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!

Telling your first born there is going to be a newborn

I’ve got an eight year old daughter from my previous marriage and neither I or [...]

Blog Related News!

Firstly, I’ve migrated this away from Posterous, Posterous used to be so wonderfully simple and [...]

Next and the Case of the Melting Shirt – Part 2

Wowsa. Tell you what – Next know how to do social media! I had a [...]

Next and the Case of the Melting Shirt – @nextofficial

I’ve been a Next Directory customer for years, I love their jeans especially, and I [...]

So, we’re having a baby!

Hello. The time for me right now is 00.09 on 24/10/11 – When you read [...]

A Crèche for Men? Oh do fuck off..

Not a new idea certainly.. It’s something that IKEA in Australia have run with. See [...]

Should you get your child Christened / Baptised?

There seems to be a growing trend among new parents to get their offspring Christened. [...]

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Sky Service Status Page – Not really helpful.

On Friday, there was an out of Sky Broadband in Chelmsford, around 75 customers were [...]

A chip off the old block..

As normal on Sunday morning, today we went through G’s spellings from school, she’d done [...]

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I’m a fucking idiot..

.. yes you probably know this already, but I did something so damned stupid on [...]

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Moving Home with Sky ( @skyhd ) – My experience – Day 28 – The End!

Well it looks like this crazy chapter of my life is drawing to a close! [...]

Moving Home with Sky ( @skyhd ) – My experience – Day 27

So it looks like my drama of moving my services with Sky is now reaching [...]

Moving Home with Sky ( @skyhd ) – My experience – Day 26

Well fuck me sideways… I haz teh internetz! After 26 days of going through the [...]

Moving Home with Sky ( @skyhd ) – My experience – Day 21

So… I’ve been quiet for just over a week – whys that? Well most of [...]