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Unleash your inner child

There is something to be said about the calming, smile-inducing power of animated films. My husband and I sat glued to Ice Age 2:The Meltdown thanks to ITV2 this weekend. We enjoyed every second, laughed at every possible opportunity like five year olds and felt like we’d taken a batch of happy pills afterwards. It got me thinking of the many animated films I’ve enjoyed in recent years, much more so than ones I enjoyed as a child and I’m sure most of the humour would fly straight over a ten year old child’s head, so…go my children and enjoy the wonderful world of animation (well, mainly the world of Disney Pixar!)

A Bugs Life
Finding Nemo
Monsters Inc
The Incredibles
Toy Story
Ice Age
Flushed Away – has to get the award for the most adult orientated humour - “It's just that curry you had last night, Spike. I'm the same, I've got a bum like the Japanese flag.” (Whitey)
Chicken Run
Shrek

There are plenty more…I vote we replace the intelligent book library in the office with a library of animated DVDs!

Posted by Liz

Street Art?

Tonight I got home and said to Monsieur P

"I've only gone and lost my favourite scarf, my big fluffy comforter" (this is earth shattering as I am addicted to said scarf)

P: "oh no, well actually... I've lost the scarf you bought me." (grimace as this was Christmas present)

Me: "oh no!.... ok if we are confessing I lost your grey hat"...

"...And I've got 3 single gloves..." (So thinking I'll be told how careless I am tut tut...)

P: "ok if we are talking confessing, I've got quite a big one... Maybe you should sit down."

Me: "why?? what??!..."

And P rolled up his sleeve up to reveal some serious ink! A real tattoo (I went to rub it off).

Just like that on a Monday.

Whatever next?! Will he have a barbed wire necklace the next time the day has a 'y' in it??

Posted by The Street

The Bebbies

My 2yr old has an extensive family of baby dollies, yesterday one of the 'bebbies' was named 'John Lewis'! (Others in the family are Kevin, Ethan, Charlotte, Ruby and Santiago.)

The arrival of 'John Lewis' is funny but slightly troubling my conscience - does this mean I'm a bad materialistic mumma?? Will Mark and Spencer soon appear? Is little Nando about to arrive?

She also passed me a "bebbie' and said 'here you go, go to nanny'! Not funny.

Posted by Sarah

A new product from Apple?

Last night I was telling my boyfriend about the lady who'd sat next to me on the train. I commute from London to Reading but the final destination of the train was Exeter St Davids. After 5 or so minutes of her faffing about storing her belongings she settled down.

I was reading emails at the time and after a while I glanced her over at her, she had relaxed into her seat with a pair of ear plugs and a furry purple eyemask. I could be forgiven for suddenly thinking I was on a long haul flight were it not for the lack of peanuts.

I was telling him indoors about the lady with the earplugs and the eyemask and his response was

"What's an iMask? I've not heard of them. What do you do with them?"

I explained that you wore them over your eyes if you were trying to get to sleep in brightly lit places.

It didn't occur to me that if a product began with the word Eye, he would automatically assume it was a new fangled gadget. But then he is a bloke and likes his gadgets.

Is this the next step for Apple? Coloured furry iMasks that allow handsfree video watching controlled by the blink of an eye? Or something more soothing that plays lullabies or self motivational messages with images to accompany?

We may never have to look at fellow commuters again! The iMask is the future!

Posted by Emily