Health authorities in Australia, as elsewhere in the world are currently obsessed with Swine Flu, or as those same authorities would prefer us to refer to it, H1N1. The designers at Giant Microbes have even put out a Swine flu soft toy (see  here), which like all their other  toys are a great likeness of […]

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Episode 2: Valiant Australian Air Date: 10/5/09 Sunday 6:30pm Not a bad episode.  As the second episode all the characters have settled down a bit.  The main ones, Merlin, Gaius, Arthur, Uther, Gwenivere and Morgana were introduced in the last episode, the film makers can now start to explore the relationships between the characters a […]

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Most people probably have a story to tell about products they remember eating as a kid which they return to years later only to claim with some alarm, “I remember these use to be much bigger”.  In some instances, certainly, this may be due to an increase in size of the person doing the remembering, […]

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Air Date: 3/5/09 Sun 6:30pm   The first episode of Merlin was aired last night so I thought I would write a quick review, particularly since it is the first Myth and Magic style fantasy TV series we have had for quite some time.  There will be two sections of the review, the first one […]

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My mum and my sister bought me these really cool soft toys in the shapes of microscopically sized things  for my birthday this year.  But more than just being something a little unusual, they are actually really well made and really clever.  They are by a company in the US called Giant Microbes and the […]

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