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  • Another Artiss!

    Ok, not a David Artiss, but another instance of my surname, thanks to Google Alerts.

    A German company has concatenated “Artificial” and “Tissue” to “Artiss”, to form their company name.

    The company, a biotechnological enterprise, was founded in 2000 under the name ATT. The name was changed to Artiss in 2001. The name has nothing to do with the founders of the company, who are Dr Haverich and Dr Heublein (Thanks to my girlfriend for performing the German to English translation!).

    Not very exciting, but another spotting of my relatively rare surname.

  • Useful Latin

    Useful Latin

    Impress your friends and relatives, talk to them in Latin. Remember: “quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur” (anything said in Latin sounds profound).

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  • Child Seats

    New laws come into place from Monday with regard to child seats. In a nutshell, if your child is under 11 years old and less than 150cms, then they need a child seat of some kind.

    This is likely to cause problems, for example, when you go to pick up other children. The responsibility is the drivers so if someone has forgotten to supply a seat, you can be in trouble if you then drive them.

    But there IS one big issue, as I see it. Booster seats have a maximum weight of 36kg. If your child is less than 11, less than 150cms tall and over 36kg then what do they do? Well, according to the Department of Transport, they should still use the seat. Even though it’s against manufacturers recommendations. Does that make sense to you, because it doesn’t to me?

  • Urg, dentists

    Urg, dentists

    Love them or loathe them, the dentist is there to fulfil an important role, and the health of your teeth is not something you should ignore.

    A few years ago I read some great advice from some actual dentist, that I thought I’d reproduce. First of all, anonymously but still with the authors permission, a little about how NHS and private dentists work.

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  • So There It Is

    If my late grandma was good for nothing else, it was her sayings. Some are well known ones, others she blatantly made up herself. All have stuck with me though and I often catch myself saying them to my daughter.

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