It was so much fun, I can’t remember the last time I spent the whole day in the great outdoors, playing and exploring. I really regressed into feral child mode and was kind of hyper at the end of it. So much so that I had to be calmed with a couple of pints down the pub.