ABSTRACT
This book has described some aspects of a particular game. By no means anything like all aspects of games, or all relevant aspects of that game.1 Indeed, fairy club might be considered as only ‘partly a game’, or, if we are to heed Polly, fairy club was not a game at all – it was fairy club. The analysis discussed the practical actions involved in organizing and producing fairy club, and generating and understanding membership, actions, and sequences of actions within the course of the club’s activities. Fairy club was sustained and maintained by virtue of its omnirelevance during these particular lunch periods in that it could possibly and properly be used to recognize, describe and generate action throughout the duration of fairy club’s operation. The members generated the settinged activity of the club by establishing a distinct order and set of time, place and, membership categories by which all actions could, and should, be understood. The interactionally produced fairy club categories and associated rules and understandings were invoked and applied to establish a local social order that was constitutive of and constituted in situated action.
