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Mothers Day food yesterday was courtesy of McCains to try their new roasties.
The NEW Special Roast Potatoes are made from the very best King Edward potatoes cut into generous chunks and basted in sumptuous beef dripping. They are really really good. I put on both bags and by the end of mealtime, there were none left at all. That’s always a good sign.
McCains sent along lots of lovely ingredients to go along with the roast potatoes, and we had carrots, sage and onion stuffing, chicken, green beans, broccoli and cabbage.
The broccoli and cabbage is in the fridge for another day, as there was too much for one meal, even if there were 6 of us eating.
There was a Knorr Flavour Pot in Mixed Herbs which we’ve also not tried before, and as I like my vegetables roasted, I use roasting bags to keep them moist and not get burned. I used two separate bags, one for the green beans and one for the carrots. In them, I halved the flavour pot and added a few tablespoons of water before shaking the mix around to coat the vegetables.
The chicken went into the oven first (also in roasting bags) and just over half an hour from the end, I popped the roast potatoes in a tray covered in tin foil to start cooking. The vegetables were last to go in, with 20 minutes cooking time at the end.
We received a lovely parcel from the Maw Broon’s Home & Kitchen Range. The first thing we saw when we opened the wrapping was a lovely large jute bag that will come in handy.
We’re just bag fans here and some new ones are badly needed. We use them when we go to the beach, for dog bowl carrying & for picnic stuff when we go on holidays.
Ours are rarely used for the purpose of actual shopping, but maybe we’ll need to change that if we head off to the continent with our Maw Broon’s bag on hand.
Most people seem to like us Scots when we’re abroad for some reason, and they do like to copy the accent, or try to at least.
With Mothers Day on the horizon, buying anything for my own mother is almost impossible as she never wants anything. I think I’ve mentioned how frustrating I find that in blog posts before.
There are lots of goodies in here that I just know she’s going to like. The Fudge and the Caramel Shortcake are likely to be the most popular items from the bag, and as I already have the Cooking with Bairns book, it’ll be squirreled away for a Xmas present when the time of year comes around.
I don’t think I’ll be able to keep hold of the Caramel Shortcake though. As soon as the kids come home from school, it will be snapped up pronto.
Tea is always a welcome addition to our house so the lovely teacosy is ideal and I suspect the box of teabags will be in Scottish bellies very soon.
Maw Broon, along with Oor Wullie was part of our childhood up here. The annuals were a yearly Christmas present for everyone I knew growing up, and I do the same for my boys.
It’s lovely to see Maw Broon come out of her shell. Wonder where Maggie and Daphne are?
I’ve had my Shark Lift Away for a couple of weeks now. I fully expected not to like it as much as my elderly Karcher, and I thought I would give it away as a present to someone else. I was very much mistaken, and my old Karcher single tank yellow machine is that one that will be passed on. I never thought I would say that.
The big attraction for this steam mop is that the central part which houses the water and thermostat lifts away to allow it to be used by hand for lots of different things. It makes the mop much more useable than simply a mop.
It is powerful. Holding the steamer and pressing the switch for any length of time seems to have the steam get even hotter and better at cleaning things.
I have to admit that I have used the brush attachment more than any of the other ones, as it does such a great job of cleaning grout, the grooves in doors and skirting boards….
In The Box
A fair few extras come with this mop. There is a window squeegee, a surface cleaner, steamer attachment, carpet tool, cloths for using with the tools, and even a handy bag to keep all the attachments in. Ours will hang up nicely behind the door of our boiler cupboard.
Floors
I do like that the cloths fit snugly to the bottom of the mop and I don’t have to change a cloth just to scrub a bit of the floor that is slightly dirtier than the rest. I found the flip action by accident when I lifted it up, and it’s a fairly nifty function. It has to be clever enough to know which way it’s facing for the steam, and that’s impressive to me.
The cable is sturdy and long enough for me to do my kitchen and hall if I use a plug that is right in the middle of where they both are. With previous ones, I’ve had to move sockets while just cleaning one room which is never a good thing.
Using it on our office floor made a big difference. We call it an office, but it’s really just a room that houses computers, desks, gerbils and any other rubbish that tends to be left lying around. Even after regular mopping, the floor just never seemed that clean. I’m much happier with the floor after using a steam cleaner. All I have to do now is persuade the gerbils to stop throwing sawdust all over the place :-).
Before: After Regular Mopping
After: Using Steam Cleaner
Does it remove elbow grease?
To be honest, I think you’d have to buy a thousand pound and upwards steamer to get that kind of finish and it might just lift the shine off anything you steam too, so it doesn’t eliminate the need for any scrubbing, but it does loosen all the dirt off enough to make it a much simpler job.
Steaming Clothes
Technically it wasn’t clothes, but I used it to try to get the creases out of a pair of curtains that my other half decided to hang before I got a chance to give them an iron.
They’ve annoyed me for a fair while, but because it’s the ones in the back hall that lead out to the garden, I’ve not really got to the point of taking them down again. I was hoping this was going to be an easy fix, and while I don’t have a dedicated garment steamer, I figured that a couple of the attachments might do a good job of it.
It took two steamings to get the worst of the creases dropped, but that is far better than having to take them down and iron them.
Windows
I used it with my Karcher window hoover, which worked perfectly for me.
There is a window tool in my box and it is probably fantastic for shower screens and outside windows, but I wanted to clean up the dirty water at the same time as I cleaned, and the combination was actually perfect for me. There was no need for any hard rubbing to clean the windows, it just needed a good old blast of the steamer and the dirt came away very easily.
The cable was long enough to do the inside and the outside of my kitchen windows and although I wouldn’t use it on a very cold day, it was perfect when I tried it.
I also used it to clean the glass panels on the downstairs doors which is a major day-to-day issue for me. They never look clean, no matter how often I do them, so it was nice to get it done faster and with less hassle.
What Does You Tube Say?
Would I Change Anything?
I’d change the action of the steaming chamber when it’s lifted out to use with attachments. At that point, we have to hold down a trigger for the steam to work. I’d prefer it to be the same as using the steamer to do floors, and just press “on” for it to work. Now I’ve seen it in action on the floor steamer, I can’t help but want it for the hand steaming side of it too.
The size of the water chamber could be a little bit bigger.
Do I Like It?
I sure do.
It’s faster to use than my Karcher and doesn’t hurt my hands when I’m using it.
It’s the little touches that make it fab, like how the attachments turn when you move your hand over a surface. You don’t need to twist your wrist as the attachment swivels with the movement.
The cable is very long for a steamer and that pleases me very much.
The biggest draw is that after using it, even if the units or worktops are old, they’re going to be sanitised at level of 99% from all bacteria.
There are no chemicals needed at all.
It heats up in about 30 seconds from cold water. That’s fast.
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Thank you to JML Direct for the Shark S3901 Lift Away Pro Steam Pocket Mop for reviewing.
I’ve been attempting to take part in the Tesco Blogger Challenge recently, which meant I had to try my hand at vegetable carving. In the end, I’ve had to give up as it seem that my skills really do not lie in carving vegetables. I tried mushrooms and tomatoes and although I could slice and dice with absolutely no problem at all, the more delicate work for carving seemed to escape my hands.
So, in short, I found decorative carving much harder than it looked, but the Thomas knives that Tesco sent me to practice with are absolutely fantastic. I really did think twice about showing you some of the pictures of my disasters, but hey ho, I can only get better if I keep trying.
See how much work I still have to do – to be able to do some of the fabulous carvings I’ve seen online.
Mine:
To give you an idea – THIS is what I was trying to get and failed miserably with. It’s classed as “easy.”
I’ve not given up. I have a plan and am going to try again, so be prepared for another post for Thomas Kitchen Knives from Tesco, but in the meantime, Tesco have also offered a set of 5 knives, including the knife block, for one lucky reader of my blog – and I want to get that out to my readers.
In the set are:
1 x Knife Block
1 x 4.5″ Utility Knife
1 x 5.” Small Santoku Knife
1 x 6.8″ Large Santoku Knife
1 x 7.4″ Cook’s Knife
1 x 7.8″ Bread Knife
For anyone who is not sure what a Santoku Knife is, it has Japanese historical significance. It is a knife that is excellent at chopping, cutting, dicing and mincing. Blades usually range from around 5″ – 8″ and has a design that is comfortable in the hand, and allows good grip while still being able to use the full functions of the knives.
The dimples on the blade help release the food after cutting and helps with its versatility.
The closing date for the set of kitchen knives on offer is 1st of June 2014 at midnight.
Tesco are also running a sticker promotion between 3rd March – 1st June 2014 where you can save up to 70% on exclusive kitchenware products at Tesco. For every £20 you spend online OR in-store you can collect a sticker, once you’ve collected five stickers you can use these to save up to 70% off professional kitchenware items of your own. Stickers can be collected from 3rd March 2014 – 25th May 2014 and must be redeemed by 1st June 2014. Find out more.
Cawston Press sent us some samples for the kids to try.
From the Kids Blend Pressed Fruit which is shaken up with a bit of water, we were sent:
Apple & Summer Berries
Apple & Blackcurrant
I tried the Apple & Summer Berries and was pleasantly surprised how refreshing it was in a glass with ice.
The lowdown for my Apple & Summer Berry:
It’ s NOT made from concentrate and has no added sugar.
It IS pressed apples, strawberries and rasperries blended with water.
The Ingredient list for my Apple & Summer Berry:
54% Pressed Apple Juice
40% Still Water
4% Strawberry Puree
2% Raspberry Puree
Vitamin C
A carton is 200ml, with around 50 calories per carton.
I really dislike some brands of children’s drinks as my kids always used to feel so thirsty after drinking something that was meant to quench their thirst.
There are no colours, additives or preservatives, so it’s all good in my opinion.
Green tea on its own is definitely something that seems to take a little time to get used to. I’ve been given it to try for a few weeks, and I’ve used it for just over a week now, and said I’d report back on it.
teapigs calls their 100% organic green tea leaves that are ground to a fine powder, Matcha. They say it has 15 times the health benefits of regular green tea. As a frequent green tea with lemon drinker, I thought this would be one for me to try.
One serving contains 6 times more antioxidants than goji berries, 70 times more than orange juice and 9 times the beta carotene of spinach. The science boils down to claims of raising energy levels while keeping us calm and focused, which is apparently why it’s drunk by Buddhist monks to help them with their meditation. It is also said to boost metabolism and burn fat.
I have to say that on the first couple of uses, I found it quite difficult to take. The green powder is very fine and if we’re drinking it as a tea, it is better whisked up so that all the powder is absorbed. It can also be baked into food or sprinkled over porridge, or even added to orange juice, yoghurt or smoothies.
I made the mistake at my first try, of just drinking it straight as it was made with hot water. I didn’t find that easy, so I tried the other ways to use it. The taste seemed to be hidden well in yoghurt, so that has become my vehicle of choice to take my daily dose of powder.
I’m not quite sure if the benefits from drinking Matcha are because I’ve read the literature and been convinced, or whether it really is doing me some good. I think that only time will tell with that one, but after a few days, I certainly didn’t feel as bone weary and exhausted as usual by the end of the weekend that has just gone past.
For that alone, I’ve convinced to keep on with it as I want to know if it continues to improve my daily well-being and I certainly could use to lose more than just a few pounds. There are some celebrities trying it out too, like Lisa Snowden and Rebecca Adlington, so I’m looking forward to see how we all get on with it.
So, for me, it’s keep going and see where it takes me.
I think we all have to make up our own minds with this type of product and only personal experience can help us decide if it’s right for us or not.
I would say that if you buy some, make sure you take it slow when you pull the ring that opens the container as the powder is very fine indeed and is easily shaken up. The picture does not do the colour of this tea justice as the powder really is a beautiful shade of green.
We all like a clean house, well who doesn’t. The ability to have a room clean itself used to be something I could only dream about. We’ve had a robot hoover for a few months now and to be honest, I couldn’t imagine being without it anymore. Ok, it’s not perfect, but it does save me a heap of time with 6 people and 4 animals in a biggish house that I never have time to keep completely spotless in every room.
In the perfect world, I could have the floors swept without lifting a finger to do it, and this is the closest to sweeping the floors automatically that I can imagine. It does carpets too, so that’s a bonus for me.
If you’ve got beds that are off the floor and high furniture, a Roomba is perfect for you, but it’s no complete solution for not doing any cleaning at all in your life. You do have to prepare the room first and lift anything that might get tangled up. We ended up with a phone cable wound tightly round the brushes one day when I didn’t scan the lounge properly.
It does, however, mean that my bedroom gets a hoover daily as we have tiles on our floor and a high bed that it can perfectly sweep under. I know I’d not do that daily by myself.
I got the iRobot Roomba 780 on the 30 day trial where they say you can use it and put it back if you don’t like it. I kept it. I’m not sure I could have been convinced to part with that much money up front without using one first, but I love it.
It zig zags all over the room, so I’d advise not actually watching it. It’s like watching paint dry. It will do circle motions where it thinks the floor is dirtier and mine has a remote control for spot cleaning. Here’s mine in action:
Benefits
Cleans while I do something else. I know it would be much faster for me to do it myself, but given that I can spend that time doing something else, it’s a positive.
Leaving it to do the floors before I come home with the kids if we’ve been out all day. This is a bigger benefit than I can ever actually say.
There are little boxes that allow you to keep the Roomba in one room until it is finished, or it would wander about all the rooms. I just close the doors as I’ve never got round to buying batteries for the lighthouses.
It doesn’t fall downstairs. Honestly, it doesn’t. The first time it scooted about on the top landing, I sat on the stairs as I was totally unconvinced that it would be able to stay up there.
Brushes and filters are all replaceable.
The Roomba takes itself back to its charging base to charge up when it is running low.
Drawbacks
Making sure there is nothing on the floor before you set it to go.
The time it takes to do the job is a fair while. If you have someone coming for tea and half an hour spare, get out your trusty manual hoover.
It’s expensive.
It has a small bin that needs emptied regularly if your room is a mess. I’ve not found it a problem on hard floors, but on carpets where fibers get hoovered up too, the bin can get full very quickly.
It doesn’t like black carpets. I have figured out how to do it by taping some white paper over the sensors that stop it falling downstairs, but as a rule, when it hits a black floor, it seems to think it is going to fall over so just refuses to work.
It It Worth The Money?
This is a hard one to judge. This time last year, I’d have said no. With asthma in the family and a daily sweep, I wouldn’t hesitate to say yes this year as it means the floor can literally be swept continuously without having to actually do it myself. The price seems to have rocketed since I got mine and I would have to seriously think about it now as it is over the £500 mark in most places I looked online. If I was buying one now, I suspect I’d look at a different brand or one of the older ones to reduce the price a bit.
There are some cheaper robot vacuums on Amazon that seem to have some good reviews so if I were ever looking to replace mine, I suspect I’d read all of those.
There are some issues with the Roomba, but on the whole, I wouldn’t want to be without it. There are some cheaper versions and I’m not sure how well they perform against the newer Roombas, but on hard floors, I’d hope they would also do well.
The timer is a great idea, though I have to admit that I’ve never used it. I just pop it on when I leave the house after preparing whichever floor I want done.
My lounge gets a going over almost daily as does the asthmatics bedroom and the playroom he spends most of his time in. We have pets, so this is a massive draw for me.
It does sometimes get lost and abandons itself in the middle of a room while looking for its docking station, but it mostly manages to dock itself nicely. The one thing I would like that it doesn’t seem to have is a stop function when the bin is full. I give the brushes a clean out every few uses, otherwise hair can get tangled up, but the brushes come out easily so it’s no big chore to have to do really.
There is still a need to take out the regular hoover, but I find myself doing that once a fortnight or so, or a bit more often for the stairs, rather than haul it out daily. The Roomba does bump furniture as it does its business, but it’s a soft bump and hasn’t done any damage to the vase I have on my lounge floor with light branches in it. Even so, if you have lots of things strewn over your floors and don’t want to have to pick them up, this is probably not for you.
Being asked to review a Kenwood KMX Stand Mixer is right up my street. I do a lot of cooking, and baking is really never far from my mind. A good baking session means that feeding my kids home-made goodies is better than the sweets and crisps that they would tend to eat otherwise.
I’ve been using an old Kenwood Food Processor for a few years and managed to somehow crack the bowl over Christmas. I suspect it took a tumble onto our tiled floors, but after so much use, I really couldn’t complain. I had found the bowl size too small for us and very rarely used it for anything other than the mixing functions. I will keep my old mixer to use the grinder and the blender, but the kMix Stand Mixer is a welcome addition to my kitchen appliances.
I waited for it with the patience of a not very patient puppy dog, and it was unpacked and on my counter within minutes of its arrival.
It’s fairly heavy, so it will stay on my counter top from here on in. I was quite surprised by the size of the bowl as it is so much bigger than my old processor. I was pleasantly surprised to also see a splashguard that fits like a glove, as well as a handy spatula for scraping out the very last remnants from the bowl.
I was looking forward to the kneading, mixing, whisking and blending, and I was not disappointed.
Putting on the attachments is a breeze. I didn’t expect the easy of the glide in, twist and secure. There’s no messing around with this top-notch machine. When I turned it on, it gradually hummed into life, really getting into gear in a refined and controlled way. It reminded me of a quality car with a gentle purr as it begins to crank up the speed.
The classy guard ensures there is no horrible flour spinning around the kitchen if the machine is just a little too keen to get going, and it stays clean as a whistle on the outside.
Stylish.
I chose the retro black version as it matches in perfectly with my black worktops and my microwave, which you can’t see as it is just out of shot. With the round lines, it looks great and I have been really pleased with it for the short time I’ve had it.
Here’s what I really like about it so far.
Cakes, meringues and marshmallows are a breeze. I never thought I would say that about meringue…
Slow start of speed means the ingredients stay where they should be. That is always a good point.
The motor stops if you open the machine by mistake. It’s a great safety feature.
I didn’t realise at first, but the machine has a fold function to help with adding ingredients at the end of the meringue whipping stage 🙂
The attachments are sturdy. Very sturdy. They can be slightly altered with the included spanner to get the height perfect for your machine.
There are four attachments with the machine, as well as a splashguard and spatula. There is a beater, a whisk, a dough hook and a flexible beater to get to the edges of the bowl for soft ingredients. The flexible beater even has its own instruction book.
It will rub fat into flour and save you the time of doing it by hand.
The bowl is really easy to clean.
I can put all the attachments into the dishwasher without worrying.
Peach Pavlova Recipe
If you’ve ever wanted to make a really fast and reasonably stable pavlova, this is the recipe for you. The vinegar and cornflour added helps to stabilise the egg and make the foam just that little bit stronger. I don’t find that it affects the taste of the meringue at all.
I thought I had messed up this recipe by adding the vinegar, cornflour and vanilla essence just into the mixing bowl at the end. The recipe called for folding it in. Thankfully, it all worked out and the meringue was lovely.
I took a recipe that came with my Kenwood kMix for pavlova with exotic fruits, and adapted it to make my pavlova.
Little grippers are the sports socks that don’t fall down. Thanks to a special material in the top, they stay up – all the time.
I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve watched football matches with my kids and the kids seem to spend as much time pulling their socks up as they do running around.
They have a special elasticated ankle support with micro venting and an elasticated foot support. The size is on the front of the sock which makes it easy to find a match in the never-ending single sock cycle that ends up with us trying madly to find a whole pair of anything.
The special section at the top which keeps the socks up feels quite rubbery to the touch, yet manages to go on easily enough.
I didn’t think they would have my boys size at first, as the name little grippers sounded like it was just for little children, but the size medium fits a youth shoe size 3-6, while a large fits an adults size 7-11, so they make little grippers to suit everyone.
Little grippers come in White, Black, Navy, Red, and Royal Blue – so they fit almost any football or sports kit going. They’ve been fabulous for my kids training sessions and I took red and black pairs as they match the kids of the teams my kids play for and are great for training sessions.
There are special orders for Amber and Bottle Green, and hopefully they’ll have more colours in the future.
Tomy sent us the Battroborg Battle Arena to review and have also offered one as a giveaway. I tried to persuade two of the kids to open ours and play with it, but they’re adamant that they want to give it to their brother for Christmas from them, so we sneakily took it out of it’s box very carefully to have a quick play before putting it away again for the 25th.
The Battroborgs are a new robot gaming technology. That means they move by using remote controls and lets the kids control what happens in the ring. It’s much more exciting than just pretending by using your hands to move the actual robots about.
There are three different game modes which allow for head to head battle, a programme where players can battle a self activated robot, or a tag mode where a robot chases other robots. Kids can get their friends involved too and play up to 20 robots with the radio controlled technology.
The online preview for the Battroborg is here:
Mum had a wee try and although it took me a while to get used to the nunchaku controllers, it is really really good. The robots mimic our moves and makes it really feel like we are part of the action. The boys were undecided whether they really should keep it for Xmas of just set it all up fully to use now, but they were very disciplined and put it away again afterwards.
The Battroborg Arena pack up for the giveaway worth £69.99 consists of:
Writing about my passion for children to not play games like Grand Theft Auto is something that I am likely to repeat over and over. There seems to be less time made for many children in a family capacity these days, but we’ve kept up a game tradition as we’ve taken caravan holidays with our kids which always involves a game around the table in the chilly evenings.
I have great memories of my Christmas mornings before the onslaught of electronic gadgets and I used to look forward to the new game each year. It would be nice to spend a bit of time as a family to recreate the effect and feeling for more simple things that we do at the moment.
What would you rather do? Is it a good idea to encourage our laziness in front of the telly after a slump inducing feast while the kids blip, zip and bop with bleep bleep bleeps on their gaming machines or mobile phones? I know how easy it is to not find the time to spend quality time with our kids and I think we all suffer to some extent from it as our kids grow older.
I have heard my kids utter the “boring” word on occasion when we think about playing games, so we make up our own rules to make things more interesting. No matter how our board games go, the aftermath of a sore loser pales into insignificance against an interrupted electronic gamer who throws a tantrum at the thought of having to stop playing to do anything else.
I enjoy spending the time with my kids on games. I suspect more parents would enjoy them if they actually made time to play. I really do like it when one of mine comes into the family room with a game in hand and chivvying his dad to get up off the couch and play a game with him. The initial sigh is ear shattering, but after 5 – 10 minutes there is usually some laughing, talking and positive interaction.
We were asked if we’d like to try some new games as part of a return to traditional family life and we have to thank John Lewis for sending us some lovely board games to try out on a games night. Our games sessions have been over several nights and have seen the kids learn some new things that they’d never played before.
Littlest is a Cluedo expert as he’d played it many times at a club he goes to, but we managed to lose the doggie and spent the first half hour tracking it down. We did have a go at some semblance of the rules, but we ended up just playing littlests rules which kept him happy, and I suspect a bit of cheating made it in there too.
We received the Hasbro Vintage Cluedo The box is lovely and won’t get dog-eared over time like the regular cardboard games. It’s a lovely game for 2 – 6 players and is modelled on the 1949 version of the game.
Spending lots of time playing dominos in the caravan, we missed the set that got lost in transit. I suspect we left it in the van when we traded it in and I hadn’t got round to replacing the set as it was the set that belonged to my grandfather. It was nice to revisit some of our old favourites from the van when it’s raining and miserable outside and it does play better with the bigger table in the kitchen. I don’t know why we’d never played it at home before, but the set just lived in the caravan.
My kids are big fans of The Cube, so a game based on the games has given them hours of entertainment already. They can manage this alone and just love it.
Backgammon is a game that I had never played and we’ve had a go at trying to play properly. I think we need to sit and read the rules better, but we did get the general gist of it.
Playing cards just never go amiss and it makes a change from the usual UNO that we’ve played a lot recently. My boys have taken an interest in poker recently as the man plays once a week in a local league and although I was keen to keep that out of the scottish mum house, they really do enjoy playing it round the table, so who am I to complain?
We’re all having a lovely time with the games and when they do play board games, they’re interacting, talking, laughing, sometimes sulking if they lose, but it’s a great break from the gaming and online world that so many of our kids seem to slip into at very young ages.
My boys really are x-box fanatics. If they could get away with it, they’d probably spend more time on the x-box than they would doing absolutely anything else at all in their lives.
The Ben 10 Omniverse 2 X-box game is the latest instalment of the franchise that sees Ben and his Omnitrix alien forms battle new galactic threats. In this version, Azmuth and Omnitrix enter the Incursean’s Intergalactic warship to try and stop Emperor Mileous.
Littlest has had a few plays with the game after being sent a review copy, and it seems to be hiding in amongst the favourite game pile to go back to over the school holidays.
The general consensus here is that this game is slightly easier than the last one we had. That’s a welcome finding as they found Alien Destruction quite difficult. Middler is getting an x-box for his Christmas so this will go perfectly for him to enjoy and potter with while he learns how to use it.
It’s a classic version of kids using Ben’s powers to run around and fight aliens and with some lovely puzzles in the middle.
I did get slightly confused as our version has a 7 on the front, yet inside it carries a PG and a 12 + rating. The review copies perhaps go to lots of different countries and perhaps that’s the reason for what looks like several ratings, though the version on Amazon is rated a 12.
The game is fast moving and has kept littlest amused over the last couple of wet, windy and miserable days. I can see it being used a lot over winter with 3 boys to all work through it. Would I have bought this. I suspect the answer is yes for middler who is just entering the world of console gaming at the age of 12. I’d prefer it to be a little cheaper, but we do get good value with three children to share the games around.
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