Misleading advertising

Last week after we put our little munchkin to bed we did what we normally do in the evenings - watched our shows (atm either House MD, Simpsons or Top Gear). As we were sitting in the loungeroom with various loud noises coming off the screen we realised that we wouldn't really hear Timmy, should he start crying - unless we run to the bedroom to check every so often (which is what we did). Thus the need for a baby monitor became apparent.

After looking at some reviews online we decided to get one from Philips - an Avent SCD510. The advertised operating range (on the website and on the product leaflet) of this monitor was 330 meters. MUCH more than anything we'd need, but the rest of the features seemed good, so we ordered it. When it arrived I was reading the instruction manual, which said:

"The operating range of the baby monitor is 330 meters in open air. Depending on the
surroundings and other disturbing factors, this range may be smaller. Indoors the operating range is up to 50 meters."

Now, first of all I find it totally dodgy that they advertise it as 330 meters and only in the manual does it say that it's effectively only 50. I mean seriously - unless you're a farmer and going to be leaving your baby out on your porch while you're going to go and take the sheep out on the paddock, what use is "open air" to you?! Maybe I'm wrong, but my assumption would be that most people would be using it inside when the baby is in his/her room and you're somewhere else in the house. To be completely fair, 50 meters is still a lot and probably enough for anything you'd be doing indoors... but still - would be nice if they said that up front.

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In other happenings - yesterday was our first 'Saturday night out' post-baby. It was Alex's 30th in a very nice garden of his parents. Timmy was very well behaved and even though we didn't end up staying too long, it was very nice to be out and about. We took the bus there and back, and all in all it was fairly manageable. I think next month we're going to get a milk pump and I'm going to start expressing milk, so that Jack can feed Tim, too. This way I can regain my second hand to occasionally be able to:

• eat with a knife and fork, as opposed to just using a fork (both as itself and as a knife) with one hand, which is the current preferred method
  
• touch type
  
• do a multitude of other things that require two hands that I normally take for granted :)