Well, the food bribery we've been employing on Kei seems to be working. He now accepts more meat and veg than he ever did before (even if in modest quantities) and his teachers are reporting he's eating a lot more normally at preschool ( Read more... )

While I'm on a roll, can I put in a good word for the kid's TV show The Clone Wars? It's really rather good and fleshes out the canon in a way that actually improves, rather than detracts, from it. My little boy loves it. He's crazy for all things Star Wars now.

The Clone Wars is almost enough to make me forget the abomination of the 'first' movie ( Read more... )

Today Kei watched his first Star Trek episode: Norman Spinrad's The Doomsday Machine. (Well, if it was good enough for me in 1968, it is good enough for him today.) Kei seemed very impressed, though he was very tense at the scene where Kirk crashes the U.S.S. Constellation into the maw of the machine ( Read more... )

Bless!

Kei just walked in to show off his pirate costume: a foam sword and hook, a home-made eyepatch and a peg-leg made out of a cornflake packet.

It's genius!

I'm pleased to be home in Malmö. The flat wasn't burgled while we were away, which is a result, as I only realized just before we set off to Blighty that I'd forgotten to insure the place ( Read more... )

First post of the new year. Hurpy noo yarr to all of you ( Read more... )

Kei's recent obsession is with superheroes. Actually he doesn't know many superheroes other than Superman and Spiderman, but he's taken to using his comfort blanket as a cape and running around being a superhero ( Read more... )

Kei's a funny one. He's just been very scared by the Wallace and Gromit movie. He found the were-rabbit to be extremely scary and it made him run to mummy. Yesterday he could only handle The Incredibles in small chunks--any excitement and he was off hiding in his room. Shrek 2 he completely gave up on ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what to make of Waybuloo, a sort of dreamy ambient yoga TV show for kids.

It smacks of new agey shitbollocks, but it's quite melodic and hypnotic to watch. Kei and I couldn't tear ourselves away.

Kei is currently wearing a Hitler moustache made of jam.