***CLOSED*** WIN £200 Homebase vouchers! #INeedAKarcher
In the spirit of our new #GetYourGarden series, we’re offering one lucky reader the chance to win a whopping great enormously useful £200 in Homebase Vouchers. I KNOW! I can’t imagine being let loose with them in my bag… But what to tackle first? #GetYourGarden is all about getting your outside space ready for those long lazy summer days (and nights). And yes, I am fully aware we’re in good ole Blighty, and...
10 Things Killed By Technology (that I sort of miss…)
I love technology – we owe our entire lifestyle to modern technology, and we’re grateful for it every single day. The internet allows us the amazing flexibility of working from home – and I would never ever have considered home educating four children without the world wide web at my (and their) fingertips. Not just for their unbelievably busy gaming social lives, but for the knowledge that is right there for the...
Book Sunday – The Childrens Picture Atlas
As a child I LOVED a big atlas. It was a frequent rainy afternoon thing for me – haul the enormous atlas off the bookshelf (I’m not sure anyone else ever looked at it, to be honest), and spread out on the floor with it. Gently turning the fragile and super-huge pages, gazing at the weird places in the world. Following the meandering tracks of a river until it got so big it straightened out and tipped itself into an ocean....
BAFTA Young Game Designers (YGD) competition – and FREE ‘young game designer’ workshops
BAFTA YGD workshops will take place in Manchester, Newcastle and London in May: Competition entry deadline is Monday 1 June The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is hosting free workshops around the UK to inspire young people to consider a career in games. The workshops, which began in Glasgow in April and take place in Manchester, Newcastle and London in May, are in support of the BAFTA Young Game Designers (YGD)...
***CLOSED*** Win £200 with Legal & General
Legal & General have asked us if we thought you’d like to win £200. Naturally we said “Nahhh…” (or maybe we said “not half they would…”) It’s a cool little questionnaire – thinking about your bucket list, what you’ve achieved and what you WANT to achieve. It certainly mad em e stop and think a minute. Here y’go – usual Gleam widget magickery, and one random...
FREE DVD offer at Amazon with limited-time TopCashback joining offer – yes, FREE!
This week’s TopCashback joining offer is such a great one – fancy a free DVD? Yup, any DVD you choose, as long as it’s under £10. Which covers LOADS of new releases; just take a look at the few picks below… Of course Tinkerbell & the Legend of the Neverbeast is in there – do NOT underestimate the power of this magical film, we loved it. The latest Hobbit, Mockingjay, the unexpectedly BRILLIANT...