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This Big Brother-esque project by Nottingham University brings to life something I’ve always wanted to do; fill a house to the brim with technology and automation to find out what is REALLY useful, what is fun gadget, and what actually…
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This morning’s rainstorm-turned-thunderstorm was fascinating to watch and hear! The rain was nothing unusual at first, but then hail started coming down the size of dried green peas, causing a raucous noise on the Velux windows. (They’re angled windows so…
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I don’t even know where to start with this new season of Big Bro. Actually, a self-inflicted lobotomy may be the best way to start… Did anyone else notice a theme tonight? A theme of thick, self-absorbed twits if anything!…
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Even though this movie got slagged quite a bit in the past few weeks, I have to say I really enjoyed it. It wasn’t that often a laugh-out-loud movie but a constant chuckle and shake of the head at the…
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How can the horror that is the Crazy Frog ringtone have evolved into a number one hit? It was the mid-to-late-90’s. I remember the original soundbite, which was played while you looked at a static image of a racing kart…
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Oh yeah, btw, I am aware my shoutbox is upside down. My webhosting had issues for a couple of days and put an old backup of the shoutbox by mistake. We’ll be fixing that in the near future once Mr.…
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We arrived home yesterday after a fantastic trip to Canada. It was great to see friends and family. It’s not often that I do so much and see so many people in so little time, so it was a tiring…
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So you remember when I said I’d do a fitness challenge and turn things around and lose a good chunk of weight and be fit and blahblahblah? Yeah you guessed it, after the trip to Belgium, I gave up totally…
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Yesterday was such a lovely day, we’d had a very good night of sleep on the first evening, which made us lose the jetlag feeling (until about 10pm anyways… at which point Andrew fell asleep on the sofa). We went…
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