Silent Sunday 20/05/2012

by on May 20, 2012

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A couple of weekends ago we had a family trip out to the Lego Show at Event City in Manchester. I had found out that it was happening a few weeks before, and booked us a ticket, despite having no idea of what would be there. It was a very reasonable price, and I reasoned that if it involved Lego it would be both enjoyable and family friendly, so I took the chance. Plus it was right next door to the Trafford Centre so if it didn’t turn out to be those things we could simply enjoy a little light shopping instead!

In the end it turned out to be a great family day out, and it even managed to change my attitude over something I’ve been quite opinionated about recently…

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Things might be a little quiet around here this week. I’m very busy preparing to do something I haven’t done for 20 years. I’m about to sit a three hour exam. A three hour written exam. Which is alarming me, because I don’t write any more. Indeed the exercises and practice questions I’ve been doing this week have shown me that my wrist starts aching after about 20 minutes of writing, so quite how I’m going to manage three hours I have NO idea!

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Silent Sunday 13/05/2012

by on May 13, 2012

Silent Sunday. One photo, taken in the last week. No words. 
To see more great pictures search for the #SilentSunday hashtag on Twitter or click on the image below:

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Friday app roundup 11/05/2012 – Magic Sorter, Monkey Drum and some Toca Boca news

May 11, 2012

Oh, what a week it’s been. I’ve been under a lot of pressure at work as I’m out of the office on a training course for the whole of next week, and have a number of balls I am trying to juggle that I need to somehow keep in the air whilst I’m away. On [...]

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Meal Planning Monday 07/05/2012 – bank holiday and CybHer

May 7, 2012

I don’t know what went wrong last week. The whole meal plan seemed to go to pot, and I ended up putting more stuff in the freezer than I had planned. It seemed to just be a catalogue of errors. First of all I had forgotten that it was the first Thursday of the month, which is [...]

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Silent Sunday 06/05/2012

May 6, 2012

Silent Sunday. One photo, taken in the last week. No words.  To see more great pictures search for the #SilentSunday hashtag on Twitter or click on the image below:

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Family fun at the Sandbach transport festival

May 5, 2012

We’ve lived in the small South Cheshire market town of Sandbach for 13 years now, and I must confess when we moved here we didn’t do an awful lot of research into the town and its history. We ended up here as it was pretty much the closest we could get to my in-laws that [...]

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Friday app roundup 04/05/2012 – Trucks HD

May 4, 2012

I will never forget the release date of the first iPad, because it was the geekson’s due date – May 28th 2010. The geekdaddy had pre-ordered his iPad, and there was serious concern that the baby might arrive first, meaning we weren’t home to receive his precious new parcel. In actuality the iPad arrived a [...]

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Why is this school stuff so hard?

May 1, 2012

When I was a kid there didn’t seem to be all this stress over school places. I went to my local village school, and then transferred to the secondary school that I was in catchment for. I was aware of there being maybe one or two kids in the village that didn’t go to the [...]

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