Category Archives: Blog

For the last fifteen years, Kip Hakes has blogged his thoughts, ramblings and musings. There are blog posts on all manner of subjects right here. From technology, theme parks, days outs to parenting, it’s all for the reading! Enjoy!

A Busy Day

It’s been a busy day in the virtual and physical sense.. Virtual because my post [...]

Big Brother’s Big Fail #bbuk

I am a Big Brother fan, I’ve watched every series, I don’t really tweet or [...]

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Google Latitude User? – Read this!

Google announced it was retiring their location service – Google Latitude on the 9th August. [...]

Bargain Wheel Alignment AND no upselling – I like National Tyres!

As I wrote a few weeks ago, the Bus needed two new tyres. The front [...]

I want a time machine..

.. I really do. I’d use it to do good – I promise! What would [...]

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10 Years of Awesome

Today is the 10th birthday of my daughter G, my gift to her is this [...]

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How I’ve added Twitter Cards on my Blog – You can too!

You might have missed that Twitter have launched ‘Twitter Cards‘ for Brands / Users. Originally [...]

A day of Adventure!

I’ve been visiting Adventure Island in Southend for many years now, it’s always been a [...]

Baby J ‘fixes’ G’s new bike..

J didn’t want G to ride on her bike, until he’d fixed it first.

Weekend Blog Hop #8 (No 2 for me!)

Hello and Welcome, this is the 8th Weekend Blog Hop and I’m hosting it on [...]

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Uurrrgh – I feel old

Next week is Georgia’s 10th birthday, as a little ‘gift’ to her I’m currently creating [...]

Want a Canvas made from your photos? Use these guys..

I’ve praised the awesomeness of YouFrame (www.yfcanvas.com) before, but I thought it needed repeating as [...]

Never underestimate your child, EVER!

I’d been dreading yesterday for a little while, I was going out in London on [...]

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