Parental Geekery
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Episode 75 – The extended Switch edition
We’ve got a Nintendo Switch and we’re darn well going to tell you ALL about it! Click to download
Episode 74 – This one’s for you Bill!
We’ve bought an electric car! Let us tell you all about our thought process and our analysis of the ultra-low emissions car market today. Here’s the apps we talk about in the show: Zap-map PlugShare ChargeCar Nissan Connect Click to download
Episode 73 – We’ll get back to you (eventually)
Today we natter about a grab bag of topics including bedtime routine, email for kids, turning off the internet, Lego Boost and Kuri. We even answer a year old audio comment! So relevant and topical as always.. Download this episode
Episode 72 – Slaying orcs and finding paths
This week we talk mostly about pen and paper RPGs and the fun we’ve been having playing Pathfinder – a D&D relation. We also talk about a fantastic podcast called The Glass Cannon Podcast which has taught us a huge amount about role playing and the rul...
Episode 71 – Messaging apps and social media for kids
Today we talk about a hunt we’ve been on for a little while to find messaging and social media apps for kids. We talk about what’s features those apps should have and why almost nothing fits the bill. Download here
Episode 70 – Remembering Grandma
Today we backfill some of the things that happened to us in the last year while we’ve not been recording, especially the loss of John’s mum, Joan and how that affected the family. Check out this episode!
Episode 69 (dude)
Today we’re back with a new setup and a new release process all designed to make recording and releasing shows as easy as possible. We witter about that for a couple of minutes, then we witter about Amazon Echo and how freaking awesome it’s been for ou...
Episode 68 – A Tale of Two Flat Caps
It’s a very special episode of Parental Geekery this week, as we are recording on Leap Day. We don’t think we’ve ever done that before! We open with a correction to what we said about Going Postal in the last episode – thanks to our listener Trudy for ...
Episode 67 – Weighing Anchor
We open this week’s episode of Parental Geekery with shoutouts to a few listeners. Thanks to Trudy and Neil for sharing our show on Facebook and Anchor respectively. We talk a little about Anchor, a new audio app that makes it really easy to join in wi...
Episode 66 – Kermit, Scratch and Python
Welcome to this week’s episode of Parental Geekery, where John appears to be channelling Kermit the Frog. Ruth recommends a new podcast she’s discovered, called Real Crime Profiles. Hosted by retired FBI behavioural analyst Jim Clemente,