Govende – a game of wordplay, puns, leaps of thought and trivia - GAME 2

Charity is something which should begin at home.

What is home?

Optimistic is hoping your new glasses won’t cost too much. ‘Om is a meditative chant that can go on for hours.

What are hours?

Hours are something called in a pub but when you go on drinking "after hours" the real fun begins.

What is a pub?

A pub is a tubby little puppy

What is tubby

Tubby or not tubby is a famous line from a play.

What is famous?

Have you met Albert Mouse? He was Dartmouth's most
fa-mouse resident and he was probably always going to be a mouse for as long as he lived or so James Hywel wrote.

What is wrote?

A rota is a list of people who do a particular job (like working overtime) and a manager with the initial W wrote it out.

What is overtime?

Overtime is when your employer cons you into working extra hours for extra money but without telling you that the taxman will take a bigger wedge for himself!!!!

What is taxman?

Taxman is the financial version of the game Pac Man.

What is version?

A version is when you don’t like something others may enjoy.

What’s enjoy?

Endjoy is when you finish doing something and it has brought you pleasure.

What is pleasure?

Its the feeling you get when you are sure that your plea will be granted.

What is granted?

He was my beloved grandfather Edward - dear old Gran Ted

What is beloved?

To be loved is something children hope for from ther parents but dont always achieve.

What are parents?

Pa rents is when Pa has lost all his money and his house gambling and is now a tenant.

What is gambling?

Gambling is when you take a bet or punt in the hope that you will win more than you originally placed!

What is punt?

A punt is a flat-bottomed boat which students use to get around Cambridge.

What is a boat?

A boat is when you are out and a-boat getting your messages.

What are messages?

Mess ages are untidy heaps that take a long time to clear up.

What are heaps?

Heaps are one of the first body parts to increase in size when you put on weight.

What’s increase?

You get a crease in your cotton dress when you sit down for too long, so then the dress has an in-crease.

What is cotton?

Mollygo

Cotton is when you're away for the weekend with your adult children and their baby and you've had enough of the little one grizzling so you order "Cot! On!" so that the travel cot is erected and the baby can have a nap.

What is erected?

Erected is a little thing that often pops up when men get excited.

What is excited?

Excited is where something you used to cite as evidence is no longer acceptable.

What is acceptable?

Acceptable is when you have ability (to choose) and you have learnt acceptance e.g. when you've kissed many frogs 🐸 and then you find not-quite-a-Prince but you think, "Okay, you'll do".

What is a Prince?