Archive for the ‘Breaktime’ Category
Friday, October 26th, 2012
[caption id="attachment_1461" align="alignright" width="232"] Meccano metal robots 891400B[/caption]
Jess came back from a shopping trip today with a treat: a little toy robot construction kit. I think she's still a bit disturbed by how pleased I am with it. It's just a statue of a robot, but it's beautiful!
Mine doesn't look ...
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Thursday, July 12th, 2012
[caption id="attachment_1406" align="alignright" width="140"] BBC's error 500 image[/caption]
My parents always told me never to attempt to profit from the misfortune of others. Mum, Dad, sorry. I'm a BBC news addict in much the way a former colleague once told me "I love red wine, but it doesn't love me back". ...
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Sunday, June 17th, 2012
Was struggling to find playgrounds around Tavistock, so started a little project here:
Tavistock playgrounds
With some pins in a Google Map:
View Tavistock playgrounds in a larger map
We're often the only ones in the playgrounds we visit, which is a bit odd. It hasn't been the best of weather recently, so I ...
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Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
[caption id="attachment_1343" align="alignright" width="242" caption="LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 Alpha Rex"][/caption]
I bought the LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 recently and was a bit disappointed to find that it didn't come with printed instructions to build Alpha Rex - the robot on the box art. I searched for the instructions all over the ...
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
We recently returned to the UK with two young children from a financially cavalier extended 'babymoon' in Malaysia. Part of the impetus to move back again was my reluctance to put my children through the Malaysian state education system which emphasises racist division and religious practice, though possibly not in ...
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