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PINS Rule fifty-four: The End of the Game

Nowt to say here, but plenty to say over there. Until next time, that is, when we get the players out of the box for more PINS.

A photo of a Polaroid photo of a place, no longer in the game.

A photo of a book of a person, no longer in the game.

A photo of a book showing a game, no longer in play.

A photo of a book recording many games, long since played.

A photo of a Polaroid photo of another place, no longer in the game.

Dreams that could have started a game, but didn’t.

PINS – Rule Fifty-three: A Good Giggle

PINS is a game and you can have fun playing it. Maybe not as much fun as a works outing where you can go to the place where they laminated the letters from satisfied customers, praising the consistency and cooking methods of their fried chips.

A colour photograph using n iPhone on a collage using photocopies from the main bedroom wallpaper from Whalley Road, and mixed media. Depicting a day out at Blackpool during the late 1950s, where folk are sure to have a good giggle. #1 the works accountant.

PINS – Rule Fifty-two: Resurrection

It’s a pain that you have to resurrect a game of PINS after the pieces have been put away, especially if you are using Clash of Empires pieces with their attractive cardboard counters showing Hapsburg and Prussian units. But that’s life and you are used to its irritations. You may have passed out in a creche at an afternoon jazz club – after drinking with an old Polish fellow -but you’ll get up and carry on, like you did here!

A photograph of a pen and ink drawing on very thin paper showing what to do when you need to come back from a fallen state. Remember your past glories as a nearly-man in football, or toy with your dad’s old mills bomb. It’ll be reet with PINS…

A photograph of a pen and ink drawing on very thin paper showing what to do when you need to come back from a fallen state. Remember to not wear one brown show and one black, to school . It’ll be reet with PINS…

A photograph of a pen and ink drawing on very thin paper showing what to do when you need to come back from a fallen state. Remember to line up those Prussian grenadiers and the Britains pengiun. It’ll be reet with PINS…

PINS – Rule Fifty-one: Casualties and The Dead

No-one says it’s not nice talking about the dead , because that’s all your older relatives seem to do! It’s that or the Great War. This is what to do if you want to keep those thoughts at bay, during an invigorating game of PINS.

A photograph of a pen and ink drawing on very thin paper showing a casualty of the cruelties of life, from many years ago, outside a very important church. Churches are useful if PINS has many casualties to deal with…

A photograph of a pen and ink drawing on very thin paper showing a casualty of the cruelties of life, from hundreds of years ago…

A photograph of a pen and ink drawing on very thin paper showing two casualties of the cruelties of life, from many years ago, but who came good and are now enjoying a right good do in another dimension. PINS can be fun, now and again…

PINS – Rule Fifty: Despair

Despair is all around, as we know, even in PINS, though maybe the maker of the game tried not to think too much about that, as there had been plenty of *that* over the years. You can peruse the images below, or read about despair, here.

A photograph a screenshot from a 1970s Dutch-Belgian art film filmed in different Dutch homes that look like anywhere in the 1980s. This was taken on location in an art gallery, using an iPhone pointed at a small TV screen. The image that is ripe for photocopying in the correct circumstances and using the correct paper (we suggest a grey or pastel variety).

PINS – Rule Forty-nine: Don’t be Daft

This rule tells you what to do when you’re exasperated by your partner leading the wrong Do down the club, a double nine! they’re daft.

A photograph a screenshot from a 1970s Estonian film, taken by an iPhone pointed at a TV screen; one that is ripe for photocopying in the correct circumstances and using the correct paper (we suggest a coloured variety). These are daft because tha’ doesn’t know what’s goin on and you can make owt up.

PINS – Rule Forty-eight: Panic

You’ve missed the bus and you are stuck in Rossendale until daybreak, a good reason to panic. Not to worry, PINS details some instances of panic here, and gives you a number of solutions for such scenarios.

A photo of a line illustration for Punch from the 1906 annual. It shows a scene that imparts a sense of unease, maybe panic. What are the goggled men doing driving through London? The curator spent an awful lot of time as a young boy pondering such illustrations. They’ll make good photocopies.

A photo of a line illustration for Punch from the 1906 annual. It shows a scene that imparts a sense of unease, maybe panic. The soldier, a Scots Grey, has had his hoss swiped by a dastardly type in tweeds and a Tam O’ Shanter. What will happen? The curator spent an awful lot of time as a young boy pondering such illustrations. They’ll make good photocopies.

A photo of a line illustration for Punch from the 1906 annual. It shows a scene that imparts a sense of unease, maybe panic. What are the pigs doing on the golf course and who is the man? The curator spent an awful lot of time as a young boy pondering such illustrations. They’ll make good photocopies.

PINS – Rule Forty-seven: On Leave / RnR

PINS needs its units to get some RnR before they can carry on. Being on leave can be very surprising, mind and can get you into all sorts of scrapes. You can read about all that kind of kerfuffle here.

A heavily filtered photo of one of a set of porcelain plates depicting kittens. Part of the Kitten Classics series made in fine bone china by Royal Worcester Crown Ware, England, the plates were strictly limited to a 14 day firing period. Originally on a wall in Felling, Tyne and Wear, thence to a lincrusta wall in East Lancashire, the kittens now get their RnR in the province of Zuid Nederland. They’ll make good photocopies.

PINS – Rule Forty-six: Bunkum

Sometimes people can be plain ignorant and not understand how important it is to compile the rules for PINS. They take a lot of imagination and aren’t the sort of thing everyday folk concern themselves with. That’s why what they say is often bunkum, and you can find out about that here.

A heavily filtered photo of a mediaeval roundel bought in Beverly at the cathedral on a Day Out. Days Out are very much Not Bunkum, as long as you are not in the pub for too long, but the figure depicted in this roundel looks like they could be up for a bit of Bunkum.

PINS – Rule Forty-five: Confusion

Things can be confusing in life, let alone PINS, in which we haven’t even finished the rules yet. Nor will you, with the washing up to do and the compost to put out. It’s all go round here! You can find out about what kinds of confusion can happen if you leave PINS to one side, here.