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Relief for Swine Flu?

I received this in my email inbox today.  If anyone knows the artist who made this, then let me know so I can give them proper credit.  Better still, if some company ends up making this for real, then I’ll gladly link to them!
Brings new meaning to ‘viral’ advertising.
Many people think wearing a mask helps [...]

Alfie Sleeps-Over and Then Paultons

Last night, Tolii’s best friend Alfie came to visit and stay the night. All the boys had a jolly good time playing outside in the nice spring air (15C) before heading off to bed around 8pm.
That’s when we learned that Alfie must have been really wound up — because we heard chattering and playing [...]

Flying Zebras

Last Sunday, we had a go at launching a sky lantern.  Katya had decorated it to look like a zebra, from all sides no less!
Along the way, she learned that the paper is easy to tear and that only wet paints could really be used on it.  All told, it took her about two hours [...]

VHS tapes, Nortel, Woolworths, and Ricardo Montalban

In the spirit of Jeopardy: “What is buried but once treasured?”
I read an article over the New Year holidays which stated that the last remaining distributor of VHS* tapes packed things in at the end of 2008. Gone forever now are the days of tapes getting tangled in the machine, or kids fitting the [...]

Uncertain at First, Quidam at Last!

Again this year Tolii received a Christmas present to go see the Cirque du Soliel show at the Royal Albert Hall – this year it was Quidam.  I remember that I saw it years ago, I think in Atlanta.  Long enough to have forgotten most of it.
But it was almost not to be.