Boiling eggs should be simple, but how do you know when they’re ready? Whether you’re hard boiling eggs or you prefer a runny yolk to dip your soldiers into (sometimes kids food is so comforting!), it’s difficult to know how long to boil eggs for. Egg timers make the process easier and I’ve come across the king of egg timers! Egg-Per’Fect is a colour changing egg timer that senses heat, not time consistency to help cook perfect eggs regardless of egg quantity or altitude.It sits in the pan with your eggs while they boil and tells you when they’re cooked to your taste. Graduated scales show when eggs are soft, medium or hard by sensing heat instead of time. This egg timer has a sensor which accounts for the number of eggs, the amount of water and even the altitude at which your eggs are being cooked. Soft boiled eggs are exactly as you like them and hard boiled eggs are never left to boil too long.

Have you heard about the recent phenomenon for training your brain? Imagine discovering that your brain has aged faster than you! Well, with a bit of training, you could soon have a brain ten years your junior (theoretically!).  The challenge of this latest console is to reduce your brain age.  So if you need to give your brain a workout (I often do!) then check it out and find out for yourself what all the fuss is about.  I’d like to know what people who’ve tried it think about it because I could do with increasing my mental awareness and improving my memory (I have been known to get to the shop only to forget what the item that I so desperately needed when I left the house!)

The exercises are quick challenges that help stimulate your brain and you write your answers with the stylus on the touch screen. There’s a combination of arithmetic, reading and memory tests, and the program calculates your score in the form of a ‘brain age’ by assessing the speed and accuracy by which you perform these simple tasks. There are claims that this computer game craze could even slow the onset of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease - if that’s the case, I’m certainly willing to give it a go!