Author: Jax Blunt
Smyths Toys (free!) Party 27th May
and NI 27th May – that’s this weekend! The parties are from 9am until 2pm and there’s a free goodie bag for every child (while stocks last, queueing system in operation). I’m intending to get there early 😉 There will be free face painting (children 3+ only), a raffle every hour for a £50 voucher,…
Dinosaur Train app review
Recently I was very pleased to be offered a chance to do a review of the Dinosaur Train Paint and Match app. From Kuato Studios Based on the Jim Henson TV Series, Tigerboy recognised it immediately and got stuck in straight away. There are 24 pictures of Buddy the dinosaur and his friends to colour…
The Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat by Coral Rumble and Charlotte Cooke
Buy at Amazon affiliate link The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea, in a box on the living room floor. They sailed away for a year and a day and these are the things that they saw… Any book that starts with a box is starting out well as far as I’m concerned, particularly…
New tent.
Ebay bargain, exact tent we’ve been looking for. Yes, it’s another Vango 🙂 Smallest is very excited. Most of her camping experiences (that she remembers anyway) have been Kentwell related, and she’s hoping that we might manage to fit in some ordinary camping as well. I confess I’m a bit inspired too. Dreaming of adventures…
Autistic burnout/ regression/ inertia – it's not just me.
A few weeks ago on twitter, I put out the following tweet https://twitter.com/liveotherwise/status/851124884432465920 [Text reads: Looking for resources on autistic inertia, burnout, regression particularly with reference to late diagnosis. Grateful for RTs.] It’s my top tweet of the month, with hundreds of interactions. It turns out that the symptoms I have been feeling and struggling…
The Woman Who Met Her Match – Fiona Gibson.
What if your first love came back on the scene . . . 30 years later? After yet another disaster, Lorrie is calling time on online dating. She might be single in her forties, but she’s got a good job, wonderful children and she’s happy. This, Lorrie decides, is going to have to be enough.…
The Inventory 3: Black Knight by Andy Briggs.
Buy at Amazon (affiliate link) Dev and his friends are back with more mind-bending tech in this third instalment of the Inventory series. This time they are tasked with training new recruits to defend the Inventory’s incredible inventions. But will they be ready for action before Shadow Helix’s next strike? First of all, why not…
Bloglovin v Feedly – and what is RSS anyway?
Time for an update on the Bloglovin situation. As you may have seen if you’re on social media (and if you’re not, how did you get here anyway? 😉 ) Bloglovin have made a statement that the canonical URL pointing to their site was an oversight, it’s all been fixed, and everything is hunky dory.…
Bloglovin, syndication, and the canonical URL issue.
Many bloggers use bloglovin as a way for their readers to follow them and see their content. When it was just an RSS aggregation service, this wasn’t a problem, and many bloggers have built up hundreds, or even thousands of followers on the service, and see a good amount of traffic from it. Right at…
