Three year old playing Scrabble for the first time. First word he tries to spell is his brother Zion’s name.

Three year old hands placing Scrabble pieces spelling "oizn"

Little kid turned on his Amazon Fire “Kids” tablet.

A game asks him to enter his date of birth to play.

He types in “1234”, et voilà!

This is why I’m always frothing at the mouth.

Based on [residents'] feedback, Ealing Council has drawn up a list of ideas to reduce congestion and to make walking, cycling and using public transport easier in Southall.

There are links to the survey results and to a new survey.

Adam Curtis (1984), The Great British Housing Disaster, on how local councils dealt with unsafe new housing developments.

“Privately, they know that their tenants are at risk, but publicly they have to try to defend the decision to leave them…”

Local council elections today in many areas.

Don’t forget you now need to take some form of id with you (passport, driving licence, or something else from this list).

Big kid: “Dad! Dad! I killed the Ender Dragon, and I wasn’t even looking!”

Me: “What are you doing?”

Big kid: “Twerking backwards.”

First salad of the Sum…, er, Spring.

Dark Star, Red Robin.

Dark Star.