I’m not much of a games player. Board games leave me cold. BOR-ING… is the long, drawn out, dismissive word that comes to mind. Just can’t seem to maintain the enthusiasm or concentration required for group huddles around the Monopoly board; or any other board-centric … Continue reading The What If Game
Just over a year ago, I was still reading books. Never electronic books (to which I’m a stranger) but books made from print and paper. I would happily open a Stephen King, as thick and as heavy as your average household brick, smell the pages … Continue reading When Did That Happen?
I’ve been re-reading a couple of Winnie-the-Pooh stories, in a complete edition I bought my sons many moons ago, which they never opened or made any attempt to read; despite me whingeing on that it’s an absolute classic. They preferred the Disney film The Many … Continue reading Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin
A blokey type of bloke comes round to our house on a pretty regular basis. He’s into retro Hi-Fi; as is my husband (who collects old things – I’m now part of that faded collection.) They sit in the back room, drinking tea and gossiping … Continue reading Ordinary People
The problem with starting a new blog or, more accurately, continuing to write articles that you began posting to son No.2’s little podcast type blog, and have now switched to your own decidedly green, awesomely pretty and awesomely free blog; that comes with a sunflower thing … Continue reading Blog Writing
Wall-E set son No. 2, on the road to a career in film animation, and my husband must have watched Toy Story a thousand times, but here’s an heretical statement for you: I’m not a big fan of Pixar’s work. If Pixar is the God of … Continue reading Pixar’s Inside Out – (simply loaded with spoilers)
I noticed The Woman in Black 2 is out on DVD the other day, whilst shopping in Sainsbury’s. I went to see the first Daniel Radcliffe film three years ago, instantly forgetting almost everything about it– the same goes for the famed book the film … Continue reading Ghost Stories and Me
First Mr Men and Little Miss author fact: Mr Roger Hargreaves was born in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire. I already like him, based on this fact alone. Cleckheaton is just a stone’s throw from where I spent my childhood/young adulthood years and sits, with a cluster of 7 … Continue reading The Mr Men and Little Miss Movie Stars are coming to a screen near you
Son No.3 is playing the piano in the next room. He’s practising Exile Vilify by The National, a piece written for Portal 2 the video game. We’ve come a long way from Pong haven’t we, in only 40 odd years. Maybe forty years seems like a lifetime to you … Continue reading The Sounds Old Things Make
The irascible Charlie Brooker once made a TV programme called ‘How video games changed the world’, in which he invited the viewer to accept the premise that the game changer of the 21st century had turned out to be an actual game. Headline grabber, or … Continue reading Video Games and Me
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