For the first time ever, Yoto is hosting a Yoto Originals Week, which is focused on behind the scenes looks, creativity, characters, and artistry that forms their exclusive original audio content created by Yoto Studios. During Yoto Originals Week, which is from May 11th to 18th, there will be 13 new Yoto Original Titles and the entire Yoto Originals range will be 20% off for the full week.
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Dann and I had a little overnight in Cambridge, to pretend to be tourists in a new place, essentially. When walking around one of the streets in the sunshine, we stumbled upon the Cambridge Gin Laboratory, which had a bunch of events listed on their door. They seem to do a collection of things from making your own gin to the history of gin, to a gin cocktail class that we ended up attending called Mix It!
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In our explorations of the different cafes in Austria, we went to Cafe Hawelka one morning! Cafe Hawelka feels very homely, like it hasn’t changed in years, transporting you back in time. It is one of the last great traditional Central European coffee houses, ran by the family that founded it 80 years ago. Over the years, a large number of famous writers and artists have frequented this cafe, so it’s got tons of history in it too.
Hybrid mattresses get described in marketing as “the best of both worlds,” combining foam and springs in some unspecified way. The phrase is correct in spirit but lazy in detail, and it obscures the genuine engineering choices that distinguish well-designed hybrids from poorly designed ones. The category includes products that are excellent and products that are nominally hybrid but functionally close to either a cheap foam mattress or a cheap spring mattress with thin padding. Understanding what the engineering actually involves helps you spot which is which.
In a well-engineered hybrid, the pocketed coil system handles support, motion isolation, airflow, and edge integrity. These are the structural functions that determine how the mattress performs over its lifespan, and they depend on how the coil system is designed and built.
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Working out a proper Cambridge-to-Kent weekend with three under-tens and no car took us about three tries. The first attempt lost a Saturday morning to a missed connection at St Pancras. The second was derailed by a flat iPad outside Faversham. The third went well enough that it is now the family default for a long weekend when no one fancies the M25.
Below is the version that worked. Train times we actually catch, snacks that survive the journey, and the one bit of kit nobody warns you about: how the data signal in your pocket goes from city-fast in London to genuinely patchy by the time you are pulling into Margate.
