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felt the urge to leave i asked my two a few questions about the experience they were a bit tired when answering so it s slightly monosyllabic what does jamie s italian smell like can t remember like honey what did you do until your food arrived played games talked we played with the play bag there was stuff you can make and colour in what was your first thought about your meal when the waiter brought it to you oh no there s salad with it mummy s garlic bread looked and tasted extremely yummy and it was freshly baked bread what did you eat and how was it chicken lollipops and it was good i liked the way the carrots were cut what do you think your meal was made out of chicken salad vegetables potatoes did you finish your whole plate almost i didn t eat my salad i didn t eat my potatoes i e one didn t eat the salad one didn t eat the potatoes what was the best thing about your meal the yoghurt dip the potatoes what did your parents have i don t know a pasta dish yeah kind of do you think eating vegetables is very important yes said with a frown where do you think italian food comes from italy what was the best thing about jamie s italian eating with my cousin and my whole family i liked the toilets because you could easily flush them this may make you laugh but honestly most toilets are really rather hard to flush for a small 5 year old and these ones well wow she could flush them herself and it looked like a cool flush too not having to ask for help from mum is huge would you like to come back in the future yes maybe posted by cartside at 22 55 2 comments labels eating out with kids family dining glasgow glasgow restaurant italian restaurant glasgow jamie s italian kids eat free restaurant in glasgow review friday 2 october 2015 disney on ice the girls are both big disney fans each has their own favourites and if i m sick of reading one book it must be the disney story collection which gets pulled out as the bedtime story choice rather a lot last year we were lucky to see disney on ice and it was a great success we all really enjoyed the show so we were more than glad to be offered review tickets this year this autumn s show started off in braehead arena near glasgow and will be touring for a good while through major cities in the u k as usual there are 4 disney films featured and this time it s toy story the little mermaid cars and of course frozen the venue was a bit smaller than last year and so was the production this was not a bad thing we were so much closer to the ice so much better able to see the amazing skating performance and the girls didn t in the slightest realise that there were slightly less people on the ice it was still spectacular colourful with amazingly original constumes i m still not sure how ken and barbie managed to look so like ken and barbie as they did it was easier to focus on the story and the characters although for the adults there was some compromise in the spectacle but really last year s show was a hard act to follow with all of our kids favourite films covered cars was the one bit that didn t convince there was no skating invovled rather a few cars moving rather aimlessly across the ice fortunately this was also the shortest chapter of the show a minor quibble of mine would be that the reduced version of frozen left my girls wondering where sven was and also the story was told in a different way that left some loose ends for the 5 year old however as far as i was able to tell the girls enjoyed it as much as last year s show and even the initially reluctant and less excited 8 year old ended up enjoying it immensely the 5 year old was full of praise what a great show it was so it s definitely a great night out for the whole family disclosure we received complimentary tickets in exchange for a review posted by cartside at 22 07 1 comment labels disney on ice review tuesday 15 september 2015 hope and fear this week has been filled with very intense emotions about the big stuff who we are as human beings i m not sure if to despair or rejoice it is heartening to see the public support for refugees the direct action collections and save the children s refugee crisis appeal exceeding its targets people have been touched a lot of people want to help and empathise with the desperate situation refugees not just from syria find themselves in and then there s the other voices so prominent because of this world of anonymous social media where everything goes where the vilest of comments are acceptable somehow but it s not always the straight forward vileness that depresses me but the playing out against one another of marginalised groups as if wanting to help refugees who have lost everything who have kids that just want to be safe and play rather than be shot bombed or drown comes at the expense of the homeless or other people in dire straits that line that we should look after our own first i feel very alienated from such discourse i can try and understand it with my analytical mindset i know that we as social animals create in groups and out groups how important peer groups any kind of identity groups ethnic religious are but somehow deep down i don t get it because when i look at any person i see a mirror i see me i relate i do not see difference i could be syrian my country could be destroyed my country was destroyed before my time but my parents remember the trauma well of hiding from bombs of begging for food of preventable serious illness of losing their dads to a war that was not theirs of left behind women trying the best to survive there is no our own borders are no more than a trick of the mind no wait politicians who like us to believe that we can impose political structure onto our planet the reality is that there is one earth one inhabitable planet with limited resources a growing population climate change that causes changes which will lead to mass movements of people what we see now is only the start i m not fearmongering but there is no doubt in my mind that in the long run we cannot shut borders or control immigration because people will need to move people will move from war from the effects of climate change the argument that it s for the generous benefits in the uk is ridiculous these are people running to survive and there aren t actually that many trying to get to the uk compared to other countries we only see the tip of the iceberg playing refugees out against the homeless or ex servicemen who actually have access to some resources even if arguable these aren t sufficient is totally missing the point what s more it s playing out one group of people in need against another it divides to divert our gaze from the real issues issues of inequalities within our country and inequality between countries our riches are built on exploitation of natural resources found in other countries of the tobacco sugar and yes slave trade and now that we have it all we don t want to share it s extremely upsetting i wish i could just focus on the outpouring of generosity which should be so heartening but i ve seen burning reception centres in the past and the incitement to hatred i ve seen in the media and particularly on social media fills me with fear we held vigils at reception centres to protect them from arson as a teenager i was outraged and self righteous convinced that the good in people would prevail i m just not that sure anymore posted by cartside at 23 27 2 comments tuesday 25 august 2015 blog identity crisis i guess it s pretty normal that after years of blogging sometimes one feels that there s something like a dead end it s not that i want to stop this blog but it feels that what i used it for is no longer what i want to use it for i started out in a previous blog with civil society themes which are still close to my heart then became a mum and blogged about the challenges but also the treasured memories i feel this is harder as the children get older because i have to accept their own wishes and it s clear that cubling doesn t like being a spotlight and snowflake is getting to this age too as far as other topics are concerned i feel that there is a lot of noise out there already so many voices what could i possibly add it s not a bout of lacking confidence just an honest feeling that there are many people out there who are excellent writers and debaters and do the stuff that i would like to do a lot better than me so i m looking a bit for a new niche not a brand i ve never been one for a blog brand it stifles my writing i m not sure where this will lead but i m glad for anyone who s still with me on that journey a lot has happened in the time that i ve been quiet on this space i ve studied with the open university for the certificate in promoting public health the experience of going back to study was interesting because so much has changed it s so much easier accessing research these days where everything is digitalised i enjoyed the course but didn t enjoy having to write quite so many written assignments which meant that the topics i really wanted to study were only side lines to working towards passing the course if i m to do any more study i d much prefer to study without that pressure but then again recognised qualifications are what looks good on a c v i also trained to become a breastfeeding peer supporter with nct i d always wanted to do this and the opportunity came about suddenly and i embraced it it took a while to start volunteering and actually be a peer supporter but it s now happening just as i m no longer a breastfeeding mum the open uni course and the nct training were extremely complementary and both also had very strong links to my work so that i took a lot from it at work i m now involved in two programmes working with families who have children at the transition to primary school age range this is of course very satisfying at a time when my own children are at that age the new programme is in the development stage which is rather exciting and different to being trained to deliver a set programme which actually isn t all that bad either there is also a bit of a shift happening with the children growing and slowly but surely being able to join in with activities that i enjoyed before i had children both girls are now cycling and we ve started to do short and slow bike rides as a family this has once again brought up my interest in making cycling safer and more prevalent in a city which is not set up for cyclists i effectively stopped cycling after a bus hit me while pregnant with cubling so it s been a long time with only occasional and short trips on the bike we ve also done a couple of hill walks no munro bagging of course but that suits me just fine it s just nice to finally find again some of the loose ends of my life before children during our summer holiday trip to germany we retraced some of my own childhood memories and also discovered some parts of germany that were very new to me i felt a tourist in my own country i always find that i encounter strong emotions when i m in germany a mix of homecoming and feeling estranged which is slightly unsettling i had taken the whole summer off on unpaid leave to savour the precious last summer before snowflake started school and i ll do it again next summer i m lucky because my work is linked to school term time so it s actually possible and the summer went by quickly and without regrets well it may make the transition to a 5 day at school week a bit harder for snowflake who tells me daily she d rather go to nursery or spend the day with me i ll keep doing a good few reviews simply because i feel they can be useful for some people even if they may not go well with the flow of this blog we enjoy trying out new places and products with a relevance to our lives i have no energy to do reviews of things that i have no interest in hopefully with a bit of a stock take i ll be more likely to find things worth talking about although these days i m actually more interested than ever in the debate rather than just putting forward my own views this might be why i ve been on facebook more than here where there s more interaction and debate than on a blog space photos taken on our cycle around cumbrae island posted by cartside at 23 28 2 comments wednesday 22 july 2015 for the technophiles kinivo wid380 usb wifi adapter review guest review by the one and only mr cartside who as you will be impressed to see knows a fair bit of all things techy unlike me which is why he got the job to review this usb wifi adapter the first thing you notice about the kinivo wid380 usb wifi adapter is its distinctive physical form two slim arms initially flush with the side of the device can be rotated and positioned independently presumably these each contain an antenna and the idea that by a deliberate separation of the two arms i may reduce the chances of poorly intersecting the electromagnetic wavefronts is compelling physically i should also mention a rather nice docking unit attached to an extension cable which frees the device from the need to stick out the front or back of your machine and instead sit on the top of it say regarding software i tried first on windows and that ran fine i did also try ubuntu and was initially stuck with the previous version 14 10 here i needed to compile the driver supplied on the cd also available at http downloads kinivo com product driver wid380 2011_ 0719_rt3070_rt3370_rt5370_ rt5372_linux_sta_v2 5 0 3_dpo bz2 a first error regarding the __date__ macro was resolved by adding wflags wno error date time to os linux config mk two further errors regarding an assignment between incompatible types at lines 1126 1127 in os linux rt_linux c were resolved by changing posfsinfo fsuid current_fsuid posfsinfo fsgid current_fsgid to posfsinfo fsuid current_fsuid val posfsinfo fsgid current_fsgid val eventually this compiled installed and worked though i must say with fairly poor quality and frequent connection drops happily though i can say that on 2 separate machines the device works automatically with current ubuntu 15 04 i also now get one more bar of connection strength than i did with my previous usb dongle so i m chuffed then again it s recently been dropping the connection again so that s it it works fine on windows and passably on ubuntu it even looks good something i never thought i d say about a usb wifi dongle full disclosure we received the product for review posted by cartside at 23 22 1 comment labels kinivo wid380 usb wifi adapter review ubuntu windows sunday 3 may 2015 a competition that may save lives if there s one thing that sends shivers down my spine it s the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning we had gas safety checks and fire safety checks in our house and each time it was pointed out that a carbon monoxide alarm would be recommended did we get one well eventually yes but it was one of those things on our to do list for far too long it s been only in the last 6 months that we finally got ...