Possibly the best thing I did this holiday was to remove the winter cover from the trampoline in the garden, and put the safety net back up. With the lovely weather we’ve had, plus the sheer delight at being reunited with an activity she’s missed all winter, the geekdaughter has been out in the garden every chance she’s had. For a girl who typically doesn’t stick at anything for more than 5 or 10 minutes it’s refreshing to find something that will hold her attention for much longer than that!
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Happy Easter everyone! We’ve had a busy week this week, but I’ve still managed to get a few of the little chores done that I wanted to do whilst off work. Some decluttering has been done – not as much as I’d hoped, but progress has definitely been made. We’ve also had the confirmation this week of the geekson’s school place – he’ll be starting at our local primary school in September. It was pretty much guaranteed, given that we’re in the catchment area and his sister is already there, but it was still good to get it in writing. The poor boy has not been happy this week as I took him to nursery for his usual two days, but he could tell his sister and I were both going to be around, and was very sad about not staying with us. In some ways it will be easier when both kids are on holiday at the same time, in other ways it’s going to be a lot harder! Anyway, here’s my photo selection from this week:
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Last week was The Gadget Show Live at the NEC – a trade and public show of consumer technology and anything else that fits into a geeky gadget-y world. I went with the geekdaddy two years ago, and we both really enjoyed it. This year I managed to wangle two days there – once on my own for the “pro and trade” day and a second time once it had opened to the public with the whole family (thank you to Toca Boca for providing tickets for us all). I greatly enjoyed both visits, and have collected together all the best things I saw during both days to share.
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We bought Disney Infinity for the geekdaughter as her main Christmas present last year, and since then both kids have really enjoyed playing it. In fact, I think the geekson probably plays it more than his sister, although she still likes to remind him that it really is her game! There is an amazing amount of depth to the game, with the combination of pre-made adventures in specific Disney-themed worlds and also the immenseley powerful Toy Box mode where kids can use their imagination to build their own adventures using all sorts of different building blocks. Disney have just released their latest characters for the game – Phineas and Agent P from the TV series Phineas and Ferb - and we were sent the pack with both characters in for review.
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