On Friday we went to a story telling thing at Carisbrooke castle. The story teller was good and i learnt some interesting things. Ruth was dressed up as a medieval hoodie (brewer) We looked round the castle, and stroked the very cute donkeys afterwards!! Will add photo asap!!! [Continue]

Went to a Changing Tunes concert last night. Wow, was it good, and boy, did it reiterate what a mess our prison system is (though I have to say no-one from the organisation was critical of the system per se, it was just apparent in my thoughts afterwards, based on some of the things said [Continue]

The higlight of our recent CBBC tour was probably before it even started properly. A real former TARDIS parked outside Television Centre! Actually the whole of our worthy “Let’s go to London to help the kids out with their Tudor’s project” trip seemed to turn into a Doctor Who tour. Canary Wharf (Torchwood), the Globe [Continue]

In a bid to deal with the rising threat of terrorism, gun crime, grafitti, bunking off school and all the other evil things that would be rampant on our streets without our politicians keeping us safe, our Tone has hired storm troopers to patrol the capitals streets. You can see this one using his stop-and-search-for-no-flaming-reason-at-all [Continue]

…Golden Brown is really starting to scare me. BBC news article sets out some of his views on education. Yet more tinkering at the edges, and essential lots more of the same, generally the sort of things most politicians spout. My concern is just how wedded “education” is becoming to “career” “aspirations” [Continue]

Well we are well and truly back from our holidays now. I was so sad to leave the Netherlands and all the wonderful cycling (not to mention pancakes) that I actually cried! We had a good time in London with friends afterwards. The highlight was going to the CBBC tour at Television Centre. Ruth was [Continue]

During a walking tour of Breda, I discovered the local authority there have decided to reopen the harbour, what a good idea. But impossible of course, since it was filled in in the ’60s and an underground car park built across much of it. Yet wait, this is the Netherlands, engineering watercourses is a way [Continue]

Posting live now, having neglected my “paper blog” for a few days, I have lost track of some of the things I want to whinge about. Before you breathe a big sigh of relief, I can still remember what some of them where! I have been watching drivers of different nationalities during our recent travels [Continue]

Just finished Dan Kieran’s book “I Fought the Law” which I stumbled on in WHSmith at the Port of Dover, having realised I was short of holiday reading. Great book – worrying and liberating at the same time. Think it may be one of those which has an impact on life – not quite sure [Continue]

Father and I just decided we need a new approach to roadworks and other situations where lanes merge. The most efficient system is to use both lanes until the point when they must merge, then merge in turn. Unfortunately our mentality is to join the queue straight away, which actually leads to an inefficient system, [Continue]