A reasonably long time ago, when I was a very new parent, I had a highly strung little girl as my first child. Many things worried her. The idea of a man breaking into her house, even to bring lovely things, was utterly terrifying. So we let her into a secret. That father Christmas is [...]

A toilet roll holder. A bath. (The actual physical object, so that I could have the regular experience. ) My obviously misplaced and somewhat wasted youth.

This is Smallest. She’s wearing a rather fetching Bishopston cord pinafore dress in burgundy (secondhand from a friend) along with a green flowery top (secondhand from a friend) and pink tights (you guessed it). Her boots are brand new and a review item from Barratts. I have to say that I was really impressed with [...]

Small put a huge amount of work into his Team Skylanders entry last week. He designed the new character requested in pencil drawings, and then set to modelling it and animated using Zu3D software (review forthcoming). Somehow he misread the entry date as being last Friday so the day was taken up with entering, and [...]

Yesterday was a long day. Today we were all tired. So apart from the usual eating and drinking and nappies and washing and living and stuff that has to go on, very little extra did. Oh, I did investigate digital download plugins for WordPress. And joined Quibly and streamzoo. Considered deleting Instagram but couldn’t remember [...]

{Watching} the amazing spiderman, courtesy of blinkbox and peerindex. Quite enjoyed it, but thought it was rather slow to get going. And if you’re planning on downloading before watching, allow a good window for that. {Dinner} cooked by someone else. Joy. {Reading} the fault in our stars. Just arrived today, part of a competition chain. [...]

I’ve spent a while this afternoon cruising facebook/twitter and a few other sites, looking for competitions to enter to win presents for Christmas. I didn’t do very well in the Swagbucks Christmas challenge from Tots100 – it turns out that spending 6 days in a youth hostel with next to no internet seriously hampers your [...]

I’ve been thinking about blog titles. I very often put ones in that have little to do with the topic of the post. Or they are utterly factual, probably great for a search engine but not very interesting when you’ve several hundred posts in your reader. But it takes too much energy trying to be [...]