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!

Moving Home with Sky – My experience – Day 13

Ahhh Day 13. You unlucky bastard. It had to be didn’t it? Well yesterday was [...]

Moving Home with Sky – My experience – Day 9

So it would appear that the cease of services has happened! I lost everything at [...]

Moving Home with Sky – My experience – Day 8

So yesterday my free Vodafone Dongle arrived from Sky, loaded with £30 of credit for [...]

Moving Home with Sky – My experience – Day 2 pt 2.

Due to various family related business I didn’t actually get chance to post this on [...]

Moving Home with Sky – My experience – Day 2

Well – it’s Day 2. Little progress has been made, in fact, it feels like [...]

Moving Home with Sky – My experience – Day 1 – UPDATED

Sky are advertising heavily about how amazingly wonderful they are for you when it comes [...]

A video camera for a quid (yes really!)

I’m a big theme park geek, I love going and most of all I like [...]

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How not to ‘do’ Twitter – by Thorpe Park – @thorpepark

Those who know me well know I’m all over Twitter like a tramp on chips, [...]

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UPDATED – Why I like Richer Sounds..

I’ve been a fan of Richer Sounds for a very long time, the company has [...]

Ahh Middle Class Parents..

The ‘middle class parent’ is in interesting breed, in most cases their children tend to [...]

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I’m Impatient

Actually, I am *very* impatient, I HATE waiting for stuff, if I want something I [...]

Baby Showers? Really?

In recent times it would appear that the UK has now firmly adopted the idea [...]

Charlie Choys ‘World Buffet’ – Chelmsford

Charlie Choys is a ‘World Buffet’ that has four locations across the UK at the [...]

Me and @rtcunliffe vs. @skyhd

Those who know me well will know that I HATE (really hate), being wrong, and [...]