Welcome to space year 2021! A bumper issue this week because I missed last week due to *gestures all around* all this. Our favourite Christmas presents were an Entry Grade Gundam, a plush narwhal and a burrito blanket. We watched the

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We are nearly at the Christmas holidays! Come on people, you can make it! We took our daughter to see Father Christmas making his way down a nearby road, on a sleigh being pulled by a tractor. We are in the west country, after all. As part of my “classics I’ve never read” series I am reading Little Women...

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Our Christmas tree is up! My daughter may actually explode with excitement before Christmas arrives but hopefully she’ll hold on for the next 4 weeks. She is half way through dividing her epic Christmas list into three categories: “don’t really need”, “can wait until my birthday” and “can’t wait – ask father Christmas” We have loads of ice lollies in our freezer left ove...

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It’s that time of year! My daughter has actually hounded us for a copy of the Argos catalogue to look through, but pending the arrival of the Book of Dreams she’s had to make do with the Argos and Smyths websites and seems to be setting her ambitions pretty high. I’ve heard her muttering about “a 26 inch narwhal” in alarming tones. My ...

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Congratulations to The Guardian for making me write a blog post. It’s coming up to Christmas, and like all newspapers The Guardian have a Christmas Gift Guide. It actually looks quite nice, with well-sized images, responsive layout, good filtering and obligatory...

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I’ve come home to Bristol for Christmas (wonder if I’ll see any of the ILRT folks like Libby Miller or Dan Brickley doing their Christmas shopping?), and what do I find? I find that not only has my Mum bought a new computer (a 2.2GHz Dell with half a gi...

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