Long term readers will know a simple fact about us. We love CBeebies. The BBCs dedicated TV channel for little people is simply awesome in many ways. Granted “In the Night Garden”, and “Moon and Me” are kinda terrifying, but the rest of CBeebies is awesome. We do tend to indulge our CBeebies love via […]
Geek Stuff
The Doctor Who Trailer!!
Is it News Years Day yet?* *Comment based on rumour only… please don’t quote me if I’m wrong.
Life Stuff / Parenting Life
Something About Procrastination
I came across this video on Procrastination, while doing some research for work… But caught myself relating to this… a little too well..
Parenting Life / Parenting Survival Guide
When Fireworks Happen At Bedtime…
A prayer for mercy… Do anyone else’s neighbourhoods wait till you’ve just got the small one settled?
Around Devon / Life Stuff
Celebrating Apples at The Apple Festival
It seems that National Apple Day is “a thing”, and that an Apple Festival is a place to be to celebrate. The Killerton Apple Festival is on the surface, an almost bizarre event that on the surface seems to be all about apples. Picking Apples, juicing apples, toffee apples, apple juice, cider… you get the […]
On The Small Screen / Parenting Life
Bing on Cbeebies. A Few Questions.
Our Little One was very very much into watching Bing on Cbeebies, and because of the series record feature on our YouView… she discovered the joys of binge watching Bing. Obviously this means I have also discovered the joys of watching Bing (and learning how to make the most use of its 7 minute run […]
On The Small Screen
Sarah and Duck. Some Questions
A couple of years back. our Little One went through a stage of binge watching Cbeebies shows. The most charming of them was by far, Sarah and Duck. Ok, I admit it, I still enjoy Sarah and Duck when its on. There’s a sense of innocent joy mixed with humour that is captured in the […]
On The Small Screen
Doctor Who – Mission To The Unknown
Well this is something. Way back in Doctor Who’s third series there was a story called The Daleks Master Plan. An epically long 12 part story, it even had its own 1 part – Doctor-lite story to introduce it, Mission to the Unknown*. Pretty much all of the above visual recordings have been lost since […]
Blogging
Moving (Web) Home
Have you ever had a thought that you couldn’t get rid of? A while back, I wondered about this blog, and wondered why it was used to be called “Dads Sofa”. While it made sense at the time, it didn’t seem to make sense now. After all, I seemed to find myself posting more about […]
Blogging
Testing The New iOS WordPress app
Hello WordPress app, Good to have you back working again.
Geek Stuff
Computer Games, Loot Boxes, and The Gambling Question.
I’m not sure if it was a tweet I replied to about Loot Boxes, or a previous blog post about computer games, but I recently received an email asking for an opinion on whether In-game spending should be regulated by gambling laws, and so-called loot boxes banned entirely for children. While I didn’t have the […]