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Hectic hurried days.
Have had a couple of horriedly hectic days this week, with appts in far flung places and odd gaps in between. Fortunately have managed to fill some of the gaps with friends, like the Puddles and the Beans 🙂 It’s cost a fortune in diesel as well – meaning that when I can I drive…
The Dancing Bear by Michael Morpurgo #100books
We got this free with our NGKids subscription – it’s a thin paperback, beautifully illustrated with faded black and white drawings. As it’s a quick and easy read, both Big and I have read it, and Smallest likes looking at the pictures. The story is not complex. A tale of a girl and her pet…
Never heard of Swype? If you've a touchscreen phone you need to.
Neither had I, until I was sent an Nokia N8 from ThreeUK that already had Swype installed. Well, actually, it was a while after I was sent it that I figured it out, when the very nice man in the local carphonewarehouse shop showed me how it works. I’d gone in to check out the…
Exit interview for the Nokia N8 #phonetrial
I posted a couple of times about the N8 while I had it on phonetrial from Three (see moblogging from the N8 and Nokia N8 dealbreaker), but I thought it would be good to do a round up review much as I did for the HTC Desire HD. S’funny. I love Nokia phones. I love…
Nokia C7 on #phonetrial from WomWorldNokia
The Nokia C7 really is a thing of much beauty. Appealed to both of us – in fact, have never seen dp quite so taken with a piece of tech, it’s usually me that does the drooling. He coveted it – until he’d tried using it for a day or so. Then he handed it…
Hurry up and Wait by Isabel Ashdown #review
One of the many authors, publishers and book PRs I follow on twitter is Isabel Ashdown, and I was lucky enough a week or so ago to win copies of both her debut novel, the award winning Glasshopper, and her forthcoming book, Hurry Up and Wait Synopsis: It’s more than twenty years since Sarah Ribbons…
KeepsakeCritters #review
I am a hoarder. You’ve all read my tales of woe about decluttering and how hard I find it. I am sentimental and hate to let things go. So I was utterly thrilled to be offered the chance to review a Keepsake Critter as made by Ruth at Keepsake Critters I found my part of…
Orchard Toys: Magic Cauldron game #review
The lovely ppl at Orchard Toys sent me this Magic Cauldron Maths Game a couple of weeks back when I was bewailing basic maths skills on twitter. You see, we have a bit of a problem here. It’s a confidence thing really, but quite a bit of the really basic maths stuff, like number bonds…
What's your literary #guiltysecret? Could be worth a tenner…
I was pottering about on twitter yesterday, as you do, when I saw someone mention the new Sweet Valley High book, Sweet Valley Confidential. It took me back. For a little while, as a teen, I obediently read the teen shelves in our little local library. Then I got bored, and wandered off in science…
Win Right Royal Knees up – Double CD with News of the World.
As I type I’ve interrupted the children’s Harry Potter binge (Stephen Fry, audio books, only 1 1/2 to go) to listen to Katrina and the Waves, Walking on Sunshine. I’m enjoying it. The baby’s enjoying it. Big is dancing. (Small is groaning in the corner, but you can’t have everything 😉 ) We’re listening to…