Titan Cable means no more tears over broken charger cables

Before Christmas Jon from Fuse Chicken dropped me a line and asked if I would like to try out the Titan cable to see if it lived up to it's claims. Not one to say no to a great offer I asked him to send one out so we could put it to the test.

The cable is for an iphone and although we haven't had any issues with our cables to date, I have plenty of friends who have - usually the protective cable cracking around the plug section.

My cable tends to stay home unless I'm travelling, DH on the other hand takes his to work every day, so his gets a lot more abuse than mine.

I must admit when I first opened the cable packaging I was surprised how thick it was compared to the regular iphone charging cable but that's because it's covered in an indestructible casing. Side note: Fuse Chicken also make the cables for Android too.

I set Ebi-kun up with the challenge of breaking it - first he thought I had lost the plot, here you are, go and break this...

But he got into it, took it outside, tried smashing it with a brick...

Swinging on it, tug 'o' war with his mates....

Riding his bike over it... 

He came back in and the cable still looked good as new.

I sat for a while bending and twisting it at the regular cables weakest spot but it had no effect, we have also been using it daily and taken it on over night trips. It is tough!

It would make a great gift for a dad/husband or anyone else who breaks their cables easily, I'm pretty sure I won't need to replace mine now!

If you want to get your hands on one these Titan cables you can buy them HERE in Japan, HERE on Amazon and through the Fuse Chicken website HERE

Appleyard Flowers

I was approached by Appleyard Flowers a couple of weeks ago to do a review for them, it all fitted in nicely as I could get the flowers delivered whilst I was staying at moms. 

We unexpectedly ended up out all day so the flowers were left with a neighbour, I retrieved the box and mom (who had no idea what was going on!) did the unveiling...

The bouquet was beautiful, very vibrant which was perfect since the weather had been do grey and miserable, nothing quite like fresh flowers to brighten a room.

Ebi-kun got to work and arranged the flowers, he is bit of an old hand at this now, it's a great Montessori activity and one he absolutely loved doing as a toddler. If you have a little one, let them try it, either with store bought flowers or freshly cut ones from the garden. Start them off with just a few flowers and a small vase then they can build up to bigger versions. 

The kids like to smell and feel the different types of flowers and it's a great starting point for so many topics!

I was impressed with the whole thing, the packaging was well designed and the flowers are beautiful my only slight criticism was the message card was packed in the flowers wrapping, I almost missed it and it was damp because it had been amongst the flowers but apart from that I give Appleyard Flowers the thumbs up!

If you want to send flowers they even have next day flower delivery and because you are one of my lovely readers you can use the code BLOG33 to get a 33% discount off their luxury bouquets*.

They only deliver in the UK, but if you are like me and sometimes need to send a "rush present" this is great!

*excludes the flowers by post range