I bought some new glasses last week. Yesterday attended my appointment to collect them. Sitting in the chair waiting for my receipt, I gazed at my new glasses in the little hand held mirror. The first glimmer of a doubt…
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- I went to Specsavers
- Home phrases
Whilst eating a most delicious piece of Welsh rarebit this lunch time I was lost in reverie when Sophie pulled me back to reality by commenting"you have a stringey". "Pardon", I spluttered. "A stringey", she repeated…
- Bluetooth toilet seat
My Godson is an absolute poppet and the apple of his Godmother’s eye. However he like many little boys (and some big) does have some trouble remembering to lift the seat when he uses the bathroom. Obviously this isn't…
- Aren't kids brilliant
I have been sat on the sofa in the front room roaring with laughter whilst Felix regaled me with funny stories from his sleep over last night. I feel so lucky that he likes to chat with me and that we can share a laugh…
- 4 minute blog
The party was good. Lots of old faces. Half of ont sofa dot com was playing the drums. Hungarian and Swedish families married. Felix didn't feed Elsie. Poor puppy dog. He gave her bread apparently. Anyhoo. He was playk…
PaintWalking down the paint isle in DIY shops can't help but make you smile a bit when you're called Matt. A whole selection of objects with my name in big letters, plastered on the front of them. Incidentally, I think the…
- Sound advice
Sound advice indeed.. Spotted on one of Annie Mo's items of clothing. Not only does it serve as an accurate label, just in case we forget what it is, it's also got a top tip.
Sophie's 7th Birthday Party[ ](http://www.dragondrop.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Sophie7.jpg) We've just had a surprisingly chilled 7th birthday party for Sophie. Big thanks to R & F who've spent days getting loads of activities together for…
Optical Illusion extraordinaireI've seen my fair share of optical illusions before. I've not seen one as good as this for a while though.. This is a static image - it's not animated in any way. That's your head doing that, that is.
- The sourest sweets in the world.
Embedded video I tried one of these - the taste - somewhere between battery acid and 1000 lemons. Awful level set to extreme hostile . Naturally, I wanted to let my kids experience them...Here's the video of them…
DragonDrop - as seen on TVApparently, A DragonDrop Adventure Shirt has already been on TV during a cricket match in India when it's wearer, Jim, was carried around the ground at shoulder height for being the only non Indian in the ground. Or so…
What is it?Eirene just sent me this photo of Sophie trying on Jaygo's glasses. Made me laugh. Popped in to see Jaygo last night by the way - good spirits. Eirene and I had some intravenous medicines training - a life skill I never…
DragonDrop fruit machineThere are apparently some fruit machines out there in the wild now called DragonDrop. What ever next?
- Keyboard free blogging experiment
So I'm sat round out our friends are invited round the dinner and I was handed a device called and Ipad with I was playing later noticed there was a thing on it called dragon diction which is what I'm using now to…
The Blue Stots Mummers PlayA traditional North Yorkshire Mummers Play I saw a world that I didn't know existed last night. Whilst sat having a quiet jar with a friend in the (Graeme) Swan on The Stray public house, we were 'warned' that there…