Ivor Wood, the children's film animator, died 13 October, 2004. Here's a profile of the great man from the Guardian 3 years ago:- Portrait Life post Pat From the Guardian 2001

Hi! Just a quick introduction. I’m a mother of two with another on the way. I missed the stimulation of work whilst bringing up my two girls and started my own online business about 2 and a half years ago. I see a lot of forums due to the online nature of my business and liked the look of this...

hy ) writes: If it is unsafe for kids to go out at night, on halloween, is it unsafe for them to go out christmas caroling too, shopping for presents etc., and skating on New Years or the other host of activities that parents take their kids to over this...

Plenty of kids trick or Treaty around our house in Cedar Park Tx. The only gripe I have is when you have some 14 or 15 year old knock on the door wanting candy and didn't even have the effort to wear a costume. Jason "Jack O'Lantern" wrote in...

I HEART HUCKABEES A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 2004 Steve Rhodes RATING (0 TO ****): * Painfully unfunny, I HEART HUCKABEES is a ridiculous mess of a movie by David O. Russell. After his nearly universally acclaimed success with THREE

THE GRUDGE A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 2004 Steve Rhodes RATING (0 TO ****): * 1/2 THE GRUDGE, a slump-in-your-seat, would-be thriller, is a shockless shocker. No matter how many horror movie clichés it turns to -- "Don't open that

BEING JULIA A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 2004 Steve Rhodes RATING (0 TO ****): *** 1/2 Hello, Oscar. Oozing charm from every pore, Annette Bening gives an absolutely delightful performance as Julia Lambert, an actress who acts

SURVIVING CHRISTMAS A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 2004 Steve Rhodes RATING (0 TO ****): *** As SURVIVING CHRISTMAS opens, you can smell a cinematic disaster in the offing. With loud, irony-laced Christmas music ("It's The Most Wonderful

THE MACHINIST A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 2004 Steve Rhodes RATING (0 TO ****): *** Brad Anderson's THE MACHINIST is a Kafkaesque tale about a psychotic and paranoid anorexic who works the aptly named graveyard shift on dangerous,

My daughter just turned two. For weeks now, when she wakes up in the morning or from her nap (both are in her crib), if she's had a poo she either takes her diaper off first and it gets all over, or she'll do it in her diaper and then take it off. I end up cleaning the whole bed, sheets, covers,...

SIDEWAYS A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 2004 Steve Rhodes RATING (0 TO ****): *** In SIDEWAYS, director Alexander Payne (CITIZEN RUTH, ABOUT SCHMIDT and ELECTION), takes fewer risks than he normally does, coming up with a

I just returned from Xander's 12 month WBV and as the subject says - he had a considerable increase in his head circumference - from the 50th% at 6 mos to 90th% today. Personally, I always thought his head was on the large side, even before his 6 month check up. I remember then asking the nurse if...

Chris and I have so much stuff, that space is ALWAYS an issue, and anything that will save us space is always appreciated. So when we moved, and had to buy a new washer and dryer (the previous owners took theirs with them) and deep freeze, we looked into buying a frontloading washer/dryer that...

Hello everyone, my name is AnneMarie and i am a mother of a beautiful 4 month old baby girl. I am from New Mexico (not mexico, in the states), 25, going to college, and staying home with my rug rat the rest of the time. I am excited to meet other moms! Best wishes Annemarie

My husband started something-we have several of the Bang on the Door preschool books, and he suggested that it might be a good nursery design to do the animals, since I really don't want to recycle nursery themes, but want something relatively simple. Well, that started us searching, and after...

I was wondering if there are any parents out there who have written down a list of their child's baby signs. I am in the midst of a study on the subject from a linguistic perspective, and I was hoping to complement the data taken from my own children with that of other families who tried to use...

Have reached an agreement with ds1 that at age 4 1/2, he will stop nursing. This will be around thanksgiving, when a lot of holiday/kid oriented theatre and music events start for the season. I thought it would be nice to take him to a "big boy" event, just him and mommy, to celebrate/mark the...

We just moved to Minnesota, and Kivi needs a new winter coat. I'm trying to figure out if I should buy the matching snow pants/bibs or not. My experience living in Missouri and New Jersey, is that snowpants get used 2 or 3 times per year, and are mostly a waste of money. Your thoughts? Cathy...

gday Barbara, I think I have sent you an email but have got completely confused with addresses and spam blocks, etc. Even though I hate to waste bandwidth posting this to a newsgroup, I think this might be the only reliable way to contact you. Therefore, if you are inclined to want to keep up...

Did anyone see Oprah today? She had a single mother of quads on her show. It was pretty hard to watch this woman, who apparently had family who disapproved of her choice to be a SMBC in the first place, and then to have all 4 babies. Her father wanted her to give them up for adoption, her...