14 foot Trampoline – 1996
I’ve certainly spent more time lying on the trampoline gazing up at the clouds thinking about my life than bouncing on it – It’s a comfortable place to lie. I used to try to learn tricks but never had the guts to do a backwards somersault. We invented games like trying to keep a tennis […]
BloodBowl – 1994
Bloodbowl is an awesome game of probability, tactics and cunning defence. It’s a cross between chaotic chess and fantasy football. I started playing in the evenings at school when I was 14. We had a busy league. 10 years later, in an attempt to spend more time with my brother, we started playing at the […]
Hammer Paintball Gun – 1993
I used to play paintball in the woods with a group of friends. We all had our own guns, masks and camoflage gear. It was brilliant fun!
Man O’ War – 1993
Man o’ war was Warhammer on the sea. The rules were better defined than Warhammer and the playing time was shorter. Each ship had a card that described the areas of the ship and when it got damaged by enemy cannons, you’d put damage counters on the card. It was a fun game but unfortunately […]
Warhammer – 1990-1993
I played Warhammer between the ages of 10-13. I collected an Orc and Goblin army. I used to pore over information sheets, spell lists, data cards, range tables, in order to draft army lists. I read warhammer stories, collected dice, painted figures. I was totally nuts about it. My dad made me a Warhammer gaming […]
Gameboy – 1992 (birthday present from grandpa)
This really was an exciting birthday present. I used to play it so much that I could still hear the music in my head after I switched it off! You weren’t able to save the progress in games so they were all brilliant pick-up-and-play fast-paced action. I used to be able to clock Mario within […]
Crossbows and Catapults – Pre Ten years old
As a child “Crossbows and Catapults was a firm favourite. The aim of the game was to land a counter of your colour onto the treasure mat of the enemy. You’d have a set of bricks with which to try to protect your own treasure and a set of attack weapons (a crossbow and a […]
Nivarna
When I was 13 I first became aware that music was quite exciting. My very first band that I liked were Guns&Roses, not just because I giggled at all the swearing but because it had lots of energy. I got into Nivarna in a big way and decided to test my devotion to them by […]
A strange passage
Have you ever tried to prove your insanity? Write something that maybe could be meaningful but when it comes down to it blatantly isn’t (like what fridge magnet poetry always ends up as). This is a strange passage Gervase George and me made (when I was 17 ish), I like to think of it as […]
Gap Year Expedition (Summer holidays 1999)
Chris and I got the O.S.S Foundation to part-sponsor us on a trek in Indian and Nepal. We did a report for their magazine: Here, Tom Fotherby and Chris Hitchins report on their trip to Nepal: Having done various expeditions during our time at the Oratory, we decided that we wanted the same challenge, but […]
