I took Kai to the Tanfield Railway today, its only about 15min drive from my house but I didn’t know it even existed until last weekend. They run two steam trains on sundays, one pulling (from what I could tell) empty trucks and the other pulling coaches which you can go for a short ride in along side the funny mixture of train spotters, families and tabacco-stained beardy men…

Kai really enjoied himself, lots of grins and shouts of ‘Thomas!’ although I think he was a little disappointed the train didn’t *actually* have a face.

There was a brass band playing in one of the sheds, which they’ve got done out like a mini exhibition hall (more beardies) but Kai was obviously feeling the need to get his grove on!

Halo 3’s been out for some time now and one of the more interesting new additions is the ability to take screenshots from match replays. The new game engine really does look spectacular, from the ‘bloom’ generated by explosions and weapons fire to the reflections on the player models, it all lends itself perfectly to some really nice action shots which you can download via your account with bungie.net.

But how do you make the most of the screenshot feature to get that perfect picture? read on!

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It was Kai’s birthday on Sunday, one already! Its hard to believe. He’s developed so quickly over the last year and its been amazing watching him learn ‘tricks’ (yes I know, he’s not a dog). I can’t imagine what he’s going to be doing in another years time but I know its going to be another year of surprises and exciting firsts.

To keep the photo-fiends at bay, here’s snap of the happy chap

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There’s no excuse - I have neglected my blog for far too long and with no good reason, so today I’ve given it a little gift. Over on the right you should be able to see my xbox live ‘gamertag’ which shows exactly how rubbish I am at games.

I picked up an xbox 360 premium for much cheapness by trading in the LG Shine mobile phone I got as an upgrade on my vodafone contract, it looked nice but was actually utterly rubbish to use. No signal in my house AT ALL, you can’t see the screen in daylight and the battery was weird. All in all I was glad to see the back of it and return to my sony ericsson.

Anyway, enough waffle - if anyone cares to add me to their friends list on Live I’ll have a few rounds of the only game I currently own - gears of war