Our efforts to get Eva to ride her bike without stabilizers has paid off as you can see from this photo.
Ever been stuck on an airplane in economy where the person in front has the temerity to recline their seat back? It’s especially infuriating when you’re trying to eat the stuff they call food! Well, this video might offer a solution! How To Keep Motherfu#%s From Putting Their Seats Back from fi5e on Vimeo. Technorati [...]
This post from Wired’s Geekdad blog is very timely as we are just getting Eva to ride her bike without stabilizers. She’s been out twice in Cassiobury Park at the bottom of our road and has done very well both times. We’ve been using the final method mainly, running with the child on the driveway, [...]
Got back from a great bank holiday trip up to Sheffield to visit my mum and pick up the kids. Unusually for a British bank holiday the weather wasn’t too bad; sunny on both the Saturday and Sunday. We spent most of the weekend up at Cannon Hall Farm near Barnsley. There’s an open farm [...]
Blog Action Day is coming on October 15th and for 2008 the theme is about raising awareness of the issues of poverty. I’ve blogged about poverty in the past when I attended a meeting with the then Secretary of State for International Development, Hilary Benn. Since that meeting I’ve subscribed to the departments Developments magazine [...]
I don’t really understand why as I didn’t watch them that much when I was a kid, but for some reason I was delighted yesterday with the news that the Banana Splits were going to be back on our screens again. Well, not mine actually as they’ll be on the Cartoon Network which is not [...]
I’ve decided to put the whole of wileysworld.org into WordPress and update the theme. I’m hoping that this might spur me into writing more posts to the blog and to keep the gallery upto date. I think this theme is quite good from Design Disease though I’d like to reduce the width of the first [...]
I received an e-mail from Tripadvisor today indicating that they’ve just released their “2008 Travelers’ Choice Destination Awards” (pdf). The list is broken out into the top 100 in the world and then the top 25 in the various global regions. It seems I’m a very well travelled man as I have been to 24 [...]
It’s been a long time since I participated in a 10K race (I don’t say competed because I don’t enter to win). But I was persuaded to enter the Watford 10K last Monday which, in hindsight, was a little foolish considering I hadn’t done any training for it save for a few laps around Euan’s [...]
I’ve started fiddling around with StumbleUpon and came across this little gem. I hope you like it too. The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun
There are four of us in the Wiley family in Watford. There's me Greg, my wife Louise, our son Euan and our daughter Eva. There's also our cat Fundi. You'll find a bit more information on our about us page.
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