Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Teach your kids a foreign language!

  • Heaven is a Cupcake!

    Over 10 years ago we had a very drunken conversation in the pub about starting some sort of club.  We threw around the idea of a wine club but in the end we decided to start a book club, which is actually a wine club in disguise and have been going strong ever since. We…

  • Traveling with kids in London

    I overheard a rather interesting conversation today at work, obviously two blokes in their early 20s without kids. They were fuming about mums on trains/tubes with prams, saying that they should have to pay for the prams, just like cyclists have to pay to take their bikes. Is that actually true? I have had the…

  • Dad’s race!

    My husband really makes me laugh sometimes.  I never took him for a competitive dad.  We went to our daughter’s school fair on Saturday, our first one in fact.  There was a wheel barrow race.  Not competing against others directly but a timed one.  The person with the highest score wins. The first thing Hubby…

  • Mumsnet the Rules

    I really need to get over my irrational fear of the NCT and Mumsnet.  I’m probably just not clever enough to get the humour.  However, I did find this highly amusing last night. I was pointed in the direction of their newest book, which is available for a tenner. The Golden Rules: 1. You don’t…

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