What do I do to keep fit? By Nic Price on 19 April 2007 — 1 min read Nigel tagged me a wee while ago and I’ve finally had a moment to respond. Here are a few things I do to keep fit: Running – it’s my Dad’s fault, and it’s his Dad’s fault! There’s nothing quite like it for clearing my mind. The more undulating the better… the Yorkshire Dales and the... More
The parent button By Nic Price on 2 April 2007 — 1 min read It’s my younger son’s first birthday today. He has been given some amazing presents, most of which make various electronic noises and tunes when bits of them are pressed. It struck me that a lot of them don’t have an “off” button, or “parent button” as I call it. Some do, but many, like the... More
Listen By Nic Price on 2 April 2007 — 1 min read As we are surrounded by more and more noise, we need to get better and better at listening. More
Ad nonsense By Nic Price on 24 March 2007 — 1 min read Listening to Xfm on my phone on the bus on the way home from work on Thursday night and an ad came on that went something like this: Imagine a world where we all watched one TV channel. Imagine a world where we all read just one newspaper. Imagine a world where we all used... More
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