Wellbeing activities for kids stuck indoors. (Based Around the NHS five ways to Wellbeing) Go look around a museum! Well take a virtual tour anyway How does Rice grow? How do seeds get around? How is Lego made? Maddie from “Do You Know” answers these questions on her website – and loads more. FREE AUDIBLE […]
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 […]
Parenting Life
That Summer Holiday Bucket List
So at the start of the Summer, I put together an incredibly cheesy list of things that I wanted us to do as a family this Summer… It wasn’t very ambitious, but here’s how we got on… Try one of the Gluten Free Cones at Orange Elephant. DONE. And they are awesome. If you’re Gluten […]
Life Stuff
The Family Has Grown!
Well, a bit of discussion over how the family should grow… we’ve gone and added some Guinea Pigs to the family!
Geek Stuff
Doctor Who – Gallifrey Stands
Its been a while since I’ve randomly shared a Doctor Who Fan video, just for the sake of sharing it. But this. I love.
Geek Stuff
When Friends meets Lego…
With the Lego Friends set coming out, some enterprising soul has put this together…
Around Devon / Parenting Life
The Summer Holiday Bucket List
The Summer Holidays have now hit the Sofa household. The good news. There are no school runs for the next six weeks. The “interesting news”… what do we do for the next weeks? Not for any “making precious memories” type reasons, but because its good to know we have something to do. Here’s what I’ve […]