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Did you see the sneak peek of Junior Master Chef last night?

Submitted by erin on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 10:15
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If not, you can watch it here – http://www.tvcentral.com.au/2010/07/26/junior-masterchef-australia-promo/

I’m not sure if it’s clever editing or what, but those kids get cook better than me! Now when I burn the chicken breast or make one very bland stir-fry I have to deal with, “Kids can cook better than you!”

How do they get so good so young?

According www.kids-cooking-activities.com, teaching kids to cook will help instill skills to last them a lifetime. Cooking can help boost their self esteem, create family time, build team skills and help kid’s appreciate to eat what they make.

When did you start teaching your kids to cook and what’s your favourite thing to cook together?

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We have a Springfree song thanks to “The Brother’s Streep”

Submitted by kristen on Sun, 07/25/2010 - 05:09
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I’m so excited, and definitely can’t hide it. We have a song. The Trampoline Song.

This excites me because I’m on a tough mission to make the safe trampoline cool, and yes, that’s a Springfree™ Trampoline.

A little bit of background, we’ve been chatting with a couple of super guys from South Africa, called the Brother’s Streep.

This is the boys

Introducing the Brother's Streep

Basically they’re comedy song writers – they wrote a hilarious song about Anna Paquin and even got to sing it to her on the BBC on The Graham Norton show. Definately worth a look!

I loved it so much, I gave them a call. We eventually ended up chatting about trampolines (safe Springfree™ ones of course), and Dylan, Simon and the rest of the boys wrote a trampoline song. We totally loved it, and decided to help them out by supporting their trip to the Edinburgh comedy festival. (They have just arrived in London, and we’ll of course show performing pictures).

We loved the trampoline song, but we were even more excited when the boys did a special Springfree version just for us! We should have it soon… but in the meantime we’re going to keep being excited that there’s an actual song, about jumping on trampolines!

The guys will be performing The Trampoline Song as part of their set over the next couple of weeks – AND will have a Springfree™ Trampoline on stage when they’re singing it! Yeah!!

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Springfree™ Trampoline Winner of the 2010 Australian Business Awards for Product Innovation

Submitted by erin on Fri, 07/23/2010 - 09:20

Springfree™ Trampoline Australia has been awarded with a 2010 Australian Business Award for Product Innovation.

The Australian Business Awards are a national program honouring organisations that demonstrate the core values of product excellence, sustainability and commercial success in their respective industries.

Springfree™ Trampoline was awarded as the 2010 winner for Product Innovation following an assessment on product performance, technology, visual appeal, cost-effectiveness, benefits to the user, sustainability and compliance.

Springfree™ Trampoline is the only trampoline design that has effectively removed the risk of product induced injury. With over 200,000 kids injured worldwide each year on spring-based trampoline designs (an estimated 9 – 16 thousand Australian kids), for every 15 Springfree ™Trampoline’s sold in the marketplace, one child is kept out of hospital.

Tara Johnston, Program Director of the Australian Business Awards, commended the achievements of all Winners saying: “The standard of entries for 2010 has underpinned the strength of the Australian economy and provides a welcome opportunity for organisations committed to business and product excellence to receive the recognition they deserve. Congratulations to all the Winners for achieving exceptional results in their respective categories.”

This award joins a host of other national and international accolades such as ‘Product of the Year’ in Canada and the USA, as well as the Australian International Design Award received in 2009.

You can see all our Awards at http://www.springfreetrampoline.com.au/awards

For more information on the ABA please visit www.businessawards.com.au

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My Saucy Story

Submitted by erin on Sat, 07/17/2010 - 00:24
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Hi, this is Richard – one of the newest staff members here at Springfree™ Trampoline in Toronto. I’m also new to Canada, having moved here at the end of 2009 from England.

We have a very international team here at the office with staff from all over the world working together to make the Springfree™ Trampoline as great as it is and I’m sure they or anyone who has left home will tell you every now and again the dreaded homesickness is bound to strike. It can often be the smallest thing that sets you off and in my case there is only one cure….FOOD!

Yesterday was one such day and my mind immediately wandered to thoughts of grilled chicken from my favourite restaurant back home and in particularly their delicious Peri-Peri sauce I would smother all over my plate. It never failed to disappoint.

I knew it was sold at my local supermarket so after I finished up at the office I headed off on a mission to stock up. It wasn’t long before I stood in front my beloved bottles of sauce on the shelf. Without hesitation I grabbed 2 and placed them in the basket with the rest of my groceries. As I rode the bus back to my apartment I was lost in a daydream of the little taste of home that awaited me.

2 saucy

What I didn’t expect to be waiting for me was the funniest coincidence I’ve experienced in a long time. Sitting outside my building was a car, not just any car but a car with this registration plate:

I just had to snap that picture on my phone. I was smiling all the way up on the elevator and better still, I didn’t feel homesick anymore.

As for my meal that night, it would be safe to say my plate was a little “2 SAUCY”.

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Do you have a recurring dream?

Submitted by erin on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 15:08

Dreams… I love them! Dreaming I’m sitting on a secluded beach reading a good thriller with no sense of time.

Well to be completely honest I have never had that dream but it does sound good! Rather I have a re-occurring dream that I’ve have had since I can remember and continue to have.

Its sound weird but stick with me here… It involves me fishing at night alone as a little girl on a cracked black river bank. An old red fibreglass boat drives past me when a fisherman on the boat cast’s his line directly at me. (This is where it get’s really weird) The ball that floats on the water (sort of like a red and white ping-pong ball) to show when a fish is hooked, gets stuck in my ear. (I warned you it was weird!) My dream then goes on to me at the hospital and getting it removed.

They say all dreams mean something and I’ve always been interested to find out the philosophy behind my strange dream.

Professor Drew Dawson from the Centre for Sleep Research at the University of South Australia said that dreaming could be a vital mental tool for sorting and filing information and discarding what’s not needed.

Hmm… I wonder what’s important about a fish floaty in my ear.

Anyway he also shares some other facts about dreaming that I find fascinating and wanted to share:

  • Many think that dream sleeping also known as rapid eye movement sleep is the deepest stage of sleep, but it’s not. The moments before the dream are when you’re in a nice deep sleep.
  • The Brainwaves when you’re sleeping are similar to your brain waves when you’re awake.
  • Some scientists believe dreaming is an evolutionary survival mechanism, designed to keep our brains alert.

Do you have any re-occurring dreams? Or have you ever had your dreams analysed?

Source: Daily Telegraph

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