This week in the East Dulwich Forum By Nic Price on 11 February 2007 — 1 min read Stuff that’s caght my eye in the excellent East Dulwich Forum. Moxons the fishmongers has opened a shop on Lordship Lane. Two Trees Lounge has closed – shame, the did good pizzas and had a never ending source of Claude Challe music. Join us for some early morning running (and here too) round the local... More
Child genius By Nic Price on 10 February 2007 — 1 min read Channel 4’s Child Genius made interesting viewing. In a Seven Up style format, it will follow several “gifted children” – they are so bright their IQs are off the scale – as they develop to see how their lives pan out. In one scene a ten year old boy is in conversation with a Professor... More
MBTs By Nic Price on 5 February 2007 — 1 min read Prompted by DulwichMum’s comment in my previous post, here’s some info on MBTs. MBT stands for Masai Barefoot Technology and is the “invention” of a Swiss doctor who observed that the Masai tribe in Africa had fantastic posture and back problems rarely occurred. So he created this shoe which simulates the effect of walking barefoot... More
If East Dulwich was… By Nic Price on 4 February 2007 — 1 min read a mum, she’d be pushing a Bugaboo round the park in her MBTs. a house, it would be having its loft converted. More
Five things By Nic Price on 27 January 2007 — 1 min read I’ve been tagged by Nigel Paine and Martin Belam – so here goes… Five things you might not know about me: I went to nine nurseries/schools including O Pequeno Principe (The Little Prince) nursery in Brazil and the Junior English School in Rome, Italy. At Southampton University I was the long-haired lead singer in a... More
Running track question By Nic Price on 23 January 2007 — 1 min read Why do we run in an anticlockwise direction on a running track? Has it always been anticlockwise? Is it clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere? [No, actually scrap that] Does it mean top athletes’ descendants will have shorter left legs than right? [Actually scrap that one too] More
Two today By Nic Price on 22 January 2007 — 1 min read Just realised this blog is two years old today. Blog Stats There are currently 413 posts and 202 comments, contained within 33 categories. Spam Akismet has protected your site from 27,716 spam comments. More
Norwegian wood or fake plastic trees? By Nic Price on 10 December 2006 — 1 min read A good excuse for a musical reference, but this isn’t to do with choosing between the Beatles and Radiohead. I was just wondering what kind of Christmas tree we should be buying this year. With all the recent mention of carbon footprints, are we doing more for the environment buying the traditional Norwegian Spruce or... More
Fast ticket? By Nic Price on 10 December 2006 — 1 min read The nutshell: buying rail tickets online still isn’t very joined up. TTL: “Thank you for calling thetrainline.com how can I help?” Me: “Hello, I accidentally managed to book myself two tickets using the website. Can you tell me how I can cancel one of them please?” [brief exchange of reference numbers and identification information] TTL:... More
Lost but for words By Nic Price on 10 December 2006 — 1 min read I can tell Wordie has the potential to become highly addictive for all the right reasons even if I haven’t quite understood the point yet… Wordie lets you make lists of words — practical lists, words you love, words you hate, whatever. See who else has listed the same words, add citations and comments, and... More