Element Gaming Headset Xenon 700 Review
Oct13

Element Gaming Headset Xenon 700 Review

Third in our series of Brilliant Value Gaming Gear is the Element Gaming Headset Xenon 700 review. We’re pretty well in love with Element by now – the Thorium Keyboard is a stonkingly good bit of kit, and the Iridium Gaming Mouse is a no-brainer at under £23 from Ebuyer. And so with high expectations we come to their top-of-the-range gaming headset, the Xenon 700. With a design borrowed heavily from Razer’s...

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The Person Controller – David Baddiel’s most excellent new children’s book
Oct08

The Person Controller – David Baddiel’s most excellent new children’s book

When I was asked if I’d like to give away a copy of The Person Controller, I’ll admit I didn’t leap about. I mean I really like David Baddiel – when he’s nattering aimlessly away with Frank Skinner. But I’ve never read any of his books (sorry Mr Baddiel…), so I really didn’t know if his latest offering would be up to much. (what? Look, LittleStuff is nothing if it’s not honest) So...

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Win a £210 Kauffmann Winter Special Down Single Duvet? Yes please #WinterISComing
Oct06

Win a £210 Kauffmann Winter Special Down Single Duvet? Yes please #WinterISComing

It’s October now. HOW did that happen quite so fast? I swear, I just nipped down to make a pot of coffee, and when I came back to the office a whole month had slipped past. So when DownDuvet got in touch and asked if you might be keen to win a Kauffmann Winter Special duvet, I might have jumped up so hard I hit my head on the ceiling (Ow.) Because Winter IS Coming (thanks Jon – see, you DO know something), and there is...

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Element Iridium 820 Gaming Mouse Review
Oct06

Element Iridium 820 Gaming Mouse Review

Gaming Mice are a new creature for most parents. I mean – a mouse is a mouse, right? It has two clicky buttons, one left, one right, and allows you to control the computer with point-and-click awesomeness. Yuh. Wrong. Because if you own a teen gamer, a simple left-click-right-click option isn’t going to cut it. Oh no no. They need programmable shortcut profile buttons, adjustable hand fit and a really good DPI...

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The astonishingly lovely ‘Imaginary Fred’ from Eoin Colfer & Oliver Jeffers
Oct05

The astonishingly lovely ‘Imaginary Fred’ from Eoin Colfer & Oliver Jeffers

Any conversation about children’s books is going to feature a couple of names at some point. Oliver Jeffers. One of the very best picture book authors/Illustrators in the whole widest world. We have a complete library, and my book-absorbing 8yr old STILL regularly revisits the astonishingly beautiful ‘Stuck’ and ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ on a regular basis. And Eoin Colfer – the man who gave the...

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The Chicken Run – Mean Girl and the Henpecked Hen
Oct02

The Chicken Run – Mean Girl and the Henpecked Hen

When the girls arrived with us a few weeks ago, we knew there’d be a settling in period as they adjusted to life as a sisterhood of four in their new home. We understood they had to work out their own little pecking order, and that it would take a few days for them to shake down together. What I didn’t know was that chickens can be Mean Girls! The first day we watched them avidly, and personalities very quickly emerged (NB...

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