A very bookish board game

Hello, and welcome to an extra Wednesday dose of Wordy and Wheely, as promised. Well, not quite as promised, because it's been another very long and busy day and I don't quite have the energy for the longer post I'd been hoping to write. Theatrical thinkings must wait until tomorrow (again!). Sorry! However, my plans to offer you something less wheely and rather more wordy have not been entirely scuppered, as this week also brought with it my very own copy of The Jane Game - the bookish board game of my title.

What is The Jane Game, you ask? A trivia game based on the works of my beloved Jane Austen. The premise is fairly simple - each player chooses a heroine to represent (out of seven, as Elinor and Marianne Dashwood both merit inclusion, of course). Then you navigate your way through Regency society, and gain grace, accomplishments, and maybe even a marriage proposal (or righteous independence) by answering questions about the books. Since you couldn't really get more up my street, I backed the Kickstarter last year, and it's just arrived. I'm so excited - aside from anything else, it looks beautiful:

Now I just need to get some of my fellow Janeites together to play - over tea or chocolate, naturally!

The words and the wheels

I'm not new to this blogging lark. In fact I've been boring unsuspecting visitors to my corner of the blogosphere (or those who I forcibly brought here through excessive Facebook and Twitter linkage) for some time now. At least since 2012, when I started my training to walk to collect my BA on graduation day, and the page that went with it, Walking by 2013. Then I set up its sequel, Walking by 2015, when my wheelchair broke in April of 2014. Readers of the latter will have noticed, though, that my posts petered out in December...and probably thought (as I did) that that would be my final foray into this medium. 

The reason for that was my chair taking rather longer to be fixed than I had hoped (fifteen months, in the end!) and the consequent strain on my body. Basically, I was in such discomfort that there wasn't much of a project on which to report, and I didn't really get the point of publishing just for the sake of it. Particularly whilst I was in pain and trying to navigate the surprisingly physical challenges of a second Master's degree (but more on those later).

My chair is finally fixed, though, which means I can sit up again - and, having spent the last nine of those fifteen months with little space for anything other than essays, I've realised how much I've missed writing posts like these for fun. Not to a specified rubric, not with a particular tutor in mind, nor in the hopes that anyone will necessarily read them - but just because it's something I enjoy. Also, not having a fully working or workable mode of transport for so long has made me more fully appreciate the freedom my chairs have afforded me - and the possibilities that this new one is helping me to rediscover. I am slowly coming to understand how these two aspects of my life combine to give me a perspective which is to be celebrated and embraced (spasms, speeding, fights with steps and all) rather than shied away from and chiselled down to size.

I am wordy and I am wheely, and both are equally valid - one does not have to hide the other - and they might actually make each other more interesting!

That's pretty much the point of this blog. So, if you fancy reading the occasional ramble, do stop by. I'd love to have you!