I hope you all had a great Christmas! We had a great one – Li’l Bhaji and Akra Jr enjoyed themselves thoroughly and were really well behaved, thrilled with everything they opened and were real little Christmas spirits. We all have Wii shoulder (and I finally managed to reduce my wii fitness age from 49 [...]

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Over the last few days we’ve had a spate of vandalism in the neighbourhood. Lots of smashed bottles, dog shit not picked up (not quite in the same league, but annoying all the same) and most recently the panels ripped off of street lights leaving the bare wires exposed. This evening, I phoned up the [...]

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Well, it looks like Microsoft got their fingers out and brought out a decent upgrade to Vista at last. Early reviews are showing that it’s much more stable, more responsive and has a higher performance. Looks like it may be worth the upgrade. Good luck with that ;)

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Warning, the following link is NOT CHILD SAFE AND PROBABLY A BIT DUBIOUS FOR WORK TOO!: The 12 STIs of Christmas (it is rather funny though)

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I’m officially renaming the last meal of the day to “Idon’tlikethis Time”. Though I did nearly fall off my chair when Akra Jr ate a single sprout. Shame he prefaced it with “I’m eating this first cos I HATE sprouts… THEY STINK” thus putting off his brother even trying it.

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We’ve got end-of-term-itis. It’s a common affliction with young children (and their parents!) at this time of year. There’s so much going on at nursery and school, dark so early in the evenings and so late in the mornings, it’s been a long time since they had a break. This morning we really struggled to [...]

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Every now and then, I get an email offering me some free stuff in exchange for a bit of promo or a review. (I promise to always be transparent when this is the case, and always give an honest review regardless of whether an item is free or whether I went out and bought it [...]

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About 2 years after everyone else, I’ve finally got with the times and got myself a del.icio.us account. Mainly because switching machines I realised how useful it is to have an online system of storing all your frequently used bookmarks. I’ve finally put on all the things I want to be able to find again [...]

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Now it’s December, I can probably mention the Christmas word without getting lynched. Probably. Akra Jr and Li’l Bhaji are very excited about it all and are already begging to get the decorations out. I’m trying to resist until the week before, mainly because I get bored of manoeuvring around the Christmas Tree all the [...]

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Remember my battle with tangled wires last month? Well Dom put me on to an episode of GeekBrief.TV and I’ve been addicted ever since. The thing that makes this video podcast so easy to get into is that it really is brief – each episode is only around 5 minutes long. This is probably just [...]

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