A first NFT
I took one of Tara's drawings from last year and placed it on OpenSea. Mostly just to see what the experience is like. So here it is, "A princess, her castle, and an apple tree". For…
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Crystal growing
Got one of these and it pretty much worked as advertised. This is after about three weeks of leaving it unattended. I was pleasantly surprised by how it turned out, because we didn’t stir it too wel…
Harry Potter: revisited & renewed
We recently watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone — and I realized the movie is already twenty years old! I thought I’d read the book with my daughter, now that we’ve seen the movie, and I th…
The Enchanted Wood
A long time ago, when I was busy trying to read everything by Enid Blyton1, I came across The Magic Faraway Tree. And. I. Loved. It. This being the age before Amazon and not having a large library ar…
On the appealing strangeness of My Little Pony
I’ll confess I had no impression about “My little pony” (I’ll abbreviate as “MLP” to save keystrokes) until about a year ago, when I first sat down with my daughter and watched the first episode1 of “…
My daughter’s first horror movie :-|
We recently finished all three seasons of the “new” 2002-2006 Scooby Doo series1, and while browsing Netflix, we came across a full-length Scooby Doo movie. Great. In the spirit of watching a “family…
Chapter books
The new thing for reading with Tara is books with (relatively) lots of words and a few pictures, with each book being part of a series, and each book divided into chapters. Some of what we've bee…
Library haul (Jun 2019)
Guess we got a bit greedy there ...…
Current library haul
Mini-Library haul
Wondering if I should switch to some more structured way of recording all these ... would make for a nice database to look back on later!…
Library book haul (Mar 2019)
Me and Tara go to the library once every six weeks or so, and I was thinking of starting to make a list of the books we’ve tried/liked over time. But that is a bit too much effort, so I’m going to st…
Monthly recap (August 2015)
This month went by fast. Tara is now regularly eating breakfast/lunch/dinner, which was unimaginable a while ago, and crawling/standing all over the place, which is a bit scary. Notable "firsts…