This week is National Real Nappy Week (apparently). The aim is to get parents using reusable nappies as a cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternative to disposable nappies. We have tried reusable nappies on our baby and unfortunately we’ve gone back to using disposable nappies. I don’t think that other parents should be disheartened by […]

A new UK lottery has been launched today. Monday www.playmonday.com is designed as a fairer lottery to compete against the National Lottery (Lotto). The lottery is run by Chariot, a company setup to work with 70 UK charities to provide an alternative to the national lottery and raise money for charity. The organisers behind the […]

This is the final part of blog entries on our Trip to London with our 7 month old baby. The earlier parts are in: Trip to London with a Baby – Part 1 – Hotel at Wembley Park and travelling around London on the Underground; Trip to London with a Baby – Part 2 – […]

This is a continuation of: Trip to London with a Baby – Part 1 – Hotel at Wembley Park and travelling around London on the Underground, and Trip to London with a Baby – Part 2 – St. John’s Gate Museum and Priory tours, London Tourist Attraction. In part 1 I have put details of […]

This is a continuation of: Trip to London with a Baby – Part 1 – Hotel at Wembley Park and travelling around London on the Underground. In part 1 I have put details of the accommodation and travelling in and around London. In this part I will mention one of the places we visited in […]

Some time ago we spent a couple of days in London with our baby daughter. I’ve finally got around to writing up about this trip. This may be of help if you are looking to travel to London with a baby or young child. Our daughter was about 7 months old at the time of […]

I am writing this review over the Easter weekend. It wasn’t really planned this way, but this particular story The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, from the Chronicles of Narnia is considered to contain a number of analogies to Christian beliefs. If you are not a christian or not religous then there is nothing […]

Most people are familiar with DVD Region Encoding and are aware of Multi-Region DVD players, but you can now do the same for your PC. Having different DVD regions is used by the film industry to inflate the prices of DVDs in different countries. This means that if you buy a DVD in America (where […]

There are not many blockbusters that you first hear about in Church, but it was during a service at our local church that I first heard about this film (Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ) when it was released in the cinema. It’s been some time since it was on at the cinema and […]

I wrote a blog entry on the day that they turned on the new Advanced Traffic Management (ATM) system on the M42. M42 Advanced Traffic Management, Variable Speed Limit and Speed Cameras I also said that I’d post some updates, so this is the first. I’ll also post another one when they’ve started using the […]