Top fact: January is named after Janus, the Roman god of transitions and beginnings (and also the name Sean Bean's character takes in Goldeneye). He is often depicted as having two faces (the god, not Sean Bean) and is supposed to represent the dualistic nature of this time of year - the simultaneous looking back …
I am sorry. There, I said it. The reason for my apology? Well, if you happen to be flying from Bangkok to London tomorrow you'll see a youngish (and somewhat harassed) couple get on board with an infant and you'll know that, for the next 12 hours, you're going to be in earshot of a …
When I was a child, I used to love watching pro-wrestling. At school on a Monday morning we would talk about what we had seen on the previous Saturday afternoon. Who had hit whom with a chair. What vendettas had progressed. How amazing the high-flying moves looked. And then come break time, we would run around …
Dear Tomy, Having used your TF550 baby monitor for six months now I feel I have really explored all of the many functions it has. However, the quest for perfection is never ending as Buddha said (probably) and, as such, I have some suggestions on how to improve the overall design and usability. I don't …
I realise that the title is misleading. I haven't started some underground cat/baby pit-fighting league on the moobaan where crowds of Vietnamese boat workers throw money into a dugout in which a cat and a baby are smacking the hell out of one another. I mean I would, but the immigrant visa for Vietnamese boat people …
Fred Durst once rapped "life is a lesson, you learn it when you're through" and when I was fifteen that was one of the most profound things I'd ever heard. I now realise the fundamental flaw in this philosophy; to wit, being dead is not an ideal time to learn life lessons. Some would argue, …
I'm not really a fan of hard work, it troubles me on a deeply personal level. So it was with some trepidation that I was looking at information on how to wean a child. It seems that there are an astronomical number of ways which are recommended to move your baby on to solid food, …
In 2008's The Dark Knight Alfred turns to Bruce Wayne and says 'Some men just want to watch the world burn'. This surmising of the motivations of the Joker highlights for the audience the fact that this is a criminal that has no reason, no focus or desired outcomes. It is existentialism gone too far. A …
So I'm a dad. It happened first thing last Friday and the adjustment has been stark and rapid. And brilliant. The soft bundle of wailing, crapping, hard-long staring blob is an absolute joy (yes, even at 3am when all I want to do is sleep and he prefers to vocalise his displeasure at volumes that …
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