Lazer mayhem

The Lad had his belated birthday party today here.

It was quite good fun I suppose, and I survived more than half of about eight different 'battles' without being 'killed' by simply finding the best hiding place and just sniping intermittently. Rather bizarrely, standing behind a tree worked best - but remember to keep your head and your 'gun', both of which are targets out of view.

But the constant squatting down behind [oil barrel, haystack etc], then jumping up for a second and squatting down again before somebody shoots you is quite tiring; it was awfully muddy in places; and we learn yet again that ten year old boys have no concept of tactics or co-ordination and it was only in one round that they/we exhibited some sort of team work. We 'won' that round hands down, which was rather gratifying.