Kiwifruit Trivia

When Eve was visiting a few weeks ago, she said that someone was touring grocery stores in her area teaching people how to eat kiwifruit efficiently. I expressed some scepticism that this was necessary; she assured me it was. For fun I decided to do a photo shoot of how to cut and eat kiwifruit [...]

Consequences

It’s awfully cute when you watch a kitten playing with the phone cord

but not so cute when you see the consequences of the same kitten, now a cat, playing with the handset cord. I’m sure there’s some sort of parenting lesson in there.

CfS: NV2007

Enough acronyms for now - the Call for Speakers for NorthernVoice 2007 is open! Northern Voice is Vancouver’s blogging conference, focussing on personal blogging. This means talks on how to solve some company’s PR problems are not really in scope, though tips on how to run a personal blog when you’re also an executive at [...]

Social Networking Musings

It seems social network sites are considered the heart of the internet these days, at least if you’re under 25 (which I’m not); real-life networks still exist of course, especially if you have children (see Tim’s post on Real Social Networks). I’m old-fashioned in that I still use email to keep in touch with people [...]

International Car Seats

We’re planning on travelling to Australia for a vacation, and since the baby will shortly need a new car seat anyway, I was hoping to get one that matches Canadian and Australian standards. Britax makes car seats in each country but when I called them they said the Canadian car seats did not meet Australian [...]

Books on Raising Children

There seem to be as many philosophies about how to bring up children successfully as there are parents, which fact you tend not to discover until you are a parent yourself. And then you have to hope that your philosophy is reasonably congruent with that of the other parent and/or caregivers in your child’s [...]