Cambridge Folk Festival on Google Earth!

11 Jan 2006: 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 – the Folk Festival and My House …together at last!. And another shot at a nice angle captured for posterity.

Baby Tips are back!

9 Jan 2006: 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 didn’t commit it to print. We sent it to a few other people, but lost it. However, one of those people (Jon) thought it was so useful, they’d kept a copy. And now I’ve done what I should have done way back then, and posted it here on the website.

Best Educational Items for Toddlers …Ever!

7 Jan 2006: 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 so far proved insurmountable for a four-year-old, and I’d thoroughly recommend it. In fact, you can “try before you buy” because there are online (Flash) versions such as this one: Online Version of Rush Hour So here is my current list of “Best Educational Items for Toddlers …Ever!”: 1. Google Earth – should be compulsory in reception years in schools. Watch in amazement as it [...]