It’s the wife’s birthday tomorrow. It had a completely passed you by all this time right up until, this morning, she started dropping those annual hints over breakfast. It took a while, but then it tweaked. And then the cold sweats start. What the hell are you going to buy her? Could this be the end? Fear not! The absolute all-time wife-appeaser hair styling product is available cheap at an online store near you. I bought my wife a set of cheap GHD straighteners for her birthday last week and, honestly, I feel like I won the lottery. She hasn’t stopped going on about them… apparently the best hair styling product she’s ever used.
21 Feb 2013
Apple’s antenna issues
The power of today’s technology –particularly media, is quite immense. Take Apple’s Antenna issue, which they ‘addressed’ a couple of weeks ago with a quick emergency conference that debuted an antennagate song, Steve Jobs’ latest excuses and several allegations about other mobile phones, manufacturers and the phone industry in general with regards to antenna technology.
Before, it would have taken plenty of time before each company would be able to have their say and for members of the mobile phone community to be able to tell each other about individual findings. Now, thanks to the internet, all it takes is a week or even less to get word around.
21 Feb 2013
Big babies!
In 2002, when pregnant with her first child, Sarah, never imagined her baby would be big. She was only 7lb herself at birth, wore a size 12 and was only 5ft 1 “tall”. Her son Sebastian then surprised everybody when he was born weighing 10lbs (4.54kg). Her second son Flynn followed in 2003, induced because of pre-eclampsia (and possibly therefore “growth restricted”), Flynn narrowly missed the Macrosomia label by 3ozs, weighing only 9lb 12oz, both boys were born in hospital with labour augmentation (syntocinon) and epidurals, it was presumed their difficult births were because of their size making them “difficult to birth”.
In 2005 Sarah gave birth to another little boy, Rafferty (pictured above 2 minutes after his birth). Rafferty was born at home in a four hour, drug free labour, he weighed 11lb 3oz. In 2007, baby Violet was born, she weighed 11lbs (5kg) like her brother she was born at home in less than hour, with no drugs and no stitches either.
Perhaps big babies aren’t so hard to give birth to after all?
21 Feb 2013
Take back your freedom
Family values are under attack by UK Government
It is difficult to believe that at a time when families are facing the greatest challenges they have known in three generations our own elected politicians are trying to steal from us the most fundamental of freedoms – parents’ human right to be parents.
There are many examples of how the state is eroding the rights of privacy, independence and self-determination of every person in this country. Now at a time when every part of our society is suffering from the effects global collapse our government has launched yet another onslaught against families who have chosen the path of home education.