Seagate’s ‘Portable Wireless Plus’ Media Drive – perfect for travelling
I know, looks a bit… dull, doesn’t it? But stick with me – the Seagate Portable Wireless Plus Media drive is an external hard drive – with a genius twist which makes it not-dull-at-all. Yes, it has a terabyte of memory, which is HUGE – and yet it fits in the palm of your hand. And we all know (*stern bossy face*) how important it is to have an extra hard drive to back up all your essential documents, old emails...
Rosetta Stone: First Impressions
My 14yr old been trying the Rosetta Stone course for Japanese for a month now – here’s what he thinks so far: Rosetta Stone, in case you are unaware, is a language learning service which can teach you over 24 different languages! These include French, German, Japanese, Greek, and Russian. The selection is huge! I will be basing my impressions on the Japanese course. There are many different types of packages, you...
Brilliant Overnight Stay or short break for Southend On Sea. You know you want to.
We recently had to visit family in Essex, and not wanting to do the trip in a day we decided to find a place to lay our heads for the night. Naturally, through past experience, we only really considered one option – Premier Inn. We’ve reviewed for them a few times in the past (the notable Father/Son road trip to Old Trafford entering Family Legend, with all of us declaring it “Good Coke!” at every meal out),...
Chewits. Remember them?
When the rather fab people at Chewits asked if we’d like a box of sweets to try out, I didn’t feel it would be polite to say no. Well, you wouldn’t, would you? But when the box arrived… well, let’s just say they weren’t kidding about the ‘box’ thing! We had a whole hamper of Chewits sweets – and who knew there were so many different types? For my old brain, Chewits come in fruity...
Coming alive, it’s coming alive… Horrible Science is coming alive…
Those clever clogs from the Birmingham Stage Company have done it again! The latest in the Horrible series stage shows has given me those exact words (“it’s coming alive, it’s coming alive…” to a maddening tune going round and round in my head, and just when I think I have shaken it off one of my lovely children pipes up and actually sings it and away we go again! Horrible Science, the follow up to...
Quirky – but Amazingly Brilliant – Wildlife Colouring Book from artist Sarah Lovell
A pet hate of mine has always been colouring books. I know, I know, it’s irrational and stupid. It’s not that I don’t like them – quite the opposite. I LOVE a good coluring book – it’s the lack of a *good* one that gets on my nerves so much. When the boys were younger they were never all that fussed about colouring, but now I have a daughter who’s colouring mad, I regularly revisit the Wrath...