27 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Countdown

I just caught our youngest stood on a stool alongside the toilet, doing a very loud and enthusiastic Thunderbirds style count-down towards flushing it.

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13 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

"Would You Be Impressed" by Streetlight Manifesto

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04 January 2010 ~ 3 Comments

Advertising isn't what it used to be

Advertising isn't what it used to be

While we all know that advertising standards exist for a reason, I can't help thinking that advertisements were better when the world was more naive, even if they were all full of shit.

I'm guessing the message this Pepsi advert communicates is that if you have a James Bond physique, and walk the beach with your frogman [...]

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12 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Pink Glove Dance

This video reminded me that we should all lighten up, have a little fun, and help each other more.
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Approaching 5 million views…

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11 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody

Haven't laughed so much in ages…

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11 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Toy Story 3

If I only get to see one movie next year, this will be it…

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11 November 2009 ~ 4 Comments

Junk food, wine, and Big Bang Theory

Junk food, wine, and Big Bang Theory

The last few days has heralded something of a resurgence within me – I have stories to share for the first time in ages. Perhaps it comes from a recent attack on the blogroll mountain.With a memory now filled with the stories of others, my own are bubbling up from the depths – the stories [...]

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04 November 2009 ~ 5 Comments

Things the movies have taught us

Having a membership at Tumblr sometimes pays off in the strangest ways; this cross my path this morning, and I thought it was too good not to share;

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22 October 2009 ~ 8 Comments

The one where we flooded the street

The one where we flooded the street

Before I recount this story, I need to make it clear that – technically – it wasn’t us that flooded the street.
Tuesday this week started like any other day. I scraped myself out of bed, stumbled my way past the children’s bedrooms (I didn’t look, but I suspect they may not have all been up [...]

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06 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Swords, sorcery, magic and madness – Gamers – The Movie

Swords, sorcery, magic and madness – Gamers – The Movie

In a repeat of their earlier generosity with “Clerks”, Amazon again sent me two movies for twice the price yesterday. This time the movie was “Gamers”, which I heard about on a podcast some time ago…
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The movie had pretty much everything – moments of brilliance, of abject idiocy, and also of horror when the so-called [...]

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