Both Oscar and Phoebe love surprises and have been fascinated with the current craze of “loot crates” – a subscription system where you get sent a box of goodies sent to you every month with no idea what you will get. Personally I’m not a fan of these loot crates – mainly because the ones
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This week we were sent not one, not two but three(!) boxes from Lucky Gecko (http://www.luckygecko.com). They are called ‘Discovery Boxes’ and are designed to help young people (KS2 level) to learn in different ways. Developed by a private tutor, the boxes contain various toys and activities as well as a great booklet that pulls
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Fat Dad at the BlogOn conference using a HTC Vive to fly around a city. He’s not very good and crashes – clearly unable to distinguish reality from simulation and he ends up nearly falling over… The HTC Vive was provided by the Digital Kids Show (http://digitalkidsshow.co.uk)

This week we were sent not one, not two but three(!) boxes from Lucky Gecko (http://www.luckygecko.com). They are called ‘Discovery Boxes’ and are designed to help young people (KS2 level) to learn in different ways. Developed by a private tutor, the boxes contain various toys and activities as well as a great booklet that pulls
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DashCam footage of baboons wrecking my Dad’s car at Knowsley Safari Park. They seemed to like the washer jets and wanted to take them with them.