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  • Unicoding

    2017-07-31

    I really really can’t tell you how very proud I am that my son made this for me. ❤️❤️❤️????It says: "82 111 115 115 (Ross)". He wrote Unicode!

  • Typical supper-time learnings: Will It Fly?

    2017-07-30

    A typical conversation over an evening bowl of porridge in the Wintle household. This is how a) one of our children learns random stuff and b) Bedtime takes FOREVER.

  • Parenting Jenga

    2017-07-18

    Parenting Jenga: a visual note about what life is like sometime

  • Sorry Robin… ?

    2017-07-16

    In today's sad-things-I-read-on-Sunday we'd like to bring you the sad tale of a robin who had to abandon her nest.

  • Today I…

    2017-07-06

    Creativity is more important than ever. What will you do today? In a world that seems to have gone mad recently, creativity has become more important than ever. Not just “arts”, but making, doing, sharing, writing, hacking, teaching, growing, mending and so many other things are creative endeavours. But it’s sometimes hard to recognise your […]

  • To the man on the pink scooter

    2017-06-27

    You probably thought I was a bit funny. I mean, you were the adult man on the pink, three-wheeled Barbie scooter, but *you* probably wondered what *I* was doing. I was in my car. I saw you from afar and had resolved to cheer you on. At first I wasn’t sure if you were a […]

  • Getting to grips with Laravel’s service container

    2017-05-17

    I finally feel like I’m getting to grips with Laravel’s service container. I’ve understood HOW it works and WHAT is does for a while, but it’s taken a simple, real-world example to pull it all together and make it all “stick”. Disclaimer: I may still have all this wrong, in which case correct me in […]