We'd play a good board game, something really silly – my son is very fond of the Game of Life just now – followed by some comedy badminton.
"And it is easily comprehensible that Lyeff Nikolaevitch [Tolstoy] is passionately fond of this game," Sergeenko writes, as "it affords considerable work for his muscles.
Possessed of a fine intellect, and extremely fond of the game, he is apt to lose sight of all other considerations, people and business alike.
The 4th Earl of Dunraven a hugely admired Edwardian aristocrat and dandy, fond of big game hunting, and co-author of a book on Spiritualism with homerotic overtones crossed the Atlantic to pit his skills against those of a NYYC clique that included J.P.Morgan, William K Vanderbilt, August Belmont, and Henry Astor Carey.
Any person fond of witnessing this game may avail himself of seeing it played with consummate skill and wonderful dexterity".
He was also fond of the board games made by Avalon Hill, such as PanzerBlitz, a strategy game loosely based on tank warfare on the Eastern Front.
He is particularly fond of games relating to old TV shows, including The A-Team, and his favourite, The Dukes of Hazzard.
He speaks effectively.…His influence upon his age is extensive pleasurable, instructive, healthy, reformatory.… Mr. Dickens is, in private, very much what might be expected from his works.…His conversation is genial.…[He] has singular personal activity, and is fond of games of practical skill.
He was the kind of man who, when he started writing Eugene Onegin in earnest, would write to a friend: 'Fuck fame, it's money I need.' He became a heavy gambler, fond of faro (Casanova's favourite game, too, Binyon murmurs), and several times was forced to hand over manuscripts of his poems in payment of his debts; at least two chapters of Eugene Onegin were sacrificed in this way.
We're also particularly fond of the carpeted ceiling found in the game room.
