A month or so ago, during the Easter holidays the geekdaughter and I were invited by Next to view their Spring/Summer 2013 collection. At London Zoo no less! This gave us the chance for a number of “firsts” for the geekdaughter – first long train ride, first trip to London and first taxi ride to name but a few.
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I was lent a Barnes and Noble nook HD tablet to review a couple of months ago, and subsequently given a nook HD+ to use. You can read my full thoughts on the tablet in my nook HD review, but in summary I thought it was a good tablet, excellent hardware for the price, the best profile system I’ve seen for multiple users, but let down by the limited app selection since Barnes and Noble were running their own (small) App Store.
So I must confess the nook HD+ has been languishing on the side in the kitchen whilst I’ve stuck with my iPad mini, and the the geekdaddy has been using his Nexus 7.
Well, last Friday that all changed. I think the nook HD just became the best Android tablet on the market today…
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The geekdaughter made her stage debut last weekend. She started attending ballet classes in September, and this was her first ever dance school show. Dance was a big part of my childhood – I had ballet and tap lessons from the age of 4 until I left home to go to University at 18 – and the annual dance show was a big part of that, so it felt like a rite of passage to take my daughter to perform in her first show.
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If you’re a long-term reader of my blog you’ll know I love audio as a format for communicating. I have my own personal audio blog as well as producing what I call my “enhanced audio versions” of blog posts that appear here. I don’t read books in the traditional fashion, I listen to talking books. My commute is my time to listen to audio content – books, podcasts or friends’ audioboos. But until recently I had no idea my little girl was going to show herself as a future recording star…
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