Here is a simple recipe for gingerbread biscuits (cookies). These can be made for any occassion using appropriate cutters, the example used here is for Halloween. I made these with our 3 year old daughter who enjoyed both making and eating them 🙂 Great fun for kids and adults. Ingredients 350g (12oz) plain flour 3 […]

I’ve finally got around to fixing some of the errors in the questions featured in the First Aid Quiz and Penguin Tutor quizzes. The errors have been found and reported by visitors to the site. When writing about 200 questions (per website) there is always going to be a few errors that get missed. Most […]

I’ve already published an account of our holiday in the Netherlands through a child’s eyes (Tatty Bear’s Holland Holiday). This is my account of the holiday from a parents view. This was a 9 night (+1 in a hotel), staying in a Keycamp caravan and travelling in our own car. We have stayed in a […]

I took my three year old daughter and baby son to the National Waterways Museum in Gloucester. This is one of three museums operated by the Waterways Trust under the name of National Waterways Museum. The three museums are at: Ellesmere Port, Gloucester Docks and Stoke Bruerne. The first problem was finding somewhere to park. […]

Quick guide to installing the latest version of OpenOffice.org (version 3) on Ubuntu Linux. The next version of Ubuntu is in about 2 weeks time. I guess that the latest version will include the latest version of OpenOffice.org, but there are no guarentees. If you can’t wait then this will give details of how to […]

The latest version of OpenOffice.org is now available. Due to it’s popularity the website has been struggling with the incredible demand for this latest version. They have temporarily changed to a leaner website, but downloads of the software work fine. OpenOffice.org is a great replacement for Microsoft Office and it’s much much cheaper. In fact […]