Wow! Two great discoveries today. Not only is Google Earth available for the Mac now, but the aerial shots of Cambridge were taken while the last Cambridge Folk Festival was on. Look! That’s me and me mates on that rug, no really! Type in something like “walpole road cb1 uk” to get close. Yes – [...]

Big thanks to Jon Severn, who’d squirrelled away a copy of our Tips for Prospective New Parents which we’d written soon after Alex was born. It’s just a braindump of all the advice we wanted to give other new parents following our own experiences – stuff which you just knew you’d forget forever if you [...]

Alex (aged 4 and three-quarters) got given a game for Christmas from his Godfather Paul which becomes an immediate new entry in my list of “Best Educational Items for Toddlers …Ever!” It’s called Rush Hour and it’s a logic puzzle which is apparently for eight-year-olds and upwards (certainly all grownups love it), but it hasn’t [...]