Di’s Ladies Luncheon With Games

All lovely ladies lunch.

A fat one wheezing on a Ventolin puffer.

Somehow she destroyed her lungs with medication.

Now incurable.

Living the rest of her life with broken lungs.

Another has pains in her thighs after a hip replacement.

 She can never go wandering

at Christmas

champagne glass in hand

on her friend’s property

ever again.

Talk is of aging parents who are old but don’t know they are old.

We are old but don’t know we are old.

We are as young as we are ever going to be right now

says Karen.

Di makes us play a game.

It is Beetle.

A game from our fifties childhoods

before television.

BTV.

You have to construct a beetle with the roll of the dice.

body = 6

head = 1

mouth = 4

antennae = 2

eyes = 1

legs = 5

The crayfishermen in Kalbarri were crazy for this game

Di tells us.

I am creative with my beetles.

I should have won The Best Beetle

but there wasn’t a creativity prize.