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Callum loves helping us cook. Yesterday we made a chocolate weetbix slice, today we made Vanilla Currant Cookies.

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Back to Canton Beach aka "The Music Park". It's a lovely park, well designed with lots of really loud things for the kids to climb on, jump on and bang with sticks. The park is designed to appeal to kids with disabilities as well, it has easy wheelchair access and textured paths that blind children can follow with their cane. My kids love the "Spiderweb", "Flower phone" and the Mushrooms. If you can get to it then it's worth a look.

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Had some fish and chips with Viv and the boys, now it's playtime.

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Unfortunately I missed Santa's appearance as I was occupied ;)

The boys had a ball and loved meeting Santa.

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I think more jelly & coconut is on Cal's hands than on the cakes.

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Checking out the new park at Canton Beach, just opened today.

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After years sitting on the sideline watching what will probably be the last physical format war for video I have finally decide to get me some blu-ray.
 
My setup at home is best described as modest, consisting of speakers I bought about 15 years ago, a receiver I bought second hand from my a/v obsessed brother-in-law at least three receivers ago for him.
 
My TV is a 50" panasonic plasma, alas only a 1366x768 panel, but a good performer.
 
I have a few devices already hooked up including an AppleTV that I use for "Channel BT" content, a TiVo and a BeyonWiz DP-S1 for over the air TV broadcasts.
 
Prior to this purchase I was using a cheap-ass Tevion DVD player from Aldi, the jaggies it added to my movies nearly made my eyes bleed.
 
I plugged the new guy in, I had to shut off the TiVo for the moment due to a lack of cables, the BeyonWiz is looking after me, and found that I needed to apply a firmware update, no great surprise.
 
At the moment I have no Blu-ray discs to try so all I've done is check out some DVDs and the in built YouTube access.
 
I spun up "The Two Towers" and was really impressed with the image quality, the player was upscaling to 1080p.
 
The player is badged as a region 4 DVD but just for fun I threw in my region 1 copy of "Apollo 13" and bugger me, the disc played with no problems.
 
The image quality on "Apollo 13" was not as good as "The Two Towers" there was a lot of grain but I think that it was always like that.
 
I tried out YouTube and although it works the UI was pretty craptacular. I can already watch YouTube content on my AppleTV and my iPhone so I can live without the feature on my Blu-ray player.
 
The player can also handle DivX, BUT, only via USB or off a disc. There is a fraking Ethernet jack on the back, would it have killed then to add an smb client?
 
My BeyonWiz and my AppleTV can handle DivX just fine so again I can happily live without this feature on the Blu-ray.
 
I look forward to sampling some Blu-ray content in the not too distant future.
 
Hint: it's my birthday next month ;)
 
I'll post again later when I've partaken of some Blu-ray goodness.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that the player I bought is the Panasonic DMP-BD60. ;)

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