Candyfloss & Dreams

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is an exceptional game

May 7, 2025

I first saw this game advertised as an upcoming release on Xbox Game Pass in March I think and was curious about it so went ahead to read more. It looked like the sort of thing I'd enjoy with an interesting narrative premise, a creative art style and one of my favourite things in video games; turn-based combat. I pre-installed it so that I could try on its release on 24th April and for the last couple of weeks I have been immersed in and captured by this wonderful game. Usual spoiler ... Read more

Trails Through Daybreak II Character Builds and Quartz Sets

February 25, 2025

Trails through Daybreak II finally got it's English localised release on 14th February 2025 and since then I have been all consumed by the latest installment of the trails series. I'll be honest and say this was far from my favourite game of the series but I enjoyed the experience nonetheless. There will be spoilers in this post, but I'll try and stay relatively on topic. It took me 86 hours and 3 playthroughs to get the PS5 platinum trophy for Trails through Daybreak 2. I play ... Read more

Why I Decided to Electively Home Educate my 14 Year Old

January 15, 2025

This has been something I almost new was a certainty but didn't want to admit it. Home education has been a back and fourth in my mind, and in conversations with my daughter for a really long time and the first week back after the January term started I finally made the decision and deregistered my daughter from her secondary school. This blog probably wouldn't have started, or not how it did, had I not been a parent. Much of my early days writing involved my daughter and learning ... Read more

Our Education System is Failing Children

January 8, 2025

Currently, as of 2025, the education in place in England as it stands right now is sub par, exclusionary and archaic. Mainstream school with the current national curriculum that has been in place for decades does not adhere to the growing technological and multicultural country we live in. It is outdated for a modern age. Huge change needs to happen to the subjects being taught and more flexibility for all students. If the system worked, why do we have huge numbers of children not in ... Read more

2024: The Year I Played a Lot of Video Games and Forgot Most of Them

December 31, 2024

I feel like the title says everything about this post. I have been playing video games since the PS1 era of video games, so that's quite a long time at this point but the variety and amount of games or franchises I've stuck to has been quite small until the last few years where I have branched out a bit more I suppose. Then in 2023 I got a proper gaming PC and therefore had more access, and towards the end of that year I took advantage of a discord offer which gave me a few months of ... Read more