Category Archives: family life

How to put movies on a Nintendo DS using a Mac

Posted on November 19, 2007 by blogmywiki

Memo to self, type post – please ignore if you don’t have a Mac and a Nintendo DS… You will need: A Mac running OS X A Nintendo DS or DS Lite An M3 card or similar to run Moonshell … Continue reading →

Posted in children, computers, gaming, MacOS X, Nintendo DS | 10 Comments

Happiness is warm cola

Posted on November 4, 2007 by blogmywiki

They were handing out free Mentos at Charing Cross the other week – I couldn’t resist introducing them to some diet cola… A colleague had tried it with no luck, so perhaps the trick is to do as we did, … Continue reading →

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Bloody kids

Posted on October 10, 2007 by blogmywiki

A week ago, during a stressful visit to Bluewater, I was dragging the kids around and my youngest was screaming. I wanted to scream too, but possibly for different reasons. I was in M&S trying to buy food and they … Continue reading →

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How to make cider

Posted on October 7, 2007 by blogmywiki

Fill a toddler’s beaker with apple juice. Let them hide it in a remote corner of the house. Find it 2 weeks later – preferably before they do.

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The name game

Posted on July 12, 2007 by blogmywiki

When we had our first child we just couldn’t agree on his surname. I wanted him to have mine, my wife wanted him to have her’s. So we did that awful compromise and he became a double-barreled Booth-Farmer. I don’t … Continue reading →

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