My wife, Joelle, has been creating beautiful jewellery over at Serenity Sea Glass for nearly a year now. Her pieces are already featured in three local shops. Be sure to check it out!

I recently appeared on the main BBC Website after having a phone call interview about four-day weeks. It was a surprise to us (at Cortex) that it was the proper BBC and not just BBC Guernsey.

Unfortunately, the quote was somewhat negative. I was actually more positive about it.

Anyway, it was fun seeing my face in the news!

I enjoy playing video games and I’ve been finding it frustrating to find decent ones with play with my kids. As an example you’d think the £29.99 Nintendo Switch Peppa Pig game would be fairly good. It is not. There is very little gameplay, the controls are unclear (don’t visually match the controller) and the loading times are insane (10 seconds+ per scene) for a 2D game with little happening, my youngest has time to ask me why its not playing at least 10 times before it actually does anything. The cheap Peppa Pig Chicken game is much better on tablets…

So I have decided to begin maintaining a list of games that my kids have enjoyed playing or watching me play. I’ll update this list over time. The list is here.

Unfortunately, I have not really found anything for five and under. There are various games based off of the things they’d typically watch (Paw Patrol) but they are fairly low effort and expensive. The only one to stick so far is Mario Kart with all the assists turned on.

Not to turn this into a medical blog but figured it might be of interest to see what a 24hr ECG looks like. You rock up at hospital, usually early for an 24hr one.

…and return the bits to the hospital the following morning. Proceed to rush home for a lovely shower.

I hate having this, but it is necessary. The older version of the box was about 12 times bigger, so the small clip on one is a great improvement.

I’ve just wrapped up another game. This one is called ‘Endure’ and is a base defence game with a money system to buy upgrades between game attempts. You can buy units and upgrades. The objective is to survive 5 minutes of spider attacks.

This ended up being more of a completable demo, as I had more features in mind but lost interest in taking it further.

You can play it here.