Posts by Aidan
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My wife is really enjoying reading our five year old some of her old favourites by Enid Blyton. Particularly "The Faraway Tree" series and "The Wishing Chair". They are a bit "jolly hockeysticks" and "Oh no! Mother will be very cross if we are late for tea!" but that is part of the charm and otherness of them I reckon.
The child in question is obsessed with all things technical and factual, so his favourites are "Incredible Cross-Sections" (exploded technical diagrams of ships, tanks, oil rigs, coal mines etc), "How things are made", "A History of Planes, Cars and Trains", "Spiders", "Sharks", "Bugs", "Whales and Dolphins" etc.
Probably too late for elder child, but just about any Pamela Allen is worth a look.
Here is listing from Angus and Roberston
My own favourites are "Waddle Giggle Gargle", "Daisy All Sorts" (with the immortal line "Licky sticky love kisses"), "Belinda" and "The Potato People". I didn't know she is a Kiwi .. we're everywhere.
Of course Lynley Dodd is a must I think. "Sniff Snuff Snap" has lovely rhythm and I really like "Slinky Malinki" for the same reason.
Enough with the virtuous stuff .. take a look at Crayon Physics. It is a crazily simple game that we have spent an hour playing so far and we've only had it one day! The best bit is at the end where you just get to goof around. Our three year old thought it was brilliant -- she just made heaps and heaps of shapes and blew them all up ... sort of. Take a look and you'll see what I mean.
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Party like it's 1999 Jolisa!
Watch out for the hangover but. In my experience the wee `uns have personal space and volume issues which can make it difficult having a nice long wallow in self-pitying blobbiness.
Hope you don't end up making play dough animals and whimpering alot.
When my wife goes out on the lash she always says she feels like an undercover agent and that any moment someone will *out* her as a Mum and demand she leaves .. or something.
Conchords are awesome. I was completely unaware of their genius until 45 minutes ago (just watched the pilot). Sweet.
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Re: The mango splitter
I viewed the demo video and it seems very impressive. However, here in Aus the mangoes can get rather large (big yellow/orange Kensington Mangoes rather than the smaller green ones that seem to be largely from South America). Do you have an idea of the largest mango this splitter could handle?
Nice to 'read you back' bloggin'
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Based on observation (no first-hand experience thank goodness), #3 exists to push families as close to divorce as possible.
Christ don't be saying things like that! I am in the position of being convinced (overruled?) about a third. I need more doubt like Bill Gates needs more money, i.e. not at all.
Sorry Jolisa, but I am on the other side of the first baby fence. Our first was a bugger. Probably the worst time (when he was a couple of months old) was in the evenings, holding him, rigid and screaming, in his room with all the doors between there and the dining room closed whilst my wife had dinner. A small sacrifice so she could have a wee moment of sanity.
It took upwards of 30-40 minutes to get him to sleep during the day. If we didn't make the effort he didn't sleep, and got completely wired and hysterical. Not a good time.