Memorable movie deaths podcast. Yet again I’m featuring in Lee over at Quit Your Day Job’s latest podcast. Go and have a listen and then let him know what your own favorite deaths are. Bookmark It

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Last night we watched the final of Britain’s Got Talent. In my defense I only watched it because Amy wanted to. Over the last few weeks she’s become quite the fan of the show, although she has tended to only watch it when she’s sleeping over at her grandparents house…

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I harvested and ate the first of this year’s vegetables yesterday: radishes. Hopefully there is sweetcorn, potatoes, runner beans, sugarsnap peas, pumpkin, lettuce, strawberrys, and pak-choi still to come. That’s if the damn slugs don’t get them first of course. Also one of the chicken’s (Rosa) comb has started reddening…

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Honsiter Hause to Keswick Miles walked: 10 Highest point reached: 290m above sea level At around four thirty in the morning of day two all six of us were rudely awoken by a cockerel crowing outside the youth hostel. Most of us managed to get back to sleep, but once…

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Memorable TV Deaths Podcast. I’ve lent my vocal talents and half baked opinions to the latest Quit Your Day Job podcast. Head over to Lee’s blog and take a listen. Bookmark It

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Ambleside to Honister Hause Miles walked: 15 Highest point reached: Stake Pass, 480m above sea level Weight of backpack: 19lb Our journey began at Huddersfield train station at some ungodly hour in the morning where Craig, Rich Bassinder, Rich Brook, Dave, my brother Sam, and I staggered onto the train…

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I must admit that I’ve seen Wall-E before. In fact the movie was the first film both my kids saw at the cinema. It made quite an impression on Evan in particular. When we were watching Hannah Montana at the pictures the other week Evan kept asking indignantly when Wall-E…

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Tomorrow at 6:45 in the morning I catch a train from Huddersfield to Windermere. I then start my 60 odd mile walk through the Lake District national park up to Carlisle. I’m not going alone, although our original group of nine has been depleted down to six due to a…

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Simon over at Mere Bagatelle wrote an interesting postrecently about why he thinks Twitter is killing blogging. In it he argues that Twitter poaches all the little ideas and theories you have throughout the day, and so prevents them from germinating and developing into a proper blog post at some…

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A week or so I got an email from the very nice people over at Think Parents asking me if I would be interested in reviewing new Disney Blu Ray movie releases here on the blog. What’s more, seeing as though I didn’t actually have a Blu-Ray player they offered…

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